Workshop Schedule Fall 2009; by Date

Economic History Coordinator: Professor Elyce Rotella, (812-855-7858)
Econometrics Coordinator:  Professor David Jacho-Chavez (812-855-7928)
Macroeconomics Coordinator: Professor Kim Huynh (812-855-2288)
Microeconomics Coordinators:   Professor Frank Page (812-855-4764)
 
Copies of papers may be obtained in the departmental offices at BEPP (BU 451) or Economics (Wylie Hall 105).
When available, the papers may be downloaded as PDF files, which can be read or printed with Acrobat Reader.
Date Area Time Location Speaker Title
9/3/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Itzhak Zilcha

Tel-Aviv University, Isreal

"Improvement in Information and Private Investment in Education"

9/4/2009 Microeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Daniela Puzzello

U of Illinois

"On the Observational Equivalence of Random Matching"
9/4/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) 11:30 p.m.-

2:00 p.m.

WY 115 Zaichao Du

Indiana University Bloomington

"Three Essays on Testing for Independence"
9/4/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) 12:00 p.m. WY 225 Mayya Sengupta

Indiana University Bloomington

“Disequilibrium Behavior in Contests: Experimental Evidence”

9/7/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) 2:15 p.m.- 4:00 p.m WY 225 Nora Traum

Indiana University Bloomington

"Three Essays on Fiscal Policy" 
9/8/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Ulrich Muller

Princeton University

"Pre and Post Break Parameter Inference"
9/9/2009 Econometics 12:00 p.m. WY 329 Myung Hwan Seo

London School of Economics

"Testing for Structural Stability in the Whole Sample"
9/10/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 James H. Jones

Stanford

"The Marginal Valuation of Fertility and Risk-Aversion in Women's Reproduction on the Utah Frontier, 1849-1929"
9/11/2009 Microeconomics/ BEPP 3:30 p.m. CG 2069 Jurgen von Hagen

University of Bonn Germany

"Financial Development and the Patterns of International Capital Flows"

9/21/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) 4:00 p.m. WY 329

Abhijit Ramalingam

Indiana University Bloomington

On The Social Preferences of Agents
Postponed until Spring 2010 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Adonis Yatchew

University of Toronto

 
9/24/2009 Microeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Ted Bergstrom

UC Santa Barbara

"Altruism, Genetics, and the Bone Marrow Registry."

Paper 1

Paper 2

9/25/2009 BEPP/ Microeconomics 3:30 p.m. CG 2069 Tom Lyon

U of Michigan

"Competing Environmental Labels"
10/1/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

Columbia

"What’s News In Business Cycles" 
10/2/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) WY 329 12:00 p.m.

Seokgil Park

Indiana University Bloomington

"Three Essays on Central Banking"

10/2/2009 BEPP/ Microeconomics 3:30 p.m. CG 2069 Jeremy Fox

U of Chicago

"Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice Models"
10/8/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Marvin Goodfriend

CMU

"The Great Inflation Drift"

Presentation Slides

10/9/2009 Microeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Jacomo Corbo

Penn

"The Importance of Network Topology in Local Contribution Games"
10/13/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Ed Vytlacil

Yale University

"Instrumental Variables and the Sign of the Average Treatment Effect."
10/15/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) 1:00 p.m. WY 225 Jialu Liu

Indiana University Bloomington

"Three Essays on Human Capital, Migration and Rural Development"
10/15/2009 Grad Brown Bag 2:30 p.m. WY 225 Nhan Le

Indiana University Bloomington

"International Trade and Skill Premium - The Role of Supply"
10/15/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Bob Becker

Indiana University

 
10/16/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) WY 225 10:30 a.m. Jia Xie

Indiana University Bloomington

"Two-Dimensional Comparison of Information Systems in Principal-Agent Models"

10/16/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) 12:00 p.m. WY 115 Qi Meng

Indiana University Bloomington

"Online Sales with Commissions"
10/20/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Marine Carrasco

Université de Montreal

"A regularization approach to the many instruments problem"
10/22/2009 Microeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Arthur Robson

Simon Fraser

"The Evolution of Decision and Experienced Utilities"

10/23/2009 Microeconomics/ BEPP 3:30 p.m. CG 2069 Sergei Koulayev

Boston Federal Reserve

"Estimating search with learning"
10/27/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Taisuke Ostu

Yale Univesrity

"Large deviation approach for moment condition models"

Paper 1

Paper 2

10/29/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Jurgen von Hagen

University of Bonn Germany

"Financial Development and the Patterns of International Capital Flows"

10/30/2009 Grad Brown Bag(Dissertation Proposal) WY 115 12:00 p.m. Cristina Danciulescu

Indiana University Bloomington

"Three Essays On Financial Markets"
11/3/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Zhijie Xiao

Boston College

"Testing Structural Change in Conditional Distributions via Quantile Regressions"

11/5/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Santanu Roy

Southern Methodist University

"Investment, Externalities and Industry Dynamics"
11/6/2009 Microeconomics 12:00 p.m. WY 115 Ehud Kalai

Northwestern

"Engineering Cooperation in Two-Player Games"
11/6/2009 BEPP/ Microeconomics 3:30 p.m. CG 2069 Thomas Jeitschko

Michigan State

"Signaling, Learning and Screening Prior to Trial: A Theory of Preliminary Injunctions"
11/10/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Shin Kanaya

Oxford University

"Optimal Sampling and Bandwidth Selection for Nonparametric Kernel Estimators of Diffusion Processes"
11/11/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Robert Kollman

Bruxelles- ECARES

"International Portfolios, Capital Accumulation and Foreign Assets Dynamics"

11/11/2009 Microeconomics 4:15 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. WY 329 Mihai Manea

MIT

"Bargaining In Stationary Networks"
11/12/2009 Microeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Trent Smith

Washington State

"The Economic Psychology of Television Advertising."

Slides

11/13/2009 BEPP/ Microeconomics 3:30 p.m. CG 2069 Robert Town

University of Minnesota

"Government policy and the dynamics of market structure: Evidence from Critical Access Hospitals"

11/17/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Aureo de Paulo

University of Pennsylvania

"Identication and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological”
11/19/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Chetan Ghate

ISI

"The "V-Factor": Distribution, Timing and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround"
TBA Microeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Abhijit Ramalingham

Indiana University

 

12/3/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Jianjun Miao

Boston University

 
12/1/2009 Econometrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Zaichao Du

Indiana Univeristy

 
12/4/2009 BEPP/ Microeconomics 3:30 p.m. CG 2069 Archishman Chakraborty

York U

Communication, Consensus, and Control"
12/8/2009 Ecnonmetrics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Cristina Danciulescu

Indiana University

 
12/10/2009 Macroeconomics 4:00 p.m. WY 005 Jeremy Lise

University College London

 

 

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