Economics Seminars
SEMINAR SCHEDULE
FALL 2009 SEMINAR SERIES
| Date | Speaker |
Institution | Title |
| Sept. 10 |
Adrian Peralta-Alva | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | "A Search Theoretic Model of Formal and Informal Markets" |
| Oct. 9 |
Carlos Seiglie | Rutgers University | TBA |
| Oct. 16 |
Justin McCrary | UC-Berkeley | "Crime and Prisons" |
| Oct. 23 |
Arnaud Dellis |
Universite' Laval | TBA |
| Oct. 30 |
Art Goldsmith | Washington and Lee University | "Race, Culture, and Disconnected Youths: Does Bill Cosby Have it Right?" |
| Nov. 6 |
David Cutler | Harvard | TBA |
| Nov. 13 |
Maher Said |
Microsoft Research/Washington University |
TBA |
| Nov. 20 |
Fernando Zapatero |
USC | TBA |
| Dec. 4 | Christopher Smith | Board of Govenors of the Federal Reserve |
TBA |
SPRING 2009 SEMINAR SERIES
| Date | Speaker |
Institution | Title |
| Jan. 20 |
Recruiting Seminar. |
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| Jan. 21 | Recruiting Seminar. | ||
| Jan. 23 | Recruiting Seminar. | ||
| Jan. 26 | Recruiting Seminar. | ||
| Jan. 30 | Recruiting Seminar. | ||
| Feb. 6 |
Recruiting Seminar. | ||
| Feb. 23 |
Salvador Ortigueira | EUI |
Labor-Market Volatility in the Search-and-Matching Model: The Role of Investment-Specific Technology Shocks |
| Feb. 27 |
John Lott |
U of MD |
TBA |
| April 18 |
Betsey Stevenson |
Wharton | Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements |
FALL 2008 SEMINAR SERIES
| Date | Speaker |
Institution | Title |
| Sep. 12 |
Eunji Lim |
University of Miami (Dept. of Industrial Engineering) |
Simulation-based Response Surface Computation under Shape Restrictions (Room: Executive Education Center, room 332) |
| Sep. 19 |
Alex Horenstein | Arizona State University | Approximate Factor Models: New Estimation Methods and Applications |
| Oct. 10 |
Joseph Price |
Brigham Young University | Changing the Price of Marriage: Evidence from Blood Test Requirements |
| Oct. 17 |
Todd Sorensen |
UC Riverside | Occupational Response of NativeBorn Workers: Impact of Immigration on the Wage Structure of Local Labor Markets |
| Oct. 24 |
Price Fishback |
University of Arizona | Local Impact of WW II Munitions Spending |
| Oct. 31 | Rajeev Dehejia |
Tufts University | TBA |
| Nov. 7 |
Peter Pedroni |
Williams College | Robust Unit-Root and Cointegration Rank Tests for Time Series Panels |
| Nov.14 | Brennan Platt |
Brigham Young University | TBA |
| Nov. 21 |
Alberto Abadie |
Harvard University |
TBA |
SPRING 2008 SEMINAR SERIES
| Date | Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| Jan. 11 | Salvador Ortigueira |
EUI |
"Markov-Perfect Optimal Fiscal Policy: The Case of Unbalanced Budgets." |
| Jan. 18 | Recruiting Seminar (Room SB308, 3-4:30 pm) | ||
| Jan. 23 | Recruiting Seminar (Ziff conference room, 10:30-12) | ||
| Jan. 31 | Recruiting Seminar (GB432, 2-3:30 pm) | ||
| Feb. 1 | Recruiting Seminar (Room SB308, 2-3:30 pm) | ||
| Feb. 4 | Recruiting Seminar (Dean's conference room, 11-12:30 pm) | ||
| Feb. 13 | Recruiting Seminar (Dean's conference room, 11-12:30 pm) | ||
| Feb. 28 | Recruiting Seminar | ||
| Feb. 29 | Nuray Akin | Univ. of Miami |
"Search, Moral Hazard, and Price Dispersion." |
| Mar. 21 | Luis Corchon | Univ. Carlos III | "Computing Welfare Losses from Data under Imperfect Competition with Heterogeneous Goods." |
| Mar. 28 | Yungmin Lee | FIU |
"Strategic Behavior and Racial Bias in Issuing Traffic Tickets: Theory and Evidence." |
| Apr. 11 | Bruce Meyer | Univ. of Chicago |
TBA |
| Apr. 18 | Christopher Waller | Notre Dame |
TBA |
| Apr. 25 | Jianjun Miao | Boston Univ. |
TBA |
FALL 2007 SEMINAR SERIES
| Date | Speaker |
Institution |
Title |
| Sept. 14 | Peter Thompson | FIU | "Desperate Housewives? Communication Difficulties and the Dynamics of Marital (un)Happiness." |
| Sept. 14 | Naomi Feldman | Ben Gurion University | "Effects of Predictable Tax Liability Variation on Household Labor Income" (dean's conference room 3-4:30 pm). |
| Sept. 28 | Hulya Eraslan | Wharton | "The Anatomy of U.S. Personal Bankruptcy under Chapter 13." |
| Oct. 12 | Elaina Rose | Univ. of Washington | "Your Momma Was Home and You Left? Parental Influence on Military Service" |
| Oct. 26 | Boyan Jovanovic | NYU | "Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources" |
| Nov. 2 | Hector Chade | Arizona State Univ. | "Optimal Insurance with Adverse Selection" |
| Nov.9 | Sebastian Galiani | Washington Univ. | "Modeling Informality Formally: Households and Firms." |
| Nov. 16 | Marco Battaglini | Princeton | "Fiscal Policy over the Real Business Cycle: A Positive Theory." |
| Nov. 30 | Kenneth Chay | Brown | "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Racial Convergence in Infant Mortality in Mississippi." |
| Dec. 7 | Manuel Santos | Univ. of Miami |
"A Quantitative Exploration in Economic Growth with Physical and Human Capital" |
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SPRING 2005 SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker
Institution
Title
Mar. 25 Joe Hotz UCLA "A Direct Examination of the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare" (Room SB308 3-4:30 pm)
Apr. 1 Rodi Manuelli Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison "Human Capital and the Wealth of Nations" (Room SB308 3-4:30 pm) Apr. 8 Richard Chisick FIU TBA (Room SB308 3-4:30 pm) Apr. 15 Frank Heiland Florida State Univ.
