Spring 2012 Tutors List
The Spring 2012 Tutors List: http://www.bu.edu/econ/files/2009/07/SPRING-2012-Tutors.pdf
Boston University ASSA Cocktail Reception
Saturday, January 7, from 6-8pm
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Grand Suite 5
151 East Wacker Drive,
Chicago, Illinois, USA 60601
Health Policy and Management Seminar Series: James Burgess (BU), Dec 20
Title: Efficiency in Health Care: Does Anyone REALLY Know What It Is?
Speaker: James Burgess, Ph.D. – BU School of Public Health
Date: December 20, 2011
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Place: School of Management, 595 Commonwealth Ave, Room 211
The Boston University Health Policy Institute is pleased to announce the third seminar in its 2011 – 2012 Health Policy and Management Seminar Series.
Professor James Burgess will present “Efficiency in Health Care: Does Anyone REALLY Know What It Is?” on Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 4:00 – 5:30 pm, in SMG Room 211.
Professor Burgess will challenge common perceptions and definitions of efficiency in health care, document numerous circular or flawed definitions that are commonly employed, and present opportunities for directions for improving or developing new ways of defining efficiency in health care. Establishing more shared understanding of this important concept is crucial for making progress in better outcomes for patients with better allocations of scarce resources.
Dr. Burgess is a Professor of Health Policy & Management at Boston University School of Public Health and a Senior Investigator at the Center for Organization, Leadership & Management Research, VA Boston Healthcare System. His research specialties include: health economics; health quality and outcomes; value-based purchasing; productivity and inefficiency; cost-effectiveness analysis and decision analysis; industrial organization; mixed method modeling; and cost and quality risk adjustment.
Distinguished Visitor John Rust (University of Maryland): Oct. 24 – 28
It is with great pleasure to inform you of our Industrial Organization Distinguished Visitor John Rust. He will be visiting with us on Monday, October 24th to Friday October 28th. John Rust is a Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. He received his PhD from MIT in 1983.
Professor Rust’s fields of interest in research are industrial organization, econometrics, micro-economic theory, computational issues, and labor economics. He has made many important contributions, and is particularly well-known for his work on methods for the structural estimation dynamic discrete choice problems.
In addition, Professor Rust is an architect of EconJobMarket, as well as Conference Maker and Editorial Express, which form a software backbone for the operation of the economics profession.
Professor Rust will give the Microeconomics Seminar as usually scheduled on Tuesday, October 25th from 3:30pm to 5:00pm, titled: “A Dynamic Model of Bertrand Price Competition with Leapfrogging Investments”, in room 315. He will give two lectures, the first is titled “The Free Installment Puzzle“, scheduled for Monday, October 24th from 2pm to 3:30pm in room 315 The second lecture is of particularly wide appeal to graduate students titled “Can the Economics Job Market Be Improved?” on Friday, October 28th in room 315 from 2:30pm to 4pm. The paper provides models of how the economics job market works and the presentation includes “a tour inside EconJobMarket.”
Please note that our Distinguished Visitors are now located in room 417. To schedule office hours please email Courtney, at csull@bu.edu and give your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices. A signup sheet will be posted on IED’s website http://www.bu.edu/econ/seminars-workshops/special/dv/sched/ and will show who is scheduled and for when. Every attempt will be made to give you your desired time however it will be based on a first come first serve bases. The following are the dates and times to request a meeting time are:
Tuesday October 25th from 10am to Noon
Wednesday, October 26th from 2pm to 5pm
Friday, October 28th from 10am to Noon
Thank you for your time and IED hopes that you will enjoy Professor Rust’s visit and take the opportunity to attend his scheduled seminar and lectures. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Eleanor Langdon at IED or visit her office located at 264 BSR Room 512.
Conversations with Economists: Philip Turner (BIS), Oct 3
Conversations with Economists Lecture:
Philip Turner, Bank of International Settlements (BIS) will present -
International Money
Monday, October 3rd, 2011
5:30-7pm
CAS, Room 224
“What is international money?”. The 2007-20xx financial crisis has given thisold question new life. Central banks are not only the ultimate providers ofdomestic money, but also have the capacity to influence exchange rates andlong-term debt markets. Because most international contracts are in dollars,the Federal Reserve has a pivotal role that has been reinforced by the crisis.But the massive dollar investments of other central banks also have an impact.What the international banking system does to “multiply” (or more recently“divide”) the money that central banks “create” will change over time. We try tounderstand how central banks should in turn respond to the reactions ofinternational banks.”
- Flyer
- http://www.bu.edu/econ/seminars-workshops/special/conversations/
For information, please contact:
Norma Hardeo - hardeo@bu.edu, 617-353-4623
President Sebastian Pinera of Chile to speak at BU
President Sebastian Pinera of Chile to speak at BU
Will talk about Chile and also give his perspective on the international economic situation.
