Seminar

Biography – Carlo Cottarelli Carlo Cottarelli, a citizen of Italy, has been Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department since November 2008. After receiving degrees in economics from the University of Siena and the London School of Economics, he joined the Research Department of the Bank of Italy where he worked from 1981 to...

The Impact of the adoption of IFRS on Stock Liquidity Alex Frino, University of Sydney Bio: Dr Alex Frino is Professor of Finance and Chief Executive Officer of the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre Ltd. Professor Frino holds a Masters Degree in Finance from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Finance from...

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Second Joseph Stiglitz Seminar: Professor William Goetzmann, Yale School of Management Title: 'A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse'

Rohit Sonika (Phd student Lancaster University) Share Repurchase Decision Dynamics: Program Initiations, Implementations and Abandonments

Lubomir Litov Do firm boundaries affect financing policy? Evidence from non-financial conglomerates with financial subsidiaries

Dr Elisa Newby, Bank of England Title: 'Midas, transmuting all, into a paper': the Bank of England and the Banque de France during the napoleonic Wars This paper re-assesses Revolutionary and Napoleonic wartime economic policy in light of recent development in monetary theory and re-emerging interest in balance sheets. We...

Tatyana Krivobokova (Goettingen) Title: Smoothing parameter selection for spline estimators In contrast to other nonparameteric regression techniques, smoothing parameter selection for spline estimators can be performed not only by employing criteria that approximate the average mean squared error (e.g. generalized cross...

Judith Rousseau (Paris Dauphine) Title: Bernstein - von Mises Theorems for general functionals In this work we study conditions on the prior and on the model to obtain a Bernstein von Mises Theorem for finite dimensional functionals of a curve. A Bernstein – von Mises theorem for a parameter of interest $\psi $ essentially...

Donald A. Pierce, Oregon Health & Science University Ruggero Bellio, Udine University, Italy Title: Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC Much of Bayesian MCMC aims to be “objective” and hence is often strongly related to likelihood inference. A primary distinction between the two approaches involves whether nuisance...