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Applied Microeconomics
Econometrics
Economic Theory
Macroeconomics
Race and Inequality

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September 6, 2007
The Flypaper Effect in Individual Investor Asset Allocation
Applied Microeconomics
Brigitte Madrian (Harvard University)

September 10, 2007
Cities As Assets
Economic Theory
Andrea Prat (London School of Economics)

September 11, 2007
Gender Roles and Technological Progress
Race and Inequality
Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)
Stefania Albanesi (Columbia University)

September 12, 2007
Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Friction Persective
Macroeconomics
Pol Antras (Harvard University)
R. Caballero ()

September 13, 2007
Tiebout Sorting and Inefficiency
Applied Microeconomics
Dennis Epple (Canegie-Mellon)

September 17, 2007
Messengers, Gatekeepers, and Speakers: The Power of Intermediaries in Contracting
Economic Theory
Francis Bloch (GREQAM,Marsille and Brown University)
Garance Genicot (Georgetown University)

September 18, 2007
The Demand Side of the Teacher Labor Market
Race and Inequality
Brian Jacob (University of Michigan)

September 19, 2007
Climate, Human Effort, and Economic Growth
Macroeconomics
Doug Park (Brown University)

September 20, 2007
Clean Water Makes You Dirty: Water Supply and Sanitiation Behavior in Metro Cebu,the Philippines
Applied Microeconomics
Daniel Bennett (Brown University)

September 24, 2007
Strong Composition Down. Characterization of New and Classical Bankruptcy Rules
Economic Theory
Ricardo Martinez (Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Brown University)

September 24, 2007
Plausibly Exogenous
Econometrics
Tim Conley (University of Chicago)
Background Paper
Seminar to be held in PSTC

September 25, 2007
Big Bad Banks? The Impact of U.S. Branch Deregulation on Income Distribution
Race and Inequality
Ross Levine (Brown University)
Alexey Levkov (Brown University)

September 26, 2007
Financial Deepening,Endrogenous Growth and Credit Cycles
Macroeconomics
Takuma Kunieda (Brown University)

September 27, 2007
Estimating First Price Auctions with Unknown Number of Bidders: A Misclassification Approach
Applied Microeconomics
Matthew Shum (Johns Hopkins)
Yingho Hu (John Hopkins)

October 1, 2007
The Human Capital That Matters: Expected Returns and the Income of Affluent Households
Econometrics
Sean Campbell (Federal Reserve Board)
George Korniotis (Federal Reserve Board)
Seminar to be help at PSTC

October 1, 2007
Intergenerational Externality and Affirmative Action
Economic Theory
Debipriya Chatterjee (Brown University)

October 2, 2007
Is There Still an Added Worker Effect?
Race and Inequality
Chinhui Juhn (University of Houston)
Simon Potter (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

October 4, 2007
Representation versus Assimilation: How do Preferences in College Admissions Affect Social Interactions
Applied Microeconomics
Peter Arcidiacono (Duke University)
Background Paper

October 8, 2007
Existence and Uniqueness of the New World
Economic Theory
Christopher Columbus (World)
*Seminar cancelled due to excessive travel expenses*

October 9, 2007
Gains From Green Card: Immigrant Parents` Legal Status and Children`s Scholastic Achievements
Race and Inequality
Ying Pan (Brown University)

October 10, 2007
Capital Flows to Developing Countries: The Allocation Puzzle
Macroeconomics
Olivier Jeanne (IMF)

October 11, 2007
Media Competition, News Consumtion, and Political Participation
Applied Microeconomics
Chun-Fang Chiang (Brown University)

October 12, 2007
Regression Discontinuity Design: Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with Multiple Selection Biases
Econometrics
Muzhe Yang (UC Berkeley)
This seminar will be held in Robinson 301 at noon

October 15, 2007
t-statistic based correlation & hetrogeneity robust inference
Econometrics
Rustam Ibragimov (Harvard University)
Ulrich K Muller (Harvard University)

October 15, 2007
Leveling the Playing Field: Sincere and Sophisticated Players in the Boston Mechanism
Economic Theory
Parag Pathak (Harvard University)
Tayfun Sonmez (Boston College)

October 16, 2007
Explaining Women`s Success: Technological Changes and the Skill Content of Women`s Work
Race and Inequality
Sandra Black (UCLA)

October 17, 2007
The Origins of Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Theory and Evidence
Macroeconomics
Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)

October 18, 2007
Task Specialization, Comparative Advantages and the Effects of Immigration Wages
Applied Microeconomics
Giovanni Peri (UC Davis)

October 19, 2007
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
Macroeconomics
Nathan Nunn (Harvard University)
Diego Puga (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

October 22, 2007
Codes of Best Practice in Competitive Markets
Economic Theory
David Perez-Castrillo (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

October 22, 2007
Preference Heterogeneity - Implications for Nonparametric Econometrics
Econometrics
Stefan Hoderlein (Mannheim University)

October 23, 2007
The Rising Tide Tax System: Indexing the Tax System for Changes in Inequality
Race and Inequality
Robert Shiller (Yale University)

