Peter Morrow (University of Toronto)

Roads and Trade: Evidence from the U.S. (joint with Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner)

Wednesday, July 7 2010 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

John Munro (University of Toronto)

From Wine to Beer: Changing Patterns of Alcoholic Consumption and Living Standards in Later Medieval Flanders, 1300 - 1550

Wednesday, July 14 2010 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Hugh Macartney (University of Toronto)

Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability

Wednesday, July 21 2010 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Gustavo J. Bobonis (University of Toronto)

Does Exposing Corrupt Politicians Reduce Corruption? (joint with Luis R. Camara-Fuertes, Rainer Schwabe)

Wednesday, July 28 2010 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Luhang Wang (University of Toronto)

Sorting in Exporting Market Selection: Evidence from China

Wednesday, August 4 2010 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Noel Maurer (Harvard Business School)

The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938

Thursday, August 5 2010 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

DIng Ding (University of Toronto)

The Cleansing Effect of Recession: Evidence from Mergers & Acquisitions and Exits

Wednesday, August 11 2010 12:30–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Masakazu Ishihara (Toronto)

Dynamic Demand for New and Used Durable Goods without Physical Depreciation: The Case of Japanese Video Games

Tuesday, September 7 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Jimmy Teng (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica Taiwa)

The Bayesian Theory of Games:: A Statistical decision theoretic based analysis of strategic interactions

Thursday, September 9 2010 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joseph Altonji (Yale University)

Identifying Sibling Influence on Teenage Substance Use (joint with Sarah Cattan, Iain Ware)

Friday, September 17 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Boyan Jovanovic (New York University)

Extensive and Intensive Investment over the Business Cycle (joint with Peter L. Rousseau)

Monday, September 20 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Joshua Lewis (U Toronto)

The Mariel Boatlift, Sex Ratios, and Marriage Outcomes for Cubans in Miami

Tuesday, September 21 2010 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Stephen Coate (Cornell University)

Property Taxation, Zoning and Efficiency: A Dynamic Analysis

Tuesday, September 21 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Ben Lester (University of Western Ontario)

Trading Dynamics in Decentralized Markets with Adverse Selection (joint with Braz Camargo)

Thursday, September 23 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gilles Duranton (University of Toronto)

California Dreamin’: The feeble case for cluster policies

Thursday, September 23 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Louis-Philippe Morin (University of Ottawa)

Gender and Competition: From the Lab into the Classroom

Friday, September 24 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (UCLA)

A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics (joint with Simon Board)

Monday, September 27 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn (Department of Economics, UCLA)

The Robustness of Robust Implementation (joint with Stephen Morris)

Tuesday, September 28 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Dan Trefler (University of Toronto)

International Trade as a Catalyst for Institutional Change: A Death in Venice (joint with Diego Puga)

Thursday, September 30 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Rmm Rmm (Research on Money and Markets)

Research on Money and Markets

Friday, October 1 2010 09:30–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Richard H. Steckel (Ohio State University)

The Little Ice Age and Health: Europe from the Early Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century (joint with et al)

Friday, October 1 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rmm Rmm (Research on Money and Markets)

Research on Money and Markets

Saturday, October 2 2010 09:30–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Ambarish Chandra (University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business)

Consumer Search & Dynamic Price Dispersion: An Application to Gasoline Markets (joint with Mariano Tappata)

Monday, October 4 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Stephen Morris (Princeton University)

Interdependent Preferences and Strategic Distinguishability (joint with Dirk Bergemann and Satoru Takahashi)

Tuesday, October 5 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joel Blit (George Washington University)

International development through multinationals: foreign R&D units and indigenous innovation

Thursday, October 7 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St. Louis)

Lifetime Labor Supply and Human Capital Investments

Thursday, October 7 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yong Song (University of Toronto)

Modeling Regime Switching and Structural Breaks with an Infinite Dimension Markov Switching Model

