All seminars will be on Fridays from 3:30-5:00 pm in AAG08 unless noted otherwise
DS	Economics Department Seminar Series
EEPC	Experimental Economics and Public Choice Workshop (joint with Political Science)
HIST	Workshop on "Social Science Perspectives on the Past: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Historical Phenomena" (joint with Political Science and History)
Seminar coordinator for DS and EEPC: Florenz Plassmann, and for HIST: Susan Wolcott

Date	Series	Speaker	Affiliation	Paper Title
Friday September 8	DS	George Monokroussos	Dept of Econ SUNY Albany	Dynamic Limited Dependent Variable Modeling and U.S. Monetary Policy
Friday September 15	DS	Iordanis Petsas	Dept of Econ Univ of Scranton	General Purpose Technologies and Sustained Comparative Advantage
Friday September 22	Rosh Hashanah break (classes recess 1pm on Friday)
Friday September 29	EEPC	John Lott	Dept of Econ Binghamton University	Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically Biased?: 1985-2004
There will be a reception after the seminar at Chris Hanes and Susan Wolcott's house (Directions)
Friday October 6	DS	Ari Belasen	Dept of Econ Binghamton University	How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets: The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida (Prospectus)
Thursday October 12 PSPC C 3:00-4:00pm	HIST	Randolph Roth	Dept of History The Ohio State University	"American Homicide"
Friday October 13 Reinhardt Room 10:00am	EEPC	Norman Schofield	Depts of PolSci and Econ Washington University	A Model of Political Competition With Activists Applied to the Elections of 1989 and 1995 in Argentina
Friday October 13	EEPC	Donald Saari	Depts of Math and Econ UC Irvine	Why Economics and Political Science are so Difficult
There will be a reception after the seminar at 6:30pm at Katri Sieberg's house
Friday October 20	EEPC	Charles Holt	Dept of Econ University of Virginia	Combinatorial Auctioneering
There will be a reception after the seminar at 6:30pm at Katri Sieberg's house
Friday October 27	EEPC	Melvin Hinich	Depts of Econ and Gov't UT Austin	A Spatial Analysis of Turkish Politics
Friday November 3	DS	Florenz Plassmann	Dept of Econ Binghamton University	Efficient Urban Renewal Without Takings: Two Solutions to the Problem of Land Assembly The talk will be based on this paper
Wednesday November 8 Room: S2 145 3:30-5:00pm	EEPC	Russell Hardin	Dept of Politics NYU	Are Homo Economicus and Homo Politicus Identical Twins?
Friday November 10	DS	Young-Jin Ro	Dept of Econ Binghamton University	Empirical Analysis on US Risky Divisia Monetary Aggregate (Prospectus)
Monday November 13 Room: S1 140 3:30-5:00pm	DS	Rainer Winkelmann	Socioeconomic Institute University of Zurich and Syracuse University	The Happiness Gains From Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Monday November 20 Room: LH12 3:30-5:00pm	DS	Daria Sevastianova	Dept of Econ Binghamton University	Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Measures of Sociopolitical Instability and Economic Performance (Prospectus)
November 23&24	Thanksgiving break (classes recess 1pm on Wednesday)
Monday November 27 Room: LH12 3:30-5:00pm	DS	Michael O'Hara	Dept of Econ Binghamton University	Nobody goes there anymore... it's too crowded: congestion effects in site choice models of recreation (Prospectus)
Friday December 1	DS	John Duffy	Dept of Econ Univ. of Pittsburgh	Experiments with Network Formation
Thursday December 7 Room and Time: TBA	HIST	Adam Berinski	Dept of PoliSci MIT	America at War

Links to past seminar lists:
Spring 2006	Fall 2005	Spring 2005	Fall 2004	Spring 2004	Fall 2003	Spring 2002	Fall 2001	Spring 2000

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