Economic Theory Seminars Spring 2011

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

Questions? Contact Victoria Umanskaya

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
4/1/2011 Cynthia Lin, UCD Do Firms Interact Strategically?: A Structural Model of the Multi-Stage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production
4/8/2011 Gal Hochman, UCB The Political Economy of OPEC
4/15/2011 No Seminar No Seminar (Cancelled)
4/22/2011 Edward Barbier, University of Wyoming Ecosystems As Natural Assets
4/29/2011 No Seminar No Seminar (Cancelled)
5/5/2011* Adrian Pagan, Sydney University, Australia

*NOTE: JOINT with Econometrics, 3:40-5pm, location is TBA

Assessing The Impact of Financial Stress Upon Business Cycles
5/6/2011 Steven Levkoff, UCR Decomposing NOx and SO2 Electric Power Plant Emissions in a “By-production” Framework: A Nonparametric DEA Study”
5/13/2011 Prasanta Pattanaik, UCR On Measuring Deprivation And Living Standards Of Societies In A Multi-Attribute Framework
5/20/2011 Nir Jaimovich, Duke University Labor Market Dynamics and Technological Competence
5/27/2011 No Seminar No Seminar (Cancelled)
6/3/2011 Thorsten Hens, University of Zurich An International Survey on Time Discounting with Application To Household Finance and Asset Pricing