Friday, October 8 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Amy Finkelstein (MIT)

Selection On Moral Hazard In Health Insurance (joint with Liran Einav, Stephen Ryan, Paul Schrimpf, and Mark Cullen)

Friday, October 8 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ryan Riordan (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Algorithmic Trading and Information (joint with Terrence Henderschott)

Tuesday, October 12 2010 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ignacio Esponda (New York University)

Information aggregation, learning, and non-strategic behavior in voting environments (joint with Demian Pouzo)

Tuesday, October 12 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nicola Lacetera (U Toronto)

How do Extrinsic Incentives Motivate Pro-Social Behavior? A Natural Field Experiment in Blood Donation

Wednesday, October 13 2010 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Shmuel Baruch (David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah)

Equilibrium in Limit Order Markets with Strategic Traders

Wednesday, October 13 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)

"The Evolution of Comparative Advantage: Measurement and Welfare Implications" (joint with Jing Zhang, University of Michigan)

Thursday, October 14 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Jean Marc Robin (Sciences Po Paris)

Marriage with Labor Market (joint with Nicolas Jacquemet)

Thursday, October 14 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christian Gourieroux (University of Toronto)

Microinformation, Nonlinear Filtering and Granularity (joint with P. Gagliardini and A. Monfort)

Friday, October 15 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christian Dippel (U Toronto)

Forced Integration and Economic Development - The Case of Native American Reservations

Friday, October 15 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Matthew Spiegel (Yale University School of Management)

Dynamic Competition, Valuation and Merger Activity (joint with Heather Tookes)

Monday, October 18 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Abdullah Yavas (University of Wisconsin)

Adverse Selection in Mortgage Securitization (joint with Sumit Agarwal and Yan Chang)

Thursday, October 21 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Lukasz Drozd (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Competitive Poaching in Unsecured Lending (joint with Ricardo Serrano-Padial)

Thursday, October 21 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Radford Neal (Statistics Department, University of Toronto)

MCMC Using Ensembles of States with Applicaton to Gaussian Process Regression

Friday, October 22 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sacha Kapoor (U Toronto)

Incentive Provision in Multitask Jobs: Field Evidence from the Workplace

Friday, October 22 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Dimand (Brock University)

Louis Bachelier on the Randomness of Asset Prices

Friday, October 22 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Charles Zheng (University of Western Ontario)

A bidding cooperative for the financially constrained

Tuesday, October 26 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ioana Dan (U Toronto)

Gender Based Self-Selection into Industries and Occupations: Evidence from the Displaced Worker Survey

Wednesday, October 27 2010 12:00–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Liyan Yang (Rotman School of Management)

Loss Aversion, Survival and Asset Prices (joint with David Easley)

Wednesday, October 27 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Rui Castro (University of Montreal)

Public Policy, Technological Change, and the Evolution of Educational Attainment (joint with Daniele Coen-Pirani)

Thursday, October 28 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thomas Chaney (University of Chicago)

The Network Structure of International Trade

Thursday, October 28 2010 16:20–17:40, Rotman, room 157

Salvador Navarro (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Identification and Estimation of Time-Varying Treatment Effects: How The Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes (joint with Jane Cooley and Yuya Takahashi)

Friday, October 29 2010 13:10–14:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Seema Jayachandran (Stanford University)

The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers (joint with Jesse M. Cunha and Giacomo De Giorgi)

Friday, October 29 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yosh Halberstam (U Toronto)

Trial and Error: Information Aggregation in U.S. High Courts

Tuesday, November 2 2010 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Colin Stewart (University of Toronto)

Price distortions with high-frequency trading (joint with Jakub Steiner)

Tuesday, November 2 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hongping Tan (University of Waterloo)

Geographic Proximity and IPO Firm Coverage (joint with Patricia C. O'Brien)

Wednesday, November 3 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Trevor Tombe (University of Toronto)

TBA

Wednesday, November 3 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Elena Capatina (University of Toronto)

