ECONOMICS 261

Comparative Economics Seminar
Fall 2007
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Professor GÉRARD ROLAND
Office hours: Tuesday, 10-12:30 P
Seminar Location: 119 Moses
Schedule: noon to 2:00 p.m.
September 10

Matthias Doepke, UCLA
"Women's Liberation: What's in it for Men?"
(joint with PPT)

September 17 Fang Lai
Can all Parents Make Well-informed School Choice?: Evidence from Middle School Choice in Beijing's Eastern City District

September 24
James Fearon, Stanford
"Fighting Rather than Bargaining"
(joint with PPT)

October 1
Same as Public Finance, 2:00 p.m. in 608-7 Evans Marit Rehavi , UCB
"When Women Hold the Purse Strings: The Effects of Female Legislators on State Spending Priorities, 1975-2000"

October 8 Andrea Matozzi, Cal Tech
"Personal Influence: Social Context and Political Competition" (joint with PPT)

October 15 Efraim Benmelech, Harvard University
The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century (joint with Economic History Seminar)

October 22 Ethan Kaplan, IIES
"Coups, Corporations and Common Knowledge"
(joint with PPT)

October 29 Josh Tasoff m, UCB
"Threshold Activism"

November 5

James Alt, Harvard Univerity
"Inequality, Polarization, and Corruption in U.S States"
(joint with PPT)

November 19 Gary Cox, University of Pennsylvania
"The Politics of Unfair Elections"
(joint with PPT)
November 28

(joint with departmental seminar)


December 3
Ernesto Dal Bó, UC Berkeley/Stanford University
"A Model of Self-Discovery, Moral Capital and Aggregate Wrongdoing"


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