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University of California, Berkeley
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Berkeley, CA 94720-3880
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Spring 2003
Mondays, 2:00 - 4:00pm, 608-7 Evans
Organizer:
Alan J. Auerbach
| January 30* | Andrei Shleifer , Harvard University |
| "The Regulation of Labor" (joint with Departmental Seminar) | |
| February 4 | Philip Oreopoulos , University of Toronto |
| "Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon? Evidence Using Changes in School-Leaving Laws" | |
| February 10 | Michael Boskin , Stanford University |
| "Deferred Taxes in Macroeconomics and Public Finance" | |
| February 18* | Abhijit Banerjee , M.I.T. |
| "History, Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India" (joint with Departmental Seminar) | |
| February 26* | Steven Levitt , University of Chicago |
| "An Economic Analysis of Names: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black First Names" (joint with Departmental Seminar) | |
| March 3 | Chris Hennessy , UC Berkeley |
| "The Optimal Mix of Bank and Bond Market Debt: An Asset Pricing Approach"(coauthors Hayne Leland and Dirk Hackbarth; joint with Macro Seminar) | |
| March 12* | David Laibson , Harvard University |
| "Pricing and Product Design with Boundedly Rational Consumers" (joint with Departmental Seminar) | |
| March 17 | Vernon Henderson , Brown University |
| "Why Countries are Fiscally Decentralizing" | |
| March 24 | Spring Break |
| March 31 | Amy Finkelstein , Harvard University |
| Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets: Evidence and Explanations from the Long-Term Care Insurance Market" (coauthor Kathleen McGarry) | |
| April 8* | Gerard Roland , UC Berkeley |
| "The European Parliament and Europe's Coming Constitution" (joint with Departmental Seminar) 4-6pm., 639 Evans | |
| April 14 | Ivan Werning , M.I.T. |
| "Optimal Paternalism",with Manuel Amador (joint with Macro Seminar) | |
| April 22* | Robert Hall , Stanford University |
| "Wage and Matching Frictions and Employment Fluctuations" (joint with Departmental Seminar) 4-6pm., 608-7 Evans | |
| April 28 | Wojciech Kopczuk , University of British Columbia |
| "Tax Bases, Tax Rates and the Elasticity of Reported Income:Can Policy Makers Control the Marginal Cost of Taxation?" | |
| May 5 | Matthew Rabin , UC Berkeley |
| "Studying Optimal Paternalism, Illustrated by a Model of Sin Taxes" (coauthor Ted O'Donoghue) | |
| May 12 | Julie Cullen , University of Michigan |
| "The Impact of School Choice on Enrollment and Achievement: Evidence from over 1,000 Randomized Lotteries" (coauthors Brian Jacob and Steven Levitt) | |
| * Note different day, room and/or time | |