IED/INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS SEMINARS

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Fall 2003
Seminars are on Mondays from 3:30-5:00PM in Room 315, 264 Bay State Road.

September 22

Robert Lucas (Boston University)
(with Sari Pekkala)
Abilities, Budgets and Age: Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland
 figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
September 29 Claudia Olivetti (Boston University)
Mothers and Sons: Preference Transmission and Female Labor Force Dynamics
(with Raquel Fernandez and Alessandra Fogli)
October 20

Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley)
Dynamic Household Bargaining (with an Application to Bangladesh)
October 27

Justin Lin (Beijing and UST Hong Kong)
Development Strategy, Viability and Challenges of Development in Lagging Regions
November 3

Asim Khwaja (Kennedy School of Government)
Trading in Phantom Markets: Price Manipulation in an Emerging Stock Market

November 10

Avi Simhon (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
(with Zvika Neeman)
Corruption and Openness

November 17

Alberto Bisin (New York University)
POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL 12, 2004

November 24 Shannon Seitz (Queens University, Ontario)
Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs
December 1 Gerance Genicot (Georgetown University)
(with Gary Charness)
An Experimental Test of Risk-Sharing Arrangements
December 8

Hans-Joachim Voth (Pompeu Fabra and MIT)
(with Peter Temin)
Riding the South Sea Bubble

December 15 Andrew Newman (University College, London)
Competing for Ownership

Underlined titles can be downloaded for printing. Hard copies of seminar papers will be available outside Room 510 Thursday before the seminar..

Last updated:12/11/03