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EMPIRICAL MICROECONOMICS SCHEDULE (Fall 2009)

Workshops are held on Mondays from 12:30pm to 2:00pm in Room 315 at 263 Bay State Road.

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC
September 14 Bob Margo “Railroads and American Economic Development: New Evidence”
September 21 Randy Ellis “Risk-Adjusted Comprehensive Payment for Primary Care Providers”
September 28 MinWoong Ji “Does Ownership Structure Influence Regulatory Behavior? The Impact of Franchising on Labor Standards Compliance”
October 5 Ramiro de Elejalde “Local Entry Decisions in the US Banking Industry”
October 19 Mikhail Pyatigorski
 "Mexican-Americans in US schools: a peer effects analysis."
October 26 Yummi Nam “A dynamic analysis of product differentiation in the Texas Lodging industry”
November 2 Alfredo Burlando TBA
November 9 Andrea Canidio "The Production of Science"
November 16 Marian Vidal-Fernandez "Intertemporal Substitution or Reference- Dependent Preferences? Evidence from Daily Labor Supply of South Indian Boat-owners."
November 23 Ingo Vogelsang TBA
November 30 Tuomas Pekkarinen “Gender differences in risk taking and test score performance”
December 7 Tatsushi Oka "Estimation of Tipping Points in Racial Segregation: Nonparametric Quantile Regression Approach"
     
November 16, 2009