Workshop Papers

Workshops with external speakers
(Some workshops were jointly organised with the Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus).

2013

15/10/2013	“Ireland's economic crisis: the good,the bad and the ugly” Karl Whelan, University College Dublin.
03/10/2013	“The diminishing liquidity premium” Avi Wohl, Tel Aviv University.
29/09/2013	“Capital requirements, bank lending, and macro-prudential policy: evidence from three papers using UK data” Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia Business School and National Bureau of Economic Research.
05/07/2013	“Fiscal consolidation: Dr Pangloss meets Mr Keynes” Marcus Miller, University of Warwick.
21/03/2013	“Liquidity, volatility, and flights to safety in the U.S. Treasury market: evidence from a new class of dynamic order book models” Eric Ghysels, University of North Carolina.
08/03/2013	“How important is tourism for the international transmission of cyclical fluctuations? Evidence from the Mediterranean” Fabio Canova, European University Institute.
13/02/2013	“Room to move: why some industries drive the trade-specialisation nexus and others do not” Jaap Bos, Maastrict University.
01/02/2013	“Skewness, growth options and stock returns” Luca Del Viva, ESADE Business School.
21/01/2013	“Competitive challenges for Cyprus: a view from the Doing Business Report” Augusto Lopez Claros, World Bank and International Finance Corporation.

2012

17/12/2012	“Why current DSGE models provide a poor basis for forecasting and policy analysis” Aris Spanos, Virginia Tech.
30/11/2012	“Moving to a job: the role of home equity, debt, and access to credit” Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta.
26/11/2012	“The cross-section of industry investment returns” Ilan Cooper, Norwegian Business School (BI) and Tel Aviv University.
12/11/2012	“Labour market reform and youth unemployment in Europe” John Driffill, Birkbeck College, University of London.
09/11/2012	“Tails of inflation forecasts and tales of monetary policy” Philippe Andrade, Banque de France.
29/10/2012	“Finance and growth: a review and agenda” Peter L. Rousseau, Vanderbilt University.
22/10/2012	“Prior selection for vector autoregressions” Domenico Giannone, Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
18/10/2012	“The optimal currency area in a liquidity trap” Michael Devereux, University of British Columbia.
18/10/2012	“Bank ratings: what determines their quality?” Harald Hau, University of Geneva.
04/10/2012	“The home bias of the poor: terms of trade effects and portfolios across the wealth distribution” Tobias Broer, Stockholm University.
14/09/2012	“Are there common factors in commodity futures returns?” George Skiadopoulos, University of Piraeus.
13/09/2012	“Local business cycles and local liquidity” George Korniotis, University of Miami.
12/09/2012	“Beyond austerity: an SPV to save eurozone?” Marcus Miller, University of Warwick.
18/05/2012	“The manipulation of Basel risk weights: evidence from 2007-10” Mike Mariathasan, University of Oxford.
04/05/2012	“International propagation of the credit crisis” Ian A. Cooper, London Business School.
27/04/2012	“Business cycles in Mediterranean countries” Fabio Canova.
29/03/2012	“Macroprudential matters” Andy Haldane, Bank of England.
28/03/2012	“Can we predict stock market crashes using the bond-stock earnings yield difference model?” William Ziemba, UBC and University of Reading.
16/03/2012	“Financial regulation in general equilibrium” Dimitris Tsomocos, Said Business School, University of Oxford.
09/03/2012	“Systemically important banks in Cyprus: risks and policy implications” Constantinos Stephanou, World Bank and Financial Stability Board Secretariat.
13/02/2012	“Costly labour adjustments: effects of China's employment regulations” Russell Cooper, European University Institutte.
10/01/2012	“The UK economy in the crisis and its aftermath: can our models shed any light?” Patrick Minford, Cardiff Business School.

2011

29/11/2011	“Generalized Taylor and generalized Calvo price and wage-setting: micro-evidence with macro implications” Huw Dixon, Cardiff Business School.
28/11/2011	“Priming ideology? Electoral cycles without electoral incentives among US judges” Daniel L. Chen, Duke Law School.
21/11/2011	“US fiscal policy ex ante and ex post” Simon van Norden, HEC Montreal.
11/11/2011	“Testing the invariance of expectations models of inflation” David Hendry, University of Oxford.
19/10/2011	“Pension plan risk-taking: does it matter if the sponsor is publicly-traded?” Christina Atanasova, Simon Fraser University.
17/10/2011	“On the non-exclusivity of loan contracts: an empirical investigation” (with Hans Degryse and Erik von Schedvin) Vasso Ioannidou, Tilburg University.
14/10/2011	“Europe: after the crisis” Charles A.E. Goodhart, London School of Economics.
26/09/2011	“Routinization-biased technical change, globalization and labour market polarization: does theory fit the facts?” Jean Mercenier, Universite Pantheon-Assas.
23/09/2011	“Anxious periods and bank lending” George Kouretas, Athens University of Economics and Business.
24/06/2011	“Do sticky prices increase real exchange rate volatility at the sector level?” Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University.
27/05/2011	“Dynamic portfolio choice, predictability and uncertainty” George Skoulakis, University of Maryland.
09/05/2011	“Dynamic identification of DSGE models” Serena Ng, Columbia University.
04/05/2011	“Housing purchases and the dynamics of housing wealth” Olympia Bover Hidiroglu, Banco de Espana.
15/04/2011	“Novel approaches to coherency conditions in LDV modesl with an application to financing constraints and a firm's decision and ability to innovate” Vassilis Hajivassiliou, London School of Economics.
11/04/2011	“The EMU sovereign-debt crisis: fundamentals, expectations and contagion” Michael Arghyrou, Cardiff Business School.
04/04/2011	“Optimal and time-inconsistent beliefs and preference for commitment” Filippos Papakonstantinou, Imperial College London.
31/03/2011	“Search and matching in the housing market” David Genesove, Hebrew University.
24/03/2011	“Competitive equilibrium in asset markets with adverse selection” Robert Shimer, University of Chicago.
18/03/2011	“Booms and busts: New Keynesian and behavioural explanations” Paul De Grauwe, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
24/02/2011	“Valuing employee stock options and restricted stock in the presence of market imperfections” Simon Benninga, Tel Aviv University.
18/02/2011	“Hedge funds in M&A deals: is there exploitation of private information?” Nadia Massoud, Schulich School of Business, York University (Toronto).
04/02/2011	“Hot and cold seasons in the housing market” Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics.

2010

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