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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 Department Brown Bag Seminar Series, click here.

Spring 2012
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)
Friday, January 20 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Cyril Monnet, University of Bern	Why Rent When You Can Buy? A Theory of Repurchase Agreements
Friday, February 3 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	John Mayo, Georgretown University	Demand in a Portfolio-Choice Environment: The Evolution of Telecommunications
Friday, February 10 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Ryan Lampe, DePaul University	"This Paper is Not Yet Rated"
Friday, February 17 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Guangjian Xu Renmin University of China	Why Has China's Final Consumption Rate Declined Since 1978? Causes and Implications
Friday,February 24 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Emily Owens, Cornell University	"The Birth of the Organized Crime? The American Temperance Movement and Market-Based Violence"
Friday, March 9 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University	"The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood"
Friday, March 16 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Matti Sarvimaki, Aalto University and MIT	"Why People Stay in Rural Areas? Evidence from a Resettlement Policy"
Friday, April 6 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Joon Park, University of Indiana	High Frequency Regressions with Persistent Volatilities 1. Evaluating Factor Pricing Models Using High Frequency Panels 2. Martingale Regressions for Conditional Mean Models in Continuous Time 3. A Reexamination of Stock Return Predictability
Friday, April 13 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Greg Huffman, Vanderbilt University	"Unemployment and Welfare Implications of the Current US Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided Medical Insurance"
Thursday, April 19 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Gabriele Camera, Purdue University	"The Coordination Value of Monetary Exchange: Experimental Evidence"
Friday, April 20 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush	Kei Hirano, University of Arizona	"Identification of Time and Risk Preferences in Buy Price Auctions"

 

Fall 2011
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)
Friday, Sept. 2 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Joon Park, Indiana University	POSTPONED
Tuesday, Sept. 6 3:30 p.m. 2501 MSC (MU Student Center) Chambers Aud	Henry Schneider, Cornell University	Do Bidders on Ebay Exhibit Nonstandard Behavior?
Friday, Sept. 9 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Brian Jacob, University of Michigan	The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling
Friday., Sept. 23 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University	How History and State Legislatures Shaped State Courts
Friday., Sept. 30 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Hwansik Choi, Purdue University	Ambiguity and Asymmetric Information in Securities Markets
Friday, October 7 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Mark Hoekstra, University of Pittsburgh	Finance and Growth: A Counter-Example from the Origins of Banking in Russia
Friday, October 21 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Stephen Donald, University of Texas at Austin	POSTPONED
Friday,October 28 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Charles Thomas, Clemson University	Equilibrium Behavior in a Model of Multilateral Negotiations
Friday, November 11 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Zhu Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond	The Determinants of Geographic Concentration of Industry: A Quantitative Analysis
Friday, December 2 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush	Cyril Monnet, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	CANCELLED

 

Spring 2011
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)
Friday, January 21 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Dara Lee, Boston University	"The Digital Scarlet Letter: The Effect of Online Criminal Records on Crime"
Monday, January 24 10:15 a.m. 2212 A&B MSC	Richard Mansfield, Yale University	"Teacher Quality and Student Inequality"
Wed., January 26 10:00 a.m. N201-202 Memorial Union	Genevieve Pham-Kanter, Princeton University	"The Gender Weight Gap: Sons, Daughters, and Maternal Weight"
Friday, February 25 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Tom Garrett, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	Local Price Variation and the Tax Incidence of State Lotteries
Friday, March 4 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	TBA	TBA
Friday, March, 11 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Jason Abrevaya, University of Texas at Austin	A GMM approach for dealing with missing data on regressors and instruments
Friday, March, 18 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Qihong Liu, University of Oklahoma	Tacit Collusion with Low-Price Guarantees
Friday, April, 8 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Phillip Dybvig, Washington University	Screening of Possibly Incompetent Agents and Welfare Analysis without Common Priors
Friday, April, 15 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	William Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison	"Energy Balance Climate Models and the Economics of Climate Change"
Wednesday, April, 20 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University	CANCELLED
Friday, April, 29 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Pol Antras, Harvard University	"Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices"
Friday, May, 6 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush	Eduardo Melero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	How Dead is the Renaissance Man? The Various Origins of Knowledge Variety in Teams of Inventors

 

Fall 2010
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)
Friday, Sept. 3 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin, Madison	Banking: A Mechanism Design Approach
Friday, Sept. 10 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Richard Romano, University of Florida	Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization: Failures of Tiebout Competition
Friday, September 24 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	David Ridley, Duke University	Pricing Strategy under Inflation Constraints
Friday, October 1 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	George Tauchen, Duke University	“Realized Laplace Transforms for Estimation of Jump Diffusive Volatility Models” Background papers 1. Limit Theorems for Power Variations of Pure-Jump Processes with Application to Activity Estimation 2. The Realized Laplace Transform of Volatility
Friday, October 8 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University	Persuasive Puffery
Friday, October 22 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Courtney Coile, Wellesley College	1.The Market Crash and Mass Layoffs: How the Current Economic Crisis May affect Retirement 2.Recessions, Reeling Markets, and Retiree Well-Being
Friday, October 29 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Karl Shell, Cornell University	Banking and Transactions
Friday, November 5 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Alexander Matros, University of South Carolina	All-Pay Auctions vs. Lotteries as Fundraising Mechanisms: Theory and Evidence
Friday, November 12 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Richard Baillie, Michigan State University	Estimation and Inference for Impulse Response Weights From Strongly Persistent Processes
Friday, November 19 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush		TBA
Friday, December 3 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Cheng Wang, Iowa State University	Dynamic Contracting with Stochastic Outside Opportunities and Costly Termination

 

Spring 2010
(note: Dates, Times, and Speakers subject to change. Check back for updated information)
Date/Time/Place	Speaker	Topic (click to open)
Tuesday, January 19 4:00 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Ian Schmutte, Cornell University	Job Referral Networks and the Determination of Earnings in Local Labor Markets
Monday, January 25, 10:00 am N201/202 Memorial Union	Yu-Chin Hsu University of Texas at Austin	Testing for Stochastic Dominance in Treatment Effects
Friday, January 29 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Liang Choon Wang, University of California, San Diego	Peer Effects in the Classroom: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Malaysia
Friday, February 19 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush	Christopher Otrok University of Virginia	News Shocks and the Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Monday, March 1 10:00 a.m. 204 Reynolds Alumni Center	Rodney Garratt, University of California, Santa Barbara	Tracking Systemic Risk in the International Banking Network
Friday, March 5 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University	POSTPONED - Will be rescheduled
Thursday, March 11 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan	Are the Responses of the U.S. Economy Asymmetric in Energy Price Increases and Decreases?
Friday & Saturday March 26 & 27 Reynolds Alumni Cntr	10th Annual Missouri Economics Conference
Friday, April 9 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	Kei-Mu Yi, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia	Structural Change in an Open Economy
Thursday, April 15 2:30 p.m. 11 Cornell Hall	Jeff Smith, University of Michigan	The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges
Friday, April 23, 3:30, p.m. 210 Middlebush	Christopher Taber, University of Wisconsin - Madison	Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of Private School Vouchers on Public School Students
Friday, April 30 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush	George Deltas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Candidate Competition and Voter Learning in Sequential Primary Elections: Theory and Evidence

 

 

 

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