SEMINAR IN APPLIED MICROECONOMICS AND ECONOMETRICS
Spring 2009
Seminars meet on Wednesdays (unless noted otherwise) at 3:30-5:00pm
in Mergenthaler 426. Copies of the paper are available the week prior to
the seminar in the departmental office (Mergenthaler 440). Those who are
off-campus can request a copy by emailing Karen Allen or by downloading them from this web site. Directions to the Department of Economics can be found here
and click this for the campus map.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Feb 4 |
Adam Copeland Bureau of Economic Analysis |
The Dynamics of Automobile Expenditures [PDF] |
| Feb 11 |
Eric French Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
The Spending and Debt Response to Minimum Wage Hikes [PDF] |
| Feb 18 |
John Ham University of Southern California |
Caught in the Bulimic Trap: Do Eating Disorders Reflect Addictive Behavior? [PDF] |
Feb 26 (Thu.: 9AM-12:30PM) |
Richard Spady, Andrew Chesher and others |
Economics-Biostatistics gathering [Schedule] |
| Mar. 4 |
Jonathan Heathcote |
The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States [Link] |
| Mar. 11 |
John Rust |
The Home Selling Problem: Theory and Evidence |
| Mar. 25 |
Rainer Winkelmann |
Copula-based Bivariate Binary Choice Models [PDF] |
Apr. 1 (Noon- 1:30 pm) Maryland 217 |
John Sabelhaus |
The Great Moderation In Micro Labor Earnings [PDF] |
| Apr. 15 |
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Ely lecture |
| Apr. 22 |
Peter Kooreman
|
The Own and Social Effects of an Unexpected Income Shock: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery [PDF] |
| Apr. 23 Thursday |
Don Andrews
|
Inference for Parameters Defined by Moment Inequalities: A Recommended Moment Selection Procedure [Link] |
| Apr. 29 |
Stephen Salant University of Michigan |
Putting Free-riding to Work: A Partnership Solution to
the Common-property Problem [PDF] |
| May. 22 Friday |
Richard Spady
|
Nonparametric Estimation of Structural Conditional
Distribution Fuctions
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