Past Events

Date and Time	Speaker and Title
Thursday, February 23 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Beyond IP: How Intellectual Property and Technology Influence Other Areas of Law
Thursday, February 23 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	David Donaldson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "How Large are the Gains from Economic Integration? Theory and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture, 1880-2002"
Thursday, February 23 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Mike Mullen (CenterPoint Properties): "Changing the Face of Logistics"
Wednesday, February 22 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Luigi Pisano (Northwestern University): "Wealth, Risk, and Entrepreneurship"
Wednesday, February 22 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Tiago Pires (Northwestern University): "The Role of Search Costs and Storability on Consideration Set Formation"
Tuesday, February 21 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Charles Manski (Northwestern University) "Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy"
Monday, February 20 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lauren Wakschlag (Northwestern University): "Triangulating Theory, Measurement Science, and Neuroscience to Elucidate the Boundaries of Developmental Psychopathology"
Wednesday, February 15 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	David Schwartz (Illinois Institute of Technology): "The Rise of Contingent Fee Representation in Patent Litigation"
Wednesday, February 15 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	David Schwartz (Illinois Institute of Technology): "The Rise of Contingent Fee Representation in Patent Litigation"
Wednesday, February 15 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	David Schwartz (Illinois Institute of Technology): "The Rise of Contingent Fee Representation in Patent Litigation"
Wednesday, February 15 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	David Miller (Northwestern University): "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions"
Wednesday, February 15 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Anne Fleischer (University of Toronto, Rotman): "Relative Performance and Category Membership: The Case of Equity Analysts"
Tuesday, February 14 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Ben Hansen (University of Michigan): "The Hidden Role of the Propensity Score"
Monday, February 13 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Aislinn Bohren (University of California, San Diego): "Stochastic Games in Continuous Time: Persistent Actions in Long-Run Relationships"
Monday, February 13 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Rebecca Seligman (Northwestern University): "Social Suffering, Emotional Distress, and Diabetes Self-Care Among Mexicans in the United States"
Friday, February 10 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	David Berger (Yale University): "Countercyclical Restructuring and Jobless Recoveries"
Wednesday, February 8 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Yael Hochberg (Northwestern University): "Local Overweighting and Underperformance: Evidence from Limited Partner Private Equity Investments"
Wednesday, February 8 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Arun Chandrasekhar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Econometrics of Sampled Networks"
Wednesday, February 8 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Thomas Steger (University of Leipzig): "Journey into the Unknown? Economic Consequences of Factor Market Integration under Increasing Returns to Scale"
Wednesday, February 8 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Matthew Masten (Northwestern University): "Identification of Treatment Effects in Discrete Choice Social Interaction Models"
Tuesday, February 7 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Treb Allen (Yale University): "Information Frictions in Trade"
Monday, February 6 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Mesmin Destin (Northwestern University): "How Socioeconomic Contexts Influence Identity and Motivation for Youth"
Friday, February 3 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Sarah Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "The Effect of Insurance on Emergency Room Visits: An Analysis of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform"
Friday, February 3 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Sarah Miller (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): "The Effect of Insurance on Emergency Room Visits: An Analysis of the 2006 Massachusetts Health Reform"
Thursday, February 2 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Claus Doll (Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI): "Vulnerability and Adaptation Options of European Transport Systems towards Weather Extremes – Intermediate Findings from the EU-Funded Research Project WEATHER"
Wednesday, February 1 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Paulo Somaini (Stanford University): "Competition and Interdependent Costs in Highway Procurement"
Wednesday, February 1 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Thiago Teixeira Ferreira (Northwestern University): "Financial Volatility, Economic Activity and Risk Premium"
Wednesday, February 1 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Ivan Canay (Northwestern University): "On the Testability of Identification in Some Nonparametric Models with Endogeneity"
Monday, January 30 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Illenin Kondo (University of Minnesota): "Trade Reforms, Foreign Competition, and Labor Market Adjustments in the U.S."
