2008 Seminars
6 February |
Tomas Sjostrom, Rutgers University |
Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace? |
6 March |
Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER |
Evidence from maternity leave expansions of the impact of maternal care on early child development. |
13 March |
James Markusen, University of Colorado |
Large Firms, Foreign Firms and Domestic Wages |
20 March |
Heski Bar-Isaac, New York University (Stern) |
Information Gathering and Marketing |
25 March |
Richard Dutu, University of Waikato |
Liquidity Constrained Competing Auctions |
3 April |
Francesca Cornaglia, Queen Mary, University of London |
Public Policy and Passive Smoking |
10 April |
Bob Schoeni, University of Michigan |
The influence of early-life events on human capital, health status, and labor market outcomes over the life course. |
15 April |
Maros Servatka, University of Canterbury New Zealand |
Trust Signaling |
17 April |
John Romalis, University of Chicago |
Inequality and Prices: Does China Benefit the Poor in America? |
1 May |
Leah Brooks, McGill University |
Individual Choices for the Public Good: Voting for and Benefiting from Business Improvement Districts |
8 May |
Hadi Yektas, University of Melbourne |
Optimal Multi-Object Auctions with Risk Averse Buyers |
22 May |
Shiko Maruyama, University of NSW |
Measuring the Welfare Effect of Entry in Differentiated Product Markets: The Case of Medicare HMOs |
29 May |
Elizabeth Savage, UTS Sydney |
Advantageous Selection in Private Health Insurance: The Case of Australia |
12 June |
Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon |
Diseases and Development: A Theory of Infection Dynamics & Economic Behavior |
19 June |
llke Onur, TOBB Economics & Technology University, Turkey |
Preemption and Delay in EBay Auctions |
24 June |
Sergei Guriev, NES Russia |
Duration and Term Structure of Trade Agreements |
10 July |
Alexander Matros, University of Pittsburg |
Chinese Auctions |
14 July |
Enrique Fatas, University of Valencia |
Cooperation and Status in Organizations |
17 July |
Alan Spearot, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Acquisitions, productivity and liberalization |
22 July |
Simon Gaechter, University of Nottingham |
'Kinked Conformism? in Voluntary Cooperation |
28 July |
Albert Ma, Boston University |
Public Sector Rationing and Private Sector Selection |
7 August |
Agustin Perez-Barahona, University of Paris 1 |
Non-renewable energy resources as input for physical capital accumulation: A new approach |
14 August |
Mikal Skuterud, University of Waterloo |
Immigrant Wage Assimilation: The Role of Model Specification, Measurement Error, and Unobserved Heterogeneity in Estimation |
21 August |
Charles Noussair, Tilburg University |
Three pricing asymmetries in experimental asset markets |
11 September |
Ben Greiner, University of New South Wales |
Engineering Trust: Reciprocity and Strategic Behavior in the Production of Reputation Information |
18 September |
Michael Keane, University of Technology Sydney |
Child Care Choices and Children's Cognitive Achievement: The Case of Single Mothers |
25 September |
Jaime Alonso, Universidade de Vigo |
Can consumption spillovers be a source of equilibrium indeterminancy? |
16 October |
Anna Gunnthorsdottir, University of New South Wales |
Near-Efficient Equilibria in Collaborative Meritocracies |
23 October |
Ralph Bayer, University of Adelaide |
Tax Compliance and Firms' Strategic Interdependence |
28 October |
Gigi Foster, University of South Australia |
The educational consequences of selection: New quasi-experimental evidence for heterogeneous undergraduate students NB: this seminar is scheduled for a Tuesday, not the usual Thursday. |
6 November |
Simon Loertscher, University of Melbourne |
Fee setting intermediaries: on real estate agents, stock brokers and auction houses |
11 November |
Philip Inyeob Ji, Monash University |
An Empirical Analysis of the Mean-Reversion Property of Real Interest Rates |
18 November |
Gaetano Antinolfi, Washington University |
TBA |