Σεμινάρια Ιανουαρίου 2005 - Ιουνίου 2005

This weekly seminar series is organized jointly by the Department of International and European Economic Studies and the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). Seminars are on Thursdays, 3.30-4.45 pm (unless otherwise noted) and take place at conference room A36, 3rd floor, Antoniadou building, Patission 76.
For further information please contact:
Lambros Pechlivanos (tel. 210-8203728, lpech@aueb.gr) or
Vaghelis Vassilatos (tel. 210-8203716, vvassila@aueb.gr).
Attendance is open and very welcome.

January 13, 2005

Sotiris Karkalakos (University of Cyprus)

"The Boundaries of Regional Technological Productivity in European Union: A Spatial Econometric Analysis"


January 18, 2005 [Tuesday]

Subal Kumbhakar (SYNY at Binghampton)

"Stochastic Error Specification in Primal and Dual Systems"


January 27, 2005

Bertrand Villeneuve (University of Toulouse – LERNA)

"Equilibrium Precautionary Storage"


February 3, 2005

Theodore Palivos (University of Macedonia)
Giannis Karagiannis

Variable elasticity of substitution and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence
The Elasticity of Substitution in Convex Models of Endogenous Growth


February 10, 2005

Vaghelis Vassilatos (AUEB)

Cancelled


February 17, 2005

Costas Hadjiyiannis (University of Cyprus)

"International Markets for New and Used Durables"


February 24, 2005

George Bitros (AUEB)

"An Extension to Steady State Replacement Theory"


March 3, 2005

Yossi Spiegel (Tel Aviv University)

"Partial cross ownership and tacit collusion"


March 10, 2005

Prodromos Prodromidis (KEPE)

"A Model of Time-Use and the Consistency of Censored and Uncensored Results"


March 17, 2005

Antonella Ianni (University of Southampton)

"Gossiping (Social Learning with Local Informational Externalities)"


March 24, 2005

Public Holiday

 

 

March 29, 2005 [Tuesday]

Michael Arghyrou (Brunel University)

"The effects of the accession of Greece to the EMU: Initial estimates and future prospects"

 

April 7, 2005

Massimo Bordignon (Universita Cattolica, Milano)

"Fiscal Federalism and Lobbying"

 

April 14, 2005

Ross Catterall (Ashcroft International Business School, UK)

Cancelled


April 21, 2005

Fabio Canova (Pompeu Fabra and Bocconi University)

"Structural changes in the USA economy: 1948-2002"


April 22, 2005 [Friday]

Hari Dellas (University of Bern)

"Studying DGSE models using Matlab and Dynare"

 

Easter Break

 

May 12, 2005

Costas Roumanias ( University of Oxford )

"Auctioning Public Office"


May 19, 2005

Garry Phillips ( Cardiff University )

"Simultaneous Equations and the Validity of Instrumental Variables under Conditionally Heteroscedastic Disturbances"


May 24, 2005 (Tuesday)

Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS, University of London)

"The Emergence of Money in Commodity Exchange, or Money as Monopolist of the Ability to Buy"

 

May 26, 2005

Johann Graf Lambsdorff (University of Passau)

"Between Two Evils - Investors Prefer Grand Corruption!"

 

June 2, 2005

Tasos Kalandrakis (University of Rochester)

"Dynamics of Westminster Parliamentarism"

 

June 9, 2005

George Economides (AUEB)

"Should Green Governments Give Priority to Environment Policies over Growth Enhancing Policies?"


June 14, 2005 (Tuesday)

George Christodoulakis (Bank of Greece)

"Reciprocity of Preferences and Densities in Economic and Financial Decisions"


June 16, 2005

Jim Albrecht ( Georgetown University )

"Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications"

 

June 30, 2005

Simon Anderson ( University of Virginia )

"Media mergers and media bias with rational consumers"