Wesleyan University

Fall 2006 Economics Department Seminar Schedule

Wednesdays at 4:10 PM
Room 125, Public Affairs Center

Visitors: Driving directions and a campus map are available.

Date	Speaker	Title
September 6	Abigail Hornstein Wesleyan University	Do Corporate Expenditures Reflect Information Sharing? Multi-unit Firms, Corporate Capital Budgeting, and Internal Coordination of R&D Activities
September 13	Jerry Caprio Williams College	Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern
September 20	No Seminar
September 27	Noel Maurer Harvard Business School	What T.R. Took: The Economic Impact of the Panama Canal, 1903-37
October 4	Sanjay Reddy Barnard College	Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation
October 11	TBA	TBA
October 18	Chang-Tai Hsieh University of California at Berkeley	Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
October 19: Talk at East Asian Studies	J. Mark Ramseyer Harvard Law School	The Industrial Organization of the Japanese Bar: Levels and Determinants of Attorney Income
October 23 (Monday)	Ken Kuttner Oberlin College	TBA
November 1	Cermit Segal Harvard Business School	Motivation, Test Scores and Economic Success
November 8	Douglas Gollin Williams College	Malaria: Disease Impacts and Long-Run Income Differences
November 15	Dennis Yao Harvard Business School	Attracting Skeptical Buyers
November 20	Benno Torgler UC-Berkeley	The Power of Positional Concerns
November 29	Roisin O'Sullivan Smith College	House Prices in the Measurement of Inflation in the Euro Area
December 6	Eduardo Zambrano University of Notre Dame	Priors That Do Not Rule Out Strategic Uncertainty Cannot Lead to Nash Equilibrium

Note: Selected papers are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

Coordinators: C. Hogendorn and A. Hornstein Last updated: April 4, 2006