Lunch Groups and Workshops - Spring 2005

Monday, January 10, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Xin Huang (Duke Economics), Research progress report entitled `The Relative Contribution of Jumps to Total Price Variance ` SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, January 17, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
PhD Student(s) (), Presentation(s) organized by PhD Students SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, January 18, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
W. Bentley MacLeod (USC), Torts, Expertise and Authority: Liability of Physicians and Managed Care Organizations

Friday, January 21, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Dana Kiku (Duke Economics), PhD Thesis progress report ` ` SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, January 24, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Dana Kiku (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report entitled ` ` SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, January 24, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Shachar Kariv (UC-Berkeley), Confronting theory with data and vice versa: a study of learning in social networks

Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Martin Salm (), Is there a Mickey Mantle effect? The effect of longevity expectations on individual incentives to invest in health

Monday, January 31, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Max Dedov (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report entitled ` ` SLIDES/PAPER

Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
Amalia Miller (University of Virginia), The Effects of Motherhood Timing on Career Path

Friday, February 4, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Economic Thought Seminar
Craufurd Goodwin (), The Art of an Ethical Life: Keynes and Bloomsbury

Monday, February 7, 2005, 10:30am, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Greg Shaffer (University of Rochester), Slotting Allowances and Scarce Shelf Space

Monday, February 7, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Uta Kretschmer (Bonn, Germany), PhD Research progress report on ` Models for High Frequency Financial Data' SLIDES/PAPER

Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 11:45am, Applied Macro Lunch Seminar
Kevin Campbell (), How To Do Your Own Web Page

Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 3:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Robert Aumann (), When All Is Said and Done, How Should You Play and What Should You Expect?   [abstract]

Monday, February 14, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Alessandro Palandri (Duke Economics), PhD Thesis progress report ` ` SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, February 14, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Daniel R. Vincent (University of Maryland), Multidimensional Mechanism Design: Revenue Maximization and the Multiple-Good Monopoly

Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Kata Mihaly (), "The Dynamics and Wealth Effects of High-Rate Mortage Loans"

Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
Rejeev Dehejia (Columbia University), Why Should We Care About Child Labor? The Education, Labor Market, and Health Consequences of Child Labor

Friday, February 18, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Simon Cook (Duke University), A Philosophy of History   [abstract]

Monday, February 21, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Duy Tran (Duke Economics), PhD Thesis progress report ` ` SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, February 21, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Aldo Rustichini (Minnesota), Ambiguity Aversion, Malevolent Nature, and the Variational Representation of Preferences and Portfolio Selection With Monotone M-V Preferences

Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar
Ulrich Doraszelski, Harvard University (), Avoiding the Curse of Dimensionality in Dynamic Stochastic Games

Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 4:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar
Brian Jacob ((Harvard KSG)), An Investigation of Objective and Subjective Performance Measures: New Evidence from the Education Sector

Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Kirk White (), The Dynamics of Plant-level Productivity in U.S.

Thursday, February 24, 2005, 3:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar
Jinyong Hahn (UCLA), TBA

Friday, February 25, 2005, 4:00pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Thomas (Tim) Leonard (Princeton), Who shall select the fittest?: eugenics, economics and the origins of American reform

Monday, February 28, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Viktor Todorov (Duke Economics), PhD Thesis progress report ` ` SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, February 28, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Michael Baye (Indiana University), Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets

Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Aprajit Mahajan (), Identification and Estimation of Single Index Models with Misclassified Regressors

Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia), Electronic Filing, Tax Preparers and Participation in the Earned Income Tax Credit

Thursday, March 3, 2005, 3:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar
Allan Timmermann (), TBA

Friday, March 4, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), A Feasible and Objective Concept of Optimality: the quadratic loss function and the U.S. monetary policy in the 1960s

Friday, March 4, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Bruce Caldwell (UNCG), "The Road to Serfdom" and "Hayek Collected Works"

Monday, March 7, 2005, 10:00am, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Manuel Santos (Arizona State), Numerical Solution of Dynamic Non-Optimal Economies

Monday, March 7, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Javier Mencia (Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid Spain), PhD Thesis progress report ` ` SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, March 7, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Paul Heidhues (Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany), The Impact of Consumer Loss Aversion on Pricing

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar
Charles Phelps (Rochester University), The Origins, Purposes, and Governance of Not-For-Profit Institutions

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago (), How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from the Major Airlines

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar
Henry Siu (UBC), State Dependent Pricing and Business Cycle Asymmetries

Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Omari H. Swinton (), An "A" For Effort: Does More Effort Lead to More Learning?

Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
Tom DeLeire (Michigan State), Insuring Happiness and Consumption through Church Membership

Friday, March 11, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar
Peter Zweifel (University of Zurich), Age and choice in Swiss health insurance

Monday, March 14, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
PhD Student(s) (), Presentation(s) organized by PhD Students SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, March 21, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Dana Kiku (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Curtis Taylor and Huseyin Yildirim (Duke University), Public Information and Electoral Bias

Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago GSB (), Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks

Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 4:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar
Lena Edlund (), The Role of Paternity Presumption and Custodial Rights for Understanding Marriage Patterns

Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar
Jeff Campbell (), The Role of Collateralized Household Debt in Macroeconomic Stabilization

Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Martin Salm (), Does job loss cause ill health?

Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 4:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar
Janet Currie (UCLA), TBA

Thursday, March 24, 2005, 3:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar
Marcelo J. Moreira (Harvard), TBA

Friday, March 25, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), Modigliani Papers at Duke   [abstract]

Friday, March 25, 2005, 3:45pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar
David Dranove ((Northwestern), TBA

Monday, March 28, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Xin Huang (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, March 28, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar
IO Workshop (), No seminar currently scheduled for this date

Monday, March 28, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Albert Ma (), Asymmetric Information from Physician Agency: Optimal Payment and Healthcare Quantity

Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Padmaja Ayyagari (), Demand for the Influenza Vaccine Among the Elderly

Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar
David Howard (), Quality and Consumer Choice in Health Care: Evidence from Kidney Transplantation

Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Rod O'Donnell (Sydney), KEYNES’S PRINCIPLES OF WRITING (INNOVATIVE) ECONOMICS

Monday, April 4, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Raffaella Giacomini (UCLA), Presentation on TBA SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar
Andrew Ching, University of Toronto (), Brand Choice with Partially Observed Prices

Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 4:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar
Nicolas Marceau (UQAM (Montreal)), Gangs and Crime Deterrence

Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 11:00am, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar joint w/ Decision Science
Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern), Dynamic Choice under Ambiguity

Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Natialie K. Goodpaster (), Married Moms at Home: A Labor Force Participation Puzzle

Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
Dean Karlan (Princeton), Observing Unobservables: Identifying Information Asymmetries with a Consumer Credit Field Experiment

Friday, April 8, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University), Talk About Economists' Lives: An Historian's Perspective

Friday, April 8, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Loic Charles (Paris), The Writing Workshop of François-Quesnay and the Making of Physiocracy and Abstract

Monday, April 11, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Javier Mencia (visitor from Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid) (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, April 11, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar
Muhamet Yildiz (MIT), Generic Uniqueness and Continuity of Rationalizable Strageties

Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar
Jean-Pierre Dube, University of Chicago GSB (), Endogenous Sunk Costs and the Geographic Distribution of Brand Shares in Consumer Package Goods Industries

Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar
Sandra Valentina Lizarazo (Dissertation Defense), TBA

Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar
Joshua Kinsler (), Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Racism or Rational Choice?

Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 3:45pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar
Amy Finkelstein (), The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence

Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
Amy Finkelstein (), The Aggregate Effects of Health Insurance: Evidence from the Introduction of Medicare

Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Claudia Sunna (University of Lecce), Population within the Social Sciences: Joseph J. Spengler on Population, Development and Welfare

Friday, April 15, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar
Telephone Discussison/Journal Article Format (), TBA

Friday, April 15, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Catherine Labio (Yale), Literature and economics: anatomy of a divorce

Monday, April 18, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Ed Fang (Duke Economics), PhD Final Oral Examination SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar
Tom Hubbard, University of Chicago GSB (), Manigerial Leverage Is Limited By the Extent of the Market: Hierarchies, Specialization, and the Utilization of Lawyers’ Human Capital

Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar
Roger Farmer (UCLA), Shooting the Auctioneer

Wednesday, April 20, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
Bruce Shearer (Laval), TBA

Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Econometrics Workshop Seminar
Ross Valkanov, (UCLA), TBA

Monday, April 25, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Max Dedov (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 11:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar
Jeremy Ascher (), The Limited Bias in Time-Consistent Monetary PolicyandMonetary Policy and Subgame Perfect Equilibrium Outcomes in the Absence of Commitment

Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 4:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar
David Autor (MIT), Do temporary help jobs improve labor market outcomes for low-skilled workers? Evidence from random assignments. - Joint Applied Micro and Public Economics

Tuesday, April 26, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar
Filippo Occhino (Rutgers), Optimal Fiscal Policy Over The Business Cycle

Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 11:00am, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar joint w/Decision Science
Edi Karni (Johns Hopkins), Subjective Expected Utility Theory without States of the World

Friday, April 29, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar
Rich Lindrooth (Medical University of Scouth Carolina), Hospital Closure and Economic Efficiency

Monday, May 2, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Duy Tran (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 4:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar
Jane Cooley (Duke University), Desegregation and the Achievement Gap: Do Diverse Peers Help?

Monday, May 9, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Viktor Todorov (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, May 16, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Alessandro Palandri (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, May 23, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
Xin Huang (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, May 30, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch
special session for PhD students only (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Friday, June 3, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar - Impact of Health Insurance Mandates on Premium Costs
James W. Henderson, J. Allen Seward andBeck A. Taylor plus Tracy LaPierre and Chris Conover (), State Level Health Insurance Mandates and Premium Costs, plus Estimating the Impact of State Health Insurance Mandates on Premium

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