Applied Dynamic Economics & General Equilibrium Theory Workshop

SPRING 2006

See also Econometrics Workshop

This workshop meets every Thursday at 1:30 p.m. in Ro 329.
For questions, please contact Alison Baulos or Jeremy Fox.
Archives (Winter and Spring 2005), Archives (Fall 2005)

March 2
Ken Judd- Rosenwald 301
"A New Optimization Approach to Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Structural Models"

March 30
Barton Hamilton (Washington University in St. Louis)
"Learning, Private Information, and the Economic Evaluation of Randomized Experiments"

April 6
Matthew Shum (John Hopkins University)
"Interpreting Intra-firm Wage Differentials Using Tournament Models"

April 13
Armin Falk and Thomas Dohmen (IZA)
"Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-validated Survey "

April 20
Amil Petrin (U of C, GSB)
"Control Function Corrections for Unobserved Factors in Differentiated Product Models"

April 27
NO MEETING! To meet with Speaker please email him, or stop by Rosenwald 224 anytime the week of April 24th!
Arnaud Dupuy (Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market)
"Educational self-selection, tasks assignment and rising wage inequality"

May 4
No Meeting!

May 8; NOTE: This is a Monday. 7:30pm, Rosenwald 329.
Hal White (University of California, San Diego)
"An Extended Class of Instrumental Variables Estimators for the Estimation of Causal Effects"

May 10;
CANCELLED!
Gerard van den Berg (Free University Amsterdam)

May 18
David Reiley (University of Arizona)
"The War for the Fare: How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance"

May 25
Chris Ahlin (Vanderbilt University)
"Risk-Matching and Diversification in Joint Liability Borrowing Groups"

June 1
To be announced

June 8
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