Past Seminars
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Fall 2007 |
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Date/Time/Place |
Speaker |
Topic (click to open) |
| August 31 3:30 pm 207 Middlebush |
Curtis Taylor, Duke University |
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| September 7 3:30 pm 207 Middlebush |
Sajal Lahiri, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale |
Export-Oriented International Joint Venture: Endogenous Set-Up Costs versus Information Gathering |
| September 14 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
Julian Betts, University of California, San Diego |
1. Madness in the Method? A Critical Analysis of
Popular Methods of Estimating the Effect of
Charter Schools on Student Achievement 2. Key Issues in Studying Charter Schools and Achievement: A Review and Suggestions for National Guidelines |
| September 21 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
David Ridley, Duke University |
Retail Zoning and Competition |
| October 5 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
Pete Klenow, Stanford University |
Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India |
| October 12 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
Nisvan Erkal, University of Melbourne | Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research and Development |
| October 19 1:00 pm 212 Middlebush |
Catherine Wolfram, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley | Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-stationary Pollution Sources |
| October 26 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
Robert Pollak, Olin School of Business, Washington University |
Allocating Time: Individuals' Technologies and Household Technology |
| November 2 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
Jane Cooley, University of Wisconsin, Madison | Alternative Mechanisms of Peer Achievement Spillovers: Implications for Identification and Policy |
| November 9 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon | Foreign Subsidization and Excess Capacity |
| November 16 3:30 pm 309 Middlebush |
Zhihao Yu, Carleton University, Ontario | The Fear of Competitive Pressure of Globalization and Outsourcing |
Summer 2007 |
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Date/Time/Place |
Speaker |
Topic (click to open) |
| June 22 3:30 pm 129 Professional Bldg |
Suezo Ishisawa, Tezukaya University and University of Washington | |
Winter 2007 |
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Date/Time/Place |
Speaker |
Topic (click to open) |
| January | ||
| January 17 9:00 am 206 Middlebush |
Peter Hinrichs MIT |
The Effects of the National School Lunch Program and Education and Health |
| January 19 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush |
Todd Schoellman Stanford University |
The Causes and Consequences of Cross-County Differences in Schooling Attainment |
| January 22 9:00 am 206 Middlebush |
Michael Lovenheim University of Michigan |
The Effect of Teachers' Unions on Education Production: Evidence from Union Election Certifications in Three Midwestern States |
| January 26 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush |
Ye Zhang University of Maryland |
Asymmetric Information, Employer Learning, and the Job Mobility of Young Men |
| January 29 9:00 am 206 Middlebush |
Cory Koedel University of California, San Diego |
Teacher Quality and Educational Production in Secondary School |
| January 31 9:00 am 206 Middlebush |
Amy Hongfei Sun University of Toronto |
Banking, Inside Money and Outside Money |
| February | ||
| February 6 3:30 pm N208 Memorial Union, Walt Disney Room |
Pablo Pena University of Chicago |
Tuition and Wealth at American Colleges |
| February 8 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush |
Joong Shik Kang, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Consumption and Real Exchange Rates in an Economy with Private Information |
| February 9 9:30 am N222/223 Memorial Union |
Kristine Brown, University of California-Berkeley | The Link between Pensions and Retirement Timing: Lessons from California Teachers |
| February 12 9:00 am N208 Memorial Union |
Chao Gu, Cornell University | Herding and Bank Runs |
| April | ||
| April 6 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush |
Justin Wolfers, University of Pennsylvania | Racial Discrimination among NBA Referees |
| April 13 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush |
April Franco, University of Iowa | Covenants not to Compete, Labor Mobility, and Industry Dynamics |
| April 18 9:00 am N208 Memorial Union |
Sergel Severinov, Duke University | Lawyer Advice and Evidence Disclosure |
| April 27 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush |
Curtis Taylor, Duke University | Public Information and Electoral Bias |
| May | ||
| May 4 3:30 pm 211 Middlebush |
Elena Pastorino, The University of Iowa | Learning by Employing: A Role for Up-or-Out Contracts |
2006 |
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Date |
Speaker |
Topic (click to open) |
| January 18 | Elizabeth T. Powers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | The Incredible Shrinking Program: Trends in SSI Participation of the Aged |
| January 20 | Peter Norman, University of British Columbia | To Bundle or Not to Bundle |
| February 6 | Gunjan Sharma, University of Maryland at College Park | Competing or Collaborating Siblings? Industrial and Trade Policies in India |
| February 15 | Svetlana Demidova, Pennsylvania State University | Productivity Improvements and Falling Trade Costs: Boon or Bane? |
