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SEMINAR SERIES SPRING 2012

DATE	NAME	AFFILIATION	TITLE
March 9 (NOTE: FRIDAY)	Silvio Rendon	SUNY, Stony Brook	Family Job Search and Consumption
March 20	Shapoor Vali	Fordham University	An interesting Case of a Quadratic Demand Function
March 27	Wei Tan	SUNY, Stony Brook	Estimating the demand for credit card: A regression discontinuity approach
April 3	Michael Cohen	New York University	The Use of Voluntary Marketing Initiatives to Reduce Childhood Obesity
April 10	Daniel Henderson	SUNY Binghamton	Gradient Based Smoothing Parameter Selection for Nonparametric Regression Estimation
April 17	Julia Schwenkenberg	Rutgers University, Newark	Selection into Occupations and the Intergenerational Socioeconomic Mobility of Daughters and Sons
April 24	Makoto Nakajima	Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia	Home Equity in Retirement
May 1	Cristina Fuentes Albero	Rutgers University, New Brunswick	Financial Frictions, Financial Shocks, and Aggregate Volatility
May 2 (Note: Wed 4- 5.15pm) CIPS sponsored event	Ed Wolff	New York University	Rising Profitability and the Middle Class Squeeze
May 9 (Note: Wed 2 to 3.15 PM)	Sumaya Karolina Ali Brahim, Phd candidate, Political Economy	“Sapienza” University of Rome	Inequality, Education and skill premia: evidence from Latin America
May 9 (Note: Wed 4-5.15pm) CIPS sponsored event	Isabel Ortiz	UNICEF	TBA

SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2011

DATE

NAME

AFFILIATION

TITLE

Sept 20

Owen Ozier

World Bank

Does Africa Need a Rotten Kin Theorem? Experimental Evidence from Village Economies

Sept 27

Omer Acikgoz

Yeshiva University

A Macroeconomic Analysis of the Rising Skill Premium and Deunionization in the United States

Oct 18

David Cesarini

NYU

Molecular Genetics and Economics

Oct 25

Ruben Hernandez

St. Louis Federal Reserve

Cancelled

Nov 1

Usha Sambhamoorti

University of West Virginia

Cancelled

Nov 8

Kusum Mundra

Rutgers University

TBA

Nov 10

(Note: Thursday)

Robert Brent

Fordham University

Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa

Nov 15

Yasemin Ulu

Temple University

TBA

Nov 16

(Note: Wednesday)

Tarun Jain

Indian School of Business

Common Tongue: The impact of language on economic performance

Nov 22

Marcelo Moreira

Columbia University

TBA

Nov 29

Robert Rich

NY Federal Reserve

TBA

SEMINAR SERIES SPRING 2011

DATE NAME
AFFILIATION TITLE

Feb 25
(Note:FRIDAY)           Peter Grajzl Washington and Lee University
Information Sharing and the Volume of Private Credit in Transition: Evidence from Ukrainian Bank-Level Panel Data

March 1 TBA TBA TBA

March 8 Serena Ng Columbia University Estimation and Forecasting in a Data Rich Environment

March 22
(CANCELLED) Nuria Quella SUNY, Stony Brook
Job Search and Housing Under Credit Constraints in the US (CANCELLED)

March 29 Andra Ghent Baruch College, CUNY Subprime Mortgages, Mortgage Choice and Hyperbolic Discounting

April 5
Lucciana Juvenal                St. Louis Federal Reserve Trade and Synchronization in a Multi-country Economy

April 13
(Note: WED) Joyee Deb New York University Mobility and Conflict, Resource Sharing among Groups

April 19 (**NEW**) Emmanuel Letouze UC Berkely Revisiting Macroeconomic Populism In Latin America

April 26
Nuria Quella                 SUNY, Stony Brook Job Search and Housing Under Credit Constraints in the US

April 27 (Note: WED) Manisha Shah University of California, Irvine Risk Taking Behavior in the Wake of Natural Disasters

April 28 (THURS) 4-5.15 PM Sponsored by CIPS Amy Schwartz TBA Do small schools improve performance in large urban districts? Causal evidence from New York City. ** FLOM auditorium Walsh Library

May 3 Iasaac Mbiti Southern Methodist University TBA

May 4 (WED) 5 - 6.15PM
Sponsored by CIPS Francisco Rodriguez TBA The Human Development Report 2010 **FLOM auditorium Walsh Library

