Seminars and Workshops: Upcoming Seminars
All seminars will be in the Rich Memorial Building, Rm 211, except as otherwise noted.
See a campus map.
Seminar Coordinator:
Tilman Klumpp
Phone: 404-727-3279
Email: tklumpp @ emory.edu
Fall 2009 Schedule
Fall seminars will be held from 12:30-1:45pm.
Friday, August 28
Please note the time and location - 2:00-3:30pm in White Hall 208
Nobel Laureate James Heckman
University of Chicago
"The Causal Effect of Education on Health"
Host: Esfandiar Maasoumi
Friday, September 18, 2009
William Darity
Duke University
"Stratification Economics"
Host: Andrew Francis/David Frisvold
Friday, September 25, 2009
Mehmet Caner
North Carolina State University
"A New Paradigm: A Joint Test of Structural and Correlation Parameters in Instrumental Variables Regression When Perfect Exogeneity is Violated"
Host: Esfandiar Maasoumi
Friday, October 2, 2009
David Papell
University of Houston
"Taylor Rules and the Great Inflation: Lessons from the 1970’s for the Road Ahead for the Fed"
Host: Tanya Molodtsova
Friday, October 9, 2009
Lutz Kilian
University of Michigan
"Pitfalls in Estimating Asymmetric Effects of Energy Price Shocks"
Host: Elena Pesavento
Friday, October 16, 2009
Dan Houser
George Mason University
"Competition for Trophies Triggers Male Generosity"
Host: Monica Capra
Friday, October 23, 2009
David Dickinson
Appalachian State University
"Sleep deprivation, sleep choice, and time-of-day effects on high-level decision-making"
Host: Monica Capra
Friday, October 30, 2009
Cesare Robotti
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
"On the Hansen-Jagannathan distance with no-arbitrage constraint"
Host: Richard Luger
Friday, November 6, 2009
Zhou Yang
Emory School of Public Health
"Sex Education, Family Planning Service Policies and Demographic Change: The Reasons and Challenges of Recent Increase in Teen Birth Rate”
Host: Sara Markowitz
Friday, November 13, 2009
Decio Coviello
University or Rome Tor Vergata and European University Institute
“Political Longevity and Collusion in Public Procurement Auctions”
Host: Elena Pesavento
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (Please note the day)
Deliana Kostova
Emory University
"Essays on Global Tobacco Use: The Role of Cigarette Prices and Regulation"
Dissertation Proposal
Friday, November 20, 2009
Hanming Fang
University of Pennsylvania
"Difference-In-Difference Estimators of Prejudice: An Examination of the Existing Test and An Alternative"
Host: Tilman Klumpp
Friday, December 4, 2009
Phil Cook
Duke University
“Private Inputs to Crime Control”
Host: Sara Markowitz
Spring 2010 Schedule
Spring seminars will be held from 4:00-5:15pm.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Henry Thompson
Auburn University
Host: Tanya Molodtsova
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Steve LeRoy
University of California Santa Barbara
Host: Stephen Clark
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Hashem Pesaran
Cambridge University
Host: Esfandiar Maasoumi
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Irene Comeig
University of Valencia
Host: Monica Capra
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Shmuel Leshem
University of Southern California
Host: Hugo Mialon
Wednesday, April 7, 2010, Noon (Please note day and time)
Warren Whatley
University of Michigan
Host: Len Carlson
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Yanqin Fan
Vanderbilt University
Host: Esfandiar Maasoumi
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Byung-Cheol Kim
Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Tilman Klumpp
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Tyler Cowen
George Mason University
Host: Paul Rubin