Economics and Music Conference
18th-20th May 2011
Programme:
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Economics and Music |
| Wednesday 18th May |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Rossella Argenziano (Essex) Title: Strategic
information acquisition and transmission (joint with F. Squintani
and S. Severinov) |
| 14:30-15:30 |
Peter Norman (UNC) Title: Private Provision of
Public Goods under Incomplete Information |
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Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Leo Kaas (Konstanz) Title: Wage Dispersion and
Labour Turnover with Adverse Selection (joint with C.
Carrillo-Tudela) |
| 17:00-18:00 |
Jan Eeckhout (UCL / UPF) Title:
Sorting and Factor Intensity: Production and Unemployment across
Skills (joint with P. Kircher) |
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Social: Drinks SU/ Wivenhoe Pubs and
Dinner at the Bengal Spice |
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| Thursday 19th May |
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Marcus Hagedorn (Cologne) Title: Search
Frictions and Wage Dispersion (joint with I. Manovskii) |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Mike Elsby (Edinburgh) Title: Fixed Employment
Adjustment Cost and Myopic Rules of Thumb |
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Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 |
Melvyn Coles (Essex)
Title: New Business Start-ups and the Business Cycle (joint with A.
Moghaddasi)
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| 14:30-15:30 |
Nobu Kiotaki (Princeton – visiting LSE) Title:
Financial Crisis, Bank Risk Exposure and Government Financial
Policy (joint with M. Gertler) |
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Coffee break |
| 16:00-17:00 |
Stefan Niemann (Essex) Title: Central Bank
Independence and the Monetary Instrument Problem |
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Social: Drinks at the SU/ Wivenhoe Pubs and Dinner at the
Bakehouse |
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| Friday 20th May |
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| 10:00-11:00 |
Scott Dessler (Villa Nova) Title: The Welfare
Costs of Inflation in Competitive Markets: a Long-Run and
Politico-Economic Analysis |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Morris Davis (Wisconsin) Title: Homework in
Monetary Economics: Housing and Inflation (joint with B. Aruoba and
R. Wright) |
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Lunch |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Christian Ghiglino (Essex) Title: The origin of
the Family (joint with M. Francesconi and M. Perry) |
| 14:00-15:00 |
Randy Wright (Wisconsin) Title: Marriage,
Markets and Money (joint with K. Burdett and others) |
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Social: 17:30 Drinks at the Rose and Crown - Wivenhoe, Dinner and the Contractions at the
Kings Arms - Elmstead Market |
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List of guests not presenting papers:
Ken Burdett (UPenn)
Philipp Kircher (LSE)
Michele Belot (Oxford)
Fabien Postel-Vinay (Bristol)
Helen Turon (Bristol)
Ludo Visschers (Carlos III)