Research Seminars

Research seminars organised by the Bank of Finland's research unit are held on the first Thursday of the month at 13.30–15 in Rauhankatu 19, 3^rd floor big meeting room (unless indicated otherwise). Seminars are held in English. Head of Research Jouko Vilmunen is responsible for the seminar programme.

Research seminars are open to all interested parties. Please register in advance at seminars@bof.fi by noon of the preceding day. Visitors are requested to come to the main entrance of Rauhankatu 19 by 13.20.

Forthcoming and previous seminars

TAB WEBPART

2012

Time	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
Thu 7 June 2012	Prof. Guido Ascari University of Pavia	TBA
Thu 3 May 2012	Prof. Guglielmo-Maria Caporale Brunel University London	TBA
Wed 4 Apr 2012 at 14.30	Prof. Lars Jonung Lund University	Searching for a macroprudential regime. The case of Sweden
Fri 10 Feb 2012 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Prof. Per Krusell Stockholm University	Uncertain exposure
Thu 12 Jan 2012	Prof. Charles Noussair Tilburg School of Economics and Management	DSGE macro experiments at the central bank

2011

Time	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
Thu 1 Dec 2011	D.Soc.Sc. Paavo Miettinen Bank of Finland	Bank of Finland balance sheet model
Thu 3 Nov 2011	Ass. Prof. Christian Matthes Universitat Pompeu Fabra	Optimal Disinflation Under Learning
Thu 1 Sep 2011	Ph.D. Tianxi Wang University of Essex	Is the Banking Sector Too Big?
Thu 9 Jun 2011	Prof. Panu Poutvaara University of Munich	Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State
Tue 5 Apr 2011 at 10.00–11.30	Ph.D. Juha Kilponen European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)	Sovereign Risks and Elements of Crisis Resolution for the Euro Area
Thu 3 Mar 2011	Prof. Jagjit Chadha University of Kent	Roundheads versus Cavaliers: An Early Assessment of Quantitative Easing
Fri 4 Feb 2011 at 14.00–15.30 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Prof. John B. Taylor Stanford University	Can a Rule for Monetary Policy Be Legislated?

2010

Time	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
Thu 2 Dec 2010	Ass. Prof. Saku Aura University of Missouri	A Simple Positive Theory of Government Land Sales
Thu 4 Nov 2010	Prof. Markku Kaustia Aalto University School of Economics	What drives the heterogeneity in portfolio choice? The role of traditional, institutional, and behavioral factors
Wed 6 Oct 2010	Ph.D. Jiří Slačálek European Central Bank	Disagreement among forecasters in G7 countries
Thu 2 Sep 2010	Ph.D. Erkko Etula Federal Reserve Bank of New York	Funding Liquidity Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
Wed 25 Aug 2010	Ph.D. Biliana Alexandrova-Kabadjova Banco de México	Understanding bank failure: A close examination of rules created by Genetic Programming
Wed 4 Aug 2010 at 10.00–11.30 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Ph.D. Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis	Redistributive Taxation in a Partial-Insurance Economy
Thu 6 May 2010	Prof. Markku Lanne University of Helsinki	Optimal Forecasting of Noncausal Autoregressive Time Series
Thu 8 Apr 2010	Ph.D. Samuel Reynard Swiss National Bank	Modeling Monetary Policy
Thu 4 Mar 2010	Ph.D. Student Qinwei Wang University of Cambridge	Heterogeneous Expectations, Learning and Monetary Policy Rules in a Two-Country Model
Tue 16 Feb 2010 at 13.00–14.30 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Dr. Richard Clarida Columbia University & NBER & PIMCO	Currency Carry Trades
Fri 5 Feb 2010 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Prof. Jaume Ventura Universitat Pompeu Fabra	Theoretical Notes on Bubbles and the Current Crisis
Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 10.30–12.00 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Prof. Fabrizio Zilibotti University of Zurich	Growing like China
Thu 14 Jan 2010	D.Sc. Chitro Majumdar R-square RiskLab	Economic Risk Capital Measure & Credit Derivative Pricing Issues: Credit Tsunami and Beyond

