Political Economy & Development Seminars Winter 2004

Fridays, 4:10-5:30 pm (unless otherwise specified) Sproul Hall 2206 Questions? Contact David Fairris or the workshop assistant Pamella J. Rousseau .

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

Copies of papers may be available from Pam

DATE NAME TITLE OF PRESENTATION
1/16/2004 Mason Gaffney UCR “Housing and Income”
2/20/2004 Dorene Isenberg University of Redlands Department of Economics “Depository Institutions and Deregulation: A Political Economy Approach”

The political economy of financial reform: the origins of the US deregulation of 1980 and 1982 

The national origin of financial liberalization: The US

2/27/2004 Ranjeeta Ghiara Cal State San Marcos College of Arts and Sciences “A Tale of Two Cities: Impact of Trade Liberalization on Labor Markets in Mexico”
3/5/2004 Gordon Hanson UC San Diego Department of Economics “Emigration and Educational Attainment in Mexico”
3/12/2004 Jonathan Hiskey UCR Department of Political Science “The Recovery Consequences of an Uneven Regime: A Sub-national Analysis of Mexico’s 1995 Economic Crisis”