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Spring 2012 Seminar Schedule

Tuesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Room 5383

Organizers:
Merih Uctum muctum@gc.cuny.edu and Simone Wegge swegge@gc.cuny.edu



Date
Speaker
Affilation
Topic
 
Jan 31   Org meeting/ Xu Wang   CUNY Graduate Center   "Examining the effect of special supplement nutrition program for women, infants and children on breastfeeding"  
 
 
 

Feb 7   John Landon-Lane   Rutgers University   "The US Banking Panics in the 1930's: The Lessons for Today" with Michael Bordo  
 
 
 

Feb 14   Vikesh Amin   SUNY Binghamton University   "Mothers do matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data"
 
 
 
 

Feb 21   No Seminar   Monday schedule      
 
 
 

Feb 28   Ruoding Tan  

CUNY Graduate Center

  "The Impact of Abortion on Young Women's Marriage Decisions"  
 
 
 

March 6   Kohei Fukawa   CUNY Graduate Center   "Estimation of Empirical FAVAR Model and DSGE Model for Evaluation of Government Spending Effects in Japan"  
 
 
 

Mach 13
  Ricardo Reis   Columbia University   "Do the automatic stabilizers work?"  
 
 
 

March 20   Chu-Ping Vijverberg   Wichita State University   "The Exogeneity (at best) of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria for the Euro Zone"  
 
 
 

March 27   Jim Lothian   Fordham University   "Exchange rates and prices over the last century" with Jon Devereux  
 
 
 

April 3   Jess Benhabib   New York University   "Reestablishing the Income Democracy Nexus"  
 
 
 

April 10   No Seminar   SPRING BREAK      
 
 
 

April 17
  Linda Goldberg   Federal Reserve Bank of New York   "Liquidity management of US Global Banks: Internal Capital Markets in the Great Recession"  
 
 
 

April 24   Alan Blinder   Princeton University   "What If 'Unconventional' Monetary Policy Becomes Conventional?"  
 
 
 

May 1   TBA          
 
 
 

May 8

  David Weiman   Columbia University   "Banking Panics, the "Derangement" of the Domestic Exchanges, and the Origins of Central Banking in the United States, 1893 to 1914"  
 
 
 

May 15   James Kahn   Yeshiva University   "Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Markups, and Inventories."  
 
 
 

   

 

 

 
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Seminars
  2011 Fall
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2010 Spring
2009 Fall
2009 Spring
2008 Fall
2008 Spring
2007 Spring
 

 

 

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