TBA

Thursday, November 4 2010 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Leilei Shen (University of Toronto)

Diversification, Exports, and Growth

Thursday, November 4 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Alberto Abadie (Harvard University)

A General Theory of Matching Estimators (joint with Guido Imbens)

Friday, November 5 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hugh Macartney (U Toronto)

The Dynamic Effects of Educational Accountability

Friday, November 5 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Adam Copeland (New York Fed)

The Impact of Competition on Technology Adoption: An Apples-to-PCs Analysis (joint with Adam Hale Shapiro)

Monday, November 8 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Tanjim Hossain (Rotman School of Management)

The Binarized Scoring Rule of Belief Elicitation (joint with Ryo Okui)

Tuesday, November 9 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Leah Brooks (U Toronto)

Sclerosis of the City: The Inefficiency of Land Assembly

Wednesday, November 10 2010 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Kinda Hachem (University of Toronto)

TBA

Thursday, November 11 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Richard Chisik (Ryerson University)

Limiting Cross-Retaliation when Punishment is Limited: How DSU Article 22.3 Complements GATT Article XXVIII

Thursday, November 11 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Yann Bramoullé (Université Laval)

Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation (joint with Vincent Boucher, Habiba Djebbari, Bernard Fortin)

Friday, November 12 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tat-kei Lai (U Toronto)

How Does Information and Communication Technology Affect Workplace Organization?

Friday, November 12 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Avi Cohen (York University)

Is Equilibrium Enough and Was Stigler Wrong? Value Theory in the Bohm-Bawerk/Fisher Controversies.

Friday, November 12 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Elena Pastorino (Univesity of Iowa)

Nonlinear Pricing in Village Economies: An Empirical Assessment of Food Prices in Rural Mexico and Colombia (joint with Orazio Attanasio)

Monday, November 15 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Price Inference in Small Markets (joint with Marek Weretka)

Tuesday, November 16 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joey Engelberg (UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School)

Journalists, Persuasion, and Asset Prices (joint with Casey Dougal, Diego Garcia, and Christopher A. Parsons)

Wednesday, November 17 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Henry Siu (University of British Columbia)

What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Employment over the Life Cycle and Business Cycle

Thursday, November 18 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Amit Khandelwal (Columbia Business School)

Misallocation of Quota Licenses: Evidence from Chinese Textile and Clothing Exporters

Thursday, November 18 2010 16:20–17:40, Rotman, room 157

Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University)

Homophily and Contagion Are Generically Confounded in Observational Social Network Studies (joint with Andrew C. Thomas)

Friday, November 19 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeffrey Young (St. Lawrence University)

Thomas and Robert: A Tale of Two Malthuses

Friday, November 19 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Luis Cabral (IESE Business School (University of Navarra) and NYU)

Aftermarket Power and Basic Market Competition (joint with Aftermarket Power and Basic Market Competition)

Monday, November 22 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Marcin Peski (University of Texas)

AXIOMATIC FOUNDATIONS OF HARSANYIíS TYPE SPACE AND SOLUTION CONCEPTS (joint with Jeff Ely)

Tuesday, November 23 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Angelo Melino (U Toronto)

Estimating peer effects in small groups: Birth order sibling peer effects in schooling and wages

Wednesday, November 24 2010 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

James R. Thompson (University of Waterloo)

CDS as Insurance: Leaky Lifeboats in Stormy Seas (joint with Eric Stephens)

Wednesday, November 24 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Pedro Silos (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)

Human Capital Portfolios (joint with Eric Smith)

Thursday, November 25 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Peter Morrow (University of Toronto)

Roads and Trade: Evidence from the U.S. (joint with Gilles Duranton and Matthew Turner)

Thursday, November 25 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Dinghai Xu (University of Waterloo)

A Threshold Stochastic Volatility Model with Realized Volatility

Friday, November 26 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Chris Robinson (University of Western Ontario)

