Event Archives

October 15, 2008

Competitive Pressure and Innovation Complementarity
Tobias Kretschmer

October 14, 2008

Labor Supply of Fisherman: An Empirical Analysis
Tess Stafford

October 10, 2008

Quantile-Based Nonparametric Inference for First-Price Auctions
Vadim Marmer

October 8, 2008

Information Monopoly
Axel Anderson

October 7, 2008

Children's time allocations and their parents' occupations: The Development trap of Self-employment
Manuel Chavez de la Para,

October 6, 2008

Government Investment and the European Stability and Growth Pact
Marco Bassetto

October 3, 2008

Spousal Mobility and Earnings
Terra McKinnish

October 1, 2008

Bayesian and Dominant Strategy
Alejandro Manelli

September 30, 2008

Selection, Separation, and Unemployment
Gonul Sengul

September 29, 2008

Default and the Maturity Structure in Sovereign Bonds
Cristina Arellano

September 26, 2008

A Solution to The Default Risk-Business Cycle Disconnect
Enrique Mendoza

September 23, 2008

An Unintended Consequence of Border Enforcement
Carolina Rodriguez Zamora

September 22, 2008

On the Cross-Country Distribution of Welfare Gains from Trade
B. Ravikumar

September 19, 2008

A Bayesian Mixed Logit-Probit Model for Multinomial Choice
Martin Burda

September 16, 2008

Integration of Immigrants in Germany: Do Enclaves Matter?
Firat Yaman

September 10, 2008

Dynamic Incentive Contracts
Yuliy Sannikov

August 8, 2008

Quantitative Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis of Illegal Immigration to the US
Kazuki Konno

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

Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Philip Oreopoulos

April 28, 2008

Three Essays on Cross Border Movements
Shyam S. Gouri Suresh

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

"Heterogeneous Consumers: The Effect of Demand on Outcomes in Vertically Differentiated Markets"
Anna Yurko

April 21, 2008

"Gender Differences in Demography and Labor Markets"
Myungho Paik

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
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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