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All seminars will take place at HEC Montréal - Côte-Sainte-Catherine Building
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal

To meet with a guest speaker, email directly the contact name listed below.
For general information, please email the seminar coordinator marc.santugini@hec.ca.

 

 

Winter 2012

Mars / March Professeur responsable / Contact
Wednesday, March 14, 13:45pm
salle/room St-Hubert
Nicola Persico
Kellogg School of Management
"Decentralized Deterrence, with an Application to Labor Tax Auditing"
decio.coviello@hec.ca
Friday, March 23 15:30pm
salle/room Serge-Saucier
MacroMontréal
Martin Eichenbaum
Northwestern University
"Long Run Bulls and Bears"
federico.ravenna@hec.ca
Avril / April Professeur responsable / Contact
Wednesday, April 4, 10:00am
salle/room Sony
Lars Vilhuber
Cornell University
"Gross Employment, Job Flows, and the Role of Education in the Great Recession"
benoit.dostie@hec.ca
Wednesday, April 11, 10:00am
salle/room St-Hubert
Jonathan T. Kolstad
The Wharton School, Univeristy of Pennsylvania
"Mandate-Based Health Reform and the Labor Market: Evidence from the Massachusetts Reform"
pierre-thomas.leger@hec.ca
Wednesday, April 18, 10:00am
salle/room St-Hubert
Kenneth Chay
Brown University
"Health Insurance, Hospital Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare's Origins"
daniel.parent@hec.ca
Friday, April 20 15:30pm
salle/room Sony
MacroMontréal
Luca Dedola
European Central Bank
"Global implications of national unconventional policies"
federico.ravenna@hec.ca
Wednesday, April 25, 10:00am
salle/room Sony
André Kurmann
Federal Reserve Board
"News Shocks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Challenge for DSGE Models"
michel.normandin@hec.ca
Mai  / May Professeur responsable / Contact
Thuesday, May 8, 15:15pm
salle/room PricewaterhouseCoopers
Léon Courville
HEC Montréal
"Financial Crisis: a Perfect Storm or Regulatory Failure"
benoit.dostie@hec.ca
Wednesday, May 9, 10:00am
salle/room Serge-Saucier
Francesco Violante
Maastricht University
"On Loss Functions and Ranking Forecasting Performances of Multivariate Volatility Models"
 jeoren.rombouts@hec.ca
Wednesday, May 16, 10:00am
salle/room Serge-Saucier
N. Meltem Daysal
Tilburg University
"Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Homebirths on Infant Outcomes"
marc.santugini@hec.ca

+  Seminars 2010

 

FALL 2010

September Contact
Wednesday, September 15,
10:00a.m., room Louis-Laberge
Ambarish Chandra
University of British Columbia
robert.clark@hec.ca
Wednesday, September 22,
10:00a.m., room Louis-Laberge
Liran Einav
Stanford University
"Selection on Moral Hazard in Health Insurance"
robert.clark@hec.ca
Wednesday, September 29,
10:00a.m., room Louis-Laberge
Lukasz Drozd
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Competitive Poaching in Unsecured Lending"
nicolas.vincent@hec.ca
October Contact
Wednesday, October 6,
10:00a.m., room Transat
Alan Kirman
GREQAM
"The Economic Crisis is also a Crisis for Economic Theory"
justin.leroux@hec.ca
Wednesday, October 13,
10:00a.m., room Sony
Luís Cabral
IESE Busines School, University of Navarra
marc.santugini@hec.ca
Wednesday, October 27,
10:00a.m., room to be determined
Jesus Fernández-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania
federico.ravenna@hec.ca
November Contact
Wednesday, November 3,
10:00a.m., room Transat
Iourii Manovskii
University of Pennsylvania
daniel.parent@hec.ca
Wednesday, November 10,
10:00a.m., room Transat
Matthew Grennan
Rotman School of Management
pierre-thomas.leger@hec.ca
Wednesday, November 17,
10:00a.m., room Transat
Carlos Seiglie
Rutgers University
justin.leroux@hec.ca
Wednesday, November 24,
10:00a.m., room Louis-Laberge
Mirko Wiederholt
Northwestern University
nicolas.vincent@hec.ca

SUMMER 2010

June Contact
Tuesday, June 22, 10:00a.m.
room Transat
Andrew Sweeting
Duke University
"Entry and Selection in Auctions"
robert.clark@hec.ca

WINTER 2010

February Contact
Wednesday, February 17, 10:00a.m.
room Société canadienne des postes
Hubert Kempf
Université Paris 1
"National Politics and International Agreements"
michel.normandin@hec.ca
March Contact
Wednesday,  March 10, 10:00a.m.
room Van Houtte
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau
Carnegie Mellon University
"TFP during a Credit Crunch: The Macroeconomics of Credit and Jobs Destructions"
hafedh.bouakez@hec.ca
Wednesday, March 17, 10:00a.m.
room St-Hubert
Fabienne Gouba
HEC Montréal
"Foreign aid, Human capital and Welfare"
 