Human Capital Prices, Productivity and Growth

Friday, November 26 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Allan Collard-Wexler (New York University, Stern)

Mergers and Sunk Costs: An Application to the ready-mix concrete industry

Monday, November 29 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University)

Recursive Vector Expected Utility

Tuesday, November 30 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Ho-nam Mak (U Toronto)

The Road to Maturation: Co-Residence of College Young Adults

Wednesday, December 1 2010 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Kunal Dasgupta (University of Toronto)

Quality Uncertainty and Intermediation in International Trade (joint with Jordi Mondria)

Thursday, December 2 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 147

Carol Caetano (University of Rochester)

A Discontinuity Test of Endogeneity

Friday, December 3 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Gregorio Caetano (University of Rochester)

Identification and Estimation of the Parental Value of School Quality in the US

Friday, December 3 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David P. Byrne (University of Melbourne)

The Welfare Effects of Mergers and Product Repositioning in the Cable Television Industry

Monday, December 6 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

Adam Brandenburger (New York Universtity (STERN))

Epistemic Game Theory

Tuesday, December 7 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Viktoria Hnatkovska (University of British Columbia)

Castes and Labor Mobility (joint with Amartya Lahiriy, Sourabh B. Paul)

Thursday, December 9 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

David Albouy (University of Michigan)

Metropolitan Land Values and Housing Productivity (joint with Gabriel Ehrlich)

Thursday, December 9 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 134

Dean Corbae (University of Texas at Austin)

A Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics (joint with Pablo D'Erasmo)

Friday, December 10 2010 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Lei Tang (U Toronto)

Heterogeneity in individual dynamic decision-making among Middle school, High school and University students

Friday, December 10 2010 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ed Green (Pennsylvania State University)

TBA

Tuesday, December 14 2010 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 142

Wing Suen (The University of Hong Kong)

Does simple majority rule produce hasty decisions? (joint with Jimmy Chan)

Wednesday, December 15 2010 12:10–13:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Brian Tavares (University of Toronto)

TBA

Thursday, December 16 2010 16:00–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Pedro Bento (University of Toronto)

Competition as a Discovery Procedure: Hayek vs Schumpeter in a Model of Innovation

Thursday, December 16 2010 17:00–18:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marcin Peski (UT Austin)

Spontaneous discrimination (joint with Balazs Szentes (LSE))

Friday, January 14 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Willemien Kets (U.C. Irvine; Stanford;)

Bounded Reasoning and Higher-Order Uncertainty

Monday, January 17 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Paulo Natenzon (Princeton University)

Random Choice and Learning

Tuesday, January 18 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Thomas Fujiwara (University of British Columbia)

Voting Technology, Political Responsiveness, and Infant Health: Evidence from Brazil

Friday, January 21 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Nicholas Li (UC Berkeley)

An Engel Curve for Variety

Monday, January 24 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Shari Jane Eli (U.C. Berkeley)

Wealth is Health: Pensions and Disease Onset in the Gilded Age

Tuesday, January 25 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Yuanyuan Wan (Pennsylvania State University)

An integration-based approach to moment inequality models

Friday, January 28 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Elaine Kelly (University College London)

A Ticket to Ride: Does Free Bus Travel Promote Active Ageing?

Monday, January 31 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Haiqing Xu (The Pennsylvania State Universit)

Parametric and Semiparametric Structural Estimation of Hotelling-type Discrete Choice Games in A Single Market with An Increasing Number of Players

Tuesday, February 1 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Koichiro Ito (UC Berkeley)

Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing

Wednesday, February 2 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Katherine Casey (Brown University)

Crossing Party Lines

Thursday, February 3 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Arnaud Maurel (Duke University)

Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France

Friday, February 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Robert Leonard (University of Quebec at Montreal)

Karl Menger and Modernism

Friday, February 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Koen Jochmans (CORE and Brown University)

CANCELLED

Tuesday, February 8 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan School of Management)

