Previous Seminars (starting from October 2001)
Wednesday, 26th September 2007, at 12:30, room 02.101.
Presentation by Lars Jonung (DG ECFIN)
Title: The Euro – What’s in it for me? An Economic Analysis of the Swedish Euro Referendum of 2003.
Wednesday 19th September, 2007, at 12:30, room 00.74.
Presentation by William Branch (University of California, Irvine)
Title: Asset Return Dynamics and Learning.
Wednesday, 4th July 2007, at 12:30, room 02.101.
Presentation by Michael Bordo (Rutgers University)
Title: Monetary Policy and Stock Market Booms and Busts in the 20th Century.
Thursday, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation by Veerle Slootmaekers (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: FDI spillovers, firm heterogeneity and degree of ownership: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing(pdf)
Wednesday, Nov 9, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation by Romain Houssa (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: Business Cycle Stabilization or Growth: Which Policy Advice?(pdf)
Wednesday,
Oct 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation
by
Isabel Vansteenkiste (European Central Bank, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: Regional housing market spillovers in the US: lessons from
regional divergences in a common monetary policy setting
Development (pdf)
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Mai 10, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation
by
Paul De Grauwe ( (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: Language Diversity
and Economic
Development (pdf)
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Apr 20, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation
by
Pelin Ilbas (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: Optimal Monetary Policy Rules for the Euro
Area in a DSGE Framework (pdf)
Wednesday,
Mar 29, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 02.22)
Presentation
by
Vivien Lewis (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: Macroeconomic fluctuations and firm entry:
theory and evidence (pdf
- updated 28/03/06)
Wednesday,
Mar 15, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation
by
Agnieszka Markiewicz (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: Learning to forecast the exchange rate:
two competing approaches (pdf)
Wednesday,
Feb 22, 2006 at 14:30 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation
by
Gert Peersman (University of Gent)
Title: Putting the New Keynesian model to a test:
An SVAR analysis with DSGE priors (pdf)
Tuesday,
Feb 28, 2006 at 16:00 p.m. (room: 02.101)
Presentation
by
Vitor Gaspar (Banco de Portugal)
Title: Optimal Monetary Policy under Adaptive Learning
(pdf)
Thursday,
Dec 1, 2005 at 12:30 p.m. (room: 01.10)
Presentation
by
Hans Dewachter (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Title: Learning, macroeconomic dynamics and the term structure:
A structural econometric model (ppt)
Thursday,
Nov 24, 2005 at 12:30 p.m. (room: HOG 02.101)
Presentation
by
Emmanuel De Veirman (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: Which non-linearity in the Phillips curve? The absence
of accelerating deflation in Japan (pdf)
Wednesday,
Oct 26, 2005 at 12:30 p.m. (HOG 02.101)
Presentation
by
Joanna Wolszczak (Gdansk University of Technology, K.U. Leuven)
Title: Price convergence in the European Union
between 1990 – 2003 (doc)
Friday,
Sept 30, 2005 at 12:30 p.m. (HOG 03.101)
Presentation
by
Michel Beine (Free University of Brussels)
Title: The impact of FX central bank
intervention in a noise trading framework (pdf)
Monday,
July 4, 2005 at 12:30 p.m.
Presentation
by
Oreste Tristani (European Central Bank)
Title: The yield curve
and macroeconomic dynamics (pdf)
Wednesday,
June 22, 2005 at 12:30 p.m.
Presentation
by
Vivien Lewis (K.U. Leuven)
Title: Does international
risk sharing drive the long run real exchange rate? (pdf)
Wednesday,
May 11, 2005 at 14:00 p.m.
Presentation
by
Philip Vermeulen (European Central Bank)
Title: Corporate
investment and cash flow sensitivity: what drives the relationship? (pdf)
Tuesday,
May 10, 2005 at 12:30 p.m.
Presentation
by
Volker Böhm (University
of Bielefeld)
Title: On the
performace of efficient portfolios (pdf)
Thursday,
February 17, 2005 at 16:30 p.m.
