Wesleyan University

Fall 2007 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 12	Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Yale University, School of Management	Decentralization and water quality: Evidence from re-drawing of county boundaries in Brazil
September 19	Miguel Urquiola Columbia University	Class size and sorting in market equilibrium: Theory and evidence
September 26	Peter Coles Harvard Business School	Signaling in Matching Markets
October 3	Sangeeta Pratap Hunter College	Crises and Recoveries: A Disaggregated Approach
October 10	Joon-Suk Lee Bowdoin College	Reputational Concerns in Repeated Negotiations
October 17		No seminar (fall break)
October 24	Bernard Yeung New York University, Stern School of Business	Big business stability and economic growth: Is what's good for General Motors good for America?
October 31	Cormac O Grada Princeton University	The ripple that drowns? Twentieth-century famines as economic history
November 7	Jordan Siegel Harvard Business School	Labor Market Institutions and Global Strategic Adaptation: Evidence from Lincoln Electric
November 14	Fritz Foley Harvard Business School	Welfare Payments and Crime

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

Spring 2008 Seminars

Coordinators: Abigail Hornstein and Cameron Shelton Last updated: September 4, 2007