UMA-ECON Seminars 2007-2008
Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica
Site: Third Floor, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. Campus de El Ejido
Monday, September 24
Francisco Martínez Mora (University of Leicester): “Childless households, segregation and the outcomes of education policy”
Monday, October 1
Juan Gabriel Rodríguez (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid): “Equality of opportunity: a probabilistic approach”
Monday, October 8
Noemí Navarro (Universidad de Málaga): “Asymmetric information, word-of-mouth and social networks: from the market for lemons to efficiency”
Thursday, October 18
Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau (Rutgers University & Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): “A positive theory of income taxation”
Monday, October 22
Samuel Danthine (University of Quebec at Montreal & Universidad de Málaga): “Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked”
Tuesday, October 30
Luis J. Imedio (Universidad de Málaga): “Familias de índices de desigualdad que caracterizan la distribución de la renta”
Thursday, November 8
José Luis Moraga (University of Groningen): “On mergers in consumer search markets”
Monday, November 12
M. Angeles de Frutos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Forward Contracts and Competition in Multi-Unit Auctions”
Monday, November 19
Birendra Kumar Rai (Max Planck Institute of Economics): “Your Conscience You Must Keep, or it Must be Kept for You”
Thursday, November 29
Lars P. Østerdal (University of Copenhagen): “Monotonicity of social welfare optima”
Monday, December 3
Juliette Milgram (Universidad de Granada): “Preferences for protectionism: Do economic factors really matter?”
Monday, December 10
Miguel A. Meléndez (Universidad de Málaga): “Cooperation, Punishment and Networks”
Monday, December 17
Gustavo Bergantiños (Universidad de Vigo): “Monotonicity properties and the irreducible core in minimum cost spanning tree problems”
Tuesday, January 22
Carmelo Rodríguez Álvarez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): “Efficient and Effective Kidney Exchange Schemes under Feasibility Constraints”
Monday, February 4 (joint seminar with the Department of Statistics and Econometrics)
Guillermo Cruces (Universidad Nacional de La Plata & London School of Economics): “Evaluando el Impacto de las Fluctuaciones de Ingreso: Teoría y Evidencia para Argentina”
Wednesday, February 6
Federico Valenciano (Universidad del País Vasco): “Egalitarianism and utilitarianism in committees of representatives”
Monday, February 11
Jean-Pierre Danthine (University of Lausanne): “Executive Compensation: The View from General Equilibrium”
Monday, February 18
Miguel González Maestre (Universidad de Murcia): “Artistic Creation and Intellectual Property”
Tuesday, March 4
Ana Moro Egido (Universidad de Granada): “The Effect of Aspirations, Habits, and Social Security on the Distribution of Wealth”
Tuesday, March 11
Dunia López Pintado (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): “The Spread of Free-Riding Behavior in a Social Network”
Tuesday, March 25
Inés Macho Stadler & David Pérez Castrillo (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): “Optimal monitoring to implement clean technologies when pollution is random” CANCELLED
Monday, March 31
Giovanni Favara (HEC Lausanne): “House Price Dynamics with Heterogeneous Expectations”
Wednesday, April 2
Samuel Bentolila (CEMFI): “Does Immigration Affect the Phillips Curve? Some Evidence for Spain”
Monday, April 7
Gerard Llobet (CEMFI): “Financially Constrained Innovation, Patent Protection and Industry Dynamics”
Monday, April 14
C.J. Krizan (U.S. Bureau of the Census): “The Evolution of National Retail Chains: How We Got Here”
Friday, April 18
Ignacio García Jurado (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela): “On the virtually subgame perfect equilibrium for extensive games” CANCELLED
Tuesday, May 20
Leonardo Martínez (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond): “Sovereign default with long-duration bonds”
Monday, June 2
Ignacio García Pérez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide): “Immigration and the Use of Unemployment Benefits in Spain: A Multi-Spell Duration Model”