Department of Economics
AY 2009-2010 Seminars, Workshops and
Lectures
Departmental Seminar Series
Econometrics Workshop
Empirical-Microeconomics Workshop
International Economics Workshop
Public Economics Workshop
McGee Lecture Series
Steine Lecture Series
On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, all seminars will take place in room 204, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, all seminars will be from 4:00-5:20pm in Calhoun Hall, room 204.
FALL 2009
Departmental Seminar
Monday, August 31, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Ron Harstad, University of Missouri
“Two Examples of Why I've Worked with Mike Rothkopf”
paper 1: "Winner's Curse Corrections Magnify Adverse Selection"
paper 2: "Auctioning Rights to Choose When Competition Persists"
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, September 10, 2009, 4:00-5:20pm
Matthew Shum, California Institute of Technology
"The Value of information in the Court. Get it Right, Keep it Tight"
Department Seminar
Monday, September 14th, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Gregor Smith, Queen's University
"Macroeconomic Lessons from Professional Forecast Surveys" paper
Departmental Seminar
Monday, September 21, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University
"Railroads and Economic Growth in the American Midwest"
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Andrew Daughety and Jennifer Reinganum, Vanderbilt University
"A Dynamic Model of Lawsuit Joinder and Settlement"
International Seminar
Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Ricardo Lopez, Indiana University
"Is Previous Export Experience Important of New Exports?"
Departmental/International Seminar
Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Devashish Mitra, Syracuse University
"Spillovers Across Labor Markets in Search Models: Effects of ‘Animal Sprits’ and Offshoring"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, October 5, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University, Bloomington
"Clearly Biased Experts"
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Yariv Fadlon, Vanderbilt University
"Employer-Employee Match and Statistical Discrimination"
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, October 8th, 2009, 4:00-5:20pm
Frank Wolak, Stanford University
"How Do Firms Exercise Unilateral Market Power? Evidence from a Bid-Based Wholesale Electricity Market"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, October 12, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Eric Chaney, Harvard University
"Sultans, the Shari'a and Seven Empty Ears: Economic Catastrophes, Church and State"
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Greg Givens, Middle Tennessee State University
"Estimating Central Bank Preferences under Commitment and Discretion"
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, October 15, 2009, 4:00-5:20pm
Liz Cascio, Dartmouth University
"Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools"
International Seminar
Friday, October 16th, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Arnaud Costinot, MIT
"New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?"
International Seminar
Monday, October 19, 2009
Ben Zissimos, Vanderbilt University
"Patent Breadth in an International Setting"
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
"Methods versus Substance:
Measuring the Effects of Technology Shocks on Hours"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, October 26, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Chris Bennett, Vanderbilt University
"On a bidirectional test for stochastic dominance"
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Alper Nakkas, Vanderbilt University
"Bargaining in a Network with Heterogeneous Buyers"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, November 2, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Julie Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta
"Employer Monopsony Power in the Labor Market for Undocumented Workers"
Econometrics Workshop
November 5, 2009, 4:10-6pm
Yoosoon Chang and Joon Park, Indiana University
“A Reexamination of Fama-French Regressions Using High Frequency Panels”
and
“Inference on Conditional Mean Models in Continuous Time”
International Seminar
Friday, November 6, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Josh Ederington, University of Kentucky
“Domestic Policies, Hidden Protection and the GATT/WTO”
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Zhengfeng Guo, Vanderbilt University
"An asymmetric smooth transition GARCH model"
Departmental Seminar
Monday, November 16, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Suman Seth, Vanderbilt University
TBA
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank, New York
"The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions"
Departmental Seminar
Friday, November 20, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Scott Davis, Vanderbilt University
"The Adverse Feedback Loop and the Real Effects of Financial Sector Uncertainty"
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 3:10-4:30pm
Krishna Paudel, LSU
"Provision of public good: water quality improvement in Louisiana i. biophysical simulation model"
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, December 3, 2009, 4:00-5:20pm
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University
TBA
Departmental Seminar
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tamara Trafton, Vanderbilt University
TBA
Econometrics Workshop
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 4:10-5:30pm
Kevin Song, University of Pennsylvania
"Point Decisions for Interval-Identifed Parameters"
SPRING 2010
Departmental Seminar
Friday, January 15, 2010
Parkash Chander, National University of Singapore
Econometrics Workshop
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Silvia Goncalves, University of Montreal
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Phil Haile, Yale University
Departmental Seminar
Monday, February 15, 2010
Jan Brueckner, University of California
Econometrics Workshop
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Jeff Racine, McMaster University
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Pravin Trivedi, Indiana University
Departmental Seminar
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Christian List, London School of Economics
Departmental Seminar
Monday, March 15, 2010
Hideo Konishi, Boston College
Econometrics Workshop
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Hashem Pesaran, Cambridge University
Empirical-Micro Workshop
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Jan De Loecker, Princeton University
Steine Lecture
Thursday, April 8, 2010, 4:00-5:20pm
Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University
Departmental Seminar
Friday, April 9, 2010, 3:10-4:30pm, Calhoun Hall, room 423
Dale Mortensen, Northwestern University
Econometrics Workshop
Thursday, April 15, 2009
Azeem Shaikh, University of Chicago
Departmental Seminar
Monday, April 26, 2010
Bhaskar Dutta, Warwick University