Lunch Groups and Workshops - Spring 2006

Economics, Spring 2006

Economics, Spring 2006

Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 2:30pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 327 Social Science
Victor Aguirregabiria (Boston University), Another Look at the Identification of Dynamic Discrete Decision Processes

Friday, January 13, 2006, 10:00am, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1101F McGavran-Greenberg (HPAA Conference Room)
Rebecca Thornton (Doctoral candidate - Harvard University), The Demand for and Impact of Learning HIV Status: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Friday, January 13, 2006, 2:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science, Duke
Efraim Sadka (Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University), On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity—Reassessing Anti-discrimination Rules

Wednesday, January 18, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Omari Swinton , Derek Neal: 'Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped?'

Friday, January 20, 2006, 2:00pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1101F McGavran-Greenberg (HPAA Conference Room)
Hua Wang (National Centet for Health Statistics), Effects of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on Access to and Use of Medical and Dental Services

Monday, January 23, 2006, 11:40am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Tim Bollerslev & welcome to undergraduate junior seminar students (Duke Economics), Continuous-Time Models and the Distribution of Daily Stock Returns SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, January 23, 2006, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, Seminar Room 1, Fuqua School of Business
Shachar Kariv (Berkeley), Substantive and Procedural Rationality in Decisions under Uncertainty

Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), Mark Hooker, "What Happened to the Oil Price-Macroeconomy Relationship?", and James Hamilton, "This is What Happened to the Oil Price-Macroeconomy Relationship"

Tuesday, January 24, 2006, 4:00pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC
Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) , To Bundle or Not To Bundle

Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Sciences
Yang Wang , Bertrand and Mullainathan: 'Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamaal?'

Thursday, January 26, 2006, 12:00pm, Public Policy, Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Bahar Leventoglu (SUNY at Stony Brook), War and Incomplete Information

Thursday, January 26, 2006, 2:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 103 Allen Building
Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Columbia), Changing the Boston School Choice Mechanism

Monday, January 30, 2006, 11:40am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Viktor Todorov (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, January 30, 2006, 3:00pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 327 Social Science
Matthew Osborne (Stanford), Consumer Learning, Habit Formation, and Heterogeneity: A Structural Examination

Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Javier Garcia Cicco (Duke University), James Hamilton, "What is an Oil Shock?", and Lee, Ni, Ratti, "Oil Shocks and the Macroeconomy"

Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 12:00pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1101F McGavran-Greenberg (HPAA Conference Room)
Heather Royer (Post-Doc, University of Michigan), The Effect of Maternal Education on Fertility and Infant Health: Evidence from School Entry Policies Using Exact Date of Birth

Tuesday, January 31, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Pau Rabanal (International Monetary Fund), Euro-Dollar Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in an Estimated Two-Country Model: What is Important and What is Not

Wednesday, February 1, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Josh Kinsler , Moro and Norman: 'A General Equilibrium Model of Statistical Discrimination'

Friday, February 3, 2006, 3:30pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 311 Social Science
Melissa Tartari (University of Pennsylvania), Divorce and the Cognitive Achievement of Children

Friday, February 3, 2006, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Science
Roy Weintraub (Duke University), Economic Science Wars

Monday, February 6, 2006, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Xin Huang (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Anamaria Pieschacon (Duke University), Kim and Lougani, "The Role of Energy in Real Business Cycle Models"

Tuesday, February 7, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Etienne Gagnon (Northwestern), Price Setting During Low and High Inflation: Evidence from Mexico

Wednesday, February 8, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group, 232 Social Sciences
Anil Nathan , Mailath, Samuleson, and Shaked: 'Endogenous Inequality in Integrated Labor Markets with Two-Sided Search'

Friday, February 10, 2006, 2:00pm, Economics Seminar, 237 Social Science
Jing Li (University of Pennsylvania), Dynamic Games With Perfect Awareness Information

Friday, February 10, 2006, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Philip Mirowski (Notre Dame), The Commercialization of Science, and the Response of STS   [abstract]

Monday, February 13, 2006, 10:00am, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1101F McGavran-Greenberg (HPAA Conference Room)
Harsha Thirumurthy (PhD Candidate - Yale University), The Economic Impact of AIDS Treatment: Labot Supply in Western Kenya

Monday, February 13, 2006, 11:40am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Duy Tran (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, February 13, 2006, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, UNC Campus
Eric Maskin , Sequential Innovation, Patents, and Imitation

Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Anna Kozlovskaya (Duke University), Rotemberg and Woodford, "Imperfect Competition and the Effects of Energy Price Increases on Economic Activity"

Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 10:30am, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1101F McGavran-Greenberg (HPAA Conference Room)
Manisha Shah (PhD Candidate - UC-Berkeley), Enforcing Licensing Requirements: Implications for Disease Transmission in the Sex Market

Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Carl Mela (Fuqua), The Role of Spatial Demand on Outlet Location and Pricing

Wednesday, February 15, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Sciences
Kelly Bishop , Bowlus and Eckstein: 'Discrimination and Skill Differences in an Equilibrium Search Model'

Friday, February 17, 2006, 2:00pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Adam Rosen (Northwestern), Confidence Sets for Partially Identified Parameters that Satisfy a Finite Number of Moment Inequalities

Monday, February 20, 2006, 11:40am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Ivan Shaliastovich (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, February 20, 2006, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Thomas Palfrey (Princeton), The Paradox of Voter Participation? A Laboratory Study

Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Sarah Zubairy (Duke University), Bernanke, Gertler, and Watson, "Systematic Monetary Policy and the Effects of Oil Price Shocks"

Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Alessia Campolmi (Pompeu Fabra University), Which inflation to target? A small open economy with sticky wages indexed to past inflation

Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 11:00am, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar joint w/ Fuqua Decision Science, Academic Center Seminar Room 1, Fuqua School of Business
Marzena Rostek (Yale), Quantile Maximization in Decision Theory

Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Kata Mihaly , Altonji and Pierret: 'Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination'

Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Jim Ziliak (Kentucky), Taxes, Transfers, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers

Thursday, February 23, 2006, 3:30pm, Duke And Triangle Econometrics Workshop Seminar, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 19 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Takeshi Amemiya (Stanford), Matched Endogenous Sampling in Duration Models

Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Arthur Liu (Duke University), Barsky and Kilian, "Do We Really Know that Oil Price Caused the Great Stagflation?" and Barsky and Kilian, "Oil and the Macroeconomy Since 1970s"

Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Andrew Cohen (Federal Reserve), Estimating Strategic Complementarities in Credit Unions' Outsourcing Decisions

Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Lutz Weinke (Duke University), Is Lumpy Investment Really Irrelevant for the Business Cycle?

Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Natalie Goodpaster , Levitt: 'Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from the Weakest Link' Antonovics, Arcidiacono, and Walsh: 'Games and Discrimination: Lessons from The Weakest Link'

Monday, March 6, 2006, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Luis Cabral (NY University), A Theory of Asymmetric Price Adjustment

Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Marija Vukotic (Duke University), Lutz Kilian, "The Effects of Exogenous Oil Supply Shocks on Output and Inflation: evidence from the G7 countries", and L. Kilian, "Exogenous Oil Supply Shocks: how big are they and how much do they matter for the U.S. economy?"

Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Alessandro Barbarino (Duke), Measuring Unemployment Composition Over the Cycle

Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Patrick Dudley , Anwar and Fang: 'An Alternative Test of Racial Prejudice in Motor Vehicle Searches: Theory and Evidence'

Wednesday, March 8, 2006, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Terra McKinnish (Colorado), Sexually-Integrated Workplaces and Divorce: Another Form of On-the-Job Search

Thursday, March 9, 2006, 3:30pm, Duke And Triangle Econometrics Workshop Seminar, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 19 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Mark Watson (Princeton), Testing Models of Low-Frequency Variability

Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
None , Spring Break

Wednesday, March 15, 2006, 11:00am, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar joint w/Fuqua Decision Science, Seminar Room# 1, Fuqua
David Ahn (Berkeley), Unawareness and Framing

Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Roberto Pancrazi (Duke University), Atkenson and Kehoe, "Models of Energy Use: Putty-Putty versus Putty-Clay"

Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 4:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar, 200 Rubenstein Hall (in the new public policy building adjacent to the Sanford Institute building).
Jesse Rothstein (Princeton University and NBER), Mismatch in Law School

Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Pietro Peretto (Duke), The Employment (and Output) of Nations: Theory and Policy Implications

Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Peter Arcidiacono , "Arcidiacono, Kahn, and Vigdor: 'Race-Conscious Admissions and Inter-racial Contact: Does Homophily Matter?"

Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Kevin Lang (Boston University), Education and Labor-Market Discrimination

Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Anna Kozlovskaya (Duke University), Optimal Monetary Policy in the Oil Dependent Economy

Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Isabelle Perrigne (Penn State), Regulation Under Asymmetric Information in Water Utilities

Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Craig Burnside (Duke), The Returns to Currency Speculation

Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Padmaja Ayyagari , Antonovics: 'Persistent Racial Wage Inequality'

Friday, March 31, 2006, 12:00pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 3005 Michael Hooker Research Center (UNC)
Dennis Scanlon (Penn State University; visiting Medical University of SC), The Effect of a Hospital Safety Incentive on Utility Attribute Weights in an Employed Population

Monday, April 3, 2006, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, Seminar Room 1, Fuqua School of Business
Tom Gresik (Notre Dame), The Effect of Affiliation on Equilibrium Strategies in k-Double Auctions

Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Roberto Chang (Rutgers), Electorial Uncertainty and the Volatility of International Capital Flows

Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Kelly Bishop , "Own Research"

Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 3:45pm, Joint Labor and Public Workshop, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC
David Reiley (Arizona), The War for the Fare: How Driver Compensation Affects Bus Schedule Performance

Thursday, April 6, 2006, 3:30pm, Duke And Triangle Econometrics Workshop Seminar, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 19 TW Alexander Drive, RTP
Geert Ridder (USC), TBA

Friday, April 7, 2006, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1301 McGravan-Greenberg Hall, UNC Sch Pub Hlth
Susan Ettner (UCLA), TBA

Monday, April 10, 2006, 11:40am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Max Dedov and Alessandro Palandri (Duke Economics), Final PhD Examinations SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Anamaria Pieschacon (Duke University), Own Research

Tuesday, April 11, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Jess Benhabib (NYU), The Distribution of Wealth and Redistributive Policies

Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Kata Mihaly , Own Research

Friday, April 14, 2006, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Science
Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University), History of the History of Economics

Monday, April 17, 2006, 11:40am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Bjorn Eraker (Duke Economics), Research Update SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Arthur Liu (Duke University), Own Research

Tuesday, April 18, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan), Exogenous Oil Supply Shocks: How Big Are They and How Much Do They Matter for the U.S. Economy?

Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 232 Social Science
Padmaja Ayyagari , Own Research

Wednesday, April 19, 2006, 4:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, R. J. Reynolds Auditorium, Fuqua School of Business
Mike Keane (Yale) , The Price Consideration Model of Brand Choice

Thursday, April 20, 2006, 3:30pm, Duke And Triangle Econometrics Workshop Seminar, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 19 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
Jack Porter (University of Wisconsin @ Madison), Moment Inequalities and Their Application

Friday, April 21, 2006, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1301 McGravan-Greenberg Hall, UNC Sch Pub Hlth
Louise Russell , Why Care About Patients' Time?

Monday, April 24, 2006, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, Seminar Room# 1, Fuqua
Ben Polak (Yale), Generalized Utilitarianism: accidents of birth, life changes and Harsanyi’s impartial observer theorem

Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 12:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar, Sanford
Jon Doyle (MIT), TBA

Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 3:30pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Panle Jia (Yale University), What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes To Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retail Industry

Tuesday, April 25, 2006, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Ricardo Lagos (NY University & Mpls Federal Reserve Bank), Asset Prices and Liquidity in an Exchange Economy

Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 4:00pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, Seminar Room #1, Fuqua School of Business
Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley), Disease Management

Wednesday, April 26, 2006, 4:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, Seminar Room# 1, Fuqua
Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley) , Disease Management

Thursday, April 27, 2006, 4:00pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar joint w/ Fuqua Decision Science, Seminar Room# 1, Fuqua
Jean- Pierre Ponssard (Ecole Polytechnique), Productive Efficiency and Contestable Markets

Friday, May 5, 2006, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1101F McGavran-Greenberg (HPAA Conference Room)
Jennifer Troyer (UNC-Charlotte), The dilemma of vacant beds: Did liberal CON policies toward hospitals make nursing homes 'sick'?   [abstract]

Monday, May 8, 2006, 11:40am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Jean Jacod (Université Paris VI), On some statistical problems for high frequency data SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Don Andrews (Yale), The Limit of Finite Sample Size and a Problem with Subsampling

Monday, May 15, 2006, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Viktor Todorov (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, May 22, 2006, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Ron Gallant and Han Hong (Duke Economics), A Statistical Enquiry into the Plausibility of Epstein-Zin-Weil Utility SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, May 29, 2006, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
PdD Students (Duke Economics), Student-organized session SLIDES/PAPER
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