Upcoming Seminars

December

On Choice of Technique and Development Planning: Optimal and Stiglitz Policies in the RSS Model
M. Ali Khan
Professor of Economics
John Hopkhins University (12 December 2008)

The Fragmentation of Reputation
Gautam BOSE
Senior Lecturer
University of New South Wales (10 December 2008)

Finite Sample Properties of the Dependent Bootstrap for Conditional Moment Models
Rachida OUYSSE
Lecturer
University of New South Wales (9 December 2008)

November

Quantile Regression with Time-Varying Regressors
Songnian CHEN
Professor
National University of Singapore (28 November 2008)

Global Portfolio Rebalancing Under the Microscope
Harald HAU
Associate Professor
INSEAD (14 November 2008)

Trade Diversification and Economic Development
Ilian MIHOV
Professor of Economics
INSEAD (12 November 2008)

Directed Search, Unemployment and Public Policy
Ian KING
Professor of Economics
University of Melbourne (11 November 2008)

How to Motivate Innovation: Subsidies or Prizes?
Qiang FU
Assistant Professor of Business Policy
National University of Singapore (5 November 2008)

October

An indistinguishability result on rationalizability under general preferences
Xiao LUO
Associate Professor of Economics
National University of Singapore (31 October 2008)

Managing Talent in an Age of Uncertainty
Peter CAPPELLI
George W.Taylor Professor of Management
Director, Center for Human Resources
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
(29 October 2008)

SEPTEMBER

Detecting and Forecasting Business Cycle Turning Points
Don HARDING
Professor of Economics and Finance
LaTrobe University (26 September 2008)

Parameter Estimation and Bias Correction for Diffusion Processes
TANG Chengyong
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Applied Probablility
National University of Singapore (19 September 2008)

Unifying Identity-Specific and Financial Externalities in Auction Design
Jingfeng LU
Assistant Professor of Economics
National University of Singapore (3 September 2008)

AUGUST

Multi-Stage Voting, Sequential Elimination and Condorcet Consistency
Parimal BAG
Associate Professor of Economics
National University of Singapore (20 August 2008)

Birth of a Non-linear Model
Anli BERA
Professor of Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign (7 August 2008)

JULY

Redistribution in a Model of Voting and Campaign Contributions
Filipe R. Campante
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University (4 July 2008)

JUNE

Inflation and Unemployment in the Long Run
Randall WRIGHT
James Kim Professor of Economics
University of Pennsylvania (27 June 2008)

MAY

Time series analysis of categorical data using auto-mutual information
Atanu BISWAS
Associate Professor, Applied Statistics Unit
Indian Statistical Institute (30 May 2008)

Correct (and misleading) arguments for using market-based pollution control policies
Larry KARP
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California at Berkeley (28 May 2008)

Volatility: Expectations and Realizations Moving Together, in Sweet Harmony Preliminary and Incomplete Version
Roy VAN DER WEIDE
Consultant, EASPR, East Asia Department
The World Bank, United States (16 May 2008)

A Framework for Forecasting the Path of US CO 2 Emissions Using State-Level Information
Ralf STEINHAUSER
Research Fellow, Economics Program
Research School of Social Sciences
The Australian National University, Australia (9 May 2008)

Bilateral Investment Treaties and Foreign Direct Investment: Correlation versus Causation
Emma AISBETT
Assistant Professor
Crawford School of Economics and Government
The Australian National University, Australia (7 May 2008)

APRIL

Ensuring Financial Stability: Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices
Stefan GERLACH
Professor of Monetary Economics
Department of Money and Macroeconomics
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt (30 April 2008)

Social Interaction, Observational Learning, and Privacy: the Do Not Call Registry
Ivan PNG
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
Professor of Business Policy, School of Business
Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor, Department of Information Technology
National University of Singapore (23 April 2008)

Currency and Checking Deposits as Means of Payment
LI Yiting
Professor, Department of Economics
National Taiwan University (18 April 2008)

Local Limit Theory and Spurious Nonparametric Regression
Peter C.B. PHILLIPS
Sterling Professor of Economics & Professor of Statistics, Yale University
Alumni Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Auckland
Distinguished Term Professor of Economics , Singapore Management University (16 April 2008)

Inequality of Nations and Endogenous Fluctuations in a Country Model
Tomoo KIKUCHI
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
National University of Singapore (11 April 2008)

Prostitutes and Brides?
Manisha SHAH
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
The University of Melbourne , Australia (9 April 2008)

Political Entry, Public Policies, and the Economy
Kevin K. TSUI
Assistant Professor, Clemson University (4 April 2008)

Pareto Optimal Pro-cyclical Research and Development
Richard Anton BRAUN
Professor of Economics
University of Tokyo, Japan (2 April 2008)

MARCH

Secured lower bound, composition up, and minimal rights first for bankruptcy problems
YEH Chun-Hsien
Associate Research Fellow, Department of Economics
National Central University, Taiwan (28 March 2008)

Does social ranking motivate us? Evidence from lab and field experiments
NGOC Anh Tran
PhD Candidate in Public Policy
Harvard University, USA (26 March 2008)

Expectation-Driven Fluctuations Without Sunspots: A Labor-Market Approach
WANG Pengfei
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong (19 March 2008)

On the inference of stochastic regression models
Jiro HODOSHIMA
Professor, Graduate School of Economics
Nagoya City University, Japan (17 March 2008)

JANUARY

An Experimental Study of Auctions with a Buy Price under Private and Common Values
John WOODERS
University of Arizona Professor; Freshwater Group Fellow Director, Economic Science Laboratory (25 January 2008)

Type of Political Coalitions
WANG Huan
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Development and Public Policy
Beijing University, China (23 January 2008)

Creditor Protection, Contagion, and Stock Market Price Volatility
Assaf RAZIN
The Mario-Henrique Simonsen Professor of Public Economics,
Tel Aviv University, Israel
The Friedman Professor of International Economics,
Cornell University, New York , USA (21 January 2008)The The Fletcher

Impact of Financial Development on Firm Growth and Firm Size
James COSTANTINI
Assistant Professor of Strategy The Fletcher School , Tufts University The The The Fletcher Insead, Fontainebleau, France (18 January 2008)

Free Trade: What Are the Terms-of-Trade Effects?
Carsten KOWALCZYK
Associate Professor of International Economics The Fletcher School , Tufts University
The Fletcher School , Tufts University (14 January 2008)

The Impact of Age Distribution on the Stock Price: A Nonparametric Approach
Cheolbeom PARK
Assistant Professor of Economics
National University of Singapore (11 January 2008)