- Spring 2007
- Winter 2007
- Fall 2006
- Spring 2006
- Winter 2006
- Fall 2005
- Spring 2005
- Winter 2005
- Fall 2004
Economics Colloquium - Spring 2007
Social Science Plaza B
Rm. 3266
(unless otherwise indicated)
3.30pm
“Temptation, Guilt, and Finite Subjective State Spaces”
3.30pm
“Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina”
3.30pm
“The Sustainable Debts of Philip II: Revenues, Expenditures and Primary Surplus in Habsburg Spain, 1560-1598”(with Hans-Joachim Voth)
3.30pm
“Urban Growth and Transportation”(with G. Duranton)
3.30pm
“Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Northern Labor Markets, 1940-1970”
3.30pm
“Vacancies, Unemployment and the Phillips Curve”(with F. Ravenna)
3.30pm
“Airing Your Dirty Laundry: Vertical Integration, Reputational Capitol and Social Networks”(with R.Gil)
3.30pm
“Nonparametric Estimation of Auctions with Unobserved Number of Bidders: a Misclassification Approach”(with Y.Hu)
3.30pm
“Skills in the City”(with M.Bacolod and W.Strange)
2.00pm
“Telecommunications Regulation in U.S. States: Its Rise and Impacts in the Early Twentieth Century.”
3.30pm
“Sequential Peak-Load Pricing:The Case of Airports and Airlines”
3.30pm
“Stochastic Frontier Analysis”
Economics Colloquium - Winter 2007
Social Science Plaza B
Rm. 3266
(unless otherwise indicated)
*SSPA 2112* 4.00pm
“Incorporating Unawareness into Contract Theory”
12.30pm
“Multinational Spillovers Through Worker Turnover”
12.30pm
“The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment,” (with J. Lee and A. Rebucci)
3.30pm
“Diseases and Development,” (with C. Papageorgiou and F.P. Sebastian)
12.30pm
“Trade, Prices, and the Exchange Rate with Heterogeneous Producers and Endogenous Markups”
3.00pm
"Unawareness and Strategic Announcements in Games with Uncertainty"
3.30pm
"International Macroeconomic Dynamics, Endogenous Tradability and Foreign Direct Investment with Heterogeneous Firms"
*SSPA 2112* 4.00pm
"Voting Blocs, Coalitions and Parties"
3.30pm
"The Colonial Origins of War"
12.30pm
"Voting After the Bombing: Can Terrorist Attacks Change the Outcome of Democratic Elections?"
3.30pm
"Consumption of Real Exchange Rates in an Economy with Private Information"
3.30pm
"The Frequency of Price Adjustment and New Keynesian Business Cycle Dynamics"
*SSPA 2112* 10.00am
"Marginal Contributions and Externalities in the Value"
Economics Colloquium - Fall 2006
Social Sciene Plaza B
Rm. 3266, 3:30-5pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
“The Irrelevance of Market Incompleteness for the Price of Aggregate Risk,”
(with D. Krueger)
“Bilateral Trade Agreements and the Feasibility of Multilateral Free Trade,”
(with H.M. Yildiz)
“Endogenous Productivity and Development Accounting,”
(with R. Armenter)
"A Lakatosian Perspective on the Development of Theories of
Decision Making Under Risk"
“Transport Improvements, Agglomeration Economies and City Productivity:
Did Commuter Trains Raise Nineteenth Century British Wages?”
(with N. Crafts)
*12.30pm*
"Generalized Utilitarianism and Harsanyi's Impartial Observer Theorem"
"What Goods Do Countries Trade? New Ricardian Predictions"
“Early Selection”
“Air Travel Choices in Multi-Airport Markets,”
(with J. Ishii and S. Jun)
*12.30pm*
“Do Sticky Prices Need to Be Replaced with Sticky Information,”
(with T. Kitamura and T. Tsuruga)
*12.30pm*
“Electoral Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows”
Economics Colloquium, Spring 2006
Social Science Plaza B
Rm. 3266, 3:30-5pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
10 April
"A Pious and Profitable Mystery: Purgatory, Craft, and Cooperation in Late Medieval England," (with G. Richardson)
17 April
"Persuasion as a Contest," (with S. Vaidya)
24 April
"Implementing Optimal Monetary Policy in New-Keynesian Models with Inertia," (with G. Evans)
27 April
"Preferential Trade Agreements: What Is Wrong with Them and What We Can Do About Them."
