Seminars 2016-17

Unless otherwise stated, all seminars scheduled at noon in room SB04 (Jovellanos Building)  

September 30, 2016

Lunch Seminar at 13:00

Pau Balart
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Myopic Consumers in a Hotelling Model 


October 21, 2016

This seminar will be held in room AB09 

Fernando Morente
Sogeti Luxembourg
Introduction to European statistics: EUROSTAT 


November 11. 2016

Jorge González Chapela
Centro Universitario de la Defensa-Universidad de Zaragoza
Further Econometric Evidence on the Extent and Sources of Cost Savings in Competitively Tendered Contracts  


December 2, 2016

Konstantinos Stathopoulos
Alliance Manchester Business School
Institutional Investment Horizons and Labor Investment Efficiency 


January 11, 2017

Sandra García-Uribe
CEMFI
Multidimensional Media Slant: Complementarities in News Reporting by US Newspapers


January 13, 2017

Lunch Seminar at 13:00

Alfredo Martín
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Does bank restructuring affect branch closures?


January 16, 2017

Manuel Monge
Universidad de Navarra
U.S. Shale Oil Production and WTI Prices Behaviour


January 17, 2017

This seminar will be at 13:00

Iñigo Hernandez-Arenaz
Universidad del País Vasco-Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Stereotypes and Tournament Self-Selection: A Theoretical and Experimental Approach 


January 18, 2017

Juliana Pavan Dornelles
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Why Are They Hiding? Patent Secrecy and Patenting Strategies


January 23, 2017 

Luis Franjo
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
Growth, Housing, and Global Imbalances


January 27, 2017

Berta Ferrer-Rosell
Universitat de Lleida
Airline type convergence: tourist total expenditure and trip budget share 


January 30, 2017 

David Rivero-Leiva
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Information Acquisition, Agency Costs, and Risk-Taking Behavior 


February 1, 2017

Lara Ezquerra
Middlesex University London
Distributional consequences of Endogenous and Compulsory Delegation 


February 3, 2017

Valeria Bernardo
Universitat de Barcelona
The effect of entry restrictions on price. Evidence from the retail gasoline market


February 6, 2017

Demian Macedo

Universidad Carlos III
Joint liquidity and capital regulation in a risk-shifting framework


February 7, 2017

Zazy Khan

University of Verona
Activist Hedge Funds: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis


February 9, 2017

Norbert Czinkán
Universidad de Alicante
Firm-level Fluctuations and the Density of Economic Activity


March 3, 2017

This seminar will be held in Seminar room SB05

Dana Sisak
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Peer Evaluation and Team Performance: An Experiment on Complex Problem Solving (slides)


March 10, 2017

This is a joint activity with Master's Degree in Work Health (Occupational Risk Prevention) (MSLA)

This seminar will be held in Mateu Orfila room 4 at 16:00

Paul Swuste
University of Delft
Safety science some past and recent research areas including construction [slides


March 17, 2017 

Eric Clinton
DCU Business School
Entrepreneurship across generations in the family business: the role of business model structures 


March 24, 2017

Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck
University of Bern and Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin)
Finding the Process in Prospect Theory: A Drama in Three Acts  


March 31, 2017

Wasilios Hariskos
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
A Heuristic Theory of Other-Regarding Preferences


April 7, 2017  

Pepita Miquel-Florensa
Toulouse School of Economics
Vertical Integration and Relational Contracts: Evidence from the Costa Rica Coffee Chain 


May 5, 2017

This seminar will be held at 14:00

Guillermo LLorente Álvarez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 
Trading and Information in Futures Markets 


May 10, 2017

Dirk Totzek
University of Passau
Can Hard Discounters Wash Away Their Sins? How Retailers’ Price Image and Corporate Social Responsibility Reputation Shape Customers’ Price Fairness Judgments 


May 12, 2017

Jan K. Woike

Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Why simple models can succeed in complex worlds


May 19, 2017

Grigory Vilkov
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Expected Stock Returns and Correlation Risk Premium 


May 26, 2017

Anna Bayona
ESADE
Information and Optimal Trading Strategies with Dark Pools


June 7, 2017

Lorenzo Ductor
Middlesex University London
Gender and social networks 


June 16, 2017

Gerard LLobet
CEMFI
The Simple Economics of White Elephants 


June 28, 2017

Rouzbeh Pirouz
Turquiose Partners (chairman)
Iran: The Last Major Frontier Market [slides]


June 30, 2017

Lunch Seminar at 14:00

Carlos Aller Arranz
Universitat de les Illes Balears
The Effect of Financial Development on Energy Intensity in China  


July 7, 2017

Raúl de Jesús Gutiérrez
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Transmisión de la Media y Volatilidad de los Mercados de Futuros de Crudo de Referencia Internacional hacia los Mercados Físicos del Petróleo Mexicano Ante la Presencia de Cambios Estructurales


July 14, 2017

Lunch Seminar at 13:00

Carla Guadalupi
Universitat de les Illes Balears
Negative reviews hurt: The effect of consumer sentiment on prices in the sharing economy 

July 20, 2017

Lunch Seminar at 13:00 in Room AB09

Lorenzo Ductor
Middlesex University
Connections to editors and research productivity