University at Buffalo (UB)
Fall 2022
August 26 - Naoyuki Yoshino, Keio University - ESG/Green Investment and Allocation of Portfolio Assets
September 16 - Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Global Fund Flows and Emerging Market Tail Risk
September 30 - Christopher Sleet, Carnegie Mellon University - Tax Design in Dynamic Discrete Choice Economies
October 21 - Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Efficiency and Equity Impacts of Urban Transportation Policies with Equilibrium Sorting
November 11 - José Mustre-del-Río, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City - The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks: Household Financial Distress Matters
Fall Recess
December 2 - Liyan Shi, Carnegie Mellon University - Fiscal Rules and Discretion with Risk of Default
Spring 2023
March 3 - Niklas Engbom, New York University - Misallocative Growth
March 10 (vitrual) - Yao Luo, University of Toronto - Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing (with Y. Chen and Z. Yuan)
Spring Recess
March 31 - Zach Brown, University of Michigan - Evidence from GP Choice in England
April 7 - Maria Zhu, Syracuse University - New Evidence on the Underrepresentation of Asian Americans in Leadership Positions
April 14 (virtual) - Ashley Swanson, University of Wisconsin -
Inertia, Market Power, and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance: Evidence from the ACA Exchanges
April 21 - Damon Clark, UC Irvine - How Do Parents Choose Schools? Evidence from Choices and a Survey of Choosers
April 28 - Sophie Calder-Wang, University of Pennsylvania - Pricing Neighborhood Amenities: A Proxy-Based Approach
Fall 2021
October 1 - Paul Grieco, Penn State University - Evolution of Market Power in the US Auto Indus
October 8 - Jacqueline Oliveira, Rhodes College - The Effects of Roads on Trade and Migration: Evidence from a Planned Capital City
October 15 - Allison Shertzer, University of Pittsburgh - The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
October 22 - Hongbin Li, Stanford University (co-sponsored with the UB Confucius Institute) - Can Elite College Education Change One's Fate in China?
October 29 - Rania Gihleb, University of Pittsburgh - Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
December 3 - Joseph Steinberg, University of Toronto - Tax Evasion and Capital Taxation
December 10 - Daniele Coen-Pirani, University of Pittsburgh - Matching Pell Grants: Implications for College Debt and Parental Transfers
Spring 2022
February 18th - Roozbeh Hosseini, University of Georgia - How Important Is Health Inequality for Lifetime Earnings Inequality?
February 25th - Bruno Badia, Rhodes College - Cost Uncertainty and Process Innovation in Bertrand Duopoly
March 4th - Albert Ma, Boston University - Equilibrium Information in Credence Goods
March 10th - Special Guest Speaker - Michael Koved, President Advanced Analytics - Best Practices for Successful Presentations and Data Visualizations
March 11th - Philipp Kircher, Cornell University - An Economic Model of the Covid-19 Pandemic with Young and Old Agents: Behavior, Testing and Policies
March 18th - Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin - Equilibrium in the Market for Public School Teachers: District Wage Strategies and Teacher Comparative Advantage
3/25 Spring Break
March 30th - UB VITAL Speaker - Rafael Alfena Zago, University of Oklahoma - Let There Be Light! Improved Public Lighting and Nighttime Crime Evidence from Brazil
April 1st - David Huffman, University of Pittsburgh - Incentive Complexity, Bounded Rationality and Effort Provision
April 8th - Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University - Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?
