Departmental Seminar Series


Fall 2007

Notes: All seminars will be held in the SBS Building on the campus of the University at Stony Brook (SUNY) in Room N-603 from 4pm to 5:30pm unless otherwise indicated. Wei Tan is this year's seminar organizer.

Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
Monday September 10 Yair Tauman SUNY-Stony Brook A Strategic Analysis of the War Against Terror
Thursday September 20 Allan Collard-Wexler New York University Productivity Dispersion and Plant Selection in the Ready-Mix Concrete Industry
Thursday September 27 Pat Bajari University of Minnesota Discrete Choice with a Nonparametric Distribution of Random Coefficients
Thursday October 4 Daniel Yi Xu New York University A Structural Empirical Model of R&D, Firm Heterogeneity, and Industry Evolution
Tuesday October 9 Jonathan Levin Stanford University Contract Pricing in Consumer Credit Markets
Thursday October 18 Sara Ellison MIT Internet Retail Demand
Thursday October 25 Gaoquan Liu CUNY Organizational Design with Endogenous Information
Thursday November 1 Rachel Soloveichik BEA Risk Sharing and Family Transfers in Rural Mexico
Tuesday November 6 Joel Shapiro Universitat Pompeu Fabra Unemployment and the Interview Process
Tuesday November 13 Sandro Brusco SUNY-Stony Brook Aggregate Uncertainty in the Citizen Candidate Model Yields Extremist Parties
Thursday November 15 George Levi-Gayle Carnegie Mellon University TBA
Tuesday November 20 David Love Williams College The Trajectory of Wealth in Retirement
Thursday November 29 Ahu Gemici New York University Family Migration and Labor Market Outcomes
Tuesday December 4 Anna Rubinchik-Pessach University of Colorado TBA
Thursday December 13 Olivier Armantier New York Fed Can Corruption be studied in the Lab? Comparing a Field and a Lab Experiment