October 24, 2007
Institutions and Culture
Macroeconomics
Guido Tabellini (Bocconi)
Background Paper

October 25, 2007
A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education
Applied Microeconomics
Karl Scholz (University of Wisconsin)

October 29, 2007
More Confidence Intervals for Partially Identified Parameters
Econometrics
Joerg Stoye (New York University)

October 29, 2007
Managed Care and the Hospital Market Concentration
Applied Microeconomics
Masaki Yamada (Brown University)

October 30, 2007
Tipping and the Dynamics of Segregation
Race and Inequality
Jesse Rothstein (Princeton University)

October 31, 2007
A Theory of Military Dictatorships
Macroeconomics
Daron Acemoglu (MIT)

November 1, 2007
The Effect of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Section 404) on Audit Fees, Accruals and Stock Returns
Applied Microeconomics
Peter Iliev (Brown University)

November 5, 2007
Characterization of Consistent Collective Choice Rules
Economic Theory
Walter Bossert (University of Montreal)
Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)

November 5, 2007
Ruturns to Lying When the Truth is Unobserved and Identifying Measurement Errors Model without Instruments
Econometrics
Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)

November 6, 2007
When are Differences in Economic Resources Unjust?
Race and Inequality
Christopher Jencks (Harvard University)

November 7, 2007
Intermediate Goods, Weak Links and Superstars: A Theory of Economic Development
Macroeconomics
Chad Jones (Berekley)

November 8, 2007
Antiretroviral Therapy and Demand for HIV Testing: Evidence from Zambia
Applied Microeconomics
Nicholas Wilson (Brown University)

November 12, 2007
Core Structure and Comparative Statics in a Hybrid Matching Market
Economic Theory
Marilda Sotomayor (University of Sao Paulo and Brown University)

November 13, 2007
Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Student Achievement
Race and Inequality
Caroline Hoxby (Harvard University)

November 14, 2007
Why England First? The End of the Resistance and The Start of The Revolution.
Macroeconomics
Stephen Parente (UIUC)

November 15, 2007
Returns to Local Area Health Care Spending: Using Health Shocks to Patients Far From Home
Applied Microeconomics
Joe Doyle (MIT Sloan)

November 19, 2007
Continuous Time Limits of Repeated Games with Imperfect Public Monitoring
Economic Theory
Drew Fudenberg (Harvard University)

November 19, 2007
Inference in the Presence of Stochastic and Deterministic Trends
Econometrics
Guillaume Chevillon (ESSEC, France)

November 20, 2007
The Economy and Psychology of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Traits
Race and Inequality
James Heckman (University of Chicago)

November 26, 2007
Pork Versus Public Goods: An Experimental Study of Public Good Provision Within a Legislative Bargaining Framework
Economic Theory
Guillaume Frechette (NYU)

November 26, 2007
Optimal Inference for Instrumental Variables Regression with Non-Gaussian Errors
Econometrics
Michael Jansson (UC Berkeley)

November 28, 2007
Euler Equation Errors
Macroeconomics
Martin Lettau (New York University)

December 3, 2007
TBA
Econometrics
Thomas Lubik (Feberal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
*CANCELED*

December 3, 2007
Efficiency in the Repeated Prisoner`s Dilemma under Private Monitoring
Economic Theory
Johannes Horner (Northwestern University and Yale University)

December 4, 2007
The Race Between Education and Technology
Race and Inequality
Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)

December 5, 2007
News about Technology, Endogenous Diffusion and Economic Fluctuations
Macroeconomics
Diego Comin (Harvard University)

December 6, 2007
Factions and Political Competition
Applied Microeconomics
Dan Silverman (University of Michigan)

December 10, 2007
Schelling Redux: An Evolytionary Dynamic Model of Residential Segregation
Economic Theory
William Sandholm (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Emin Dokumaci (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

December 13, 2007
Spillover and Aggregate Effects of Health Capital: Lesson from the Southern U.S.
Applied Microeconomics
Hoyt Bleakley (University of Chicago)

February 19, 2008
Long-Run Impact of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999
Race and Inequality
Alex Mass (UC Berkeley)
David Lee ()

February 20, 2008
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth in Health Care
Macroeconomics
Jonathan Skinner (Darmouth University)

February 25, 2008
On the Impact of a Hausman Pretest on the Size of Hypothesis Tests
Econometrics
Patrik Guggenberger (UCLA)

February 25, 2008
Bargaining and Social Choice on Economic Environments
Economic Theory
Geoffroy deClippel (Brown University)

February 26, 2008
Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players
Race and Inequality
Daniele Paserman (Boston University)

February 27, 2008
Why has the U.S. Financial Sector Grown So Much? The Role of Corporate Finance
Macroeconomics
Thomas Philippon (NYU)

February 28, 2008
Prenatal Nutrition and Adult Outcomes: The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan
Applied Microeconomics
Bhash Mazumder (Chicago Fed.)

