Seminars in the Center for Research on International Economics and the Department of Economics
Unless it is indicated, all seminars will be held in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business Administration, Room N126 from 2:00-3:30pm.
Spring 2016 Seminars Schedule
February 12, 2016
Molly Lipscomb, University of Virginia
“Measuring and Addressing Market Power Issues in the Desludging Market in Senegal””
February 26, 2016
Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University
“Measuring the Average Impacts of Credit: Evidence from Indian Microfinance Crisis”
March 4, 2016
John Kennan, UW-Madison
“Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates”
March 25, 2016
Ben Ost, University of Illinois-Chicago
“The Earnings Benefits of College for Low-Performing Students”.
April 1, 2016
Stephen Cole, Marquette University
“Learning and the Effectiveness of Central Bank Forward Guidance”
April 8, 2016
Wei Zhang, Northern Illinois University
“An Application of Behavioral Contract Theory in Insurance”
April 22, 2016
Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Goldilocks and the raster grid: Selecting scale when evaluating conservation programs”
April 29, 2016
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago
“Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment ”
May 5, 2016
Mohammad Akbarpour, Stanford University and University of Chicago
“Timing versus Matching: Thickness and Information in Dynamic Matching Markets”