Seminars

Copies of papers are normally available the week of the seminar in 118 Professional Bldg.
Papers linked below are in PDF. If you have questions or problems with these files, please call 573-882-4574.

For information about the Departement Brown Bag Seminar Series, click here.

Fall 2009
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)

Friday, Aug. 28 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Jacob Sagi, Vanderbilt University	"Incorporating Correlations in the Measurement of Income Inequality under Uncertainty"
Friday, Sept. 4 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Jeff Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	“Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History”
Friday, Sept. 18 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Ted Juhl, University of Kansas	A Test for Slope Heterogeneity in Fixed Effects Models
Friday., Sept. 25 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Roberton Williams, University of Texas at Austin	Distribution, Distortionary Taxation, and the Evaluation of Public Goods
Thurs., October 1 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Daniel Kovenock, University of Iowa	The Optimal Defense of Networks of Targets
Friday,October 16 11:00 a.m. 115 Cornell	Guillaume Rocheteau, University of California at Irvine	A Monetary Approach to Asset Liquidity
Friday,October 16 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Christopher Jepsen, University of Kentucky	Labor Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Friday,October 23 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	John Romalis, University of Chicago Booth School of Business	The Welfare Implications of Rising Price Dispersion
Wed, October 28 1:00 p.m. S110 Memorial Union	Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley	Real Wage Inequality
Friday, November 6 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	David Mills, Federal Reserve Board of Governors	Default Risk and Collateral in the Absence of Commitment
Wed., November 18 2:0 p.m. 12 Middlebush	Huberto Ennis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	A Model of Stigma in the Fed Funds Market
Friday, December 4 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Francine Lafontaine, University of Michigan Ross School of Business	TBA

Spring 2009
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)

Friday, Jan. 23 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Jagadeesh Sivadasan, University of Michigan	Exporting Behavior Under Quality Constraints
Friday, March 6 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna and RAND	Does Treatment Respond to Reimbursement? Evidence from Trauma Care
Thurs., March 12 2:30 p.m. 104 Arts & Science	Esther Duflo, MIT	Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya
Thurs., April 2 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Paul Decker, Mathematica	Relative Effectiveness of Teachers from Alternative Preparation Routes: Findings from Two Recent Studies 1. The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation 2. An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification
Friday, April 17 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Jonathan Eaton, NYU	An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
Friday, April 24 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Dan Black, Chicago	The Role of Location in the Evaluating Black-White Wage Disparity
Friday, May, 1 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Scott Stern, Northwestern	Of Mice and Academics: Examining the Eect of Openness on Innovation

Fall 2008
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)

Friday, August 29 3:00 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Thomas Hubbard, Northwestern University	The Economics of "Radiator Springs:" Industry Dynamics, Sunk Costs, and Spatial Demand Shifts
Friday, September 5 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Pamela Jakiela, Washington University in St. Louis	How Fair Shares Compare: Experimental Evidence from Two Cultures
Thurs., September 11 11:00 a.m. S110 Memorial Union	Bent Sorenson, University of Houston	Why Does Capital Flow to Rich States?
Friday, September 19 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Carlos Martins-Filho, Oregon State (Visiting Professor UMC)	Nonparametric Regression Estimation With General Parametric Error Covariance
Thurs., September 25 3:30 p.m. 208 Middlebush	Marie Hoerova, European Central Bank	Money Talks: Information and Monetary Policy
Friday, October 3 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Masao Ogaki, Ohio State University	Tough Love and Intergenerational Altruism
Friday, October 10 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Piyush Chandra, Colgate University	WTO Subsidy rules and Tariff Libralization: Evidence from Accession of China
Friday, October 17 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado	Exclusive Contracts, Innovation, and Welfare
Friday, October 24 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Margaret Kyle, London Business School	The Timing of Licensing: Theory and Empirics
Thursday, October 30 3:30 p.m. 208 Middlebush	Guy Michaels, London School of Economics	Urbanization and Structural Transformation
Friday, November 7 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Anastasia Kartasheva, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Competition among rating agencies and information disclosure
Friday, November 14 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Alvin Murphy Washington University	A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply
Thurs., December 4 3:30 p.m. 208 Middlebush	David Figlio, Northwestern University	Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure
Thurs., December 11 3:30 p.m. 310 Middlebush	Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis.	Home Equity, Foreclosures, and Bail-out

Winter 2008
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)

Tuesday, February 5 3:30 pm 123 Tate	David Frisvold , University of Michigan	Expanding Exposure: Can Increasing the Daily Duration of Head Start Reduce Childhood Obesity?
Friday, February 8 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	Keith Maskus, University of Colorado at Boulder	Foreign PhD Students and Knowledge Creation at U.S. Universities: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations
Tuesday, February 12 3:30 pm 123 Tate	Alan Barreca, University of California, Davis	The Long-Term Economic Impact of In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Malaria
Friday, February 22 RESCHEDULED	Jeff Ely, Northwestern University	Kludged and Sunk-Cost Bias: A Memory Kludge
Friday, February 29 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	Robin McKnight, University of Oregon	Patient Cost-Sharing, Hospitalization Offsets, and the Design of Optimal Health Insurance for the Elderly
Friday, March 7 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago	How Far Are We From The Slippery Slope? The Laffer Curve Revisited
Friday & Saturday March 28 - 29	8th Annual Missouri Economics Conference
Friday, April 4 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of California, Berkeley	The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
Friday, April 11 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	James Riedel, Johns Hopkins University	CANCELLED
Friday, April 25 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	Kamal Saggi, Southern Methodist University	Bilateralism, Multilateralism, and the Quest for Global Free Trade
Friday, May 2 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	Jacob Vigdor, Duke University	Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement
Friday, May 9 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush	Jeff Ely, Northwestern University	Kludged and Sunk-Cost Bias: A Memory Kludge

past seminars >>

Seminars

Fall 2009

Date/Time/Place

Speaker

Topic (click to open)

Spring 2009

Date/Time/Place

Speaker

Topic (click to open)

Fall 2008

Date/Time/Place

Speaker

Topic (click to open)

Winter 2008

Date/Time/Place

Speaker

Topic (click to open)