March 3, 2008
An Alternative Sense of Asymptotic Efficiency
Econometrics
Ulrich Muller (Princeton)

March 3, 2008
Markets for Information: Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies
Economic Theory
Piero Gottardi (Universita`Ca`Foscari di Venezia)

March 4, 2008
Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime
Race and Inequality
Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University)

March 5, 2008
Economic Development as Problem Solving: A Model of Guns, Germs and Steel
Macroeconomics
Yaw Nyarko (NYU)

March 6, 2008
Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program
Applied Microeconomics
Hilary Hoynes (UC-Davis)

March 10, 2008
Estimation of DSGE Models When the Data are Persistent
Econometrics
Serena Ng (Columbia University/Michigan)

March 10, 2008
The Magnitude Effect Implies Preference Reversals
Economic Theory
Jawwad Noor (Boston University)

March 11, 2008
Trends in Men`s Earning Volatility: What Does the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Show?
Race and Inequality
Gary Solon (Michigan State University)

March 12, 2008
Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Macroeconomics
John Wallis (University of Maryland)

March 13, 2008
Minimum Drinking Age, Alcohol Consumption, Mortality, and Criminal Offending
Applied Microeconomics
Carlos Dobkin (UC-Santa Cruz)
Background Paper

March 17, 2008
Testing Hypotheses About the Number of Factors in Large Factor Models
Econometrics
Alexei Onatski (Columbia University)

March 17, 2008
Kludged
Economic Theory
Jeff Ely (Northwestern University)

March 18, 2008
Social Learning in Elections: Theory and Experiments
Race and Inequality
Nageeb Ali (UCSD)
Background Paper

March 19, 2008
Reexamining the Role of Land in Economic Growth
Macroeconomics
Fidel Perez-Sebastian (Universidad de Alicante and Brown University)

March 20, 2008
Welfare Measurement and Policy Evaluation in a Dual-Market Locational Equilibrium
Applied Microeconomics
Nick Kuminoff (Virginia Tech)

March 31, 2008
Behind the Veil of Ignorance: Choosing in the Original Position
Economic Theory
Shachar Kariv (UC Berkeley)

April 1, 2008
Peaceable Kingdoms and War Zones: Preemption, Ballistics, and Murder in Newark
Race and Inequality
Brendan O`Flaherty (Columbia University)

April 2, 2008
The Macreconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Why are the 2000s so different from the 1970s?
Macroeconomics
Olivier Blanchard (MIT)

April 3, 2008
School Markets: The Impact of Information Approximating Schools` Effectiveness
Applied Microeconomics
Miguel Urquiola (Columbia University)

April 7, 2008
Global Identification in Nonlinear Semiparametric Models
Econometrics
Ivana Komunjer (UCSD)

April 7, 2008
Strategic Militarization, Deterrence and Wars
Economic Theory
Massimo Morelli (Columbia University)

April 8, 2008
Cohort-based Convergence in the Black-White Test Score Gap: Linking the 1960`s and the 1980`s
Race and Inequality
Jonathan Guryan (Chicago GSB)

April 9, 2008
Aggregate Implications of Credit Market Imperfections
Macroeconomics
Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern)

April 10, 2008
The Effect of Expansions in Maternity Leave Coverage on Children`s Long-Term Outcomes
Applied Microeconomics
Uta Schönberg (University of Rochester)

April 14, 2008
Irregular Identification, Support Conditions and Inverse Weight Estimation
Econometrics
Shakeeb Khan (Duke University)

April 14, 2008
Cost Sharing In the Capacity Synthesis Problem
Economic Theory
Herve Moulin (Rice University)

April 15, 2008
School Desegregation, School Choice and Urban Population Decentralization
Race and Inequality
Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Brown University)

April 16, 2008
History, Geography and Trade
Macroeconomics
Romain Wacziarg (Stanford University)

April 17, 2008
Realization Utility
Applied Microeconomics
Nick Barberis (Yale)

April 21, 2008
Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Interval Estimation in GMM Regression
Econometrics
Yixiao Sun (UCSD)

April 21, 2008
Rational Choice with Endogenous Reference Points
Economic Theory
Pietro Ortoleva (NYU)

April 22, 2008
Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
Race and Inequality
Frederico Finan (UCLA)

April 24, 2008
Housing Market Dynamics
Applied Microeconomics
Pat Bayer (Duke University)

April 25, 2008
Indirect effects of an aid program: how do cash injections affect ineligibles` consumption
Applied Microeconomics
Manuela Angelucci (University of Arizona)

April 28, 2008
Inflation Dynamics with Search Frictions: A Structural Econometric Approach
Econometrics
Thomas Lubik (FED,Richmond)

April 28, 2008
Externalities, Potential, Value and Consistency
Economic Theory
Bhaskar Dutta (Warwick University)

April 29, 2008
Early Childhood Poverty and Adult Attainment, Behavior and Health
Race and Inequality
Greg Duncan (Northwestern University)

May 5, 2008
Choice Overload: Consequences, Causes, and Remedies
Economic Theory
Sheena Iyengar (Columbia University)
Background Paper

May 8, 2008
Culture Clash or Culture Club? The Identity and Attitudes of Immigrants in Britain
Applied Microeconomics
Alan Manning (MIT)


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