Seminar Series
 
2010
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Full Seminar Schedule for AY 2010-2011 (pdf)


All seminars are held in SOE/SESS Seminar Room 5.1 from 1530 to 1700 unless otherwise stated.


Upcoming Seminars


Wednesday, August 4, 2010, SOE/SESS Seminar Room 3.8
Behavioral Decisions and Welfare
Sayantan Ghosal, University of Warwick

Friday, August 6, 2010, 1030 to 1200 SOE/SESS Seminar Room 3.1
Innovation, Patentability Requirement and Integration of the North and the South
Edwin Lai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Wednesday, August 11, 2010, SOE/SESS Seminar Room 3.8
An Experimental Study of Bubble Formation in Asset Markets Using the Tâtonnement Trading Institution
Daniela Puzzello, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Completed Seminars


Friday, January 8, 2010
Conformism and Turnout
Massimiliano Landi , Singapore Management University

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Advising on Alternatives: Pandering to Persuade
Navin Kartik , Columbia University

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
A Two-sector Model of Endogenous Growth with Leisure Externalities
Been-Lon Chen , Institute of Economics, Academica Sinica

Thursday, January 28, 2010
Lose Weight for Money Only if Over-Weight:Marginal Integration for Semi-Linear Panel Models

Myoung-Jae Lee , Korea University

Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Unobserved Binary Random Factors and Returns to Lying
Arthur Lewbel , Boston College

Friday, February 5, 2010
A New Bayesian Unit Root Test in Stochastic Volatility Models
Yong Li , Zhongshan University
*Joint with CoFIE, SKBI

Friday, February 17, 2010
Financial Integration and Liquidity Crises
Fabio Castiglionesi , Tilburg University

Friday, February 19, 2010
A Blocking and Regularization Approach to High Dimensional Realized Covariance Estimation
Nikolaus Hautsch, University of Berlin
*Joint with CoFIE, SKBI

Friday, February 19, 2010
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets
Hamid Sabourian
, University of Cambridge

Thursday, February 25, 2010 ,
Sampling Best Response Dynamics and Deterministic Equilibrium Selection

Daisuke Oyama , Hitotsubashi University

Friday, February 26,2010
What Triggers an Anti-dumping Petition: Finding the Devil in the Detail
Russell Hillberry , University of Melbourne

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Social Ties And The Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Kevin Lang, Boston University

Friday, March 5, 2010
How Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science?
Shulamit Kahn , Boston University

Monday, March 8, 2010
The U.S. Mortgage Crisis and Information Failures
Susan Wachter , The Wharton School , University of Pennsylvania
*Joint with CoFIE, SKBI

Friday, March 12, 2010
A Dynamic Model of Housing Demand: Estimation and Policy Implications
Daniel Miller, Clemson University

Monday, March 15, 2010
Climate policy in the absence of commitment

E. Somanathan , Indian Statistical Institute

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Liquidity Constraints

Guillaume Rocheteau , University of California at Irvine

Friday, March 19, 2010
Shot Noise Effects In Economics: A Financial and A Statistical Perspective
Winfried Stute , University of Giessen
*Joint with CoFIE, SKBI

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A Structural Analysis of Wholesale Used-Car Auctions: Nonparametric Estimation and Testing of Valuations with Unknown Number of Bidders
Joonsuk Lee , University of California, Davis

Friday, March 26, 2010
Word of Mouth Advertising and Strategic Learning in Networks
Bhaskar Dutta , University of Warwick

Friday, March 26, 2010
Are Financial Crises Alike?
Vance Martin, The University of Melbourne
*Joint with CoFIE, SKBI

Monday, March 29, 2010
Option Package Bundling
Makoto Hanazono , Nagoya University

Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A Monetary Theory with Non-Degenerate Distributions
Shouyong Shi , University of Toronto

Thursday, April 1, 2010
Aggregating the Single Crossing Property: Theory and Applications to Comparative Statics and Bayesian games
John Quah, Oxford University

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Optimal monetary policy in a model with recursive preferences
An Sungbae, Singapore Management University

Friday, April 16, 2010
Risking Returns: Moving from Public to Private Equity
Aurobindo Ghosh , Singapore Management University

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Transparency, Complementarity and Holdout
Prabal Roy Chowdhury, Indian Statistical Institute

Friday, April 23, 2010
Limited Liability Rent with Pay Cap
Eric Chou, National Tsing Hua University

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Generalized Disappointment Aversion, Long-Run Volatility Risk and Asset Prices
René Garcia, University of Montreal

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Banking System Control, Capital Allocation, and Economy Performance
Bernard Yeung, NUS Business School

Friday, May 14, 2010
Nash Implementation with Partially Honest Individuals
Arunava Sen, Indian Statistical Institute

Friday, May 21, 2010
No-envy, Strategy-proofness, and the Pivotal Mechanisms in Queueing Problems
Manipushpak Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute

Monday, May 24, 2010
Using Brazil's Racial Continuum to Examine the Short Term Effects of Affirmative Action in Higher Education
Andrew Francis, Emory University

Wednesday, June 9, 2010
What Death Can Tell: Are Executives Paid for Their Contributions to Firm Value?
Dang Bang Nguyen
, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Granger Causality, Exogeneity, Cointegration, and Economic Policy Analysis
Halbert White ,
University of California, San Diego

Friday, July 2, 2010
Partial and General Equilibrium Measures of Trade Restrictiveness
Donald MacLaren ,
University of Melbourne

Friday, July 30, 2010
Efficient GMM Estimation of Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects
Lung-fei Lee, The Ohio State University

Last updated on 30 July, 2010 by School of Economics.