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Spring 2009 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 12:20, 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
January 30
3:30pm

Pat McPherron
(University of Connecticut)
"The Role of Wealth Preferences in the Equity Premium Puzzle"

Friday
February 6
2:30pm, Dodd Center

Jerry Hausman
(MIT)
"A Bayesian Mixed Logit-Profit Model for Multinomial Choice"

Friday
February 13
3:30pm

Arnaud Costinot
(MIT)
"Matching and Inequality in the World Economy"

Friday
February 20
3:30pm

Grace Wong Bucchianeri
(University of Pennsylvania)
"The American Dream? The Private and External Benefits of Homeownership"

Friday
February 27
3:30pm

Malhar Nabar
(Wellesley College)
"Uncertainty and Innovation at the Time of the Great Depression"

Friday
March 20
3:30pm

Jae Won Lee
(Rutgers University)
"Imperfect Risk Sharing, Output-Inflation Tradeoffs and the Business Cycles"

Friday
March 27
3:30pm

Bart Lipman
(Boston University)
"Costly Self-Control versus Overwhelming Temptation"

Friday
April 3
3:30pm

Paul Willen
(Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
"Renegotiating Home Mortgages"

Friday
April 10
3:30pm

Andra Ghent
(CUNY, Baruch College)
"Is Housing the Business Cycle? Evidence from U.S. Cities"

Tuesday
April 14
11:00am
Dodd Center

Karl Case
(Wellesley College)
"Housing Prices and the Real Economy"
AGES Distinguished Speaker Series

Friday
April 17
3:30pm

Lisa Kahn
(Yale University)
"Job Durations, Match Quality and the Business Cycle: What We Can Learn from Firm Fixed Effects"

Tuesday
April 28
1:00pm

Brian Volz
(University of Connecticut)
"Three Essays on the Economics of Professional Baseball"
(PhD defense)

Thursday
April 30
3:30pm

Emanuel Ornelas
(London School of Economics)
"Sequential Exporting"

Friday
May 1
10:00am

James Boudreau
(University of Connecticut)
"Essays on the Analysis and Implications of Two-Sided Matching Markets"
(PhD defense)

Wednesday
May 6
2:00pm

Biplab Ghosh
(University of Connecticut)
"Three Essays in Financial Economics"
(PhD defense)

Thursday
May 21
10:30am

Natalya Shelkova
(University of Connecticut)
"Minimum Wage and Low-Wage Labor Markets"
(PhD defense)

 

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Monday
January 26
12:20		 D. J. Lee
(University of Connecticut)
"Bootstrap test for structural break when the regressors and the error terms are non-stationary"
Monday
February 2
12:20		 Uluc Aysun
(University of Connecticut)
"Institutional quality and the lending channel: a cross-country analysis"
Monday
February 9
12:20		 Troy Helming
(University of Connecticut)
"Intellectual property in the music industry"
Monday
February 16
12:20		 Nicoleta Iliescu
(University of Connecticut)
"Antidumping as Trade Protection: Evidence from US Lobby Activity"
Monday
February 23
12:20		 Li Xiaoming
(University of Connecticut)
"Neighborhood Information Externalities and the Provision of Mortgage Credit"
Monday
March 2
12:20 CANCELLED		 Paramita Dhar
(University of Connecticut)
"Effect of School quality on Property Values"
Monday
March 16
12:20		 Parag Waknis
(University of Connecticut)
"Getting the Central Bank to Commit: An Experiment in the Search Theory of Money"
Monday
March 23
12:20		 Selini Katsaiti
(University of Connecticut)
"Happiness and obesity"
Monday
March 30
12:20		 Ranjini Neogi
(University of Connecticut)
"Effect of Housing Supply Regulation on Housing Affordability"
Monday
April 6
12:20		 Maroula Khraiche
(University of Connecticut)
"Trade, Firm Structure and Migration of Talent"
Monday
April 13
12:20		 Gulgun Bayaz
(University of Connecticut)
"Accounting for Differences in Earnings Inequality: Germany and the United States"
Monday
April 20
12:20		 Michael Stone
(University of Connecticut)
"Endogenous Punitive Damages Caps"
Monday
April 27
12:20		 Shalini Mitra
(University of Connecticut)
"Does financial development imply greater firm volatility?"
Monday
May 4
12:20		 Paramita Dhar
(University of Connecticut)
"Effect of School quality on Property Values"