Faculty Seminars Spring 2012

Stabsseminarer Vår 2012

Ansvarlig/Responsible: Alexander W. Cappelen, Aline Bütikofer, and Ingvild Almås

Date	Presenter	Seminar title
Fri 13 Jan, 1215-1330 Terje Hansen auditorium	Ola Kvaløy University of Stavanger	The law and economics of relational contracts
Wed 18 Jan, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Hans K. Hvide University of Bergen	Do the more risk tolerant become entrepreneurs? (with Georgios A. Panos)
Wed 25 Jan, 1415-1530 Auditorium 14	Tore Ellingsen Stockholm School of Economics	Bargaining and the Boundaries of the Firm.
Wed 1 Febr, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Christina Felfe University of St. Gallen	The tempest: using a natural disaster to evaluate the link between wealth and child development (with Eva Deuchert)
Wed 8 Febr, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Marie Paul Universität Duisburg-Essen	The Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Revisited: The Merits of Using Rich Administrative Data (with Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, and Aderonke Osikominu).
Wed 15 Febr, 1415-1530 Karl Borch Auditorium	Frederic Vermeulen Tilburg University	Aggregation without the aggravation? Nonparametric analysis of the representative consumer.
Wed 29 Febr, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Pamela Jakiela University of Maryland	Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence from Village Economies.
Wed 7 Mar, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Fred Schroyen Department of Economics, NHH	Multidimensional screening in a monopolistic insurance market (with Pau Olivella).
Wed 14 Mar, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Topi Miettinen Hanken School of Economics	Gambling for the Upper Hand - Settlement Negotiations in the Lab (with Olli Ropponen and Pekka Sääskilahti)
Wed 21 Mar, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Andreas Moxnes Dartmouth College	Technological Change, Trade in Intermediates and the Joint Impact on Productivity (with Bøler and Ulltveit-Moe).
Wed 28 Mar, 1415-1530 Auditorium 11 Cancelled/Postponed	Arno Riedl Maastricht University	Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games (with Ingrid Rohde and Martin Strobel).
Wed 11 Apr, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Ragnar Torvik NTNU	Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? (with D. Acemoglu and J.Robinson).
Wed 18 Apr, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	David Atkin Yale University	Who’s Getting Globalized? Intranational Trade Costs andWorld Price Pass-Through (with D. Donaldson).
Wed 25 Apr, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Anna Dreber Almenberg Stockholm School of Economics	Gender and preferences: A study on a simple random sample of the Swedish population.
Wed 2 May, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Halvor Mehlum University of Oslo	The battle of regimes (with Karl Ove Moene).
Wed 9 May, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Pieter Gautier Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency (with Christian L. Holzner).
Wed 16 May, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Kevin J. Lansing Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Asset Pricing with Concentrated Ownership of Capital.
Wed 23 May, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Harald Uhlig The University of Chicago	TBA
Wed 30 May, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Dominik Hangartner London School of Economics	TBA
Wed 6 Jun, 1415-1530 Meeting room 9th floor	Jaap Abbring Tilburg University	TBA

* Joint with Department of Finance and Management Science