| microeconomics seminar schedule | |||
| spring 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 | |
| Jan 25 | Joshua Angrist (MIT) | "New Evidence on the Causal Link Between the Quantity and Quality of Children" | |
| Mar 14 | Mark Duggan (University of Maryland) |
"Estimating the Impact of Medical Innovation: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Treatments" | |
| Mar 21 | Regis Renault (University Cergy Pontoise) *joint with Simon P. Anderson (Univeersity of Virginia) |
"Comparative Advertising" | |
| Mar 28 | Efe Ok (NYU) *joint with Y. Masatlioglu (University of Michigan) |
"A Theory of Procedural Choice with Status Quo Bias" | |
| Apr 04 | Artif Mian (University of Chicago) |
"Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks" | |
| Apr 11 | Jawwad Noor (Boston University) |
"Menu-Dependent Self-Control" | |
| Apr 18 | Faruk Gul (Princeton) *joint with Wolfgang Pesendorfer |
"Partisan Politics and Aggregation Failure wit Ignorant Voters" | |
| Apr 25 | Steven Ryan (MIT) |
"Diversification and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption" | |