Department of Economics
Economics Seminars this week
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Content last updated 08-May-2008 05:30 PMUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY SPRING SEMESTER 2008 DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS ISSUED: 5/02/2008 SEMINARS - WEEK OF MAY 5, 2008 *Note Change from Regular Day/Time/Location ECON/BA/IGS/PS: Monday May 5, 12-1:30 p.m. 119 Moses POSITIVE POLITICAL Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin "Government Control of the Media"[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 261: Monday *May 5, 12-2 p.m., 119 Moses COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS Joint with PPT Seminar[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 295: Monday May 5, 12-2 p.m., 608-7 Evans RESEARCH SURVEY Topic: California Census Research Data Center (at Berkeley) J. Stiles, Y.Gorodnichenko, A. Andrus[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 211: Monday May 5, 2-4 p.m., 597 Evans ECONOMIC HISTORY No Meeting[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 231: Monday May 5, 2-4 p.m., 608-7 Evans PUBLIC FINANCE ECONOMICS Robert Margo, Boston University "Spatial Mismatch and the Formation of Bad Ghettos: New Evidence from the US Postal Service"[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 251: Monday *May 5, 2-4 p.m., 608-7 Evans LABOR ECONOMICS Joint with Finance Seminar[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 208: Monday May 5, 4-6 p.m., 639 Evans MICROECONOMIC THEORY Botond Koszegi, UC Berkeley[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 271: Monday May 5, 4-6 p.m., 608-7 Evans DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING Hoyt Bleakley, University of Chicago "Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure"[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 218: Tuesday May 6, 2-3:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans PSYCHOLOGY & ECONOMICS Stephan Meier, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston "Doing Good or Doing Well? Image Motivation and Monetary Incentives in Behaving Prosocially" (with Dan Ariely and Anat Bracha)[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 281: Tuesday May 6, 2-4 p.m., 639 Evans INT'L TRADE & FINANCE George Alessandria Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia "INVENTORIES, LUMPY TRADE, AND LARGE DEVALUATIONS" (with Joseph Kaboski and Virgiliu Midrigan)[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 221: Tuesday May 6, 4-6 p.m., 608-7 Evans INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Michael Whinston, Northwestern "Dynamic Merger Review"[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 222: Wednesday May 7, 12-2 p.m., C320 Cheit ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION ARVIDS ZIEDONIS, University of Michigan[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 291: Wednesday May 7, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans DEPARTMENTAL No Meeting[Link to Seminar Home Page]Econ Recruitment *May 8, 12:10-1:30 p.m., 597 Evans Seminar Gerard Padro i Miquel, London School of Economics "Conflict and Deterrence under Strategic Risk"[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 237: Thursday May 8, 2-4 p.m., 639 Evans MACROECONOMICS & MONEY Ariel Burstein, UCLA[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 225: Thursday May 8, 4-6 p.m., C325 Cheit Oliver E. Williamson Seminar Richard Holden, MIT Sloan on Institutional Analysis "A Theory of Rule Development"[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 235: Thursday *May 8, 4:10-5:40 p.m., C110 Cheit FINANCIAL ECONOMICS Joint with Haas Finance Seminar Nittai Bergman, MIT[Link to Seminar Home Page]ECON 242: Thursday May 8, 4-6 p.m., 608-7 Evans ECONOMETRICS Serena Ng, Columbia "ESTIMATION OF DSGE MODELS WHEN THE DATA ARE PERSISTENT"[Link to Seminar Home Page]- PAPERS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN 611 EVANS HALL UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED- ALL SEMINARS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ANYONE INTERESTED IS INVITED. We ask that individuals requesting sign language interpreters or listening devices make their requests to the Department (510-642-0822) five working days in advance of the event.