2009

Time	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
Thu 3 Dec 2009	Academy Research Fellow Pauli Murto Helsinki School of Economics	Exit Options and Dividend Policy under Liquidity Constraints
Fri 6 Nov 2009 at 10.00–12.00	Prof. Kjell Nyborg University of Zurich, Swiss Banking Institute	Money and liquidity in financial markets
Thu 1 Oct 2009	Ph.D. Henri Pagès Banque de France	Bank incentives and optimal CDOs
Fri 18 Sep 2009 at 10.00–11.30	Prof. Volker Wieland Goethe University Frankfurt	Keynesian government spending multipliers and spillovers in the euro area
Thu 3 Sep 2009	Ph.D. Tiago Cavalcanti University of Cambridge	The Welfare Gains of Financial Liberalization: Capital Accumulation and Idiosyncratic Risks
Wed 2 Sep 2009	Ass. Prof. Alfred Guender University of Canterbury, NZ	Instrument and Target Rules as Specifications of Optimal Monetary Policy
Wed 3 Jun 2009 at 9.00–10.15 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Prof. Viral Acharya Stern School of Business, New York University	Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System
Thu 7 May 2009	Prof. Kai Leitemo Norwegian School of Management	The price puzzle: Mixing the temporary and permanent monetary policy shocks
Thu 2 Apr 2009	Prof. Matti Keloharju Helsinki School of Economics	Do smart investors outperform dumb investors?
Thu 5 Mar 2009	Prof. Klaus Adam Mannheim University	Monetary Policy and Aggregate Volatility
Fri 6 Feb 2009 Rauhankatu 19, Auditorium	Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet Toulouse School of Economics	The future of banking regulation: BASEL II after the crisis
Thu 8 Jan 2009	Ass. Prof. Yrjö Koskinen Boston University	The Euro and Corporate Financing

2008

Time	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
Thu 4 Dec 2008	Ph.D. Christian Haefke Institute for Advanced Studies	Wage Rigidity and Job Creation
Thu 6 Nov 2008	Prof. Matti Suominen Helsinki School of Economics	Arbitrage Capital and Currency Carry Trade Returns (updated 2 Feb 2010) Executive summary of the research (18 Nov 2008)
Thu 2 Oct 2008	Ph.D. Gyöngyi Lóránth University of Cambridge	Internal Reporting System, Compensation Contracts, and Bank Regulation
Thu 4 Sep 2008	Ass. Prof. Antonella Trigari Bocconi University	An Estimated Monetary DSGE Model with Unemployment and Staggered Nominal Wage Bargaining
Thu 8 May 2008	Prof. Charles M. Kahn University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Bank of England	Liquidity, Payment and Endogenous Financial Fragility (24 Nov 2008)
Thu 3 Apr 2008	Ass. Prof. Silvia Marchesi University of Milano-Bicocca	Agency and communication in IMF conditionality
Thu 6 Mar 2008	Ph.D. Giacomo Carboni European Central Bank	Inflation and Output Volatility under Asymmetric Incomplete Information
Fri 15 Feb 2008	Ph.D. Candidate Paolo Zagaglia Stockholm University	The term structure of interest rates and the monetary transmission mechanism
Thu 10 Jan 2008	Prof. Ph.D. Erkki Koskela University of Helsinki	Strategic outsourcing, profit sharing and equilibrium unemployment

2007

Time	Speaker/Affiliation	Title
Thu 13 Dec 2007	Ass. Prof. Samuli Knüpfer Helsinki School of Economics	Bricks-and-mortar banks and stock market participation
Thu 8 Nov 2007	Ph.D. Student Alina Barnett University of Warwick	Inflation, Unemployment and Recursive Learning
Thu 4 Oct 2007	Prof. Juuso Välimäki Helsinki School of Economics	Dynamic Marginal Contribution Mechanism
Thu 6 Sep 2007	Prof. Seppo Honkapohja University of Cambridge	Liquidity Traps, Learning and Stagnation

Prof. John B. Taylor in the Bank of Finland research seminar on February 4, 2011.