All Seminars are in Monteith, Room 339, at 3:00 pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted.  Seminar Papers are available for review in HRM 330. For more information, contact Dhammika Dharmapala.

Brownbag workshops are held Tuesdays at 11:30 pm, also in Monteith 339. Generally, no paper will be made available. For more information, contact Christian Zimmermann

 

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
September 9 (Brownbag)	Christian Zimmermann (University of Connecticut) "Do Voters Accept Unemployment Insurance Subsidies Across Regions? A Canadian Simulation"
September 12	Samson Kimenyi (University of Connecticut) "Public Policy Research for Development: Experiences and Lessons"
September 16 (Brownbag)	Jai Mah (Dankook University) "The Effectiveness of Export Promotion Policy in Japan"
September 19	Sean Masaki Flynn (Vassar College) "Does Noise Trader Risk Limit Arbitrage Activities?"
September 23 (Brownbag)	Tapas Ray (University of Connecticut) "Information Disclosure and the Choice of Quality: the Two Form Case"
September 26	Joseph Gyourko (University of Pennsylvania) "Urban Decline and Housing Reinvestment: The Role of Construction Costs and the Supply Side"
September 30 (Brownbag)	Susan Randolph (University of Connecticut) "Assessing Food Security in Rural Senegal"
October 3	Elias Khalil (American Institute of Economic Research and Vassar College) "A Rational Theory of Self-Integrity and Self-Rationalization"
October 7 (Brownbag)	Yanna Wu (University of Connecticut) "Do Horizontal Mergers Improve the Technical Efficiency of the U.S. Manufacturing Industry?"
October 10	Christopher Baum (Boston College) "The Impact of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Cash Holdings for Non-Financial Firms"
October 14 (Brownbag)	Ashish Narain (University of Connecticut) "Union Wage Premiums and Globalization: A Study of US wages, 1990-96"
October 17	Christiaan Hogendorn (Wesleyan University) "Excessive (?) Entry of National Telecoms Networks, 1990-2001"
October 21 (Brownbag)	Francis Ahking (University of Connecticut) "Is the U.S. Responsible for the Empirical Failure of Long-Run PPP?"
October 24	Gregory Besharov (Duke University) "Why Not Lump-Sum Taxation?"
October 28 (Brownbag)	Robert J. Martel (University of Connecticut) "Money, Output and Real Wages with Heterogeneous Labor and Monopolistic Firms"
October 31	Zhao Jian (Northern Jiaotong University) "A New Synthesis Model of the Firm"
November 4 (Brownbag)	Ishita Sengupta (University of Connecticut) "Regulation of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) in Indian Coal-Based Thermal Power Plants"
November 7	William Greene (New York University) "Estimating Econometric Models of Individual Heterogeneity"
November 11 (Brownbag)	Rezaul Hossain (University of Connecticut) "A Simple Model of Credit Rationing with Information Externalities"
November 14	Subhash Ray and Yanna Wu (University of Connecticut) "Technical Efficiency and Stock Market Reactions to Merger Announcements"
November 18 (Brownbag)	Natalia V. Smirnova (University of Connecticut) "Job Search Behavior of the Unemployed in Russia"
December 5 CANCELLED	Sylvia Brandt (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) "Of Coase and Clams"
December 12	Sune Karlsson (Stockholm School of Economics) "Bayesian simultaneous determination of structural breaks and lag lengths"