2011 Spring Seminar Series

January 18, 2011

Mitigation and the Geoengineering Threat

Juan Moreno-Cruz, University of Calgary
11:00am-12:15pm
Old CE 204
January 19, 2011

A Poverty Segregation Curve

Shatakshee Dhongde, Rochester Institute of Technology
3:00-4:15
Old CE 204
January 21, 2011

Duration Models with Dynamic Unobserved Heterogeneity: Identification and Estimation

Irene Botosaru, Yale University
3:00-4:15
Old CE 204
January 25, 2011

Intergenerational Externalities and Sustainable Growth

Itziar Lazkano, University of Calgary
3:00-4:15
Old CE 204
January 27, 2011

Tests for Distributional Partial Effects

Shu Shen, UT Austin
11:00-12:15
Old CE 204
February 3, 2011

Climate Change and Civil War

Toni Sipic, University of Oregon
11:00am-12:15pm
Old CE 204
February 4, 2011

Moment Condition Tests for Heavy-Tailed Time Series

Jonathan Hill, University of North Carolina
TBA
Old CE 204
February 18, 2011

Central Banking during Current Credit Turmoil

Marvin Goodfriend, Professor of Economics and Chairman, Gailliot Center for Public Policy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Former Senior Vice President and Chief Monetary Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
2:30-3:45
Old CE 204
February 21, 2011

Abate or Abscond: Polluters' Response to Environmental Regulation

Scott Holladay, New York University
3:00-4:15 PM
Old CE, Room 204
February 22, 2011

The Price Elasticity of Supply of Renewable Electricity Generation: Evidence from State Renewable Portfolio

Erik Johnson, University of Michigan
3:00-4:15 PM
Old CE, Room 204
February 28, 2011

Natural Barrier to Entry in the Credit Rating Industry

Doh-Shin Jeon, Toulouse School of Economics
2:30-3:45
Old CE 204
March 4, 2011

Self-control and Liquidity: How to Design a Commitment Contract

David Laibson, Harvard College Professor and Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics, Harvard University
2:30-4:00
GT Library, Ferst Room 7th Floor
March 14, 2011

Better Living Through Economics

John Siegfried, Vanderbilt University
4:00-5:00
GT Library, Ferst Room
April 6, 2011

Can Healthcare Information Technology Save Babies?

Amalia Miller, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, and Economist, RAND Corporation
2:30-4:00pm
GT Library, Neely Room 1st Floor
April 18, 2011

Equilibrium Wage-Tenure Contract with Unobserved Human Capital

Andrew Sim, University of Tokyo
2:30-3:45
Old CE 204
April 22, 2011

Export Growth and Credit Constraints

Byung-Cheol Kim, Georgia Institute of Technology
2:30-3:45
Old CE 204
April 27, 2011

Vertizontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition

Hylke Vandenbussche, Université Catholique de Louvain
2:30-3:45
Old CE 204
April 29, 2011

Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

James Tybout, Pennsylvania State University
2:30-3:45
Old CE 204
221 Bobby Dodd Way, Atlanta, GA 30332