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DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SERIES

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)


Department Seminar Series Coordinator for Fall 2005:  Professor Jennifer Reinganum
Department Seminar Series Coordinator for Spring 2005:  Professor Gregory Huffman



AUGUST 2005

Friday, August 26, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Anne van den Nouweland
University of Oregon
"Ratio Equilibrium in Economies with Local Public Goods"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 109



SEPTEMBER 2005
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Nicola Persico
University of Pennsylvania
"A Drawback of Electoral Competition"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Chancellor's Lecture
Reinhard Selten
University of Bonn
"Bounded Rationality"
5:00 pm lecture/6:00 pm reception
Student Life Center
Parking in Kensington Garage (at 25th Ave & Kensington Place)

Thursday, September 8, 2005
Steine Lecture
Reinhard Selten
University of Bonn
"Stationary Equilibrium Concepts for Experimental 2 by 2 Games"
3:10 p.m.
Bennett Miller Room
Vanderbilt University Law School (reception immediately following in the North Lobby 2nd flr.)

Friday, September 9, 2005
Coffee & Bagels

Reinhard Selten
University of Bonn
"TBA"
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Calhoun Hall room 415a

Monday, September 26, 2005
Kirk Dornbush Summer Research Grant Presentations
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
GPED Seminar
Sureyya Serdengecti
Governor, Central Bank of Turkey
"Disinflation:  The Turkish Experience"
4:00 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337 (reception immediately following in 415A)



OCTOBER 2005
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Marcel Boyer
University of Montreal
"Organizational Inertia and Dynamic Incentives"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Friday, October 21st, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Nizar Allouch

Queen Mary University of London
"Price taking equilibrium in club economies with multiple memberships and unbounded club sizes"
12:10 p.m.
Furman Hall room 109

Friday, October 28th, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Biung-Ghi Ju
University of Kansas
"Efficiency and Consistency for Locating Multiple Public Facilities"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337



NOVEMBER 2005

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Marcelo Kfoury Muinhos
Central Bank of Brazil
"Comparing Equilibrium Real Interest Rates:  Different Approaches to Understand Brazilian Rates"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Thursday, November 3, 2005

McGee Lecture
Marcelo Kfoury Muinhos

Central Bank of Brazil
"Monetary Policy in Brazil"
3:10 p.m.
Vanderbilt University Law School-Bennett Miller Room, reception immediately following in the 2nd floor lobby

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Guofu Tan
University of Southern California
"Ratifiability of Efficient Collusive Mechanisms[paper 1]   [paper 2]
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Peter Eso

Northwestern University
"Information Disclosure in Mechanism Design[paper 1]  [paper 2]
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

DECEMBER 2005
Friday, December 2, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Stephen Parente

University of Illinois
"Religion in Macroeconomics: A Quantitative Analysis of Weber's Thesis"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Monday, December 5, 2005
Departmental Seminar
Gianluigi Vernasca
University of York
"Price and Quantity Competition with Product Differentiation and Wage Bargaining"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

JANUARY 2006

Monday, January 30, 2006
Departmental Seminar 
Victor Rios-Rull
University of Pennsylvania
"Finite Life ­Private Information Theory of Unsecured Credit"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

FEBRUARY 2006

Monday, February 6, 2006
AEA Seminar
Tom Sargent
New York University
"Jobs & Unemployment in Macroeconomic Theory: A Turbulence Laboratory"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 109 with reception to follow

Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Departmental Seminar
Ben Lockwood
University of Warwick
"Political Budget Cycles and Fiscal Decentralization"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Monday, February 20, 2006
Departmental Seminar

Bill Neilson
Texas A&M University
"Endogenous Games and the Equilibrium Adoption of Social Norms and Ethical Constraints"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

MARCH 2006

Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Departmental Seminar
Rabah Amir
Arizona University
"Market Structure, Scale Economies and Industry Performance"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Departmental Seminar
Amrita Dhillon
University of Warwick
"Enforcing Contracts"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Departmental Seminar

Ehud Kalai
Northwestern University
"Partially-Specifed Large Games"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337


APRIL 2006


Monday, April 3, 2006
Departmental Seminar 
Firouz Gahvari
University of Illinois
"TBA"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
GPED Seminar
Suhas Ketkar
The Royal Bank of Scotland
"Innovative ways of raising development finance"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Monday, April 10, 2006
Departmental Seminar
 
Marilda Sotomayor
Universidade de Sao Paulo
"Connecting the Cooperative and Competitve Structures of the Multiple Partners Assignment Game"
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337
 

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Departmental Seminar

Mikhail Golosov
 MIT
"Markets Versus Governments:  Political Economy of Mechanisms" 
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Thursday, April 13, 2006
Departmental Seminar

Marc Law
University of Vermont
"Effects of Occupational Licensing Laws On Minorities:  Evidence from The Progressive Era" 
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Monday, April 17, 2006
Departmental Seminar

Gregor Smith

Queen's University
TBA  
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Departmental Seminar

Marta Faias
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"A strategic model of club formation; Existence and characterization of equilibrium"  
3:10 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 337


MAY 2006


Friday, May 19, 2006
Brown Bag Seminar 
Moto Shintani

Vanderbilt University
"The international diversification puzzle revisited: A stochastic dominance analysis of high-frequency data"
12:00 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Calhoun Hall room 209


For more information, please contact Cathy Zebron.
2006 Vanderbilt University