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All Seminars are in Monteith, Room 339, at
3:30 pm on Fridays, unless
otherwise noted.
Seminar Papers are available for review in Mont 330. For more information,
contact
Delia
Furtado or
Xenia
Matschke.
Brownbag workshops are held Tuesdays at 12:30 pm, also
in Monteith 339.
Generally, no paper will be made available. For more information,
contact
Christian
Zimmermann
Other presentations in connection with the Economics PhD program are
also listed on this schedule, as well as some events elsewhere on campus.
Locations are noted if not held at Monteith 339.
This schedule is continuously updated.
Check regularly!
Seminars
(Brownbags and other activites are further down)
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Date |
Presenter,
Affiliation, and
Topic |
Tuesday
January 17
3:30 pm | Recruitment
seminar |
Friday
January 20
3:30 pm | Recruitment
seminar |
Monday
January 23
3:30 pm | Recruitment
seminar |
Friday
January 27
3:30 pm | Recruitment
seminar |
Friday
February 3
3:00
pm | Recruitment
seminar |
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Monday
February 6
3:30pm |
John Straub
(Tufts University)
"Religious Competition and Charitable
Church Spending"
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Friday
February 10
3:30pm |
Eric Brunner
(Quinnipiac University)
"Universal Vouchers and White Flight"
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Friday
February 17
3:30pm |
Kenneth Couch
(University of Connecticut)
"The Earnings Impact of Job
Displacement Measured with Longitudinally Matched Individual and Firm
Data"
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Friday
February 24
3:30pm |
Irene Brambilla
(Yale University)
"Export Crops, Marketing Costs,
and Poverty"
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Friday
March 3
3:30pm |
Doireann Fitzgerald
(University of California, Santa Cruz)
"Trade Costs, Limited Enforcement
and Risk Sharing: A Joint Test"
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Friday
March 17
3:30pm |
John Brown
(Clark University)
"Productivity Growth and Protection in a Follower
Country: German
Cotton
Textiles, 1857-1913"
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Friday
March 24
3:30pm |
Chih-Ming Tan
(Tufts University)
"God is in the Details?: Religion and
Growth Reexamined"
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Monday
March 27
10:00amm |
Rodrigo
Saens
(University of Connecticut)
"Measuring Event Impacts Using Thinly
Traded Stocks: The Case of Chile"
(PhD thesis defense)
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Friday
March 31
1:30pm |
Jan Brueckner
(University of California, Irvine)
"Gentrification and Neighborhood Housing
Cycles: Will America's Future
Downtowns Be Rich?"
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Friday
March 31
3:30pm |
Fabian Lange
(Yale University)
"Chronic
Disease Burden and the Interaction of Education, Fertility, and
Growth"
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Friday
April 7
3:30pm |
Nathaniel Baum-Snow
(Brown University)
"The Effects of Changes in the Transportation
Infrastructure on Suburbanization: Evidence from
the Construction of the Interstate Highway
System"
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Friday
April 14
10:00am |
Anupam
Nanda
(University of Connecticut)
"Essays on the Determinants of Housing Prices"
(PhD thesis defense)
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Friday
April 14
3:30pm |
Anna Aizer
(Brown University)
"Wages, Violence and Health in
the Household"
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Friday
April 21
3:30pm |
Maria Luengo-Prado
(Northeastern University)
"On the user cost and home ownership"
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Friday
April 28
3:30pm |
Scott Taylor
(University of Calgary)
"Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons"
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Saturday
May 6
2:30pm
Gampel Pavilion |
Amartya Sen
(Harvard University)
"TBA"
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Friday
June 19
10:00am |
Anasua
Bhattacharya
(University of Connecticut)
"Essays on Managed Care Expenditure and Prevention"
(PhD thesis
defense)
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Brownbags and other
activities
See also the Macro Workshops
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Date |
Presenter,
Affiliation, and
Topic |
Tuesday
February 7
12:30pm |
Senol Ozturk
(University of
Connecticut)
"Protection or Promotion For Sale?: An Empirical
Investigation" |
Tuesday
February 14
12:30pm |
Nicholas Shunda
(University of
Connecticut)
"Strategic Behavior in Day-Ahead and Real-Time Markets for
Electricity: Offer Cost or Payment Cost Minimization?"
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Tuesday
February 21
12:30pm |
Philip Shaw and Marina
Katsaiti
(University of
Connecticut)
"Corruption and Growth: Under Weak Identification" |
Tuesday
February 28
12:30pm |
Nicholas Jolly
(University of
Connecticut)
Daniel Kennedy
(Connecticut Department of Labor)
"The Dynamics of the Connecticut Labor Market: Job Creation,
Destruction, and Reallocation"
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Tuesday
March 14
12:30pm |
Rasha Ahmed
(University of
Connecticut)
"Voluntary agreements: How do cars differ from washing
machines?" |
Tuesday
March 21
12:30pm |
Rimvydas Baltaduonis
(University of
Connecticut)
"An Experimental Design for a Study of Wholesale
Electricity Auctions" |
Tuesday
March 28
12:30pm |
Marius Jurgilas
(University of
Connecticut)
"Liquidity management in the money market" |
Tuesday
April 4
12:30pm |
Kenneth Petersen
(University of
Connecticut)
"Technology, Financial Innovation and the Bank-Lending
Channel of Monetary Policy" |
Tuesday
April 11
12:30pm |
Onur Celik
(University of
Connecticut)
"Marriage Matching and the Proposers' Advantage" |
Tuesday
April 18
12:30pm |
Zhiwei Ma
(University of
Connecticut)
"Identification and Estimation
of Housing Price" |
Tuesday
April 25
12:30pm |
Natalya Shelkova
(University of
Connecticut)
"Low-Wage Labor Markets and the Power of Suggestion" |
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