FALL 2010 SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Wednesdays at 4:15 PM
Room 125, Public Affairs Center

Visitors: Driving directions and a campus map are available.

Date Speaker Title
September 29 Damien Sheehan-Connor 
Wesleyan University-Department of Economics
"A Symmetric Relationship Between Proxy and Instrumental Variables"
October 6 Paroma Sanyal
Brandeis University
"Innovation, R&D and Managerial Compensation"
October 13 Rocco Macchiavello
Warwick, Harvard University, BREAD and CEPR
"Development Uncorked:
Reputation Acquisition in the New Market for Chilean Wines in the UK"
October 20
CANCELLED
Achyuta Adhvaryu
Department of Health Policy and Administration
Yale University School of Public Health
"Labor Complementarities and Health in the Agricultural Household"
October 27 Ergys Islamaj
Vassar College
"Financial Integration and Consumption Smoothing: Bridging Theory and Empirics"
November 3 Daniel Barbezat
Amherst College
"Turning the Endowment Effect On and Off: Mental Accounting and the Consumption Bundle"
November 11
8:00pm
Edward Lincoln
New York University Stern School of Business
Joint with East Asian Studies
To be held at 
Mansfield Freeman East Asian Studies Center
"What Ails Japan?"
November 17 Elif Sisli Cimarra
Brandeis University
"Do Creditors on Boards of Directors Transfer Wealth from Shareholders to Creditors during Acquisitions"
December 1 Steven Nafziger
William College
"Did Ivan's Vote Matter? The Political Economy of Local Democracy in Tsarist Russia"