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 N110 from 2:00-3:30pm.
Fall 2015 Seminars Schedule
September 11, 2015
Nicolas Roy, UW-Madison and St. Louis Fed
“Training and Search on the Job”
September 18, 2015
Darren Lubotsky, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Mothers’ Employment, Children’s Age, and Child Care Costs”
September 25, 2015
Bill Even, Miami University, Ohio
“The Affordable Care Act and Part-Time Work”
October 2, 2015
Yingni Guo, Northwestern University
“Dynamic Mechanisms without Money”
October 16, 2015
Kajal Lahiri, SUNY-Albany
“Construction of Leading Economic Index for Recession Prediction using Vine Copulas”
October 23, 2015
Joachim Freyberger, UW-Madison
“On Completeness and Consistency in Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Models”
November 6, 2015
Luigi Bocola, Northwestern University
“Indeterminacy in Sovereign Debt Markets: An Empirical Investigation”.
November 13, 2015
Bryan Weber, UW-Milwaukee
“Assessing the Damages of Terrorist Attacks”
November 20, 2015
Avik Chakrabarti, UW-Milwaukee
“Cross-Border Mergers and International Trade: Industries for Homogenous and Differentiated Goods”
December 4, 2015
Laura Grant, UW-Milwaukee
“Prices versus Social Norms in Energy Conservation”
December 11, 2015
Richard Hahn, University of Chicago
“Bayesian Factor Model Shrinkage for Linear IV Regression with Many Instruments”