Monday, January 30 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Danielle Li (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Information, Bias, and Efficiency in Expert Evaluation: Evidence from the NIH"
Monday, January 30 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Kathleen Cagney (University of Chicago): "Internalizing Neighborhood Disorder"
Friday, January 27 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Joseph Vavra (Yale University): "Inflation Dynamics and Time-Varying Uncertainty: New Evidence and an Ss Interpretation"
Thursday, January 26 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Juan Ortner (Princeton University): "Durable Goods Monopoly with Stochastic Costs"
Thursday, January 26 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Mitch Hoffman (University of California, Berkeley): "Training Contracts, Worker Overconfidence, and the Provision of Firm-Sponsored General Training"
Thursday, January 26 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Roderick Little (U.S. Census Bureau and University of Michigan): "Calibrated Bayes, Models, and the Role of Randomization in Surveys and Experiments"
Wednesday, January 25 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Valeri Nikolaev (University of Chicago): "Scope for Renegotiation and Debt Contract Design"
Wednesday, January 25 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Michael Sinkinson (Harvard University): "Pricing and Entry Incentives with Exclusive Contracts: Evidence from Smartphones"
Wednesday, January 25 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Guannan Luo (Northwestern University): "Welfare Analysis of British Right to Buy Scheme Council Housing Policy"
Monday, January 23 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Mike Powell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Productivity and Credibility in Industry Equilibrium"
Monday, January 23 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Daniel Galvin (Northwestern University): "Resilience in the Rust Belt: Michigan Democrats and the UAW"
Friday, January 20 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Lee Lockwood (National Bureau of Economic Research): "Incidental Bequests: Bequest Motives and the Choice to Self-Insure Late-Life Risks"
Wednesday, January 18 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Diane Schanzenbach (Northwestern University): "Food Stamps in the Long Run" and "Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes"
Wednesday, January 18 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato (University of California, Berkeley): "Estimating the Incidence of Government Spending" and "Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers"
Wednesday, January 18 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Benjamin Johannsen (Northwestern University): "Survey Evidence on Belief Formation: Disagreement and Its Implications for Macro Models"
Wednesday, January 18 12:00 AM - 1:30 PM	Joan Chaio (Northwestern University): "At the Frontier of Cultural Neuroscience"
Wednesday, January 18 12:00 AM - 1:30 PM	Joan Chaio (Northwestern University): "At the Frontier of Cultural Neuroscience"
Tuesday, January 17 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Saki Bigio (New York University): "Financial Risk Capacity"
Tuesday, January 17 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania): "Crafting Happiness: Sustainable Gains from Modifying Work and Self"
Wednesday, January 11 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Alex Belloni (Duke University): "Approximate Group Context Tree: Applications to Dynamic Programming and Dynamic Choice Models"
Wednesday, January 11 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Paula Gobbi (Université catholique de Louvain): "DINKS, DEWKS & Co.: Marriage, Fertility and Childlessness in the United States"
Tuesday, January 10 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Nathaniel Hendren (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Private Information and Insurance Rejections"
Thursday, January 5 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Enzo Sauma (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile): "Proactive Transmission Planning in Electricity Networks"
Thursday, December 8 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Aygun Dalkiran (Northwestern University): "Common Knowledge and Equilibria Switching"
Wednesday, December 7 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Ariel Shwayder (Northwestern University): "Inflation Expectations and Gasoline Prices"
Wednesday, December 7 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Mikhail Safronov (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
Tuesday, December 6 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Christopher Lau (Northwestern University): "The Effect of Federal Financial Aid on Tuition at For-Profit Universities"
Monday, December 5 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas): "Welfare and Redistribution Effects of Benevolent Multiproduct Pricing: The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board"
Monday, December 5 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Melissa Kearney (University of Maryland): "Early Non-Marital Childbearing and the 'Culture of Despair'"
Monday, December 5 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Meysam Zare (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
Friday, December 2 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Katherine Ho (Columbia University): "Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices and Financial Incentives to Physicians"
Friday, December 2 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Travis Howe (Northwestern University): "Liquid Bread to Wheat Bread: Crop Yields and State Prohibition Laws"
Friday, December 2 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Paul Leonardi (Northwestern University): "Car Crashes Without Cars: Simulation Technology and Organizational Change in Automotive Engineering"
