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IED/INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SEMINAR (FALL 2009)

All seminars, excepted noted, are held Mondays 3:30-5:00pm in Room 315, at 264 Bay State Road, Boston. Copies of seminar papers will be available at the links below or outside Room 510. For more information, contact Ashley Seamans at aseamans@bu.edu.

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
October 5
 Amit Khandelwal
(Columbia University)		 "Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth: Evidence from India"
Tues, October 13
NOTE CHANGE OF DAY		 Zhingang Tao
(University of Hong Kong)		 "Do institutions not matter in China?"
October 19 Latika Chaudhary (Scripps College) "Public-Private Partnerships and Efficiency: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways"
October 26 Stefania Garetto (BU) "Risk, Returns, and Multinational Production"
November 2 Glenn Loury (Brown University) "Intrinsic Inequality"
November 9 V. Bhaskar (UCL)

"Sex Selection and Gender Balance"
Thurs, November 19
NOTE CHANGE of DAY		 Thomas Piketty
(Paris School of Economics)		 "On the Long Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1820-2050 - Theory and evidence"
November 23
 NO SEMINAR  
November 30 Giovanni Immordino
(University of Salerno)		 "Accomplice-Witnesses and Organized Crime: Theory and Evidence from Italy"
December 7
 Shawn Cole
(Harvard Business School)

"Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India"
November 16, 2009