Seminars Workshops and Presentation Schedule

The departmental seminar series is organized by Professor Yamin Ahmad. If you would like to present, or have any questions, please feel free to contact him.

Spring 2013

Fall 2012

Spring 2012

Fall 2011

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Spring 2013

January - February

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February 22nd (Friday)

Michael Babington, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

"How does Minnesota's Open Enrollment Program Affect Student Performance"

Time 2:00pm  (Note: Different time to regular seminars)
Room: TBA

April

Alejandro Badel, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Topic: TBA

Evelina Mengova, Governors State University

Topic: TBA

May 8th

Mark Weder, University of Adelaide

Topic: TBA

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Fall 2012

October 17th (Wednesday)

Ergys Islamaj, Vassar College

"Financial Integration and Consumption Smoothing"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

October 24th (Wednesday)

Hsueh-Hsiang Li, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Effects of Differential Human Capital Depreciation on Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from a Mixed Logit Maximum Simulated Likelihood Approach"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

October 31st, (Wednesday)

Amanda Agan, University of Chicago

"The Benefits of Community College Education"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

November 7th (Wednesday)

Yuan Yuan, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Funding Liquidity and Market Liquidity"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

November 9th, (Friday)

Shreyasee Das, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater

"Female Inheritance Rights, Status of Women and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from India"

Time Postponed to Spring 2013
Room: HH4306

November 14th, (Wednesday)

Saad Quayyum, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Foreign Aid and Improvements in Life Expectancy and Welfare"

Time: 15:40
Room: HH4306

November 21st, (Wednesday)

Jorg Spenkuch, University of Chicago

"On the Extent of Strategic Voting"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

November 28th, (Wednesday)

Ethan Lieber, University of Chicago

"Health Insurance Reduces Search and Search Reduces Prices: Evidence from a Firm that Provides Health Care Price Information"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

December 5th, (Wednesday) 

Walice Ao, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Estimating the Effect of the Length of Participation of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Program"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

December 7th, (Wednesday) 

Jessica Milli, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

"Domestic Violence and Welfare Receipt: Determining the Nature of the Relationship in the Pre- and Post- Welfare Reform Eras"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

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Spring 2012

January - March

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April 4th (Wednesday):

Ha Nguyen, World Bank

"Consumption Baskets and Currency Choice in International Borrowing"

Time 15:40
Room: HH1001 (Please note the room change)

 April 25th (Wednesday):

Justin Pierce, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System

"Are All Trade Policies Created Equal? Empirical Evidence for Nonequivalent Market Power Effects of Tariffs and Quotas"

Time 15:40
Room: HH4306

 

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Fall 2011

Seminar Presentations

October 6th (Thursday):

George Waters, Illinois State University

"Endogenous Rational Bubbles"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH4306

October 12th (Wednesday):

Xiangrong Yu, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Family Linkages and Social Interactions in Human Capital Formation"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH4306

October 19th (Wednesday):

Anya Savikhin, University of Chicago

"Visibility of Contributions and Cost of Information: An Experiment on Public Goods"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH4306

October 26th (Wednesday):

Zhongmin Wang, Northeastern University

"Learning and Strategic Sophistication in Games: Evidence from Penny Auctions on the Internet"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH 4306

November 9th (Wednesday):

Enrique Pinzon, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Semiparametric IV Estimation and Model Selection with Many Weak Instruments and Heterosckedasticity"

Time: Postponed till April 2012.
Room: HH4306

November 10th (Thursday):

Tom Willett, Claremont Graduate University

"The Political Economy of the Euro Crisis"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH4306

November 23rd (Wednesday):

Wallice Ao, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Inflation Targeting, Credibility, and Heterogeneous Expectations"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH4306

November 28th (Monday):

Michael Coon, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

"Walking ATMs”: Do Crime Rates Affect Remittances of Mexican Migrants in the United States?"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH4306

November 30th (Wednesday):

Mai Seki, University of Wisconsin - Madison

"Heterogeneous Returns to College Quality and the Value of Graduate Degree Attainment"

Time: 15:35
Room: HH4306