Economic Theory Seminars Fall 2006

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

Questions? Contact Jang-Ting Guo or Richard Suen

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
10/2/2006 Wei Li (Department of Economics, UCR) Communication Through Intermediaries: Influence Peddling and Propaganda
10/9/2006 Ken Baerenklau (Environmental Sciences, UCR) Effects of Nutrient Restrictions on Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Insights from A Structural Dynamic Model
10/16/2006 Irina A. Telyukova (Economics Department, UC San Diego) A Model of Money and Credit, with Application to the Credit Card Debt Puzzle
10/23/2006 Daya Muralidharan (Economics Department, UCR) Spacial Dynamics of Water Management in Irrigated Agriculture
10/30/2006 Igor Kopylov (Economics Department, UC Irvine) A Parametric Model of Ambiguity Hedging
11/6/2006 Lee Ohanian (Economics Department, UCLA) The Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, and Labor Shedding
11/13/2006 Anthony Marino (Business School, USC) Disobedience and Authority
11/20/2006 Dean Corbae (Economics Department, Univ of Texas, Austin) Credit Scoring and the Competitive Pricing of Default Risk
11/27/2006 David Romer (Economics Department, UC Berkeley) The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: New Estimates Based on A New Measure of Fiscal Shocks
12/4/2006 Guillaume Vandenbroucke (Economics Department, USC) The U.S. Westward Expansion