Past seminars
- Winter 2010-11
- Summer 2010
- Winter 2009-10
- Winter 2008-09
- Summer 2008
- Winter 2007-08
- Summer 2007
- Winter 2006-07
- Summer 2006
- Winter 2005-06
- Winter 2004-05
| Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks | |
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| Winter 2010-11,Second Term, Jan-Apr 2011 | ||||
| Fri, Jan 14 | Joanne Roberts U of Calgary, Economics |
"Optimal Policies with an Informal Sector" (pdf paper) | Host: E. Gugl | |
| Thur, Jan 20 | John Roberts Stanford, Graduate School of Business |
"In Praise of Weak Incentives" Poster... | 7:00-8:30pm HHB 105 LANSDOWNE SPEAKER |
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| Fri, Jan 21 | John Roberts Stanford, Graduate School of Business |
"Does Management Matter? Evidence from India" (pdf paper) | Host: D. Scoones DSB C122 |
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| Fri, Jan 28 | Don Fullerton University of Illinois |
"Negative Leakage" (pdf paper) | Host: E. Hutchinson | |
| Fri, Feb 4 | Werner Antweiler UBC, Business |
"Mitigation + Adaptation: What is the optimal climate change policy mix?" (pdf paper) | Host: M. Farnham | |
| Fri, Feb 11 | Li Hao UBC, Economics |
"Sincere Voting in Large Elections" (pdf paper available on request) | Host: P. Courty BEC 402 |
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| Fri, Feb 18 | Thomas Ross UBC, Sauder School of Business |
“Mergers, Managerial Efficiency, and Social Welfare” (pdf paper) | Host: P. Courty | |
| Fri, Mar 4 | Robert Feenstra UC Davis, Economics |
"Exports and Credit Constraints under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China" (pdf paper) | Host: C. Mosk | |
| Fri, Mar 11 | Doug Miller UC Davis, Economics |
"The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Understanding Pro-cyclical Mortality" (pdf paper) | Host: E. Gugl | |
| Fri, Mar 18 | Ronald Wendner Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria |
"Technical Change and Speed of Convergence - The Role of Learning and Embodiment" (pdf paper) | Host: E. Gugl | |
| Fri, Mar 25 | Arvind Magesan U of Calgary, Economics |
"Human Rights Treaty Ratification of Aid Receiving Countries" (pdf paper) | Host: C. Auld | |
| Fri, Apr 1 | Justin Leroux HEC Montreal, Economics |
"Looking Ahead v. Looking Back: Revisiting the Carbon Tax" |
Host: E. Gugl | |
| Fri, Apr 15 | Narayana Ranganathan Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore |
"Public Age Reallocations for India's Elderly: Evidence and Implications Based on National Transfer Accounts" (pdf paper) |
Host: P. Schure | |
| Winter 2010-11, First Term, Sep-Dec 2010 | ||||
| Fri, Sep 10 | Thomas Lemieux UBC, Economics |
"Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure" (pdf paper) |
Host: E. Gugl | |
| Fri, Sep 17 | Hiroyuki Kasahara UBC, Economics |
"Sequential estimation of structural models with a fixed point constraint'' (pdf paper) |
Host: N. Roy | |
| Fri, Sep 24 | Panu Kalmi Helsinki School of Economics |
"Organizational Structure and Performance in European Banks: a Reassessment" (pdf paper) | Host: P. Schure | |
| Fri, Oct 1 | Chair: Paul Schure UVic, Economics |
PUBLIC PANEL – Lessons from the Global Economic Crisis: Spending, Austerity and Regulation Harjoat Bhamra, UBC Merwan Engineer, UVic David Mayes, University of Auckland George Pagoulatos, University of Athens Lucia Quaglia, University of Sussex |
Co-organiser: P. Schure Room: DSB C 116 |
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| Fri, Oct 8 | David Atkinson UVic, Geography |
"Dimensions of Vulnerability in Arctic Coastal Communities" |
Host: P. Schure | |
| Fri, Oct 22 | Christina Atanasova SFU, Business |
"Familiarity Breeds Institutional Investment: Evidence from US Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plans" (pdf paper) | Host: P. Schure | |
| Fri, Oct 29 | Jesse Matheson U of Calgary, Economics |
"Estimating tobacco price elasticity in Canada's Aboriginal communities" (pdf paper) | Host: D. Scoones | |
| Fri, Nov 5 | Anke Kessler SFU, Economics |
"Communication in Federal Politics: Universalism, Policy Uniformity, and the Optimal Allocation of Fiscal Authority" | Host: P. Courty | |
| Fri, Nov 19 | Martha O'Brien UVic, Law |
"Tax Treaties and International Investment Agreements" | Host: E. Gugl | |
| Fri, Nov 26 | Aman Ullah UC Riverside, Economics |
"Nonparametric and Semiparametric Panel Econometric Models: Estimation and Testing" (pdf paper) (pdf panel paper) | Host: N. Roy | |
| Fri, Dec 3 | Nava Ashraf Harvard Business School |
"Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia" (pdf paper) | Host: E. Gugl | |
| Summer 2010 | ||||
| Thur, 13 May | Jan Tuinstra U of Amsterdam |