Thursday, December 1 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Yannay Spitzer (Northwestern University): "The Causes for the Jewish Migration from the Pale of Settlement to the United States, 1899-1914"
Thursday, December 1 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Lei Zhang (University of Maryland): "Effectiveness and Equity of Future Transportation Financing Options"
Thursday, December 1 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Frederico Finan (University of California at Berkeley): "Strengthening State Capabilities: The Role of Financial Incentives in the Call to Public Service"
Thursday, December 1 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Jonathan Weinstein (Northwestern University): Similarity and Uncertainty (with Nabil Al-Najjar)
Wednesday, November 30 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Michael Schwarz (Yahoo Research) "Many to Many Matching and the case of Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses"
Wednesday, November 30 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	David Haddock(Northwestern University): "Poor Taxpayers Subsidizing Wealthy Professional Sports Franchises"
Wednesday, November 30 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Ryan Kellogg (University of Michigan): "The Effect of Uncertainty on Investment: Evidence from Texas Oil Drilling"
Wednesday, November 30 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Tsu-ting Tim Lin (Northwestern University): "The Role of Uncertainty in Jobless Recoveries"
Wednesday, November 30 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Andrew Abel (University of Pennsylvania): "Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market with Information Costs and Transaction Costs"
Wednesday, November 30 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Bridget Hoffman (Northwestern University): "The Impact of Political Reservations in Local Government on Fertility and the Sex Ratio in India"
Tuesday, November 29 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Ryan Bubb (New York University): "Title TBA"
Tuesday, November 29 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Ronald Gindrat (University of Geneva): "Smooth Ambiguity Aversion and the Continuous-Time Limit"
Monday, November 28 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Jonathan Vogel (Columbia University): "An Elementary Theory of Global Supply Chains"
Monday, November 28 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Kirabo Jackson (Northwestern University): "Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago"
Monday, November 28 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Anthony Wray (Northwestern University): "Benefit Eligibility and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Sickness Insurance, 1913-1926"
Wednesday, November 23 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Sebastian Missio (University of Munich): "Financial Contagion and the European Debt Crisis"
Monday, November 21 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Bruce Spencer (Northwestern University): "Research on Data Use, or Measuring the Value of Data Requires Knowing How Data Get Used"
Monday, November 21 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Leonardo Melosi (London Business School): "Public’s Inflation Expectations and Monetary Policy"
Monday, November 21 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Jaber Zarezadeh (Northwestern University): "First and Second Price Auctions with Reselling Opportunity on Networks"
Thursday, November 17 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM	Charles Calomiris (Columbia University): "Fragile Banks, Durable Bargains: Why Effective Banking Systems Are So Hard to Develop" For reservations contact Lou Cain at lcain@northwestern.edu
Thursday, November 17 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Henry Smith (Harvard University): "An Economic Analysis of Law Versus Equity"
Thursday, November 17 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Charles Calomiris (Columbia University): "Dred Scott, Slave Prices, and the Causes of the Civil War" Note earlier time than usual 4:00pm-5:30pm
Thursday, November 17 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Cynthia Kinnan (Northwestern) "Informal Insurance, Social Networks, and Savings Access: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in the Field" (with Arun Chandrasekhar and Horacio Larreguy)
Thursday, November 17 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Qianqiu Liu (University of Hawaii): "Decomposing Short-Term Return Reversal"
Thursday, November 17 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Nenad Kos (Bocconi University): "The Design of Ambiguous Mechanisms"
Wednesday, November 16 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University): "Promoting School Competition Through School Choice: A Market Design Approach"
Wednesday, November 16 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Richard Sobel(Northwestern University): "The HIPAA Rule: Why the 'Privacy Rule That’s Not' Is Cost Ineffective"
Wednesday, November 16 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Nicolas Ziebarth (Northwestern University): "Misallocation and Productivity during the Great Depression"
Wednesday, November 16 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Elena Obukhova (Masachusetts Institute of Technology): "TBA"
Wednesday, November 16 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Shruti Sinha (Northwestern University): "Identification of Nonparametric Simultaneous Equations Model in the Presence of Bounded Covariates"
Wednesday, November 16 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Paul Tetlock (Columbia University): "How Wise Are Crowds? Insights from Retail Orders and Stock Returns"
Tuesday, November 15 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Azeem Shaikh (University of Chicago): "Inference with Imperfect Randomization: The Case of the Perry Preschool Program"
Tuesday, November 15 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Thomas Lys (Northwestern University): "Are Private Targets better Buys?"