February 25 - Yiru Wang, Southwest University of Finance and Economics - Famine and Marital Assortative Matching – Evidence from China
September 6 - Shari Eli, University of Toronto - Physician Bias and Racial Disparities in Health: Evidence from Veterans' Pension
September 13 - Jim Holmes, University at Buffalo - The Nature of the Corporation
September 20 - Alexander Rothenberg, Syracuse University - Improving Mobility in Developing Country Cities: Evaluating Bus Rapid Transit and Other Policies in Jakarta
October 18 - Walker Hanlon, New York University - Censorship, Family Planning, and the Historical Fertility Transition
November 1 - David Price, University of Toronto - The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance
November 8 - Sandro Ambuehl, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management - Attention and Selection Effects
Thursday, November 14 - Jan Brueckner, UC Irvine - Samuelson Meets Federalism: Local Production of a National
Public GoodWeek 14 – 11/29 Fall recess, No seminar
December 6 - Salvador Navarro, University of Western Ontario - Migration and Human Capital
February 7 - Francesco Agostinelli, University of Pennsylvania - It Takes a Village: The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects
February 21 - Jonathan Hall, University of Toronto - When Safety Messages Make Us Less Safe: Evidence from Traffic Fatality Messages
February 28 - Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University - Solving Euler Equations via Two-Stage Nonparametric Penalized Spines
March 6 - Yang Song, Colgate University - Centralized College Matching Mechanisms, Stability, and Student Welfare
March 13 - Spring Recess, No seminar
April 3 - Audra Bowlus, University of Western Ontario - The Millennials' Transition from School-to-Work CANCELLED due to UB COVID-19 prevention policies
April 17 - Maria Fitzpatric, Cornell University (Dept of PAM) - CANCELLED due to UB COVID-19 prevention policies
April 24 - Meta Brown, The Ohio State University - CANCELLED due to UB COVID-19 prevention policies
May 1 - Lisa Kahn, University of Rochester - CANCELLED due to UB COVID-19 prevention policies
May 8 - JJ Prescott, University of Michigan - CANCELLED due to UB COVID-19 prevention policies
September 7 - Andreas Mueller, Business School, Columbia University - Job Seekers' Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias
September 28 - Philip DeCicca, Economics, McMaster University - (rescheduled for Spring 2019)
October 19 - Zhigang Feng, University of Nebraska, Omaha - Sovereign Defaults: Macroeconomic Activity and Political and Financial Frictions
October 26 - Ariel Binder, University of Michigan - Inter-Generational Transmission and the 21st Century Rise in Skilled Mothers’ Labor Supply
November 2 - Jon Schwabish, Urban Institute Income & Benefits Policy Center (Co-sponsored: Economics and Education Policy Analysis Program GSE) - Working Paper: Graphs in the American Economic Review
November 9 - Tia Palermo Social Policy Specialist, UNICEF Office of Research - Government Anti-Poverty Programming and Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana
November 16 - James Holmes - Can Corporations Cause Economic Growth and Income Equality
Fall recess, No seminar
November 30 - Michael Baker, Economics, University of Toronto - The Tall and the Short of the Returns to Height
December 7 - John Singleton, Economics, University of Rochester - Valuing School Choice: Using a Randomized Experiment to Validate Welfare Evaluation of Private School Vouchers
February 8 - Nirav Mehta, Western University - Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: A Structural Model of Medicare Reimbursements for Dialysis Drugs
February 15 - Louise Grogan, University of Guelph - Migration, Strategic Fertility Behaviour, and Early Childhood Human Capital Investments in Albania
February 22 - Evan Riehl, Cornell University - Peer Effects in the College Classroom: Theory and Evidence
March 15 - Bettina Brueggemann, McMaster University - Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the U.S. and Europe Since the 1980s
March 29 - Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Syracuse University - Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, with an Application to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
April 11 (Thursday) - David Neumark, Economics, UC-Irvine - The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women's Earnings
April 26 - Doug Miller, PAM, Cornell - Dynamic Treatment Effects for Impirical Microeconomists: Local Projections and Quasi-Experimental Research Designs
May 10 (10:30am-12pm) - Judy Hellerstein, University of Maryland - Have the Returns to Cognitive Ability Really Declined?
October 27 – Gregorio Caetano, University of Rochester – Explaining Recent Trends in US School Segregation: 1988-2014
November 17 – Matthew Dimick, UB Law School – The Minimum Wage and Optimal Redistribution
December 1 – Robert McMillan, University of Toronto – Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Evidence from California’s Class Size Reduction
February 9 – Devin Bunten, Federal Reserve Board of Governors – When the Neighborhood Goes: The Effects of Gentrification on Individuals and Communities
February 16 – Kegon Tan, University of Rochester – Bequest Motives and the Social Security Notch
February 23 – Lefteris Tsoulfidis, University of Macedonia, Greece – The Great Recession, Economic Policies and the Greek Economy
March 2 – Philip Decicca, McMaster University – CANCELLED
March 9 – Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University – The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes
March 16 – Federico Rossi, Johns Hopkins University – Parents, Schools and Human Capital Differences Across Countries
March 23 – Spring recess
April 6 – Sean Fahle, University at Buffalo, Economics Department – Why Do People Leave Bequests?
April 13 – Chad Stecher, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Is Quality Contagious? The Role of Physical Networks in Promoting Quality HIV Care
April 20 – Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University, Kellogg School – The Indirect Effects of Educational Expansions: Evidence from a Large Enrollment Increase in STEM Majors
April 27 – Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School – Sponsored by UB Confucius Institute – Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China
May 4 – Terry Sicular, University of Western Ontario – Sponsored by UB Confucius Institute – Changing Trends in China's Inequality: Key Issues and Main Findings
May 11 – Andrew Shephard, University of Pennsylvania – Optimal Taxation, Marriage, Home Production and Family Labour Supply
September 23 – Ronni Pavan, University of Rochester – Maternal Emotional Well-being and Child Development
September 30 – Mikal Skuterud, University of Waterloo – Immigrants and Patents: Evidence from Canadian Cities
October 14 – Samuel Kleiner, Cornell University – Hospital Treatment and Patient Outcomes: Evidence from Capacity Constraints
October 21 – Nate Baum-Snow, University of Toronto – Accounting for Central Neighborhood Change, 1980-2010
October 28 – Hoyt Bleakley, University of Michigan – Longevity, Education, and Income: How Large is the Triangle?
