|
Date |
Presenter, Affiliation, and
Topic |
|
Friday
September
9
3:30pm |
Antoine Martin
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
"Banks, Markets, and Efficiency"
|
|
Friday
September
16
3:30pm |
Richard
Arnott
(Boston College)
"Neutral
Property Taxation" and "The Property Tax
as a Tax on Value: Deadweight Loss"
|
Tuesday
September 20
4pm
Konover
Auditorium | David
Held
(London School of Economics)
"Globalization,
International Law and Human Rights" |
|
Friday
September
23
3:30pm |
Brian
Jacob
(Harvard University)
"What Do Parents Value in
Education? An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed
Preferences for Teachers"
|
Monday
September 26
1pm
Konover
Auditorium | Hernando de Soto
(Institute for
Liberty
and Democracy, Peru)
"Opening the Door to Economic Human
Rights" |
|
Friday
October
7
3:30pm |
Gary Jefferson
(Brandeis University)
"A Great Wall of Patents: What is Behind
China's Recent Patent
Explosion?"
|
|
Friday
October
14
3:30pm |
Heinrich
Hock
(Florida State University)
"The Pill and the College Attainment of American
Women and Men"
|
Wednesday
October 19
10am
Konover
Auditorium | Finn Kydland
Nobel
Prize winner 2004
(UC Santa
Barbara and Carnegie Mellon University)
"What makes a good
researcher" |
|
Friday
October
21
3:30pm |
Bjoern Bruegemann
(Yale University)
"Asymmetric Information and
Employment Fluctuations"
|
|
Thursday-Saturday
October
27-29
Dodd Center |
2005 Human Rights
Institute Conference
Economic
Rights:
Conceptual, Measurement and Policy Issues |
|
Friday
October
28
3:30pm |
Todd
Sinai
(University of Pennsylvania)
"Commitment, Risk and Consumption: Do Birds of
a Feather have Bigger Nests"
|
|
Friday
November
4
3:30pm |
Devashish
Mitra
(Syracuse University)
"Y2K and Offshoring: The Role of External
Economies and Firm Heterogeneity"
|
|
Friday
November
11
3:30pm |
Brian
Knight
(Brown University)
"The Political
Economy of School District Mergers"
|
|
Tuesday
November
15
3:30pm |
Stacy
Sneeringer
(Wellesley College)
"Concentrated
Livestock
Farming, Groundwater and Air Pollution, and Infant Health: An
Econometric Analysis"
|
|
Monday
November
21
3:30pm |
Robert Fairlie
(University of California Santa Cruz)
"Do Home Computers Improve Educational
Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997"
|
|
Friday
December
2
3:30pm |
Chad Bown
(Brandeis University)
"China's Export Growth: Threat to the International
Trading
System?"
|
|
Date |
Presenter, Affiliation, and
Topic |
Wednesday
September 7
12:00pm |
Phil
Shaw
(University of Connecticut)
"The Determinants of Educational Corruption in Ukraine's
Higher Educational Establishments"
|
Wednesday
September 14
12:00pm |
Peter
Siegelman
(University of Connecticut)
"Collaborative Opportunities for Economists at the Law School"
|
Wednesday
September 21
12:00pm |
Pat McPherron
(Connecticut Department of Labor)
"A General Theory of Labor Demand and
Supply"
|
Wednesday
September 28
12:00pm |
Christian
Zimmermann
(University of Connecticut)
"Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences"
|
Wednesday
October 5
12:00pm |
Anupam
Nanda
(University of Connecticut)
"Property Condition Disclosure Law: Does
'Seller Tell All' Matter in Property Values?"
|
Wednesday
October 12
12:00pm |
Xia
Wang
(University of Connecticut)
"Technology Diversification and Firm Performance"
|
Wednesday
October 19
12:00pm |
no brownbag
|
Wednesday
October 26
12:00pm |
Robert Johnston
(University of
Connecticut)
"Can Hypothetical Questions Reveal Actual Economic Values? Assessing
the
Criterion Validity of Stated Preference Responses Using Binding Public
Referenda"
|
Wednesday
November 2
12:00pm |
John Clapp
(University of
Connecticut)
"Real Options with Depreciating Assets: Implications for Hedonic
Models"
|
Wednesday
November 9
12:00pm |
Xenia Matschke
(University of
Connecticut)
"Costly Revenue-Raising and the Case for Favoring
Import-Competing Industries"
|
Wednesday
November 16
12:00pm |
Lyle Scruggs
(University of
Connecticut)
"Generosity of Social
Insurance Programs in the OECD 1970-2002"
|
Wednesday
November 23
12:00pm |
Martin Salm
(Duke University)
"Can subjective mortality expectations
and stated preferences explain varying
consumption and saving behaviors among the elderly?"
|
Wednesday
November 30
12:00pm |
Xiaozhong Liang
(University of
Connecticut)
"The
Optimal Capital Structure of Banks: An Application of Contigent
Claim Model"
|
Wednesday
December 7
12:00pm |
William Alpert
(University of
Connecticut)
"Does an Understanding of Economic Concepts Matter?"
|