Tuesday, November 15 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Alberto Salvo (Northwestern University): "Motor Fuel Consumption (Gasoline versus Ethanol) and Air Quality in a Gridlocked City"
Monday, November 14 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Rafael Dix-Carneiro (University of Maryland): "Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics"
Monday, November 14 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Santiago Oliveros (University of California, Berkeley): "Demand for Slant: How Abstention Shapes Voters' Choice of News Media"
Monday, November 14 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Olivier Coibion (College of William and Mary) and Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley): ''Why are interest rate changes so persistent?''
Monday, November 14 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lincoln Quillian (Northwestern University): "Segregation and Poverty Concentration"
Monday, November 14 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Eric Gilson (Northwestern University): "Epistemic Conditions for Conjectural Equilibrium"
Friday, November 11 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Howard Permut (President of Metro-North Railroad): "NY Commuter Railroad's Response to Hurricane Irene"
Thursday, November 10 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago): "Ranking of Information in Intelligent Transportation Systems"
Thursday, November 10 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Richard Steckel (Ohio State University): "The Long Shadow of American Slavery: Human Capital, 1850-1910" Note Special Time and Room
Thursday, November 10 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Konrad Mierendorff (University of Zurich): "Optimal Dynamic Mechanism Design with Deadlines"
Thursday, November 10 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Dovev Lavie (Israel Institute of Technology): "Collaborating for Knowledge Creation and Application: The Case of Nanotechnology Research Centers"
Wednesday, November 9 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Erik Eyster (London School of Economics): "An Approach To Asset-Pricing Under Incomplete and Diverse Perceptions"
Wednesday, November 9 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Riccardo Masolo (Northwestern University): "Wage Setting in a Dispersed Information DSGE"
Wednesday, November 9 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Stephen Morris (Princeton University): "Contagious Adverse Selection"
Wednesday, November 9 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Ludovico Zaraga (Northwestern University): "Understanding the Demise of the Silver Standard"
Tuesday, November 8 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Blaise Melly (Brown University): "Nonseparable Sample Selection Models"
Monday, November 7 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM	Presentations on jobs available to PhD economists in the private sector.
Monday, November 7 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Petra Moser (Stanford University): "Do Pools Encourage Innovation? Patent Pools and Invention in 20 Industries in the 1930s"
Monday, November 7 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	James Rosenbaum (Northwestern University): "Turning College Dreams into Reality for Disadvantaged Students"
Monday, November 7 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	David Laibson (Harvard University): "Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing"
Monday, November 7 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Benjamin Mermelstein (Northwestern University): "Choices with Endogenous Frames"
Thursday, November 3 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Dan Bogart (University of California at Irvine): "Regulation and Market Power in Industrializing Britain: Evidence from the Infrastructure Sector"
Thursday, November 3 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Alexander Stremitzer (University of California, Los Angeles): "Framing Contracts: Why Loss Framing Increases Effort"
Thursday, November 3 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	John Panzar (Northwestern University): "Towards a 21st Century Postal Service"
Thursday, November 3 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Thomas Lys and Nur Yehuda (Northwestern University): "Are Private Targets Better Buys"
Thursday, November 3 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern University): "A Revealed-Preference Theory of Strategic Counterfactuals"
Wednesday, November 2 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Andrew Postlewaite (University of Pennsylvania): "Mental Processes and Decision Making"
Wednesday, November 2 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Mark Jacobsen (University of California, San Diego): "Fuel Economy and Safety: The Influences of Vehicle Class and Driver Behavior"
Wednesday, November 2 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Alexander Bick (University of Frankfurt and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis): "Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women: A Cross-Country Analysis"
Wednesday, November 2 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Dimitry Livdan (University of California, Berkeley): "Are Institutions Informed About News?"
