Date

Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic

Friday
September 17
3pm

James Poterba
(MIT)
"Tax Motivated Trading by Individual Investors"

Friday
September 24
3pm

Jesse Rothstein
(Princeton University)
"Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap"

Tuesday
September 28
3pm

Nuno Garoupa
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
"Least Cost Avoidance"

Friday
October 8
3pm

Haldun Evrenk
(Suffolk University)
"Mackerels in the Moonlight: A Model of Corrupt Politicians"

Friday
October 15
2pm

Andrés Carvajal
(Yale University)
"Global identification from the equilibrium manifold under incomplete markets"

Friday
October 22
3pm

Fabio Ghironi
(Boston College)
"Business Cycles and Firm Dynamics"

Thursday
October 28
3pm

Karl Storchmann
(Yale University)
"Long-run gasoline demand and income distribution"

Thursday
November 4
4pm

Nancy Luke
(Brown University)
"Exchange and Condom Use in Sexual Relationships in Urban Kenya"
(joint with Population Center)

Friday
November 5
3pm

Jeffrey Cohen
(University of Hartford)
"Capital Asset Value Impact of Airports and Highways in the Presence of Higher Order Spatial Autocorrelation"

Thursday
November 11
4pm

Michelle Budig
(University of Massachusetts)
"Intersections on the Road to Self-Employment: Gender, Family, and Occupational Class"
(joint with Population Center)

Thursday
November 11
4pm (Dodd Center)

Arvind Panagariya
(Columbia University)
"Emerging India: Threat or Opportunity?"

Friday
November 12
3pm

Bruce Weinberg
(Ohio State University)
"Creative Careers: The Life Cycles of Nobel Laureates in Economics"

Friday
November 19
3pm

Monika Schnitzer
(University of Munich)
"Global versus local: the financing of foreign direct investment"

Thursday
December 2
4pm

Joyce Jacobsen
(Wesleyan University)
"Earnings Inequality Within and Across Gender Racial, and Ethnic Groups in Latin America"
(joint with Population Center)

Friday
December 3
3pm

Steven Yamarik
(Tufts University)
"Regional Integration and Economic Growth: Is There a Link?"

Thursday
December 9
3pm

Wayne Gray
(Clark University)
"The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments: Who Got Cleaner Air and Who Paid for It?"

Tuesday
August 24
10am

Reza Hossain
(University of Connecticut)
"Essays on the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), Information Externalities and Credit Rationing"
(PhD Defense)

Monday
August 30
1pm

Tapas Ray
(University of Connecticut)
"Information Disclosure as Environmental Regulatory Policy"
(PhD Defense)

Monday
August 30
3pm

Ishita Sengupta
(University of Connecticut)
"Regulation of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) in Indian coal-based Thermal Power Plants"
(PhD Defense)

Wednesday
September 1
12:30pm

Paul Hallwood
(University of Connectictut)
"Financing Devolution"

Wednesday
September 8
12:30pm

Metin Cosgel
(University of Connectictut)
"Economics and Religion"

Wednesday
September 15
12:30pm

Subhash Ray
(University of Connectictut)
"Directional Distance Function and Measurement of Super-efficiency"

Friday
September 17
9am

Monika Lopez-Anuarbe
(University of Connecticut)
"Asset Divestment, Spend-Down, Medicaid Support, and Nursing Home Entry"
(PhD Proposal)

Wednesday
September 22
12:30pm

Christian Zimmermann
(University of Connectictut)
"Ranking Economic Research"

Wednesday
September 29
12:30pm

Basab Dasgupta
(University of Connectictut)
"Capital Accumulation in the Presence of Informal Credit Contract: Does Incentive Mechanism Work Better than Credit Rationing Under Asymmetric Information?"

Wednesday
October 6
12:30pm

Zhiwei Ma
(University of Connectictut)
"A Semiparametric Method for House Pricing"

Monday
October 8
10am

Jieling Chen
(University of Connecticut)
"Economic Analysis of Prescription Drug Demand for Psychotropics: the Impact of Out-of-Pocket Payments"
(PhD Proposal)

Wednesday
October 13
12:30pm

Kristin Roti-Jones
(University of Connectictut)
"Bankruptcy and Dangerous Products: the U.S. Asbestos Litigation"

Wednesday
October 20
12:30pm

David Weakliem
(University of Connectictut)
"The Roper Center as a Resource for Research in Economics"

Wednesday
October 27
9am

Stan McMillen
(University of Connecticut)
"Substitutability and Sustainable Economic Growth"
(PhD Defense)

Wednesday
October 27
12:30pm

Rangan Gupta
(University of Connectictut)
"Costly State Monitoring and Reserve Requirements: A Quantitative Study in the Context of Southern European Countries"

Wednesday
November 3
12:30pm

Xia Wang
(University of Connectictut)
"Alliance Form and the Knowledge-based Theory of the Firm: Analysis and Empirical Evidence"

Friday
November 5
10am

Jieling Chen
(University of Connecticut)
"Economic Analysis of Prescription Drug Demand for Psychotropics: the Impact of Out-of-Pocket Payments"
(PhD Defense)

Wednesday
November 10
12:30pm

Gautam Tripathi
(University of Connectictut)
"Combining datasets to overcome selection caused by censuring and truncation in moment based models"

Wednesday
November 17
12:30pm

Vicki Knoblauch
(University of Connectictut)
"Characterizing Preference Representations"

Wednesday
December 1
12:30pm

Stephen Kuchta
(University of Connectictut)
"Pharmacogenomic Patents: The Economics of Biogenerics"

Friday
December 3
1pm

Anasua Bhattacharya
(University of Connecticut)
"Managed Care: A Force for "Cost-Containment" or a Source of Higher Health Care Spending?"
(PhD Proposal)