AY 2012-2013 Seminars, Workshops and
Lectures
Empirical-Microeconomics Workshop
International Economics Workshop
All Spring 2013 seminars will be held in Calhoun Hall, room 204.
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, all seminars will take place from 3:10-4:30 pm. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, all seminars will be from 4:00-5:20pm.
SPRING 2013
February
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Micro)
Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University
"On Conformity, Correlated Equilibrium and the Role of Strategic Similarity"Monday, February 25, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Micro)
Titus Galama, RAND Corporation
"Joint Investment in Human Capital, Health and Longevity:
A Theory of Education and Health"
March
Friday, March 1, 2013
International Economics Workshop
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University
"Export Destinations and Input Prices: Evidence from Portugal"Monday, March 11, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Macro)
Kaiji Chen, Emory University
"Lending Efficiency Shocks"Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Economic History Workshop
John Murray, Rhodes College
"So Far From All Accident Possibility Removed: Evolution of Asymmetric Information in 20c Maternity Insurance"Thursday, March 14, 2013
Empirical-Micro Workshop
James Roberts, Duke University
"An Empirical Model of Dynamic Limit Pricing: The Airline Industry"Monday, March 18, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Macro)
Kunio Tsuyuhara, University of Calgary
"Dynamic Contracts with Worker Mobility via Directed On-the-Job Search"Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Economic History Workshop
Daniel Fetter, Wellesley College
"The Home Front: Rent Control and the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership"Thursday, March 21, 2013
Econometrics Workshop
Andres Santos, University of California, San Diego
"Asymptotically Efficient Estimation of Models Dened by Convex Moment Inequalities"Monday, March 25, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Macro)
Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania
"Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations"Friday, March 29, 2013
Econometrics Workshop
Xuming He, University of Michigan
"Bayesian Empirical Likelihood for Quantile Regression"
April
Monday, April 1, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Micro)
Erdal Tekin, Georgia State University
"Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure"Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Economic History Workshop
David Jacks, Simon Fraser University
"Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade"Thursday, April 4, 2013
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
"Ascending Auctions with Costly Monitoring"Friday, April 5, 2013 in 209 Calhoun Hall
10:30-12:00pm
International Economics Workshop
Alberto Cavallo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Product Introductions, Currency Unions, and the Real Exchange Rate"Friday, April 5, 2013 in 126 Wilson Hall
4:00-5:30pm with reception to follow
McGee Public Policy Lecture Series
William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics; Cowles Foundation, Yale University
"The Economic Perspective on Climate Change"Monday, April 8, 2013
Departmental Seminar
Gregory Huffman, Vanderbilt University
"The Impact of Government Debt and Taxation on Endogenous Growth in the Presence of a Debt Trigger"Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Economic History Workshop
Gary Richardson, UC Irvine and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
"Modes of Contagion in the Banking Panic of 1930"Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Macro)
Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
"Unemployment and Business Cycles"Thursday, April 11, 2013
Econometrics Workshop
Matias Cattaneo, University of Michigan
"Robust Nonparametric Bias-Corrected Inference in the Regression Discontinuity Design"Monday, April 15, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Macro)
Toshihiko Mukoyama, University of Virginia
"Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle"Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Economic History Workshop
Aldo Musacchio, Harvard Business School
"Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889-1930 "Thursday, April 18, 2013
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Holger Sieg, University of Pennsylvania
"Modeling and Estimating the Price-Quality Frontier in Markets for Durable Housing"Monday, April 22, 2013
Departmental Seminar (Micro)
John O. Ledyard, California Institute of Technology
"Price Formation In Continuous Double Auctions; With Implications For Finance"Tuesday April 23, 2013 in Buttrick Hall, room 101
4:00-5:30pm
Steine Lecture Series
John O. Ledyard, California Institute of Technology
"Smart Markets for a Smart Electrical Grid"Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in Calhoun Hall, room 423
Departmental Seminar (Macro)
Manachaya Uruyos, Chulalongkorn University
"Entrance Examination, Private Tutoring, and Economic Growth"Monday, April 29, 2013 in Calhoun Hall, room 320
Departmental Seminar (Micro)
Federico Gutierrez, Vanderbilt University
"Long-Term Consequences of Early Life Health Shocks: Evidence from the 1980s Peruvian Crisis"