Organizers
-Signe
-Tomasz (email: wielade5 "at " hei.unige.ch)
-Kornel
Format and Purpose
The workshop is intended for ALL economics
PhD students, primarily as a forum for presentation of the ongoing thesis
research of the PhD students, but also as a forum for the exchange of
ideas and information. The workshop is bi-monthly, and take place on Tuesdays
12 to 13 in Rigot (bring your lunch!).
The workshop is intended to include four activities: 1. 20-30 min presentations
by the PhD students, on a voluntary basis, of current thesis work or other
(see below). 2. On the students' request, student-to-student presentations
of papers or text-book treatments which some of you have a mutual interest
in and have not had sufficiently covered by the courses (we can potentially
form sub-studygroups of students for this purpose, if there is sufficient
interest - let me know at our first meeting). 3. Job-interview "coaching".
4. Invitation of professors to come give a brief overview of their own
ongoing research, not just their research questions and topics, but also
how they actually go about carrying out the research. For students to
get familiar with making presentations of own work is crucial for the
job market, so even though this workshop is not for credits, all doctorants
are strongly encouraged to participate.
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Schedule:
| Date and Time |
Presenter |
Topic |
Notes |
| 31 October 2006 |
Signe (or maybe
Tomasz) |
The schedule of the
seminar |
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| 13 Nov |
Mirko Abriti |
Neo-Keynesian Models
with labour market search cost
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| 21 Nov |
Virginia Di Nino |
Euros and zeros: The
common currency effect on trade in new goods |
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| 28 Nov |
Javier Sanjines |
Presentation of "Daron
Acemoglu and Fabrizio Zilibotti (1997) "Was prometheus unbound by
chance? Risk, diversification and growth" Journal of Political Economy". |
Paper distributed
by email |
| 12 Dec |
Xavier Debrun |
"What skills
do you need to be an IMF economist?". Brief talk, and Q&A. |
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| 19 Dec |
Matthias Helble |
Heterogeneous Quality
Firms and Trade Costs |
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| 23 Jan |
Tadashi Ito |
Technology convergence
and NAFTA. |
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NB!
Cancelled.
To
be rescheduled
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Gauri Khanna |
"Groundwater
markets and Social Contracts: Sugarcane Cultivation in North India"
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Co-authors: A.
Banerji, G Khanna and J V Meenakshi. |
| 13 Mar |
Richard Baldwin and Charles Wyplosz |
The academic job market
for PhDs in economics |
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| 27 Mar |
Tomasz Wieladek |
Monetary Policy, Exchange Rates and Financial Globalization |
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| 25 Apr |
Ahmet Atil Asici |
Title to be annouced |
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| 18 May |
Jean Imbs |
On doing academic research...plus Q&A |
Note: this is on a Friday |
| 1 June |
Jean-Marc Natal, SNB |
On working for a central bank, plus Q&A |
Note: this is on a Friday |
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