Seminars (Clarence Tow Lectures)
Fall 2013
| DATE | SPEAKER |
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| Wednesday, September 4, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Tom Parker University of Waterloo Topic: TBA |
| Wednesday, September 25, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Mehmet Caner North Carolina State Topic: TBA |
| Wednesday, October 2, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Yuichi Kitamura Yale University Topic: TBA |
| Wednesday, October 23, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Matt Masten Duke University Topic: TBA |
| Wednesday, November 13, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Ivan Fernandex-Val Boston University Topic: TBA |
Spring 2013
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| Friday, January 25, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Wei Cui Princeton University Topic: "Delayed Capital Reallocation" |
| Monday, January 28, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Benjamin Johannsen Northwestern University Topic: "When are the Effects of Fiscal Policy Uncertainty Large?" |
| Friday, February 1, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Roman Sheremeta Chapman University Topic: "Communication and Efficiency in Competitive Coordination Games" |
| Monday, February 4, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Andriy Norets Princeton University Topic: "Credibility of Confidence Sets in Nonstandard Econometric Problems" |
| Wednesday, February 6, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Seth Neumuller University of California, Los Angeles Topic: "Inter-industry Wage Differentials Revisited: Wage Volatility and the Option Value of Mobility" |
| Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
David Kaplan University of California, San Diego Topic: "IDEAL Inference on Conditional Quartiles via Interpolated Duals of Exact Analytic L-statistics" |
| Wednesday, February 20, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Alexandre Poirier University of California, Berkeley Topic: "Asymptotically Efficient Estimation in Models with Independence Restrictions" |
| Friday, February 22, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Michael Yu Fai Choi University of Wisconsin-Madison Topic: "Asset Prices and Information Transmission" |
| Monday, February 25, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Camelia Bejan Rice University Topic: "Limited enforcement, bubbles and trading in incomplete markets" |
| Tuesday, February 26, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Filippo Massari Washington University, St. Louis Topic: "Price Dynamics and Market Selection" |
| Tuesday, March 5, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Siyang Xiong Rice University Topic: "Genericity and Robustness of Full Surplus Extraction" and "Incentive Compatibility Versus Surplus Extraction" (no paper) |
| Monday, March 11, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Emerson Melo California Institute of Technology Topic: "Bargaining and Power in Networked Markets" |
| Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM S207 PBB |
Sarada Duke University Topic: "The Unobserved Returns to Entrepreneurship" |
| Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Paul Grieco Penn State University Topic: "Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry" |
| Wednesday, March 27, 2013 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM C29 PC |
Luciano De Castro Northwestern University Topic: "Correlation of Types in Bayesian Games" |
| Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM C29 PC |
Tai-Wei Hu Northwestern University Topic: "On the Coexistence of Money and Higher-Return Assets and its Social Role" |
| Monday, April 1, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Francesc Dilme University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Building (and Milking) Trust: Reputation as a Moral Hazard Phenomenon" |
| Tuesday, April 2, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Svetlana Ledyaeva |
| Wednesday, April 3, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Pengfei Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Topic: "A Bayesian DSGE Model of Stock Market Bubbles and Business Cycles" |
| Tuesday, April 9, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Russell Cooper Penn State University Topic: "Deposit Insurance and Orderly Liquidation without Commitment: Can We Sleep Well?" |
| Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Toshihiro Ichida Waseda University (Japan) Topic: "Nature versus Nurture: Reversal of Individual Comparative Advantages and Human Capital Investment Under Risk" |
| Thursday, April 18, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Renee Bowen Stanford University Topic: "Dynamic Coalitions" |
| Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Charles Calomiris |
| Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Tom Nicholas Harvard Business School Topic: "Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression" |
| Wednesday, May 1, 2013 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM C29 PC |
Yeneng Sun National University of Singapore Topic: "Modeling Infinitely Many Agents" |
| Wednesday, May 1, 2013 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Valeriy Marakulin Novosibirsk State University Topic: "Equilibria and core as an essence of economic contractual interactions: mathematical foundations" |
| Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Ezra Oberfield Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Topic: "Business Networks, Production Chains, and Productivity: A Theory of Input-Output Architecture" |
| Monday, May 6, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
David Frisvold Emory University Topic: "Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement: An Evaluation of the School Breakfast Program" |
| Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Neil Wallace Penn State University Topic: "An Alternative to New-Keynesian Models for the Study of Optimal (Monetary) Policy" |
| Friday, May 10, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Neil Wallace Penn State University Topic: "Information Aggregation in a Large Two-stage Market Game" |
| Tuesday, June 4, 2013 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C121 PBB |
Antonio Galvao University of Iowa Topic: TBA |
Fall 2012
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, September 11 3:30 PM - 5:00 W181 PBB |
Alessandro Mennuni University of Southampton Topic: "Labor Force Composition and Aggregate Fluctuations" |
| Wednesday, September 19 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C125 PBB |
Alexander Matros University of South Carolina Topic: "Contests with Identity-Dependent Externalities" |
| Wednesday, September 26 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C125 PBB |
Marcelo Veracierto Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Topic "The Role of Housing in Labor Reallocation" |
| Wednesday, October 17 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C125 PBB |
Jan Werner University of Minnesota Topic: "Rational Asset Pricing Bubbles and Debt Constraints" |
| Tuesday, October 30 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Giovanni Facchini University of Nottingham Topic: "The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration" |
| Tuesday, November 6 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Ananth Seshadri University of Wisconsin, Madison Topic: "Health and Wealth in a Life-cycle Model" |
| Thursday, November 8 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Varun Kharbanda University of Iowa, PhD candidate Topic: "Returns to Education in India" |
