Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

News and Workshops

MONDAY, June 1

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP:
Eldar Shafir (Princeton University), Topic to be announced, 10:10, HPC 06
http://research.chicagogsb.edu/cdr/workshop/index.aspx

MACRO/INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: 
Francois Gurio (BU), Topic to be announced, 12:00, HPC 3A 
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/international/index.html

APPLIED THEORY WORKSHOP:
Niko Matouschek (Northwestern), "Organize to Compete", with Wouter Dessein and Ricardo Alonso, 1:30, HPC 3B
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/theoryoforgs/index.html

MARKETING WORKSHOP: 
Pranaav Jindal (University of Chicago) "Estimating Durable Goods Adoption Decisions From Stated Preference Data", and Jun Lu (University of Chicago), "Cue reaction and consumer mindset: Carry-over effects on learning cue-associated brands",  11:40, HPC 3B 
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/marketing/index.html

WORKSHOP IN APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMICS:
Raj Chetty (University of California, Berkeley), "Towards a Reconcilliation of Micro and Macro Elasticities of Labor Supply: Evidence from Denmark", 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_applications.shtml

TUESDAY, June 2

OPERATIONS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE WORKSHOPS: 
Fikri Karaesmen (Koc U.), "Effects of system parameters on the optimal policy structure in a class of queueing control problems", 11:45, HPC 3A
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/omscience/index.html

THE ENTERPRISE INIATIVE LUNCH SERIES:
No meeting in Rosenwald 329 from 12-1 pm.  No RSVP to
enterprise@uchicago.edu is required

WORKSHOP IN FINANCE:
Rob Stambaugh (Wharton), "Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run?" with Lubos Pastor, 1:20, HPC 3
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/finance/index.html

THESIS SEMINAR:
Alejo Costa, "Sovereign Default Risk under Model Uncertainty", 12:00, Ro 329

MONEY AND BANKING WORKSHOP: 
Juan Pablo Nicolini (Universidad Torcuato di Tella), "Money, Prices and Monetary Policy",  3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_banking.shtml

LAW & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
No meeting, 4:00, Law School, Seminar Room F
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/workshops.html

PUBLIC POLICY AND ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:  
Carola Frydman (MIT), "Does Tax Policy Affect Executive Compensation? Evidence from Postwar Tax Reforms",  3:30, Harris School, Woodlawn Room
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Programs/beyond/workshops/ppe.asp

RATIONAL MODELS SEMINAR:
Jack Goldstone (George Mason University), "Democracy and Development New Insights from Graphic Analysis", 7:30 p.m., Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_choice.shtml

WEDNESDAY, June 3

CHAS / DAVIS SEMINAR ON HEALTH:
No Meeting,
http://www.chas.uchicago.edu/chasevents.shtml

THESIS SEMINAR:
Hiroatsu Tanaka, "Optimal Monetary Policy and the term structure of interst rates under recursive preferences", 10:00, Stu 105

WORKSHOP IN APPLIED ECONOMICS:
Fiona Scott Morton (Yale School of Management), Topic to be announced, 1:30, HC 3B
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/AppliedEcon/index.html

ECONOMETRICS WORKSHOP:
No meeting, 3:30, Ro 301
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econometrics.shtml

ECONOMIC POLICY AND PUBLIC FINANCE WORKSHOP:
No meeting, 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_finance.shtml

POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP:
No meeting, 4:00, Harris School, Room 140B
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Programs/beyond/workshops/polecon.asp

EAST ASIA:
No meeting, 4:00, Pick Lounge
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/

THURSDAY, June 4

WORKSHOP IN DEMOGRAPHY:
Nicolette Teufel-Shone (University of Arizona), "Challenges and Rewards of Community Based Participatory Research", 12:00, Harris School, 140C
http://www.src.uchicago.edu/prc/events.php

THESIS SEMINAR:
Lorenzo Caliendo, "Essays in Macroeconomics, Trade and Development", 12:00, Ro 329

ECONOMETRICS AND STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM:
Bill Barnett (University of Kansas), "Existence of Singularity Bifurcation in an Euler-Equations Model of the United States Economy: Grandmont was Right", and "Empirical Assessment of Bifurcation Regions within New Keynesian Models", 1:20, HPC 05
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/econometrics/index.html

WORKSHOP IN ECONOMIC THEORY:
Daron Acemoglu (MIT), "Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments", 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econtheory.shtml

HEALTH ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
Angaili Oaz, Topic to be announced, 3:30, Harris School, Room 140B
http://chess.uchicago.edu/events/hew.html

