Past Seminar Series
Semester 2, 2013/2014
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Date
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Topic
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Speaker
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| Jan 14 Tue |
The Employment Dynamics of Disadvantaged Women: Evidence from the SIPP | John Ham University of Maryland, College Park |
| Jan 15 Wed |
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore | Huailu Li Boston University |
| Jan 16 Thu |
The exchange rate as an instrument of monetary policy | Ana Maria Santacreu INSEAD |
| Jan 17 FRI |
Likelihood approach to dynamic panel data models with interactive effects | Jushan Bai Columbia University |
| Jan 21 Tue |
Fixed-smoothing Asymptotics in a Two-step GMM Framework | Yixiao Sun University of California, San Diego |
| Jan 22 Wed |
News Shocks and Business Cycles: Evidence from Forecast Data | Thuy Lan Nguyen Columbia University |
| Jan 23 Thu |
The Impact of Family Size on School Achievement: Test Scores and Subjective Assessments by Teachers and Parents | Julie Moschion University of Melbourne |
| Jan 24 FRI |
Individual Risk and Mutual Insurance with Production and Diverse Beliefs | Peter J Hammond University of Warwick |
| Jan 24 FRI |
Entry by Merger: Estimates from a Two-Sided Matching Model with Externalities | Yasutora Watanabe Northwestern University |
| Feb 4 Tue |
Globalization and Top Income Shares | Lin Ma University of Michigan |
| Feb 5 Wed |
Endogenous Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Chinese Twins | Junjian Yi University of Chicago |
| Feb 14 FRI |
International Trade Dynamics with Sunk Costs and Productivity Shocks | Daisuke Fujii University of Chicago |
| Feb 17 MON |
Unbundling Democracy: Tilly Trumps Schumpeter | Roger Betancourt University of Maryland |
| Feb 18 Tue |
Failure of Gradualism under Imperfect Monitoring | Yves Guéron Sogang University |
| Feb 19 WED |
Effects of Economic Development in China on Skill-Biased Technical Change in the US | Angus C Chu University of Liverpool |
| Feb 21 FRI |
The Impact of Immigration on Wages, Internal Migration and Welfare | Suphanit Piyapromdee University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Feb 25 Tue |
Infinite Order Cross-Validated Local Polynomial Regression | Jeffrey S. Racine McMaster University |
| Mar 04 Tue |
Unobserved Preference Heterogeneity in Demand Using Generalized Random Coefficients | Arthur Lewbel Boston College |
| Mar 05 WED |
Winners and Losers from the €uro | Laura Puzzello Monash University |
| Mar 06 Thu |
An Estimated DSGE Model with a Deflation Steady State: An Application to the Japanese Economy | Yasuo Hirose Keio University |
| Mar 10 MON |
Trading Networks with Bilateral Contracts* | Alex Teytelboym Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mar 11 Tue |
Investment and Competitive Matching | Georg Nöldeke University of Basel |
| Mar 13 Thu |
Do High School Dropouts Leave Money on the Street? Evidence from Britain | Damon Clark University of California, Irvine |
| Mar 14 FRI |
Beeps | Jeffrey C Ely Northwestern University |
| Mar 18 Tue |
Information Revelation in Auctions with Common and Private Values | Xu Tan University of Washington |
| Mar 20 Thu |
A Unified Model of Structural Adjustments in Production and International Trade: Theory and Evidences | Jiandong Ju University of Oklahoma |
| Mar 24 MON |
Partial Vertical Integration, Ownership Structure and Foreclosure
Venue: AS2 05-09 |
Yossi Spiegel Tel Aviv University |
| Mar 25 Tue 2pm |
Identification and Estimation in Discrete Choice Demand Models when Endogenous Variables Interact with the Error | Kyoo Il Kim University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| Mar 25 Tue |
International Competitiveness and Monetary Policy | Giancarlo Corsetti Cambridge University |
| Mar 26 WED12:30 pm |
Precocious Albion: a New Interpretation of the British Industrial Revolution
-Joint with Department of Strategy and Policy, BIZ 1, Seminar Room 3-2 |
Joel Mokyr Northwestern University |
| Mar 28 FRI |
Gary Solon Michigan State University |
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| Apr 01 Tue |
Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice | Deboyam Bhattacharya University of Oxford |
| Apr 03 Thu |
Is Happiness Really a Warm Gun? The Consequences of U.S. Weapons Sales for Political Violence | Eik Swee Leong University of Melbourne |
| Apr 04 FRI11 am |
Examining Macroeconomic Models through the Lens of Asset Pricing
