Department of Economics

 










Economics Department Seminar Series

Venue: 112 Eggers Hall
Day:  Tuesday
Time: 4:00-5:30PM (Unless noted otherwise)

Fall 2006

Date Title Affiliation Speaker
September
26 @
3:00 pm

“Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets”

Note:  special 3:00pm
starting time

 Columbia University Ray Fisman
October
10		 “The Effect of Class Size Reduction on Teacher Attrition and Recruitment:
Evidence from Class Size Reduction Policies in New York State”
 		 Syracuse University Emily Pas
October 17 TBA University of Pennsylvania Jere Behrman
October 31 The Impact of School District Consolidation on
Housing Values		 Syracuse University Yue Hu
November 7 More Oil, Less Democracy?: Theory and Evidence from Crude Oil Discoveries Clemson University Kevin Tsui
November 14 A Partially Linear Kernel Estimator for Categorical Data Syracuse University Long Liu
November 28 TBA Syracuse University Beyza Ural
December 5 “The Evolution of Private Pensions, the Effects of Aging and the Variance of Assets” Syracuse University Joe Marchand

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Spring 2007

Date Title Affiliation Speaker
March
6		 TBA Southampton University John Micklewright
March
20		 Growth Cycles and Democracy
Appendix		 Clemson University David Cuberes 
March
29		 Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources New York University Boyan Jovanovic
April
3		 The Effects of Low Income Housing Developments on Neighborhoods Brown University Nate Baum-Snow
April
10		 TBA Simon Fraser University Arthur Robson
April
17		 TBA Columbia University Doug Almond
May
1		 TBA University of Pennsylvania Aureo de Paula

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