2012
Fall 2012
Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm*
Department of Economics Faculty Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building*
Organizers: Ceyhun Elgin & Deniz Selman
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of the Paper |
| Dec 14, 2012 | Özgür Orhangazi | Kadir Has University | "THEORIES OF CAPITALIST INSTABILITY Real and financial components of accumulation" |
| Dec 7, 2012 | Özgün Ekici | Ozyegin University | "An Equilibrium Analysis of the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism" |
| Nov 30, 2012 | Şirin Saraçoğlu | Middle East Technical University | "Internal Migration, Structural Change, and Economic Growth" |
| Nov 23, 2012 | Alp Atakan | Koç University | "AUCTIONS, ACTIONS, AND THE FAILURE OF INFORMATION AGGREGATION*" *- joint with Mehmet Ekmekci |
| Nov 16, 2012 | Zümrüt İmamoğlu | Bahçeşehir University | "International Price Dispersion and Pricing-to-Market when Rivals' Costs are Unknown" |
| Nov 9, 2012 | Hakkı Yazıcı | Sabancı University | "Optimal Taxation of Bequests and Inter-Vivos Transfers." |
| Nov 2, 2012 | Mehmet Barlo | Sabancı University | "Entropic Selection of Nash Equilibrium" |
| Nov 1, 2012 | Juergen von Hagen | University of Bonn | "Financial Development, International Capital flows, and Aggregate Output" |
| Oct 19, 2012 | Jörg Schläpfer | KOF Swiss Economic Institute at ETH Zurich | "How Nobel Laureates Would Perform in the Handelsblatt Ranking" |
| Oct 12, 2012 | Friedrich Schneider | Johannes Kepler University | "The Shadow Economy and Work in the Shadow: What do we (not) know?" |
| Sep 28, 2012 | Murat Kırdar | Middle East Technical University | "Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks: The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition" |
| May 24, 2012 | Stephen Turnovsky | University of Washington | "Income Inequality, Mobility, and the Accumulation of Capital: The Role of Heterogeneous Labor Productivity" (Distinguished Lecturer Series) |
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May 18, 2012 |
Levent Ülkü | ITAM | "Non-monotone Mechanism Design" |
| April 30, 2012 | Nejat Anbarcı | Deakin University | "Directed search, coordination failure and seller profits: an experimental comparison of posted pricing with single and multiple prices" (joint with CED) |
| April 13, 2012 | Giorgio Bellettini | Universita di Bologna | "Knowing the right person in the right place: political connections and resistance to change" |
| April 6, 2012 | Ayça Özdoğan | TOBB | "Team Beats Cullusion" |
| March 23, 2012 | Larbi Alaoui | Universitat Pompeu Fabra | "Level-k Reasoning and Incentives: An Experiment" (joint with CED) |
| March 19, 2012 | Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan | Koç University, Harvard University, NBER and CEPR | "Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows, and Global Imbalances" |
| March 16, 2012 | Timothy Guinnane | Yale University | "The legal form of business enterprise: France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, 1860-1930" |
| March 2, 2012 | Mehmet Ulu | University of Chicago | "Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in the Dynamics of Firm Selection into Foreign Markets" |
| February 27, 2012 | Cavit Pakel | University of Oxford | "Bias Reduction under Dependence, in a Nonlinear and Dynamic Panel Setting: The Case of GARCH Panels" |
| February 24, 2012 | Banu Demir | University of Oxford | "Trading Tasks and Quality" |
| February 20, 2012 | Melis Kartal | New York University | "Welfare Comparison of Proportional Representation and Majoritarian Rule with Endogenous Turnout" |
| February 17, 2012 | Cemal Eren Arbatlı | Brown University | "Quest for Political Survival: Can External Threats Save the Day?" |
| February 16, 2012 | Nuh Aygün Dalkıran | MEDS, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University | "Common Knowledge and Equilibria Switching" |
* Unless otherwise noted
