Monday, May 12th
Kathleen Thelen - Northwestern University
"Institutional Change and the Politics of Social Solidarity
in Advanced Industrial Democracies"
IPR Colloquium, 12:00pm-1:00pm, IPR Conference room, 617 Library Place
Francesco Trebbi – University of Chicago
"Votes or Money? Theory and Evidence from the US Congress"
Political Economy Seminar Series, 12:15pm-1:30pm, Leverone 561
Bruce Preston - Columbia University
"Business Cycle Fluctuations and Adaptive Learning"
Macroeconomics Seminar, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Andersen 3245
Tuesday, May 13th
Kei Kawai - Northwestern University
"Inferring Strategic Voting Behavior in Elections"
501 Graduate Seminar, 2:00pm, Andersen 3245
Jaap Abbring- Tinbergen Institute
"Mixed Hitting-Time Models"
Econometrics Seminar, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Andersen 3245
Ian Savage – Northwestern University
"Measuring Performance in Public Transportation"
Seminar on Performance Measurement in the Public and Nonprofit Sectors,
3:30pm-5:00pm, IPR Conference Room, 617 Library Place
Wednesday, May 14th
S. "Vish" Viswanathan - Duke University
"Moral Hazard, Collateral and Liquidity"
Finance Seminar, 11:00am-12:30pm, Leverone G45
Marcus Asplund – The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
"Do Firms Set Profit Maximizing Prices?"
Management and Strategy Seminar, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Leverone 619
Dilip Mookherjee – Boston University
"Mechanism Design with Costly Communication:
Implications for Decentralization"
Theory Workshop, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Leverone G42
Thursday, May 15th
Alp Atakan - Northwestern University
"Reputation with Long Run Players"
Theory Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:10pm-1:10pm, Leverone G36
Carlos Madeira - Northwestern University
"How do Parents and Students Form Expectations
of Their Years of Schooling and Future Jobs?"
Labor and Public Economics Seminar, 3:00pm-4:30pm, Andersen 3245
Leah Platt Boustan - University of California, Los Angeles
"Spatial Mismatch and the Formation of Bad Ghettos:
New Evidence from the US Postal Service"
Economic History Seminar, 4:30pm-6:00pm, Andersen 3204
Friday, May 16th
Jean-Francois Houde – University of Wisconsin
"Bayesian Estimation of Games with Incomplete Information"
Applied Microeconomics Seminar, 3:30pm-5:00pm, Andersen 3245
Some seminar papers are available electronically. You can access these by clicking on the paper's title.
Compiled by Charles Nash, charles-nash@northwestern.edu, phone 847-491-5140
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