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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)




Fall 2004 Seminars
All seminars begin at 3:10 p.m.  Seminars scheduled on Mondays and Fridays will be in Calhoun Hall, room 337.  Seminars scheduled on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays will be in Calhoun Hall, room 204, unless otherwise indicated.


September 
Wednesday, September 1st
Mark Wright
Stanford University
"Firm Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy"
Calhoun Hall room 218

 
Wednesday, September 8th
Joe L. Roby Speaker
David Hummels

Purdue Unverisity
"Trade in Ideal Varieties: Theory and Evidence"
Calhoun Hall room 204
 
Thursday, September 16th
McGee Public Policy Lecture
Mickey Kantor
former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Topic: Politics and trade agreements

Flynn Auditorium (reception immediately following in the lobby)
 
Thursday, September 23rd
Lars Ehlers
University of Montreal
"Parliamentary Voting Procedures" (co-authored with Ton Storcken)
Calhoun Hall room 204
 
Monday, September 27th
John Ham
Ohio State University
"Selection Bias, Demographic Effects and Ability Effects in Common Value Auction Experiments"
Calhoun Hall room 337
 
Wednesday, September 29th
Linda Tesar
University of Michigan
"Acquiring Control in Emerging Markets:  Evidence from the Stock Market"
Calhoun Hall room 204

 


October 
Monday, October 4th
Peter Hansen
Stanford University
"Model Confidence Set for Forecasting Models"
Calhoun Hall room 337
 
 
Friday, October 8th
Kirk Dornbush Summer Research Award Paper Presentations
Tomas Cvrcek, Ali Sina Onder & Pingping Shan
Vanderbilt University
Calhoun Hall room 337
 
Monday, October 11th
joint with GPED
Katherine Terrell
University of Michigan
"The Impact of Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market"
Calhoun Hall room 337
 
Tuesday, October 12th
joint with GPED
Jan Svejnar
University of Michigan
"Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?"
Calhoun Hall room 204
 
Wednesday, October 13th
Jun Zhang
Vanderbilt University
Asset Pricing with Bayesian Learning and Signal Distortion"
Calhoun Hall room 204
 

Friday, October 15th
Ibrahim Ahmad
University of Central Florida
Statistics Group Seminar
"Biometric Classes of Life Distributions Derived from Economic Dominance Orderings"

Calhoun Hall room 337


 
Monday, October 18th - Tuesday, October 19th  OCTOBER BREAK
 

Wednesday, October 20th
Jiaren Pang
Vanderbilt University
"Technological Change, Training and Unemployment with Labor Market Frictions"
Calhoun Hall room 204


 
Friday, October 22nd
Joe L. Roby Speaker
Gustavo Ventura
Penn State University
"Do Migration Restrictions Matter?"
Calhoun Hall room 337
 

Wednesday, October 27th
Inkoo Lee
Vanderbilt University
"Law-of-One-Price in the Presence of Commodity Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence"
Calhoun Hall room 204




November 
Monday, November 1st
Joe L. Roby Speaker
Giovanni Maggi
Princeton University
"A Political-Economy Theory of Trade"
Calhoun Hall room 337
 
Wednesday, November 3rd
Aniruddha Bagchi
Vanderbilt University
"How to Commercialize Technology Using Auctions"
Calhoun Hall room 204
 
Friday, November 5th
Victoria Zinde-Walsh
McGill University
Statistics Group Seminar
"Kernel estimation when density does not exist"

Calhoun Hall room 337
 
Tuesday, November 9th
Roland Fryer
Harvard University
"On the Measurement of Segregation"
Calhoun Hall room 204
 
Friday, November 12th
Cliff Ball
Owen Business School, Vanderbilt University
"Contagion in the Presence of Stochastic Interdependence"
Statistics Group Seminar
Owen Business School, room 218
 

Monday, November 15th
Frank Page
University of Alabama
"Stability in Networks"
Calhoun Hall room 337
*note new time: 12:30-2:00 p.m. 


 
Tuesday, November 16th
Roberto Penaloza
Vanderbilt University
"Dollarization and Price Dynamics: The Case of Ecuador"
Calhoun Hall room 219
 
Thursday, November 18th
Joe L. Roby Speaker
Marc Melitz
Harvard University
Trading Partners and Trading Volumes
Calhoun Hall room 204

 
Monday, November 22nd - Friday, November 26th  THANKSGIVING BREAK
 
Tuesday, November 30th
Kenneth West
University of Wisconsin
"Taylor Rules and the Deutschemark-Dollar Real Exchange Rate"
Calhoun Hall room 204

 


December 
 
Monday, December 6th
Paolo Pesenti
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
A Model of Self-Validating Exchange Rate Regimes
Calhoun Hall room 337


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