| Tuesday, November 13 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Igor Livshits University of Western Ontario Topic: "Screening as a Unified Theory of Delinquency, Renegotiation and Bankruptcy" |
| Wednesday, November 14 3:30- PM - 5:00 PM C125 PBB |
Joshua Hausman University of California, Berkeley Topic: "Fiscal Policy and Economic Recovery: the Case of the 1936 Veterans' Bonus" |
| Wednesday, November 28 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C125 PBB |
Armando Zavaleta University of Iowa (Visiting Assistant Professor) Topic: "Climate Change and Breakthrough Technologies: The Role of Markets" |
| Monday, December 3 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C125 PBB |
Leena Rudanko Boston University Topic: "Unions in a Frictional Labor Market" |
| Tuesday, December 11 3:30-5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Natalia Kovijnykh Arizona State University Topic: "Who Should Pay for Credit Ratings and How?" |
| Wednesday, December 12 3:30-5:00 PM S401 PBB |
Elisa Keller University of Iowa Topic: "The Slowdown in American Educational Attainment" |
| Thursday, December 13 10:30-12:00 PM S121 PBB |
Yu Chien Kong University of Iowa Topic: "College Attainment and the Changing Life Cycle Profile of Earnings" |
| Thursday, December 13 3:30-5:00 PM S121 PBB | Muharrem Yesilrmak University of Iowa Topic: "Imperfect Income Sorting in an Economy with Local Public Goods" |
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Spring 2012
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| Wednesday, February 8 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Udara Peiris University of Warwick Topic: "Credit, Default and Optimal Policy" Paper 1 & Paper 2 |
| Thursday, February 9 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Nicholas Ziebarth Northwestern University Topic: "Misallocation and Productivity During the Great Depression" |
| Friday, February 10 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Nicholas Klein Universitatbonn Topic: "The Importance of Being Honest" |
| Monday, February 13 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM S307 PBB |
Sarah Miller University of Illinois Topic: "The Effect of Insurance on Emergency Room Visits: An Analysis of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform" |
| Monday, February 13 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Andreas Hagemann University of Illinois Topic: "Robust Spectral Analysis" |
| Wednesday, February 15 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Dana Rotz Harvard University Topic: "Why Have Divorce Rates Fallen? the Role of Women's Age at Marriage" |
| Thursday, February 16 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Matthew Backus University of Michigan Topic: "Why is Productivity Correlated with Competition?" |
| Monday, February 20 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC | SeoJeong (Jay) Lee University of Wisconsin-Madison Topic: "Asymptotic Refinements of a Misspecification-Robust Bootstrap for Generalized Method of Moment Estimators" |
| Tuesday, February 21 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Fabian Lange Yale University Topic: Duration Dependence and Local Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| Monday, February 27 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Maxim Troshkin University of Minnesota Topic: "Providing Efficient Incentives to Work: Retirment Ages and the Pension System" |
| Tuesday, February 28 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Songzi Du |
| Monday, March 26 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Hari Govindan University of Rochester Topic: "Existence Theorems for Some Discontinuous Games" |
| Friday, March 30 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Anne Villamil University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Topic: "Entrepreneurs, Legal Institutions and Firm Dynamics" |
| Monday, April 2 10:30-Noon S307 PBB |
Rabah Amir |
| Wednesday, April 11 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C29 PC |
Roberto Pinheiro University of Colorado Topic: "Health Insurance as a Productive Factor" |
| Tuesday, May 22 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C121 PBB |
Guillaume Vandenbroucke University of Southern California Topic: "Optimal Fertility During World War I" |
Fall 2011
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 24 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
David Levine Washington University (St. Louis) Topic: "Anti-Malthus: Evolution, Population, and the Maximization of Free Resources" |
| Friday, September 2 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM C29 PC Joint Seminar with Finance |
George Zanjani Georgia State |
| Wednesday, September 14 3:00 PM-4:30 PM Room: TBA |
John Conley Vanderbilt University Topic: "A Dixit-Stiglitz General Equilibrium Model with Oligopolistic Markets: Enough is Enough" |
| Wednesday, September 21 3:30 PM-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Kartik Athreya Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Topic: "Loan Guarantees for Consumer Credit Markets" |
| Friday, September 23 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM C29 PC Joint Seminar with Finance |
Jan Ericsson McGill University |
| Monday, September 26 3:30 PM-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Benjamin Lester Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Topic: "Trading Dynamics in Decentralized Markets with Adverse Selection" |
| Friday, September 30 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM C29 PC Joint Seminar with Finance |
Franklin Allen University of Pennsylvania |
| Monday, October 3 3:30 PM-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Huberto Ennis Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Topic: "Optimal Banking Contracts and Financial Fragility" |
| Tuesday, October 4 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Arantxa Jarque Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Topic: "The Complexity of CEO Compensation: Incentives and Learning" |
| Thursday, October 13 3:30 PM -5:00 PM W181 PBB |
James Albrecht and Susan Vroman Georgetown University Topic: "Directed Search in the Housing Market" |
| Friday, October 14 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM C29 PC Joint Seminar with Finance |
Thomas Chemmanur Boston College |
| Wednesday, October 26 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Yixiao Sun University of California, San Diego Topic: "Simple and Accurate F Tests in the Time Series GMM Framework" Paper 1 and Paper 2 |
| Wednesday, November 9 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Marek Weretka University of Wisconsin, Madison Topic: "Competition in Financial Innovation" |
| Friday, November 11 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM C29 PC Joint Seminar with Finance |
Anjan Thakor Washington University |
| Monday, November 14 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Julia Thomas Ohio State University Topic: "Credit Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Economy with Production Heterogeneity" |
| Friday, November 18 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Yaping Shan University of Iowa (PhD Student) Topic: "Dynamic Contracts for a Class of Multi-Stage R&D Models" Paper 1 and Paper 2 |
| Friday, November 18 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM C29 PC Joint Seminar with Finance |
David Haushalter Pennsylvania State University |
| Wednesday, November 30 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Daniel Deiermeier Northwestern University Topic: "Corporate Reputational Dynamics, Private Regulation, and Activist Pressure" |