Wednesday, November 2 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Matteo Li Bergolis (Northwestern University): "Title TBA"
Tuesday, November 1 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Mark Watson (Princeton University): "Measuring Uncertainty About Long-Run Growth"
Tuesday, November 1 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Kevin Crotty (Northwestern University): "Corporate Yield Spreads and Systematic Liquidity"
Tuesday, November 1 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Faculty Meeting
Monday, October 31 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Assaf Razin (Tel Aviv University and Cornell University): ''The Generosity of the Welfare State and International Migration: Dynamic Policy Formation in an Overlapping Generation Economy."
Monday, October 31 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Seema Jayachandran (Northwestern University): "The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers"
Monday, October 31 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Robert Molony (Northwestern University): "Auctions with Temptation"
Friday, October 28 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Pak Hung Au (Northwestern University): "Ownership and Managerial Turnover"
Thursday, October 27 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Veronica Santarosa (University of Michigan Law School): "Financing Long-Distance Trade without Banks: The Joint Liability Rule and Bills of Exchange in 18th-Century France"
Thursday, October 27 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Camelia Kuhnen (Northwestern University): "Neuroeconomics: How do Financial Decisions Come About?"
Thursday, October 27 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "The Diffusion of Microfinance"
Thursday, October 27 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Martin Szydlowski (Northwestern University): "Incentives, Project Choice and Dynamic Multitasking"
Thursday, October 27 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Keiichi Kawai (Northwestern University): "Reputation and Securitization"
Wednesday, October 26 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Duke University): "Generalized Matching for School Choice [http://duke.edu/~aa88/articles/GeneralizedMatching.pdf]"
Wednesday, October 26 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	David Strickland (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration): "Successes and Challenges: How Safety Technology and Fuel Economy Will Impact Individual Mobility"
Wednesday, October 26 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Binxiao Wu (Northwestern University): "Moral Hazard in Expert Service Market: Evidence from an Intervention to Reduce Health Care Spending in China"
Wednesday, October 26 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Binxiao Wu (Northwestern University): "Moral Hazard in Expert Service Market: Evidence from an Intervention to Reduce Health Care Spending in China"
Wednesday, October 26 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Christian Hellwig (University of Toulouse): "A Theory of Asset Prices based on Heterogeneous Information"
Wednesday, October 26 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Teppo Felin (Brigham Young University): "Title TBA"
Wednesday, October 26 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Emil Temnyalov (Northwestern University): "Information Aggregation on an Endogenous Network"
Wednesday, October 26 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago): "Credit Crises, Precautionary Savings and the Liquidity Trap"
Tuesday, October 25 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM	Robert Gordon (Northwestern University): "Is U. S. Economic Growth Over? Lessons from the Long 20th Century"
Tuesday, October 25 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Brendan Kline (Northwestern University): "Identification of Semiparametric Binary Games on Networks with Application to Social Interactions "
Tuesday, October 25 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Soohun Kim (Northwestern University): "Testing Asset Pricing Models with Large Cross-Sectional and Unbalanced Data: Insights from a New Methodology"
Monday, October 24 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Javier Donna (Northwestern University): "Sequential Water Auctions: The Effect of Complements and Substitutes"
Monday, October 24 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Charles Manski (Northwestern University): "Deterrence and the Death Penalty: Partial Identification Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections"
Monday, October 24 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Marios Angeletos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Decentralization, Communication, and the Origins of Fluctuations"
Monday, October 24 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Guillermo Marshall (Northwestern University): "Identification in an English Auction with Shill Bidding"
Thursday, October 20 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Greg Clark (University of California at Davis): "The Law of Return: Is there a Simple Physics of Social Mobility?"