| March 10 | Robert Reed, University of Kentucky | The Role of Financial Sector Competition for Monetary Policy |
| March 17 | Michael Bognanno, Temple University | Promotions, Demotions, Halo Effects and Earnings Dynamics of American Executives CANCELLED (see new date below |
| April 14 | Charles Zheng, Northwestern University | Core Equivalence Theorem with Production |
| April 21 | Michael Bognanno, Temple University | Promotions, Demotions, Halo Effects and Earnings Dynamics of American Executives |
| April 28 | John W. Keating, University of Kansas | Interpreting Permanent and Transitory Shocks to Output When Aggregate Demand May Not be Neutral in the Long-Run |
| May 5 | James Anderson, Boston College | Commercial Policy in a Predatory World |
| August 25 | Andreas Blume, University of Pittsburgh | Noisy Talk |
| September 22 | Jeroen Swinkels, Olin School of Business, Washington University | Moral Hazard With Bounded Payments |
| September 29 | Todd Gormley, Olin School, Washington University | Banking Competition in Developing Countries: Does Foreign Bank Entry Improve Credit Access? |
| October 6 | John Conlon, University of Mississippi | Should the Fed Burst Bubbles? Some Microeconomic Considerations |
| October 10 | Dr. Ron Harstad, University of Missouri-Columbia | Is Economics an Inherently Conservative Discipline? First lecture of the 2006-07 MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series. Please visit http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/lectures/ |
| October 13 | William Blankenau, Kansas State University | Industrial dynamics, Schumpeter and the neoclassical growth model |
| October 19 | Michael Rothkopf, Rutgers University | Combinatorial Auctions for Industrial Procurement (paper NA) |
| November 3 | Joshua Linn, University of Illinois at Chicago | Bush V. Gore and the Effect of New Source Review on Power Plant Emissions |
| November 10 | Li Gan, Texas A&M University | Estimating Independence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model |
| December 1 | Sean Crockett, Baruch College, CUNY | Exchange and Specialization as a Discovery Process |
| December 5 | Jacob Goeree, CalTech | Rescheduled for Winter 2007 |
| 2005 | ||
| January 21 | Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, University of Colorado | Regionalism in Standards: Good or Bad for Trade? |
| January 25 | Paul J. Healy, CalTech | Learning Dynamics for Mechanism Design: An Experimental Comparison of Public Goods Mechanisms |
| January 27 | Edward Huayu Fang, Duke University | Time-varying Expected Consumption Growth and Cross-sectional Equity Returns |
| January 28 | Yan Bai, Minnesota | Financial Integration and International Risk Sharing |
| January 31 | Carlos Flores, University of California at Berkeley | Estimation of Dose-Response Functions and Optimal Doses with a Continuous Treatment |
| February 2 | Liang Hu, University of Rochester | Optimal Test for Stochastic Unit Root with Markov Switching |
| February 4 | Allison McKie, MIT | The Short-Run Effect of State-Mandated Salary Increases on Teacher Qualifications: Do States Get What They Pay For? |
| February 8 | Johanna Hertel, Princeton University | Efficient and Sustainable Rish Sharing with Adverse Selection |
| February 11 | Xin Li, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects in Sample Selection Models with a Monotone Instrument |
| February 17 | J. Isaac Miller, Rice University | Nonlinearity, Nonstationarity and Thick Tails: How They Interact to Generate Persistency in Memory |
| February 21 | Vitor Trindade, Syracuse University | Openness and Productivity: a Model of Trade and Firm-Owners' Effort |
| February 24 | Justin Marion, University of Chicago | Redistribution Through Public Purchases: Competition, Procurement Cost, and Efficiency in a Bid Preference Program |
| March 4 | Oksana Loginova, Duke University | Competing for Customers' Attention: Advertising When Consumers Have Imperfect Memory |
| March 17 | Dean Karlan, Princeton | Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment (joint with Jonathan Zinman) |
| April 8 | Garett Jones, Southern Illinois University | Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: An Extreme-Bounds Analysis |
| April 15 | Jeff Milyo, UMC Economics Dept & Truman School of Public Affairs | A Measure of Media Bias |
| April 21 | David Autor, MIT | Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from Random Assignments |
| April 29 | Gautam Gowrisankaran, Olin School of Business at Wash., Univ | Determinants of Price Declines for New Durable Consumer Goods |
| May 6 | Jonah Gelbach, Univ of Maryland | CANCELLED |
| September 9 | Koleman Strumpf, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis |
| September 22 | Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Were U.S. State Banknotes Priced as Securities? |
| September 23 | Zsolt Becsi, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale | Religious Beliefs, Longevity, and the Costs of Fundraising |
| October 7 | Carolyn Moehling, Yale University | The American Welfare System and Family Structure: A Historical Perspective |
| October 14 | Colin Campbell, Rutgers University | Let Them Burn Money: Making Elections More Informative (paper not avail at this time) |
| October 21 | Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania | A, B, C's (and D's) for understanding VARS |
| October 28 | Cindy Perry, Harvard University | Does Treating Maternal Depression Improve Child Health Management? The Case of Pediatric Asthma |
