| microeconomics seminar schedule | ||||
| fall 2006 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Sept 12 | Arthur Fishman (Bar Ilan Univ, visiting Stern) |
"A Theory of Asymmetric Price Adjustment" | ||
| Sept 19 | Preston McAfee (CalTech) |
"Signaling Character in Electoral Competition" | ||
| Sept 26 | Francoise Forges (Univ Paris-Dauphine) |
"Afriat's Theorem for General Budget Sets" | ||
| Oct 03 | Fernando Vega-Redondo (Universidad de Alicante & University of Essex, visiting Cornell U) |
"Networks Emerging in a Volatile World" | ||
| Oct 10 | Tomas Sjostrom (Rugers Univ) |
"Domestic Political Survival and International Conflict: Is Democracy Good for Peace?" | ||
| Oct 17 | Larry Samuelson (Wisconsin-Madison) |
"Common Learning" | ||
| Oct 24 | Panle Jia (MIT) |
"What Happens When Wal-Mart Comes to Town: An Empirical Analysis of the Discount Retailing Industry" | ||
| Oct 31 | Philippe Chone (CREST-LEI and CNRS URA) |
"Assessing Horizontal Mergers Under Uncertain Efficiency Gains" | ||
| Nov 07 | Till von Wachter (Columbia Univ) |
"Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis Using Administrative Data" | ||
| Nov 14 | Attila Ambrus (Harvard University) |
"Cooperation Over Finite Horizons: A Theory and Experiments" | ||
| Nov 28 | Stephen Coate (Cornell Univ) |
"A Dynamic Theory of Public Spending, Taxation and Debt" | ||
| Dec 05 | Arthur Robson (Simon Fraser Univ, visiting JH Univ) |
"Why We Grow Large and then Grow Old: Economics, Biology and Mortality" | ||