Univertsity of Chicago: Department of Economics

News and Workshops / Economic Policy and Public Finance

Economic Policy and Public Finance Workshop

Winter 2005

This workshop is regularly scheduled to meet on Wednesday in SS 108 at 3:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Marguerite Czyzewski

Jan 5
No Meeting.

Jan 12
No Meeting.

Jan 19
Stephen Ryan (Duke University)
“The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry”

Jan 26
Jorg Stoye (Northwestern University)
“Partial Identification of Spread Parameters When Some Data Are Missing”

Feb 2
Thomas Chaney (MIT)
“Distorted Gravity: Heterogeneous Firms, Market Structure and the Geography of International Trade”

Feb 9
No Meeting

Feb 16
To Be Announced

Feb 23
Samantha Dart (University of Chicago)
"Optimal Water Use: Is Anyone Getting the Right Incentives in California?"

March 2
Tian Hao Liu (University of Chicago)
“Chinese Famines: 1850-1932”

March 9
Sheng Guo (University of Chicago)
“Human Capital, Borrowing Constraint and Inequality Evolution: A PIH Perspective”

March 16
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