Career Patterns and Career Concerns (joint with Johannes Hörner)

Tuesday, March 1 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Guillermo L. Ordoñez (Yale University)

Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns (joint with Andrew Atkeson and Christian Hellwig)

Thursday, March 3 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Pedro Dal Bo (Brown University)

Strategy Choice in the Infinitely Repeated Prisoners Dilemma (joint with Guillaume Fréchette)

Friday, March 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Kevin Hoover (Duke University)

Microfoundational Programs: Frisch to Lucas

Friday, March 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Archishman Chakraborty (York University)

Elite Media and Downsian Competition (joint with Parikshit Gosh)

Tuesday, March 8 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tanjim Hossain (U of Toronto)

I Work for Money, but Favors Are Free (joint with King King Li)

Wednesday, March 9 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Stefania Albanesi (Columbia)

Maternal health and fertility

Thursday, March 10 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Quy-Toan Do (World Bank)

On mechanisms of land acquisition

Friday, March 11 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jason Fletcher (Yale University)

Genetic Modulation of the Effects of Tobacco Taxation on Use

Tuesday, March 15 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Bart Lipman (Boston University)

Costly Self Control and Random Self Indulgence (joint with Eddie Dekel)

Tuesday, March 15 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Morris Davis (University of Wisconsin)

Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration (joint with Jonas D.M. Fisher, Toni M. Whited)

Thursday, March 17 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Giovanni Gallipoli (University of British Columbia)

Distortions, Efficiency and the Size Distribution of Firms (joint with Jonathan Goyette)

Thursday, March 17 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Greg Spanos (University of Toronto)

Trade, Teams, and Multiple Goods

Thursday, March 17 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 157

Matt Taddy (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Inverse Regression for Analysis of Sentiment in Text

Friday, March 18 2011 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan)

The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges (joint with Eleanor Dillon)

Friday, March 18 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Katya Malinova (U Toronto)

Liquidity Provision (joint with Andreas Park)

Tuesday, March 22 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Tai-Wei Hu (Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)

Complexity and Mixed Strategy Equilibria

Tuesday, March 22 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Torsten Persson (Institute for International Economic Studies)

Pillars of Prosperity Lecture

Thursday, March 24 2011 09:00–16:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Lutz Hendricks (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Postponed

Thursday, March 24 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas - Austin)

How Does the Economics Profession Works

Friday, March 25 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Daniel S. Hamermesh (University of Texas - Austin)

'Beauty is the Promise of Happiness'? (joint with Jason Abrevaya)

Friday, March 25 2011 16:00–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)

Field, Undercover and Participant Observers in U.S. Labor Economics: 1910-1930

Friday, March 25 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Uli Doraszelski (Wharton, UPENN)

Efficiency or Predation: What Drives Pricing When There is Learning-by-Doing

Monday, March 28 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Margarita Pivovarova (U of Toronto)

Quantifying the Microeconomic Effects of War: How Much Can Panel Data Help? (joint with Eik Swee)

Wednesday, March 30 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Valerie A Ramey (UCSD)

The Cyclical Behavior of the Price-Cost Markup (joint with C. Nekarda)

Thursday, March 31 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Richard Hornbeck (Harvard University)

Farming the Ogallala Aquifer: Short-run and Long-run Impacts of Groundwater Access" (joint with Pinar Keskin)

Friday, April 1 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Glen Weyl (Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University)

Materialistic Genius & Market Power: Uncovering the Best Innovations (joint with Jean Tirole)

Monday, April 4 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Branko Boskovic (U of Toronto)

The Effect of Voluntary Environmental Regulation on Air Quality: Evidence from the U.S. Clean Air Act

Tuesday, April 5 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University)

Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms (joint with Eric Budish, Fuhito Kojima, and Paul Milgrom)

Tuesday, April 5 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Julie Mallory (University of Toronto)

Estimating the Impact of Recession on the Credibility of Green Legislative Threat

