Tuesday 14 February 2012

at 1:00 pm in Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building (approximately 1.5 hours)

The determinants of earnings inequalities: Panel data evidence from South Africa

Francis Teal

Written with Andrew Kerr, DataFirst, University of Cape Town

Series: CSAE Lunchtime Seminars

Tuesday 14 February 2012

at 5:00 pm in Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building (approximately 1 hours)

Carbon prices for the next thousand years

Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg)

Series: OxCarre Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 February 2012

at 1:00 pm in Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building (approximately 1 hours)

Aid effectiveness: Behind the rhetoric? Behavioural games with the Kampala International Development Community

Kim Lehrer

TBA

Written with Catherine Porter, CSAE

Series: CSAE Research Workshops

Wednesday 15 February 2012

at 5:00 pm in Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building (approximately 1.5 hours)

Intergenerational transfer motivations in urban and rural China

Taichang Chen (Pembroke College)

Series: China Economy Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 February 2012

at 5:00 pm in Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building (approximately 1 hours)

The Shift and the Shocks: the State of the World Economy

Martin Wolf (FT, Chief Economics Commentator and Associate Editor)

Chair: Domenico Lombardi

Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London, writing a weekly column on the world economy and a fortnightly column on the UK. He is an OXONIA Honorary Fellow. Martin is also a Forum Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking. Martin is the author of several books on global economics and political economy, including, Why Globalization Works and the widely praised book, Fixing Global Finance: How to Curb Financial Crises in the 21st.

Series: OXONIA Distinguished Speaker

Thursday 16 February 2012

at 2:30 pm in Balliol College, Old Common Room (approximately 2 hours)

The Economics of Financial Failure

David Vines and others

Series: Duty of Care In Finance

Thursday 16 February 2012

at 4:30 pm in Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building (approximately 1.5 hours)

Unambiguous Comparison of Intersecting Distribution Functions

Magne Mogstad (UCL)

Paper

Series: Labour & Applied Microeconometrics Seminar

Friday 17 February 2012

at 12:30 pm in Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building (approximately 1.5 hours)

Unpacking the private school premium in test scores: Longitudinal analysis of the impact of government and private schooling in India

Abhijeet Singh

Series: Gorman Student Research Workshop in Economics

Friday 17 February 2012

at 2:00 pm in Balliol College, Lecture Room 23 (approximately 2 hours)

Lessons from China

Dr X Z Bai (Research Director, China Executive Leadership Academy, Pudong (CELAP))

Series: Duty of Care In Finance

Friday 17 February 2012

at 4:45 pm in Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building (approximately 1.5 hours)

Efficient Asset Division with Reallocation Costs

Ron Siegel (Northwestern University)

Series: Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar

Monday 20 February 2012

at 12:00 pm in Seminar Room B, Manor Road Building (approximately 2 hours)

Pollution havens in space: Why the pollution haven effect is stronger than we thought

John Feddersen

Series: Post Doctoral & D.Phil. Research Workshop

Tuesday 21 February 2012

at 1:00 pm in Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building (approximately 1.5 hours)

Migration and institutions

Anke Hoeffler

Written with Paul Collier, CSAE

Discussant: Andrew Zeitlin, CSAE

Series: CSAE Lunchtime Seminars