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Fall 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, Uluc Aysun or DJ Lee.

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 Metin Cosgel

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.

To be on the mailing list for activities, please contact Christian Zimmermann.

This schedule is continuously updated. Check regularly!

 

Seminars

(Brownbags and other activites are further down)

Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic

Tuesday
August 25
2:00pm

Burak Celik
(University of Connecticut)
"Essays on Matching Markets with Correlated Preferences"
(PhD defense)

Wednesday
September 23
1:00pm

Selini Katsaiti
(University of Connecticut)
"Three Essays on the Economics of Obesity"
(PhD defense)

Friday
September 25
3:30pm

Adam Honig
(Amherst College)
"Political Monetary Cycles and a De Facto Ranking of Central Bank Independence"

Friday
October 2
3:30pm

David Sherman
(Northeastern University)
"Improving Bank Profitability with Quality Adjusted Data Envelopment Analysis (Q-DEA): Understanding the Role of Quality in Productivity Management"

Thursday
October 8
3:30pm
CUE 122

Linda Goldberg
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Banking Globalization and Monetary Transmission"

Friday
October 16
3:30pm

Nicoleta Iliescu
(University of Connecticut)
"The Impact of Political and Strategical Matters on Antidumping Practices"

Friday
October 23
3:15pm

Libertad Gonzalez
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
"Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain"

Friday
October 30
3:30pm

Douglas Gollin
(Williams College)
"The Greatest of All Improvements: Roads, Agriculture and Economic Development in Africa""

Friday
November 6
3:30pm

Isaac Mbiti
(Southern Methodist University)
"The Effect of Free Primary Education on Student Participation, Stratification and Achievement: Evidence from Kenya"

Friday
November 13
11:00am
Konover Auditorium

Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
(University of Chicago)
"Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution"
AGES Distinguished Speaker Series

Friday
November 13
3:30pm

Keith Chen
(Yale University)
"How Choice Affects and Reflects Preferences: Revisiting the Free-Choice Paradigm"

Thursday
November 19
3:30pm
Konover Auditorium

Steve Polaski
(University of Minnesota)
"Coming Down to Earth: Valuing Nature to Improve Decision-Making"
(Teale Lecture)

Thursday
December 3
3:30pm

George Monokroussos
(SUNY Albany)
"TBA"

Friday
December 11
3:30pm

Rajashri Chakrabarti
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"TBA"

 

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Monday
September 14
noon		 Delia Furtado
(University of Connecticut)
"Culture and Divorce: Evidence from U.S. Immigrants"
Monday
September 21
noon		 Paramita Dhar
(University of Connecticut)
"Effect of School Quality on Property Values"
Monday
September 28
noon		 Nicoleta Iliescu
(University of Connecticut)
"Antidumping as Trade Protection: Evidence from US Lobby Activity"
Monday
October 5
noon		 Maroula Khraiche
(University of Connecticut)
"Trade, Firm Structure and Migration of Talent"
Monday
October 12
noon		 Gulgun Bayaz
(University of Connecticut)
"Accounting for Differences in Earnings Inequality: Germany and the United States"
Monday
October 19
noon		 Lei Chen
(University of Connecticut)
"A Study of Production Technology of the U.S. Dental Care Industry - A Non-parametric Approach"
Monday
October 26
noon		 Juan-Pedro Garces
(University of Connecticut)
"The impact of population density on human capital, technology and growth"
Monday
November 2
noon
Monteith 221		 Michael Stone
(University of Connecticut)
"The Determinants of State-Level Caps on Punitive Damages"
Monday
November 9
noon		 Li Xiaoming
(University of Connecticut)
"Neighborhood Information Externalities and the Provision of Mortgage Credit"
Monday
November 16
noon		 Leshui He
(University of Connecticut)
"The owner and the boundary of the firm"
Monday
November 30
noon		 Tao Chen
(University of Connecticut)
"Conditional symmetry test"
Monday
December 7
noon		 Parag Waknis
(University of Connecticut)
"TBA"