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 2006:  Professor Tong Li

Empirical Economics Seminar Series (coordinator: Tong Li)
International Economics Seminar Series (coordinator: Rick Bond)
Statistics Study Group Seminar Series (coordinator: Yanqin Fan)

All seminars will take place in room 204, Calhoun Hall from 3:10-4:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)

September 2006

Friday, September 8th 
Deborah Minehart
University of Maryland
"Pricing New Products and Consumer Learning"

Tuesday, September 12th 
Dan Levin
Ohio State University
"The Origin of the Winner's Curse: A Laboratory"

Tuesday, September 19th 
Ben Ho
CEA
"Apologies as Signals: with Application to the Trust Game"

Monday, Sept. 25th 
Jan Eeckhout
University of Pennsylvania
"Local Supermodularity and Unique Assortive Matching"

Friday, September 29th 
David Colander
Middlebury College
Excerpts from: "The Making of an Economist Redux"

October 2006

Monday, October 2nd 
Amrita Dhillon
University of Warwick
"Corporate Control and Multiple Large Shareholders"

Thursday, October 5^th 9-10:30am 413B (Econ Lounge)
Betsy Hoffman
Iowa State University

Friday, October 6th 
Tayfun Sonmez 
Boston College
"Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in Markets with Compatibility-Based Preferences"

Wednesday, October 18th 
Tom Ross
Sauder – UBC
"Moral Hazard and Customer Loyalty Programs"

Wednesday, October 25th
George Hall
Brandeis University

Friday, October 27th
Loren Brandt
University of Toronto

November 2006

Wednesday, November 8th
Roger Lagunoff
Georgetown University
"Social Memory"  (related text pdf)

Wednesday, November 15th
Tomas Cvrcek-Job Market Paper
"Mothers, Wives and Workers: The Dynamics of White Fertility, Marriage and Women's Labor Supply in the United States, 1870-1930"

Wednesday, November 15th
Jong Hun Kim-Job Market Paper
"Investment and Financing Constraints Around the Korean Financial Crisis"

Tuesday, November 28th 
Mark Bils
University of Rochester 
"Comparative Advantage in Cyclical Unemployment"

Archived Seminars from Fall 2002
Archived Seminars from Spring 2002

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