March 3 – Ori Heffetz, Cornell University – Are Reference Points (Merely) Lagged Beliefs Over Probabilities?
March 17 – Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University – The Pros and Cons of Sick Pay Schemes: Testing for Contagious Presenteeism and Noncontagious Absenteeism Behavior
March 28 – Martha Bailey, University of Michigan – The Economic Impact of a Very High National Minimum Wage: Evidence From the 1966 Amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act
April 28 – Claudia Olivetti, Boston College – Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
May 5 – Scott Barkowski, Clemson University – The Effect of Specialist Cost Information on Primary Care Physician Referral Patterns
May 12 – Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto
October 30 – Xiaodong Zhu, University of Toronto – Trade, Migration and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis of China
December 4 – Dr Jay Walker, Niagara University – Do men and women compete differently in single versus mixed-gender environments? Evidence from the game show Jeopardy!
February 19 – Jim Berry, Cornell University – “The Impact of Mother Literacy and Participation Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India”
February 26 –Yan Bai, University of Rochester – “Do Financial Frictions Explain Chinese Firms’ Saving and Misallocation?”
March 3 – Lee Lockwood, Northwestern University – “Government Old-Age Support and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Old Age Assistance Program”
March 4 – Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto – “Texting Students to Help Achieve Their Goals”
March 9 (Wed) – Soohyung Lee, University of Maryland – “The Impact of School and Classroom Gender Composition on Educational Achievement”
March 11 – Zhuan Pei, Cornell University, Policy Analysis and Mgmt – “Eligibility Recertification and Dynamic Opt-in Incentives in Income-tested Social Programs: Evidence from Medicaid/CHIP”
March 18 – Spring recess, no seminar
March 25 – Daniele Paserman, Boston University – Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments: Evidence from US Congress
April 1 – Harry Krashinsky, University of Toronto Scarborough – The Effect of Education on Total Fertility
April 8 – Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo – Age and the Trying Out of New Ideas and Cities and Ideas
April 15 – Katherine Cuff, McMaster University – Dual Corporate Tax Evasion
April 22 – George Alessandria, University of Rochester – The Dynamics of the U.S. Trade Balance and Real Exchange Rate: The J Curve and Trade Costs?
April 29 – Jeffrey Kubik, Syracuse University – Sand States and the US Housing Crisis
October 24 – Perry Singleton, Syracuse University – Health Information and the Timing of Social Security Entitlements
December 5 – Josh Kinsler, University at Rochester – Distorted Beliefs and Parental Investment in Children
April 3 – Shintaro Yamaguchi, McMaster University – Dynamic Effects of Parental Leave Policy on Female Labor Market Outcomes
April 10 – Aloysius Siow, University of Toronto – A Quantitative Review of Marriage Markets: How Inequality is Remaking the American Family by Carbone and Cahn
April 24 – Mathis Wagner, Boston College – Reversing Brain Drain: Evidence from Malaysia’s Returning Expert Programme
April 30 – Kory Kroft, University of Toronto – Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
January 15 – Peter Hinrichs, Georgetown University – What Kind of Teachers Are Schools Looking For? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
January 21 – Louis-Phillippe Beland, University of Montreal – Political Parties and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. States
January 24 – Joanne Song Mclaughlin, University of California, Irvine – Unemployment Duration in the Great Recession: Effects of Employment Protection Laws
January 27 – Evan Starr, University of Michigan – Training the Enemy? Firm-Sponsored Training and the Enforcement of Covenants Not to Complete
January 29 – Travis Brayak, University of California, San Diego – Powers of the Pill: Heterogeneity and the Marriage Market
February 13 – Lori Timmins, University of British Columbia – How do Hospitals Respond to Financial Pain? Evidence from Hospital Markets in Texas
October 5 – Max Gillman, Cardiff Business School – Deriving the Taylor Principle when the Central Bank Supplies Money
November 16 – Felicia Ionescu, Colgate University – The Interplay Between Student Loans and Credit Cards: Implications for Default
October 7 – Thomas Lubik, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond – The Shifting and Twisting Beveridge Curve: An Aggregate Perspective
October 14 – Zhen Liu, University at Buffalo – Consumer Unawareness and Competitive Strategies
October 21 – Rachana Bhatt, Georgia State University – Reducing Underage Alcohol & Tobacco Use: Evidence from the Introduction of Vertical Identification Cards
January 18 – Neel Rao, Harvard University – Social Learning in the Labor Market: An Analysis of Siblings
January 20 – Matthew Backus, University of Michigan – Why is Productivity Correlated with Competition
January 23 – Dooyeon Cho, Michigan State University – Trade Intensity, Carry Trades and Exchange Rate Volatility
January 25 – Eisuke Okada, University of Chicago – Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions of Modern Women
January 27 – Caleb Stroup, Vanderbilt University – International Experience and Cross-Border Mergers
January 30 – Byoung Hoon Seok, University of Rochester – Growth and Global Imbalances: The Role of Learning-by-Exporting
