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Departmental Seminars – 2011

Fall & Spring 2011 Schedule

Schedule: Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm*

Place: Department of Economics Faculty Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building*

Organizers: Murat Koyuncu

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
December 30, 2011	Necati Tekatlı	CBRT	"Understanding the Information Content of Macro-Finance Variables in Short-term Forecasting"
December 23, 2011	Hakan Yetkiner	Izmir Economics U.	"A Romanian Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth"
December 16, 2011	Kağan Parmaksız	METU	"Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market"
December 9, 2011	Atılım Seymen	ZEW Mannheim	Labor Market Institutions and the Business Cycle in Germany and the US (with CED Support)
December 2, 2011	Türkmen Göksel	Ankara University	An Explanation for Zero and One-way Trade Flows
November 28, 2011	Sahibe Meral Çakıcı	University of Bonn	"Default Risk Premium and Aggregate Fluctuations in a Small Open Economy"
November 24, 2011	İsmail Ertürk	University of Manchester	After the Great Complacence: Financial Crisis and the Politics of Reform (joint with ECONFIN)
November 23, 2011	Mario Solis-Garcia	Macalester College	Fiscal policy expectations and the business cycle (with CED Support)
November 18, 2011	Antonio Miralles	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	"All About Priorities: Is There School Choice in the Presence of Bad Schools?" (with CED Support)
November 14, 2011	Mustafa Çağlayan	Özyeğin University	Systemic Risk and the Cross-section of Hedge Fund Returns
October 24, 2011	Erem Ateşağaoğlu	SUNY Stony-Brook	Skill-Biased Technological Change and Homeownership
October 21, 2011	Jochen Mierau	University of Groningen	Capital Accumulation and the Sources of Demographic Change (with CED Support)
October 14, 2011	M. Yiğit Gürdal	TOBB University of Economics & Technology	"Truth-Telling and Trust in Sender-Receiver Games with Intervention"
October 6, 2011	Sohrab Behdad	Denison University	What a Revolution! Thirty Years of Class Reshuffling in Iran
October 3, 2011	Eleni Karaveli	Athens University of Economics & Business	The EU Centre-Periphery Divide In The New Regional and Global Setting. A Reflection Of The New Economic Geography Paradigm?
July 4, 2011 @ 15:00	Stefano Siviero	Economic Research Department, Banca d'Italia	Welfare Implications of Including House Prices in the Conduct of Monetary Policy
May 9, 2011 @ 16:00	Leandro M. de Magalhães	Bristol University	War and the Transition Away from Absolutism
May 4, 2011 @ 16:00	Mike Brewer	University of Essex, Institute of Fiscal Studies	Starting School and Leaving Welfare: The Impact of Public Education on Lone Parents' Welfare Receipt
April 18, 2011 @ 16:00	Mehmet Arda	Galatasaray Üniversitesi	Birleşmiş Milletler Kalkınma Diplomasisinin 50 Yılı
April 14, 2011 @ 15:00	Thomas Moutos	Athens University of Economics and Business	Product Quality, Informality and Child Labour
March 30, 2011 @ 16:00	Semih Tümen	Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey	Fertility Decisions and Endogenous Residential Sorting
March 28, 2011 @ 16:00	Samuel Bowles	Santa Fe Institute and University of Siena	The nature of wealth and the dynamics of inequality: from prehistory to the information economy.*
March 25, 2011 @ 15:00	R. Burak Uras	Tilburg University	Finance and Productivity: The Effects of Enforceability Constraints on Factor Misallocation
February 28, 2011 @ 16:00	Yahya Madra	Gettysburg College	Auction or selection? A history of two competing metaphors in postwar neoclassicism
February 25, 2011 @ 15:00	Derya Uysal	Konstanz	Doubly Robust IV Estimation of the Local Average Treatment Effects
February 24, 2011 @ 16:00	Begüm Güney	NYU	Aspiration-Based Choice Theory
February 21, 2011 @ 15:00	Şenay Sokullu	Toulouse School of Economics	Nonparametric Analysis of Two-Sided Markets
February 18, 2011 @ 15:00	Cem Çakmaklı	Tinbergen Institute	Markov-Switching vector autoregressive model
February 9, 2011 @ 15:00	Enes Sünel	University of Maryland	On Inflation, Wealth Inequality and Welfare in Emerging Economies
February 3, 2011 @ 15:00	Cihan Bilge Kahraman	Yale University	Do Mutual Fund Brokers Exploit Investors Through Their Fee Schedules?

Unless otherwise noted