2013 – 2014

Seminars

• Eliana La Ferrara , IGIER, Bocconi University
  Does interaction affect racial prejudice, cooperation and performance? Evidence from randomly assigned peers in South Africa (joint with J. Burns and L. Corno), on 23 May 2014
• Paul A. David , Stanford University
  The Economics of Designing Global Climate Policy: a “Tech Fix” Starting Point , on 8 May 2014
• Fabio Schiantarelli , Boston College
  Macroeconomics Research Workshop: Financial Markets, Banks’ Cost of Funding, and Firms’ Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises  (with Pierluigi Balduzzi and Emanuele Brancati), on 7 March 2014
• Annette Vissing-Jorgensen , University of California, Berkeley
  ECB Policies Involving Government Bond Purchases: Impact and Channels (with Arvind Krishnamurthy and Stefan Nagel), on 28 February 2014
• Giorgio E. Primiceri , Northwestern University, CEPR, and NBER
  The Effects of the Saving and Banking Glut on the US Economy , on 31 January 2014
• Valerie Ramey , University of California, San Diego
  Are Government Spending Multipliers State Dependent? Evidence from U.S. and Canadian Historical Data(with Michael Owyang and Sarah Zubairy), on 18 October 2013
• Andrea Pescatori , IMF, World Economic Studies
  Presentation of a chapter of the next World Economic Outlook:Dancing Together? Spillovers, Common Shocks,  and the Role of Financial and Trade Linkages, on  14 October 2013
• Enrique Sentana , cemfi
  Inferences about return and stochastic discount factor mean-variance frontiers on 8 October 2013

Conferences & Training Schools

• PWC/EABCN Training School on “Financial Econometrics, Macroeconometrics and Predictive Modelling ” by professor Francis Diebold (University of Pennsylvania) on 12-15 May 2014
• EUI-nomics 2014: Debating the Economic Conditions in the Euro Area and Beyond organised by Massimiliano Marcellino. Florence, 25 April 2014
• Bearing the Losses from Bank and Sovereign Default in the Eurozone, organised by: Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti and Joanna Gray; co-sponsored by Pierre Werner Chair Programme/Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Wharton Financial Institutions Center. Florence, 24 April 2014