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: SEMINAR IN APPLIED ECONOMICS
 

ECON 89900&89910

Spring 2009

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

Organizers:
Sangeeta Pratap sangeeta.pratap@hunter.cuny.edu


Date
Speaker
Affilation
Topic
 
Jan 27  

Organizational Meeting

         
Feb 3   Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe   Columbia Univ   “What’s News in Business Cycles”

 
Feb 10   Thursday Schedule (No Seminar)

 
Feb 17   Chun-Pin Hsu   Graduate Center, CUNY   "Do Copula-Extreme Value Theory-based Semiparametric Approaches Perform Better when using the Value-at-Risk Measure?"  
Feb 24   Chinwen Huang   Graduate Center, CUNY  

“Monetary Shocks and Bond Market Reactions: Evidence from the Narrative Approach to Shock Identification"

 
Mar 3   Shing Yi Wang   New York Univ   "State Misallocation and Housing Prices: Theory and Evidence from China"

 
Mar 10   Nengzhi Jiang   Graduate Center, CUNY  

“Do macroeconomic announcements affect the foreign exchange markets?”

 
Mar 17   Wilbert van der Klaauw   FRBNY   "What Determines Family Structure?"
 
Mar 24   Yikai Amy Wang   Graduate Center, CUNY   "Credit Risk Pricing in Single Name Corporate Credit Default Swaps"  
Mar 31   William Easterly   New York Univ   "The European Origins of Economic Development"  
Apr 1 William Easterly New York Univ

F .A. Hayek Lecture
Free the Poor! Hayek's Vision and The Escape from Global Poverty
Rooms 9206/9207, 9th Floor
4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.

 
Apr 7   Michael Kalson   Graduate Center, CUNY   Economies of Scope in U.S. Manufacturing Industries 1850-1880: An Empirical and Quantitative Analysis
 

Apr 14

 

Spring Break (No Seminar)

 
Apr 21
  Sun Jing
  Graduate Center, CUNY   ”Productivity and International Market Linkages of Indonesian Plants: Evidence from Matched Samples“  
Apr 28   Kim Ruhl   New York Univ-Stern  

New Exporter Dynamics

 
May 5   Meta Brown   FRBNY  

A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education

 
May 12   Marwa Hassan   Graduate Center, CUNY   “A comprehensive study of Japanese foreign exchange intervention in the JPY/USD exchange market”  
 
 
 

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