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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 2008: 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 2008
January 16th, 2008
Yakar Kannai
Weizmann Institute
"Strategic behavior in financial markets"
4:00pm Calhoun Hall room 413B
FEBRUARY 2008
Tuesday, February 12th
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
Monday, February 18th
Giuseppe (Pino) Lopomo
Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
"Uncertainty in Mechanism Design"
Tuesday, February 26th
Fan-chin Kung
City University of Hong Kong
"Can Asymmetric Information Cause Agglomeration?"
Thursday, February 28th
James C. Cox
Georgia State University
"Is There a Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk?"
MARCH 2008
Monday, March 10th
Filipe R. Campante
Harvard University
"Redistribution in a Model of Voting and Campaign"
Friday, March 14th
Andre Souza
Vanderbilt University
"Does The Gradient Matter? Understanding the Nature of the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital"
Monday, March 17th
Hyeok Jeong
Vanderbilt University
"Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth"
Wednesday, March 19th
Bill Dupor
Ohio State
"Integrating Sticky Information and Sticky Prices"
Monday, March 24th
John Conley
Vanderbilt University
Wednesday, March 26th
Harrison Cheng
USC
"Asymmetric Common Value Auctions with Applications to Auctions with Resale"
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
Mark Hoekstra
University of Pittsburgh
"Lucky in Life, Unlucky in Love? The Effect of Random Income Shocks on Divorce"
Monday, April 14th
Paige Skiba
Vanderbilt University Law School
"Payday Loans, Uncertainty, and Discounting: Explaining Patterns of Borrowing, Repayment, and Default"
Wednesday, April 16th
Qiang Zhang
University of Leicester
TBA
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'"
Tuesday, April 29th
Sanjeev Goyal
Cambridge University
"The Law of the Few"
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