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: SEMINAR IN APPLIED ECONOMICS
 

ECON 89900&89910

Spring 2008

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

Organizers:
Sangeeta Pratap sangeeta.pratap@hunter.cuny.edu
Merih Uctum
muctum@gc.cuny.edu


Date
 
Speaker
 
Affilation
 

Topic

Jan 25
1-2:30 pm

  David Jaeger   College of William and Mary, University of Bonn  

The struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds: violence and public opinion in the second Intifada

 

 

Feb 1
1-2:30 pm

  Tony Creane   Michigan State University  

Pattern bargaining as an equilibrium outcome

 

 

 

Feb 8
1-2:30 pm

  Oz Shy   University of Michigan and Haifa University  

Market Dominance and Behavior-based Pricing under Horizontal and Vertical Differentiation

PPT

 

 

               
Feb 19   Nafiseh Behradmehr   GC   Portfolio allocation using wavelet transform  
           

 

 

Feb 22

room 3207 1-2:30 pm

  James Kahn   Federal Reserve Bank of New York and New York University   Durable Goods Inventories and the Great Moderation  
               
Feb 26   Marco Del Negro   Federal Reserve Bank of New York  

Forming Priors for DGSE Models (And How it Affects the Assessment of Nominal Rigidities)

 
 
             
Mar 4   Linda Goldberg   Federal Reserve Bank of New York  

Macroeconomic Interdependence and the International Role of the Dollar

 

 

               
Mar 11   Virgiliu Midrigan   NYU  

Inventories, Lumpy Trade, and Large Devaluations

 

 

               
Mar 18   Jim Lothian   Fordham University  

The behavior of prices and nominal exchange rates across exchange rate regimes:three natural experiments

 

 

               
Mar 25   Wenchao Liao   GC, CUNY  

Trading Activity in the Treasury Futures Market and Its Role in Futures Price Fluctuations

 

 

 

               
Apr 1   Brent Kramer   GC, CUNY   Employee ownership and participation effects on firm outcomes

 

 

               
Apr 8   Jonathon Eaton   NYU   Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment

 

 

 

               
Apr 15   Eric Verhoogen   Columbia University   Product Quality at the Plant Level: Plant Size, Exports, Output Prices & Input Prices in Colombia

 

 

 

     
Apr 22       Spring Break
 

 

 

               
Apr 29   Bentley MacLeod   Columbia University  

Performance-pay and Wage Inequality

Powerpoint slides

 



               
May 6   Roberto Chang   Rutgers University   Elections, Capital Flows, and Politico Economic Equilibria

 

 

               
May 13   Milos Vulanovic   GC-CUNY   Corporate Financing of Maturing Long Term Debt: Testing the Pecking Order Theory

 


               

TA   Junnan Zhao junnanzhao@gmail.com  
       

 

 
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