Economics Job Market Seminars 2008

Seminars & Events at IMT

– Research Seminars
- - Economics and Institutional Change
- - Computer Science and Applications
– GII Doctoral School 2012 & InfQ Workshop
– Past Conferences
– Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow: Job Market Seminars
– Open IMT Conferenze Pubbliche
– Ph.D. Graduation Sessions
– Inaugural Ceremonies
- - Inaugural Ceremony 2011-2012
- - Inaugural Ceremony 2010-2011
- - Inaugural Ceremony 2009-2010
- - Inaugural Ceremony 2008-2009
- - Inaugural Ceremony 2007-2008
- - Opening Ceremony 2005

Young Research Fellows Days
Economics, Markets, Institutions

Following last year's format, on two consecutive weekends in February, IMT will sponsor seminars series featuring job market candidates for Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow positions in the area of Economics and Institutional Analysis.

Short-listed candidates come to us as the culmination of a competitive selection process that started with an initial application pool of more than 300 and continued with over 50 interviews conducted the ASSA Meetings of New Orleans and at Royal Economic Society PhD Presentation Meeting in London.

Candidates will present recent research papers.

The first set of seminars will take place on 15-16 February, 2008 and the second set on 22-23 February, 2008.

Please find below the preliminary seminar schedule for both the weekends.
Please consider that this is only a preliminary program and that schedule changes are still possible. All presentations will take place in the conference room at the first floor of IMT main building, Piazza San Ponziano, 6. Seminars are open to all who would like to attend.

Click on the paper title to open up the paper PDF and on candidate's name to open related web page.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Time	Title of Seminar	Candidate Name	Institution
9.30	From Plurality Rule to Proportional Representation	Selim Jürgen Ergun	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
10.45	Electoral Rules and Politicians' Behavior: A Micro Test	Tommaso Nannicini	Universidad Carlos III and IZA
12.00	Indirect Lobbying and Media Bias	Francesco Sobbrio	University of Southern California
13.15	Lunch Break
14.30	Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth	Stefano Trento	Universidad Carlos III
15.45	Reassessing Labor Market Reforms: Temporary Contracts as a Screening Device	Renato Faccini	European University Institute
Saturday, February 16, 2008
9.30	Exporting out of poverty: Provincial poverty in Vietnam and U.S. market access	Brian McCaig	University of Toronto
10.45	Credit Market and Macroeconomic Volatility	Caterina Mendicino	Handelshögskolan i Stockholm
12.00	Innovations as a Network of Ideas: Assessing Patent Values through Citations	Fernando Leiva Bertran	University of Rochester
Friday, February 22, 2008
11.00	Firm Heterogeneity and Comparative Advantage: Evidence on French Firm's Response to the Entry of Turkey in the European Customs Union	Ines Buono	Universitat Pompeu Fabra
12.15	Decolonization: the Role of Changing World Factor Endowments	Roberto Bonfatti	London School of Economics and Political Science
13.15	Lunch Break
14.15	Collective Behaviour, Regime Changes and the Evolution of the Italian Bank Branch Distribution	Alberto Russo	Scuola Normale Superiore
15.30	Voluntary Social Insurance	Catarina Goulão	Université Catholique de Louvain
Individual Meetings will follow starting from 4.30 PM