DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SPRING 2012

At the department meeting room 12.15-13.15

DATE

NAME

HOST

TITLE

05.01

Pernille Parmer

 

Local natural resource curse?

12.01

 

Bent Nielsen, Oxford University

GB

Testing for rational bubbles in a coexplosive vector autoregression

19.01

Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal

 

A DSGE Model with Housing in the Cointegrated VAR Framework

26.01

Fredrik Carlsen

 

Will global warming produce a more pleasant climate? Using subjective evaluations of the local climate to assess the amenity value of climate change

02.02

Sjur Westgaard, IØT

EM

Modelling and forecasting electricity price

risk using volatility adjusted quantile regression

09.02

Sigve Tjøtta, University of Bergen  

LEB

Voluntarily provision of public good in the lab

16.02

Arnt Ove Hopland

 

Monitoring and fiscal adjustment: The Norwegian list of shame

23.02

Winter break, no seminar

 

 

01.03

Sascha O. Becker, University of Warwick

TF

On the Endogeneity of the German Democratic Republic

08.03

Matz Dahlberg, Uppsala University

LEB

Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

15.03

Lars Monkerud, BI

TF

School efficiency and accountability reforms: Evidence from Norwegian primary schools 2007-2010

22.03

Ole H. Nyhus

 

Distributional implications of a municipal property tax

29.03

Roberto Iacono

 

The Dutch Disease once again: absorption constraint and learning by doing

05.04

Easter holiday, no seminar

 

 

12.04

Niels Vestergaard, Syd Dansk Universitet Esbjerg

AS

Optimal pollution control: the case of the Baltic Sea

19.04

Dagfinn Rime

 

Herding the scapegoats: Foreign exchange order flow, unstable effect of macroeconomic fundamentals, and the learning of scapegoats

26.04

Robert Schwager, University of Gottingen

LEB

Voting as a signaling device

03.05

Xunhua Su, NHH

SL

Penalty-Free Prepayments and Credit Rationing

10.05

Roland Hodler, University of Bern

RT

Media freedom and democracy: Complements or substitutes in the fight against corruption?

24.05

Fred Schroyen, NHH

EM

Mapping risk aversion in Norway using hypothetical income gambles

31.05

Egil Matsen

 

Income and risk preferences

07.06

Antoni Espasa, University Carlos III, Madrid

GB

Topics in forecasting inflation

14.06

Dee Sikhweni, University of Pretoria

AS

An analysis of disease transmission between wildlife and livestock populations. Conservation vs. livelihoods

21.06

Robert Gary-Bobo

 

Are risk aversion and wages important for understanding educational choices?