Economics
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
Seminars
Seminar Schedule (Fall 2012)
Friday, Oct. 26, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Piyusha Mutreja - Syracuse University
Hosted by Murat
Seminar Schedule (Winter 2012)
Organizers: Min Seong Kim and Haomiao Yu
Thursday, Jan. 12, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Elton Dusha - University of Toronto
"Persistent Inequality, Corruption and Factor Productivity"
Job Market Talk
Friday, Jan. 13, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Derek Stacey - Queen's University
"Information, Commitment, and Separation in Illiquid Housing Markets"
Job Market Talk
Friday, Jan. 20, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Byoung Hoon Seok - University of Rochester
"Growth and Global Imbalances: The Role of Learning-by-Exporting"
Job Market Talk
Monday, Jan. 23, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Alexander F McQuoid - Columbia University
"Does Diversity Divide? Public Goods Provision and Soviet Emigration to Israel"
Job Market Talk
Friday, Jan. 27, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Yiqing Xie - University of Colorado at Boulder
"Exporting, Licensing, FDI and Productivity Choice: Theory and Evidence from Chilean Data"
Job Market Talk
Monday, Feb. 6, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Olga Timoshenko – Yale University
"Product Switching in a Model of Learning"
Job Market Talk
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Toan Phan – Northwestern University
Job Market Talk
Monday, Mar. 5, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Casey Warman - Queen's University
"From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Occupational Skills and the Economic Outcomes of Immigrants"
Job Market Talk
Tuesday, Mar. 20, 3:30 p.m., JOR 204
Amy Sun - Queen's University
“Monetary and Fiscal Policies in an Heterogeneous Agent's Economy”
Hosted by Claustre
Tuesday, Mar. 27, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Andrea Podhorsky - York University
Hosted by Richard
Friday, Mar. 30, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Alex Maynard - University of Guelph
“Inference in Predictive Quantile Regressions"
Hosted by Brennan
Friday, Apr. 13, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Xianwen Shi - University of Toronto
“Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills”
Hosted by Haomiao
Tuesday, Apr. 17, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Peter Christoffersen - University of Toronto
“Understanding Equity Options”
Hosted by Cathy
Friday, Apr. 20, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Rajiv Vohra - Brown University
“Coalition Formation”
Hosted by Haomiao
Tuesday, Apr. 24, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Jim McGee - University of Western Ontario
“ The Democratization of Credit and the Rise in Consumer Credit and Bankruptcies”
Hosted by Claustre
Friday, May 4, 4:00 p.m., JOR 204
Martin Burda - University of Toronto
"A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Duration and Competing Risk Model with Unobserved Heterogeneity"
Hosted by Min
Brown Bag Series
Wednesday, Jan. 11, 12:30 -1:30 p.m., JOR 204
Vincenzo Caponi - Ryerson University
Monday, Apr. 9, 12:30 -1:30 p.m., JOR 204
Tuba Direkci - University of Gaziantep









