Department of Economics
AY 2008-2009 Seminars, Workshops and
Lectures
Departmental Seminar Series
Econometrics Workshop
Empirical-Microeconomics Workshop
International Economics Workshop
Public Economics Workshop
McGee Lecture Series
Steine Lecture Series
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All seminars will take place in room 204, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
FALL 2008
Departmental Seminar
Willemien Kets,
Santa Fe Institute
"Inequality and Network Structure"
Econometrics Workshop
Joris Pinkse,
Testing under Weak Identification with Conditional Moment Restrictions
Departmental Seminar
Michele Boldrin,
"Quality Ladders, Competition and Endogenous Growth"
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Bruce Weinberg,
"Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations"
Departmental Seminar
Robert Pollak,
"Bargaining in Marriage, Sorting in the Marriage Market and the Incentives to Accumulate Human Capital"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, September 15, 2008
Andrew Foster,
"Do voluntary pollution reduction programs help reduce pollution levels?"
Public Economics Workshop
Kate Cuff,
"Equilibrium Excess Demand in the Rental Housing
Market"
Public Economics Workshop
"Strategic Nonlinear Income Tax Competition with
Perfect Labor Mobility"
International Economics Workshop
Monika Mrazova,
"Trade negotiations when market access matters"
Departmental Seminar
Steven Callander, Northwestern
University
"Searching for Good Policies: Repeated Elections, Learning, and Policy Dynamics"
Econometrics Workshop
Herman Bierens, Departmental Seminar
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern
University "Do Peso Problem Explain the Returns to the Carry Trade?" Public Economics Workshop Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Laurent Simula, National University of Singapore and Vanderbilt University (visiting) "Optimal Non-Linear Income Tax when Highly Skilled Individuals Vote with their Feet" Empirical-Micro Workshop Hanming Fang, "Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence"
Departmental Seminar
Audra Bowlus, "Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth"
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Nathan Baum-Snow, International Economics Workshop
Public Economics Workshop Monday, October 27, 2008 Nizar Allouch, Queen Mary, University of London "Competitive
Equilibrium in a Warm Glow Economy" Departmental Seminar Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Linda Carter, Vanderbilt University "A Hard Day's Night: Evening Schools and Child Labor in the United States 1870-1910" Departmental Seminar
Shannon Sheitz, "The Collective Marriage Matching Model: Identification, Estimation and Testing" Econometrics Workshop Roger Moon, "A Bayesian Look at Partially-Identified Models" Departmental Seminar Friday, October 31st, 2008 Scott Davis, Vanderbilt University Departmental/International Seminar
Dennis Novy, "International Trade Integration: A Disaggregated Approach"
Departmental Seminar Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Hakan Yilmazkuday, Vanderbilt University "A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates" GPED/International Economics Workshop
James Bacchus, Visiting Professor of Law at Vanderbilt,
Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig Econometrics Workshop Marc Henry, "Set Identification in Models with Multiple Equilibria" International Economics Workshop "Understanding the World Housing Boom" Departmental Seminar Patrick Bajari, "Procurement Contracting with Time Incentives: Theory and Evidence" Departmental Seminar Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Jisong Wu, Vanderbilt University Public Economics Workshop Econometrics Workshop Departmental Seminar Thursday, November 20, 2008 Bingyu Zhang, Vanderbilt University "Affiliation and Entry in First-Price Auctions with Heterogeneous Bidders" McGee Public Policy Lecture 4 p.m. Wilson Hall, room 126, with a reception in the lobby immediately following
Robin Boadway, Queen's University Public Economics Workshop
Robin Boadway, Queen's University
Departmental Seminar Empirical-Micro Workshop
Victor Aguirregabiria, "A Dynamic Oligopoly Game of the US Airline Industry: Estimation and Policy Experiments"
Public Economics Workshop Monday, December 8, 2008 Departmental/International Seminar
Costantinos Syropolous,
SPRING 2009 Departmental Seminar Monday, January 19, 2009 M. Keith Chen, Yale University Friday, January 23, 2009 Hirohito Kasahara, University of Western Ontario Monday, January 26, 2009 Mariagiovanna Baccara, New York University Friday, January 30, 2009 Gene Grossman, Princeton University Monday, February 2, 2009 Peter Norman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Friday, February 6, 2009 Kala Krishna, Penn State University Monday, February 9, 2009 Alberto Bisin, New York University Econometrics Workshop Friday, February 13, 2009 Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia University Departmental Seminar Monday, February 16, 2009 Isabella Brocas, University of Southern California Tursday, February 19, 2009 Robert Hall, Stanford University Friday, February 20, 2009 Robert Hall, Stanford University Econometrics Workshop Monday, March 9, 2009 Michael Baye, Indiana University Econometrics Workshop Econometrics Workshop Empirical-Microeconomics Workshop Thursday, March 26, 2009 Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, London School of Economics Monday, April 6, 2009 Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University Econometrics Workshop Monday, April 13, 2009 Ariel Rubinstein, New York University and Tel Aviv University Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, April 16, 2009 Departmental Seminar Monday, April 20, 2009 Leslie Marx, Duke University
"Semi-nonparametric estimation of independently and indentiacally repeated frist-price auctions via an integrated simulated moments method"
"School Desegregation, School Choice and Changes in Residential Location Patterns by Race"
Friday October 24, 2008
Anthony Landry, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
"Capital-goods imports, investment specific technological change and growth"
"Trade In Interesting Times: United States Trade Policy with a New President and a New Congress"
Friday November 7, 2008, 2:10-3:30pm in Calhoun 337
James Kahn, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Rosa Ferrer, Vanderbilt University
"On the Justice of Decision Rules"
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Chris Bennett, Vanderbilt University
"Consistent and Asymptotically Unbiased Tests of Multiple Nonlinear Inequality Restrictions"
"The Case for
Inheritance Taxation"
"The Efficiency of Voluntary Pollution Abatement when Countries can Commit"
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Rosa Ferrer, Vanderbilt University
"The Effect of Lawyers’ Career Concerns on Litigation"
Ali-Sina Onder, Vanderbilt University
"Competing for Inflation Tax Revenue"
International Seminar
Departmental Seminar
International Seminar
Departmental Seminar
International Seminar
Departmental Seminar
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Mehmet Caner, North Carolina State University
International Seminar
McGee Public Policy Lecture (time & location TBA)
Departmental Seminar
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Yoon-Jae Whang, Seoul National University
Departmental Seminar
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Arie Beresteanu, Duke University
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Atsushi Inoue, North Carolina State University
Departmental Seminar
Friday, April 10th
Hal White, University of California at San Diego
Departmental Seminar (tentative)
Chris Flinn, New York University