Spring 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 January 31 Steve Ross University of Connecticut Identifying Individual and Group Effects in the Presence of Sorting: A Neighborhood Effects Application February 7 Howard Bodenhorn Yale University Partnership, Entity Shielding and Credit Availability February 14 Donald Sexton Columbia Business School (Hogendorn Lecture) How Branding Affects Shareholder Value February 21 Monika AbuGhazaleh University of Connecticut Intervivos transfers and time assistance in the informal care market. February 28 Woojin Lee University of Massachussetts at Amherst Evolutionary stabilities in games with continuous strategy space. March 7 Chris Kingston Amherst College  Marine Insurance in Philadelphia During the Quasi-War with France, 1795-1801 March 28 Rafael DiTella Harvard Business School Crime and Punishment in the American Dream April 4 Andrés Rodríguez-Clare Penn State University Offshoring in a Ricardian World April 11 Ernesto Stein IADB and Harvard University Product Space, Product Quality and the Emergence of New Export Sectors   April 18   No Seminar (Thesis Presentations) April 25 Juha Seppala University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign   Monetary Policy and Rejections of the Expectations Hypothesis May 2 Miguel Urquiola Columbia University Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence   Note: Selected papers are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.  Fall 2006 Seminars Econ Department Home Coordinators: C. Hogendorn and A. Hornstein Last updated: April 4, 2006 Fall 2007 Seminars