Winter 2008
Our seminars are joint with CIREQ
Activities this week: Announcements by CIREQ
| JANUARY | ||
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Jan. 18 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Amartya Lahiri (UBC) Endogenous Productivity and Development Accounting [.pdf] | organizer: F. Alvarez-Cuadrado |
| FEBRUARY | ||
| Friday, Feb. 22 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Huw Lloyd-Ellis (Queen's) Schumpeterian Cycles with Procyclical R&D [.pdf] | organizer: M. Poschke |
| MARCH | ||
| Mon., March 3 4:00pm, Leacock 738 | Price Fishback (Arizona) Does Large-Scale Military Spending Stimulate Local Economies? The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958 [.pdf] | organizers: M. MacKinnon, D. Sutthiphisal |
| Friday, March 7 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Carol Shiue (Colorado) Human Capital and Fertility in Chinese Clans, 1300-1850 [.pdf] | organizers: M. MacKinnon, D. Sutthiphisal |
| Friday, March 14 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Brown) School Desegregation, School Choice and Urban Population Decentralization [.pdf] | organizer: L. Brooks |
| Friday, March 14 3:30pm, Arts 160 | Hashem Pesaran (Cambridge) Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models [.pdf] Montreal Econometrics seminar | organizer: V. Zinde-Walsh |
| Friday, March 28 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Enrichetta Ravina (NYU) Love & Loans: The Effect of Beauty and Personal Characteristics in Credit Markets [.pdf] | organizers: F. Alvarez-Cuadrado, M. Poschke |
| APRIL | ||
| Friday, April 4 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Kosali Simon (Cornell) Do You Get What You Pay For? The Relationship Between Premiums and Benefits in Medicare Prescription Drug Plans [.pdf] | organizer: E. Strumpf |
| Friday, April 11 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Paola Giuliano (Harvard) Growing Up In Bad Times: Macroeconomic Volatility and the Formation of Beliefs [.pdf] | organizer: W. Watson |
| Friday, April 25 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Mark Stabile (Toronto) "Does Family Income Affect the Wellbeing of Children? Evidence from Canadian Child Benefit Expansions" | organizer: E. Strumpf |
| MAY | ||
| Friday, May 9 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Olivier Tercieux (Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques) TBA | organizer: T. Kunimoto |
Fall 2007
| SEPTEMBER | ||
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Sept. 7 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Amitabh Chandra (Harvard) Some Economics of Treatment Disparities in Healthcare [.pdf] | organizer: J. Hunt |
| Friday, Sept. 14 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Noritsugu Nakanishi (Kobe) Stability of Price Leadership Cartel with Endogenous Pricing [.pdf] | organizer: T. Kunimoto |
| Friday, Sept. 21 2:00pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | David Albouy [.pdf] (Michigan) The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones: A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000 [.pdf] | organizer: J. Galbraith |
| Friday, Sept. 21 3:30pm, Arts, Rm. 160 | Aman Ullah (UC Riverside) A Bias-Adjusted LM Test of Error Cross Section Independence [.pdf] Montreal Econometrics Seminar | organizer: G. Grantham |
| Friday, Sept. 21 3:40pm, Leacock, Rm. 429 | Susan Wolcott (Binghamton) Microfinance in Colonial India [.pdf] | organizer: G. Grantham |
| Friday, Sept. 28 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | David Card (California/Berkeley) Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation [.pdf] | organizer D. Parent |
| OCTOBER | ||
| Wed., October 3 12:00noon, Leacock, Rm 429 | Shigeo Hirano (Columbia) "Do Individual Representatives Influence Government Transfers? Evidence from Japan" Economics/Social Statistics Workshop | organizer: L. Brooks |
| Friday, October 5 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Susan Dynarski (Harvard) The Lengthening of Childhood [.pdf] | organizer: J. Hunt |
| Friday, October 12 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Kimitoshi Sato (Rikkyo University) Cooling the Metropolis: An Economic Analysis to Alleviate Urban Heat Island [.pdf] | organizer: C. Green |
| Friday, October 19 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Ian Keay (Queen's) Explaining Regional Variation in Industrial Performance: Evidence from North American Manufacturing Establishments in 1870/71 [.pdf] | organizers: M. MacKinnon and D. Sutthiphisal |
| Friday, October 26 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Bart Lipman (Boston) "Implementation with Partial Provability" Montreal Economic Theory Seminar | organizer: T. Kunimoto |
| Friday, October 26 3:30pm, Arts 160 | Manuel Arellano (CEMFI, Spain) "Robust Priors in Nonlinear Panel Data Models" [.pdf] Montreal Econometrics Seminar | organizer: V. Zinde-Walsh |
| NOVEMBER | ||
| Friday, Nov. 2 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Damon Clark (Florida) Selective Schools and Academic Achievement [.pdf] | organizer: D. Parent |
| Friday, Nov. 9 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Aloysius Siow (Toronto) Marriage Matching and Intrahousehold Allocations [.pdf] | organizer: D. Parent |
| Friday, Nov. 16 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Simon Anderson (Virginia) Shouting to be Heard in Advertising [.pdf] | organizer: M. Sinitsyn |
| Monday, Nov. 19 12:00noon, Leacock, Rm 429 | Cees Withagen (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) Oligopoly on the Market for a Nonrenewable Resource: Open-Loop and Feedback Nash Equilibrium [.pdf] | organizer: H. Benchekroun |
| Thursday, Nov. 22 12:00noon, Leacock, Rm 429 | Daniel Leonard (Flinders University, Australia) Emulation in Teams and Families [.pdf] | organizer: N.V. Long |
| Friday, Nov. 30 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Gillian Hamilton (Toronto) Economic Status and Reproductive Success in New France [.pdf] | organizer: D. Sutthiphisal |