Visiting Speaker Series Fall 2014
Contact: Prof. J. Atsu Amegashie
All seminars are on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in MacK 318, unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host |
|---|---|---|---|
|
September 12 |
"Lazy Biased Agents" |
Sam Bucovetsky, York University |
M. Hoy |
|
September 19
|
"The Time-Varying Relationship between Mortality and Business Cycles in the U.S." | Emmanuelle Piérard,
University of
Waterloo
|
B. Ferguson |
|
September 26 *Please note that this seminar will begin at 2:30pm |
"The U.S. Electricity Industry after 20 Years of Restructuring"
|
James Bushnell,
University of
California, Davis
|
T. Genc |
|
October 3 |
"Natural Borders" |
Nils-Petter Lagerlöf,
York University
|
J. A. Amegashie |
|
October 10 (Friday
before
Thanksgiving)
|
"An Integer Optimization Framework for Dynamic Resource Allocations" |
Lulli Guglielmo,
University of Milano-Bicocca
|
T. Genc |
|
October 17 |
"Monitoring Corruptible Politicians" |
Gustavo Bobonis,
University of Toronto
|
K. Annen |
| October 24 | "Incentives for Adoption of Standards under the U.S. Clean Power Plan" |
Stephen Holland,
University of North
Carolina, Greensboro
|
T. Genc |
| October 31 | "Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design" |
Jose Galdo, Carleton University |
M. Plesca |
| November 7 |
"Guanxi and Income Inequality"
|
Lin Zhang, Southwest
University of Finance
and Economics, China
|
C. Cadsby |
| November 14 | "Improved Testing Procedure for Kernal Methods with Time Series Data" |
Min Seong Kim,
Ryerson University
|
A. Maynard |
| November 21 | "Ability Tracking, School and Parental Effort, and Student Achievement: A Structural Model and Estimation" |
Nirav Mehta,
University of Western
Ontario
|
J. A. Amegashie |
|
November 28 Seminar will take place inMacKinnon 720 |
"Intra-Household Allocation of Family Resources and Birth Order: Evidence from France Using Sibling Data" |
Stephane Mechoulan,
Dalhousie University
|
B. Ferguson |