Presentation
by
Thomax Lux (University
of Kiel)
Title: Genetic learning
as an explanation of stylized facts of foreign exchange markets (pdf)
Wednesday,
February 9, 2005 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by Lucio Sarno (University
of Warwick)
Title: The forward bias
puzzle and nonlinearity in deviations from uncovered interest parity: A new
perspective (pdf)
Thursday,
February 3, 2005 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by
Marco Lyrio (K.U. Leuven)
Title: A structural
macro model of the yield curve with stochastic endpoints
Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by Klaus Adam (European
Central Bank and CEPR)
Title: Experimental
Evidence on the Persistence of Output and Inflation (pdf)
Friday, January 14, 2005 at 12:30 p.m., room 03.101
Presentation
by Geert
Bekaert (Columbia Business School)
Title: Financial
Stability and Growth
- Does Financial Liberalization Spur Growth? (pdf)
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by Christopher Kubelec (Bank of England and University of Warwick)
Title: FOREX trading
strategies and the efficiency of sterilized intervention (pdf)
Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by Chris Marsh (K.U.Leuven and University of Warwick)
Title: Firm endogeneity,
product variety and international policy coordination (pdf)
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by
Pablo Rovira Kaltwasser (K.U.Leuven)
Title: THE EFFECT OF
CAPITAL REQUIREMENT REGULATION
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.10
Presentation
by
Veerle Slootmaekers
(K.U.Leuven)
Title: TRADE EFFECTS OF
THE EU-MEXICO FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (pdf)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at 13:00 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by
Michel Beine (University of Lille and University of
Brussels)
Title: ECONOMIC
INTEGRATION AND REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL SPECIALIZATION:
Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at 16:30 p.m., room 03.101
Presentation
by
Lars Jonung (European Commission)
Title: TO BE OR NOT TO BE
IN THE EURO? BENEFITS AND COSTS OF MONETARY UNIFICATION AS PERCEIVED BY VOTERS
IN THE SWEDISH EURO REFERENDUM 2003 (pdf)
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 12:30 p.m., room 02.101
Presentation
by
Agnieszka Markiewicz (K.U.Leuven)
Title: Exchange rate regimes in Central and
Eastern European countries
(pdf)
Wednesday,
May 19, 2004 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.22
Presentation
by
Harry Bowen (Vlerick Management School)
Title: Does it matter where immigrants work?
Trade, Migration and Sector Specific Employment
Wednesday,
March 24, 2004 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 01.10
Presentation
by
Yunus Aksoy (University of Kent)
Title: Interest rates and output in the
long run. Tuesday,
March 23, 2004 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 03.101
Presentation
by
Arne Jon Isachsen (Norwegian School of Management)
Title: Europe and the U.S. different
perceptions and different models. Some Observations. Friday,
February 20, 2004 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 00.74
Presentation
by
Roberto Dieci (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
Title: Asset price dynamics and
diversification with
heterogeneous agents. Thursday,
February 19, 2004 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 01.10
Presentation
by
Marianna Grimaldi (Sveriges Riksbank)
Title: A theory of bubbles and crashes. Friday,
January 23, 2004 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by Eduard
Hochreiter (Austrian National Bank)
Title: Two roads to the euro: the
monetary experiences of Austria and Greece. Wednesday,
December 3, 2003 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Robert Owen (University of Nantes, France)
Title: Sunk costs, market access, economic
integration, and welfare. Review
of International Economics 10(3), 539-555, 2002 Friday,
October 10, 2003 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Vivek Dehejia (Carleton University, Canada)
Title: Output and unemployment dynamics in
transition. CEPR
Discussion Paper No. 2450
Monday,
May 26, 2003 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Helmut Stix (Oesterreichische Nationalbank)
Title: How robust are money demand
estimations? A meta-analytic approach.
Thursday,
April 24, 2003 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Roberto Dieci (Università degli Studi di Bologna)
Title: A model of asset price dynamics with
heterogeneous agents.
Friday,
March 14, 2003 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Frank Smets (European Central Bank)
Title: Monetary policy, price stability and
output gap stabilisation.
Friday,
January 24, 2003 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 03.101
Presentation
by
Gust Janssen (Strategy Research Catalyst Masterfoods Brussels)
Title:
The Economic Value of Real-Time Portfolio Risk
Friday,
January 17, 2003 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Marc-Alexandre SENEGAS (G.R.A.P.E., University Montesquieu -
Bordeaux)
Title:
Transmission Parameter Uncerntainty and Heterogeneity in EMU: Which Federal
Monetary Policy for the ECB?
