Seminar Schedule
FALL 2008
TIME & PLACE (Unless announced otherwise)
Wednesdays:
12:20 to 1:20.
(Room 434A)
Fridays:
2:30 -4:00
(Room 350)
August 27th:
No Meeting
August 29st:
No Meeting
September 3rd: William R Hauk (USC)
"US Export and Import Elasticities: A Panel Data
September 5th: Dan Qu (USC)
"An Empirical Study of Compensating Wage Differentials:
Evidence from Employer-Provided Health Insurance"
(Oral Comp. Exam at 10:30 AM
All faculty and students welcome)
September 10th: TBA
TBA
September 12th: Meta Brown (NY Fed)
"A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education"
September 17th: TBA
TBA
September 19th: Qihong Liu (University of Oklahoma)
"Customer Poaching, Coupon Trading and Consumer Arbitrage"
September 24th: TBA
TBA
September 26th: Steven Stern (University of Virginia)
"Marriage, Divorce, and Asymmetric Information"
October 1st: Paulo Guimarães (USC)
"Comparing the early research performance of PhD
graduates in labor economics in Europe and the
USA" (joint with Ana Rute Cardoso, and Klaus F.
Zimmermann)
October 3rd: Richard C Lindrooth (MUSC) (CANCELLED)
TBA
FALL BREAK
(NO MEETING)
October 15th: TBA
TBA
October 17th: Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia University)
TBA
October 22nd: TBA
TBA
October 24th: TBA
TBA
October 29th: Erica Morgan(USC)
"Examining the relationship between birth order, risk attitudes and Teenage behavior"
October 31st: Mina Kim (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
"Integration, Agglomeration, and Costly Adjustment of Labor"
November 5th: TBA
TBA
November 7th: Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
"Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence"
November 12th: TBA
TBA
November 14th: John Whitehead (Appalachian State U.)
November 19th: John Gordanier (joint with Chun-Hui Miao)
"On the Duration of Technology Licencing"
November 21sth:
SEA CONFERENCE AND THANKSGIVING BREAK (NO MEETING)
December 3rd: Matthew Clark(KSU)
"Effects of High Commodity Prices on Cropping Patterns and the Ogallala Aquifer"
December 5th: Erik Lichtenberg (University of Maryland)
"Catologing Life on Earth: Implications for International Trade"
"Catologing Life on Earth: Implications for International Trade - Supplements"
SEE YOU NEXT SEMESTER!
Wednesday
October 29th
Erica Morgan
Friday
October 31st
Mina Kim