Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2007

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul 2206

Questions? Contact Susan Carter

When available, the papers may be downloaded as pdf files, which can be read or printed using the Acrobat Reader.

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/12/2007 Richard Sutch Biotechnology Impact Center & Dept of Economics UCR Hockey Stick Graphs, The Show Corn Fallacy and The Adoption of Hybrid Corn: American Corn Yields, 1866-2002
3/2/2007 Ramanan Laxminarayan Senior Fellow at the Resources for Future (Washington DC) Surveillance and Reporting of Disease Outbreaks: Private Incentives and WHO Policy Levers (with Anup Malani)