ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT SEMINARS: FALL 2008

 

Here is a preliminary list of upcoming seminars.  If you would like to present, please let me know (jhaughto@beaconhill.org).  All third- and higher-year Ph.D. students are expected to present a seminar at least once a year.  Please do not be bashful about volunteering to present, or about inviting an outside speaker. 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.

Seminars will generally run from 1:05 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. and, unless otherwise indicated, will take place in the large conference room on the sixth floor of One Bowdoin Square.

 

 

ĜTuesday, Oct 14              3rd-year presentation: Abdoulaye Seck / Arif Soylemez

Ĝ                                    Topics: FDI (Seck); financial markets (Soylemez)

 

Wednesday, Oct 15          Jonathan Haughton vs. David G. Tuerck

                                    Obamanomics or McCainsianism?

 

Tuesday, Oct 21              The Current Economic Crisis: How Did We Get Here? Where Are We Headed?   

C. Walsh Theatre            Lynn E. Browne (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)

                                    Kevin M. Cuff (MA Mortgage Bankers Association)

                                    Henry Kim (Suffolk University)

                                    Jeffrey Miron (Harvard University)

                                    Moderator: Jonathan Haughton (Suffolk University)

 

Wednesday, Oct 22         Shuyi Jiang

Proposal defense: Essays in the Economics of Oil Refining and Gasoline Retailing. 

 

Wednesday, Oct 29         3rd-year presentation: Lan Zheng

                                    Topic: FDI

 

Thursday, Nov 6              Alfonso Sánchez-Peñalver 

Proposal defense.  [Tentative]

 

Wednesday, Nov 12          Two presentations:  Dmitriy Kha / David Saied

                                    Hyperinflation (Kha); “The real origins of the credit crunch” (Saied)

 

Thursday, Nov 13            Edward Stringham (Trinity College, Hartford)

Sawyer 427                    Czech Your Premises: Are Regulations the Answer to Stock Markets in Transition?

 

Tuesday, Nov 18              Darlene Chisholm

McDermott                    Measuring Product Differentiation and Product Re-Design: Evidence from U.S. Motion-Pictures Exhibition.  [This is part of the CAS seminar series.]

 

Wednesday, Nov 19          Roll-out of the latest competitiveness report.  [A big event this year.]

 

Tuesday, Dec 2               Tolga Ergun

                             Conditional Skewness, Kurtosis, and Density Specification Testing: A Power Comparison [paper joint with Jongbyung Jun]

 

Thursday, Dec 4              Nalanda Matia

Medium Conf Room           Proposal Defence: Ownership Structure and Location Choice: Three Essays on Organizational Design within Owner-Operated Firms and Multinational Corporations.