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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 Tuesdays at 12:20 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
January 19
3:30pm

Paola Giuliano
(International Monetary Fund)
"Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?"

Friday
February 2
3:30pm

Kristin Butcher
(Wesleyan University)
"Why are Immigrants' Incarceration Rates So Low? Evidence on Selective Immigration, Deterrence, and Deportation"

Friday
February 9
3:30pm

Cédric Tille
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar"

Friday
February 16
11:00am
Konover Auditorium

Ariel Rubinstein
(New York University and Tel Aviv University)
"John Nash, A Beautiful Mind, and Game Theory"
Before attending, you are encouraged to play some games

Friday
February 23
3:30pm

Richard Burkhauser
(Cornell University)
"Using the P90/P10 Ratio to Measure Inequality Trends with the Current Population Survey: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults"

Friday
March 2
3:30pm

Hanming Fang
(Yale University)
"Dynamic Inefficiencies in Health Care Markets"

Wednesday
March 14
4:00pm
CLAS 344

Yongmiao Hong
(Cornell University)
"Generalized Residual-Based Diagnostic Testing for Duration Models with Censoring"

Friday
March 16
3:30pm

Arslan Razmi
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
"Developing Country Exports of Manufactures: Moving Up the Ladder to Escape the Fallacy of Composition?"

Friday
March 23
3:30pm

Samson Kimenyi
(University of Connecticut)
"The Political Economy of Constitutional Choice: A Study of the 2005 Kenyan Constitutional Referendum"

Friday
March 30
3:30pm

Tara Watson
(Williams College)
"Metropolitan Growth, Inequality, and Neighborhood Segregation by Income"

Friday
April 6
3:30pm

Adrien Verdelhan
(Boston University)
"A Habit-Based Explanation of the Exchange Rate Risk Premium"

Wednesday
April 11
1:00pm

Bart Wilson
(George Mason University)
"Exchange and Specialization as a Discovery Process"
paper 1, paper 2

Wednesday
April 11
4:00pm

Rimvydas Baltaduonis
(University of Connecticut)
"Essays on Wholesale Auctions in Deregulated Electricity Markets"
(PhD Defense)

Friday
April 13
3:30pm

Yona Rubinstein
(Brown University)
"Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages over Time"

Friday
April 20
3:30pm

Ebonya Washington
(Yale University)
"Segregation and Black Political Efficacy"

Friday
April 27
3:30pm

Charles de Bartolome
(University of Colorado)
"Tax Competition and the Creation of Redundant Products"

Thursday
May 17
11:30am

Bingbo Hu
(University of Connecticut)
"Understanging China's Economic Performance: Gaining Insight from the Balassa-Samuelson Hypothesis"
(PhD Defense)

 

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic

Tuesday
January 15
12:20pm
Phil Shaw
(University of Connecticut)
"Endogenous IVs, The Death of the T-stat, and More..."
Tuesday
January 22
12:20pm
Christian Zimmermann
(University of Connecticut)
"Academic Rankings with RePEc"
Tuesday
January 29
12:20pm
Stephen Ross
(University of Connecticut)
"Urban Wage Premia: Agglomeration Economies or Worker Heterogeneity"
Tuesday
February 6
12:20pm
Kathy Segerson
(University of Connecticut)
"Controlling Sea Turtle Bycatch: An Evaluation of Alternative Policies"
Tuesday
February 13
12:20pm
Rasha Ahmed
Metin Cosgel
Thomas Miceli

(University of Connecticut)
"Law and State Power"
Tuesday
February 20
12:20pm
Lanse Minkler
(University of Connecticut)
"Economic Rights: A Primer"
Tuesday
February 27
12:20pm
Xenia Matschke, Anja Schöttner
(University of Connecticut, Universtät Humboldt)
"Antidumping Duties Under Asymmetric Cost Information"
Tuesday
March 6
12:20pm
Juan-Pedro Garces
(University of Connecticut)
"Education and Development: what has been said, what has not been said and what could be said"
Tuesday
March 13
12:20pm
Burak Celik
(University of Connecticut)
"Marriage Matching and the Proposers' Advantage"
Tuesday
March 20
12:20pm
Nicholas Jolly
(University of Connecticut)
"The Pattern of Spousal Labor Supply upon a Husband's Displacement"
Tuesday
March 27
12:20pm
Nicholas Shunda
(University of Connecticut)
"Multi-Unit Auctions with Entry"
Tuesday
April 3
12:20pm
Natalya Shelkova
(University of Connecticut)
"Minimum Wage: A Focal Point for Tacit Collusion?"
Tuesday
April 10
12:20pm
Zinnia Mukherjee
(University of Connecticut)
"Voluntary Threat Mechanisms to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch in the Gulf"
Tuesday
April 17
12:20pm
Nicoleta Iliescu
(University of Connecticut)
"Antidumping as Determinant of Tariff-Jumping FDI: Case of India"
Tuesday
April 24
12:20pm
Gulgun Bayaz
(University of Connecticut)
"Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes: A Public Sector Analysis"