Economics Department Seminars
Fall 2009
Friday, October 2
11:40 AM -1:00 PM
Location: RA 565
Understanding Interstate Trade Patterns
Hakan Yilmazkuday, Temple University
Friday, October 23
Seminar postponed (see below)
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: RA 565
A Signaling Game of Charitable Giving
Emina I. Cardamone, Temple University
Friday, October 30
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: RA 565
Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education, 1950-2000
Todd Schoellman, Clemson University
Friday, November 6
(originally scheduled for Oct. 23)
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: RA 565
A Signaling Game of Charitable Giving
Emina I. Cardamone, Temple University
Thursday, November 12
4:00-5:20
Location: RH 111
Income Differences and Prices of Tradables
Ina Simonovska, U.C. Davis
Friday, December 4
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: RA 565
Qualitative Matrices and Information
Andrew J. Buck and George M. Lady, Temple University
Spring 2009
Monday, January 19
11:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Ritter Annex 565
Sofia Bauducco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Friday, January 23
11:40 - 12:40 PM
Speakman Hall 394
Offshoring, Trade in Tasks and Occupational Specificity of Human Capital
Moritz Ritter, University of Toronto
Monday, January 26
11:40 - 12:40 PM
Speakman Hall 394
A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates
Mario J. Crucini and Hakan Yilmazkuday, Vanderbilt University
Wednesday, January 28
11:40 - 12:40 PM
Speakman Hall 394
Financial Market Segmentation, Stock Market Volatility
and the Role of Monetary Policy
Anastasia Zervou, Washington University in Saint Louis
Thursday, January 29
1:10 – 2:30 PM
Speakman Hall 318
Asset Prices, Business Cycles, and News about the Long-Run in a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model
Stefan Avdjiev, Southern Methodist University
Fall 2008
Monday, September 29
2:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Ritter Hall 207
Economic Institutions and Stability: A Relational Approach
Rob Gilles, Virginia Tech and Queen's University, Belfast, Emiliya Lazarova, Queen's University, Belfast, and Pieter H.M. Ruys, Tilburg University
Friday, October 10
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Barton Hall 208
Competition and Conflict between Groups within Organizations: Evidence Using Random Assignment to Army Platoons
David Huffman, Swarthmore College
Friday, October 17
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Barton Hall 208
Using Matching Methods to
Evaluate the Workforce Investment Act
Peter Mueser (Univ of Missouri), C. Heinrich and K. Troske
Wednesday, November 12
1:40 PM - 3 PM
Ritter Annex 565
Social Security Withdrawals
Joe Friedman and Herb Phillips
Friday, November 21
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Barton Hall 208
Asymmetries, Breaks, and Long Range Dependence: An Estimation Framework for Time Series of Realized Volatility
Eric Hillebrand (Louisiana State University) and Marcelo Medeiros (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
Wednesday, December 10
2:40 - 4 PM
Ritter Annex 565
Are Bushmeat Hunters Profit Maximizers or Simply Brigands of Opportunity?
Wayne Morra, Andrew Buck, Thomas Butynski and Gail Hearn
Lectures
Robert Reischauer
Economics PhD, Columbia University; President of the Urban Institute
Taking Back Our Economic Future: What the Candidates Aren't Telling Us
Thursday, October 23, 2:40-4:00, Gladfelter 13
Spring 2008
Thursday, February 28
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
Ritter Annex 560
Reservation Values in Laboratory Auctions : Context and Bidding Behavior
Theodore Turocy and Elizabeth Watson
Texas A&M University
Monday, 2/25/2008
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
Ritter Annex 565
Yasemin Ulu
St Cloud State Univ (Ph.D., Western Michigan)
Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate:
A Simultaneous Equations Approach Using Realized Volatility
Monday, 02/04/2008
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Speakman 394
Jing Liu
Cornell University
Generalized Residual-Based Specification Testing for Duration Models with Censoring
Friday, 2/1/2008
11:45 - 12:45
Speakman 394
Jing Zhou
Boston University
Testing jointly for structural changes in the error variance and coefficients of a linear regression model
Friday, 1/25, from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm
Hess (Thomas) Chung
Speakman Hall 390.
" What has financed government debt? "
Hess Chung and Eric Leeper.
Tuesday (1/29) from11:45 am to 12:45 pm
Speakman Hall 318
Bin Li (Chicago, macro)
Evaluating Structural Vector Autoregression Model s in Monetary Economies