Seminars

2001-2002 Academic Year
Date	Speaker	Topic	Seminar Available for download
June 5, 2002 (Start of Summer Session I)	Mordechai E. Kreinin	An Analysis of US Trade Deficits	NO
May 3, 2002	Zhongxiang Zhang	The Economic and Environmental Implications of the U.S. Repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol and the Subsequent Deals in Bonn and Marrakech	YES* (offsite)
April 26, 2002	Glenn D. Rudebusch	Assessing the Lucas Critique in Monetary Policy Models	NO
April 19, 2002	Kevin Hoover	Evaluating Specification Search in Cross-country Growth Regressions: Extreme Bounds vs. General-to-Specific Methodologies	YES
April 12, 2002	Gerard Russo	Optimal Commodity Taxation with Moral Hazard and Unobservable Outcomes	YES
April 2, 2002	Patrick G. Welle	Conservation Incentives in US Agricultural Policy: the News from Lake Wobegon and Prospects for Green Gold in Hawaii	YES
March 22, 2002	Andrew K. Hildreth	Environmental Regulation and the Cost of Job Displacement	NO
March 19, 2002	K. C. Fung	Political Economy of Strategic Trade Policy: Menu-Auctions with Imperfect Competition	NO
March 15, 2002	Rodney B.W. Smith	Royalties and Benefit Sharing Contracts in Bioprospecting	NO
March 12, 2002	Lutz Hendricks	Intended and Accidental Bequests in a Life-Cycle Economy	NO
March 8, 2002	Mikhail Klimenko	Strategic "Inter-operability" Standards and Trade Policy in Industries with Network Externalities	YES
February 28, 2002	Edgar Feige	Unofficial Dollarization and the Underground Economy	YES
February 22, 2002	Carl E. Walsh	Labor Market Rigidities, Sticky Prices, and Monetary Shocks	YES
February 15, 2002	Katerina Sherstyuk	Altruism and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods	YES
February 14, 2002	Jian Zhang	The Impact of Trade Related Investment Measures in the Developing Countries	NO
February 8, 2002	Dingding Wang	What is the Mission of Social Sciences?	NO
January 22, 2002	Jonathan Conning	Microfinance in Developing Countries: Are There Lessons For Capital Market Reforms?	NO
January 22, 2002	Jonathan Conning	Monitoring by Peers or by Delegates? Joint Liability Loans under Moral Hazard	NO
January 18, 2002	Eugene White and Frederic Mishkin	U.S. Stock Market Crashes and Their Aftermath: Implications for Monetary Policy	YES
January 16, 2002	Timothy Kehoe	Trade Theory and Trade Facts	YES
December 12, 2001	Mark Pingle	Exploring Bounded Rationality and Cooperation with Computational and Experimental Economics	YES (in smaller files for easier downloading)
December 7, 2001	Ekaterina Sherstyuk	Rat Races and Glass Ceilings: An Analysis of Career Paths in Organizations	NO
November 30, 2001	Kiyoshi Taniguchi	A General Equilibrium Analysis of Japanese Rice Market Trade Liberalization	NO
November 29, 2001	Kiyoshi Taniguchi	Foreign Aid for Poverty Reduction: An Archetype Computable General Equilibrium Approach	NO
November 19, 2001	Dr. Mohammed S. Khaled	On the Choice of Functional Form in Measuring Economies of Scale and Scope	YES
November 9, 2001	Kyle Kauffman	Your Mother-In-Law as an Insurance Device: Household Structure, Risk, and Contract Choice in Early Renaissance Tuscany	YES
November 2, 2001	James Roumasset	Beyond Stiglitz: A Dynamic Theory of Share Tenancy	YES
October 29, 2001	Andrew Mason	Aging, Intergenerational Transfers, and Saving in Japan	YES
October 19, 2001	Ekaterina Sherstyuk	Rat Races and Glass Ceilings: An Analysis of Career Paths in Organizations	NO
October 5, 2001	Xiaojun Wang	Efficiency Wages and Work Incentives in Urban and Rural China	YES
September 27, 2001	Yasuyuki Sawada	Coping Strategies and the Korean Financial Crisis	YES
September 21, 2001	Sang-Hyop Lee	Demand for Immunization and Child Survival: Evidence from Rural India	YES
September 14, 2001	Theresa Greaney	Network Effects as the Source of Asymmetric Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Flows	YES
August 31, 2001	Donald Rousslang	"Should Financial Services Be Taxed Under A Consumption Tax? Probably"	YES

Seminars

2001-2002 Academic Year