By the generous support of the Kirk Dornbush Endowment,
established by Ambassador K. Terry Dornbush, BA'55

Fall 2002 Semester Seminars
All seminars are to be held at 3:10pm in Calhoun, room 218, unless otherwise indicated.

 

September 2002

Tuesday, September 10th, 2002
Bennet McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University
"The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level is Not Learnable"

Tuesday, September 17, 2002
Paul McNelis, Georgetown University
"Central Bank Learning, Terms of Trade Shocks & Currency Risks: Should Only Inflation Matter for Monetary Policy?"

Monday, September 23rd, 2002
Maristella Botticini, Boston University
"From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretaion of Jewish Economic History"

Steine Lecture, Flynn Auditorium, Vanderbilt Law School
Wednesday, September 25th, 2002
Martin Feldstein, Harvard University
President, National Bureau of Economic Research
"Preventing Economic Crisis"

Monday, September 30th, 2002
Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University
"Speaking Up: A Model of Judicial Dissent and Discretionary Review"

 

October 2002

Thursday October 3rd, 2002
Andrew Horowitz, University of Arkansas
"Household Size and the Demand for Food: A Puzzle Resolved"

Monday, October 7th, 2002
Simon Grant, Rice University
"Accidents of Birth, Life Chances and the Impartial Observer"

Wednesday, October 16th, 2002
Ben Zissimos, University of Warwick
"Trade Agreements with Limited Punishments"

Thursday, October 17th, 2002
Han Hong, Princeton University
"Nonparametric Tests for Common Values in First Price Sealed Bid Auctions"

Thursday, October 31st, 2002
Bobbi Wolfe, University of Wisconsin
"Have Newly Retired Workers in the U.S. Saved Enough to Maintain Well-Being
Through Retirement Years?"

November 2002

Monday, November 4th, 2002
Zhijie Xiao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Unit Root Quantile Autoregression and Asymmetric Business Cycle Dynamics"

Thursday, November 7th, 2002
Eric Bond, Penn State University
"Is the Tariff the 'Mother of Trusts'? Reciprocal Trade Liberalization with Multimarket Collusion"

Friday, November 8th, 2002
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
"The Impact of State Labor Regulations on Manufacturing Input Demands"

Wednesday, November 13th, 2002
James Dana, Northwestern University
"Product Variety and Demand Uncertainty"

GPED Seminar
Friday, November 15th, 2002
Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu, Mexican Central Bank
"Anti-Poverty Program (Progresa)"

Monday, November 18th, 2002
Simon Wilkie, Caltech University and the Federal Communications Commission
"Candidate Flexibility"

Thursday, November 21st, 2002
Rajiv Vohra, Brown University
"Incomplete Information, Credibility and the Core"