Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2005

Friday Sproul 2206 4:10-5:30 pm

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
4/8/2005 Linda Fernandez UCR NAFTA Countries’ Strategies for Addressing Marine Invasive Species through Shipping.
4/15/2005 Yongsheng Xu Georgia State University Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity
4/22/2005 David Goldbaum Rutgers University & UC San Diego Self-Organization and the Generation of Noise in Financial Markets
4/29/2005 Donald Saari UC Irvine Deposing Dictators
5/6/2005 No Seminar No Seminar
5/12/2005* Bhaskar Dutta Department of Economics Warwick University, United Kingdom Distinguished Visitor

*NOTE: Thursday, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Economic and Social Networks: An Introduction
5/13/2005 Bhaskar Dutta Department of Economics Warwick University, United Kingdom Distinguished Visitor Communication Networks with Endogenous Link Strength
5/20/2005 Donald Wittman UC Santa Cruz Candidate Quality, Pressure Group Endorsements, and the Nature of Political Advertising 

Pressure Groups and Political Advertising: How Uninformed Voters Can Use Strategic Rules of Thumb

5/27/2005 Robert Russell UCR Axiomatic Foundations of Efficiency Measurement on Convex Polyhedral Technologies
6/3/2005 Monica Das UCR Unanticipated Consequences of Environmental Regulation on Pollution, Income Distribution, Product Composition and Trade
6/10/2005* Symposium in honor of Azizur R. Khan

*NOTE: Joint with Political Economy & Development

The Symposium will be in HMNSS 1500

6/13/2005* Aubhik Khan Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and Julia Thomas University of Minnesota

*NOTE: Monday 11:10-12:30 pm

Idiosyncratic Shocks and the Role of Nonconvexities in Plant and Aggregate Investment Dynamics