| November 4 | Gary Ferrier, University of Arkansas | Peer Effects and Efficiency: The Influence of Competitors' Performance on Hospital Efficiency |
| November 11 | James Bullard, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Worldwide Macroeconomic Stability and Monetary Policy Rules |
| November 17 | Peter Debaere, Univ of Texas, Austin | Do Tariffs Matter for the Extensive Margin of International Trade? An Empirical Analysis |
| December 2 | Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan | Local Comparative Advantage: Trade Costs and the Pattern of Trade |
| December 9 | Doug Miller, University of Missouri-Columbia | An Information Theoretic Approach to Flexible Stochastic Frontier Models |
| 2004 | ||
| January 23 | Nat Wilcox University of Houston | Heterogeneity and Learning Principles |
| January 30 | Todd Elder University of Illinois | An Evaluation Of Instrumental Variable Strategies For Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schools |
| February 6 | Frank G.Steindl Oklahoma State University | Deflation and Recovery |
| February 12 | Chad Syverson The University of Chicago | Prices, Spatial Competition, and Heterogeneous Producers: An Empirical Test |
| February 19 | Steve Davis University of Chicago | Taxes and Work Activity |
| March 12 | Raymond Robertson Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) | Employment Displacement Costs in Developing Countries: Evidence from Mexico. |
| April 9 | Jonathan Wright Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Washington, D.C.) | Forecasting by Bayesian Model Averaging 1. Bayesian Model Averaging and Exchange Rate Forecasts 2. Forecasting U.S. Inflation by Bayesian Model Averaging |
| April 16 | Petra Moser M.I.T | How Do Patent Laws Influence Innovation? Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs" |
| April 23 | Barry Chiswick University of Illinois-Chicago | Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment? |
| May 7 | Todd Keister ITAM (Mexico City, Mexico | Optimal Fiscal Policy under Multiple Equilibria |
| August 27 | Ken Troske, UMC Economics Dept | Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques |
| September 3 | Indranil Chakraborty, University of Oklahoma | Revenue and Efficiency in Large Multi-unit Auctions with Bundling |
| September 10 | Dan Thorton, Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis | Predictions of Short-Term Rates and the Expectations Hypothesis of the Term Structure of Interest Rates |
| September17 | Antoine Martin, Federal Reserve Board of Kansas City | Financial Intermediaries, Markets, and Growth |
| September 24 | Sangeeta Pratap, ITAM (Mexico City, Mexico) | Are Labor Markets Segmented in Argentina? A Semi Parametric Approach |
| October 1 | Gary Englehardt, Syracuse University | Employer Matching and 401(k) Saving: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study |
| October 7 | Aleksander Berentsen University of Basel | Money, Credit, and Banking |
| Postponed until 2005 | Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | TBA |
| October 22 | Hideo Owen, Olin School of Business, Washington University | Diversity and Productivity in Production Teams |
| October 29 | Maria Arbatskaya, Emory University | 1. Ranking Competition 2. Ordered Search |
| November 5 | Jan Brueckner, University of Illinois | The Political Economy of Transport-System Choice |
| November 8 | Prof. Henry Wan, Jr. Cornell University | 1. Understanding East Asian Growth in View of West European Experience 2. Towards a Unified Theory of the Growth Process |
| November 12 | Meta Brown, University of Wisconsin | Tied Transfers |
| November 16 | Peter Diamond, MIT | Optimal Tax Treatment of Private Contributions for Public Goods with and without Warm Glow Preferences |
| December 3 | Peter Summers Visiting Scholar Economic Research Dept Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | Identification and Normalization in Markov Switching Models of "Business Cycles" |
| December 7 | Mary Olson Associate Professor Public Health Yale | The Risk We Bear: The Effects of PDUFA and the Speed of Review on New-Drug Safety |
| December 9 | Vlad Mares, Olin School of Business, Washington University | Bundling in Low Competition Environments |
| December 13 | Nick Feltovich Professor of Economics Houston | Words, Deeds and Lies: Strategic Behavior in Games with Multiple Signals |
| 2003 | ||
| September 12 | Jordan Rappaport Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | Moving to Nice Weather |
| September 18 | Charles Moul Washington University in St. Louis | Title-Specific Saturation and the Demand for Motion Pictures |
| September 26 | Ken Troske University of Missouri | An Empirical Examination of the Male/Female Wage Gap in an Equilibrium Search Framework |
| October 3 | Phil Graves University of Colorado | The Simple Analytics of the WTA-WTP Disparity For Public Goods |
| October 10 | Ananth Seshadri University of Wisconsin | Frictionless technology Diffusion: The Case of Tractors |
| October 24 | David Ridley Duke University | Payments, promotion, and the purple pill |
| November 6 | Eli Berman University of California-San Diego | On the Incidence of Radical Islam: Evidence from Asia and Africa |
| November 13 | Ronald Harstad Rutgers University | Selling without Reserve as the Content of Optimal Auctions |
| November 17 | Jeffrey Milyo University of Chicago | The Long Run Effects of Price Advertising on Prices |
| December 15 | Harry Paarsch University of Iowa | Nonparametric Identification and Estimation of Multi-Unit, Sequential, Oral, Ascending-Price Auctions with Asymmetric Bidders |