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Departmental Seminars – 2015

Fall 2015 / Seminar Schedule

Schedule: Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm* & Wednesday, 5:00 pm*

Place: Department of Economics Murat Sertel Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building*

Organizers: Ceyhun Elgin & Deniz Selman

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
Dec 21, 2015	—	—	CEE Annual Conference: Advances in Behavioral Finance
Dec 16, 2015	Victor Chernozhukov	MIT	"Mostly Dangerous Econometrics: How to Do Model Selection with Inference in Mind?" Abstract
Nov 30, 2015	Charles Yuji Horioka	Asian Growth Research Institute (AGI), Japan	"The Impact of Inter-generational Transfers on the Distribution of Wealth: An International Comparison" Abstract
Nov 27, 2015	Berrak Bahadır	Özyeğin University	"The Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances" Abstract
Nov 20, 2015	Evren Damar	Bank of Canada	"Banks Financial Distress, Lending Supply and Consumption Expenditure" Abstract
Oct 19, 2015	Bilge Erten	Northeastern University	"For Better or Worse?: Education and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Turkey" - joint with Pınar Keskin Abstract
Oct 7, 2015	Claus Thustrup Kreiner	Kopenhag University	"FINANCIAL TROUBLE ACROSS GENERATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM THE UNIVERSE OF PERSONAL LOANS IN DENMARK" Abstract
Jun 11, 2015	Gavin Bridge, Stefania Barca & Erik Swyngedouw	—	Occasional Economics Department Seminar "European Network of Political Ecology presents: Tracing Trends and Trajectories in Political Ecology First launch in Turkey of The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology"
May 23, 2015	—	Boğaziçi University	The Fifth Annual All-İstanbul Economics Workshop will be held on Saturday, 23 May 2015 from 9:30-18:00 at Boğaziçi University (Natuk Birkan Building).
May 22, 2015	Varun Gauri	World Bank	Occasional CEE Seminar "World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society and Behaviour"
May 12, 2015	Korkut Boratav	Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University (ret.)	2015 Prof. Demir Demirgil Lecture "Türkiye'de Bölüşüm Göstergeleri: Kavramlar, Kaynaklar, Yorumlar"
May 8, 2015	Erik Meyersson	Stockholm School of Economics	"Political Man on Horseback - Military Coups and Development"
May 4, 2015	Steve Cecchetti	Brandeis International Business School	Econfin Finance Lecture "Financial Stability and Monetary Policy"
Mar 27, 2015	Kemal Kıvanç Akoz	NYU - Abu Dhabi	"Why Do Masses Join Elite's Revolutions? A Model of Biased Leaders and Political Change" Abstract
Mar 18, 2015	Martin Raiser	World Bank Country Director for Turkey	Occasional CEE Seminar "Turkey's Transitions: Integration, Inclusion, Institutions"
Feb 18, 2015	Serhan Sadıkoğlu	Tilburg University	"Misclassification-Robust Semiparametric Estimation of Single-Index Binary Choice Models"
Feb 13, 2015	Yaprak Tavman	University of York	"A Comparative Analysis of Macroprudential Policies" Abstract
Feb 6, 2015	Merve Akbaş	Duke University	"How to help the poor to save a bit: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya*" Abstract
Dec 19, 2014	Ünal Seven	IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca	Occasional CEE Seminar "Financial Development, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from Emerging Economies"
Dec 15, 2014	—	Bogazici University	ADVANCES IN ECONOMICS Annual Conference of the Center for Economics and Econometrics (joint with CEE)
Dec 12, 2014	Jan Eeckhout	University College London & Barcelona GSE-UPF	"Stochastic Sorting: Mismatched CEOs and their Performance" (joint with CED) Abstract
Dec 5, 2014	Sang Seok Lee	Bilkent University	"Growth under Knightian Uncertainty: Application of Interactive Trial and Error Learning"
Nov 21, 2014	Özgür Kıbrıs	Sabancı University	"On Surplus-Sharing in Partnerships" (joint with Arzu Kıbrıs)
Nov 14, 2014	Okan Yılankaya	Koç University	"Resale in Second Price Auctions with Costly Participation" (joint with Görkem Çelik) Abstract
Nov 7, 2014	Allan Drazen	University of Maryland	"Kosher Pork" Abstract
Oct 24, 2014	Murat Üngör	Central Bank of Republic of Turkey	"Productivity Growth and Labor Reallocation: Latin America versus East Asia"