February 1 – Jiyoon Oh, University of Rochester – The Cyclicality of Firm Size Distribution and Its Effect on Aggregate Fluctuations
October 15 – Wentong Zheng, University at Buffalo Law School – Estimating the Effect of State Lotteries on Crime: An Instrumental Variable Approach
October 22 – James Holmes, University at Buffalo – Endogenous Wage Rigidity with Heterogeneous Agents: The Complex Role of Money Endogenous Wage Rigidity with Heterogeneous Agents
January 5 – Bongseok Choi, University at Buffalo – Financial Innovation, Firm Size and Growth
February 9 – Jim Campbell, University at Buffalo – The Economic Records of the Presidents: Party Differences and Inherited Economic Conditions
February 10 – Gilad Sorek, University at Buffalo – Finite Lifetimes, Optimal Patents and Growth
January 11 – Miquel Faig, University of Toronto – Lessons from the recent recession: the case of Spain
January 18 – Vikesh Amin, SUNY at Binghamton – Do More-Schooled Women have Fewer Children and Delay Childbearing? Evidence from a Sample of U.S. Twins
January 28 Bernard Salanie, Columbia University – Partner Choice and the Marital College Premium
February 4 – Yoonsoo Lee, School of Economics Sogang University and Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland – Entry, Exit, and Plant-level Dynamics over the Business Cycle
February 25 – Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto, NBER, and RCEA – Towards a Micro-founded Theory of Aggregate Labor Supply
March 4 – David Shapiro, Penn State – Stalling of Fertility Transitions and Socioeconomic Change in the Developing World: Evidence from the Demographic and Health Surveys
March 11 – Solomon W. Polachek, Binghamton – A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap
March 25 – T. Paul Schultz, Yale – Family Planning and Health as Investments in Women’s Human Capital: Learning from a Quasi Social Experiment in Matlab, Bangladesh, 1977-1996
April 8 – Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania – Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools
April 22 – Martin Uribe, Columbia University – Pegs and Pain
May 2 – Roland Benabou, Princeton – Laws and Norms
Spring 2010
February 19 – Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester – Comparative Advantage and Unemployment
February 26 – John Maheu, University of Toronto – Components of bull and bear markets: bull corrections and bear rallies
March 5 – Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester – Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation
March 19 – Martin Uribe, Columbia University
March 26 – Ricardo Reis, Columbia University
April 2 – William Thomson, University of Rochester “Lorenz rankings of rules for the adjudication of conflicting claims”
April 9 – Peter Howitt, Brown University
April 16 – Ettore Damiano, University of Toronto
April 23 – Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin – Currency Misalignments and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Reexamination
April 30 – Mark Bils, University of Rochester – Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality
May 3 – Stephen Turnovsky, University of Washington – Growth of Human Capital and Inequality: A Canonical Model
Spring 2009
January 16, Yoshinori Kurokawa, University at Buffalo, Variety Trade and Skill Premium in a Calibrated General Equilibrium Model: The Case of Mexico
January 21, Shi Qi, University of Minnesota, The Impact of Advertising Regulation on Industry. The Cigarette Advertising Ban of 1971
January 22, Susan Feng, Boston University, Volatility of Early-Stage Firms with Jump Risk: Theory and Evidence
January 23, Young-Ro Yoon, Indiana University-Bloomington, Strategic Disclosure of Valuable Information within Competitive Environments
January 26, Mitsukuni Nishida, University of Chicago, Estimating a Model of Strategic Network Choice: the Convenience-Store Industry in Okinawa
January 28, Eiichiro Kazumori, University of Tokyo, A Strategic Theory of Markets
February 6, David Benjamin, University at Buffalo, Recovery Before Redemption? A Theory of Delays in Sovereign Debt Renegotiations
Fall 2008
January 21 Gilad Sorek University at Buffalo Strategic Complementarities between Medical R&D and Savings as a Limit on Patent Protection
January 7 Guanyu Ma University at Buffalo How Fertility Control Affects the Future Improvement of Society
October 31 Richard Deitz New York Federal Reserve Bank The Regional Production, Stock, and Flow of Human Capital
October 29 James Feigenbaum University of Pittsburgh Optimal Irrational Behavior
9/19 Zhen Liu University at Buffalo Fair Disclosure and Investor asymetric awareness in Stock Markets
Spring 2008
January 23 Bin Li University of Chicago (Recruitment) Evaluating Structural Vector Autoregression Models in Monetary Economics
January 25 Hye Mi You University of Rochester (Recruitment) The Contribution of Rising School Quality to U.S. Economic Growth
January 28 Yoshinori Kurokawa University of Minnesota/U.B. (Recruitment) Variety-Skill Complementarity Hypothesis: A Simple Resolution of Trade-Wage Inequality Anomaly
January 30 Goncalo Monteiro University of Washington/U.B. (Recruitment) The Composition of Productive Government Expenditure: Consequences for Economic Growth and Welfare
February 1 Jiaren Pang Washington University St. Louis/U.B (Recruitment) Search, Training, and Labor Force Participation Over the Business Cycle
February 4 Noel Johnson Washington University St. Louis/U.B (Recruitment) War! What Is It Good For?