Thursday, October 20 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Mark Turnquist (Cornell University): "Anticipating Disaster: Planning for Emergency Logistics Needs"
Thursday, October 20 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Greg Veramendi (Northwestern University): "Unemployment Dynamics and Wage Dispersion in a Model with Search and Human Capital Accumulation"
Thursday, October 20 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Bard Harstad (Northwestern University): "Boycotts and (Self-)Regulation in a Dynamic Game"
Wednesday, October 19 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Susan Athey (Harvard University): "Peaches, Lemons, and Cookies: Designing Auction Markets with Dispersed Information"
Wednesday, October 19 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Guy Arie (Northwestern University): "Dynamic Costs and Moral Hazard"
Wednesday, October 19 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Assaf Patir (Northwestern University) "Securitization, Bank Vigilance, and Macroeconomic Implications"
Wednesday, October 19 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Rangarajan Sundaram (New York University): "Title TBA"
Tuesday, October 18 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Dermot Murphy (Northwestern University): "TBA"
Monday, October 17 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Ignacio Franceschelli (Northwestern University): "When the Ink is Gone: The Impact of the Internet on News Coverage"
Monday, October 17 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Ivan Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Managing a Liquidity Trap: Monetary and Fiscal Policy"
Friday, October 14 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Toomas Hinnosaar (Northwestern University): "Calendar Mechanism"
Thursday, October 13 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Emily Owens (Cornell University): "The Birth of the Organized Crime? The American Temperance Movement and Market-Based Violence"
Thursday, October 13 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	David Smith (University of Virginia): "The ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings"
Thursday, October 13 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	David Deming (Harvard University): "School Choice, School Quality, and Postsecondary Attainment"
Thursday, October 13 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Daniel Garrett (Northwestern University): "Durable-Goods Sales with Changing Values and Unobservable Arrival Dates"
Wednesday, October 12 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Leeat Yariv (California Institute of Technology): "Collective Dynamic Choices: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency"
Wednesday, October 12 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Briana Chang (Northwestern University) "Adverse Selection and Liquidity Distortion in Decentralized Markets"
Wednesday, October 12 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Faculty Meeting
Wednesday, October 12 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Thomas Gilovich (Cornell University): "Intuition-Reason Conflicts"
Wednesday, October 12 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Fernando Luco Echeverria (Northwestern University): "First-Price Procurement Auctions: When you don't Receive what you Bid"
Wednesday, October 12 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Gustavo Manso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Feedback Effects of Credit Ratings"
Monday, October 10 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Joseph Goodman (Northwestern University): "Reputations in Bidding Fee Auctions"
Monday, October 10 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Filip Matejka (Princeton University): "Rationally Inattentive Seller: Sales and Discrete Pricing"
Monday, October 10 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Esteban Petruzzello (Northwestern University): "Welfare Effects of the Introduction of New Segments"
Thursday, October 6 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Ben Chabot (Northwestern University & Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago): "Trust Me with Your Money: Securitization and the Precursor of the Modern Mutual Fund"
Thursday, October 6 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Abe Wickelgren (University of Texas at Austin): "Anti-Competetive Exclusion and Market Division Through Loyalty Discounts"
Thursday, October 6 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Gregory Schneider (Emporia State University): "Requiem for a Railroad: The Collapse of the Rock Island"
Thursday, October 6 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Tyler Muir (Northwestern University): "The Joint Dynamics of Internal and External Finance"
Thursday, October 6 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Pablo Schenone (Northwestern University): "A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for a PBE Folk Theorem"
Wednesday, October 5 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM	Welcome reception for new Economics faculty, staff and graduate students. Presentation of Distinguished Teaching Assistant awards. All Economics faculty, staff, graduate students and their families / partners invited.
Wednesday, October 5 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Wolfgang Pesendorfer (Princeton University): "Behavioral Competitive Equilibrium and Extreme Prices"
Wednesday, October 5 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Marianne Page (University of California at Davis): "War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and the World War II G.I. Bill" Note change of day.
