Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule

Date

Time

Name

Topic

Mon, 28 Jan

12:30

Dan Sutter, Texas-Pan America

Advertiser Pressure and Control of the News: The Decline of Muckraking Revisited

Mon, 4 Feb

12:00

Konrad Grabiszewski, NYU

Agent or Researcher?

A Formal Analysis of Meta-Knowledge

Fri, 8 Feb

12:00

Patrick McAlvanah, Washington University

Subadditivity, Patience, and Utility:

The Effects of Dividing Time Intervals

Wed, 13 Feb

12:00

Augusto Nieto, UC-San Diego

Optimal Binary Prediction for

Group Decision Making

Fri, 22 Feb

11:00

Monica Hartman, University of St. Thomas

TBA - Empirical I.O.

Mon, 25 Feb

11:00

Rick Mishkin, Columbia University & Governor of Federal Reserve Board

(Bate 1400)

Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science?

Fri, 7 March

10:30

Fan-chin Kung, City University of Hong Kong

Can Information Asymmetry Cause Agglomeration?

Fri, 11 April

12:30

Ron Gallant, Duke University

TBA - Empirical I.O.

Fri, 18 April

12:30

Richard Baillie, Michigan State University

TBA

- Summer 2008: Friday, June 13; Bruce Mizrach (Rutgers University) - Jump and Cojump Risk in Subprime Home Equity Derivatives

 

Fall 2007 Seminar Schedule

Date

Time

Name

Topic

17 Oct

12:30

Dr. Jason Fletcher, Yale University

Social Interactions and Smoking: Evidence using Multiple Student Cohorts, Instrumental Variables, and School Fixed Effects

24 Oct

 

 

 

2 Nov

(FRIDAY)

1:15

Brewster C105

Dr. James Hamilton, University of California-San Diego

Daily Monetary Policy Shocks and the Delayed Response of New Home Sales

7 Nov

 

Dr. Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, ECU

An Empirical Investigation of Stock Market Behavior in Middle East and North Africa

14 Nov

12:30

Dr. Andrew Grodner, ECU

Estimating Treatment Effects with

Multiple Proxies of Academic Aptitude

21 Nov

 

THANKSGIVING BREAK

 

28 Nov

12:30

Dr. Xuan “Arthur” Liu, ECU

Trade Openness and the

Costs of Sudden Stops

 

 

 

 

 

Summer 2007 Seminar Schedule

May 18, 11:30-12:12:30 (Friday)

Oleg Keronok (Virginia Commonwealth University)

International Evidence on the Efficacy of new-Keynesian Models of Inflation Persistence

June 22, 11-12:30 (Friday)

James Morley (Washington University)

TBA

 

Spring 2007 Seminar Schedule

Jan. 10

Don Dutkowsky (Syracuse University)

 Monetary Policy and Monetary Asset Substitution , Retail Sweep Programs and Monetary Asset Substitution

Jan. 12, 11:00-12:30pm

Xuan Arthur Liu (Duke University)

Optimal and Time Consistent Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy

Jan 19, 11:00-12:30 

Hamilton Fout (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

TBA

Jan. 24

Eran Guse (Cambridge University, Ph.D. U. of Oregon)

TBA

Jan. 29

Sherry (Xue) Qiao (Iowa State)

 TBA

Feb. 5

Yong-Gook (University of California, San Diego)

TBA

Feb. 14

 

 

Feb. 21 

 

 

Mar. 7 (poster presentation)

Derek Ramirez

Spatial Patterns of Poverty for U.S. Counties: Spatial Dependence Model

Mar. 14

No Seminar - Spring Break

 

Mar. 21

Ai-Ru (Meg) Cheng (University of California Santa Cruz); CV

Predicting Future Bond Returns with Macro Variables: A Semi-parametric Approach

Mar. 28

Hindsley, Paul Robert

The Role of Congestion in Recreational Beach Site Choice

Apr. 4

Mark Fusaro

The Banking Industry Shift from intermediation to Service Provision: Could $35 NSF Fees Help Consumers and Hurt Banks?

Apr. 11

 

 

Apr. 18

Nicholas Rupp

Investigating the Causes of Flight Delays

 

 

 

Apr. 25

 

 

 

 

Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule

 

Aug. 23

No Seminar

 

Aug. 30


Sep. 6

Sam Tibbs, (ECU Finance Department)

Does Crime Pay? Abnormal Performance Around Allegations of Corporate Misconduct

Sep. 13

 

Sep. 20, 3:30-5:00 

Kevin Boyle (Virginia Tech)

Provision Rules and the Incentive Compatibility of Choice Surveys

Sep. 27

 

Oct. 4 (workshop)

Discussion moderator: Richard Ericson

Discussion of the paper Neary J. Peter. 2001. "Of Hype and Hyperbolas: Introducing the New Economic Geography." Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 39, No. 2. (Jun., 2001), pp. 536-561.

Oct. 11


 

Oct. 20 (Friday),

2:00-3:00

Bill Lovett (Tulane Law School)

Hurricanes Katrina-Rita: Evolving Recoveries

Oct. 25

Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar

Oil Prices and Competitiveness: Evidence from a group of oil exporting countries

Nov. 1

Craig Landry

Preference Stability and Market Experience: An Experimental Analysis of Anchoring in the Field

Nov. 8

ChunWei Lai (University of Virginia)

International Trade and Skill Acquisition in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence

Nov. 15

Andrew Grodner

Chinese Economic Reform and Labor Market Efficiency

Nov. 22

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break

 

Nov. 29

Okmyung Bin

Social Capital and Business Giving to Charity following a Natural Disaster: An Empirical Assessment

Dec. 6

ChunWei Lai (University of Virginia)

 

International Trade and Skill Acquisition in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence