Seminar Series
Department
of Economics
(All seminars
are
Coordinator: Stratford Douglas
Fall 2008:
August 22: Tara
Sinclair,
“Multivariate Forecast Errors
and the Taylor Rule”
Sept 5: David Rapach,
“Is
Inflation an International Phenomenon?”.
Sept 12: John
Duffy,
“Investment
and Monetary Policy: Learning and Determinacy of Equilibrium”.
Sept 19: Brandon Cline,
“Do
Insiders Practice What They Preach?
Informed Option Exercises Around Acquisitions”
October 3: Art Carden,
Big
Boxes and Smaller Waistlines? WalMart, Warehouse Clubs, and Obesity.
October 10: Jon
Rork,
No
Country for Old Men (or Women): Do State Tax Policies Drive Away the Elderly?
October 17: Lester
Lave,
The Failure of Electricity Deregulation: Where Do We Go From Here? (Part
II)
October 24: Robert
Lawson, Auburn University
Examining
the Hayek-Friedman Hypothesis on Economic and Political Freedom
October 31: Seth
Blumsack,
“The
Real Problem with Merchant Transmission”
November 7: Don
Bruce,
“Base
Mobility and the State Personal Income Tax "
Nov 14: Keith Maskus,
“Foreign
PhD Students and Knowledge Creation at U.S. Universities.”
December 5: Arif Al-Mamun, Mathematica
Policy Research.
“Effects
of Employment on Marriage: Evidence from
the Job Corps Program”
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