Events
Event Archives
July 25, 2008
On the Case for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Marina Azzimonti
June 6, 2008
MICRO COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
June 2, 2008
MACRO COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
May 17, 2008
UT DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY
Richard B. Worley
May 8, 2008
End of Semester - Important Dates to Remember
**no seminars or conferences
**NO DEPARTMENT SEMINARS OR CONFERENCES BEYOND MAY 5**
May 5-6, 11
Monday-Tuesday, Sunday.
No-class days except in the School of Law.
May 7-10, 12-13
Wednesday-Saturday,
Monday-Tuesday. Spring semester final examinations except in the School of Law.
May 15-18
Thursday-Sunday.
Graduation ceremonies in the colleges and schools.
May 5, 2008
Liquidity in Asset Markets with Search Frictions
Ricardo Lagos
May 5, 2008
Graduate Meeting
Dean Corbae
Will discuss registration for classes and second year papers.
May 2, 2008
Technology Shocks, Risk-Sharing and International Business Cycles
**** CANCELLED ****Andrea Raffo
May 2, 2008
State-dependent Irreversibility and Lemons Market
Shaojin Li
May 1, 2008
TBA
**** CANCELLED ***Andres Erosa
May 1, 2008
"The Evolution of Women's Choices in the Macroeconomy"
Michelle Rendall
April 30, 2008
Mean-Dispersion Preferences
Benjamin Polak
April 28, 2008
Three Essays on Cross Border Movements
Shyam S. Gouri Suresh
April 28, 2008
Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Philip Oreopoulos
April 25, 2008
Mortgage Market Evolution and Housing Market: An Equilibrium Analysis
Bulent Guler
April 25, 2008
Econometrics Reading Group
Robert Lieli
April 25, 2008
Incentives in Eduation and Marriage
Deniz Gevrek
April 23, 2008
Definable and Contractible Contracts
Balazs Szentes
April 22, 2008
How does search intensity affect wage determination?
Ping Yan
April 21, 2008
"Gender Differences in Demography and Labor Markets"
Myungho Paik
April 21, 2008
"Heterogeneous Consumers: The Effect of Demand on Outcomes in Vertically Differentiated Markets"
Anna Yurko
April 18, 2008
Optimal Monetary Policy with Uncertain Fundamentals and Dispersed Information
Guido Lorenzoni
April 18, 2008
A Search Theoretic Explanation of Educational Differences in Labor Market Outcomes
Gonul Sengul
April 17, 2008
Matching through Decentralized Markets
Leeat Yariv
April 16, 2008
Dissertation Defense
Richard Evans
April 15, 2008
Firm Export Dynamics
Jon Willis
April 14, 2008
Quasi-Concave Density Estimation
Roger Koenker
April 11, 2008
Estimation in the Presence of Many Instruments
Jerry Hausman
April 11, 2008
Demographics and Capital/Labor Tax Ratio in OECD Countries
Illegal Immigration to the US: Quantitative Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Policy ReformsKazuki Konno
April 11, 2008
External Validation by Parameter Recovery: An Application to Voter Turnout Models
***CANCELLED***Antonio Merlo
April 11, 2008
Essays in Dynamic Macroeconomics
Pablo D'Erasmo
April 10, 2008
"Essays in Money, Inflation and Asset Prices"
Tim Jones
April 8, 2008
Labor/Public Finance/Environmental
Kadir Nagac
April 7, 2008
Staying In the Classroom and Out of the Maternity Ward? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Sandra Black
April 7, 2008
"Essays in Dynamic Household Finance with Heterogeneous Agents"
Yosef Bonaparte
April 4, 2008
Econometrics Reading Group
Robert Lieli
April 4, 2008
**Murray S Johnson Memorial Conference**
April 2, 2008
Cooperation and Community Responsibility: A Folk Theorem for Random Matching Games with Names
Joyee Deb
April 1, 2008
Oil, Pollution, and Crime: Three Essays in Public Economics
Conan Crum
April 1, 2008
Labor/Public Finance/Environmental
An Unintended Consequence of Border EnforcementCarolina Rodriguez Zamora
March 31, 2008
Estimation of Conditional Moment Restrictions without Assuming Parameter Identifiability
Chung-Ming Kuan, Research Fellow
March 28, 2008
Measuring and Explaining Decentralization Across Firms and Countries
Nick Bloom
March 28, 2008
Graduate Recruitment Conference
Fall 2008 admission to UT Economics Graduate Program required.Various UT Faculty
Graduate Student candidates are invited for a conference outlining our graduate program and meet UT Faculty. Invitation and Reservations required. More information concerning this conference is sent by email to invited candidates.