| Monday, December 5 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Gagan Ghosh University of Iowa (PhD Student) Topic: "Simultaneous First-Price Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders" |
| Wednesday, December 7 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Glen Weyl University of Chicago Topic: "Multidimensional Heterogeneity and Platform Design" |
| Thursday, December 8 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM W181 PBB |
Mike Sposi University of Iowa (PhD Student) Topic: "Evolving Comparative Advantage, Structural Change, and the Composition of Trade" |
| Friday, December 9 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Wenbiao Cai University of Iowa (PhD Student) Topic: "Skill Accumulation and Sectoral Productivity Differences Across Countries" |
| Wednesday, December 14 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM C31 PC |
Taisuke Otsu Yale University Topic: "Robust Estimation and Inference for Moment Condition Models" Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3
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Spring 2011
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, January 11 12:30-2:00 PM C121 PBB |
Braz Camargo Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV Topic: "Trading Dynamics in Decentralized Markets with Adverse Selection" |
| Wednesday, February 16 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Jinwoo Kim Yonsei University Topic: "Weak Cartels and Collusion-Proof Auctions" |
| Thursday, February 17 4:00-5:30 PM S181 PBB |
Gabor Virag University of Rochester Topic: "Auctions in Markets: Common Outside Options and the Continuation Value Effect " |
| Monday, February 21 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Harry Paarsch University of Melbourne Topic: "Competition and Post-Transplant Outcomes in Cadaveric Liver Transplantation Under the MELD Scoring System" |
| Wednesday, February 23 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Martin Gervais University of Southampton Topic: "On the Optimality of Age-Dependent Taxes and the Progressive U.S. Tax System" |
| Thursday, February 24 4:00-5:30 PM S181 PBB |
Alice Schoonbroodt University of Southampton Topic: "Property Rights and Efficiency in OLG Models with Endogenous Fertility" |
| Monday, March 21 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Paul Klein University of Southampton Topic: "Should Day Care be Subsidized" |
| Tuesday, March 22 11:30 AM-1:00 PM C10 PC |
John Knowles University of Southampton Topic: "Why are Married Men Working So Much? Relative Wages, Labor Supply and the Decline of Marriage" |
| Tuesday, March 29 4:00-5:30 PM W181 PBB |
Michael Waugh New York University, Stern School of Business Topic: "On Cyclical Fluctuations in International Trade Volumes" |
| Wednesday, March 30 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Jungmo Yoon Claremont McKenna College Topic: "Nonparametric Estimation and Inference on Conditional Quantile Processes" (paper available only by request to: economics@uiowa.edu) |
| Wednesday, April 13 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Chao Fu University of Wisconsin, Madison Topic: "Equilibrium Tuition, Applications, Admissions and Enrollment in the College Market " |
| Thursday, April 14 4:00-5:30 PM S181 PBB |
Nicholas Yannelis Univ. of Illinois and Univ. of Manchester (England) Topic: "Ambiguity Aversion Solves the Conflict Between Efficiency and Incentive Compatibility" and "A New Perspective to Rational Expectations: Maximin Rational Expectations Equilibrium" |
| Friday, April 15 10:30 AM-Noon (Joint seminar with Finance) C31 PC |
Anne Villamil University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) Topic: "Costly Intermediation & Consumption Smoothing " |
| Tuesday, April 19 4:00-5:30 PM S181 PBB |
Joshua Cherry University of Michigan Topic: "Unattainable Payoffs for Repeated Games of private Monitoring" |
| Friday, April 22 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Seung-Gyu (Andrew) Sim University of Tokyo Topic: "Wage Dynamics with Private Learning-by-doing and On-the-job Search" |
| Monday, April 25 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Stephan Lauermann University of Michigan Topic: "Auctions with Bidder Solicitation" (no paper available) |
| Wednesday, April 27 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Kengo Kato Hiroshima University Topic: "Group Lasso for High Dimensional Sparse Quantile Regression Models" |
| Monday, May 2 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Tiemen Woutersen Johns Hopkins University Topic: "Endogeneity and Imperfect Instruments: Estimating Bounds for the Effect of Early Childbearing on High School Completion " |
| Thursday, May 26 Noon-1:00 PM TBA |
Martin Gervais University of Southampton Topic: "Technology Adoption and Labor Market Dynamics" (paper not available) |
| Wednesday, June 1 Noon-1:00 PM W181 PBB |
German Cubas Central Bank of Uruguay/University of Republic Topic: "The Allocation of Talent, Economic Development and Skill Premia" |
Fall 2010
| DATE | SPEAKER |
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| Wednesday, September 8 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Jin Li Northwestern University Topic: "Relational Contracts, Efficiency Wages, and Employmnet Dynamics" |
| Wednesday, September 22 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Aldo Rustichini University of Minnesota Topic: "Experiments in Repeated Games" (no paper available) |
| Monday, September 27 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Ali Shourideh University of Minnesota Topic: "Risk Sharing, Inequality, and Fertility" |
| Thursday, October 7 3:30-5:00 PM C131 PC |
Hector Chade Arizona State University Topic: "Optimal Insurance with Adverse Selection" |
| Wednesday, October 13 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Loukas Karabarbounis University of Chicago Topic: "Labor Wedges and Open Economy Puzzles" |
| Monday, October 18 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Toni Braun Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Topic: "Real Balance Effects When the Nominal Interest Rate is Zero" |
| Monday, October 25 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Nicholas Kiefer Cornell University Topic: "Correlated Defaults, Temporal Correlation, Expert Information and Predictability of Default Rates" |
| Wednesday, October 27 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
John Kennan University of Wisconsin Topic: "Higher Education Subsidies and Human Capital Mobility" |
| Monday, November 1 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Antonio Penta University of Wisconsin, Madison Topic: "Robust Dynamic Mechanism Design" |
| Monday, November 8 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Odilon Camara University of Southern California Topic: "Taxes, Public goods and Policies of (In)Competent Politicians" |
| Tuesday, November 9 4:00-5:30 PM C31 PC |
Mark Bils University of Rochester Topic: "Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?" |
| Wednesday, November 10 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Holger Sieg University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Agglomeration Externalities and the Dynamics of Firm Location Choices" |
| Thursday, November 11 4:00-5:30 PM C31 PC |
Nicholas Sly University of Oregon Topic: "Skill Acquisition, Incentive Contracts and Jobs: Labor Market Adjustment to Trade" |
| Monday, November 15 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
M. Bumin Yenmez Carnegie Mellon University Topic: "Ex Post Implementation with Applications" |
| Tuesday, November 16 4:00-5:30 PM C131 PC |
