Lunch Groups and Workshops - Spring 2005

Economics, Fall 2005

Economics, Fall 2005

Monday, August 29, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Max Dedov (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics (joint with the Fuqua School of Business), 327 Social Sciences
Frank Schorfheide (University of Penn), On the Fit and Forecasting Performance of New-Keynesian Models

Tuesday, August 30, 2005, 4:15pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences, Duke
Frank Schorfheide (University of Pennsylvania), On the Fit and Forecasting Performance of New-Keynesian Models   [abstract]

Thursday, September 1, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
Hunt Willard , Genome Sciences and Policy in Washington: Perspectives from the Secretary's Advisory Committee

Monday, September 5, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
special session for PhD students only (Duke Economics), Thesis progress reports SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, September 5, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 309 Gardner Hall, UNC
Anna Rubinchick (University of Colorado-Bolder), Asymmetric Contests under Incomplete Information: The N Player Case [joint w/Sergio Parreiras]

Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Arthur Liu , Trade Openness and the Cost of Sudden Stops

Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Natalie Goodpaster , Dan Black and Jeff Smith: 'How Robust is the Evidence of on the Effects of College Quality? Evidence from Matching'

Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Marc Rysman (BU), Coordination vs. Differentiation in a Standards War: 56K Modems

Friday, September 9, 2005, 3:30pm, PHO Pfizer Keynote Seminar, 1301 McGavran-Greenberg
Marilyn Moon , Medicare: Balancing Cost, Quality, and Access

Friday, September 9, 2005, 3:30pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 139 Social Sciences
Gautam Gowrisankaran (Washington University), Dynamics of Consumer Demand for New Durable Consumer Goods

Monday, September 12, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Poster Presenters (Duke Economics), Preview of Student Posters for SAMSI Conference SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, September 12, 2005, 4:00pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Nicola Persico (University of Pennsylvania), A Drawback of Electoral Competition

Monday, September 12, 2005, 4:00pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 3304 Kerr Hall, UNC School of Pharmacy
Matt Maciejewski (University of Washington-Seattle), Medicare Drug Benefits and Selection Bias in HMO Enrollment & Mortality in Diabetes

Tuesday, September 13, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar (joint with the Fuqua School of Business), 327 Social Science
Krishna Kumar (U of Southern California), Village vs Market Social Capital: An Approach to Development

Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Anna Kozlovskaya , Presenting Lucas: "Inflation and Welfare"

Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Josh Kinsler , Bo Honore & Luojia Hu: 'On the Performacne of Some Robust Instrumental Variables Estimators'

Wednesday, September 14, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Moshe Buchinsky (UCLA), Infirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S. and Using a Life-Cycle Model to Predict Induced Entry Effects of a $1 for $2 Benefit Offset in the SSFDI Program

Thursday, September 15, 2005, 3:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, 120 Social Sciences, Duke
Arie Beresteanu (Duke University), Asymptotic Properties for a Class of Partially Identified Models   [abstract]

Thursday, September 15, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
David Goldstein , Should you take a generic test before you take your medicine?

Sunday, September 18, 2005, 8:15am, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, Radisson Hotel, RTP, Room H (3rd Floor)
Ronnie Sircar, Princeton Universityand Bas Werker, Tilburg University , SAMSI Financial Econometrics Tutorials   [abstract]

Sunday, September 18, 2005, 6:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, Radisson Hotel, RTP, Room H (3rd Floor)
Duke PhD students and other presenters (sponsored by Duke, UNC, NCSU, and NISS), SAMSI Financial Econometrics Tutorials   [abstract]

Monday, September 19, 2005, 8:15am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, Radisson Hotel RTP
Rob Engle, Nobel Laureate, plus presenters at other sessions, and Panel Discussion including Lars P. Hansen (Duke, UNC, NCSU, and NISS), SAMSI Conference Slides/Paper

Monday, September 19, 2005, 8:15am, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, Radisson Hotel RTP, Room H (3rd Floor)
SAMSI Program: Robert F. Engle (Nobel Laureate) and other prominent economists and statisticians (Presenters from many top universities), SAMSI program on Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics   [abstract]

Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 8:15am, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, Radisson Hotel RTP, Room H (3rd Floor)
SAMSI Program: Prominent economists, statisticians, and mathemeticians (Presenters from many top universities), SAMSI program on Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics   [abstract]

Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Robert Flood (UC-Berkeley), Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: A Systematic Exploitation of Idiosyncratic Risk with AK Rose

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 8:15am, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, Radisson Hotel RTP, Room H (3rd Floor)
SAMSI Program: Prominent economists, statisticians, and mathemeticians (Presenters from many top universities), SAMSI program on Financial Mathematics, Statistics and Econometrics   [abstract]

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Kotaro Yoshida , Own Research

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Kata Mihaly , Pedro Carneiro and James J. Heckman: 'The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling'

Thursday, September 22, 2005, 9:00am, CV Genomics Forum, 2240 CIEMAS
Faculty from IRB, Cardiology, and DCRI , Topic: Practical Issues in CV Genomics Trials

Thursday, September 22, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Atlanta Fed), A,B,C’S (and D)’S FOR UNDERSTANDING VARS

Friday, September 23, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 1301 McGravan-Greenberg Hall, UNC Sch Pub Hlth
Tom Hoerger (RTI), Controversies in Obesity Mortality: A Tale of Two Studies

Friday, September 23, 2005, 3:30pm, UNC-Greensboro Seminar Series - Applied Micro, Bryan Room 206, UNC-G
David Figlio (University of Florida), TBA

Monday, September 26, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Max Dedov (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, September 26, 2005, 3:00pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar*, 327 Social Science
Jonas Fisher (Chicago Fed), The Dynamic Effects of Neutral and Investment-Specific Technology Shocks

Wednesday, September 28, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Pedro Garcia Duarte , Presenting Doepke: "Real Effects on Inflation Through the Redistribution of Nominal Wealth"

Thursday, September 29, 2005, 3:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 139 Social Sciences
Antonio Rangel (Stanford University), Addiction and Cue-Triggered Decision Processes

Thursday, September 29, 2005, 3:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, NISS, Research Triangle Park
Qi Li (Texas A&M), Nonparametric Estimation of Regression and Conditional Density Functions with Mixed Discrete and Continuous Covariates

Friday, September 30, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar,
None , No Seminar

Monday, October 3, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Uta Kretschmer (visitor from Bonn, Germany) (Duke Economics), Research update SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, October 3, 2005, 3:00pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Dirk Krueger (Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt), Does Income Inequality Lead to Consumption Inequality? Evidence and Theory

Monday, October 3, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, Seminar Room #1, Fuqua School of Business
Marty Perry (Rutgers), Preferred Suppliers and Vertical Integration in Auction Markets

Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Oscar Jorda (UC-Davis), An Efficient Impulse Response Matching Estimator for Rational Expectations Models

Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Jeremy Ascher , Own Research

Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar,
Peter Arcidiacono , Heckman and Vytlacil: 'Structural Equations, Treatment Effects, and Econometric Policy Evaluation'

Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 2:30pm, Econometrics Workshop*, 327 Social Science
Jinyong Hahn (UCLA), Understanding Bias in Nonlinear Panel Models: Some Recent Developments and Higher Order Efficiency of Bias Corrections

Thursday, October 6, 2005, 9:00am, CV Genomics Forum, 2240 CIEMAS
Dr. David Evans , Expression Profiling in Pheripheral Artery Disease

Thursday, October 6, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
Joe Nivins, Tom Burke, and Holly Dressman , Genome Technologies at Your Fingertips: IGSP Center for Applied Genomics & Technology

Friday, October 7, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 150 Sheps Center - Telephone Format
Jonathan Gruber (MIT), Religious Market Structure,
Religious Participation
and Outcomes: Is Religion Good for You?

Monday, October 10, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
special session for PhD students only (Duke Economics), Thesis progress reports SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Frederick Mishkin (Columbia), Inflation Band Targeting and Optimal Inflation Contracts

Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Kotaro Yoshida , Presenting Lagos and Wright: "A Unified Framework for Monetary Theory and Policy Analysis"

Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Andrew Beauchamp and Anil Nathan , Joe Altonji, Todd Elder, and Chris Taber: 'Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools'

Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC
Luigi Pistaferri (Stanford), TBA

Thursday, October 13, 2005, 9:00am, Forum Meeting, 2240 CIEMAS
CV Genomics , CV Genomics Forum

Thursday, October 13, 2005, 3:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, NISS, Research Triangle Park
Oliver Linton (LSE), TBA

Friday, October 14, 2005, 12:00pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 150 Sheps Center
Michael Kremer (Harvard University), TBA

