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

Spring 2002 Semester Seminars

January 2002

Thursday, January 31, 2002
Maitreesh Ghatak, University of Chicago
"Subcontractors for Tractors: Theory and Evidence on Assest Specificity and Contracting in a Manufacturer-Supplier Network"
Sarrat, room 116

 

February 2002

Thursday, February 14th, 2002
Chris I. Telmer, Carnegie Mellon University
"Consumption and Risk Sharing Over the Life Cycle"

Thursday, February 14th, 2002
James Ramsey, New York University
"The Importance of Time Scale In Economic Analysis" An Application of Wavelets"
Sarrat, room 116

Monday, February 18th, 2002
David Papell, University of Houston
"The Panel Purchasing Power Parity Endgame"

Monday, February 25th, 2002
Mark Watson, Princeton University
"Forecasting with a Large Number of Predictors"

Thursday, February 28th, 2002
Benjamin Eden, University of Haifa
"Money, Credit and Inventories in a Sequential Trading Model"
Sarrat, room 189

 

March 2002

Monday, March 11th, 2002
Paul Bergin, University of California at Davis
"Tests of the New Open Economy Macroeconomics"

Friday March 15th, 2002
John Knight, University of Western Ontario
"Efficient Estimation for Markov Models Where the Transition Density is Unknown"

Monday March18th, 2002
David Lam, University of Michigan
"Generating Extreme Inequality: Schooling, Earning and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in South Africa and Brazil"

Friday March 22nd, 2002
Sendhil Mullainathan, MIT
"Are Emily and Brendan More Employable that Lakish and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination"

 

April 2002

Tuesday April 2nd, 2002
Taiji Furusawa, Boston University
"Free Trade Networks"
Sarrat, room 116

Thursday April 11th, 2002
Caroline Betts, University of Southern California
"Tradability of Goods and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations"
Sarrat, room 116

Wednesday April 17th, 2002
Robert E. Lucas, Jr, University of Chicago
"Life Earnings and Economic Development"
Bennett Miller Room, Vanderbilt Law School

Friday April 19th, 2002
Jeremy Greenwood, University of Rochester
"The U.S. Demographic Transition"