FRIDAY, June 5

THESIS SEMINAR:
F. Javier Arias-Vazquez, "Essays on non-monetary returns of education", 11:00, Ro 329

WORKSHOP ON THE ECONOMICS AND BIODEMOGRAPHY OF AGING AND HEALTH CARE:
Sumedha Gupta (Tinbergen University & Northwestern University), "Do Children Affect Life Expectancy?  A Joint Study of Fertility and Mortality", 1:30, HPC 3A
http://ironwood.cpe.uchicago.edu/CPE_Workshop/index.php

TGIF: 4:30, No meeting

 

 


MONDAY, June 8

BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP:
No meeting
http://research.chicagogsb.edu/cdr/workshop/index.aspx

MACRO/INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: 
Nir Jaimovich (Stanford), Topic to be announced, 12:00, HPC 3A 
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/international/index.html

THESIS PROPOSAL:
Christian Ferrada, "The Welfare System and Immigration of Mexican Workers to the United States," 1:30, Stu 101

APPLIED THEORY WORKSHOP:
No meeting
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/theoryoforgs/index.html

MARKETING WORKSHOP: 
No meeting 
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/marketing/index.html

WORKSHOP IN APPLICATIONS OF ECONOMICS:
Jessie Shapiro (University of Chicago), "The Effect of Newspaper Exits on Political Participation: A Regression Discontinuity Approach", 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_applications.shtml

TUESDAY, June 9

OPERATIONS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE WORKSHOPS: 
No meeeting
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/omscience/index.html

THE ENTERPRISE INIATIVE LUNCH SERIES:
No meeting in Rosenwald 329 from 12-1 pm.  No RSVP to
enterprise@uchicago.edu is required

WORKSHOP IN FINANCE:
No meeting
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/finance/index.html

MONEY AND BANKING WORKSHOP: 
Fernando Alvarez (University of Chicago), Topic to be announced,  3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_banking.shtml

LAW & ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
No meeting
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/Lawecon/workshops.html

PUBLIC POLICY AND ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:  
No meeting
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Programs/beyond/workshops/ppe.asp

RATIONAL MODELS SEMINAR:
No meeting
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_choice.shtml

WEDNESDAY, June 10

CHAS / DAVIS SEMINAR ON HEALTH:
No Meeting,
http://www.chas.uchicago.edu/chasevents.shtml

THESIS PROPOSAL:
Devesh Rajendra Raval, "An Examination of production function heterogeneity and its economic effects," 11:00, Ro 301

WORKSHOP IN APPLIED ECONOMICS:
No meeting, 1:30, HC 3B
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/AppliedEcon/index.html

THESIS PROPOSAL:
Charles Andrew Zuppann, "Dating, Contraception, and Single Motherhood," 2:30, Stu 104

ECONOMETRICS WORKSHOP:
No meeting, 3:30, Ro 301
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econometrics.shtml

ECONOMIC POLICY AND PUBLIC FINANCE WORKSHOP:
No meeting, 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_finance.shtml

PUBLIC LECTURE:
Tarun Gupta, "Life-Cycle Effects of Internal Habit Formation on Portfolio Choice and Consumption," 3:30, Ro 011 

POLITICAL ECONOMY WORKSHOP:
No meeting, 4:00, Harris School, Room 140B
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/Programs/beyond/workshops/polecon.asp

EAST ASIA:
No meeting, 4:00, Pick Lounge
http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/eastasia/

THURSDAY, June 11

WORKSHOP IN DEMOGRAPHY:
No meeting
http://www.src.uchicago.edu/prc/events.php

ECONOMETRICS AND STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM:
Peter Hoff (University of Washington), Topic to be announced, 1:20, HPC 05
http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/workshops/econometrics/index.html

WORKSHOP IN ECONOMIC THEORY:
No meeting 3:30, Ro 329
http://economics.uchicago.edu/news_workshops_econtheory.shtml

HEALTH ECONOMICS WORKSHOP:
Bobbi Wolfe (University of Wisconsin), "Casino Revenue and Indian Health: The link between trial gaming and the health status and behaviors of American Indians", 3:30, Harris School, Room 140B
http://chess.uchicago.edu/events/hew.html

FRIDAY, June 12

WORKSHOP ON THE ECONOMICS AND BIODEMOGRAPHY OF AGING AND HEALTH CARE:
No meeting 1:30, HPC 3A
http://ironwood.cpe.uchicago.edu/CPE_Workshop/index.php

TGIF: 4:30, No meeting