Wesleyan University

Fall 2008 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
Sept. 17	William Pyle Middlebury College	Organized business, Political competition and property rights: evidence from the Russian Federation
Sept. 24	John Tang U.S. Census Bureau	Public vs private-led industrialization in Meiji Japan, 1868-1912
Oct. 1	Richard Adelstein Wesleyan	Firms as Social Actors
Oct. 22	Tara Sinclair George Washington University	Multivariate Forecast Errors and the Taylor Rule
Oct. 29	Matthew Nagler CUNY	Network Externalities, Mutuality and Compatibility
Nov. 5 (PAC 002)	Desmond Lachman American Enterprise Institute	The Global Economic Crisis Co-sponsored by the Government Department and the Center for the Study of Public Life
Nov. 12	Laixiang Sun SOAS, University of London	Challenging, Complementing or Assuming 'the Mandate of Heaven'? Political Distrust and the Rise of Self-Governing Social Organizations in Rural China Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program
Nov. 19	Steven Braun Council of Economic Advisors	Five Topics in Current Macro Outlook

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

Coordinators: Christiaan Hogendorn and Pao-Lin Tien Last updated: September 19, 2008