Wednesday, March 24, 10:00a.m.
room St-Hubert
Michael McBride
University of California, Irvine
"Conflict, Settlement, and the Shadow of the Future"
justin.leroux@hec.ca
Wednesday, March 31, 10:00a.m.
room St-Hubert
Sergio Rebelo
NorthWestern University
"Infectious Booms and Busts in Housing Markets"
nicolas.vincent@hec.ca
April Contact
Wednesday, April 7, 10:00a.m.
room St-Hubert
Fiona M. Scott Morton
Yale School of Management
"Differentiated to Death?"
robert.clark@hec.ca
Wednesday, April 21, 14:00p.m.
room Société canadienne des postes
Virgiliu Midrigan
New York University
"Finance and Misallocation: Evidence from Plant-Level Data"
hafedh.bouakez@hec.ca
Wednesday, April 28, 10:00a.m.
room Hélène-Desmarais
Vianey Dequiedt
Université d'Auvergne
"Mutual Supervision in Preshipment Inspection Programs"
justin.leroux@hec.ca

+  Seminars 2009

MARCH 2009

Ricardo REIS (Columbia University)
"Correlated Shocks"
Wednesday, March 18,  9:45a.m., room Saine Marketing
Contact: jean.boivin@hec.ca


Césaire A. MEH (Banque du Canada)
"Real Effects of Price Stability with Endogenous Nominal Indexation"
Wednesday, March 25, 10:00a.m., room Société canadienne des postes
Contact: hafedh.bouakez@hec.ca


Larry SAMUELSON (Yale University)
"Managing Strategic Buyers"
Tuesday, March 31, 15:30p.m., room Hélène-Desmarais
Contact: marc.santugini@hec.ca


APRIL 2009


Ramazan GENÇAY (Simon Fraser University)
"The Role of Signal Precision and Transaction Costs in Stock, Option and Volatility Trading"
Wednesday, April 1st, room Société canadienne des postes
Contact: justin.leroux@hec.ca


Todd CLARK (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
"Nested Forecast Model Comparisons: A New Approach to Testing Equal Accuracy"
Wednesday, April 8, 10:00a.m., room Société canadienne des postes
Contact: jeroen.rombouts@hec.ca


Craig Burnside (Duke University)
"Do Peso Problems Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?"
Wednesday, April 15, 10:00a.m., Société canadienne des postes
Contact: nicolas.vincent@hec.ca


Julio ROTEMBERG (Harvard Business School)
"Altruistic Dynamic Pricing with Customer Regret"
Wednesday, April 22, room Société canadienne des postes
Contact: jean.boivin@hec.ca


Kathy Zeiler (Georgetown University Law Center)
“The Endowment Effect: Implications of Recent Empirical Developments for Legal Theory.”
Wednesday, April 29, 10:00a.m., room Société canadienne des postes
Contact: pierre-thomas.leger@hec.ca


MAY 2009


Leonard J. Mirman (University of Virginia) 
"Lattices and Lotteries"
Wednesday, May 20, 10:30a.m., room Société canadienne des postes
Contact: marc.santugini@hec.ca


JULY 2009


Artyom Sheneyerov (Concordia University)
Wednesday, July 8, 15:30p.m., room Hélène-Desmarais
Contact: robert.clark@hec.ca


Connan Snider (University of Minnesota)
Monday, July 27, 15:30p.m., room Hélène-Desmarais
Contact: robert.clark@hec.ca


SEPTEMBER 2009

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné (HEC Montréal)
"Economic Policy when Models Disagree"
Wednesday, September 9, 11:45a.m., room Hélène-Desmarais
Contact : marc.santugini@hec.ca

Simon Potter (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Time Varying VARs with Inequality Restrictions"
Wednesday, September 23, 10:00a.m., room Van Houtte
Contact : jeroen.rombouts@hec.ca

Laurent Mathevet (University of Texas at Austin)
"Sentiments and Equilibria"
Wednesday, September 30, 10:00a.m., room Procter & Gamble
Contact : justin.leroux@hec.ca


OCTOBER 2009

 

Thomas Jeitschko (Michigan State University)
"Endogenous Entry in Markets with Adverse Selection"
Wednesday, October 14, 10:00a.m., room St-Hubert
Contact : marc.santugini@hec.ca


NOVEMBER 2009

Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan)
" Too Far Away? Examining How Distance to Headquarters Hurts Business Establishment Performance "
Wednesday, November 4, 10:00a.m., room Saine Marketing
Contact : robert.clark@hec.ca


Joseph Harrington (John Hopkins University)
"Private Monitoring and Communication in Cartels: Explaining Recent Collusive Practices"
Wednesday, November 11, 10:00a.m., room Saine Marketing
Contact : marc.santugini@hec.ca


John Galbraith (McGill University)
" Forecasting expected shortfall with the generalized asymmetric Student t and asymmetric exponential power distributions "
Wednesday, November 18, 10:00a.m., room Procter & Gamble
Contact : jeroen.rombouts@hec.ca


