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Fall 2008 Seminar and Brownbag Series

All Seminars are in Monteith, Room 339, at 3:30 pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted. Seminar Papers are available for review in Mont 337. For more information, contact Delia Furtado or Uluc Aysun.

Brownbag workshops are held Mondays at noon, also in Monteith 339. Generally, no paper will be made available. For more information, contact Francis Ahking or Dhammika Dharmapala

Other presentations in connection with the Economics PhD program are also listed on this schedule, as well as some events elsewhere on campus. Locations are noted if not held at Monteith 339.

This schedule is continuously updated. Check regularly!

Seminars

(Brownbags and other activites are further down)

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Friday September 26, 2008 3:30pm	Erik Johnson (Quinnipiac University) "TBA"
Friday October 3, 2008 3:30pm	Georg Strasser (Boston College) "Multivariate Comparisons of Predictive Accuracy"
Friday October 10, 2008 3:30pm	Eric Brunner (Quinnipiac University) "Inter-District Choice, Housing Values, and Residential Segregation"
Friday October 17, 2008 3:30pm	Stylianos Michalopoulos (Tufts University) "Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Origins and Implications"
Monday October 20, 2008 3:30pm	Liz Cascio (Dartmouth College) "Financial Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Public Schools"
Friday October 31 3:30pm	Felicia Ionescu (Colgate University) "Insuring College Failure Risk"
Thursday November 6, 2008 2:00pm	Basit Zafar (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) "College Major Choice and the Gender Gap"
Friday November 14, 2008 3:30pm	Abigail Wozniak (Notre Dame University) "TBA"
Friday December 5, 2008 3:30pm	Melanie Guldi (Mt. Holyoke College) "TBA"

Brownbags and other activities

See also:
Macro Workshops
Graduate Students Seminar Series

Date	Presenter, Affiliation, and Topic
Monday September 8 noon	Biplab Ghosh (University of Connecticut) "Asymmetric Information and Asset Price Volatility"
Monday September 15 noon	James Boudreau (University of Connecticut) "Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment"
Monday October 20 noon	Zinnia Mukherjee (University of Connecticut) "A Voluntary-Threat Mechanism to Reduce Stochastic Sea Turtle Bycatch from Commercial Fishing"
Monday October 27 noon	Juan-Pedro Garces (University of Connecticut) "Determinants of educational quality in a 3-sector system: the Chilean case"