February 6 Ching-Jen Sun Ohio State University (Recruitment) Dynamic Price Discrimination and Quality Provision Based on Purchase History
February 8 Jeffrey Weinstein Yale University (Recruitment) The Relationship Between School Characteristics and Neighborhood Characteristics: Evidence from School Redistricting
February 11 Na Yin Stonybrook University (Recruitment) Partial Benefits in the Social Security Disability Insurance Program: A Policy Alternative to Foster Work among the Disabled
March 21 Salvador Navarro University of Wisconsin Notes on the Econometric Analysis of Crime: the Deterrence effect of the Death Penalty
March 28 Adrien Verdelhan Boston University Common Risk Factors in the Currency Markets
April 11 Mark Aguiar University of Rochester Investment Cycles and Sovereign Debt Overhang
April 18 Bruce Weinberg Ohio State University Scientific Leadership
April 25 Fabian Lange Yale University Education and Allocative Efficiency. Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening
May 2 Rody Manuelli University of Wisconsin Explaining International Fertility Differences
Fall 2007
9th/21 Joe Doyle MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home
October 12 Carsten Kowalczyk The Fletcher School Tufts University Free Trade: What Are the Terms-of-Trade Effects?
October 26 David Cuberes Clemson University Medium Term Growth Reversals
January 2 Jim Holmes University at Buffalo The Minimum Wage, Teenage Employment and the Business Cycle
January 9 Zhu, Wang Kansas Federal Reserve Bank Market Structure and Credit Card Pricing: What Drives the Interchange?
January 30 Atsushi Oyama University at Buffalo The Rewards for Entrepreneurial Ability to Adopt and Implement Advanced Technologies
February 14 Goncalo Monteiro University at Buffalo & University of York To Be Announced
February 21 Dr. Youngwan Goo Korea National Defense University A Study on the Military Alliance of South Korea-United States with the Existence of Threat from North Korea: A Public Good Demand Approach
Spring 2007
January 19 Dr. James M. Holmes University at Buffalo Monetary Policy, Unemployment and Endogenous Rigid Wages: The Consequences of Unfulfilled Rational Expectations
January 17 Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez University at Buffalo Human Capital, Learning Externalities, and Growth
January 25 Ms. Amy Hongfei Sun University of Toronto Banking, Inside Money, and Outside Money
January 26 Mr. Jae W. Sim Boston University Uncertainty, Irreversible Investment, and General Equilibrium
January 29 Dr. Luis Alcala University at Buffalo Why Does Skilled Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries?
January 30 Mr. Jiaren Pang Washington University Search, Training, and Labor Force Participation over the Business Cycle
March 23 Dr. Joseph J. Doyle MIT Sloan School of Management Child Welfare and Crime: Measuring the Effects of Foster Care
March 30 Dr. Boyan Jovanovic New York University Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources
April 6 Dr. Rodrigo Soares University of Maryland Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
April 13 Dr. Chad Sparber Colgate University Comparative Advantages and Gains from Immigration
April 27 Dr. Thomas Astebro University of Toronto Does it pay to be a Jack of all Trades?
