Program Winter 2006/07

18. October 2006	Rick van der Ploeg, European University Institute Florence Political Economy of Public Investment: Merits of Golden and Deficit Rules
25. October 2006	Andreas Knabe, University Magdeburg Marginal wage subsidies: a redistributive instrument for employment creation
1. November 2006	Claudia Buch, University Tübingen Does Export Openness Increase Firm-Level Volatility?
8. November 2006	cancelled Claudia Senik, Paris School of Economics Is man doomed to progress?
15. November 2006	Christian Toft, University Kassel The distributional impact of tax-benefit systems in the EU and the US. A decomposition analysis.
22. November 2006	Monique Ebell, Humboldt University Berlin On the Real Origins of the Great Depression
29. November 2006	Frank Heinemann, Technische Universität Berlin Measuring Strategic Uncertainty in Coordination Games
6. December 2006	Xavier Debrun, IMF and Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva The Discipline-Enhancing Effect of Fiscal Institutions: Myth or Reality?
13. December 2006	Winfried Koeniger, IZA Bonn Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
20. December 2006	no session
10. January 2007	no session
17. January 2007	Gianni De Fraja, University of Leicester The Origin of Utility
24. January 2007	Josef Falkinger, University Zürich Non-governmental Public Norm Enforcement in Large Societies
31. January 2007	Friedrich Heinemann, ZEW Mannheim Is the Welfare State Self-destructive? A Study of Government Benefit Morale
7. February 2007	Mathias Hoffmann, University Zürich Consumption Risk Sharing over the Business Cycle: the Role of Small Firms' Access to Credit Markets
14. February 2007	Michael Burda, Humboldt University Berlin The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

Support for the Research Seminar in Economics by the Deutsche Bundesbank, Hauptverwaltung Berlin and the Bundesverband Deutscher Banken is gratefully acknowledged.