By the generous support of the Kirk Dornbush Endowment,
established by Ambassador K. Terry Dornbush, BA'55
Spring 2003 Semester Seminars
All seminars are to be held at 3:10pm in Calhoun, room 218, unless otherwise indicated.
February 2003
Wednesday, February 5th, 2003
Thijs ten Raa, Tilburg University
"The vintage effect in TRP-growth: An Analysis of the age structure of capital"
Monday, February 10th, 2003
Thibault Gajdos, CNRS-CREST, Paris, France
"Unequal Uncertainties and Uncertain Inequalities: An Axiomatic Approach"
Monday, February 24th, 2003
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
"The Role of Non-Financial Factors in Exit and Entry in the TANF Program"
Wednesday, February 26th, 2003
Craig Brett, Mount Allison University
"Non-linear Taxes for Spatially Mobile Workers"
Thursday, February 27th, 2003
Hongtao Guo, Baruch College-CUNY
"Quantitative Market Risk Disclosure, Bond Default Risk and the Cost of Debt: Why Value at Risk?"
March 2003
Monday, March 10th, 2003
Marvin Goodfriend, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
"Inflation Targeting in the United States"
background paper: "Monetary Policy in the New Neoclassical Synthesis: A Primer"
Friday, March 14th, 2003
Matthew Canzoneri, Georgetown University
"The Need for International Policy Coordination: What's Old, What's New, What's Yet to Come?"
*Department of Political Science Seminar (co-sponsored by the Economics Department)
Thursday, March 20th, 2003
Steve Brams, Department of Politics, New York University
"Forming Stable Coalitions: The Process Matters"
4:10pm in Calhoun, room 337
Monday, March 24th, 2003
Prasanta Pattanaik, University of California, Riverside
"Stochastic Revealed Preference"
Wednesday, March 26th, 2003
Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Optimal Tax Treatment of Private contributions for Public Goods With and Without Warm Glow Preferences"
McGee Lecture
Thursday, March 27th, 2003
Peter Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Social Security Reform"
Bennett Miller Room, Vanderbilt Law School (reception to follow in lobby)
*CANCELLED*
Monday, March 31st, 2003
Morten Ravn, London Business School
"PPP Strikes Back: Aggregation and the Real Exchange Rate"
April 2003
Monday, April 7th, 2003
Rui Zhao, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
"From Bad Institution to Worse: The role of History in Development"
Kirk Dornbush Seminar
Friday, April 11th, 2003
George Evans, University of Oregon
"Adaptive Learning and Monetary Policy Design"
Monday, April 14th, 2003
Laura Razzolini, National Science Foundation and University of Mississippi
12:10-1 p.m. room 218 "The NSF Proposal Review Process"
3:10-4:30 p.m. room 218 "An Experimental Study of Congestion and Cost Allocation Mechanisms for Distributed Networks"
Thursday, April 17th, 2003
Joon Park and Yoosoon Chang, Rice University
Nonstationary Nonlinearity
"Nonlinear IV Panel Unit Root Tests" by Yoosoon Chang
"Nonstationary Nonlinearity: An Outlook for New Opportunities" by Joon Park
Monday, April 21st, 2003
Eric Smith, University of Essex
"A Picture of Long -Term Unemployment in England and Wales"
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