Wednesday,
December 18, 2002 at 4.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Jacques Melitz (CREST, Strathclyde University and CEPR)
Title:
Language and Foreign Trade
Friday,
November 22, 2002 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 00.74
Presentation
by
Raf Wouters (National Bank of Belgium)
Title:
An Estimated Dynamic Stochastic: General Equilibrium Model of the Euro Area
Tuesday,
October 25, 2002 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 00.74
Presentation
by
Gunther
Schnabl (University of Tübingen)
Title:
SYNCHRONIZED BUSINESS CYCLES IN EAST ASIA: Fluctuations in the Yen/Dollar
Exchange Rate and China's Stabilizing Role
Tuesday,
October 22, 2002 at 4.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by
Paul De Grauwe and Claudia Costa Storti (Banco de
Portugal)
Title:
Electronic Money and the Optimal Size of Monetary Unions
Monday,
October 7, 2002 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by David
Feldman
(Department of Business Administration, School of Management, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Israël)
Title:
The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Bounded or Falling?
Friday,
June 21, 2002 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 00.74
Presentation
by Helena
Beltran (CORE,
UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique)
Title:
Expected and Unexpected Cost of Trading in the XETRA Automated Auction Market.
Abstract,
Paper
Download (large file)
Wednesday,
June 19, 2002 at 1.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by Haakon
O.Aa. Solheim (Norwegian
School of Management)
Title:
Volume, Order Flow and the FX Market: Does it Matter Who You Are?
Friday,
May 17, 2002 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 01.74
Presentation
by Jean-Marie
Viaene (Erasmus University
and Tinbergen Institute Rotterdam)
Title:
Human Capital and Cross-Country Comparison of Inequality.
Tuesday,
May 7, 2002 at 4.30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by Alan
Deardorff (University of
Michigan)
Title:
The Effects of Multinational Enterprises on Wages and Working Conditions in
Developing Countries.
Friday,
April 26, 2002 at 12.30 p.m., room HOG 01.10
Presentation
by Helmut Stix (Oesterreichische
Nationalbank)
Title:
Why Do Central Banks Intervene Secretly? Towards a
Solution of the Secrecy Puzzle.
Paper Download (new version!)
Friday,
April 19, 2002 at 2 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by Cars H. Hommes (University of Amsterdam)
Title:
Evolutionary Dynamics in Financial Markets with
Many Trader Types.
Tuesday,
March 12, 2002 at 4:30 p.m., room HOG 02.101
Presentation
by Ignazio Angeloni (European Central
Bank)
Title:
What Does the European Union Do?
Friday,
March 8, 2002 at 12:30 p.m., room HOG 03.101
Presentation
by Laura Rinaldi (C.E.S.,
K.U. Leuven)
Title:
Payment Cards and Money Demand in Belgium.
Friday,
February 1, 2002 at 12:30 p.m.
Presentation
by
Kristien
Smedts (C.E.S., K.U.
Leuven)
Title:
Monetary Unification and the Price of Risk: An Unconditional Analysis.
(joint with Hans Dewachter and
Konstantijn Maes)
Friday,
January 11, 2002 at 12:30 p.m., room HOG 03.101
Presentation
by Jan Van Hove
(C.E.S., K.U. Leuven)
Title:
Sectoral Analysis of Flemish Bilateral Trade with the CEECs.
Friday, October 19, 2001 at 12:30 p.m.
in room 02.101
Presentation
by Marco
Lyrio (C.E.S., K.U. Leuven)
Title: Estimation
of a Joint Model for the Term Structure of Interest Rates and the Macroeconomy.
(joint
with Hans Dewachter and Konstantijn
Maes)<)
- Growth Volatility and Financial Liberalization. (pdf)
- Global Growth Opportunities and Market Integration. (pdf)
ON THE TRANSMISSION OF MONETARY POLICY: EVIDENCE
FROM AUSTRIA (pdf)
EVIDENCE FROM THE CANADIAN-U.S. FTA EXPERIENCE (pdf)
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