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  NOTE TIME CHANGE

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

NOTE DATE AND TIME CHANGE

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

 

 

 

 


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

 

 

 

Summer 2007 Seminar Schedule

 

May 24, 11:30-12:12:30 (Thursday)

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)

The Two Interpretations of the Beveridge-Nelson Decomposition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*All seminars are held on Wednesday at 12:15 in Brewster C-305  unless otherwise noted.

**  Tentative date and time which is likely to change due to the visit schedule for each candidate.