Seminar Series

Department of Economics

West Virginia University

 (All seminars are 3:30 – 5:00, and in Room 441 B&E, except as noted.)

Coordinator: Stratford Douglas

 

Fall 2008:

August 22:     Tara Sinclair, George Washington University, 
            Multivariate Forecast Errors and the Taylor Rule

Sept 5:           David Rapach, St Louis University,
            Is Inflation an International Phenomenon?”.

Sept 12:         John Duffy, University of Pittsburgh,
            Investment and Monetary Policy: Learning and Determinacy of Equilibrium”.

Sept 19:         Brandon Cline, Clemson University
            Do Insiders Practice What They Preach?  Informed Option Exercises Around Acquisitions

October 3:     Art Carden, Rhodes College
            Big Boxes and Smaller Waistlines? WalMart, Warehouse Clubs, and Obesity.

October 10:   Jon Rork, Georgia State University
            No Country for Old Men (or Women): Do State Tax Policies Drive Away the Elderly?

October 17:   Lester Lave, Carnegie-Mellon University
            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, Penn State University,
            The Real Problem with Merchant Transmission

November 7: Don Bruce, University of Tennessee
            Base Mobility and the State Personal Income Tax "

Nov 14:          Keith Maskus, University of Colorado
            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

 

Links to Previous Seminar Series:

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

Fall 2006