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All Seminars are in Monteith, Room 339, at 3:30 pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted.  Seminar Papers are available for review in Mont 330. For more information, contact Delia Furtado or Uluc Aysun.

Brownbag workshops are held Wednesdays at 12:15 pm, also in Monteith 339. Generally, no paper will be made available. For more information, contact Christian Zimmermann

Other presentations in connection with the Economics PhD program are also listed on this schedule, as well as some events elsewhere on campus. Locations are noted if not held at Monteith 339.

This schedule is continuously updated. Check regularly!

 

Seminars

(Brownbags and other activites are further down)

Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic

Friday
September 8
3:30pm

Subhash Ray
(University of Connecticut)
"Input Aggregation in Models of Data Envelopment Analysis: A Statistical Test with an Application to Indian Manufacturing"

Friday
September 15
3:30pm

John Cantwell
(Rutgers University)
"Creating Competition? Globalisation and the Emergence of New Technology Producers"

Friday
September 22
4:00pm

Kevin Lang
(Boston University)
"Education and Discrimination"

Friday
September 29
3:30pm

Ram Singh
(Harvard University)
"On the Existence of Equilibria under Liability Rules"

Friday
October 6
3:30pm

Ethan Lewis
(Dartmouth University)
"Endogenous Skill Bias in Technology Adoption: City-Level Evidence from the IT Revolution"

Saturday
October 7
9:20am - 4:30pm

CLAS 326 and 108

Mini-Symposium on Bayesian Nonparametrics

Friday
October 13
3:30pm

Justine Hastings
(Yale University)
"No Child Left Behind"

Thursday
October 19
4:00pm

Konover Auditorium

William Nordhaus
(Yale University)
"Carbon Taxes to Slow Global Warming"

Friday
October 20
3:30pm

Yoto Yotov
(Boston College)
"Labor Market Imperfections, Political Pressure, and Trade Patterns"

Friday
October 27
3:30pm

William Kerr
(Harvard Business School)
"U.S. Banking Deregulations and Entrepreneurship"

Friday
November 3
3:30pm

Betsey Stevenson
(University of Pennsylvania, Wharton)
"Divorce Law Changes and the Impact on Behavior within Marriage and Female Labor Force Participation"

Friday
November 10
3:30pm

Julio Rotemberg
(Harvard Business School)
"Fair Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model"

Friday
November 17
3:30pm

Junfu Zhang
(Clark University)
"The Effects of Wal-Mart on Local Labor Markets"

Friday
December 1
1:00pm
W.B. Young 207-8

John Kwoka
(Northeastern University)
"Mergers in Electricity"

Friday
December 1
3:30pm

Phillip Levine
(Wellesley University)
"Contraceptive Access and Sexual Behavior"

Friday
December 8
3:30pm

Lars Ljungqvist
(Stockholm School of Economics)
"Do Taxes Explain European Employment? Indivisible Labor, Human Capital, Lotteries, and Savings"

 

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic

Monday
September 4
10:00am

Hulya Arik
(University of Connecticut)
"Three Essays on Economic Growth, Country Risk and External Debt"
PhD defense

Wednesday
September 6
12:15pm
Phil Shaw
(University of Connecticut)
"Optimal Inference and Point Estimation Under LAU"
Wednesday
September 13
12:15pm
Christian Zimmermann
(University of Connecticut)
"Unemployment Insurance: Isn't Marriage Enough?"

Friday
September 15
10:00am

Xia Wang
(University of Connecticut)
"Three Essays on Technological Capabilities and Strategies in the U.S. Biotechnology Industry"
PhD defense

Tuesday
September 19
2:00pm

Corinne McCue
(University of Connecticut)
"An Examination of Changing Firm Structure in the Aircraft Engine Industry"
PhD defense

Wednesday
September 20
12:15pm
Joseph Golec
(University of Connecticut, Business)
"Strategic Trading in the Wrong Direction by a Large Institutional Insider"

Tuesday
September 26
1:00pm

Bill Pace
(University of Connecticut)
"The Effects of Benefits Plan Design on the Utilization of Preventive Medical Services"
PhD defense

Wednesday
September 27
12:15pm
Nicholas Shunda
(University of Connecticut)
"Writing in Economics"
Wednesday
October 4
12:15pm
Marius Jurgilas
(University of Connecticut)
"Liquidity Effect under a Currency Board"
Wednesday
October 11
12:15pm
Matthew Rafferty
(Quinnipiac University)
"CEO Compensation: Rent Extraction from Whom?"
Wednesday
October 18
12:15pm
Kenneth Petersen
(University of Connecticut)
"Does the Fed Follow a Non-Linear Policy Rule?"
Wednesday
October 25
12:15pm
Xiumei Song
(University of Connecticut)
"Empirical Analysis of Informal Payments in Albania Using Two-Part Model"
Wednesday
November 1
12:15pm
Rasha Ahmed
(University of Connecticut)
"Emissions Control and the Regulation of Product Markets: The Case of Automobiles"
Wednesday
November 8
12:15pm
Bruce Larson
(University of Connecticut, AgEcon)
"AIDS, ART, and Labor Productivity: Preliminary Results from a Cohort Study of Kenyan Agricultural Workers"
Wednesday
November 15
12:15pm
Delia Furtado
(University of Connecticut)
"Cross-Nativity Marriage, Gender, and Human Capital of Children"
Wednesday
November 29
12:15pm
Gautham Tripathi
(University of Connecticut)
"Estimating linear functionals of nonparametric regression models with endogenous regressors"

Monday
December 4
2:00pm

Xiaozhong Liang
(University of Connecticut)
"Three Essays on the Capital Structure and Risk Management of Banks"

Wednesday
December 6
12:15pm
Anja Schöttner
(Humbold Universität Berlin)
"On the optimal interplay between promotion tournaments and piece rate schemes"