SEMINAR SERIES FALL 2010

DATE	NAME	AFFILIATION	TITLE
September 14	none	none	none
September 22	Selahattin Imrohoroglu	University of Southern California	Productivity and Fiscal Policy in Japan: Short Term Forecasts from the Standard Growth Model
September 28	canceled	canceled	canceled
October 5	Delia Furtado	University of Connecticut	Female Work and Fertility in the United States: Effects of Low-skilled Immigrant Labor
October 12	Baybars Karacaovali	Fordham University	Free Trade Agreements and External Tariffs
October 18 (Note: Monday)	Steven Koch	University of Pretoria	Fractional Multinomial Response Models: A Comparison of Alternatives
October 19	Gerard Russo	University of Hawaii	The Impact of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Expansion on Health Insurance Coverage in Hawaii: Evidence from the Current Population Survey (CPS)
October 26	Jason Barr	Rugters University	Skyscrapers and Skylines: New York and Chicago, 1885-2007
November 2	Sarah Pearlman	Vassar College	Crime, Informality and Microenterprise Growth: Evidence from Mexico
November 9	cancelled	cancelled	cancelled
November 17 (Note: Wednesday)	Karna Basu	Hunter College, CUNY	Commitment Savings in Informal Banking Markets: Implications for Takeup and Welfare
November 23	Shapoor Vali	Fordham University	Deriving Supply Function of a Non-competitive Firm
November 30	Fed Challenge Students	Fordham University	Fed Challenge Presentations
December 1 (Note: Wednesday)	Uluc Aysun	University of Connecticut	Global Banking and the Balance Sheet Channel of Monetary Transmission
December 7	Dean Karlan	Yale University	TBA

SPRING 2010 SEMINAR SERIES

Date Name Affiliation Title

Feb 22
Monday
3.30-4.30
Sean Collins Florida State University
   Ordering by Ability in Sequential Team Production

Mar 2 Bart Moore Fordham University
      A Unified Solution to Inventory Puzzles

Mar 8
Monday
3.30-4.30 Chin-Han Chiang
Columbia University
   Stock Returns on Option Expiration Dates

Mar 10

No Seminar      Canceled

Mar 16 Spring Break No Seminar
   none

Mar 23 Utteeyo Dasgupta Franklin and Marshall College
   Do Opportunity Costs Matter in a Sequential Contribution Public Goods Game?

Mar 30 Kevin Thom NYU
   The Relationship between Education and Smoking in a Life Cycle Model

April 6 Phillip Shaw Fairfield University Non-parametric Instrumental Variables Estimation in Practice

Apr 13
No Seminar
   No Seminar none

Apr 20 Alberto Sanchez
(joint seminar with IPED)
   Banco: CitySantander Crisis, What Crisis?

Apr 27 Duncan James Fordham University
tba

postponed Uluc Aysun University of Conneticut
   Postponed until Fall

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FALL 2009 SEMINAR SERIES

DATE	NAME	AFFILIATION	TITLE
September 15	Purba Mukerji	Connecticut College	Measuring Intra-Industry Trade
September 22	Bogachan Celen	Columbia University	On the Role of Information and Strategic Delay in Coordination Games: Theory and Experiment
September 29	Manuel Montes	Financing for Development Office, UNDESA	Will the Global Economic Crisis Lead to a Bretton Woods Moment?
October 6	Shapoor Vali	Fordham University	Why you don't find these Economics models in Mathematical Economics texts?
October 13 (starts at 3.45pm)	Sakiko Fukuda-Parr	New School	Reducing Inequality: The Missing MDG
October 20	Johanna Francis	Fordham University	Tax Treatment of Owner Occupied Housing and Wealth Inequality
October 27	Riccardo DiCecio	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	Entry Costs, Misallocation, and Cross-Country Income and TFP Differences
November 3	Robert Brent	Fordham University	Female Education and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Condoms Piece of the Puzzle for Tanzania
November 10	Yoto Yotov	Drexel University	On the Incidence and Welfare Effects of Free Trade Agreements
November 20 (Friday)	Pierre Chaussé	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)	Estimating Models Based on Moment Conditions with R
November 24	Sophie Mitra and Brandon Vick	Fordham University	Using Q2 Methods to Measure Multidimensional Poverty
December 1	Nicole Simpson	Colgate University	The Intergenerational Transmission of Credit Scores through the Market for Student Loans
December 8	Julian Diaz	Bowdoin College	The Welfare Impact of Trade Liberalization

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