Fall 2016 Seminar Schedule
Wednesdays at 4:20 PM
Room 422, Public Affairs Center
Visitors: Driving directions and a campus map are available.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
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September 14 |
Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick) |
"Does Migration Cause Political Extremism?" |
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October 5 |
Ragan Petrie (Texas A & M University) | "“Discount Rates of Children and High School Completion" |
| October 12 | Daniel Hicks (University of Oklahoma) | "Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality: Causal Evidence from Thermal Inversions" |
| October 19 | Daniel Bernhofen (American University) | "An Endowment Augmentation Formulation of the Gains from Trade" |
| November 2 | Edouard Wemy (Clark University) | "The Cyclicality of the Labor income share and the IST shock" |
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November 16 |
Matt Pritsker (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston) |
"Choosing Stress Scenarios for Systemic Risk Through Dimension Reduction" |
| November 30 | Emanuel Vespa (UC at Santa Barbara - Visiting Professor at NYU) |
"Contingent Preferences and the Sure-Thing Principle:Revisiting Classic Anomalies in the Laboratory" |
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MONDAY December 5 |
Book Club Discussion-PAC 229 |
"The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War ” By Robert J. Gordon |