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FALL 2006 SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker
Institution
Title
Sept. 15 David L. Kelly Univ. of Miami "Subsidies to Industry and the Environment” Sept. 22 Suxi Li Univ. of Miami "The effect of demand uncertainty on airline price dispersion” Sept. 29
David Figlio Univ. of Florida "Cramming: The Effects of School Accountability on College-Bound Students” Oct. 6 Claustre Bajona-Xandri Univ. of Miami "The role of entrepreneurship in productivity growth: centralized versus planned economies” Oct. 13 arlos Urrutia ITAM "On the Job Training, Limited Commitment, and Firing Costs” Oct. 27 Duan Peng Univ. of Miami "Who Should Care for Our Kids? The Effects of Infant Child Care Arrangements on Child Development” Nov. 3 Richard Romano Univ. of Florida "On The Political Economy of Zoning” Nov. 10 John Lott AEI "Abortion and Crime: Unwanted Children and Out of Wedlock Births. ” Nov. 17 Richard M. H. Suen UC Riverside "Technological Advance and the Growth in Health Care Spending” Dec. 1 Ellen McGrattan Minneapolis FED "Technology Capital and the US Current Account” Dec. 8 Charles Kolstad UC Santa Barbara "Voluntary Public Goods Provision, Coalition Formation, and Uncertainty” SPRING 2006 SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker
Institution
Title
Jan. 23 Michele Boldrin Univ. of Minnesota "A Theory of Growth and Cycles" Mar. 3 Gary M. Fournier Florida State Univ. "The Diffusion of a Medical Innovation: Is Success in the Stars?" Mar.10 Ron Jones Rochester Univ. "The Technology Transfer Paradox" Mar. 16 John Lott American Enterprise Institute "The fight over lower court appointments" (Room SB502 11-12 noon)
Mar. 24 Alfonso Flores-Lagunes Univ. of Arizona "Learning but not earning? The value of job corps training for hispanic youths." Mar. 31 David Easley Cornell Univ. "Subjective Expected Utility with Subjective States" April 14 Antonio Merlo Univ. of Pennsylvania
"Political Careers or Career Politicians?" April 21 James Bullard St. Louis FED "Worldwide Macroeconomic Stability and Monetary Policy Rules" April 28 Giorgio Topa NY FED "Place of Work and Place of Residence: Informal Hiring Networks and Labor Market Outcomes" FALL 2005 SEMINAR SERIES
Date Speaker
Institution
Title
Sept. 9 David L. Kelly Univ. of Miami "Trade and the Environment with Pre-Existing Subsidies” Sept. 23 Suman Gosh Florida Atlantic Univ. "Standard Promotion Practices versus Up-or-out Contracts” Sept. 30 Jesse Bull Florida International Univ. "Costly Evidence and Systems of Fact-Finding" Oct. 7 David Autor MIT "Do Temporary Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from Random Assignments" Oct. 21 Alexandre Moltchanov Univ. of Miami "Return and liquidity in the aftermarket." Nov. 18 Josh Ederington University of Kentucky "Shaking All Over? International Trade and Industrial Dynamics" Nov. 21 Ed Prescott Arizona State Univ. and Minneapolis FED. "Expensed and Sweat Equity and the Macroeconomy” (Storer Auditorium, 11-12:30pm) Dec. 2 Augustine Nelson Univ. of Miami "Monetary Policy Shocks and Financial Intermediation in a Financial Business Cycle Model"
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Date Speaker
Institution
Title
Jan. 12
Felipe Meza
UC3
"Financial Crises and Total Factor Productivity"
Jan. 19 Manuel Santos Univ. of Miami
"Technological Waves in the Stock Market." Jan. 29 Alejandro Manelli Arizona State Univ. "Comparative Statics, English Auctions, and the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem” Feb. 2 Mario Pascoa Univ. Nova de Lisboa "Long-Lived Collateralized Assets and Bubbles” Feb. 16 Carlos Seiglie Rutgers University "Globalization and International Conflict: Can FDI Increase Peace?” Mar. 2 Kenneth Troske Univ. of Kentucky "Comparative advantage or discrimination? Studying male-female wage differentials using displaced workers” Mar. 9 Zhigang Feng Univ. of Miami TBA
Mar. 23 David Card UC Berkeley "Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation in Neighborhoods and School.” Mar. 30 Jason Bullman, Isaac Petit Frere Univ. of Miami TBA
Apr. 6 Vadym Volosovych Florida Atlantic Univ. "Financial Markets Integration, Risk Sharing, and Investor Protection: Theory and Evidence ” Apr. 13 Adrian Peralta-Alva Univ. of Miami "Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Search Theoretic Model of Monetary Exchange”
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SPRING 2007 SEMINAR SERIES
