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This seminar is made possible through the generosity of two prominent Vanderbilt alumni, Ambassador K. Terry Dornbush (BA '55), and Joe L. Roby (BA '61)

 

Spring 2004 Semester Seminars
All seminars are to be held at 3:10pm in Calhoun, room 218, unless otherwise indicated.


January 2004

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004, 3:10 p.m.
The Moore Room, 2nd floor, Vanderbilt University Law School
*McGee Lecture
Daniel McFadden, Nobel Laureate from the University of California, Berkeley
"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise? The Causal Pathways between Health and Socioeconomic Status"

February 2004

Monday, February 9th, 2004
Yongmiao Hong, Cornell University
"Testing Granger causality in risk, with an application to Chinese stock markets"
seminar paper:  Empirical application             background paper:  The proposed econometric method

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004
Jeffrey Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"The Dynamics of Work and Debt"
(joint with Zvi Hercowitz)

Friday, February 27th, 2004
Larry Neal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The Development of the Rules and Regulations of the London Stock Exchange, 1801-1914"
(joint with Lance Davis and Eugene White)

March 2004

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2004
Athanasios Orphanides, Board of Governors/Federal Reserve
"The Decline of Activist Stabilization Policy: Natural Rate Misperceptions, Learning and Expectations"
(joint with John C. Williams)

Monday, March 15th, 2004
John Ham, Ohio State University
"Propensity Score Matching, a Distance-Based Measure of Migration, and the Wage Growth of Young Men"

Wednesday, March 24th, 2004
 Joe L. Roby Speaker
Larry Karp, University of California at Berkeley
"Global Warming and Hyperbolic Discounting" (topic/paper)
"Nonconstant discounting in continous time"  (note)

Monday, March 29th, 2004
Matthew Shapiro, University of Michigan
"Phased-In Tax Cuts and Economic Activity"

Wednesday, March 31st, 2004
Jim Nason, Federal Reserve Bank, Atlanta
"Along the New Keynesian Phillips Curve with Nominal and Real Rigidities"
(joint with George Slotsve)

April 2004

Tuesday, April 6th, 2004
Ken Binmore, University College, London
"The Evolution of Focal Points"

"Wednesday, April 14th, 2004
Ronald Gallant, Duke University/North Carolina State University
"On the Determination of General Scientific Models"
(joint with Robert E. McCulloch)

Wednesday, April 21st, 2004
Mike Peters, University of British Columbia
"The Pre-Marital Investment Game"

Friday, April 23rd, 2004
Loren Brandt, University of Toronto
"The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections"
(joint with Matthew Turner)

Friday, April 30, 2004
Nuno Limao, University of Maryland
"Preferential Trade Agreements as Stumbling Blocks for Multilateral Trade Liberalization: Evidence for the U.S."

 


Archived Seminars from Fall 2003
Archived Seminars from Spring 2003

Archived Seminars from Fall 2002
Archived Seminars from Spring 2002

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For more information, please contact
Professor Yanqin Fan (615) 322-3796
(615) 343-8495 fax
yanqin.fan@vanderbilt.edu 

For more information, please contact Cathy Zebron.
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