Economics Department Seminars

Fall 2007

Here is the first round of seminars. Please let me know if and when you would like to present (jhaughto@beaconhill.org ).

The seminars have several purposes: they provide a forum for discussing work in progress, a place to learn about recent research, and an opportunity to interact with researchers from inside the economics department and beyond.

All seminars will run from 1:05 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. and, unless otherwise indicated, will take place in the large conference room on the sixth floor of One Bowdoin Square.

Wednesday, September 19 Charles E. Rounds Jr. (Suffolk Law School)

Property Rights: The Hidden Issue of Social Security Reform

Thursday, September 27 Jim Snyder (MIT).

To be confirmed.

Monday, October 1 Lisa Verdon (Koch Foundation)

Topic: TBA, but will relate to economic freedom.

Thursday, October 4 Xiaofei Yu

Topic: Synchronizing Events, Intervention, and the Bursting of Bubbles: An Investigation of the Microstructure of the Foreign Exchange Market.

Wednesday, October 10 Ben Powell

Topic: Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?

Tuesday, October 16 Haldun Evrenk

Topic: TBA, but related to political economy.

Tuesday, October 30 Nikolai Wenzel (Hillsdale College)

Topic: TBA, related to Hayek’s cognitive theory

compared to his constitutional theory.

Thursday, November 8 Montgomery Link (Philosophy Department)

Topic: On Gödel (see picture) and impossibility

November-December Probably some talks by job candidates

Saturday, April 19, 2008 New England Statistical Symposium

[A one-day conference, which we will be organizing this year, to be held in Sargent Hall. Also an opportunity to present suitable papers.]

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 Bob Lawson (Capital University)

Topic: TBA, but something related to his annual reports Economic Freedom of the World.