Wednesday, October 5 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	L. Kamran Bilir (University of Wisconsin): "Patent Laws, Product Lifecycle Lengths, and the Global Sourcing Decisions of U.S. Multinationals"
Wednesday, October 5 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Toan Phan (Northwestern University): "Sovereign Default and Private Government Information"
Wednesday, October 5 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Kelly Shue (University of Chicago): "Title TBA"
Wednesday, October 5 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Juan Prada Sarmiento (Northwestern University): "Information Sharing Among Policymakers and the Social Value ofInformation"
Tuesday, October 4 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Whitney Newey (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Individual Heterogeneity and Average Welfare"
Monday, October 3 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Cesar Martinelli (University of Chicago): "Ignorance and Naivete in Large Elections"
Monday, October 3 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	John Cochrane (University of Chicago): "Determinacy and Identification with Taylor Rules"
Thursday, September 29 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Carolyn Tuttle (Lake Forest College): "Regulating Child Labor: The European Experience"
Thursday, September 29 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Jenny Hunt (Rutgers University): "The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives"
Thursday, September 29 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Thanh Nguyen (Northwestern University): "Bargaining with Intermediaries"
Wednesday, September 28 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Pietro Ortovela (California Institute of Technology): "Objective Probabilities as Ambiguous Objects: Allais, Ellsberg, and Hedging"
Wednesday, September 28 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Matthew Grennan (Rotman School of Management): "Price Discrimination and Bargaining: Empirical Evidence from Medical Devices"
Wednesday, September 28 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Lance Kent (Northwestern University): "Global Imbalances and Risk"
Wednesday, September 28 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Nicholas Barberis (Yale University): "Title TBA"
Wednesday, September 28 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Erik Hovenkamp (Northwestern University): "Metering Ties and Antitrust Policy"
Tuesday, September 27 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Demian Pouzo (University of California at Berkeley): "On Inference of PSMD Estimators of Semi/Non-parametric Conditional Moment Restrictions"
Monday, September 26 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Jerry Hausman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "A Poisson Mixture Model of Discrete Choice"
Monday, September 26 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM	Nageeb Ali (University of California San Diego): "Why People Vote: Ethical Motives and Social Incentives"
Monday, September 26 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University): "Risk Shocks"
Monday, September 26 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Jorge Lemus (Northwestern University): "Consumers' Judgement and the Startup Decision"
Thursday, September 22 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Nicolas Ziebarth (Northwestern University): "Misallocation and Productivity during the Great Depression"
Thursday, September 22 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Louis Kaplow (Harvard University): "Burden of Proof"
Thursday, September 22 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Jeffrey Ely (Northwestern University): "Overbooking"
Wednesday, September 21 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Larry Epstein (Boston University): "Bayesian Inference and Non-Bayesian Prediction and Choice: Foundations and an Application to Entry Games with Multiple Equilibria "
Wednesday, September 21 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Andrew Nowobilski (Northwestern University): "Liquidity Crises and the Macroeconomic Costs of Financial Sector Distress"
Wednesday, September 21 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM	David T. Robinson (Duke University): "Title TBA"
Wednesday, September 21 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Ofer Cohen (Northwestern University): "Loss Aversion and Efficient Risk Sharing"
Tuesday, September 20 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Discussion of procedures for graduate students entering the job market
Monday, September 19 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Information on degree goals in years 2 and 3, and presentations on each field of study
Thursday, May 19 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy given by David Cutler (Harvard University)
Monday, May 9 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM	PROFESSOR DALE MORTENSENNobel Laureate 2010 in Economic Sciencesin his first speech to Northwestern undergrads... Markets with Search Friction and the Great Recession: an update on his Nobel Prize lecture with stories from SwedenJoin the Undergraduate Economics Society for the chance of a lifetime: A short Q&A Session will follow his Nobel Prize presentation.All Economics Majors/Minors Welcome.Refreshments will be provided.
Thursday, April 28 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	"Income Distribution and Foreign Trade and Investment" by Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University)
Saturday, April 16 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM	Continuation of conference from Friday April 15
Friday, April 15 8:45 AM - 5:30 PM	Academic conference honoring 2010 Nobel Laureate in Economics and NU Faculty Member Dale Mortensen

Announcements

PhD Job Market Candidates

Nobel Laureate Dale Mortensen

Nemmers Conference May 11-12

Econometric Society North American Summer Meeting

Events

Workshop in Economic History
February 23, 2012 • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar
February 29, 2012 • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM