Department of Economics

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

SPRING 2005 Seminars
All seminars begin at 3:10 p.m. Seminars will be held in Calhoun Hall, room 337, unless otherwise indicated.

January

Friday, January 28th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
the Georgescu-Roegen Lecture
Professor Muhammad Yunus
founder Grameen Bank
(recipient of the first Vanderbilt Distinguished Alumnus Award-1996)
Wilson Hall, room 103 with a reception to follow

Monday, January 31st, 2005
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Professor George A. Akerlof
University of California at Berkeley
winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
"Where's Waldo? The Mis-Characterization of Objective Functions in Macroeconomics"
Calhoun Hall room 109

February

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
4:00 p.m.
Steine Lecture Series
Professor George A. Akerlof
University of California at Berkeley
winner of the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Topic: "Identity and the Economics of Organizations"
The Renaissance Room, Vanderbilt Law School (reception immediately following in the lobby)

Friday, February 4th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Joe L. Roby Speaker
Professor Peter Debaere
University of Texas at Austin
"Reversing the Perspective: Expansion Activities of Multinational Corporations From Middle-Income Countries"
Calhoun Hall room 337

Monday, February 7th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Iourii Manovskii
University of Pennsylvania
"Accounting for a Changing Life-Cycle Profile of Earnings"
Calhoun Hall, room 337

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Henry Wan
Cornell University
"Fragmented Trade and Manufacturing Services-Examples for a Non-convex General Equilibrium"
Calhoun Hall room 337

Thursday, February 24th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Eric Renault
University of North Carolina
"Extended Method of Moments with Application to Derivative Pricing"
Calhoun Hall room 337

March

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Robert Margo
Vanderbilt University
"The Economic Aftermath of the 1960's Riosts: Evidence from Property Values"
Calhoun Hall room 337

Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay
University of Birmingham
"Party Formation and Coalitional Bargaining in a Model of Proportional Representation"
Calhoun Hall room 337

Friday, March 18th, 2005
12:10 p.m.
Professor Edward Cartwright
University of Kent
"On the Emergence of social conformity"
Calhoun Hall room 209

Friday, March 18th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
GPED Seminar
Aster Adams, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee Regulatory Authority
and
Jerry Kettles, Economist & Deputy Chief, Tennessee Regulatory Authority
"The Economics of mergers and acquisitions: Potential Impact of the SBC-AT&T Merger on the Telecommunication Industry"
and
"Innovations and Change in Regulatory Regimes: The Case of Voice over Internet Protocol."
Calhoun Hall room 337

Friday, March 25th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
John Wooders
University of Arizona
"Auctions with a Buy Price"
Calhoun Hall room 337

April

Friday, April 1, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney
Princeton University
"The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children's Health"
Calhoun Hall room 337

Friday, April 8th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Masao Ogaki
Ohio State University
"Structural Spurious Regressions and a Hausman-type Cointegration Test"
Calhoun Hall 337

Monday, April 11th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Seppo Honkapohja
Cambridge University
"Near-Rational Exuberance"
Calhoun Hall 337

Friday, April 15th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Professor Peter Lambert
University of Oregon
"The Effect on Inequality of Changing One or Two Incomes"
Calhoun Hall room 337

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
3:10 p.m.
Steine Lecture Series
Professor Daron Acemoglu
MIT
"Rethinking the Wealth of Nations"
Wilson Hall room 126

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