Economics and Finance

Economics and Finance

Seminar Schedule 2012

Find out about upcoming seminars.

All seminars will be given on Friday in KH01 (Kirkwood Village) unless stated otherwise. All seminars run from 3:00pm - 4.20pm unless stated otherwise. The list of scheduled seminars for the remainder of the 2012 academic year will be updated periodically. The seminar organiser is Maroš Servátka.

Previously recorded seminars on UC TV.

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January

February

17-Feb
James Tremewan
University of Vienna
Social Preferences and Bounded Rationality in the Centipede Game

24-Feb
Joint Economics/Finance and Psychology Seminar
Werner Güth
Max Planck Institute of Economics
Procedural Fairness and Opportunism - Experimental Evidence for Fair Game Forms but Unfair Games

29-Feb (WEDNESDAY)
Martin Kocher
University of Munich
The fair employment hypothesis: Reciprocity in unstable environments

March

2-Mar
Jan Fidrmuc
Brunel University
The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Labour Market Outcomes of Young Workers

9-Mar
Frank Mueller-Langer
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich
Optimal Pricing of Academic Journals in a Two-Sided Model: The Effect of Copyright

13-Mar (TUESDAY)
Daniel Thornton
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Quantitative Easing: A Model-Free Investigation of the Portfolio Balance Channel

16-Mar
Paul Heald
University of Illinois
Do Bad Things Happen When Works Fall into the Public Domain: The Market for Audiobooks

30-Mar
Richard Stapleton
Manchester University
Risk-Taking-Neutral Background Risks

April

27-Apr
Gunes Kamber
Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Financial Frictions and the Role of Investment Specific Technology Shocks in the Business Cycle

May

2-May (WEDNESDAY)
Ninghua Du
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Strategic Delegation in an Experimental Mixed Duopoly 

4-May
Honors presentations (No seminar)

11-May
David Fielding
University of Otago
Looking for Framing Effects in Expressive Voting Experiments

18-May (4:00-5:20pm)
Simon Loertscher
University of Melbourne
Fee-Setting Intermediaries: On Real Estate Agents, Stockbrokers, and Auction Houses

25-May
Roger Stover
Iowa State University
More on the Link between Deposit Insurance and Depositor Behaviour: Experimental Results

June

1-Jun
Roee Teper
University of Pittsburgh
Endowment as a Blessing

July

13-Jul
Mark Holmes
University of Waikato

20-Jul
Simon Gaechter
University of Nottingham

25-Jul (WEDNESDAY)
Maria Garcia de la Vega
University of Nottingham

27-Jul
John Nofsinger
Washington State University

August

1-Aug (WEDNESDAY)
Jason Shachat
Xiamen University

3-Aug
Steven Stillman
University of Otago

10-Aug
Ronald Oaxaca
University of Arizona

17-Aug
John Gibson
University of Waikato

September

7-Sep
Honors presentations (No seminar)

21-Sep
Alex Frino (University of Sydney) &
Robert Webb (University of Virginia and KAIST Business School)
The Geographic Origin of Order Flow and Price Discovery

28-Sep
Jean Helwege
University of South Carolina

October

5-Oct
Honors recruitment (No seminar)

12-Oct
Henk Berkman
University of Auckland

26-Oct
Rachel Webb
University of Canterbury

November

December