April 27 Dr. David Galenson University of Chicago The Life Cycles of Modern Artists
May 4 Dr. Adrianna Lleras-Muney Princeton University Life expectancy and human capital investments: Evidence from maternal mortality declines in Sri Lanka
Fall 2006
October 20 Dr. Fernando Leiva-Betran University of Iowa Pricing Patents through Citations
January 17 Dr. Christopher A. Rohlfs Syracuse University Does Military Service Make You a More Violent Person? Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lottery download paper
February 1 Dr. Georg Goetz University of Vienna Diffusion of new technology – The case of multiple generations download paper
February 8 Dr. Ronni Pavan University of Rochester To be announced
Spring 2006
January 23 Ms. Kelly Ragan Chicago (Recruitment) Taxes, Transfers, and Time Use: Fiscal Policy in a Household Production Model
January 25 Ms. Xin (Sherry) Li Michigan (Recruitment) Ethnic Diversity, Social Identities, and Tax Compliance: Evidence from the European and World Values Surveys
January 27 Ms. Qingyan Shang Ohio State University (Recruitment) Estimating Endogenous Neighborhood Effects from Variations in Prices and Price- Responsiveness
January 30 Ms. Amrita Bhattacharyya Boston College (Recruitment) Competition and Advertising in Specialized Markets: A study of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
February 1 Mr. Youngjin Hwang MIT (Recruitment) Regime-Switching Fluctuations, Aggregate and Individual Consumption
February 3 Dr. Edwin L. Lai Stanford (Recruitment) International Protection of Intellectual Property: An Empirical Investigation
February 6 Mr. Ganesh Seshan University of Virginia (Recruitment) The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Household Welfare in a Developing Country with Imperfect Labor Markets
February 10 Mr. Alejandro M. Rodriguez Chicago (Recruitment) Learning Externalities, Human Capital and Growth
February 13 Mr. Santiago Bazdresch Yale (Recruitment) Financial Lumpiness and Investment
February 15 Mr. Siddharth Sharma Yale (Recruitment) Factor Immobility and Regional Inequality: Evidence from a Credit Shock in India
February 17 Dr. Luis Alcala Rochester (Recruitment) Fertility, Migration, and Intergenerational Mobility
February 22 Dr. Kaz Miyagiwa Emory University (Recruitment) Dumping as a signal of Innovation
April 21 Prof. Daniel S. Hamermesh University of Texas at Austin “How the Economics Profession works” 11:30 – 12:30 “Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude, and Letterman” 3:30 – 5:00″
April 28 Dr. Yang-Ming Chang Kansas State University “Strategic Transfers and Sibling Rivalry: A Contest Model with Endogenous Labor Supply, Family Services, and Leisure.”
Fall 2005
9th/23 Dr. Vikas Chibre Gokhale Institute of Economics Trends and Cycles in the Indian Economy
9th/30 Michele Boldrin University of Minnesota “IP & Market Size”
October 7 Belton Fleisher Ohio State University ” Regional Inequality and Productivity Growth in China: The Role of Foreign Investment, Infrastructure, and Human Capital”
October 14 Raaj Sah “Corruption across countries and regions: some consequences of coral osmosis”
January 4 Tom Philipson University of Chicago “Surplus Appropriation and Technology Assessment Criteria in Health Care”
January 11 Bruce Weinberg Ohio State University “Creative Careers: The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics”
Spring 2005
January 20th Mr. Luis Alcala University of Rochester (Recruitment) Fertility, Migration, and Intergenerational Mobility
January 25 Ms. Yan Bai University of Minnesota (Recruitment) Financial Integration and international Risk Sharing
January 27 Mr. Angel Gavilan Gonzalez University of Chicago (Recruitment) Explaining Wage Inequality in the U.S. with an Assignment Model
January 28 Mr. Rudolfs Bems Stockholm School of Economics (Recruitment) Aggregate Investment Expenditures on Traded and Nontraded goods
February 1 Ms. Min Fan Stanford (Recruitment) Heterogeneous Beliefs, the Term Structure and Time-Varying Risk Premia
February 2 Ms. Elena Pastorino University of Pennsylvania (Recruitment) Career Dynamics Under Uncertainty: Estimating the Value of Firm Experimentation
February 3 Mr. Julio Jorge Elias University of Chicago (Recruitment) The Effects of Ability and Family Background on Non-Monetary Returns to Education
February 4 Mr. Justin G. Marion University of Chicago (Recruitment) Redistribution through Public Purchases: Competition, Procurement Costs, and Efficiency in a Bid Preference Program.
February 8 Mr. Calvin Yingshun Ho Berkeley (Recruitment) Does Exchange Rate Volatility Matter to Foreign Direct Investment?
February 11 Ms. Yoonyoung Cho University of Wisconsin-Madison (Recruitment) Investment in Children’s Human Capital: Implications of PROGRESA
March 4 Mr. Yi Wen Cornell University Understanding the Impact of Oil Shocks
March 11 Mr. Thomas Lubik Johns Hopkins University On-the-job Search and the Cyclical Dynamics of the Labor Market
April 1 Prof. Lance Lochner University of Western Ontario “Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System”
April 29th Prof. Maxwell Pak Queen’s University “Cooperation with Random Matching”
Fall 2004
9th/17 Mark G. Duggan University of Maryland, NBER “The Rise in SSI participation among children: Assessing the Impact on Poverty and Labor Supply”
October 1 Koleman Strumpf University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis”
October 8 Luisa Fuster University of Toronto “Elimination of Social Security in a Dynastic Framework”
October 22 Bruce Preston Columbia University “Adaptive Learning and the Use of Forecasts in Monetary Policy”
October 29th Michael Grossman CUNY Graduate Center, NBER “Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
January 5 Casey B. Mulligan University of Chicago “Causes and Consequences of Political Competitiveness”
January 18th Ali Dogramaci Rector, Bilkent University (Turkey) “The Changing Turkish Education System”
January 19th Thomas Lubik Johns Hopkins University TBA
Spring 2004
January 21 Justin Trogdon Duke University Demand for and Regulation of Cardiac Services
January 23 Julia Litvinova Duke University Volatility Asymmetry in High Frequency Data
January 26 Ke Wang Stanford University Multi-Period Corporate Failure Prediction with Stochastic Covariates
January 28 Xianghong Li Ohio State University Is there a Seasoned Equity Offering Puzzle?
