Winter 2009
Our seminars are joint with CIREQ
Activities this week: Announcements by CIREQ
| MARCH | ||
|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 2 1:00pm, Leacock 429 | Angela Redish (UBC) A Model of Indivisible Commodity Money with Applications to Early-Modern England [.pdf] | organizers: F. Alvarez-Cuadrado & M. MacKinnon |
| Friday, March 6 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Steve Lehrer (Queens) Using Genetic Lotteries within Families to Examine the Causal Impact of Poor Health on Academic Achievement [.pdf] | organizer: E. Strumpf |
| Friday, March 13 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Miles Corak (U Ottawa) The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers | organizer: D. Parent |
| Friday, March 20 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Chris Udry (Yale) Towards Land Reform in Ghana | organizers: F. Grimard & S. Laszlo |
| Thursday, March 26 11:30am, Leacock 429 | Siwan Anderson (UBC) Missing Women: Age and Disease [.pdf] | organizers: F. Grimard & S. Laszlo |
| APRIL | ||
| Thursday, April 2 4:00pm, Leacock 738 | Hans-Werner Sinn (University of Munich and IFO) On the Financial Crisis [.pdf] | organizer: N.V. Long |
| Friday, April 3 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Geoff Heal (Columbia) Climate Change Economics: A Meta-Review and Some Suggestions [.pdf] | organizer: T. Kunimoto |
| Friday, April 17 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Katherine Baicker (Harvard) What Does Health Insurance Do? The Oregon Experiment | organizer: E. Strumpf |
| Friday, April 17 3:30pm, Leacock 232 | Donald Andrews (Yale) Inference for Parameters Defined by Conditional Moment Inequalities Montreal Econometrics Seminar | organizer: V. Zinde-Walsh |
| Friday, April 24 12:00pm, Leacock 429 | Nancy Qian (Brown, Harvard) The Power of Propaganda: The Effect of U.S. Government Bias on Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights [.pdf] | organizer: S. Laszlo |
| Friday, April 24 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | John Conley (Vanderbilt) Public Goods, Bounded Attention Spans and Equilibrium in the Internet Economy [.pdf] | organizer: L. Xue |
| MAY | ||
| Friday, May 8 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Mariacristina De Nardi (Federal Reserve Bank, Chicago) Old Age Savings | organizer: M. Poschke |
Fall 2008
Our seminars are joint with CIREQ
Activities this week: Announcements by CIREQ
| SEPTEMBER | ||
|---|---|---|
| Friday, Sept. 5 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Philip Merrigan (UQAM) Dynamic Labour Supply Effects of Childcare Subsidies: Evidence from a Canadian Natural Experiment on Low-fee Universal Child Care [.pdf] | organizer: D. Parent |
| Friday, Sept. 12 3:30pm, Arts 160 | Benedikt Pöetscher (Vienna) On the Distribution of Penalized Maximum Likelihood Estimators: The LASSO, SCAD, and Thresholding [.pdf] Montreal Econometrics Seminar | organizer: V. Zinde-Walsh |
| Friday, Sept. 19 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Gregor Smith (Queen's) U.S. interest rate history: Lessons from Great Moderations and Professional Forecasters [.pdf] | organizers: J. Galbraith & V. Zinde-Walsh |
| OCTOBER | ||
| Friday, Oct. 3 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Dirk Bergemann (Yale) Strategic Indistinguishability and Robust Virtual Implementation [.pdf] Montreal Economic Theory Seminar | organizer: T. Kunimoto |
| Thursday, Oct. 9 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Adeline Delavande (Universitade Nova de Lisboa(visiting MIT)) Subjective Expectations in the Context of HIV/AIDS in Malawi [.pdf] | organizer: M. Sinitsyn |
| Friday, Oct. 10 10:30am, Leacock, 721 | Mick Devereux (UBC) Consumption and Real Exchange Rates in Professional Forecasts [.pdf] | organizer: F. Alvarez-Cuadrado |
| Friday, Oct. 10 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Luis Vasconcelos (Universitade Nova de Lisboa(visiting MIT)) Multitasking and the Optimality of Team Accountability under Explicit Conditions [.pdf] | organizer: M. Sinitsyn |
| Wednesday, Oct. 15 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA) Scylla or Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance [.pdf] | organizer: D. Sutthiphisal |
| Friday, Oct. 24 3:30pm, Leacock, Rm 429 | Ray Rees (University of Munich (visiting Guelph)) Relational Contracts and the Household [.pdf] | organizer: N. Van Long |
| NOVEMBER | ||
| Tuesday, Nov. 4 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Paul Seabright (Toulouse) "Empire Building in Business and Politics" | organizer: W. Watson |
| Friday, Nov. 7 3:30pm, Arts 260 | Ted Bergstrom (UC Santa Barbara) One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry [.pdf] Montreal Economic Theory Seminar | organizer: P. Dickinson |
| Friday, Nov. 14 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Douglas Gollin (Williams College, MA) Agricultural Productivity and Cross-Country Income Differences [.pdf] | organizer: M. Poschke |
| Friday, Nov. 21 12 noon, Leacock 429 | Simon Gilchrist (Boston U) Credit Market Shocks and Economic Fluctuations: Evidence from Corporate Bond and Stock Markets:: [.pdf] | organizer: F. Alvarez-Cuadrado |
| Monday, Nov. 24 12:00 noon, Leacock 429 | Sung Jae Jun (Pennsylvania State) Testing Under Weak Identification With Conditional Moment Restrictions [.pdf] | organizer: T. Kunimoto |
| Friday, Nov. 28 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Daniel Leonard (Flinders) Emulation in Teams and Families [.pdf] | organizer: N. Van Long |
| DECEMBER | ||
| Friday, Dec. 5 3:30pm, Leacock 429 | Bruce Shearer (Laval) On the Relevance and Composition of Optimal Gifts within the Firm: Evidence from Field Experiments [.pdf] | organizer: D. Parent |