News and Workshops

Applications of Economics

Winter 2008

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/
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February 4
To be announced

February 15 NOTE: SPECIAL WORKSHOP DATE
Martin Weitzman (Harvard University)
"On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change"
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/weitzman/files/modeling.pdf

February 18
To be announced

February 25
Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago)
"Taxation in Kind"

March 3
Ali Hortacsu and Chad Syverson (University of Chicago)
"Vertical Integration and Production: Some Plant Level Evidence"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~syverson/viplantevidence
 
March 10
Asim Khwaja (Harvard University)
"The Impact of the Hajj: Religiosity and Tolerance in Islam's Global Gathering" joint with
David Clingingsmith and Michael Kremer
See Shirley Ogrodowski in RO305 for copy of the paper
 
March 17
John Asker (New York University)
"A Study of the Internal Organization of a Bidding Cartel"
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~jasker/stamps070628.pdf

March 24
To be announced

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