This is a listing of all departmental seminars for the 2008-2009 academic year.
All seminars, unless otherwise noted, are held on Fridays from 3:00 to 4:30pm at the Miller Conference Room (Saunders 515).
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Speaker |
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Field |
| Sept. 26 |
Claudio Morana
(U. of Piemonte Orientale) |
International shocks and national house prices
Note: jointly sponsored with the East-West Center Research Program |
International Finance |
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| Oct. 3 |
John Lynham
(Hawaii) |
Three Field Experiments on Studying and Procrastination |
Resource, Environmental |
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| Oct. 10 |
Julie Cullen
(UC-San Diego) |
Jockeying for Position: High School Student Mobility and Texas' Top-Ten Percent Rule |
Labor, Education |
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| Oct. 17 |
Andy Mason
(Hawaii) |
Transfer and Assets in the Economic Lifecycle: National Transfer Account Evidence |
Population, Macro |
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| Oct. 24 |
Sidartha Gordon
(U. of Montreal) |
On cheap talk and fixed points |
Micro Theory |
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| Oct. 31 |
Zheng Liu
(Fed SF) |
Sources of the Great Moderation: Shocks, Frictions, Or Monetary Policy? |
Macro |
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| Nov. 7 |
Rachel Croson
(UT-Dallas) |
Reciprocity, Exclusion and Competition in Public Goods Experiments |
Experimental |
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| Nov. 14 |
Kelly Bedard
(UCSB) |
Is September Better than January? The Effect of School Entry Age Laws on Skill Accumulation |
Labor, Health |
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| Nov. 21 |
Hui He
(Hawaii) |
Why do old people quit the stock market? |
Macro, Finance |
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| Dec. 5 |
Robert T. Deacon
(UC-Santa Barbara) |
The Efficiency Gains from Coordinating Effort in a Fishery: Evidence from the Chignik Salmon Cooperative |
Resource, Environmental |
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| Jan. 9 |
Ari Van-Assche
(HEC Montreal) |
Institutions and Multinational Ownership Strategy |
Trade, IO |
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| Jan. 30 |
Keisuke Nakao
(UH Hilo) |
How Can Minority Representation Be Ensured by Racial Redistricting?: A Theoretical Approach |
Micro Theory |
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| Feb. 6 |
YuLei Luo
(Hong Kong) |
Risk-sensitive Consumption and Savings under Rational Inattention |
Macro |
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| Feb. 13 |
M. Scott Taylor
(U. of Calgary) |
Buffalo Hunt |
Trade, Environmental |
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| Feb. 19 |
Gary Charness
(UC-Santa Barbara) |
Contracts & Communication
Note: This seminar will be on a Thursday at 12pm. |
Experimental, Behavioral |
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| Feb. 20 |
Sagiri Kitao
(USC) |
Capital Income Taxation with Work Incentives |
Macro, Health |
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| Feb. 27 |
Anthony Kwasnica
(PSU) |
Coordination in the Presence of Asset Markets |
Experimental, Micro |
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| Mar. 2 |
Tim Cason
(Purdue) |
Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study
Note: This seminar will be held on a Monday at 3pm. |
Experimental, Micro |
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| Mar. 6 |
Nori Tarui
(Hawaii) |
Child Maltreatment, Family Characteristics, and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Add Health Data |
Environmental, Resource |
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| Mar. 11 |
Michele Boldrin
(Wash U. at St. Louis) |
Quality Ladders, Competition and Endogenous Growth
Note this seminar will be from 4:15 to 5:45pm. |
Macro, Theory |
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| Mar. 16 |
Federico Echenique
(Cal Tech) |
On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications |
Behavioral, Micro |
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| Mar. 20 |
Ayse Imrohoroglu
(USC) |
Growth Facts in Turkey |
Macro |
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| Mar. 27 |
Motohiro Yogo
(Wharton, U. of Penn.) |
Portfolio Choice in Retirement: Health Risk and the Demand for Annuities, Housing, and Risky Assets |
Finance, Macro |
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| Apr. 3 |
Gnanaraj Chellaraj
(World Bank) |
Skills, Higher Education and Foreign Direct Investment Location in China and India: An Augmented Knowledge-Capital Model |
Trade |
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| Apr. 17 |
Herve Moulin
(Rice) |
A VCG mechanism to manage a commons with decreasing returns |
Micro Theory |
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| Apr. 24 |
Eduardo Cavallo
(Inter-American Development Bank) |
Public Investment in Developing Countries: A Blessing or a Curse? |
International Finance |
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| May 1 |
David Cantala
(Colegio de Mexico) |
Markovian Assignment Rules Postponed till December 2009 |
Micro Theory |
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