Microeconomics Workshop
2009-2010 Schedule
Time: 4:15 to 5:45 (unless noted otherwise)
Place: 550 ICC (Intercultural Center) Building
FALL 2009
September 17
George Mailath, University of Pennsylvania
"Common Learning in the Presence of Dependence"
(with Martin Cripps, Jeff Ely, and Larry Samuelson)
September 24
Jeanne Lafortune, University of Maryland
"Making Yourself Attractive: Pre-Marital Investments and the Returns to Education in the Marriage Market"
October 8
Mitsukuni Nishida, Johns Hopkins University
"Estimating a Model of Strategic Network Choice: the Convenience-Store Industry in Okinawa"
October 22
Jacob Gramlich, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
"Gas Prices, Fuel Efficiency, and Endogenous Product Choics in the U.S. Automobile Industry"
October 29
Helena Aten, Georgetown Universtiy
"Competing Informed Principals and Representative Democracy"
November 5
Erin Mansur, Yale University
“Firms’ Costs (and Benefits) of Environmental Regulation: An Event Study of the EU Emission Trading Scheme”
November 12
Earl Thompson, UCLA
"Local Catastrophes and Persistently Low Local Rates of Return?"
November 19
Raquel Fernandez, NYU
"Woman's Rights and Development"
December 3
Raymond Guiteras, University of Maryland
SPRING 2010
February 25
Yusufcan Masatlioglu, University of Michigan
March 4
Marc Moller, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
March 18
Joe Doyle, MIT
March 25
Alessandro Riboni, University of Montreal
April 22
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University
