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ECONOMICS 291
Departmental Seminar
Fall 2007
Professor
David Romer
E-mail:
[Non-JavaScript browser: use dromer at econ.berkeley.edu]
608-7 Evans
Wednesday, 4-5:30 p.m.
* Note Change in Day, Location and Time
Announcement: The seminar will begin on September 12 and then meet on selected weeks.
September 12
Raghuram Rajan
, University of Chicago
The Persistence of Underdevelopment: The Role of Constituencies and Competitive Rent Preservation
September 26
Peter Klenow
, Stanford University
Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India
October 10
Samuel Kortum
, University of Chicago
Global Rebalancing with Gravity: How Big is the Burden of Adjustment?
Paper: "Unbalanced Trade"
(with Robert Dekle and Jonathan Eaton)
November 7
Nathan Nunn
, Harvard University
Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
(with Diego Puga)
November 28
Enrico Moretti
, University of California, Berkeley
Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants
(with Michael Greenstone and Richard Hornbeck)
December 5
Emmanuel Saez
, University of California, Berkeley
Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937
(with Wojciech Kopczuk and Jae Song)