All Seminars are in Monteith, Room 339, at 3:00 pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted.  Seminar Papers are available for review in HRM 330. For more information, contact Vicki Knoblauch.

Brownbag workshops are held Tuesdays at 12:20 pm, also in Monteith 339. Generally, no paper will be made available. For more information, contact Christian Zimmermann

 

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
February 19 Wednesday!	Alla Lilleeva (University of Toronto) "The Benefits to Canadian Plants from Inward Direct Investment: The Role of Vertical Linkages"
February 25 (Brownbag)	Francis Ahking (University of Connecticut) "Modified R/S Analysis of Real Exchange Rates in the Post-Bretton Woods Era"
February 26 Wednesday!	Ashish Narain (University of Maryland) "Capital Mobility, Trade, Union and Wages"
February 28	Dhammika Dharmapala and Stephen Ross (University of Connecticut) "Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches: Additional Theory and Evidence"
March 4 (Brownbag)	Jai Mah (Dankook University) "The Restructuring in Post-Crisis Korea: A Failure?"
March 7	Eric Brunner (San Diego State University) "Private Demands for Public Capital"
March 11 (Brownbag)	Dennis Heffley and Jorge Laboy (University of Connecticut) "Competition from online sellers: effects on local retailers and sales tax revenue"
March 25 (Brownbag)	Metin Cosgel (University of Connecticut) "Risk, Transaction Costs, and Taxation in History"
March 28	Fred Carstensen, Dennis Heffley, Steven Lanza, Bill Lott, and Stan McMillen (University of Connecticut) "Getting Real: What we do and how we do it at the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis"
April 1 (Brownbag)	Kathleen Segerson (University of Connecticut) "Voluntary Agreements with Industries: Participation Incentives with Industry-wide Targets"
April 4	Michael Hanson (Wesleyan University) "Varying Monetary Policy Regimes: A Vector Autoregressive Investigation"
April 8 (Brownbag)	Christian Zimmermann (University of Connecticut) "Regional Employment Fluctuations"
April 11	Alan Marco (Vassar College) "Learning by Suing: Stock Market Reactions to Patent Litigation Decisions"
April 15 (Brownbag)	Steve Sacks (University of Connecticut) "Optimal Deployment of Police Patrol Cars"
April 18	William Wheaton (MIT) "Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Urban Crime"
April 24 (Brownbag) Thursday!	Akm. Rezaul Hossain (University of Connecticut) "Information Spillovers in Mortgage Underwriting: Use of Branch Location"
April 25	Galina Hale (Yale University) "Bonds or Loans: The Effect of Macroeconomic Fundamentals"
April 29 (Brownbag)	Dhammika Dharmapala and Thomas Miceli (University of Connecticut) "A Model of the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule"
April 29 Tuesday 3pm!	Menahem Spiegel (Rutgers University) "Inter-Country Abatement Trading and the Global Environment Facility (GEF)"
May 2	Charles Kolstad (University of California - Santa Barbara) "Uncertainty in Self-Inforcing International Environmental Agreements"
May 6 (Brownbag)	Eric Brunner (San Diego State University) "Intergenerational Conflict and the Political Economy of School Spending"