Departmental Seminar Series
2007-2008

This seminar series is made possible through the generosity of two prominent Vanderbilt alumni, Ambassador K. Terry Dornbush (BA '55) and Joe L. Roby (BA '61)

Department Seminar Series Coordinator for Spring 2007: Kevin Huang

Empirical Economics Seminar Series (coordinator: Tong Li)
International Economics Seminar Series (coordinator: Rick Bond)
Statistics Study Group Seminar Series (coordinator: Yanqin Fan)

All seminars will take place in room 204, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)

SEPTEMBER 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
John Weymark (Vanderbilt)
Microeconomics: "Optimal nonlinear taxation of income and savings in a two class economy"

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Satoru Takahashi (Princeton)
Departmental: "Community enforcement when players observe partners’ past play"

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Ben Eden (Vanderbilt)
Macroeconomics: "Liquidity, Equity Premium and Participation"

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Aleh Tsyvinski (Harvard University)
Departmental: A Theory of Liquidity and Regulation of Financial Intermediation

*POSTPONED*
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Bob Driskill (Vanderbilt)
Macroeconomics: TBA

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
James Foster (Vanderbilt)
Microeconomics: "Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement"

OCTOBER 2007

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Hulya Eraslan (Wharton, U Penn)
Strategic Voting over Strategic Proposals

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt)
Macroeconomics: "What are the Driving Forces of International Business Cycles?"

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
David Frisvold (Michigan)
Departmental: "Childhood Obesity and Exposure to Head Start Services"

Friday, October 12th, 2007
Luis Cabral (Stern, NYU)
Departmental: "Dynamic Price Competition with Network Effects"

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Huseyin Yildirim (Duke Econ)
Departmental: "Subjective Performance and the Value of Blind Evaluation"

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Ben Eden (Vanderbilt)
"The Welfare Cost of Inflation, Income Redistribution and the Lucas-Stokey Loan Scheme"

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Andrew F. Daughety and Jennifer F. Reinganum
Microeconomic: "Communicating Quality: A Unified Model of Disclosure and Signaling"

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Robert Hammond
Vanderbilt University (Ph.D. Candidate)
"A Structural Model of Competing Sellers: Auctions and Posted Prices"

NOVEMBER 2007

Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt)
Applied Microeconomics: "Has The Economics Publishing Process Slowed Down?"

Monday, November 5th, 2007
Ray Rees (University of Munich)
Departmental: "Optimal Piecewise Linear Taxation with Two-Earner Households"

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn and Duke)
Departmental/Macro Theory: "How Structural Are Structual Parameters?"

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Sangsoo Park
Vanderbilt (Ph.D. candidate)
"Confidence Sets for Some Partially Identified Parameters"

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Craig Brett (Mt. Allison)
Departmental: "The Grants are Falling! The Grants are Falling! Municipal Government Response to Changes in Provincial Support in New Brunswick 1983-2003"

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)
Departmental: "Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!"

Thursday, November 15th, 2007
STEINE LECTURE
Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University)
"International Specialization: New Perspectives"
4:00 – 5:30 P.M.
Buttrick Hall room 101
Reception to follow

Monday, November 26th, 2007
Mostafa Beshkar
Vanderbilt (Ph.D. candidate)
"Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards: A Model of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process"

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Li Gan (Texas A&M)
Departmental: "Estimating Interdependence between Health & Education in a Dynamic Model"

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Aleksandr Vashchilko
Vanderbilt (Ph.D. candidate)
“Short-Run Effects of Trade Liberalization in The Presence of Firm Heterogeneity”

DECEMBER 2007

Monday, December 3rd, 2007
MCGEE LECTURE
Oliver Hart (Harvard University)
Department/Law: "Holdup, Assest Ownership, and Reference Points"
3:30 – 4:50 P.M.
Vanderbilt University Law School
Bennett-Miller Room
Reception to follow

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Luis Corchón (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
TBA

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Chih-wei Wang
Vanderbilt (Ph.D. candidate)
“Commodity Price Dynamics: A Three-Country Stochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis”

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Lihong Han
Vanderbilt (Ph.D. candidate)
"Technological Distance, Q, and Propensity to Merge"

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