Seminars and Workshops, Spring 2008 All seminars will be on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 pm in AA G008 unless noted otherwise Date Speaker Affiliation Paper Title FridayFebruary 8 David B. Ryden Dept. of SocSciUniversity of Houston The West Indian Economy and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade ("Social Science Perspectives on the Past" workshop) FridayFebruary 15 B. D. McCullough Drexel, Depts. ofDecision Sciences and Econ "What has B D McCullough been up to lately?"(no paper) FridayFebruary 22 Alexandre Olbrecht School of BusinessRamapo College The Value of Undergraduate AACSB Accreditation on the Earnings of College Graduates FridayFebruary 29 Xianghang Shi Dept. of EconBinghamton University Is it appropriate to dissect asset pricing anomalies linearly? (Prospectus) FridayMarch 7 Emily S. Pape Dept. of Health Mgmtand Policy, U. Michigan Medicare's Prospective Payment System for Long-Term Care Hospitals: Do Payment Rules Affect How Hospitals Respond? FridayMarch 14 Antonio Bento Dept. of Applied EconCornell Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Increased US gasoline taxes FridayMarch 21 Good Friday FridayMarch 28 Easter break, no classes FridayApril 4 Anne McCants Dept. of History, MIT Luxury and Misery: the mysterious historical double-life of the textile trades and consumptionNo paper, but here is another paper that provides introductiory reading for the talk. MondayApril 7LH 73:30-5pm Anil Bera University of Illinois Spatial Analysis: From the Beginning to the 21st Century (and in between) (Abstract) FridayApril 11 Shatakshee Dhongde Dept. of EconRIT TBA FridayApril 18 Passover break begins at 1pm FridayApril 25 Florenz Plassmann Dept. of EconBinghamton University The Source of Election Results: An Empirical Analysis of Statistical Models of Voter Behavior TuesdayApril 29AA G0073:30-5pm Ronald Ehrenberg ILRCornell The Graduate Education Initiative FridayMay 2 George Evans Dept. of EconUniversity of Oregon Learning about Risk and Return: A Simple Model of Bubbles and Crashes. MondayMay 5FA 2423:30-5pm Gene Birz Dept. of EconBinghamton University TBA (Prospectus) FridayMay 9 Joyce Jacobsen Dept. of EconWesleyan University A Human Capital-Based Theory of Postmarital Residence Rules, and Marriage, Specialization, and the Gender Division of Labor Links to past seminar lists: Fall 2007 Spring 2007 Fall 2006 Spring 2006 Fall 2005 Spring 2005Fall 2004 Spring 2004 Fall 2003 Spring 2002 Fall 2001Spring 2000 Page maintained by Andreas D Pape Revised: April 27, 2008 Return to previous page...
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