Economics Seminars 2007

2007

November 2, 3-4:30pm, Room 749
John S. Earle (The W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) presented "The Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization"

October 12, 3-4:30pm, Room 749
George M. Korniotis (The Federal Reserve Board) presented "The Human Capital that Matters: Expected Returns and the Income of Affluent Households"

October 5, 3-4:30pm, Room 749
Susan L. Averett (Lafayette College) on "Food for Thought: The Cognitive Effects of Childhood Malnutrition in the United States"

October 3, 3-4:40pm, Room 749
Prasanta Pattanaik of UC-Riverside on Revealed Preference with Stochastic Demand Correspondence

September 28, 9:30am, Student Center Speakers Auditorium
Paul Krugman presented on "Healthcare in America"

September 14, 3 pm, Room 749
Monica Capra (Department of Economics, Emory University) presented "Neurobiological Probability Weighting over Losses" from her paper "A shocking experiment: New evidence on probability weighting and common ratio violations" Experimental Economics Seminar Series

September 7, 3 pm, Room 749
Kurt E. Schnier (University of Rhode Island) presented "Common Property, Information and Cooperation: Commercial Fishing in the Bering Sea" Experimental Economics Seminar Series

August 24, 3-4:30pm, Room 750
Yuriy Kitsul (Georgia State University) on “Identifying Fundamental and Liquidity-Trade Factors from Return Cross-Auto Covariances” (paper on intranet)

April 20, 3pm, Room 749
R. Mark Isaac (John & Hallie Quinn Eminent Scholar at Florida State University) presented "Experiments with Price Preference Auctions" Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory Seminar

April 13, 3-4:30pm, 7th Floor Seminar Room
Thorsten Beck (World Bank) presented "Is Bank Deregulation Better for the Rich or the Poor? Evidence from the U.S. States" (paper)

March 21, Noon-2pm, Room 749
John Baden, founder and chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), from Bozeman, Mont.

March 12, 3 pm, Room 749
Sergei Guriev (New Economic School in Moscow) presented on "Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives, and the Resource Curse" (paper)

February 22, 3-4:30pm, 7th Floor Seminar Room
A. Ronald Gallant (Duke University) presented "A Statistical Inquiry into the Plausibility of Recursive Utility" (paper)

February 16, 3 pm, Room 749
Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh) presented "What Are the Costs of Diversity? An Experimental Investigation of Affirmative Action" Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory Seminar

January 25, Noon-1pm, Room 507
Angelino C.G. Viceisza presented "An Experimental Inquiry Into The Effect of Yardstick Competition on Corruption"

January 18, 3 pm, Room 749
Andreas Ortmann presented "The Empirical Foundations of Behavioral Economics and Finance" Experimental Economics Seminar Series

January 18, Noon-1pm, Room 507
Mike Tasto presented "Recruitment Spending by States in the U.S." as part of the Economics Brown Bag Seminar Series.