January 30 Dhaval M. Dave City University of New York The Effects of Cocaine and Heroin Price on Drug Use among Arrestees
February 2 Juanyi Xu University of British Columbia Noise Trader and Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle
February 4 Claudio Campanale University of Rochester Learning and the Return to Private Equity
February 6 Hwagyun Kim University at Buffalo Money Demand Shocks and Interest Rate Rules
February 13 Shaowen Wu University at Buffalo TBA
February 27 Jonathan Eaton NYU An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
March 26 Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Columbia Business School TBA
April 9th Serguey Braguinsky University at Buffalo Perfectly Competitive Innovation, Voluntary Information Sharing and its Breakdown in a Growing Industry
April 16 Matthew Turner University of Toronto Landscape Preferences and Patterns of Residential Development
7/9th Phillippe Saucier University of Orleans (Paris) Liquidity, Solvency, and Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of the Japanese Banks’ Distress
Fall 2003
October 10 Robert Tamura Clemson University/Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank Income and Education of the States of the United States: 18th40-2000
October 17 Juan Mendoza University at Buffalo Geography, Health, and Development: Evidence from Columbia
October 31 Comin Diego New York University Are Soccer Contracts Incomplete?
January 7 Yongmiao Hong Cornell Testing Extreme Risk Spillover Between Financial Markets: Econometric Method and Application to Chinese Stock Markets
January 14 Boyan Jovanovic Chicago and New York University The Q-Theory of IPO’s
January 21 Zhiqiang Liu University at Buffalo Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers, and Productivity of Domestic Firms: Theory and Evidence
February 5 James M. Holmes University at Buffalo The Cyclical Relationship between Employment and Real Wages in U.S. Manufacturing
Spring 2003
January 10 Parama Chaudhury New York University Multi-Tasking and the Returns to Experience
January 13 Angela No University of Toronto Agglomeration Effects in the Diffusion of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
January 14 Alexander K. Karaivanov University of Chicago Financial Contracts and Occupational Choice
January 15 Yan Shen University of Southern California Aggregate vs. Disaggregate Data Analysis- A paradox in the estimation of Money Demand Function of Japan Under the Low Interest Rate Policy
January 16 Mingliang Li University of California -Irvine Duration Analysis with Piecewise Constant Baseline Hazards, Time-Varying Covariates and Random Effects: An Application to the Timing of High School Dropout Decisions
January 17 Paris Cleanthous Yale University Patient Welfare Implications of Innovation in the U.S. Antidepressant Market
February 14 Ingela Alger Boston College A Theory of Fraud in Experts Markets
April 11 Isabel Brocas Columbia A Theory of Influence
April 18th Shubha Gosh University of Buffalo To Be Announced
April 25 Christopher Carroll Johns Hopkins The Epidemiology of Macroeconomic Expectations
May 2 Yi Wen Cornell Understanding the Inventory Cycle
Fall 2002
October 4 Lawrence Southwick Jr. University at Buffalo Effects on the Brady Act on Crime?
October 11 James M. Holmes University at Buffalo The Minimum Wage and the Business Cycle in a Competitive Equilibrium Model.
October 18th Serguey Braguinsky University at Buffalo Entrepreneurial Ability and Market Section in an Infant Industry: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton spinning Industry.
October 25 Avi Goldfarb University of Toronto Identification of Online State Dependence Using Denial of Service Attacks as an Instrument
January 8 Serguey Braguinsky University at Buffalo Investment with Imperfect Property Rights
January 15 Hwagyun Kim University at Buffalo Common and Idiosyncratic Fluctuations of Interest Rates from various Issuers: A Dynamic Factor Approach
January 22 Ronald Wintrobe University of Western Ontario Can Suicide Bombers be Rational?
