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Fall 2007 Seminar and Brownbag Series

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 Thursdays 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
Monday August 27 3:00pm	Marius Jurgilas (University of Connecticut) "Interbank Markets under Currency Boards" (PhD Defense)
Friday September 14 3:00pm	(University of Connecticut, Business) "Do Wrongful Discharge Laws Impair Firm Performance?"
Thursday September 20 4:00pm Konover Auditorium	Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University) "Corporate Environmentalism: Doing Well by Doing Good?"
Friday September 28 3:30pm	Pol Antras (Harvard University) "Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective"
Friday October 5 3:30pm	Perry Shapiro (University of California-Santa Barbara) "Compensation for Taking When Both Equity and Efficiency Matter"
Monday October 8 4:30pm	Tsvetanka Karagoyozova (University of Connecticut) "Three Essays on Heterogeneity, Insurance, and Asset Pricing" (PhD Defense)
Thursday October 11 4:00pm Babbidge Library, Class of 1947 room	(Princeton University) "The Politicization of Science: Consequences and Prescriptions"
Friday October 12 11:00am Information Technologies Engineering (ITE) Building C80	Greg Mankiw (Harvard University) "The Case for Pigovian Taxation Why We Should Tax Gas, And Substantially So"
Friday October 19 3:30pm	Subhash Ray (University of Connecticut) "Input Price Variation Across Locations and a Generalized Measure of Cost Efficiency"
Friday October 26 3:30pm	Erinc Yeldan (Bilkent University) "Macroeconomics of Twin-Targeting in Turkey: Analytics of a Financial CGE Model"
Friday November 2 3:30pm	Shannon Seitz (Boston College) "An Empirical Model of Intra-household Allocations and the Marriage Market"
Wednesday November 7 9:30am	(University of Connecticut) "Three Essays on Econometrics" (PhD Defense)
Friday November 9 3:30pm	Fabio Ghironi (Boston College) "The Domestic and International Effects of Financial Deregulation"
Friday November 16 3:30pm	(Brown University) "Missing Women More and More: Sex-Selective Abortion Increases Boys Born but Decreases Girls Dying in Taiwan"
Monday November 19 2:30pm	Andros Kourtellos (University of Cyprus) "Threshold Regression with Endogenous Threshold Variables (THRET)"
Friday November 30 3:30pm	Daniele Paserman (Boston University and Hebrew University) "Inside the Black Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in High and Low Achievers in the Classroom"

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Thursday September 6 12:20pm	Nicholas Shunda (University of Connecticut) "Auctions with a Buy Price: The Case of Reference-Dependent Preferences"
Thursday September 13 12:20pm	James Boudreau (University of Connecticut) "Stratification, Growth and Path Dependence in Bilateral Markets"
Thursday September 20 12:20pm	Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Connecticut) "Which Countries Become Tax Havens?"
Thursday September 27 12:20pm	Jennifer Brown (Eastern Connecticut State University) "Raising Rivals' Costs via California's Environmental Regulations: Effects in the Retail Market"
Thursday October 4 12:20pm	Natalya Shelkova (University of Connecticut) "Low-wage labor markets and the power of suggestion"
Thursday October 18 12:20pm	Delia Furtado (University of Connecticut) "Interethnic Marriage: The Relationships between Education, Race, and Immigrant Generation"
Thursday October 25 12:20pm	Phil Shaw (University of Connecticut) "Educational Corruption and Growth"
Thursday November 1 12:20pm	Kathleen Segerson (University of Connecticut) "Valuing Ecosystem Services: Economics and the EPA"
Thursday November 8 12:20pm	Michael Stone (University of Connecticut) "Creating a homepage at UConn"
Thursday November 15 12:20pm	Biplab Ghosh (University of Connecticut) "Asymmetric Information and Excess Volatility"
Thursday November 29 12:20pm	Lei Chen (University of Connecticut) "Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Dental Care: A Study of Practice Level Data"
Thursday December 6 12:20pm	Xenia Matschke (University of Connecticut) "Antidumping Duties under Asymmetric Cost Information"