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Fall 2008 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 337. For more information, contact Delia Furtado or Uluc Aysun.

Brownbag workshops are held Mondays at noon, also in Monteith 339. Generally, no paper will be made available. For more information, contact Francis Ahking or Dhammika Dharmapala

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 26, 2008 3:30pm	Erik Johnson (Quinnipiac University) "State and Local Vertical Tax Externalities"
Friday October 3, 2008 3:30pm	Georg Strasser (Boston College) "Multivariate Comparisons of Predictive Accuracy"
Friday October 10, 2008 3:30pm	Eric Brunner (Quinnipiac University) "Inter-District Choice, Housing Values, and Residential Segregation"
Friday October 17, 2008 3:30pm	Stylianos Michalopoulos (Tufts University) "Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Origins and Implications"
Monday October 20, 2008 2:00pm	Liz Cascio (Dartmouth College) "Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools"
Friday October 31 3:30pm	Felicia Ionescu (Colgate University) "Liquidation versus Reorganization for Government Student Loans"
Thursday November 6, 2008 2:00pm	Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) "College Major Choice and the Gender Gap"
Wednesday November 12 9:30am	Nicholas Jolly (University of Connecticut) "Three Essays on the Consequences of Job Displacement" (PhD defense)
Friday November 14, 2008 3:30pm	Abigail Wozniak (Notre Dame University) "Job Applicant Drug Screening and Employment Outcomes"
Friday December 5, 2008 3:30pm	Melanie Guldi (Mt. Holyoke College) "Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements"

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Monday September 8 noon	Biplab Ghosh (University of Connecticut) "Asymmetric Information and Asset Price Volatility"
Monday September 15 noon	James Boudreau (University of Connecticut) "Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment"
Monday September 22 noon	Natalya Shelkova (University of Connecticut) "Low-Wage Labor Markets and The Power of Suggestion"
Monday October 13 noon	Delia Furtado (University of Connecticut) "Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks"
Monday October 20 noon	Zinnia Mukherjee (University of Connecticut) "Voluntary Approaches to Conserving Endangered Species - The Case of Stochastic Sea Turtle Bycatch"
Monday October 27 noon	Juan-Pedro Garces (University of Connecticut) "Determinants of educational quality in a 3-sector system: the Chilean case"
Monday November 3 noon	Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Connecticut) "The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act"
Monday November 10 noon	Assaf Eisdorfer (University of Connecticut) "Technology Competition and Bankruptcy"
Monday November 17 noon	Lei Chen (University of Connecticut) "A Pareto-Koopmans DEA Efficiency Measure of Colorado Dental Practices"
Monday December 1 noon	Brian Volz (University of Connecticut) "Efficient Production of Wins in Major League Baseball"