Seminars in International Economics
Spring 2002 Seminar Schedule</h3
January 22, 2002
Scott J. Adams, University of Michigan
“Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Change”
January 23, 2002
Jin Seo Cho, University of California-San Diego
“Testing the Number of Regimes in the Regime Switching Model”
January 24, 2002
Kalena E. Cortes, University of California-Berkeley
“Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States”
January 25, 2002
Parantap Basu, Fordham University
“Liquidity Constraints and Firms’ Investment Return Behavior”
January 25, 2002
Xuemei Lui, UC-Berkeley
“Optimal Trade and Environmental Governance Areas”
January 28, 2002
Santanu Roy, Florida International University
“On Markets with Entry and Adverse Selection”
January 29, 2002
Isaac McFarlin, Northwestern University
“Do Schoolteachers Make Better Parents?”
January 30, 2002
Iruna Solyankia, University of Rochestter
“Semiparametric Efficient Estimation of a Dynamic Hedging Model”
January 31, 2002
Niloy Bose, University of Manchester
“Information, Imitation and Growth”
February 1, 2002
Matthew D. McGinty, University of California at Santa Cruz
“Incentive Compatibility in International Emissions Agreements Between Asymmetric Countries”
February 11, 2002
Nicole Maetas, University of California, Berkeley
“Labor, Love & Leisure: Complementarily and the Timing of Retirement by Working Couples”
February 13, 2002
Aydogan Ulker, University of Texas at Austin
“Household Structure, Welfare, and Social Insurance of the Elderly”
March 8, 2002
Rebecca Neumann and Jill Holman, UW-Milwaukee
“Globalization and Tax Policy”
March 15, 2002
Antu Murshid, UW-Milwaukee
“Growing Up With Capital Flows”
April 11, 2002
Greg M. Allenby, Marketing, Ohio State University
“A Choice Model for Packaged Goods: Dealing with Quantities and Quantity Discounts”
April 12, 2002
John Douglas Skatun, University of Aberdeen
“Plagues and Epidemics: Communicable Illness and Its Effect on Economic Behavior”
April 19, 2002
Mark Skidmore, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
“Do Motor Fuel Sales-Below-Cost Laws Lower Prices?”
May 3, 2002
Arnold Zellner, Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Chicago
“Bayesian Point and Turning Point Forecasting Techniques with Applications”