Spring 2008 Seminar Schedule
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Date |
Time |
Name |
Topic |
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Mon, 28 Jan |
12:30 |
Dan Sutter, Texas-Pan America |
Advertiser Pressure and Control of the News: The Decline of Muckraking Revisited |
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Mon, 4 Feb |
12:00 |
Konrad Grabiszewski, NYU |
A Formal Analysis of Meta-Knowledge |
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Fri, 8 Feb |
12:00 |
Patrick McAlvanah, Washington University |
Subadditivity, Patience, and Utility: The Effects of Dividing Time Intervals |
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Wed, 13 Feb |
12:00 |
Augusto Nieto, UC-San Diego |
Optimal Binary Prediction for Group Decision Making |
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Fri, 22 Feb |
11:00 |
Monica Hartman, University of St. Thomas |
TBA - Empirical I.O. |
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Mon, 25 Feb |
11:00 |
Rick Mishkin, Columbia University & Governor of Federal Reserve Board (Bate 1400) |
Will Monetary Policy Become More of a Science? |
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Fri, 7 March |
10:30 |
Fan-chin Kung, City University of Hong Kong |
Can Information Asymmetry Cause Agglomeration? |
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Fri, 11 April |
12:30 |
Ron Gallant, Duke University |
TBA - Empirical I.O. |
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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
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Date |
Time |
Name |
Topic |
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17 Oct |
12:30 |
Dr. Jason Fletcher, Yale University |
Social Interactions and Smoking: Evidence using Multiple Student Cohorts, Instrumental Variables, and School Fixed Effects |
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24 Oct |
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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 |
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7 Nov |
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Dr. Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, ECU |
An Empirical Investigation of Stock Market Behavior in Middle East and North Africa |
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14 Nov |
12:30 |
Dr. Andrew Grodner, ECU |
Estimating Treatment Effects with Multiple Proxies of Academic Aptitude |
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21 Nov |
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THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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28 Nov |
12:30 |
Dr. Xuan “Arthur” Liu, ECU |
Trade Openness and the Costs of Sudden Stops |
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Summer 2007 Seminar Schedule
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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 |
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June 22, 11-12:30 (Friday) |
James Morley (Washington University) |
TBA |
Spring 2007 Seminar Schedule
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Jan. 10 |
Don
Dutkowsky ( |
Monetary Policy and Monetary Asset Substitution , Retail
Sweep Programs and Monetary Asset Substitution |
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Jan. 12, 11:00-12:30pm |
Xuan Arthur Liu
( |
Optimal and Time Consistent Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Small Open Economy |
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Jan 19, 11:00-12:30 |
Hamilton Fout
( |
TBA |
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Jan. 24 |
Eran
Guse ( |
TBA |
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Jan. 29 |
Sherry
(Xue) Qiao ( |
TBA |
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Feb. 5 |
Yong-Gook ( |
TBA |
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Feb. 14 |
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Feb. 21 |
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Mar. 7 (poster presentation) |
Derek Ramirez |
Spatial Patterns
of Poverty for |
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Mar. 14 |
No Seminar
- Spring Break |
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Mar. 21 |
Predicting Future Bond Returns with Macro Variables: A Semi-parametric Approach |
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Mar. 28 |
Hindsley,
Paul Robert |
The Role of
Congestion in Recreational Beach Site Choice |
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Apr. 4 |
The Banking Industry
Shift from intermediation to Service Provision: Could $35 NSF Fees Help
Consumers and Hurt Banks? |
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Apr. 11 |
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Apr.
18 |
Investigating
the Causes of Flight Delays |
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Apr. 25 |
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Fall 2006 Seminar Schedule
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Aug. 23 |
No Seminar |
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Aug. 30 |
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Sep. 6 |
Sam Tibbs, (ECU Finance
Department) |
Does Crime Pay? Abnormal Performance Around Allegations of Corporate Misconduct |
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Sep. 13 |
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Sep. 20, 3:30-5:00 |
Kevin Boyle
(Virginia Tech) |
Provision Rules and the Incentive Compatibility of Choice Surveys |
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Sep. 27 |
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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. |
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Oct. 11 |
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Oct. 20 (Friday), 2:00-3:00 |
Hurricanes
Katrina-Rita: Evolving Recoveries |
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Oct. 25 |
Oil Prices
and Competitiveness: Evidence from a group of oil exporting countries |
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Nov. 1 |
Preference
Stability and Market Experience: An Experimental Analysis of Anchoring in the
Field |
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Nov. 8 |
International Trade and Skill Acquisition in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence |
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Nov. 15 |
Chinese Economic Reform and Labor Market Efficiency |
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Nov. 22 |
No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break |
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Nov. 29 |
Social Capital and Business Giving to Charity following a
Natural Disaster: An Empirical Assessment |
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Dec. 6 |
ChunWei Lai (University of Virginia) |
International
Trade and Skill Acquisition in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence |
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