| Thursday, 9 February 2012 | 16:40–18:00 |
| Financial economics | |
| Nicolas Andre Benigno Serrano-Velarde (Oxford University) | |
| The Causal Effect of Bankruptcy Law on the Cost of Finance | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Andreas Park |
| Monday, 13 February 2012 | 12:15–13:15 |
| Theory workshop | |
| Peter Achim Wagner (University of Toronto) | |
| Learning from Strangers | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Monday, 13 February 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Empirical microeconomics (CEPA) | |
| Dayanand Manoli (University of California at Los Angeles) | |
| Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions | |
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(joint with Andrea Weber)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Michael Smart |
| Friday, 17 February 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Public economics | |
| Lorenz Kueng (UC Berkeley) | |
| Tax News: Identifying the Household Consumption Response to Tax Expectations using Bond Prices | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Nicholas Li |
| Monday, 27 February 2012 | 12:15–13:15 |
| Theory workshop | |
| Rahul Deb (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Tuesday, 28 February 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic theory | |
| Mihai Manea (MIT Department of Economics) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Rahul Deb |
| Thursday, 1 March 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Macroeconomics | |
| Lutz Hendricks (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) | |
| The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout Risk | |
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(joint with Oksana Leukhina)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Margarida Duarte and Diego Restuccia |
| Friday, 2 March 2012 | 15:40–17:00 |
| Empirical microeconomics (CEPA) | |
| Frederico Finan (UC Berkeley) | |
| Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service | |
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(joint with Ernesto Dal Bo and Martin Rossi)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Gustavo Bobonis and Philip Oreopoulos |
| Monday, 5 March 2012 | 12:15–13:15 |
| Theory workshop | |
| Byung Soo Lee (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Thursday, 8 March 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| International trade | |
| Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University) | |
| TBA | |
| Rotman, room 157 | Organizer: Peter Morrow |
| Friday, 9 March 2012 | 14:00–15:20 |
| Econometrics | |
| Francesca Molinari (Cornell University) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Martin Burda and Yuanyuan Wan |
| Monday, 12 March 2012 | 12:15–13:15 |
| Theory workshop | |
| Jim Campbell (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Friday, 16 March 2012 | 14:00–15:20 |
| Econometrics | |
| Maria Ponomareva (University of Western Ontario) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Martin Burda |
| Monday, 19 March 2012 | 12:15–13:15 |
| Theory workshop | |
| Eray Cumbul (University of Rochester) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Thursday, 22 March 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Macroeconomics/International trade | |
| Ralph Ossa (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizers: Bernardo Blum, Peter Morrow, and Xiaodong Zhu |
| Friday, 23 March 2012 | 14:00–15:00 |
| Econometrics | |
| Michael Escobar (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Martin Burda |
| Monday, 26 March 2012 | 12:15–13:15 |
| Theory workshop | |
| Gabor Virag (University of Toronto) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Monday, 26 March 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| International trade | |
| Stephen Redding (Princeton University) | |
| TBA | |
| Rotman, room 157 | Organizers: Gilles Duranton and Peter Morrow |
| Thursday, 29 March 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Macroeconomics | |
| Francesca Carapella (US Federal Reserve Board) | |
| Information insensitive securities: the true benefits of Central Counterparties | |
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(joint with David C. Mills)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Shouyong Shi |
| Monday, 2 April 2012 | 12:15–13:15 |
| Theory workshop | |
| Tim Friehe (University of Konstanz) | |
| Cheap talk about the detection probability | |
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(joint with Florian Baumann)
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| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Colin Stewart |
| Tuesday, 3 April 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic theory | |
| John Quah (Oxford University) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Rahul Deb |
| Tuesday, 10 April 2012 | 16:10–17:30 |
| Economic theory | |
| Juuso Välimäki (Aalto School of Economics) | |
| TBA | |
| Max Gluskin House, room 106 | Organizer: Xianwen Shi |