Tim Conley University of Western Ontario Topic: "Inference with Dependent Data Using Cluster Covariance Estimators" |
| Wednesday, November 17 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Alejandro Badel Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Topic: "Understanding Permanent Black-White Earnings Inequality" |
| Thursday, November 18 4:00-5:30 PM C31 PC |
Anson Ho University of Iowa Topic: "On the Effects of Tax-deferred Saving Accounts" |
| Friday, November 19 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Haimanti Banerjee University of Iowa Topic: "Consumption Commitments and Precautionary Savings" |
| Tuesday, December 7 4:00-5:30 PM C131 PC |
Salvador Navarro University of Wisconsin-Madison Topic: "Identification and Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects: How the Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes" |
| Friday, December 10 3:30-5:00 PM S307 PBB |
Kyungchul Song University of Pennsylvania Topic:"Simulated MLE for Discrete Choices using Transformed Simulated Frequecies" |
Spring 2010
| DATE | SPEAKER |
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| Tuesday, February 2 4:15-5:15 PM C121 PBB |
Parantap Basu Durham University Topic: Does Government Spending on Education Promote Growth and Schooling Returns? |
| Wednesday, February 3 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Parantap Basu Durham University Topic: "Inflation, Human Capital and Tobin's q" |
| Friday, February 19 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Eric Young University of Virginia Topic: "Robustness, Information-Processing Constraints, and the Current Account in Small Open Economies" |
| Wednesday, February 24 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Morris Davis University of Wisconsin Topic: "Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration" |
| Friday, February 26 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Alp Atakan Northwestern University, Kellogg MEDS Topic: "Reputation in Long-run Relationships" |
| Wednesday, March 3 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Gueorgui Kambourov University of Toronto Topic: "The Heterogeneity and Dynamics of Individual Labor Supply over the Life Cycle: Fasts and Theory" |
| Friday, March 12 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Carlos Garriga Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Topic: "A General Equilibrium Theory of College with Education Subsidies, In-School Labor Supply, and Borrowing Constraints" |
| Wednesday, March 24 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Pedro Silos Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Topic: "Fixed-Term and Permanent Labor Contracts as Bargaining Outcomes: Theory and Evidence" |
| Monday, March 29 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
David Rahman University of Minnesota Topic: But Who will Monitor the Monitor? |
| Wednesday, April 7 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Mattias Polborn University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Topic: "Competition Between Specialized Candidates" |
| Thursday, April 8 4:15-5:30 PM C121 PBB |
Enchuan Shao Bank of Canada Topic: "Firm Entry and Labor Market Dynamics" |
| Monday, April 12 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Roc Armenter Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Topic: "Fraud Deterrence in Dynamic Mirrleesian Economies" |
| Friday, April 16 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Ron Harstad University of Missouri Topic: "Behavioral Efficiency: Toward Normative Analysis for Field Experiments" (no paper available) |
| Monday, April 19 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Ana Cecilia Fieler University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Non-Homotheticity and Bilateral Trade: Evidence and a Quantitative Explanation" |
| Wedneday, April 21 Starts at 7:30 PM Lecture Room I, Van Allen Hall |
Yuri Maltsev Carthage College, Wisconsin Topic: "The Death of the Evil Empire and the Rise of Socialism in the XXIst Century" (no paper available) |
| Monday, April 26 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Hiro Ishise Boston University Topic: "The World Has More Than Two Countries: Implications of Multi-country International Real Business Cycle Models" |
| Friday, April 30 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Brian Rogers Northwestern University, Kellogg MEDS Topic: "Symmetries in Repeated Coordination Games" (no paper available) |
| Wednesday, May 5 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Kjetil Storesletten Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Topic: "Growing Like China" |
| Friday, May 7 1:30-3:00 PM C129 PC |
Christopher Taber University of Wisconsin, Madison Topic: "Methods for Using Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables" (no paper available) |
| Monday, May 14 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Ayca Ozdogan University of Minnesota Topic: "Reputation Effects in Two-sided Incomplete-Information Games" |
| Wednesday, May 26 3:30-5:00 PM C10 PC |
Roman Sustek University of Iowa (Visiting Assistant Professor) Topic: "The High Cross-country Correlations of Prices and Interest Rates" |
| Wednesday, June 9 3:30-5:00 PM C31 PC |
Harry Paarsch University of Melbourne "On the Asymptotic Distribution of the Transaction Price in a Clock Model of a Multi-Unit, Oral, Ascending-Price Auction within the Common-Value Paradigm" |
Fall 2009
| DATE | SPEAKER |
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| Monday, August 31 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Jonathan Weinstein Kellogg School of Management, MEDS Topic: The Impact of Incomplete Information, based on "A Structure Theorem for Rationalizability in Infinite-Horizon Games" |
| Monday, September 28 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Topic: "The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States" |
| Friday, October 2 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Antonio Galvao University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Topic: "Quantile Regression for Dynamic Panel Data with Fixed Effects" |
| Monday, October 5 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Lutz Hendricks University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Topic: "Student Abilities During the Expansion of U.S. Education, 1950-2000 " |
| Friday, October 9 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Brett Green Northwestern University Topic: "Waiting for News in the Market for Lemons" |
| Monday, October 12 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Jeremy Fox University of Chicago Topic: "Estimating Matching Games with Transfers " |
| Tuesday, October 13 4:00-5:30 PM TBA |
Simeon Alder University of Notre Dame Topic: "In the Wrong Hands: Complementarities, Resource Allocation, and Aggregate TFP" |
| Wednesday, October 14 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Kim-Sau Chung University of Minnesota Topic: "Object-Based Unawareness: Theory and Applications" |
| Thursday, October 15 4:00-5:30 PM C107 PBB |
Burhanettin Kuruscu University of Texas, Austin Topic: "Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis" |
| Monday, October 19 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Arthur Robson Simon Frasier University Topic: "The Evolution of Decision and Experienced Utilities" |
| Monday, October 26 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Mitsukuni Nishida Johns Hopkins University Topic: "Estimating a Model of Strategic Network Choice: The Convenience-Store Industry in Okinawa" |
| Tuesday, October 27 TBA TBA |
Marina Azzimonti University of Texas, Austin Topic: "Barriers to Investment in Polarized Societies" |
