Brown Bag Lunch Series |
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| Faculty (and visitors) presentations of work in progress. Economics Department Conference Room, 12-1pm on alternate Wednesdays (W) or Thursdays (Th), unless otherwise noted. Schedule is subject to change. | ||
| Fall 2008 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 3 (W) |
Emek Basker |
TBA |
September 17 (W) |
Mike Podgursky |
TBA |
October 1 (W) |
TBA |
TBA |
October 15 (W) |
TBA |
TBA |
October 29 (W) |
TBA |
TBA |
November 12 (W) |
TBA |
TBA |
November 26 (W) |
TBA |
TBA |
| Spring 2008 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
February 20 (W) |
Oksana Loginova |
Mass Customization with Vertically Differentiated Products |
March 6 (Th) |
Saku Aura |
A Simple Positive Theory of Government Land Policy |
March 20 (Th) |
Chao Gu |
Notes on Payment Systems with Capital |
April 2 (W) |
Zack Miller |
Testing the Bounds: Empirical Behavior of Target Zone Fundamentals |
April 17 (Th) |
Peter Mueser |
The Impact of Expected UI Payments on Job Search: An Application of Regression Discontinuity Methods to Noisy Data |
April 30 (W) |
Cory Koedel |
Production Efficiency and the Fractionalization of Post-Secondary Education |
| Fall 2007 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 5 (W) |
Jeff Milyo |
The Effects of Newspaper Cross-Ownership on Local Television News Content and Slant |
September 19 (W) |
Shawn Ni |
Thoughts on Dynamic Panel Data Models |
October 3 (W) |
Emek Basker |
Thoughts on Spatial Competition and Product Differentiation |
October 17 (W) |
Gunjan Sharma |
Postponed to November 7 |
October 31 (W) |
Vitor Trindade |
Demand and Supply Effects in the Factor Content of Trade |
November 7 (W) |
Gunjan Sharma |
Becker versus Heckscher-Ohlin: What happened in India? |
November 14 (W) |
Canceled |
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November 28 (W) |
Canceled |
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| Winter 2007 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
March 1 (Th) |
Zack Miller |
Estimating a Cointegrating Regression with Missing Data |
March 8 (Th) |
Saku Aura |
Optimal Housing Policy and Redistribution in a Closed City |
March 22 (Th) |
Doug Miller |
A Conditional Markov Model of Firm-Specific Credit Ratings |
April 12 (Th) |
Mike Podgursky |
The Missouri School Finance "Adequacy" Lawsuit |
April 25 (W) |
Peter Mueser |
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism: An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri |
| Fall 2006 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
August 30 (W) |
Emek Basker |
Supersize It: The Growth of Retail Chains and the Rise of the "Big Box" Retail Format |
September 13 (W) |
Joe Haslag |
Cyclical Fluctuations in Output, Prices and Inflation... |
October 4 (W) |
Canceled |
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October 18 (W) |
Gunjan Sharma |
Vertical Spillovers from Industrial Deregulation |
November 1 (W) |
Shawn Ni |
A Bayesian Analysis of Heterogeneity in Household Consumption |
November 15 (W) |
Canceled |
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November 29 (W) |
Jeff Milyo |
Campaign Contributions and Access to Legislators: A Field Experiment |
| Winter 2006 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
Feb 21 (Tu) |
Robert J. Strom |
Kauffman Foundation |
March 23 (Th) |
Zack Miller |
A Random Coefficients Autoregressive Model With Exogenously-Driven Stochastic Unit Roots |
April 6 (Th) |
Peter Mueser |
Ideas on Consumption-Based Determinants of Immigrant Residential Choice with a Focus on Remittances and Cost of Living |
April 19 (W) |
David Mandy |
A Model of Health Services Markets |
May 3 (W) |
Oksana Loginova |
Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Mechanism Design Approach |
| Fall 2005 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 29 (Th) |
Doug Miller |
Penalized Binary Choice Estimators with Improved Predictive Fit |
October 13 (Th) |
Oksana Loginova |
Real and Virtual Competition |
October 26 (W) |
Canceled |
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November 10 (Th) |
Vitor Trindade |
Trade and Wages: an Empirical Investigation |
November 30 (W) |
Michael Sykuta |
CORI |
| Winter 2005 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
February 3 (Th) |
Lea-Rachel Kosnik |
Evidence in Support of a Directional Confirmatory Bias Effect |
February 16 (W) |
Canceled |
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March 3 (Th) |
Saku Aura |
Taxation of Land and Structures |
March 16 (W) |
Emek Basker |
Thoughts on Wal-Mart |
March 30 (W) |
Ron Ratti |
Firm-Level Foreign Direct Investment and Investor's Information |
April 13 (W) |
Canceled |
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April 27 (W) |
Ken Troske |
Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers in the United States and Germany |
| Fall 2004 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
August 25 (W) |
Ron Harstad |
Normative Evaluation of Experimental Markets |
September 8 (W) |
Dave Mandy |
Exact Asymptotic Properties of Econometric Estimators When Unobservables Have a Finite Moving Average Component |
September 23 (Th) |
Jeff Milyo |
Causes and Consequences of Social Capital |
October 5 (Tu) |
Joe Haslag |
Deviations from the Friedman Rule: Some Equivalence Results |
October 20 (W) |
Xinghe Wang |
A Few Notes on Bertrand and Cournot Models |
November 3 (W) |
Mike McCracken |
Thoughts on Forecast Rationality |
November 17 (W) |
Mike Podgursky |
Thoughts |
December 1 (W) |
Peter Mueser |
The Impact of a Temporary Help Job: An Analysis of Outcomes for Participants in Three Missouri Programs |
| Winter 2004 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
January 21 (W) |
Emek Basker |
Thoughts on Equilibrium Price Dispersion |
February 4 (W) |
Canceled |
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February 19 (Th) |
Ken Troske |
Thoughts on Labor Supply and Fertility |
March 3 (W) |
Ron Ratti |
Inflation Contracts, Inflation and Exchange Rate Targets, and Uncertain Central Bank Preferences |
March 17 (W) |
Eric Parsons |
Population Movements in the Presence of Agglomeration and Congestion Effects: Local Policy and the Social Optimum |
March 31 (W) |
Mike Podgursky |
Effects of Charter Schools on Kansas City Housing Prices |
April 14 (W) |
Tricia Gladden |
Thoughts on Family Migration |
April 30 (F) |
Shawn Ni |
Bayesian Model Selection of VARs |
| Fall 2003 | ||
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 10 (W) |
Ken Troske |
The Effects of Welfare-to-Work Program Activities on Labor Market Outcomes |
September 24 (W) |
Joe Haslag |
Thoughts on the Friedman Rule |
October 8 (W) |
Mike McCracken |
Mind your p's and q's: Evaluating the Predictability of Exchange Rates using Long Horizon Regressions |
October 22 (W) |
Emek Basker |
A Further Look at Distance |
November 5 (W) |
Linda Luebbering |
Missouri State Budget |
November 19 (W) |
Xinghe Wang |
Thoughts on Horizontal Mergers |
December 3 (W) |
Saku Aura |
Optimal Taxation of Married Couples: Joint vs. Individual |