Seminar Schedule - Spring 2008
| Date / Time / Room | Speaker | Paper |
| September 12 | David Figlio Northwestern |
TBA |
| November 7: | Suman Ghosh
Florida Atlantic |
TBA |
| November 21: | Hanming Fang
Duke |
TBA |
Past Programs
Spring 2008
| Date / Time / Room | Speaker | Paper |
|
March 26 3:00pm GC 275A
|
Pallab Mozumder (FIU, Environment) |
Natural Disaster and Sickness Shocks: Evidence of Informal Insurance from Bangladesh |
Fall 2007
| Date / Time / Room | Speaker | Paper |
|
Oct 12 3:00pm PC 432 |
Sokbae Simon Lee University College, London |
Is Distance Dying at Last? Falling Home Bias in Fixed Effects Models of Patent Citations |
Spring 2007
The seminar series for Spring 2007 was partially funded by a generous grant from Banco Sabadell.
| Date / Time / Room | Speaker | Paper |
|
Feb. 16 |
Nicola
Persico Penn |
Racial
Profiling
|
|
Feb.
23 |
Dirk
Bergemann Yale |
Efficient
Dynamic Auctions
|
|
March
2 |
Francisco
Alvarez Cuadrado |
From Agriculture to Manufactures: Agricultural Push vs. Industrial Pull |
|
March 9 |
Yangru Wu |
Explosive Behavior and
the Nasdaq Bubble in the 1990s |
|
March 30 |
J. Huston
McCulloch Ohio State |
The Kalman
Foundations of Adaptive Least
Squares |
|
April 6 |
Chad Bown |
China's Export Growth and
the China Safeguard: Threats to the World Trading System? |
|
April 13 |
Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu |
Institutions and Economic Growth: How the Middle East Differs from the Rest of the World
|
|
April 20 |
Bart Lipman Boston
University |
A Steady State Model of
Media and Polarization
|
Fall 2006
The seminar series for Fall 2006 was partially funded by a generous grant from Banco Sabadell.
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|
Sept. 22 |
Eric Chiang Florida Atlantic
|
Universal Service Fund Contributions: Do Surpluses and Deficits Affect Entry, Investment, and Competition? |
|
Sept. 29 |
Prasad Bidarkota Florida International
|
Asset Pricing with Incomplete Information and Fat Tails |
|
Oct 13 |
Jeff Czajkowski Florida International
|
Identifying the True Willingness-To-Pay of Bayesian Respondents in a Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation Methodology |
|
Oct. 20 |
Maggie Chen George Washington
|
Does Regional Economic Integration Increase Foreign Direct Investment? An Empirical Investigation |
|
Oct. 27 |
Florida International
|
Health Insurance Coverage: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 |
|
Nov. 3 |
Andrew Feltenstein IMF
|
Can Good Events Lead to Bad Outcomes? Endogenous Banking Crises and Fiscal Policy Responses |
|
Nov. 17 |
Manuel Santos University of Miami
|
On the Differentiability of the Value Function without Interiority Assumptions |
|
Dec. 1 |
Florida Atlantic |
Financial Market Integration, Risk Sharing, and Institutions: Theory and Evidence |
Spring 2006
The seminar series for Spring 2006 was partially funded by a generous grant from Banco Sabadell.
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|
Jan 13 |
Peter Thompson Florida International |
Desperate Housewives? |
|
Feb 3 |
Steven Shavell Harvard |
Contracts, Holdup, and Legal Intervention |
|
Feb 10 |
John McLaren Virginia |
Trade, Outsourcing, and
the Invisible |
|
Feb 17 |
Joe Kaboski Ohio State |
The Rise of the Service Economy |
|
Feb 24 |
Prasad Bidarkota Florida International |
Intrinsic Bubbles and Fat Tails in Stock Prices |
|
Mar 3 |
Mihaela Pintea Florida International |
Leisure externalities and implication for welfare |
|
Mar 17 |
Laura Giuliano University of Miami |
Race, Gender and Hiring Patterns |
|
Apr 7 |
Tracy Regan University of Miami |
Generic Entry, Price
Competition, and |
|
Apr 28 |
Kyle Bagwell Columbia |
Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships. |
Fall 2005
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|
Sep 23 |
Eric Van Tassel Florida Atlantic |
Relationship lending under asymmetric information: a case of blocked entry |
|
Nov 18 |
Suman Ghosh Florida Atlantic |
A Case for Bundling Public Goods Contributions? |
Spring 2005
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|
Feb 11 |
Jeffrey Bernstein Carleton University |
R&D Depreciation, Stocks, User Cost, and Productivity Growth for US Knowledge Intensive Industries |
|
Feb 18 |
Eric Bond Vanderbilt University |
Arbitrage and the Harmonization of Patent Lives |
|
March 18 |
Aimee Chin University of Houston |
What Holds Back the Second Generation? The Intergenerational Transmission of Language Human Capital Among Immigrants (with Hoyt Bleakley) |
|
April 8 |
Mahadev Bhat Florida International |
Strategic Behavior in Groundwater Extractions |
|
April 15 |
Richard Chisik Florida International |
Stability, Economic Integration, Preferential Trade Agreements and the GATT 1979 Enabling Clause Paragraph 2(c) |
|
April 29 |
David Letson University of Miami |
The Uncertain Value of Perfect ENSO Phase Forecasts |
Fall 2004
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|
Oct 15 |
Prasad Bidarkota Florida International |
The Impact of Modeling NonLinearities: The Asset Pricing Example |
|
Oct 22 |
Peter Thompson Florida International |
Submarkets and the Evolution of Market Structure |
|
Nov 5 |
Luca Bossi University of Miami |
Dynamic Consequences of Modeling Habit Persistence |
|
Nov 12 |
Oscar Mitnik University of Miami |
How do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Optimal Assignment Rules of Government Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California |
|
Nov 19 |
David Brasington Ohio State University |
School Vouchers and the Flight to Private Schools |
|
Nov 24 |
Elias Dinopoulos University of Florida |
A Theory of North-South Trade and Globalization |