DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
Seminar Schedule Spring 2008
January 2008
Yakar Kannai
Weizmann Institute
"Strategic behavior in financial markets"
4:00pm Calhoun Hall room 413B
February 2008
MCGEE LECTURE
Angus Deaton
Princeton University
"Income, aging, health and wellbeing: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll"
4:00-5:30 P.M.
Bennett Miller Room #222, Vanderbilt Law School
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Bryan Shepherd
Vanderbilt Medical School
Statistical-"Sensitivity Analyses Comparing Time-to-Event Outcomes Only Existing in a Subset Selected Post-Randomization"
Friday February 15th, 2008
Shang-jin Wei
Columbia University
International-"Current Account Adjustment: Some New Theory and Evidence"
Monday, February 18th, 2008
Giuseppe (Pino) Lopomo
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
"Uncertainty in Mechanism Design"
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Frank Kleibergen
Brown University
Statistical- "Inference on subsets of parameters in GMM without assuming identification"
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Fan-chin Kung
City University of Hong Kong
"Can Asymmetric Information Cause Agglomeration?"
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
James C. Cox
Georgia State University
"Is There a Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk?"
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Ben Zissimos
Vanderbilt University
"Optimal Tariff and Retaliation: How Country Numbers Matter"
March 2008
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Filipe R. Campante
Harvard University
"Redistribution in a Model of Voting and Campaign"
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
John Wooders
University of Arizona
"An Experimental Study of Auctions with a Buy Price Under Private and Common Values"
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Andre Souza
Vanderbilt University
"Does The Gradient Matter? Understanding the Nature of the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital"
Monday, March 17th, 2008
Hyeok Jeong
Vanderbilt University
"Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth"
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Bill Dupor
Ohio State University
"Integrating Sticky Information and Sticky Prices"
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Kevin Song
University of Pennsylvania
Statistical- "Bootstrap Tests of Stochastic Dominance with Asymptotic Similarity on the Boundary"
Monday, March 24th, 2008
John Conley
Vanderbilt University
TBA
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Harrison Cheng
USC
"Asymmetric Common Value Auctions with Applications to Auctions with Resale"
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Joseph Altonji
Yale University
Empirical- "Modeling Earnings Dynamics"
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Michael Klimenko
Georgia Tech
"Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements"
April 2008
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Quan Wen
Vanderbilt University
"Subgame Perfect Implementation of the Nash Rationing Solution"
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Marta Faias
University of Lisbon
"A Strategic Model of Club Formation; Existence and Characterization of Equilibrium"
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Mark Hoekstra
University of Pittsburgh
"Lucky in Life, Unlucky in Love? The Effect of Random Income Shocks on Divorce"
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
John Kennan
Wisconsin University
Empirical- "The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions"
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Robert Staiger
Stanford University
"On the Role and Design of Dispute Settlement Procedures in International Trade Agreements"
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Paige Skiba
Vanderbilt University Law School
"Payday Loans, Uncertainty, and Discounting: Explaining Patterns of Borrowing, Repayment, and Default"
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Qiang Zhang
University of Leicester
TBA
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Panle Jia
MIT
Empirical- TBA
Friday, April 18th, 2008
Hubert Kempf
University of Paris
"National Electorates and International Agreements"
Monday, April 21st (3:40-5:10pm)
Jacob Sagi
Vanderbilt University Owen Business School
"Modeling implications of source-invariance to Machina's 'almost objective fair bets'"
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Peter Schmidt
Michigan State University
Statistical-"Likelihood Based Estimation in a Panel Setting: Robustness, Redundancy, and Validity of Copulas"
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Sanjeev Goyal
Cambridge University
"The Law of the Few"
May 2008
Tuesday, May 6th
Robert Flood
International Monetary Fund
"International Risk Sharing During the Globalization Era"