Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Topic
Sep 23	Uri Regev (Ben-Gurion)	Optimal Intervention in Uncertain Waste Recycling Markets


Sep 30	Martin McGuire (UC Irvine)	The Economics of Autocracy and Majority Rule: The Invisible Hand and the Use of Force

Oct 14	Michael Kimmitt Kimberly Burnett (UHM)	2005 Economic Education Case Study Project: Lessons From the Field

Oct 21	Xiaojun Wang (UHM)	Is the Price Elasticity of Money Demand Always Unity?

Oct 28	Tam Vu (UHM)	Mankiw's Puzzle on Consumer Durables as a Misspecification

Nov 10	Ted Bergstrom (UCSB)	On the Economics of Polygyny

Nov 28	Tomomi Tanaka (Cal Tech)	Poverty, Politics, and Preferences: Field Experiments and Survey Data from Vietnam

Nov 29	Andrew Mason (UHM)	The State's Hybrid Pension Plan An informal seminar

Dec 2	Jim Roumasset (UHM)	Thinking about Agricultural Development: Fads, Fancies, Fallacies and Frontiers

Dec 16	Zhigang Tao (University of Hong Kong)	Divergent Interests between Central and Local Governments: Testing Theories of Public Ownership

Jan 20	Sumner LaCroix (UHM)	Rescheduled: April 14

Jan 27	François-Charles Wolff (University of Nantes)	Housing and Location Choices of Retiring Households: Theory and Evidence

Feb 3	Yacov Tsur (Hebrew University)	Welfare Measurement under Threats of Environmental Catastrophes

Feb 17	Ilan Noy (UHM)	Rescheduled: April 21


Feb 28	Ryuzo Sato (NYU)	Note: Noon Seminar
Mar 3	Yan Chen (Michigan University)	Measuring Identity

Mar 17	Ed Vytlacil (Columbia)	Threshold Crossing Models and Bounds on Treatment Effects: A Nonparametric Analaysis

Mar 21	SaangJoon Baak (Waseda University)	The Bilateral Real Exchange Rates and Trade Between China and the U.S. Note: Noon seminar

Mar 24	Carl Bonham (UHM)	Cancelled

Apr 7	Sang-Hyop Lee (UHM)	Cancelled

Apr 21	Ilan Noy (UHM)	Rescheduled: May 5

Apr 28	Jeff Nugent (USC)	Why Does It Take So Long to Collect Your Money through the Courts? And What Can Be Done About It? (with Special Reference to the MENA Region)

May 5	Ilan Noy (UHM)	Prizes for Basic Research -- Human Capital, Economic Might and the Shadow of History

May 12	Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)	Stay or Leave?: Choice of Plant Location with Cost Heterogeneity

Seminars

2005-2006 Academic Year