ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT SEMINAR SCHEDULE

We would like to invite you to come to the Economics Department seminars, which generally takes place 1:00-2:20 p.m. in the department conference room (25^th floor, 1 Beacon Street [map]). The seminars – with coffee, tea and cookies – are open to faculty, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and others interested in the subjects. Please contact Haldun Evrenk (mailto:hevrenk@suffolk.edu) or 617-573-8495 with any questions.

Spring 2007

DATE	PRESENTER(S)	TITLE
Monday, February 5	Paoloa Giuiliano (Harvard)	Ties that matters
Thursday, February 15	Riccardo Puglisi (MIT)	Parisan Bias in Economic News: Evidence on the Agenda Setting Behavior of US Newspapers (joint with Valentine Larcinese and Jim Snyder)
Wednesday, February 21	Xiaofei Yu (Suffolk) Shuyi Jiang (Suffolk)	Does Official Intervention Cause a Regime Shift in Exchange Rates?, and Estimating Travel Demand with Mixed Logit and Multiple-Index Models
Monday, March 5	Asim Khwaja (Harvard)	Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Not a Dime to Lend: The Cost of Debt Capacity Constraints (joint with Atif Mian and Bilal Zia)
March 11-18	SPRING BREAK
Tuesday, March 20	Alfonso Sanchez-Penalver (Suffolk)	Modeling the Household's Simultaneous Commuting Decisions
Thursday, March 22	Johnathan Haughton (Suffolk)	An Impact Evaluation of the Thailand Village Fund.
Monday, March 26	George Norman (Tufts)	Entrepreneurs, New Markets, and Brand Extension (joint with Lynne Pepall, and Dan Richards)
Wednesday, April 4	Sanjay Reddy ( Harvard)	Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation (joint with Camelia Minoui)
Monday, April 9	Jeffrey Miron ( Harvard)	A Sober Look at the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (joint with Elina Tetelbaum.)
Wednesday, April 18	Haldun Evrenk (Suffolk)	Nash Equilibria of three-candidate competition with valence differences

Economics seminars in the Boston area

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Updated 9/11/2006