Invited students will travel to Austin on 3/27 (Thursday) to participate in an all day conference on 3/28 (Friday) and other activities on Friday night. Invited students will have sponsored travel for this conference and will be notified by the graduate coordinator.
March 25, 2008
Dissertation Defense
"Essays on Dynamic Political Economy"Jason DeBacker
March 24, 2008
Insurance Policies for Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
Volker Wieland
March 21, 2008
Econometrics Reading Group
Robert Lieli
March 20, 2008
LASSO (Liberal Arts Senior Staff Association)
COLA
Meeting restricted to members and invited guests only.
Contact Sakena should you have questions at: sakena@austin.utexas.edu.
March 19, 2008
Kludged
Jeff Ely
March 10, 2008
**SPRING BREAK**
No seminars during Spring Break
March 7, 2008
The Geography of Trade and Multinational Production
Natalia Ramondo
March 7, 2008
Econometrics Reading Group
Robert Lieli
March 7, 2008
Exporting Apples and Oranges: Product Level Evidence and Trade Theory
Scott French
March 4, 2008
Labor/Public Finance/Environmental
Prices versus Quantities in a Dynamic Problem: Externalities from Resource ExtractionR.J. Briggs
March 3, 2008
Retirement Wealth Across Cohorts: The Role of Changing Earnings Inequality
Ann Huff Stevens
February 29, 2008
Learning the Wealth of Nations
Francisco Buera
February 29, 2008
Macro Tea Series
To Copy or not to Copy: Trade and Industrial Effects of Intellectual Property Right ReformJeff Thurk
February 28, 2008
ECO MPA Path Information Session
MPA Program Official
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Learn about the curriculum, career opportunities, how to apply...
For more information, please visit our website at: http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/mpa/eco/
or contact the MPA Program Office at (512) 471-6559 or MPA@mccombs.utexas.edu.
February 27, 2008
Choice and Individual Welfare
Takashi Hayashi
February 26, 2008
Labor/Public Finance/Environmental
Leisure Trend and Productivity of Home TimeGuozhong Zhu
February 22, 2008
Politically Credible Social Insurance
Sevin Yeltekin, Professor
February 22, 2008
Neoclassical Miracles
Rody Manuelli, Professor
February 19, 2008
Labor/Public Finance/Environmental
Meryem Tekin/Firat Yaman
February 19, 2008
Faculty Meeting
Dale O. Stahl, Chairman
February 16, 2008
**Annual Texas Econometrics Camp XIII**
Participants from UT Austin, U of Houston, TX AandM, SMU and Rice University
Conference Director: Stephen Donald
Registration Required. For more information please contact Professor Donald at donald@eco.utexas.edu.
February 15, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
February 15, 2008
Monetary Spillovers of Regional Fiscal Policies
Russell Cooper
February 11, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
February 8, 2008
Are Returns to R and D Higher in Poor Countries?
Firat Yaman
February 1, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
January 30, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
January 28, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
January 25, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
January 23, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
January 22, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
January 21, 2008
UT Closed: MLK Holiday
January 18, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate
January 14, 2008
TBA
Invited Candidate