News and Workshops
Applications of Economics
Autumn 2009
This workshop meets every Monday at 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. in Ro 329.
Papers can also be accessed directly from http://home.uchicago.edu/%7Egbecker/
Archives (Fall 2003), Archives (Winter 2004), Archives (Spring 2004), Archives (Fall 2004),
Archives (Winter 2005), Archives (Spring 2005), Archives (Fall 2005), Archives (Winter 2006)
Archives (Spring 2006), Archives (Fall 2006), Archives (Winter 2007), Archives (Spring 2007)
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Archives (Winter 2009), Archives (Spring 2009)
September 28
Glen Weyl (Harvard University)
"Solving the Holdout Problem"
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~weyl/workinprogress.htm
October 5
David Card (University of California, Berkeley)
"Rent-solving, Holdup, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data"
October 12
Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago)
"Means-Tested Mortgage Modification: Homes Saved or Income Destroyed"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~cbm4/mmodmeanst.pdf
October 19
Jeremy Lise (University College London)
"Consumption Inequality and Intra-Household Allocations"
joint with Shannon Seitz
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~uctpjl0/work/lise_seitz_2009.pdf
October 26
Lakshmi Iyer (Harvard Business School)
"Unbundling Property Rights: Urban Housing Privatization and Labor Mobility in China"
joint with Xin Meng and Nancy Qian
http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/IMQ_ChinaUrban_Oct2009.pdf.
November 2
NO MEETING
November 9
Tomas Phillipson (University of Chicago)
"The Value of Life Near Its End and Terminal Care"
joint with Gary Becker, Kevin Murphy, and Dana Goldman
November 16
Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia University)
TBA
November 23
Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics)
"On the Long-Run Evolution of Inheritance: France 1900-2050"
November 30
TBA
December 7
Xavier Gabaix (New York University)
"Dynamic CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium, With an Application to the Jensen-Murphy Paradox"
joint with Alex Edmans
December 14
Robert Barro (Harvard University)
“Macroeconomic Effects from Government Purchases and Taxes"
joint with Charles J. Redlick
Economics Workshops and Seminars:
500 Economic Theory
512 Econometrics
516 Applied Dynamic Economics
530 Money & Banking
590 Applications of Economics
Rational Choice
592 Economics Policy and Public Finance