1 May
"Structural Transformations and the Deterioration of of European Labor Market Outcomes"
9 May
"Mind Changes and the Design of Reporting Protocols"
15 May
"Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Consumption: New Evidence From Micro Data," (with R. Bostic and G. Painter)
17 May
"Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Schools," (with E. Cascio, E. Lewis, and S. Reber)
30 May
"The Young, the Old, and the Restless: Demographics and Business Cycle Volatility," (with Henry Siu).
5 June
"Valuing Lost Home Production of Dual Earner Couples," (with C. House and J. Laitner).
12 June
"Trade Costs and the First Wave of Globalization," (with C. Meissner and D. Novy)
Economics Colloquium, Winter 2006
Social Sciene Plaza
Building B, Rm. 3266
(unless otherwise indicated)
12 January
12.30-2pm
"The Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Prices: Evidence from CPI Data"
18 January
12.30-2pm
"Weak Identification Robust Tests in an Instrumental Quantile Model"
19 January
12.30-2pm
"The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes"
20 January
11.30-12.30pm
SSPA 2112
"An Impossible Trinity for Interactive Epistemology"
23 January
12.30-2pm
"Voucher-School Competition, Incentives, and Outcomes: Evidence from Chile"
25 January
12.30-2pm
"Nonparametric Estimation of Dynamic Panel Models"
2 February
12.30-2pm
"Identification and Estimation of Firms' Marginal Costs Functions with Incomplete Knowledge of Strategic Behavior"
8 February
12.30-2pm
"Reexamining the Long-Run Properties of the Real Interest Rate"
6 March
3.30-5pm
"Advertising in the US Personal Computer Industry"
13 March
3.30-5pm
"Stochastic Volatility with Leverage: Fast and Efficient Likelihood Inference," (with Y. Omori, N. Shephard and J. Nakajima)
Economics Colloquium, Fall 2005
Social Science Plaza A
Rm. 3132, 3:30-5pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
"Crime, Punishment, and Myopia," (with D.S. Lee)
"Conditional Cash Transfers, Public Provision of Private Goods, and Income Redistribution, " (with E. de Mattos)
"Monetary Policy, Endogenous Inattention, and the Volatility Trade-off," (with J. Carlson, G. Evans, and B. McGough)
"Two Sides of the Same Coin: U.S. 'Residual' Inequality and the Gender Gap," (with B.S. Blum)
"Puzzling Tax Structures in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Two Alternative Explanations," (with W. Li)
"Minimum Salaries, Employment Losses, and Labor Unions: The Case of Professional Football"
"Renegotiation and Relational Contracts"
"Shocks and Government Beliefs: The Rise and Fall of American Inflation," (with T. Sargent and N. Williams)
12.30-2.00pm
SSPB 3266
"Effects of Increased Access to Infertility Treatment on Infant and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Health Insurance Mandates"
"A Century of Work and Leisure," (with N. Francis)
"Marine Insurance in Britain and America, 1720-1844: A Comparative Institutional Analysis"
12.30-2.00pm
SSPB 3266
"A Bayesian Look at New Open Economy Macroeconomics," (with F. Schorfheide).
12.30-2.00pm
SSPB 3266
"Monetary Policy with Model Uncertainty: Distribution Forecast Targeting," (with L. Svensson)
Economics Colloquium, Spring 2005
Social Science Plaza A
Rm. 3132, 3:30-5pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
"The Impact of Monetary Policy During the Great Depression."
"Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Massachusetts Workforce Development System Using No-Shows as a Non-Experimental Comparison Group," (with M.A. Stoll)
"Identification of Search Models Using Record Statistics"
"History as a Luxury Good: The Impact of Historic Preservation on Housing Markets."
"Company Colonies, Property Rights, and the Extent of Settlement: A Case Study of Dutch South Africa, 1652-1795," (with S. J. La Croix)
"Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military," (with D. Cobb-Clark)
"From Empty Pews to Empty Cradles: Fertility Decline Among European Catholics," (with L. R. Iannaccone and G. Ragusa)
*Wed.*
"Asymptotics for Statistical Treatment Rules," (with J. R. Porter)
"Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition: An Analysis of US Restructured Electricity Markets," (with E. T. Mansur and C. Saravia)
"The long-run effect of Immigration on Productivity: Theory and Evidence from the U.S," (with G. I. P. Ottaviano)
"The Long-Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era," (with D. Almond)
"An Empirical Investigation of Patent Races: Evidence from Patent Priority Disputes at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office," (with J. Ishii)
Economics Colloquium, Winter 2005
Social Science Plaza
Building B, Rm.3266
(unless otherwise indicated)
14 January
12.00-1.30pm
"The Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates: Evidence and Implications for Macroeconomic Models," (with Refet S. Gürkaynak and Brian Sack)
19 January
12.00-1.30pm
"Expectations, Learning and Macroeconomics"
20 January
12.30-2pm
"An Interpretation of Fluctuating Macro Policies," (with Eric M. Leeper)
21 January
12.00-1.30pm
"Financial Intermediaries, Markets, and Growth," (with Falko Fecht and Kevin X.D. Huang)
24 January
12.00-1.30pm
"Two-Sided Matching and Spread Determinants in the Loan Market: An Empirical Analysis"
12.30-2pm
"The Scarring Effect of Recessions"
27 January
12.30-2pm
"Gasoline Price Spikes and Regional Gasoline Content Regulations: A Structural Approach"
7 February
12.00-1.30pm
"Price, Unit Value, and Quality Demanded"
8 February
12.30-2.00pm
"Does the Quality of the Judiciary Shape Economic Activity? Evidence from India"
11 February
1.00-2.30pm
"Empirical Analysis of Retail Competition: Spatial Differentiation at Wal-Mart, Amazon.com, and Their Competitors"
14 February
12.00-1.30pm
"Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty Is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay"
16 February
3.30-5.00pm
"The Limits of Equality: an Economic Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz"
28 February
12.00-1.30pm
"What Accounts for Recent Declines in Welfare Caseloads in the U.S.? The Role of Time Limits"
1 March
12.30-2.00pm
"Alternatives to GMM: Properties of Minimum Divergence Estimators"
23 March
12.30-2.00pm
"Job Displacement Risk and the Cost of Business Cycles"
Economics Colloquium, Fall 2004
Social Science Plaza
Rm. 3266, 3:30-5pm
(unless otherwise indicated)
"Longitudinal Outcomes of Subsidized Housing Recipients in Matched Survey and Administrative Data"
"Workers, Warriors and Criminals: Social Conflict in General Equilibrium," (with Pedro Dal Bo)
"How Are Sovereign Debtors Punished? Evidence from the Gold Standard Era, " (with Marc Weidenmier)
"Does Workplace Drug Testing Deter Drug Use?"
"The Persistence of Early Maturity: International Evidence of Long-Run Age Effects"
TBA
12.30-2pm
"The Effects of Time-Varying Retail Electricity Pricing."
"The Effect of Improved Fuel Economy on Vehicle Miles Traveled: Estimates Using U.S. State Panel Data," (with Kenneth A. Small)
"The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Distribution of Family Incomes: A Non-Parametric Analysis," (with Mark Schweitzer and William Wascher).
"Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monet Carlo Techniques," (with Alexandru Voicu)