| Friday, October 30 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Maksym Obrizan University of Iowa Topic: "Sample Selection and the Probability of Stroke Among the Oldest Americans" |
| Monday, November 2 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Dhritiman Bhattacharya University of Iowa Topic: "Aggregate Barriers, Establishment Size and Economic Development " |
| Wednesday, November 4 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Brent Hickman University of Iowa Topic: "Affirmative Action in College Admissions: Theory and Estimation " Theory paper and Empirical paper |
| Monday, November 9 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Natalia Ramondo University of Texas, Austin Topic: "The "Proximity-Concentration" Tradeoff in a Risky Environment" |
| Wednesday, November 11 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Piyusha Mutreja University of Iowa Topic: "International Trade and Cross-Country Capital Composition" |
| Friday, November 13 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Yigit Saglam University of Iowa Topic: "Dynamic Water Resource Management: Optimal Pricing of Water " |
| Monday, November 16 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Martin Gervais University of Southhampton Topic: "Optimal Fiscal Policy over the Business Cycle Revisited " |
| Wednesday, December 2 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Dino Gerardi Yale University Topic: "The Role of Commitment in Bilateral Trade " |
| Monday, December 7 3:30-5:00 PM S181 PBB |
Ananth Seshadri University of Wisconsin, Madison Topic: "Neoclassical Miracles " |
Spring 2009
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| January 20 |
Pricila Maziero University of Minnesota Topic: “Non-exclusive Dynamic Contracts, Competition, and the Limits of Insurance” |
| January 21 |
KyungMin Kim University of Pennsylvania Topic: “Endogenous Market Segmentation for Lemons” |
| January 26 |
Richard Chiburis Princeton University Topic: “Approximately Most Powerful Tests for Moment Inequalities” |
| January 28 |
Toru Kitagawa Brown University Topic: “Testing for Instrument Independence in the Selection Model” |
| January 29 |
Connan Snider University of Minnesota Topic: “Predatory Incentives and Predation Policy: The American Airlines Case” |
| January 3 |
Tai-Wei Hu Penn State University Topic: “Complexity and Mixed Strategy Equilibria” |
| February 2 |
Demian Pouzo New York University Topic: “Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Default Under Incomplete Markets” |
| April 17 |
Satadru Hore University of Iowa Topic: "Put Options in General Equilibrium" |
| April 24 |
Ray Deneckere University of Wisconsin at Madison Topic: "Multi-Dimensional Screening with a One-Dimensional Allocation Space" |
| May 1 |
Sugata Marjit Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Topic: "Two Elementary Propositions on Fragmentation and Outsourcing in Pure Theory of International Trade" |
| May 4 |
Sugata Marjit Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta Topic: "General Trading Costs in Pure Theory of International Trade" |
| May 11 |
Hector Chade Arizona State University Topic: "A Supply and Demand Model of the College Admissions Problem" |
| May 12 |
Srihari Govindan The University of Iowa Topic: "Axiomatic Equilibrium Selection" |
| May 15 |
Ronald Wolthoff University of Chicago Topic: "Simultaneous Search and Recruitment" |
| May 29 |
Harry Paarsch University of Melbourne Topic: "Semiparametric Estimation in Models of First-Priced, Sealed-Bid Auctions with Affiliation" |
Fall 2008
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| September 3 |
Tanya Rosenblat Iowa State University Topic: "Experiments with Real World Social Networks" |
| September 10 |
Pedro Dal Bo Brown University Topic: "The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence" |
| September 15 |
Brian Roberson Miami University of Ohio Topic: "The Non-Constant-Sum Colonel Blotto Game" |
| September 19 |
Tomasz Strzalecki Northwestern University Topic: “Axiomatic Foundations of Multiplier Preferences" |
| September 29 |
Steven Callander Northwestern University Topic: “Modeling Issue Complexity in Politics" |
| October 3 |
Borys Grochulski Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Topic: “Nonseperable Preferences and Optimal Social Security Systems" |
| October 13 |
John Hejkal University of Iowa - PhD Candidate Topic: “Diffusion and Long-Run Mortality Decline" |
| October 15 |
Tim Hubbard University of Iowa - PhD Candidate Topic: "Trade and the Environment: "New" Insights" |
| October 17 |
Stefan Hoderlein University of Mannheim Topic: "Endogeneity in Semiparametric Binary Random Coefficient Models" |
| October 20 | Kyna Fong Stanford University Topic: "Evaluating Skilled Experts: Optimal Scoring Rules for Surgeons" |
| October 22 | Atsushi Oshima University of Iowa - PhD Candidate Topic: "Knowledge Diffusion and the Japanese Growth Miracle" |
| October 24 | Latchezar Popov University of Iowa - PhD Candidate Topic: "Enforcement Frictions and Optimal Lending Contracts" |
| October 27 | Erwan Quintin Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Topic: "The Poor, the Rich and the Enforcer: Institutional Choice and Efficiency" |
| October 29 | Clint Levitt University of Iowa - PhD Candidate Topic: "Learning Through Oil and Gas Explorations" |
| October 31 | Yuval Salant Northwestern University Topic: "Procedural Analysis of Choice Rules with Applications to Bounded Rationality" |
| November 3 | Yongseok Shin University of Wisconsin Topic: "Finance and Development: A Tale of Two Sectors" |
| November 7 | Mark Aguiar University of Rochester Topic: "Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation" |
| November 10 | Guillaume Frechette New York University Topic: "Bargaining and Reputation: Experimental Evidence on Bargaining in the Presence of Irrational Types" |
| November 14 | James Schmitz Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Topic: "Does Foreign Competition Spur Productivity: Evidence from Post WWII U.S. Cement Manufacturing" |
| November 19 | Alessandra Casella Columbia University Topic: "Storable Votes and Agenda Order Control: Theory and Experiments" |
| November 21 | Harry Paarsch University of Melbourne Topic: "Using Grid Distributions to Test for Affiliation in Models of First-Price Auctions with Private Values" |
| December 1 | Braz Camargo University of Western Ontario Topic: "Money and Memory" |
| December 1 | Arpad Abraham University of Rochester Topic: "Income Tax Progressivity and Hidden Savings: The FOC Approach in Two Periods" |
| December 5 | Marco Bassetto Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Topic: "Government Investment and the European Stability and Growth Pact" (with Vadym Lepetyuk) and "Public Investment and Budget Rules for State vs. Local Governments" (sole-authored). " |
| December 8 | Satadru Hore University of Iowa Department of Finance Topic: "Equilibrium Predictability and Other Return Characteristics" |
Spring 2008
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| January 16 | Maria Casanova University College London Topic: "Dynamic Complementarities: A Computational and Empirical Analysis of Couples' Retirement Decisions" |
| January 18 | Guillermo Ordonez University of California, Los Angeles Topic: "Fragility of Reputation and Clustering in Risk-Taking" |
| January 22 | Jennifer Brown University of California, Berkeley Topic: "Quitters Never Win: The (Adverse) Incentive Effects of Competing with Superstars" |
| January 23 |
Nathan Miller University of California, Berkeley Topic:"Strategic Leniency and Cartel Enforcement" |
| January 25 |