January 25 Luca Bossi Cornell Intergeneration Risk Shifting Through Social Security and Bailout Politics
February 2 Jeffrey DeSimone East Carolina University Determinants of Drug Injection Behavior: Economic Factors, HIV Infection Risk and Needles Exchange Program
Spring 2002
January 23 Aysegul Sahin University of Rochester The Rotten Kid at College: The Incentive
January 25 Katustoshi Wakai Yale University A Model of Consumption Smoothing with an Application to Asset Pricing
January 28 Pedro S. Amaral University of Minnesota Consequences of Turbulence and Heterogeneity in Learning Ability for Wage Inequality
January 30 Raoul Minetti London School of Economics Banking Regulation, Capital Crunches, and Real Estate Crises
February 1 Shilender Swaminathan University of Southern California Effect of Health on Wages of Men: Evidence from Indonesia
February 8 Helios Herrera New York University Participation Externalities and Asset Price Volatility
February 22 Jong–Wha Lee Korea University IMF Programs: Who is Chosen and What are the Effects?
March 15 Michelle Alexpoulos University of Toronto To Be announced
April 19th Lena Edlund Columbia University To Be Announced
Fall 2001
9th/6 Donald Dutkowsky Syracuse University Inflation Targeting with the Federal Funds Rate
October 12 Xiaodong Xu University of Toronto To Be Announced
October 19th Aloysius Siow University of Toronto To Be Announced
October 26 Mark Bils University of Rochester To Be announced
January 2 Catherine Cuff McMaster University To Be Announced
January 9th Neil Harding Wales Marxism, Ideology, and Sites of Power
February 7 Yong Yin University at Buffalo To Be Announced
Spring 2001
January 25 Hyunbae Chun New York University Can Information Technology Explain Deceleration and Acceleration in Productivity Growth?
January 26 Jed Devaro Stanford University The effect of Employer Recruitment Strategies on Job Placements and Match Quality
January 30 Glen Waddell Purdue University Executive Compensation and Project Selection
February 1 Susheng Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Bargaining, Revenue Sharing, and Control Rights Allocation
February 5 Jose Plehn-Dujowich University of Chicago Innovation, Firm Size, and Occupational Choice
February 7 Chetan Subramanian University at Buffalo Exchange Rate Based Stabilization with Borrowing Constraints
February 12 Zhiqiang Liu University at Buffalo The Economic Impact and Determinants of Investments in Human and Political Capital in Urban China
March 2 Hiroyuki Ozaki Tohoku University To Be Announced
March 16 John Burbridge McMaster TDSP’s
March 19th Tiemen Woutersen University of Western Ontario To Be Announced
March 23 Casey Mulligan University of Chicago To Be Announced
April 6 Elizabeth Caucutt University of Rochester To Be Announced
April 13 Diego Restuccia University of Toronto To be Announced
April 27 John Duggan University of Rochester To be announced
Fall 2000
9th/29th Maya Shah University of Baroda, India The Economics of Discrimination
October 13 Zhiqiang Liu HK University of Science and Technology Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Spillover: Evidence from China
October 20th Jin Young Kim University at Buffalo The Market for Scientists and the Recent Surge in Patenting
October 27 Song Han University of Rochester On Task-Based Discrimination in Credit Markets
January 3 Joanne Robert University of Toronto To be Announced
January 10 Amit Batabyal Rochester Institute of Technology A Dynamic Analysis of Protection and Environmental Policy in a Small Trading Developing Country
1January 17 Chris Robinson University of Western Ontario To be announced
1February 1 Matthew Turner University of Toronto To be announced
1February 8 Jung-Ok Cho University of Rochester To be announced
Spring 2000
February 18th Jeff Smith University of Western Ontario Is the Threat of Training More Effective than Training Itself?
March 3 Xiadong Xu university of Toronto To be announced
March 31 Michael Peters University of Toronto To be announced
April 7 Michael Veall McMaster University To be announced
April 14 Todd Steinbrickner University of Western Ontario The underlying relationship between family income and college performance: Evidence from a liberal arts college with a full tuition subsidy
April 21 Shabtai Donnenfeld York University Regional Blocs and Foreign Direct Investment
April 28 Dwayne Benjamin University of Toronto Property Rights, Labour Markets, and Efficiency in a Transition Economy: The Case of Rural China
May 5 Akira Matsumoto Ehime University, JAPAN Japanese Bubble-Its Domestic Aspects and International aspects
Fall 1999
October 8 Eric Nauenberg University at Buffalo Simulation of a Hospital Industry Hirschman-Herfindahl Index with Incomplete Market Share Information
October 22 Todd Steinbrickner University of Western Ontario To be announced
October 29th David Mustard University of Georgia To be announced
January 4 Aloysius Siow University of Toronto Why Dowries?
January 12 Linda Wong SUNY-Binghamton Skill acquisition in an Equilibrium Search Model
January 19th Jagadeesh Gokhale Cleveland Fed Transmission of Wealth Inequality via bequests
February 3 Gordon Dahl University of Rochester Teenage Marriage:Falling or Failing in love?
February 10 Shannon Seitz University of Western Ontario Employment, Marriage, and the Sex Radio