Monday, October 17, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Xin Huang (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, October 17, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 309 Gardner Hall, UNC
Luca Rigotti (Fuqua School of Business, Duke), Uncertainty in Mechanism Design

Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Pedro Garcia Duarte , Exchange Rate Determination and the Real Effects of Currency Crises

Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC
Mark Duggan (Maryland), Aching to Retire? The Rise in the Full Retirement Age and its Impact on the Disability Rolls

Thursday, October 20, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
Alex Rosenberg , TBA   [abstract]

Friday, October 21, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, HPAA Conference Room (1101F McGavran-Greenberg) at UNC
Will Dow (Council of Economic Advisors while on leave from University of California at Berkeley), TBA

Friday, October 21, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Sciences, Duke
Erik Angner (University of Alabama), Is it Possible to Measure Happiness? The measurement-theoretic argument against subjective measures of wellbeing

Monday, October 24, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, October 24, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 327 Social Sciences, Duke
Vijay Krishna (Penn State), Contracting for Information Under Imperfect Commitment

Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Science
Phillip Leslie (Stanford), Information Entrepreneurs and Competition in Procurement Auctions

Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop (joint with the Fuqua School of Business), 327 Social Science
John Coleman (Fuqua School of Business, Duke), Terms-of-Trade, Structural Transformation, and Japan’s Growth Slowdown

Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 4:15pm, A Special Interest Event, Lecture Theatre #04, Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Duke Population Research Institute , Colloquium One - DuPRI Colloquium Series

Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group, 327 Social Sciences
Kyobook Lee , Own Research

Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group, 327 Social Science
Padmaja Ayyagari and Martin Salm , Lance Lochner: 'Individual Perceptions of the Criminal Justice System'

Wednesday, October 26, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop*, 327 Social Science, Duke
Eric French (Chicago Fed), The Effects of Health Insurance and Self-Insurance on Retirement Behavior

Thursday, October 27, 2005, 1:00pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 101 Old Chemistry
Shakheeb Khan , Minimum Distance Estimation of Randomly Censored
Regression Models with Endogeneity

Friday, October 28, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop,
None , No Seminar

Friday, October 28, 2005, 3:30pm, UNC-Greensboro Seminar Series - Applied Micro, Bryan Room 206, UNC-G
Dianne Whitmore (Univ of Chicago), Does the Federal School Lunch Program Contribute to Childhood Obesity?

Monday, October 31, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Thomas Busch (visitor from Aarhus Universitet, Danmark) (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Science
Amil Petrin (University of Chicago), Control Function Corrections for Omitted Attributes in Discrete Choice Models

Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Morten Ravn (European University Institute), Labor Market Matching, Labor Market Participation and Aggregate Business Cycles: Theory and Structural Evidence for the US

Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 4:15pm, Public Economics Workshop, 327 Social Sciences
Morten Ravn (European University Institute), Labor Market Matching, Labor Market Participation and Aggregate Business Cycles: Theory and Structural Evidence for the US

Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group, 327 Social Sciences
Anamaria Pieschacon , Presenting Da Costa and Werning: "On the Optimality of the Friedman Rule with Heterogeneous Agents and Nonlinear Income Taxation"

Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Kelly Bishop and Patrick Dudley , John Kennan and James Walker: 'The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions'

Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 1:00pm, Macroeconomics Workshop, 116 Old Chem
Enrique Mendoza (Maryland), Sudden Stops in a Business Cycle Model with Credit Constraints: A Fisherian Deflation of Tobin’s Q*

Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 3:30pm, UNC-Greensboro Seminar Series - Applied Micro, Bryan Room 206, UNC-G
Michelle Sylvester (UNC-Greensboro), TBA

Wednesday, November 2, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop, 327 Social Science
Zvi Eckstein (Minn/Tel Aviv), Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage

Thursday, November 3, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
Claire Williams , TBA   [abstract]

Friday, November 4, 2005, 11:00am, Triangle Health Economics Workshop, 1101F McGavran-Greenberg (HPAA Conference Room)
Michael Kremer (Harvard University), Contracting for Health Care Services by NGOs: Evidence from Cambodia

Friday, November 4, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy, 327 Social Sciences, Duke
Glenn R. Hueckel (Pomona College), “In the Heat of Writing”: Polemics and the “Error of Adam Smith” in the Matter of the Corn Bounty   [abstract]

Monday, November 7, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Dana Kiku (Duke Economics), Thesis and job market report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, November 7, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Mark Wright (Stanford University), Establishment Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy

Monday, November 7, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 309 Gardner Hall, UNC
Andreas Blume , Rational Multi-Agent Search

Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Martin Salm (Duke), Can subjective mortality expectations and stated preferences explain varying consumption and saving behaviors among the elderly?

Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 4:00pm, Public Economics Workshop Seminar, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC
Justin Wolfers (Wharton), Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

Tuesday, November 8, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Robert Kollmann , International Portfolio Equilibrium and the Current Account: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Perspective

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Anna Kozlovskaya , Presenting Bhattacharya et al: "Heterogeneity, Redistribution, and the Friedman Rule"

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Omari Swinton and Yang Wang , Petra Todd and Ken Wolpin:
'Using Experimental Data to Validate a Dynamic Behavioral Model of Child Schooling and Fertility: Assessing the Impact of a School Subsidy Program in Mexico'

Wednesday, November 9, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC
Jeremy Fox (Chicago), Nonparametric Estimation of Matching Games With Endogenous Prices

Thursday, November 10, 2005, 9:00am, CV Genomics Forum, 2240 CIEMAS
Camille Frazier, MD (Duke University), Update on the STAGE Project

Thursday, November 10, 2005, 4:15pm, Duke And Triangle Econometrics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Hao Li (Toronto), Competing for Talents

Friday, November 11, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences, Duke
Simon Cook (Duke University), How (not) to do things with archives: Marshall and the history of economic thought revisited

Friday, November 11, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, HPAA Conference Room (1101F McGavran-Greenberg)
Ben Craig (University of Arizona), A Multimodal Model of Health Care Prices   [abstract]

Friday, November 11, 2005, 3:40pm, NC State Industrial Organization Workshop, 4210 Nelson Hall, NC State
George Deltas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Passenger Shipping Cartels and Their Effect on Trans-Atlantic Migration

Monday, November 14, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Alessandro Palandri (Duke Economics), Thesis and job market report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, November 14, 2005, 1:00pm, Applied Macroeconomics Workshop, Von Canon, Bryan Center
Graham Elliott, Tae-Why Lee, Michael Owyang (UCSD/MIT, UC Riverside/Caltech, St Louis Fed), Applied Macroeconomics Workshop   [abstract]

Monday, November 14, 2005, 4:00pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, 327 Social Science
Kyle Bagwell (Columbia), Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships

Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Christopher Erceg (Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System), SIGMA: A New Open Economy Model for Policy Analysis and Expansionary Fiscal Policy and the U.S. Trade

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Arthur Liu , Presenting Albanesi: "Optimal Time Consistent Monetary and Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents"

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Andrew Hussey , Matt Dey and Chris Flinn: 'An Equilibrium Model of Health Insurance Provision and Wage Determination'

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
John Kennan (Wisconsin), Private Information, Wage Bargaining and Employment Fluctuations

Thursday, November 17, 2005, 3:30pm, Econometrics Workshop Seminar, NISS, Research Triangle Park
Whitney Newey (MIT), Improved Inference with Many Instruments

Thursday, November 17, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
Laura Rusche , TBA

Thursday, November 17, 2005, 4:30pm, FRIG Seminar, Rhodes Conference Room in the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Rob Reich , Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality   [abstract]

Friday, November 18, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, None
None , No Seminar

Monday, November 21, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Max Dedov (Duke Economics), Thesis and job market report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, November 21, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, Seminar Room #1, Fuqua School of Business
Niko Matouschek (Northwestern), A Theory of Headquarters

Friday, November 25, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar,
None , No Seminar

Monday, November 28, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Mia Holmfeldt (visitor from Sverige) (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, November 28, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop, Fuqua Academic Center Seminar Room #1
Natalya Kuribko (Economics, Duke University), Managing a Partnership Efficiently

Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Matthias Doepke (UCLA), Real Effects of Inflation through the Redistribution of Nominal Wealth

Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 5:00pm, Metabolism Research Forum Series, Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition Building
Steven Shoelson (Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard University), “Role of Inflammation in Insulin Resistance”

Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 8:30am, Macro And Int'l Reading Group, 327 Social Sciences
Anamaria Pieschacon , Own Research

Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 12:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Lunch Group Seminar, 327 Social Science
Peter Arcidiacono , Dynamic Discrete Choice and Conditional Choice Probabilities Revisited

Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop, 211 Gardner Hall, UNC
Dan Silverman (Michigan), Sources of Advantagenous Selection: Evidence from the Medigap Insurance Market

Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 327 Social Science
Daniel Ackerberg (UCLA), Structural Identification of Production Functions

Thursday, December 1, 2005, 9:00am, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, 2240 CIEMAS
Ralph Snyderman, MD , Personalized Medicine: The Next Health Care Transformation

Thursday, December 1, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
Jim Vopel (to be confirmed) , TBA

Thursday, December 1, 2005, 6:15pm, Distinguished Speaker Series and Health Sector Management, Geneen Auditorium, Fuqua
Dr. Julie Gerberding (Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), TBA

Friday, December 2, 2005, 8:30am, Triangle Econometrics Conference 2005, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 19 T.W. Alexander Drive, RTP
J. Stock, Keynote Speaker (Harvard), An Empirical Comparison of Methds for Forecasting Using Many Predictors

Friday, December 2, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 150 Sheps Center
Bill Grant (Novaris Pharmaceuticals Corp/DCRI), Minimizing Selection Bias in Randomized Trials: A Nash Euilibrium Approach to Optimal Randomization

Monday, December 5, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Marcus Larson (visitor from Sverige) (Duke Economics), Thesis progress report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, December 5, 2005, 2:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint With The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn), Estimating Macroeconomic Models: A Likelihood Approach and Convergence Properties of the Likelihood of Computed Dynamic Models

Monday, December 5, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Science
Vasiliki Skreta (UCLA), "Optimal Multi Unit Auctions: Who Gets What Matters"

Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 3:45pm, Industrial Organization Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Jane Cooley (Duke), Desegration and the Achievement Gap: Do Diverse Peers Help?

Tuesday, December 6, 2005, 4:15pm, Macroeconomics And International Economics (joint w/The Fuqua School Of Business) Seminar, 327 Social Science
Alwyn Young (University of Chicago), "In Sorrow to Bring Forth Children: Fertility Amidst the Plague of HIV."

Wednesday, December 7, 2005, 3:45pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 327 Social Sciences, Duke
Donghoon Lee (NYU), 'Accounting for Wage and Employment Changes in the U.S. from 1968-2000: A Dynamic Model of Labor Market Equilibrium'

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 12:00pm, Center for NeuroEconomic Studies, TBA
Colin Camerer , TBA

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 3:00pm, Applied Microeconomics Workshop Seminar, 225 Social Sciences
Patrick Bayer (Yale), Racial Sorting and Neighborhood Quality and Separate When Equal? Racial Inequality and Residential Segregation

Thursday, December 8, 2005, 3:00pm, Special Interest Event, TBA
Patrick Bayer (Yale), TBA

Friday, December 9, 2005, 3:30pm, Triangle Health Economics Workshop Seminar, 150 Sheps Center
Martin Salm (Duke University), Can Subjective Mortality Expectations and Stated Preferences Explain Varying Consumption and Savings Behaviors Among the Elderly?

Friday, December 9, 2005, 3:30pm, UNC-Greensboro Seminar Series - Applied Micro, Bryan Room 206, UNC-G
Martin Heintzelman (University of Michigan), TBA

Friday, December 9, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, Fuqua Academic Center Seminar Room #2
Omur Celmanbet (UNC), Choosing the Order of Sale in Multi-Unit Auctions

Monday, December 12, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
Bjorn Eraker (Duke Economics), Research Report SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, December 12, 2005, 4:30pm, Microeconomic Theory Workshop Seminar, Seminar Room #1, Fuqua School of Business
April Franco and Matt Mitchell (Iowa), Innovation Dynamics and the Scope of Technology

Thursday, December 15, 2005, 4:00pm, Genomes@4, Bryan Research Auditorium Room 103
TBA , TBA

Monday, December 19, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
special session for PhD students only (Duke Economics), Thesis progress reports SLIDES/PAPER

Monday, December 26, 2005, 11:30am, Financial Econometrics Lunch, 327 Social Science, Duke
special session for PhD students only (Duke Economics), Thesis progress reports SLIDES/PAPER
Generated at 9:09pm Sunday, May 11, 2008 by Mcal.   Home * Reload * Login

<< Back to Workshops Main Menu