Applied Micro

August 29
Ying Fan, University of Michiganbr
Entry under Subsidy: the Competitive U.S. Local Telephone

September 19
John Rust, Univ. Maryland Joint with Econometrics
“The Free Installment Puzzle”

September 26
Chris Conlon, Columbia
Effects of Product Availability:
Experimental Evidence

October 17
Ronald Goettler, Chicago-Booth
Does AMD Spur Intel to Innovate More?

November 7
Jason Blevins, Ohio State
Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models in
Continuous Time

November 14
Chris Flinn, New York University
"Household Allocation Rules" paper 1, paper 2

November 28
Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon CANCELED

December 5
Marc Rysman, Boston University postponed until Spring 2012

 

Econometrics

September 6
Xiaoxia Shi, University of Wisconsin - Madison 1:00 - 2:30 PM *note time change
Size Distortion and Modification of Classical Vuong Tests with Extension to GMM Models

September 13
Shakeeb Khan, Duke
Informational Content in Complete and Incomplete Simultaneous Discrete Response Models

September 19
John Rust, Univ. Maryland Joint with Applied Micro - 3:30 - 5:00 PM**note time change
“The Free Installment Puzzle”

September 28
Otilia Boldea, Tilburg Univ. (visiting the FRB Philadelphia) 1:00 - 2:15 PM **note time & day change
Estimation and Inference in Unstable Nonlinear
Least Squares Models

October 11
Alex Torgovitsky, Northwestern
Identification of Nonseparable Models with General
Instruments

October 18
Bruce Hansen, Wisconsin 1:00 - 2:30 PM **note the time change
Efficient Shrinkage in Parametric Models

November 8
Guido Kuersteiner, Georgetown University
Limit Theory for Panel Data Models with Cross Sectional Dependence
and Sequential Exogeneity

November 15
Dukpa Kim, Univ. of Virginia
“Likelihood Ratio Tests for Cointegration, Cobreaking and Cotrending”

November 29
Elie Tamer, Northwestern University - CANCELED

December 6
Max Kasy, UCLA
Policy choice and partial identification

 

Macro

September 14
Benjamin Moll, Princeton
Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time

September 28
Michele Boldrin, Washington University
A Pseudo-Austrian Model of Monetary Policy

October 5
Ufuk Akcigit, University of Pennsylvania
Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations

October 12
Serguey Braguinsky, Carnegie Mellon
Direct Estimation of Hidden Earnings: Evidence From Administrative Data

October 19
Marek Kapicka, UCSB
"How Important Is Technology Capital? Measurement and Theory"

October 26
Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
"Convergence Across Castes"

November 2
Dirk Krueger, U. Penn
Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession

November 9
Ezra Oberfield, University of Chicago/Chicago FED
"Business Networks, Production Chains, and Productivity: A Theory of Input-Output Architecture"

November 16
Manuel Amador, Stanford
"Fiscal Policy in Debt-Constrained Economies"

November 30
Jaromir Nosal, Columbia
'Confusion as Commitment'

December 7
Gauti Eggertsson, New York FED

 

Micro Theory

August 26
Muhamet Yildiz, MIT
A STRUCTURE THEOREM FOR RATIONALIZABILITY IN
INFINITE-HORIZON GAMES

September 9
Sylvain Chassang, Princeton *canceled due to flooding in our area
Calibrated Incentive Contracts

September 16
Alexander Wolitzky, MIT
Reputational Bargaining with Minimal Knowledge of Rationality

September 23
Larry Samuelson, Yale

September 30
Alex Frankel, University of Chicago
Aligned Delegation

October 21
Caroline Thomas, UCL (London)
Strategic Experimentation with Congestion

November 4
Piero Gottardi, European University Institute
Markets for Information:
Of Inefficient Firewalls and Efficient Monopolies

November 18
Tomasz Strzalecki, Harvard

Trade & Development

September 2
Andrei Levehenko, University of Michigan
The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and
Welfare Implications

September 16
David Hummels, Purdue

September 23
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago Booth

September 30
Hylke Vandenbussche, Catholic University of Leuven
Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition

October 21
Daniel Keniston, MIT

October 28
Kyle Bagwell, Stanford University

November 4
Keith Head, University of British Columbia
The Economics of Cross-border Travel

December 9
Ina Simonovska, UC Davis/Princeton

 

FALL 2011

Distinguished Lecture Series in Economics
Sponsored by the Koch Foundation

 

October 6, 2011

6:00 - 7:00PM in 22 Deike

Lee Coppock, University of Virginia

will present

The Miracle of Growth

 

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(This page was last updated on Dec. 6, 2011)