Koc University Seminar Series – Spring 2012
Contact: Sule Alan, salan@ku.edu.tr / Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, skalemli@ku.edu.tr
All Seminars are on Wednesdays between 3:30-5:00 unless noted otherwise!
weeks of
Feb 29 Guglielmo Weber
Title: "Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime income"
March 7 Insan Tunali
Title:" Rescaled Additively Non-Ignorable (RAN) model of attrition a convenient semi-parametric bias correction framework for data with a short panel component "
March 14 Martin Olsson
Title: "Private Equity and Employees"
March 21 Masao Ogaki
Title:" Cultures, Worldviews, and Intergenerational Altruism"
March 28 Mehmet Ekmekci
Title: "Auctions, Actions and the failure of Aggregation"
April 2 Timo Terasvirta
(MONDAY) Title:Conditional Correlation Models of Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity with Nonstationary GARCH Equations
April 4 Marie Claire Villeval
Title:Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
April 5 Hashem Pesaran
Title:" An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters"
April 11 Mette Ejernaes
Title:The dynamics of earnings
April 18 Dalibor Stevanovic
Title:Bank leverage shocks and the macroeconomy: a new look in a data-rich environment
May 9 Alejandro Cunat
Title:Trade Liberalization and Heterogeneous Firm Models: An Evaluation Using the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement
May 23 Russell Cooper
Title:TBA
May 30 Kevin Hasker
Title:TBA