Economics Seminars
Seminars are generally held 3:30-5:00 PM in room 401KK, McClelland Hall, unless noted otherwise. Copies of papers are available in the Economics Department, room 401, or click on a paper's title below to download a PDF version, when available.
Spring 2012 Schedule
Date |
Title |
Speaker |
Friday |
Individual Heterogeneity and Average Welfare | Jerry Hausman Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Tuesday Jan. 17 |
Returns to Scale in the Generation Map of Repeated Games | Asaf Plan University of Michigan |
| Wednesday Jan. 18 |
Are food choices really habitual? Intergrating habits, variety seeking and compensatory choice in a utility maximizing framework | Vic Adamovicz University of Alberta |
| Thursday Jan. 19 |
Firm Market Power and the Earnings Distribution | Douglas Webber |
| Friday Jan. 20 (McClelland 125) |
The Formation and Persistence of Preferences for Automobiles | Ashley Langer University of Michigan |
| Monday Jan. 23 |
The health effects of leaving school in a bad economy | Catherine Maclean Cornell University |
| Tuesday Jan. 24 (McClelland 125) |
Alternative Climate Policies and Intertemporal Emissions Leakage |
Carolyn Fischer Resources for the Future |
| Wednesday Jan 25 (McClelland 131) |
Preemption Games Under Levy Uncertainty | Svetlana Boyarchenko University of Texas, Austin |
| Friday Jan. 27 (McClelland 125) |
Booms, Busts, and Fertility: Testing the Becker Model Using Gender-Specific Labor Demand | Jessamyn Schaller University of California, Davis |
| Monday Jan. 30 |
A necessary and sufficient condition for a PBE Folk Theorem | Pablo Schenone Northwestern University |
Friday |
The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce | Reed Walker Columbia University |
| Wednesday Feb. 8 |
An Experimental Test of Precautionary Bidding | Martin Kocher University of Munich |
| Monday Feb. 13 |
Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? The Role of Women's Age at Marriage | Dana Rotz Harvard University |
| Wednesday Feb. 15 |
Selfconfirming Equilibrium and Model Uncertainty | Pierpaolo Battigalli Bocconi University |
| Thursday Feb. 16 (McClelland 125) |
Rank Efficiency: Investigating a Widespread Ordinal Welfare Criterion | Clayton Featherstone Harvard University |
| Friday Feb. 17 (McClelland 125) |
Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training | Mitchell Hoffman University of California, Berkeley |
| Wednesday Feb 29 |
What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods | Loukas Balafoutas University of Innsbruck |
| Friday March 9 |
To be announced | Ali Hortacsu University of Chicago |
| Monday March 19 |
To be announced | David Prentice Latrobe University |
| Tuesday March 20 |
To be announced | Thomas Holmes University of Minnesota |
| Wednesday March 21 |
To be announced | Peter Norman University of North Carolina |
| March 26-30 | 3rd Year Paper Conference | |
| Tuesday April 3 |
To be announced | Xavier Vives University of Navarra |
| Wednesday April 4 |
To be announced | Ruth Uwaifo Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Tuesday April 10 |
To be announced | Victor Aguirregabiria University of Toronto |
| Wednesday April 11 |
To be announced | Ragan Petrie |
| Friday April 13 |
To be announced | Marco Castillo George Mason |
| Tuesday April 17 |
To be announced | Kenneth Judd Stanford University |
| April 18, 19, 20, 23 & 24 | 2nd Year Paper Conference | |
| Tuesday May 1 |
To be announced | Avi Goldfarb |
| Wednesday May 2 |
Price and Quality with a Conscientious Worker | Ben Zamzow University of Arizona |
| Tuesday May 8 |
To be announced | Derek Lemoine University of Arizona |
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