Economics
Economics Research Workshops Schedule -Fall 2007
| Workshops are scheduled from 12:00-1:15 p.m. in RAWLS 2079 unless otherwise indicated |
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| Sept. 7 (Fri..) |
Title: "Tuition and Wealth at American Colleges" |
| Pablo Pena, Univ. of Chicago | |
| Workshop: Macro | |
| Sept. 14 (Fri.) |
Title: "A Quantitative Assessment of the Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate” |
| Selahattin Imrohoroglu, Univ. of S. California | |
| Workshop: Macro | |
| Sept. 20 (Thurs.) |
Title: “Perks: Contractual Arrangement to Restrain Moral Hazard” |
| Joon Song, University of Essex in UK | |
| Workshop: Micro | |
| Oct. 1 (Mon.) |
Title: "Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention" |
| Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern Univ. | |
| Workshop: Macro | |
| Oct. 4 (Thurs.) |
Title: “The Rise of the Service Economy” |
| Francisco Buera, Northwestern University | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawls 2079) | |
| Oct. 11 (Thurs.) |
Title: “Product Quality at the Plant Level: Evidence from Colombia” |
| Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University | |
| Workshop: Micro | |
| Oct. 15 (Mon) |
Title: “A Laboratory Study of Communication in Asymmetric Group Competition over Public Goods” |
| Jingjing Zhang, Krannert Ph.D. Student | |
| Workshop, Micro | |
| Oct. 16 (Tues) |
Title: “Export Prices, Child Labor and Schooling” |
| Sirsha Chatterjee, Krannert Ph.D. Student | |
| Workshop: | |
| Oct. 22 (Mon) |
Title: “Learning Demands and Trade Failures” |
| Daniel Nguyen, Krannert Ph.D. Student | |
| Workshop: Macro | |
| Oct. 30 (Thurs) |
Title: “A Multiplier Approach to Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance” |
| Yili Chien, Purdue Universtiy | |
| Workshop: Macro | |
| Nov. 1 (Thurs.) |
Title: “Business Cycles in the Equilibrium Model of Labor Market Search and Self-Insurance” |
| Makoto Nakajima, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana | |
| Workshop: Macro | |
| Nov. 5 (Mon.) |
Title: “Bayesian Forecast Combination for VAR Models” |
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Sune Karlsson, Örebro University |
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| Workshop: Macro | |
| Nov. 7 (Wed.) |
“Gender, Competition, and Managerial Decisions” |
| Curtis Price, Krannert Ph.D. Student | |
| Workshop: Micro | |
| Nov. 8 (Thurs.) |
Title: “Detecting Misspecifications in Autoregressive Conditional Duration Models” |
| Yoon-Jin Lee, Indiana University | |
| Workshop: Micro, Statistics (Rawls 2079) | |
| Nov. 13 (Tues.) |
Title: “Contest Design:An Experimental Investigation” |
| Roman Sheremeta, Krannert Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop, Micro | |
| Nov. 15 (Thurs.) |
Title: “Liquidity and Trading Dynamics” |
| Veronica Guerrieri, Univ. of Chicago | |
| Workshop: Macro | |
| Nov. 16 (Fri.) |
Title: “International Graduate Students and Knowledge Creation at American Universities: Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations” |
| Keith Maskus, Univ. of Colorado | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawls 2079) | |
| Nov. 29 (Thurs.) |
Title: “Technological Mismatch: A Model of Trade and Technology Diffusion” |
| Thomas Chaney, Univ. of Chicago | |
| Workshop: Micro (Rawls 2079) | |
| Nov. 30 (Thurs.) |
Title: “Generalized Linear Tullock Contest” |
| Subhasish Chowdhury, Krannert Ph.D. student | |
| Workshop: Micro |