Wednesday, April 6 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Hernan Moscoso-Boedo (University of Virginia)

Misallocation, Informality and Human Capital (joint with Pablo D'Erasmo and Asli Senkal)

Thursday, April 7 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Alexander Gelber (University of Pennsylvania)

Taxes and Time Allocation: Evidence from Single Women and Men

Friday, April 8 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Simon Board (University of California, Los Angeles)

Revenue Management with Forward Looking Buyers (joint with Andy Skrzypacz)

Monday, April 11 2011 15:30–16:50, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Marco Gonzalez- Navarro (U of Toronto)

Electoral Outcomes of Mexico's Second Land Reform

Wednesday, April 13 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Yi Xu (New York University)

Firm Quality, Productivity, and Capability Among Chinese Exporters (joint with Mark Roberts and Xiaoyan Fan)

Wednesday, April 13 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Keith Head (University of British Columbia)

Import sourcing of Chinese cities: Order versus Randomness

Thursday, April 14 2011 16:00–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Larry Christiano (Northwestern University)

Involuntary Unemployment and the Business Cycle (joint with Mathias Trabandt, Karl Walentin)

Thursday, April 14 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Adam Found (U of Toronto)

Scale Economies in Municipal Services: A Look at General Government, Fire, and Police

Friday, April 15 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Ron Goettler (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Does AMD spur Intel to innovate more? (joint with Brett Gordon)

Monday, April 18 2011 15:10–16:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

James Campbell (University of Toronto)

Signaling to a Network

Tuesday, April 19 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Joshua Lewis (U of Toronto)

Electrification and changes in home production

Wednesday, April 20 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Tilman Borgers (University of Michigan)

TBA

Tuesday, April 26 2011 16:10–17:30, Rotman, room 127

David Jacks (U of Toronto)

Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade

Wednesday, April 27 2011 12:30–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Ho Nam Mak (University of Toronto)

The Road to Maturation: Co-Residence of College Youths

Wednesday, May 4 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Matthew Mitchel (Rotman)

Measuring Team Inputs: Harold Zurcher Plays in the NBA

Tuesday, May 10 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Tat-kei Lai (University of Toronto)

Does Competition Improve Managerial Quality?

Wednesday, May 11 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Masakazu Ishihara (Rotman)

Bayesian Estimation of Non-stationary Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Tuesday, May 17 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Jean Guillaume Forand (University of Rochester)

The Incentive to Give Warning: Useless Prevention vs. Costly Remediation

Wednesday, May 18 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

David Soberman (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, May 24 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Carlos Rosell (Department of Finance, Canada)

TBA

Tuesday, May 31 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Peter Wagner (University of Toronto)

Learning from Strangers

Wednesday, June 1 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

James Campbel (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, June 7 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Sacha Kapoor (University of Toronto)

Beauty at Work

Wednesday, June 8 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Alberto Galasso (Rotman)

Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights (joint with Carlos Serrano and Mark Schankerman)

Tuesday, June 14 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Christian Dippel (University of Toronto)

Elite Persistence and the Franchise: The Post-Slavery Caribbean Plantation Complex Colonies

Wednesday, June 15 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Nathan Yang (University of Toronto - Dept. Economics)

Industry Dynamics with Vicarious Learning

Tuesday, June 21 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Berta Esteve-Volart (York University)

Politicians' Luck of the Draw: Evidence from the Spanish Christmas Lottery (joint with Manuel Bagues)

Wednesday, June 22 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

April Franco (Rotman)

TBA

Tuesday, June 28 2011 12:00–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106

Branko Boskovic (University of Toronto)

The Effect of Decentralized Environmental Regulation on Air Quality: Evidence from the U.S. Clean Air Act

Wednesday, June 29 2011 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 100

Ron Siegel (Northwestern University)

Asymmetric Contests with Interdependent Valuations and Incomplete Information

Wednesday, June 29 2011 16:10–17:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106