News and Workshops

Applications of Economics

Winter 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)
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Archives (Fall 2007), Archives (Winter 2008), Archives (Spring 2008), Archives (Fall 2008)


January 12
Mihai Manea (Harvard University)
"Bargaining in Stationary Networks"

January 19
No Meeting
 
January 26
Damien Pouzo (New York University)
"Optimal Taxation with Endogenous Default under Incomplete Markets"

February 2
Nicola Persico (New York University)
"A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs"

February 9
Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago)
"Housing Boom and Bust: Structures have a Leveraged Claim on Housing Output"

February 16
To be announced

February 23
Lee Lockwood (University of Chicago)
"The Importance of Bequest Motives for Insurance Demand in Old Age"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~lockwood/BAP

March 2
Yoram Weiss (Tel-Aviv University)
"Return Migration and Human Capital Accumulation"
Joint with Christian Dustmann and Itzhak Fadlon

March 9
No Meeting

March 16
William Hubbard (University of Chicago)
"A Closer Look at the Gender Difference in the College Wage Premium"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~whhubbar/Phantom.pdf
and
Ethan Lieber (University of Chicago)
"Do Medical Malpractice Reforms Induce Adverse Selection?"
http://home.uchicago.edu/~elieber/advsel_paper_030909.pdf

March 23
No Meeting

 

 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