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Departmental Seminar Series
2006-2007
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)
JANUARY 2007
MCGEE LECTURE
Wednesday, January 31st 4:10-5:30 p.m.
Flynn Auditorium of the Vanderbilt Law School with a
reception to follow
Avinash Dixit
Princeton University
"Lawlessness
and Economics: Alternative Institutions of Economic Governance"
FEBRUARY 2007
GPED SEMINAR
Tuesday, February 6th 4:00 p.m.
204 Calhoun Hall
Reception following in 415A Calhoun
Tsutomu
Shibata
World Bank Institute
"Japan, Moving Toward a More Advanced Knowledge Economy"
Sponsored jointly by the Japan Foundation of New York
and the Center for Professional Exchange in special collaboration with
the World Bank Institute, the US-Japan Center at VIPPS and the Graduate
Program in Economic Development
Thursday, February 8th
Matt
Mitchell
University of Iowa
"The
Direction of Innovation over the Product Life Cycle"
Tuesday, February 20th
Carola Frydman
MIT Sloan
“A Long-Run View on Executive Compensation”
[paper 1]
[paper 2]
Wednesday, February 28th
Julia Thomas
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
"Inventories and the business
cycle: An equilibrium analysis of (S,s) policies"
MARCH 2007
Thursday, March 22nd
Warren
Weber
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Model
of Banknote Discounts
Tuesday, March 27th
Robert
Barsky
University of Michigan
"Catastrophic Collapse of Investment and the Great
Depression"
APRIL
2007
Monday,April 2nd
Francis Bloch
GREQAM
Messengers, Gatekeepers and Speakers:
The Power of Intermediaries in Contracting
Wednesday, April 11th
Olivier Gossner
CNRS
When
is the lowest individually rational payoff in a repeated game equal
to the min max payoff?
MAY 2007
Friday, May 4th
Edward
Cartwright
University of Kent
Two
Agents and the Theory of Search
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