David Lagakos University of California, Los Angeles Topic: "Superstores or Mom and Pops? Market Size, Technology Adoption, and TFP Differences" |
| January 30 |
Tomasz Sadzik Stanford University Topic: "Coordination in Learning to Play Nash Equilibrium" |
| February 5 | Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Aggregate Effects of AIDS on Development" |
| February 6 | Jayant Ganguli Cornell University Topic: "Ambiguity and Partially Revealing Rational Expectations Equilibria" |
| February 7 | Anastasios Karantounias New York University Topic: "Ramsey Taxation and Fear of Misspecification" |
| February 11 | Christopher Cotton Cornell University Topic: "Informational Lobbying and Competition for Access" |
| February 13 | Stefania Garetto University of Chicago Topic: "Input Sourcing and Multinational Production" |
| February 25 | Christopher Waller University of Notre Dame Topic: "Dynamic Taxation, Private Information and Money" |
| February 27 | Roozbeh Hosseini University of Minnesota Topic: "Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security" |
| February 28 | Guillaume Vandenbroucke University of Pennsylvania Topic: "The American Frontier: Technology versus Immigration" |
| February 29 | Maxim Ivanov Pennsylvania State University Topic: "Informational Control and Organizational Design" |
| March 3 | Francesca Carapella University of Minnesota Topic: "Banking panics and deflation in dynamic general equilibrium" |
| March 4 | Madhav Chandrasekher University of California, Berkeley Topic: "Discrete Models of Unforeseen Contingencies" |
| March 5 | Yiling Chen Yahoo! Research, New York Topic: "Bluffing and Strategic Reticence in Predition Markets" |
| March 6 | Natalia Kovrijnykh University of Chicago Topic: "Debt Contracts with Short-Term Commitment" |
| March 10 | Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Taxing Capital? Not a Bad Idea After All!" |
| March 13 | Kaiji Chen University of Oslo, Norway Topic: "A Quantitative Assessment of the Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate and the Current Account Balance" |
| March 26 | Linda Wong Visiting Associate Professor, University of Iowa Topic: "Black/White Intermarriage" |
| March 28 | Cristina Arellano University of Minnesota Topic: "Default and the Maturity Structure in Sovereign Bonds" |
| April 2 | Victor Rios-Rull University of Minnesota Topic: "Non Competitive Factor Prices and the Dynamics of Labor Share" |
| April 7 | Pedro Silos Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Topic: "Firm Entry and Labor Market Dynamics" |
| April 14 | Marco Casari Purdue University Topic: "How Enforcement Institutions Affect Markets" |
| April 18 | Luciano di Castro University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Topic: "Grid Distributions to Study Single Object Auctions" |
| April 21 | Fatih Guvenen University of Texas, Austin Topic: "Inferring Labor Income Risk From Economic Choices: An Indirect Inference Approach" |
| April 25 | Eduardo Faingold Yale University Topic: "Uniform Topology on Types and Strategic Convergence" |
| May 7 | Cecilia Rouse Princeton University Topic: "Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure" |
| May 9 | Daniela Iorio Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Topic: "Electoral Uncertainty and the Stability of Coalition Governments" |
| May 12 | Cristina Arellano University of Minnesota Topic: "Contract Enforcement and Firms' Financing" |
| May 13 | Guillaume Vandenbroucke University of Pennsylvania Topic: "The Evolution of Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis" |
| May 14 | Steven Callander Northwestern University Topic: "Searching for Good Policies: Repeated Elections, Learning, and Policy Dynamics" |
| May 19 | Qingmin Liu University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Reputation in Repeated Settlement Bargaining" |
Fall 2007
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| July 26 | Laurel Adams University of Iowa (Visiting Associate Professor, 2007-08) Topic: "Southern Multinationals" |
| August 22 | Maxim Ivanov Pennsylvania State University University of Iowa (Lecturer, 2007-08) Topic: "Informational Control and Organizational Design" |
| August 29 | Paolo Ghirardato Universita di Torino Topic: "Ambiguity in Asset Markets: Theory and Experiment" |
| August 31 | Remzi Kaygusuz Sabanci University Topic: "Social Security and Two-Earner Households" |
| September 6 | Ibrahim A. Elbadawi The World Bank (joint with African Studies Program) UCC Topic: "Explaining Darfur: Why Democratic Transition is Critical and How Current Peace Initiatives are Flawed" |
| September 14 | Jeremy Fox University of Chicago Topic: "Measuring the Efficiency of an FCC Spectrum Auction" |
| September 18 | Peter Rupert University of California, Santa Barbara Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Advisor Topic: "Houses, Jobs and Frictions: A Model of Job Mobility" |
| September 20 | Matthew Shum Johns Hopkins University Topic: "Estimating First-Price Auctions with Unknown Number of Bidders: A Misclassification Approach" |
| September 24 | Qingmin Liu Yale University & University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Information Acquisition and Reputation Dynamics" |
| October 5 | Anthony M. Kwasnica Pennsylvania State University Topic: "Markets, Moral Hazard, and Equilibrium Selection" |
| October 10 | Francesco Squintani Universita' degli Studi di Brescia Topic: "Mediation, Arbitration and Negotiation" |
| October 12 | Jonathan Eaton New York University Topic: "Global Rebalancing with Gravity: How Big is the Burden of Adjustment" |
| October 15 | Hyung Sun Choi University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation |
| October 17 | David Fuller University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation |
| October 19 | Bryan Engelhardt University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation Topic: "The Effect of Employment Frictions on Crime: Theory and Estimation" |
| October 22 | Michael Waugh University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation |
| October 24 | Neal Olitsky University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation |
| October 26 | Svetlana Demidova University of Georgia Topic: "Export Subsidies, Productivity and Welfare under Firm-Level Heterogeneity" |
| October 26 | Mark Kurt University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation |
| October 31 | Russell Hillberry University of Melbourne (Australia) Topic: "Structural Estimation and Solution of International Trade Models with Heterogeneous Firms" |
| November 2 | Chris Otrok University of Virginia Topic: "Optimal Stabilization Policy in a Model with Endogenouos Sudden Stops" |
| November 9 | Rodney Strachan University of Queensland Topic: "Bayesian Inference in the Time Varying Cointegration Model" |
| November 30 | Michael Peters University of British Columbia Topic: "Foundations of Hedonic Equilibrium: A Bayesian Approach" |
| December 6 | Che-Lin Su Northwestern University Topic: "Improving the Numerical Performance of BLP Structural Demand Estimators" |
| December 7 | Kenneth L. Judd Hoover Institution, Stanford University Topic: "Constrained Optimization Approaches to Estimation of Structural Models" |
| December 10 | Noah Williams Princeton University Topic: "The Conquest of South American Inflation" |
| December 11 | Dan Kovenock Purdue University Topic: "Multi-battle contests" |
| December 14 | Hulya Eraslan University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Strategic Voting over Strategic Proposals" |
Spring 2007
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| February 7 | Daniel Monte Yale University Topic: "Reputation and Bounded Memory" |
