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ECON 89900&89910

Fall 2009

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

Organizer:
Simone Wegge: swegge@gc.cuny.edu


Date
Speaker
Affilation
Topic
 
Sep 1  

Organizational Meeting

         
Sep 8  

Xavier
Gabaix

  NYU, Stern School of Business, Dept. of Finance   “Tractability and Detail-Neutrality in Incentive Contracting” and
“Dynamic Incentive Accounts”

 
Sep 15   Charles Calomiris   Columbia University   “How the British Ended Banking Crises in the 19th Century”  
Sep 22   Joop Hartog   University of Amsterdam   Starting Wages Respond to Employer's Risk”  
Sep 29   No Seminar          
Oct 6   Ti-Jen Tsao   Graduate Center-CUNY  

“Robust Estimators for Finite Mixtures of Count Data Regression Models and their Applications”

 
Oct 13   Farley Grubb   University of Delaware   “Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies Versus across the States, 1748-1811”  
Oct 20   Mariagiovanna Baccara   NYU, Stern School of Business, Dept. of Economics   “Similarity and Polarization in Groups”  
Oct 27   Elke Weber   Columbia University (Business School)   “‘When do we want it? Now!’ A psychological process account of intertemporal choice”  
Nov 3   Leah Brooks,   University of Toronto & Russell Sage Foundation   "The Micro-Empirics of Collective Action: The Case of Business Improvement Districts"  
Nov 10   Humberto Llavador   Pompeu Fabra & Institute for Advanced Studies/Princeton   "A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet."  
Nov 17
  Ira Gang   Rutgers University   "Revealed Informal Activity."  
Nov 24   Joseph Altonji   Yale University   "Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth: Implications for adult outcomes"  
Dec 1   John Brown   Clark University   "A Factor Content Approach to the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan's Opening Up."  
Dec 8   Takeshi Yagahashi   The College of Staten Island - CUNY   "Estimating Taylor Rules in a Credit Channel Environment."  
Dec 11
(Friday)
  Chris Udry   Yale Unviersity   "Creating Property Rights: Land Banks in Ghana"  

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