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"
fall 2007 schedule and papers
spring 2007 schedule and papers
fall 2006 schedule and papers
spring 2006 schedule and papers
fall 2005 schedule and papers