University of Calgary

Seminars 2008 - 2009

The Price of Fertility: Marriage Markets and Family Planning in Bangladesh

Friday, September 19 Host: Eugene Choo
Raj Arunachalam, University of Michigan

File(s):

Why good fences make good neighbors

Wednesday, September 24 Host:
John Boyce,

File(s):

Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Friday, September 26 Host: Joint with Haskayne Business School
Mark Schankerman,

File(s):

Intellectual Property rights and Developed Country Exports

Wednesday, October 1 Host: Practice Job Talk
Olena Ivus ,

File(s):

Field Experiments, with an Application to Open Air Markets

Friday, October 3 Host: M. Scott Taylor
John List, University of Chicago

File(s):

Why are Women more Protectionist than Men?

Wednesday, October 8 Host:
Eugene Bealieu,

Rehabilitated or Not?: To Release(?) is the Question

Friday, October 10 Host: Joanne Roberts
Steeve Mongrain, Simon Fraser University

File(s):

The Power of Reasoning: Experimental Evidence

Wednesday, October 15 Host:
Subhasish Dugar,

File(s):

The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

Friday, October 17 Host: Scott Taylor
John Kennan, University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Economics

File(s):

"New Evidence on the Formation of Trade Policy Preferences"

Friday, October 24 Host: Scott Taylor
Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon

File(s):

An Assignment Model with Divorce and Remarriage

Friday, October 31 Host: Eugene Choo
Murat Iyigun, University of Colorado

File(s):

Evidence from Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

Thursday, November 6 Host: Joanne Roberts
Michael Baker, University of Toronto

File(s):

Economic Status and Reproductive Success in New France

Friday, November 7 Host: Joanne Roberts
Gillian Hamilton, University of Toronto

File(s):

Taxing Business Investments: A New Ranking of Effective Tax Rates on Capital

Wednesday, November 12 Host: NOTE NEW EARLIER TIME
Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz,

File(s):

The Asymmetric Effects of Oil Price Shocks

Wednesday, November 19 Host:
Sajjadur Rahman,

File(s):

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy

Thursday, November 20 Host: Carbone
Snorre Kverndokk, The Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Oslo, NO

File(s):

Be My Guinea Pig: Information Spillovers in a One-Armed Bandit Game

Wednesday, November 26 Host: Boyce
David Bruner, Appalachian State University

File(s):

The Simple Economics of Geoengineering

Wednesday, December 10 Host:
Juan Moreno-Cruz,

File(s):

Efficient Institutions

Friday, January 16 Host: Francisco Gonzalez
Thorsten Koeppl, Queens University

File(s):

The Size of Cost Asymmetry and Price Competition

Wednesday, January 21 Host: Dept.
Subhasish Dugar, University of Calgary

File(s):

The Evolution of Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games: Experimental Evidence

Friday, January 23 Host: John Boyce and Rob Oxoby
Guillaume Frechette, NYU

File(s):

Identity in a Repeated Trust Game with Random Matching

Wednesday, January 28 Host: Dept.
Alexander Smith, University of Calgary

File(s):

Is There a Plausible Theory for Decision under Risk?

Friday, January 30 Host: S. Dugar
James Cox, Georgia State University

File(s):

Valuing open space in a residential sorting model of the Twin Cities

Friday, February 6 Host: Carbone
Dan Phaneuf, North Carolina State University

File(s):

The Collective Marriage Matching Model: Identification, Estimation and Testing

Friday, February 27 Host: E. Choo
Shannon Seitz, Boston College

File(s):

The Asymmetric Effects of Oil Price Shocks

Thursday, March 5 Host: Dept.
Sajjadur Rahman, U Calgary

File(s):

THE WELFARE EFFECTS OF TICKET RESALE

Friday, March 6 Host: Eugene Choo
Alan Sorensen, Stanford - Graduate School of Business

File(s):

Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data

Thursday, March 12 Host: Scott Taylor
Arik Levinson, Georgetown University

File(s):

Trading Tasks: Globalization in the Information Age

03/13/2009 - 15:00
03/13/2009 - 16:00
Speaker: 
Gene Grossman
Affiliate: 
Princeton University
Host: 
M. Scott Taylor
Location: 
ST 140
 Gene Grossman is the Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University and the Director of the International Economics Section.  He received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D.

Trade Booms, Trade Busts and Trade Costs

Friday, March 20 Host: H. Emery
David Jacks, Simon Fraser University

File(s):

The short and intermediate effects of maternity leave on child outcomes

Wednesday, March 25 Host: Dept.
Mahmood Zarrabi , University of Calgary

File(s):

Learning to Play Nash from the Best

Friday, March 27 Host: Carbone
Bob Gazzale, Williams College

File(s):

Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

Friday, April 3 Host:
John McLaren, University of Virginia

File(s):

Keyword Auctions, Unit-Price Contracts, and the Role of Commitment

Tuesday, April 7 Host: Eugene Choo
JianQing Chen, Haskayne School of Business

File(s):

Green Clubs

Wednesday, April 8 Host: Carbone
Matthew Kotchen, UC Santa Barbara

File(s):

Coordination in Games with General Network Effects

Wednesday, April 15 Host: Dept.
Alex Jakobsen, U Calgary

File(s):

TBA - Francois

Thursday, April 16 Host: J. Roberts
Patrick Francois, UBC

Missing Women, Age and Disease

Friday, April 17 Host: J. Roberts
Siwan Anderson, UBC

File(s):

Who Owns Children and Does It Matter?

Friday, April 24 Host: Francisco Gonzalez
Michele Tertilt, Stanford University

File(s):

Social Determinates of Smoking for On-Reserve Aboriginals in Canada

Wednesday, July 22 Host:
Jesse Matheson, U of C

The Long and the Short of Climate Change: Geoengineering vs Abatement

Wednesday, July 29 Host:
Juan Moreno-Cruz, U of C

An Examination of Petroleum Lease Auctions in Alberta

Wednesday, August 5 Host:
Jennifer Winter, U of C

Generational Conflict and Sustainable Development

Wednesday, August 19 Host:
Itzi Lazcano, U of C

Empirical Evidence on the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Wednesday, August 26 Host:
Alexander Smith, U of C

TBA

Friday, September 25 Host: Subhasish Dugar
Uri Gneezy, UCSD, Business School

Upcoming Seminars

  • Graduate Students
    05/24/2013 - 09:00 - 15:00
  • Rui Wan
    06/05/2013 - 12:00 - 13:00
  • Maksim Isakin
    06/12/2013 - 12:00 - 13:00