Seminars in International Economics
Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule
Friday, September 19, 2008
Kasey Buckles, Notre Dame University
“Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers”
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Raj Chetty, UC-Berkeley
“Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods”
Friday, October 10, 2008
Vladmir Mares, Washington University in St. Louis
“First and Second Price Mechanisms in Procurement and Other Asymmetric Auctions”
Friday, October 17, 2008
Dan Quint, UW-Madison
“Economics of Patent Pools”
Friday, October 24, 2008
Kwang Soo Cheong, Johns Hopkins University
“Stackelberg Competition in Dynamic Duopoly”
Friday, November 3, 2008
David Jacho-Chavez, Indiana University
“Uniformly Consistent Density Estimation in Nonparametric Regression Models”
Friday, November 7, 2008
Myungho Paik, University of Texas at Austin
“Gender differences in employment patterns by firm size and wage inequality”
Friday, November 14, 2008
Murat Mercan, UW-Milwaukee
“Transitory Earnings Shocks and the Estimation of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility”
Friday, November 21, 2008
Miao Chi, UW-Milwaukee
“Intermarriage and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States”
Friday, December 5, 2008
Martin Wurm, UW-Milwaukee
“The Underground Economy and Access to Credit Markets: An Empirical Analysis”
Friday, December 5, 2008
Antonio Galvao Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Quantile Regression for Dynamic Panel Data with Fixed Effects”