Economics
Economics Research Workshops Schedule -Spring 2007
| Workshops are scheduled from 12:00-1:15 p.m. in RAWLS 2079 unless otherwise indicated |
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| Feb. 21 (Wed.) |
Title: "Product Creation and Destruction: Evidence and Price Implications" |
| Christian Broda, Univ. of Chicago | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawls 2079) | |
| Feb. 26 (Mon.) |
Title: "Capital Structure and Contract Enforcement" |
| Jing Zhang, Univ. of Michigan | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawls 2079) | |
| March 21 (Wed.) |
Title: "Inferring Conduct under the Threat of Entry: The Case of the Brazilian Cement Industry” |
| Alberto Salvo, Northwestern University | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawls 2079) | |
| March 22 | Title: "Why are Married Men Working So Much? The Macroeconomics of Bargaining Between Spouses" |
| John Knowles, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Workshop: Joint Micro/Theory | |
| March 27 (Tues.) |
Title: “Sovereign Default and Debt Renegotiation” |
| Vivian Zhanwei Yue, New York Univ. | |
| Workshop: Micro Rawls 2058 | |
| April 2 (Mon.) |
Title: "When is Market Incompleteness Irrelevant for the Price of Aggregate Risk?" |
| Hanno Lustig, UCLA | |
| Workshop: Theory (Rawls 2058) | |
| April 3 (Tues.) |
Title: "To Combine Forecasts or to Combine Information" |
| Tae-Hwy Lee, Univ. of California-Riverside | |
| Workshop: Joint Micro/Theory (Rawls 2079) | |
| April 9 (Mon) |
Title: "Bayesian Analysis of the Ordered Probit Model with Endogenous Selection" |
| Mural Munkin, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville | |
| Workshop: Joint Micro/Theory (Rawl 2058) | |
| April 12 (Thurs) |
Title: The Approximate Bias and Mean Squared Error of the Estimated Sharpe Ratio in the Presence on Nonnormality" |
| Yong Bao, UTSA | |
| Workshop: Micro/Theory (Rawl 2079) | |
| April 17 (Tues) |
Title: "Essays on Firm Responses to Price Volatility and International Specialization" |
| Georg Schaur, KRAN Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawl 2079) | |
| April 18 (Wed) |
Title: "Experimental Investigation of Contest Theory" |
| Roman Sheremeta, KRAN Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawl 2058) | |
| April 18 (Wed) |
Title: "Social Rank Seeking through Conspicuous Consumption: An Experimental Study" |
| Sukanya Chaudhuri, KRAN Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawl 2058) | |
| April 19 (Thurs) |
Title: "Export Prices and Human Capital Investment" |
| Sirsha Chatterjee, KRAN Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawl 2079) | |
| April 20 (Fri) |
Title: "Peer Appraisals" |
| Manish Gupte, KRAN Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Theory (Rawl 2079) | |
| April 23 (Mon.) |
"Demand Uncertainty and Trade Durations" |
| Dan Nguyen, Krannert Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Micro, Rawl 2058 | |
| April 23 (Mon.) |
Title: TBA |
| Frank Tang, Krannert Ph.D. Student | |
| Workshop: Theory (KRAN 550) 3:00-4:15 p.m. | |
| April 24 (Tues.) |
Title: "Useful Government Spending and Macroeconomic (In)stability under Balanced-Budget Rules" |
| Jang-Ting Guo, UC Riverside | |
| Workshop: Theory (Rawls 2079) | |
| April 24 (Tues) |
Title: "Stochastic Innovation with Tullock CSF under Duopoly" |
| Subhasish Chowdhury, Krannert Ph.D. Student | |
| Workshop: Micro KCTR 108 3:00-4:15 p.m. | |
| April 25 (Wed.) |
Title: "Taxation, Aggregates and the Household" |
| Gustavo Ventura, Univ. of Iowa | |
| Workshop: Theory, (Rawls 2079) | |
| April 26 | Title: "Dynamic Spatial Competition Between Multi-Store Firms" |
| Victor Aguirregabiria, Univ. of Toronto | |
| Workshop: Micro, (Rawls 2079) | |
| April 26 (Thurs) |
Title: "Essays On Product Variety Gains From International Trade" |
| Adina Arbelean, KRAN Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: (Rawls 12-2:00pm, Rawl 3070) | |
| April 26 (Thurs) |
Title: Determinants of market performance in a local rental housing market" |
| Do-Yeun Park, Krannert Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Micro KCTR 108, 3:00-4:15 |