Department of Economics


Department of Economics
W. P. Carey School of Business
P.O. Box 873806
Tempe, AZ 85287-3806

Phone: 480-965-3531
Fax: 480-965-0748
Email: wpcareyecn@asu.edu

 

ASU Economics Department
Seminar Series
Spring 2008


Last updated: April 8, 2008

All seminars this semester will be held from 4:00pm-5:30pm in BAC 201. Any changes in time or location will be posted here.


Date

Day

Speaker Title
Jan. 16 W

Joel Rodrigue*
Queen's University

Foreign Direct Investment, Exports & Aggregate Productivity
Jan. 18

F

   
Jan. 21 M

Martin Luther King Holiday

 
Jan. 23

W

Yukio Koriyama*
University of Chicago
A Resurrection of the Condorcet Jury Theorem
Jan. 25

F

Fabrizio Colonna*
University of Minnesota

Labor Market and Schooling Choice:  Italy v. U.S.
Jan. 28 M Kevin Thom*
Johns Hopkins University
Repeated Circular Migration:  Theory and Evidence
Jan. 30 W Madhav Chandrasekher*
University of California, Berkeley
Discrete Models of Unforeseen Contingencies
Feb. 1 F Stefania Garetto*
University of Chicago
Input Sourcing and Multinational Production
Feb. 4 M Rodolfo Campos*
UCLA
Risk-Sharing and the Probability of Crises
Feb. 6 W Andrei Kovrijnykh*
University of Chicago

Career Uncertainty and Dynamic Incentives

Feb. 8 F Natalia Kovrijnykh*
University of Chicago
Debt Contracts with Short-Term Commitment
Feb. 11 M Michael Waugh*
University of Iowa
CANCELLED
Feb. 13 W Guillermo Ordoñez*
UCLA
Fragility of Reputation and Clustering in Risk-Taking
Feb. 15 F Nenad Kos*
Northwestern University
Communication and Efficiency in Auctions
Feb. 18 M Joyee Deb*
Northwestern University
CANCELLED
Feb. 20

W

David Lagakos*
UCLA
Superstores or Moms and Pops?  Market Size, Technology Adoption and TFP Differences
Feb. 22 F Juan Sanchez*
University of Rochester
The Role of Information in Consumer Debt and Bankruptcy
Feb. 25 M Roozbeh Hosseini
University of Minnesota
Adverse Selection in the Annuity Market and the Role for Social Security
Feb. 29

F

Amanda Friedenberg*
Washington University
The Context of the Game
Mar. 3

M

   
Mar. 7

F

   
Mar. 10

M

SPRING BREAK  
Mar. 14

F

SPRING BREAK  
Mar. 17

M

Harrison Cheng
USC
CANCELLED
Mar. 21

F

John Fernald
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Sector-Specific Technical Change
Mar. 24 

M

   
Mar. 28

F

Stephan Lauermann
University of Michigan
Dynamic Matching and Bargaining Games:  A General Approach
Mar. 31

M

Gary Hansen
UCLA
CANCELLED 
Apr. 4

F

Michael Jerison
SUNY Albany 
Testable Conditions for Unique, Stable Equilibrium with Linear Distortions
Apr. 7

M

   
Apr. 11

F

Irina Telyukova
UCSD
Household Need for Liquidity and the Credit Card Debt Puzzle
Apr. 14

M

Axel Anderson
Georgetown University
The Durable Information Monopolist
Apr. 18

F

Juan Dubra
Carnegie Mellon University
Overconfidence? 
Apr. 21

M

Alp Atakan
Northwestern University
Reputation with Long-Run Players
Apr. 25

F

   
Apr. 28

M

Christopher Phelan
University of Minnesota
Beliefs and Private Monitoring

* Denotes faculty recruiting.

Note on links to papers:
Some links point to the authors' web pages. The papers presented in the workshop may be updated versions of the papers on the web.