Seminars in Economics
Unless it is indicated, all seminars will be held in the Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business Administration, Room N110 from 2:00-3:30pm.
Fall 2010 Seminars Schedule
September 24, 2010
Hamid Mohtadi, UW-Milwaukee
“Systematic Risk and Long Tails: The Case of Banks’ Loan Portfolio”
October 1, 2010
Ananth Seshadri, UW-Madison
“Health and Wealth over the Life-Cycle”
October 8, 2010
Tom Chaney, University of Chicago
“The Network Structure of International Trade”
October 15, 2010
Todd Sarver, Northwestern University
“A Subjective Model of Temporal Preferences”
October 22, 2010
Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University
“Discriminating between Distributions: Moving Away from Comparing Just the Mean and other Moments”
November 5, 2010
Mohammad Mirhosseini, Northern Illinois University
“Optimal Wages for Politicians”
November 12, 2010
Niloy Bose, Antu Murshid, and Chitralekha Rath, UW-Milwaukee
“Finance and Property Rights: Exploring other Directions”
November 19, 2010
Jay Wilson, Michigan State University
“Tax Competition with and without Tax Discrimination Against Domestic Firms”
December 3, 2010
Steffan Habermaltz, Northwestern University
“Teaching Causal Inference in Undergraduate Econometric”
December 7, 2010
Laura Ellyn Grant, UC-Santa Barbara
“The Response to Third-Party Ratings: Evidence of the Effects on Charitable Contributions”
December 9, 2010
Ping Yu, University of Auckland
“The Bootstrap in Threshold Regression”
December 10, 2010
Chuan Goh, University of Toronto
“Specification Analysis of Structural Quantile Regression Models”
December 13, 2010
Damian Bickett, UC-Berkeley
“Water Marketing in California:Murky Water Rights, Legal Changes and Groundwater”