Seminars

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Date	Speaker	Topic
Jul 12	Randall Kekoa Quinones Akee (Harvard)	Who Leaves and Who Returns? Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selection

Aug 17	Hui He (U of Minnesota)	Skill Premium, Schooling Decisions, Skill-biased Technological and Demographic Change: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Aug 25	Arsenio Balisacan (SEARCA)	Economic Growth, Population Dynamics, and Poverty: Is the Philippines an Exception to the East Asian Story?

Sep 8	Sumner La Croix (UHM)

Sep 15	Don Fullerton (U of Texas - Austin)	The General Equilibrium Incidence of Environmental Mandates

Sep 29	Andrew Mason (UHM)	Transfers, Capital, and Consumption over the Demographic Transition

Oct 13	Byron Gangnes (UHM)	Flexible Manufacturing and Global Sourcing

Oct 20	Randall Roth (UH Law School)	Legal Issues in Broken Trust

Oct 27	Tomoko Kinugasa (Kobe University)	Why Nations Become Wealthy: The Effects of Adult Longevity on Saving

Nov 3	Patrik Guggenberger (UCLA)	The Limit of Finite Sample Size and a Problem with Subsampling

Nov 17	Joon-Ho Hahm (Yonsei University)	Credit Guarantee Reform and the New BASEL Accord: Implications for Commercial Bank SME Lending in Korea

Nov 28	Tomomi Tanaka (California Institute of Technology)	Status, Ethnicity, and Wealth in Vietnam: Evidence from Experimental Games

Dec 1	Tim Halliday (UHM)	Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador

Dec 8	Nori Tarui (UHM)	Cooperation in Climate-Change Mitigation

Jan 11	Peter Bardsley (University of Melbourne)	Cryptographic Commitment and Simultaneous Exchange

Jan 12	Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley)	Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937

Jan 19	Jonathon Reeves (UNSW)	Beta Forecasting: A Two Decade Evaluation

Feb 9	Ilan Noy (UHM)	The Macroeconomic Costs of Natural Disasters

Feb 16	Ted Miguel (UC Berkeley)	Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets

Feb 23	Tam Vu (UH Hilo)	The Two-Way Causality Between Education and Productivity: A Fixed Effect Three Stage Least Squares Approach

Mar 2	Sang-Hyop Lee (UHM)	*Cancelled*

Mar 9	Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)	Strategic Technology Transfer through FDI in Vertically Related Markets

Mar 12	Yasuyuki Todo (Aoyama Gakuin University)	Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"

Mar 23	Shi Young Lee (Chung Ang University)	Economics of Guanxi as an Interpersonal Investment Game

April 20	Anders Frederiksen (Stanford)	Performance and Pay

Apr 27	Robert Baldwin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)	*Cancelled*

May 4	Jerry Russo (UHM)	The Effect of Mandatory Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance on the Use of Part-Time and Full-Time Workers: The Case of Hawaii

Seminars

2006-2007 Academic Year