The main purpose of the visitor program is to give the PhD students an opportunity to attend mini-courses and seminars taught by distinguished economists in different fields, and meet with them personally to discuss their own research. They will visit the department for between one and two weeks, during which they will teach a mini-course consisting of two to four lectures in a topic of their expertise, give one regular seminar, and hold office hours to meet with PhD students individually.

ALLOCATION OF VISITORS

The number of visitors is allocated across fields in rough proportion to the dissertations written or being worked upon in those fields by PhD students. Each field has a nominated faculty representative, who will consult faculty and PhD students in their field and select who to invite. The representative will also communicate with those invited and work out dates of their visit, in consultation also with me and/or Eleanor (we will be trying to coordinate the visits of different visitors to avoid conflicts). The visitors will generally occupy Rm 513. PhD students are encouraged to make appointments (via Ashley or Eleanor in the IED office) to see them, apart from attending their lectures and seminars.

FALL 2009

The allocation of visitors for Fall 2009 is: two in macro/international (reps: Francois Gourio, Robert King); one in theory (Bart Lipman), one in IO (Marc Rysman), one in development (Dilip Mookherjee), one in labor/public (Kevin Lang) and one in econometrics (Pierre).

The following visitors are scheduled for Fall 2009:

Elie Tamer (Econometrics): November 9th to November 13th

Lecture Schedule for PROFESSOR ELIE TAMER (November 9-13, 2009)

Professor Elie Tamer will be visiting with BU on Monday November 9th through Friday, November 13th.  Professor Tamer received his PhD from Northwestern University in 1999. He has been a Professor of Economics at Northwestern since 2004. A fellow of the Econometric Society, Professor Tamer has published on a wide range of topics in Econometrics and Industrial Organization. During his visit to BU Professor Tamer will discuss his research on ``Inference in Discrete Games.''

Professor Tamer will be giving two mini-course lectures on self sufficient introduction to inference issues that come up when dealing with data from discrete games. Professor Tamer will analyze the problem from a partial identification perspective, where he will try and characterize varieties of assumptions and the types of information they lead to. The lectures are based on a set of papers by the Professor Tamer and others.  The two lectures are scheduled for Monday, November 9th from 2pm to 3:30pm and Tuesday, November 10th 3:30pm to 5pm both will be in conference room 546.  A seminar is also scheduled for Friday, November 13th at 4pm located in Room 315. 

ProfessorTamer will give two Lectures in Room 546 at 270 Bay State Road:

Monday, November9th, 2:30-4:00pm

Tuesday, November 10th, 3:30-5:00pm

ProfessorTamer will give the Econometrics Seminar in Room 315 at 264 Bay State Road:

Friday, November 13th, 4:00-5:30pm title TBA

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To schedule office hours please email Ashley Seamans at aseamans@bu.edu and give her your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice for desired times. 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, ALL MEETINGS ARE HELD IN ROOM 513.

If you are unable to attend any of the scheduled office hours please email Ashley at aseamans@bu.edu with a time that fits your needs.