Addison Wesley Book Fair and Lunch: Wylie 329 11:00 a.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Session 1: Wylie 005 – 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Adam Nowak –        Testing the Fidelity of Mutual Fund Managers

Jason Van Alstine –   The Role of Individual and School Type in School Choice Decisions

Brian Swart –            Polarization of Voters and Political Position

   C.J. Jackson –           Dad Drives the Car, while Mom Makes the Bed: A Critique of the
Gender Bias present in Gary Becker’s “Theory of Marriage”

Session 2: Wylie 015 – 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Elizabeth Lintner –      Do Corporate Tax Incentives Increase Inflows of Foreign
Direct Investment?

Dmytro Zhosan –       Stability of Equilibrium in the Experimental Common-Pool
Resource Environment

Qian Li –                   Valuing the Variety of Health Insurance Plan Offers

Hasan Faruq –           Why Do Countries Specialize in Different Qualities?

Coffee Break: Wylie 329 – 3:00-3:30 p.m.

Session 3: Wylie 005 – 3:30- 5:30 p.m.

Seokgil Park –           Can We Blame Central Banks for Increasing Foreign Exchange Market Volatility?: Korean Case

Pedro de Araujo –     Calculating Welfare Costs of Inflation in a Search Model with
Heterogeneous Agents: A Calibration Exercise

Juergen Jung –           The Timing of Redistribution

James Murray –         Empirical Significance of Learning and the Consequences of
Misspecifying Expectations

Session 4: Wylie 015 – 3:30-5:30 p.m.

Haroon Anwar and
Chris Wagner –         Oil Trends: A Look at Supply, Demand, China

Chung Tran –             Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials, Allocation of Skills and
Capital Accumulation

Ioana Schiopu –         Borrowing or Saving for College?

Calin Arcalean –        Public Capital and Rent-Seeking in Transition Economies

 Reception: Wylie 329 – 5:40 p.m.

Induction ceremony of new Omicron Delta Epsilon members
and award presentations: Wylie 329 – Time TBD
Members being inducted are:
Elizabeth Lintner
Curtis Griner
Janet Hamilton
Clement Huang
Don Jones
Janice Parmar

Members who are graduating and will be presented with Cords are:
Elizabeth Lintner
Adam Aft
Lanyon Blair
Janice Parmar

Dynamic Taxation, Private Information and Money Search
Discussant: Brian Peterson,
Indiana University