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Spring 2008 Economics Department Seminar Schedule

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

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Date Speaker Title
March 26

William Greene

NYU,

Stern School of Business

Heterogeneity and Sample Selection

in a Stochastic Frontier Model:

The World Health Report of 2000

April 2 Reid Click

Georgetown University,

Elliott School of

International Affairs

Does the Shadow of Political Risk Fall on Asset Prices?  Oily Evidence
(joint with Robert Weiner)

April 9 Samuel Kortum

University of Chicago

(Hogendorn Lecture)

Global Rebalancing with Gravity: Measuring the Burden of Adjustment (joint with Robert Dekle
and Jonathan Eaton)
April 16 Eric Zitzewitz

Dartmouth College

Using Prediction Markets to
Track Information Flows:
Evidence from Google

(joint with Bo Cowgill
and Justin Wolfers)
April 23 Tom Miceli and Metin Cosgel
University of Connecticut
Church and State

 


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



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