"We Shall Overcome!" | A Professional Journey
Department of Economics
08/26/05
Raymond Fisman, Columbia University
“Privatization and Commitment – Evidence from the Indian
Electoral Surprise”
08/30/05
Michael Greenstone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing
Market and the Superfund Program”
09/01/05
Scott Savage, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Regulated Prices with Competition and Heterogeneous
Consumers”
09/08/05
Anna Rubinchik-Pessach, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Asymmetric Contests with Incomplete Information:
the N-player Case”
09/16/05
Joseph Harrington, Johns Hopkins University
“Optimal Corporate Leniency Programs”
09/23/05
Luis Cabral, New York University
“The Dynamics of Seller Reputation: Theory and Evidence
from eBay”
09/30/05
Lee Ohanian, University of California at Los Angeles
“The International Great Depression: A Productivity Puzzle”
10/07/05
Stephen Redding, London School of Economics
“The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division
and Reunification”
10/17/05
Frank Stähler, University of Otago
“Partial Ownership and Cross-Border Mergers”
10/21/05
Robert Pollak, Washington University
“Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements
and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled
Elderly Parents”
10/28/05
Pol Antràs, Harvard University
“Contracts and the Division of Labor”
11/04/05
Simon P. Anderson, University of Virginia
“Media Mergers and Media Bias with Rational Consumers”
11/10/05
Martha Bailey, University of Michigan
“More Power to the Pill: The Impact of Contraceptive
Freedom on Women’s Labor Supply”
11/11/05
Antonio Merlo, University of Pennsylvania
“Political Careers or Career Politicians?”
11/14/05
Sumner LaCroix, University of Hawaii
“Company Colonies, Property Rights, and the Extent of
Settlement: A Case Study of Dutch South Africa, 1652-1795”
11/18/05
Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University
“The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An
Econometric Analysis of Optimal Growing Conditions”
12/02/05
Zvi Eckstein, Tel Aviv University
“From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and
Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History”
12/08/05
Kyle Bagwell, Columbia University
“Trust, Reciprocity and Favors in Cooperative Relationships”
01/17/06
Fang (Annie) Yang, University of Minnesota
“Consumption Along the Life Cycle: How Different Is
Housing”
01/20/06
Gunjan Sharma, University of Maryland
“Competing or Collaborating Siblings? Industrial and Trade
Policies in India”
01/23/06
Devrim Demirel, University of Virginia
“Macroeconomic Stabilization in Emerging Market
Economies: The Role of Risk Premium”
01/25/06
Latika Chaudhary, University of California at Los Angeles
“Social Divisions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from
Colonial India”
01/26/06
Anthony Landry, Boston University
“Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics: A State-
Dependent Pricing Approach”
01/30/06
Stephen Yeaple, University of Pennsylvania
“How do Multinational Firms Sort?”
02/03/06
Hâle Utar, Pennsylvania State University
“Employment Dynamics and Import Competition”
02/07/06
Vasco Curdia, Princeton University
“Monetary Policy under Sudden Stops”
02/16/06
Edward Balistreri, Colorado School of Mines
“Dis-economies of Money and Optimal Inflation”
02/24/06
Anna Rubinchik-Pessach, University of Colorado at Boulder
“Intergenerational Equity and the Discount Rate for
Cost-benefit Analysis”
03/03/06
Sam Bucovetsky, York University
“Preventing Public Input Competition”
03/09/06
Richard Dusansky, University of Texas
“On the Microeconomics of the Demand for Housing”
03/10/06
Marius Schwartz, Georgetown University
“Compatibility Incentives of a Large Network Facing
Multiple Rivals”
03/17/06
Dan Ackerberg, University of Arizona
“Structural Identification of Production Functions”
03/22/06
Patrick Kehoe, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
and University of Minnesota
“Time-Varying Risk, Interest Rates, and Exchange Rates in
General Equilibrium”
04/03/06
Josep M. Vilarrubia, Bank of Spain
“Neighborhood Effects in Economic Growth”
04/07/06
Scott Stern, Northwestern University
“Do Formal Intellectual Property Rights Hinder the Free
Flow of Scientific Knowledge? An Empirical Test of the Anti-
Commons Hypothesis”
04/14/06
Phil Graves, University of Colorado at Boulder
“On the Valuation of Pure Public Goods”
05/01/06
Nisvan Erkal, University of Melbourne
“Optimal Sharing Strategies in Dynamic Games of Research
and Development”
05/05/06
Alessandra Casella, Columbia University
“A Simple Scheme to Improve the Efficiency of Referenda”