| February 9 | Ahu Gemici University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Family Migration and Labor Market Outcomes" |
| February 14 | Ananth Ramanarayanan University of Minnesota Topic: "International Trade Dynamics with Intermediate Inputs" |
| February 23 | Xianwen Shi Yale University Topic: "Optimal Auctions with Information Acquisition" |
| February 28 | Leena Rudanko University of Chicago Topic: "Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Risk in a Frictional Labor Market" |
| March 5 | Christopher Flinn New York University Topic:"Household Search and Health Insurance Coverage" |
| March 21 | Galina Vereshchagina University of Iowa Topic: "Consumption Commitments, Borrowing Constraints and Preferences for Risk" |
| March 28 | Gustavo Manso Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Topic: "Motivating Innovation" |
| March 30 | Robert Barro Harvard University Topic: "On the Welfare Costs of Consumption Uncertainty" (joint with Finance Department) |
| April 2 | Raj Chetty University of California, Berkeley Topic: "Cash-On-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior: New Evidence From the Labor Market" |
| April 11 | David Levine Washington University in St. Louis Topic: "Quality Ladders, Competition and Endogenous Growth" |
| April 16 | Steven Stern University of Virginia Topic: "Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information" |
| April 20 | Dirk Bergemann Yale University Topic: "Efficient Dynamic Auctions" |
| April 23 | Robin Hanson George Mason University Topic: "The Irrationality of Disagreement" |
| May 2 | Jerome Adda University College London Topic: "Career Progression and Formal versus On-The-Job Training" |
Fall 2006
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| August 28 | Igor Livshits University of Western Ontario Topic: "Accounting for the Rise in Consumer Bankruptcies" |
| September 4 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Princeton University Topic: "Trading Tasks: A Simple Theory of Offshoring" |
| September 18 | Braz Camargo University of Western Ontario Topic: "Learning in Society" |
| September 22 | Ignacio Esponda New York University Topic: "Behavorial Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection" |
| September 29 | Tom Sjostrom Rutgers University Topic: "Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace?" |
| October 13 | Stefania Albanesi Columbia University Topic: "Optimal Taxation of Entrepreneurial Capital with Private Information" |
| October 18 | Daijiro Okada Rutgers University Topic: "Growth of Strategy Sets, Entropy, and Nonstationary Bounded Recall" |
| October 20 | Balaz Szentes University of Chicago Topic: "On the Return to Venture Capital" |
| October 23 | Andriy Norets University of Iowa (PhD student) |
| October 25 | Olena Stavrunova University of Iowa (PhD student) |
| October 27 | Hector Chade Arizona State University Topic: "Repeated Games with Present-Biased Preferences" |
| October 30 | Yan Li University of Iowa (PhD student) |
| November 1 | Veronica Guerrieri Chicago GSB Topic: "Efficiency of Competitive Search Under Asymmetric Information" |
| November 8 | Enchuan Shao University of Iowa (PhD student) |
| November 10 | Orkhan Hasanaliev University of Iowa (PhD student) |
| November 13 | Kurt Lewis University of Iowa (PhD student) |
| November 16 | Jan Magnus University of Tilburg Topic: "Matrix Calculus and Econometrics" |
| December 4 | Gabriele Camera Purdue University Topic: " Price Dispersion with Directed Search" |
Spring 2006
| DATE | SPEAKER |
|---|---|
| January 30 | Mariano Tappata University of California, Los Angeles Topic: "Rockets and Feathers. Understanding Asymmetric Pricing" |
| February 1 | Yuzhe Zhang University of Minnesota Topic: "Dynamic Contracting, Persistent Shocks and Optimal Taxation" |
| February 7 | Hale Utar Pennsylvania State University Topic: "Employment Dynamics and Import Competition" |
| February 8 | Gabriel Weintraub Stanford University Topic: "Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics with Many Firms" |
| February 10 | Hengjie Ai University of Minnesota - Schedule Topic: "Incomplete information and equity premium in production economies" |
| February 27 | Mike Golosov MIT Topic: "Markets versus Government: Political Economy of Mechanisms" joint with Aleh Tsyvinski and Daron Acemoglu |
| March 3 | Paul Heidues University of Bonn, Germany Topic: "Competition and Price Variation when Consumers are Loss Averse" joint with Botond Koszegi |
| March 20 | Chris Sims Princeton University Topic: "Rational Inattention: A Research Agenda" |
| March 31 | Lones Smith University of Michigan Topic: "Tony Blair Meets Black Scholes?" |
| April 3 | Marco Battaglini Princeton University Topic: "A Dynamic theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt" |
| April 10 | Laura Veldkamp STERN NYU Topic: "Income Dispersion, Asymmetric Information and Fluctuations in Market Efficiency" |
| April 17 | Rody Manuelli University of Wisconsin Topic: "Explaining International Fertility Differences" |
| April 24 | Ariel Burstein UCLA Topic: "Trade Costs, Pricing-to-Market, and International Relative Prices" joint with Andrew Atkeson |
| April 28 | Toshihiko Mukoyama Concordia University Topic: "Matching with Precautionary Savings" joint with Per Krusell and Aysegul Sahin |
| May 5 | Ilya Segal Stanford University Topic: "Communication in Economic Mechanisms" |
Fall 2005 |
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| DATE | SPEAKER |
| September 9 | Martin Weitzman Harvard University joint with Finance Department Topic: "A Unified Bayesian Theory of Equity 'Puzzles' " |
| September 9 | Chad Syverson University of Chicago Topic: "Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices" |
| September 14 | Ivan Werning Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topic: "Inequality, Social Discounting and Estate Taxation" joint work with Emmanuel Farhi |
| September 21 | Christian Hellwig University of California, Los Angeles Topic: "Knowing what others know: Coordination Motives in Information Acquisition" joint work with Laura Veldkamp of New York University |
| September 22 | Asher Tishler Tel Aviv University - The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration Topic: "Investment Policies in Advanced Defense R&D Programs" joint work with Oren Setter, Tel Aviv University |
| September 23 | William Fuchs University of Chicago Topic: "Contracting with Repeated Moral Hazard and Private Evaluations" |
| September 30 | Arantxa Jarque University of Alicante, Spain Topic: "Repeated Moral Hazard and Effort Persistence" |
| October 5 | Yacine Ait-Sahalia Princeton University joint with Finance and Statistics Departments Topic: "Ultra High Frequency Volatility Estimation and Dependent Microstructure Noise" joint work with Per Mykland and Lan Zhang |
| October 7 | Bart Taub University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Topic: "The Dynamics of Strategic Information Flows in Stock Markets" |
| October 17 | Justin Wolfers University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School Topic: "Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk" |
| October 19 | Nobuhiko Terui Tohoku University Topic: "Estimating Heterogeneous Price Thresholds" |
| October 21 | John Nyman University of Minnesota joint with Department of Health Management & Policy Medicine Alumni Auditorium Topic: "Health Insurance Theory: The Case of Missing Welfare Gain" |
| October 26 | George Hall Yale University Topic: "The Response of Prices, Sales and Output to Temporary Changes in Demand" |
| October 28 | Ray Deneckere University of Wisconsin Topic: "Screening When Agents Are Non-Strategic: Does a Monopolist Need to Exclude?" |
