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MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR SCHEDULE (SPRING 2009)

Seminars are on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5:00 in room 315 at 270 Bay State Road. For more information, contact Miriam Hatoum at mhatoum@bu.edu, 617-353-6822.

DATE   SPEAKER   TOPIC
Jan 27   Steve Morris
(Princeton University)		   Strategic Distinguishability and Robust Virtual Implementation
March 3   John Asker (NYU)   A Study of the Internal Organisation of a Bidding Cartel
March 10   SPRING BREAK    
March 17   Otto Tiovanen
(Helsinki Center of Economic Research, HECER University of Helsinki)
   "Innovation policy reform"
with Tanja Tanayama (HECER and Etla) and Tuomas Takalo ( Bank of Finland and University of Jyväskylä).
March 24   David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania)   Preferences for One-Shot Resolution of Uncertainty and Allais-Type Behavior
March 31   David Lee
(Princeton University)		   "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961-1999”
April 7   Fred Schroyen
(Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)		   "Multi-dimensional screening in insurance--with an application to gender discrimination"
with Pau Olivella
April 14   Jeremy Fox
(University of Chicago)		   "Identifying Heterogeneity in Economic Choice and Selection Models Using Mixtures"

April 21
NOTE: 2pm start time

   Giovanni Mastrobuoni
(Collegio Carlo Alberto and CeRP)		   "The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons"
April 28   Curtis Taylor (Duke)   "Subjective Performance and the Value of Blind Evaluation"
 
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