08/27/04
James Markusen, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Learning on the Quick and Cheap: Gains from Trade Through Imported Expertise”

09/02/04
Edward Balistreri, Colorado School of Mines
“Structural Estimation and the Border Puzzle”

9/24/04
Maggie Xiaoyang Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Regionalism in Standards: Good or Bad for Trade?”

10/07/04
E. Young Song, Sogang University
“Further Observations on the Simple Gravity Equations”

10/15/04
Romain Wacziarg, Stanford Graduate School of Business
“On the Effects of Trade Liberalization”

10/22/04
Michael Riordan, Columbia University
“Price and Product Variety in the Spokes Model”

10/26/04
Todd Stinebrickner, University of Western Ontario
“Credit Constraints and College Attrition”

10/28/04
Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University
“Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-Data”

10/29/04
Asim Khwaja, JFK School of Government
Harvard University “Do Lenders Favor Politically Connected Firms? Rent-seeking in an Emerging Financial Market”

11/08/04
Wolfgang Keller, University of Texas at Austin
“Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-level Evidence from the United States”

11/09/04
Carol H. Shiue, University of Texas at Austin
“Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution”

11/12/04
Gary Libecap, University of Arizona
“Chinatown: Transaction Costs in Water Rights Exchanges— The Owens Valley Transfer to Los Angeles”

11/18/04
Petra Moser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“What Do Inventors Patent?”

12/03/04
Jose Canals-Cerda, University of Colorado at Boulder
“eBay 9/11”

01/19/05
Matilde Bombardini, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Firm Heterogeneity and Lobby Participation”

01/21/05
Oksana Loginova, Duke University
“Competing for Customers’ Attention: Advertising When Customers Have Imperfect Memory”

01/24/05
Andrea Moro, University of Minnesota
“The Performance of the Pivotal-Voted Model in Small-Scale Elections: Evidence from Texas Liquor Referenda”

01/26/05
Jennifer Lamping, Columbia University
“Ignorance Is Bliss: Matching in Auctions with an Uninformed Seller”

01/27/05
Grant Miller, Harvard University
“Contraception as Development? New Evidence from Family Planning in Colombia”

01/31/05
Alex Gershkov, Hebrew University
“Optimal Voting Scheme with Costly Information Acquisition”

02/01/05
Kasey Buckles, Boston University
“Stopping the Biological Clock: Fertility Therapies and the Career-Family Tradeoff”

02/03/05
Tania Barham, University of California-Berkeley
“Providing a Healthier Start to Life: The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Infant Mortality”

02/24/05
Alan Dye, Barnard College, Columbia University
“The Institutional Determinants of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff”

02/25/05
Marc Melitz, Harvard University
“Trading Partners and Trading Volumes”

03/04/05
Julie H Mortimer, Harvard University
“Price Discrimination and Copyright Law: Evidence from the Introduction of DVDs”

03/11/05
Lena Edlund, Columbia University
“Household Structure and Child Outcomes: Nuclear vs. Extended Families—Evidence from Bangladesh”

03/17/05
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University
“Trade, Quality Upgrading, and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: Theory and Evidence from an Exchange-Rate Shock”

03/28/05
Timur Kuran, University of Southern California
“Why the Islamic Middle East Did Not Generate an Indigenous Corporate Law”

04/01/05
Maurizio Mazzocco, University of Wisconsin
“Individual Rather Than Household Euler Equations: Identification and Estimation of Individual Preferences Using Household Data”

04/08/05
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut
“Mortgage Lending in Chicago and Los Angeles: A Paired Testing Study of the Pre-Application Process”

04/15/05
Craig Burnside, Duke University
“Government Finance in the Wake of Currency Crises”

04/18/05
David Card, University of California at Berkeley
“Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap”

04/22/05
Robin Boadway, Queen’s University
“Entrepreneurship and Asymmetric Information in Input Markets”

04/29/05
Michael Greenwood, University of Colorado at Boulder
“The Sex Composition of U.S. Immigration from Europe, 1820–1929: A Panel Data Study”