| October 31 | Gustavo Ventura Pennsylvania State University Topic: "Macroeconomic Implications of Size-Dependent Policies" joint with Nezih Guner and Xu Yi |
| November 4 | Dmitriy Stolyarov University of Michigan Topic: "Obsolescence of Durables and Optimal Consumption" |
| November 7 | Kei Mu Yi Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Topic: "Vertical Specialization and the Border Effect Puzzle" |
| November 16 | Elwin Tobing The University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation Topic: "Demography and International Savings Rates Differences" |
| November 21 | Noah Williams Princeton University Topic: "Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution Forecast Targeting" joint with Lars Svensson |
| November 28 | Tim Kehoe University of Minnesota Topic: "New Developments in Trade Theory and Empirics" |
| November 29 | William Thomson University of Rochester Topic: "Children crying at birthday parties. Why? Fairness and incentives for cake division problems" |
| November 30 | Mirko Wiederholt Humboldt University of Berlin Topic: "Optimal Sticky Prices under Rational Inattention" |
| December 5 | Giuseppe Moscarini Yale University Topic: "Asymmetric Information and Employment Fluctuations" |
| December 7 | Necati Tekatli The University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation Topic: "Understanding Sources of the Volatility Change in G7 Economies" |
| December 8 | James Chapman The University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation Topic: "Policy in International Payment Systems with a Timing Friction" |
| December 9 | Todd Walker The University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation Topic:"Estimating Default with Discrete Duration and Structural Models" |
| December 12 | Felicia Ionescu The University of Iowa - Job Market Presentation Topic: "Federal Student Loan Program: Quantitative Implications for College Enrollment and Default Rates" |
Spring 2005 |
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| DATE | SPEAKER |
| January 28 | Yusufcan Masatlioglu New York University Topic: "Rational Choice with Status Quo Bias" |
| January 31 | Carlos Serrano University of Minnesota Topic: "The Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents" |
| February 2 | Jawwad Noor Butt University of Rochester Topic: "Temptation and Choice" |
| February 4 | Jiawei Chen Johns Hopkins University Topic: "Two-Sided Matching and Spread Determinants in the Loan Market: An Empirical Analysis" |
| February 7 | Alberto Martin Columbia University Topic: "Endogenous Credit Cycles and Financial Dampening in an Adverse Selection Economy" |
| February 9 | Ayca Kaya Stanford University Topic: "Repeated Signaling Games" |
| February 11 | Daniela Puzzello Purdue University Topic: "A Theoretical Foundation for Matching Frameworks" |
| February 14 | Ying Chen Yale University Topic: "Perturbed Communication Games with Honest Senders and Naive Readers" |
| February 16 | Jing Zhang University of Minnesota Topic: "Explaining the Cross-Section Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle" |
| March 2 | Allan Timmerman University of California, San Diego Topic: "Testable Implications of Forecast Optimality" |
| March 4 | Elena Pastorino University of Pennsylvania Topic: "Career Dynamics Under Uncertainty: Estimating the Value of Firm Experimentation" |
| March 4 | Mo Xiao University of Rochester Topic: "Do Entry Conditions Vary over Time?" |
| March 21 | Oscar Volij Iowa State University Topic: "Measuring Segregation" joint with David Frankel |
| April 1 | Yossi Feinberg Stanford University Topic: "Games with Incomplete Awareness" |
| April 6 | Edi Karni Johns Hopkins University Topic: "Subjective Expected Utility Theory without States of the World" |
| April 7 | Edi Karni Johns Hopkins University Presentation to Math Econ I class |
| April 8 | Edi Karni Johns Hopkins University |
| April 15 | Victor Chernozhukov Massachusetts Institute of Technology Topic: "Quantile Regression under Misspecification, with an Application to the U.S. Wage Structure" joint with Joshua Angrist and Ivan Fernandez-Val |
| April 18 | Marek Kapicka University of Chicago Topic: "Optimal Taxation with Persistent Shocks: A First Order Approach" |
| April 20 | Han Hong Duke University Topic: "Semiparametric Efficiency in GMM Models of Nonclassical Measurement Errors, Missing Data and Treatment Effects" |
| April 25 | Edward J. Vytlacil Stanford University Topic: "Threshold Crossing Models and Bounds on Treatment Effects: A Nonparametric Analysis," joint with Azeem Shaikh |
| April 27 | Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh New York University, Stern School of Business Topic: "Information Immobility and the Home Bias Puzzle" joint with Laura Veldkamp |
| April 29 | Tom Holmes University of Minnesota Topic: "The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density" |
| May 2 | Aleh Tsyvisnki University of California, Los Angeles Topic: "Copyrights, price discrimination, and hidden trading: lessons from Ricardian theory of innovations" |
| May 6 | Dean Corbae University of Texas Topic: "Credit Scoring and Competitive Pricing of Default Risk" |
Fall 2004 |
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| DATE | SPEAKER |
| August 27 | Lena Edlund Columbia University Topic: "Unmarried Parenthood and Redistributed Politics" |
| September 17 | Joel Sobel University of California, San Diego Topic: "A Model of Positive Self-Image in Subjective Assessments" with Luis Santos-Pinto |
| September 27 | Peter Klibanoff Northwestern MEDS Topic: "A Smooth Model of Decision Making under Ambiguity" |
| September 29 | Andrew Atkeson UCLA Topic: "The Optimal Degree of Discretion in Monetary Policy" |
| October 8 | Yuliy Sannikov University of California, Berkeley Topic: "Impossibility of Collusion under Imperfect Monitoring with Flexible Production," joint with Andy Skrzypacz |
| October 11 | Matthias Doepke University of California, Los Angeles Topic: "Real Effects of Inflation: the Role of Redistribution through Nominal Debt" joint with Martin Schneider |
| October 18 | Adriano Rampini Northwestern University Topic: "New or Used? Investment with Credit Constraints" joint with Andrea Eisfeldt |
| October 22 | James Anton Duke University, Fuqua School of Business Topic: "Attracting Skeptical Buyers" |
| October 25 | Jorge Soares George Washington University Topic: "Borrowing Constraints, Parental Altruism and Human Capital Accumulation" |
| October 29 | Chris Shannon University of California, Berkeley Topic: "What to Maximize if You Must" |
| November 1 | Pedro Silos The University of Iowa Topic: "Housing, Portfolio Choice, and the Macroeconomy" |
| November 3 | George Neumann The University of Iowa Topic: "The Job Ladder" |
| November 8 | Jeremy Greenwood University of Rochester Topic: "Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households" |
| November 10 | Ikko Fukutomi The University of Iowa Topic: "Assortative Mating in U.S. Marriage Markets" |
| November 12 | Alessandra Fogli Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis/New York Topic: "An Empirical Investigation of Beliefs, Work, and Fertility" |
| November 15 | Fabrizio Perri Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Topic: "The international diversification puzzle is not as bad as you think" |
| November 29 | Paolo Ghirardato The University of Iowa Topic: "Ambiguity and Asset Prices: An Experimental Perspective" (joint with Peter Bossaerts, Serena Guarnaschelli and Bill Zame) |
| December 2 | Anil Bera University of Illinois joint with Department of Statistics Colloquium Topic: "Testing Spatial Autoregressive Model and a Formulation of Spatial ARCH (SARCH) Model with Applications" |