Open to BU Students, Faculty and Staff (will need BU ID for admission)
Friday, September 23, 2011
10:30-11:30am
SMG Auditorium, First Floor
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Inquiries to
Norma Hardeo
617-353-4623
hardeo@bu.edu
Distinguished Visitor: Bruce Hansen (University of Wisconsin), Sept. 26 – 30
It is with great pleasure to inform you of our Distinguished Visitor Bruce Hansen, who will be visiting us from Monday, September 26th through Friday, September 30th. Bruce E. Hansen was a student of Peter Phillips at Yale University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. He is currently the Tryge Haavelmo Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, and previously held positions at the University of Rochester (1989-1994) and Boston College (1994-1998). He was Co-Editor of Econometric Theory during 1995-2008 and Associate Editor of Econometrica for the period 1996-2008. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Journal of Econometrics. He works in econometric methods, with main interests in econometric theory, time series, nonlinear modeling, nonparametric, model selection and averaging, and shrinkage estimation.
Professor Hansen will give one seminar and two lectures. Professor Hansen’s first lecture on Model Selection (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~bhansen/718/NonParametrics14.pdf) and Model Averaging (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~bhansen/718/NonParametrics15.pdf) will be held on Monday, September 26th from 2pm to 3:30pm in room 315. The second lecture on Forecast Combination (http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~bhansen/papers/hstep.pdf) will be held on Wednesday, September 28th from 2pm to 3:30pm in room CAS 222. His seminar titled: “Generalized Shrinkage Estimation” (Paper available at the seminar) will be presented at the Econometrics Seminar which is held on Friday at 4pm in room 315.
Please note that our Distinguished Visitors are now located in room 417. To schedule office hours please email Courtney, at csull@bu.edu and give your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices. A signup sheet will be posted on the IED’s website http://www.bu.edu/econ/seminars-workshops/special/dv/sched/ and will show who is scheduled and for when. Every attempt will be made to give you your desired time however it will be based on a first come first serve basis. The following are the dates and times to request a meeting time:
Tuesday, September 27 from 2pm to 4pm
Thursday, September 29 from 2pm to 4pm
Thank you for your time and the Department and the IED hope that you will enjoy Professor Hansen’s visit and take the opportunity to attend his scheduled seminar and lectures. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Eleanor Langdon at the IED or visit her office located at 264 BSR Room 512.
Distinguished Visitor: Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley), Sept.12 – 16
It is with great pleasure to inform you of our Distinguished Visitor Stefano DellaVigna, who will be visiting us from Monday, September12th through Friday, September 16th. Stefano DellaVigna, received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002, he is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in Psychology and Economics (a.k.a. Behavioral Economics) and has published in international journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Labor Economics. He has been a Principal Investigator for an NSF Grant (2004-07), an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow for 2008-10, and a Distinguished Teaching Award winner (2008). He is also a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA). His recent work has focused on (i) the economics of the media, and in particular the impact on voting (through persuasion) and the study of conflicts of interest; (ii) the design of model-based field experiments, including analyzing the role of social pressure in charitable giving and voting, and (iii) the impact of limited attention in financial markets.
Professor DellaVigna will give one seminar and two lectures. Professor DellaVigna’s first lecture titled “The role of Theory in Field Experiments: Evidence in Charitable Giving and Voting” will be held on Monday, September 12th from 3:30 to 5pm in room 315. His seminar titled “Does Media Concentration Lead to Biased Coverage? Evidence from Movie Reviews” will be held on Tuesday, September 13th from 3:30 to 5pm in room 315. The second lecture titled “Media and Persuasion: Evidence from cross-Border Effects in Croatia” will be held on Thursday, September. 15th from 2pm to 3:30pm in room 315.
To schedule office hours please email Courtney, at csull@bu.edu and give your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices. A signup sheet will be posted on the IED’s website http://www.bu.edu/econ/seminars-workshops/special/dv/sched/ and will show who is scheduled and for when. Every attempt will be made to give you your desired time however it will be based on a first come first serve basis. The following are the dates and times to request a meeting time:
Tuesday, September 13th 10am to Noon
Wednesday, September 14th 2pm to 4pm
Thursday, September 15th 10am to Noon
Thank you for your time and the Department and the IED hope that you will enjoy Professor DellaVigna’s visit and take the opportunity to attend his scheduled seminar and lectures. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Eleanor Langdon at the IED or visit her office located at 264 BSR Room 512.
2011 IED Research Review
The 2011 IED Research Review is now available online: http://www.bu.edu/econ/files/2011/08/IED-Research-Review_2011.pdf. Please see http://www.bu.edu/econ/centers/ied/researchreview/ for previous issues.
2011 – 2012 Distinguished Visitors Schedule Posted
The 2011 – 2012 schedule of Distinguished Visitors has been posted: http://www.bu.edu/econ/seminars-workshops/special/dv/
2011 – 2012 Schedule of Visitors:
| Name | Field | Dates of Visit |
| Stefano DellaVigna | Empirical Microeconomics | Sept. 12 – 16 |
| Bruce Hansen | Econometrics | Sept. 26 – 30 |
| John Rust | IO | October 24 – 28 |
| Jonathan Eaton | Macroeconomics (trade) | Oct. 31 – Nov. 3, Nov. 15 – 17 |
| Mark Rosenzweig | Development | Dec. 5 – 9 |
| Larry Samuelson | Theory | Apr. 30 – May 3 |