SPRING 2011 - IMT Lucca Seminars in Economics

SPRING 2011

January 24

Speaker: Carlotta Berti Ceroni (University of Bologna)

Title: "Knowing the Right Person in the Right Place: Political Connections and Resistance to Change"

February 7

Speaker: Maria Petrova (New Economic School, Moscow)

Title: "Cross-Border Effects of Foreign Media: Serbian Radio and Nationalism in Croatia"

February 14

Speaker: Marco Pagnozzi (University of Naples Federico II)

Title: "Vertical Separation with Private Contracts"

March 14

Speaker: Doh-Shin Jeon (Toulouse School of Economics)

Title: "Natural Barrier to Entry in the Credit Rating Industry"

March 21

Speaker: Jan Luiten van Zanden (Utrecht University)

Title: "The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789"

April 18

Speaker: Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)

Title: "Social Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana"

May 9

Speaker: Cedric Schneider (Copenhagen Business School)

Title: "Financial systems and innovation: Evidence from banking deregulations"

May 16

Speaker: Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

Title: "The Role of Commitment in Bilateral Trade"

May 23

Speaker: Domenico Menicucci (University of Florence)

Title: "Revenue Comparison in Asymmetric Auctions with Discrete Valuations"

May 30

Speaker: Fabrizio Germano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Title: "On Concentration and Self-Censorship in Commercial Media"

June 1 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Paul Jensen (University of Melbourne)

Title: "Do Patents Influence Academic Scientists' Choice of Research Project?"

June 9 (Thursday, 11am)

Speaker: Eric Weese (Yale University)

Title: "Inefficient Boundaries"

June 14 (Tuesday)

Speaker: Peter Rosendorff (New York University)

Title: "Why Do Authoritarian Regimes Sign the Convention Against Torture?"

June 20, 21, 22

Speaker: Thierry Verdier (Paris School of Economics)

Title: Cultural Diversity and Institutional Change

June 28 (Tuesday)

Speaker: Marc-Andreas Muendler (UCSD)

Title: "Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills"

July 5, 6

Speaker: Pierre Yared (Columbia University)

Title: Dynamic Political Economy

July 8 (Friday)

Speaker: Enrico Spolaore (Tufts University)

Title: "Long-Term Barriers to the Diffusion of Innovations"