-Joint with Department of Finance, BIZ 1, Seminar Room 3-1 |
Jaroslav Borovicka New York University |
| Apr 08 Tue 2pm |
Debt and Incomplete Financial Markets: A Case for Nominal GDP Targeting | Kevin Sheedy London School of Economics |
| Apr 08 Tue |
Optimal Voting Rules | Alex Gershkov Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Apr 10 Thu |
Distorted monopolistic competition | Yasusada Murata Nihon University |
| Apr 11 FRI |
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program |
Catherine Wolfram University of California, Berkeley |
| Apr 14 MON |
Child Nutrition and Child Growth in Sri Lanka
Venue: AS2 05-10 |
Dileni Gunewardena University of Peradeniya |
| Apr 15 Tue |
A Simple Uniformly Consistent Test for Regression Function | Yoshihiko Nishiyama Kyoto University |
| Apr 22 Tue2 pm |
Knowledge Diffusion and Optimal Progressivity | Debasis Bandyopadhyay University of Auckland |
| Apr 22 Tue |
Cross-licensing and competition | Doh-Shin Jeon Toulouse School of Economics |
| Apr 24 Thu |
A Century of Firm - Bank Relationships | Fabio Braggion Tilburg University |
| Apr 25 FRI |
A behavioral model of multi-candidate elections | Costel D. Andonie City University of Hong Kong |
| Apr 29 Tue |
The Human Capital Stock: A Generalized Approach | Benjamin Jones Northwestern University |
| May 06 Tue |
A Model of Structural Manipulation | Hanjoon Michael Jung Academia Sinica |
| May 07 WED |
Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics | Jonathan Meer Texas A&M University |
| May 08 THU |
Does longevity improvement always raise the length of schooling through the longer-horizon mechanism? | Paul S H Lau University of Hong Kong |
| May 14 WED 2pm |
The Value of a Reputation under Imperfect Monitoring | Eduardo Faingold Yale University |
| May 15 Thu |
Financial Stability in Open Economies | Ippel Fujiwara Australian National University |
| May 16 FRI |
Forecasting with Dynamic Panel Data Models | Hyungsik Roger Moon University of Southern Califonia |
| May 19 MON |
Resisting Education | Mark Koyama George Mason University |
| May 21 WED |
Characteristic Function Based Testing for Conditional Independence: A Nonparametric Regression Approach | Yongmiao Hong Cornell University |
| May 22 Thu 2pm |
Internal agency and external regulation | Guillaume Roger University of Sydney |
| May 22 Thu |
Rational Opacity | Cyril Monnet University of Bern and Study Center Gerzensee |
| May 26 MON | How fully do people exploit their bargaining position? The effects of bargaining institution and the 50-50 norm | Nicholas Feltovich Monash University |
| May 27 Tue |
Robust Inference | Bruce Hansen University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| May 28 WED 2pm |
Migration and the generosity of the welfare state: USA vs Europe | Assaf Razin Cornell University and Tel Aviv University |
| May 29 Thu 2pm |
Environmental Justice and Coasian Bargaining: The role of race and income in lease negotiations for shale gas | Christopher Timmins Duke University |
| May 29 Thu |
The Real Exchange Rate, Real Interest Rates, and the Risk Premium | Charles Engel University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| May 30 FRI |
Asymmetric Lottery Contests with Heterogeneous Agents and the Provision of Public Goods | Wolfgang Leininger Universität Dortmund |
| Jun 03 Tue 2pm |
A Simple Parametric Model Selection Test | Daniel Wilhelm University College London |
| Jun 03 Tue |
Information and Market Power in Rational Expectations Equilibrium | Stephen Morris Princeton University |
| Jun 12 Thu |
Salience, not Social Pressure: Engaging in resource conservation might be more pleasant than we think. | Lorenz Goette University of Lausanne |
| Jun 23 MON |
Security Lending and Trading under Market Segmentations | Ma Chenghu Fudan University |
| Jun 27 FRI |
Export Quality in Developing Countries | Nikola Spatafora World Bank |
| Jul 08 Tue |
The Determinants and Consequences of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges | Jeffrey Smith University of Michigan |
| Jul 09 WED |
The Effect of Inheritances on Labor Supply of Older Married Couples: Estimates and a New Test of Commitment | David Blau Ohio State University |
| Jul 11 FRI |
All or Nothing? The Impact of Gender Composition on Effort and Academic Achievement | Soohyung Lee University of Maryland, College Park |
| Jul 15 Tue |
Efficiency and Stability in Large Matching Markets | Olivier Tercieux Paris School of Economics |
| Jul 17 Thu |
Auctions with Limited Commitment | Qingmin Liu Columbia University |