Margarida Duarte (University of Toronto)
" How important is the currency denomination of Exports in open-economy models? "
Wednesday, November 25, 10:00a.m., room Saine Marketing
Contact : federico.ravenna@hec.ca


DECEMBER 2009

Matthieu Chemin (Université du Québec à Montréal)
" Can Warm Glow Alleviate Credit Market Failures? Evidence from Online Peer-to-Peer Lenders"
Tuesday, December 1st,  15:30p.m., room PricewaterhouseCoopers
Contact : pierre-thomas.leger@hec.ca  


Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia)
" Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure "
Wednesday, December 2, 10:00a.m., room Saine Marketing
Contact : benoit.dostie@hec.ca  


Jeremy Fox (University of Chicago)
" Estimating Matching Games with Transfers "
Tuesday, December  8, 10:00a.m., room Rona
Contact : robert.clark@hec.ca

François Gourio (Boston University)
"Customer capital"
Wednesday, December 9, 10:00a.m., room Xerox Canada
Contact : nicolas.vincent@hec.ca


Alan Sorensen (Stanford University)
"The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale"
Wednesday, December 16, 10:00a.m., room Van Houtte
Contact : robert.clark@hec.ca  


Daniel Parent (Université McGill)
" Performance Pay, Wage Flexibility, and Hours of Work "
Thursday, December 17, 10:00a.m., Room Saine Marketing
Contact : daniel.racette@hec.ca  

+  Seminars 2008

JUNE 2008

  • Michael MAZZEO (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) :
    "The Effect of Market Structure on Investment Specialization in Venture Capital" 
    Thursday June 19, 15:30p.m., room Serge-Saucier
    Contact: robert.clark@hec.ca
  • Robin S. LEE (Harvard Business School) :
    "Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets"
    Thursday, June 26, 15:30p.m., room Béton Grilli
    Contact: robert.clark@hec.ca

SEPTEMBER 2008

  • Olivier DESCHÊNES (University of California at Santa Barbara) :
    "Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US"
    Wednesday, 10 septembre, à 10:00a.m., room Marie-Husny
    Contact: jean.boivin@hec.ca
  • Marco OTTAVIANI (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) :
    "Policy Timing under Uncertainty: Ex ante versus Ex Post Merger Control"
    Wednesday September 17, 10:00a.m., room Marie-Husny
    Contact: nicolas.sahuguet@hec.ca

OCTOBER 2008

  • Henry SIU (University of British Columbia) :
    "The Fiscal Role of Conscription in the U.S. World War II Effort"
    Wednesday October 1st, 10:00a.m., room Marie-Husny
    Contact: nicolas.vincent@hec.ca
  • Michael DEVEREUX (University of British Columbia) :
    "Valuation Effects and Net External Assets"
    Wednesday October 8, 10:00a.m., room St-Hubert
    Contact: hafedh.bouakez@hec.ca

  • Anup MALANI (University of Chicago Law School) :
    "Clinical Trials, the Market for Observations, and the Cost of Medical R&D"
    Wednesday October 15, 10:15a.m., room Société canadienne des postes
    Contact: pierre-thomas.leger@hec.ca

  • Barton HAMILTON (Olin Business School, Washington University):
    "Using expectations data to infer managerial objectives and choices"
    Wednesday October 22, 10:00a.m., room St-Hubert
    Contact: pierre-thomas.leger@hec.ca

  • Bernard SALANIÉ (Columbia University) :
    "You are what you bet: eliciting risk attitudes from horse races"
    Thursday October 23, 15:30p.m.
    , room Sony
    Contact: nicolas.sahuguet@hec.ca

  • Fabio GHIRONI (Boston College) :
    "The Domestic and International Consequences of  Interstate U.S. Banking"
    Wednesday October 29, 10:00a.m., room St-Hubert
    Contact: hafedh.bouakez@hec.ca

 

NOVEMBER 2008

  • Bruce PRESTON (Columbia University):
    "Expectations, Learning and Business Cycle Fluctuations"
    Wednesday November 5, 10:00a.m., room Serge-Saucier
    Contact: nicolas.vincent@hec.ca
  • Steven STERN (University of Virginia) :
    "Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information"
    Wednesday November 12, 10:00a.m., room Trudeau Corporation
    Contact: marc.santugini@hec.ca

  • Benoit PERRON (Université de Montréal):
    "La variance passée et la distribution des rendements boursiers"
    Wednesday November 19,10:00a.m., room Serge-Saucier
    Contact: jeroen.rombouts@hec.ca

 

DECEMBER 2008

  • Pete KLENOW (Stanford University) :
    "Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks"
    Thursday December 4, 13:30p.m., room Marie-Husny
    Contact: jean.boivin@hec.ca


Other seminars series

HEC Montréal:
Seminars Centre for Research on e-finance

University Concordia:
Seminars Department of Economics

Université de Montréal:
Seminars Department of Economics

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM):
Seminars Department of Economics

University McGill:
Seminar Department of Economics

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