"Positive expectations feedback experiments and number guessing games as models of financial markets" (with Joep Sonnemans)" (pdf paper) | Note non-standard time: 10:30-12pm,
Room COR A128 Host: Paul Schure |
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| Fri, 18 - 21 June | Various | Summer School: "Financial Institutions in the 21st Century" (pdf Program) | Organizer: Paul Schure | |
| Mon, 21 June | Viral V Acharya New York University |
"Measuring Systemic Risk" | Union Club of B.C. Host: Paul Schure |
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| Winter 2009-10, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2010 | ||||
| Fri, Jan 22 | Farasat Bokhari Economics, Florida State |
"Entry in the ADHD drugs market: Welfare impact of generics and me-toos" (pdf paper) | DSB C116 | |
| Fri, Feb 5 | Andrew Sfekas Northwestern, IL |
"An Offer You Can't Refuse: Who Uses Cigarette Price Discounts?" (pdf paper) | DSB C116 | |
| Fri, Feb 12 | Chris Auld Economics, U Calgary |
"Contributions to the Empirical Analysis of Addictive Behaviors" (pdf paper) | DSB C116 | |
| Fri, Feb 26 | Jennifer Stewart Carleton University |
"Understanding the Relationship between Parental Work Schedules and Obesity in Children" (pdf paper) | DSB C116 | |
| Fri, Mar 5 | Alex Karaivanov Economics, SFU |
"Dynamic Financial Constraints: Distinguishing Mechanism Design from Exogenously Incomplete Regimes" (pdf paper) | Host: Merwan Engineer | |
| Wed, Mar 10 | Erik Aerts Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven |
No Public Exchange Banks in Flanders and Branbant (1400-1800): An Explanation of the Absence of Public Banks in the Southern Low Countries. |
Note: Different date and time - 12:30-1:20pm, BEC 363 (offered jointly as dept seminar/brown bag seminar Co-sponsored by the Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam. |
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| Fri, Mar 12 | Shachar Kariv Economics, UC Berkeley |
"Archetypes and Polytypes in Decisions under Uncertainty"(pdf abstract) | Host: Pascal Courty | |
| Fri, Mar 19 | Elisabeth Gugl Economics, UVic |
"Tax Competition and the Efficiency of "Benefit-Related" Business Taxes" | ||
| Fri, Mar 26 | Wei Li Economics, UBC |
"Misinformation" (pdf paper) | Host: Pascal Courty | |
| Fri, Apr 9 | Geoffrey Dunbar Economics, SFU |
"The Family and the Workforce: Demography, Productivity and the Rise in Wage Inequality" (pdf paper) | Host: Paul Schure | |
| Fri, Apr 16 | David Giles Economics, UVic |
"Bias Reduction for Nonlinear Maximum Likelihood Estimators" | ||
| Winter 2009-10, First Term, Sep-Dec 2009 | ||||
| Fri, Sep 11 | Harry Paarsch Economics, U Melbourne |
"Implementing Faustmann: Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Space" (pdf paper) | ||
| Mon, Sep 21 | David Albouy Economics, U Michigan |
"Quality of Life, Firm Productivity, and the Value of Amenities Across Canadian Cities" & "Fiscal Equalization Under Federal Taxation: Doubling the Distortion?" | ||
| Fri, Sep 25 | Jia Liu Economics, UVic |
"A Dynamic Extreme Value Approach to Measure Tail Risk in Energy Futures" | ||
| Fri, Oct 2 | Audrey Yap Philosophy, UVic |
"Dynamic Epistemic Logic" | ||
| Fri, Oct 9 | Pascal Courty Economics, UVic |
"Price Discrimination in the Concert Industry" (pdf paper) | ||
| Fri, Oct 16 | Richard Arnott Economics, UC Riverside |
"The Stability of Downtown Parking and Traffic Congestion" (pdf paper) | ||
| Fri, Oct 23 | Ana Ferrer Economics, U Calgary |
"The Returns to Flexible Post-secondary Education: The Effect of Delaying School" (pdf paper) | This seminar is joint with School of Public Administration | |
| Fri, Oct 30 | Brian Krauth Economics, SFU |
"Bounding a linear causal effect using relative correlation restrictions" (pdf paper) | ||
| Fri, Nov 6 | Jane Cooley Economics, U Wisconsin-Madison |
"A Framework for the Analysis of Time-varying Treatment Effects: How The Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes" (pdf paper) | ||
| Fri, Nov 20 | Alan Sorenson Business, Stanford |
"The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale" (pdf paper) | This seminar is joint with Faculty of Business | |
| Fri, Nov 27 | Basma Majerbi Business, UVic |
"Is Currency Factor Important for Global Portfolios?" (pdf paper) | Note non-standard time: 2:30-4pm This seminar is joint with Faculty of Business |
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| Fri, Dec 4 | Aprajit Mahajan Economics, Stanford |
"Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption: The Case of Insecticide Treated Nets" | Note non-standard time: 2:30-4pm | |
| Tue, Dec 8 | Joe Price Economics, Brigham Young U |
"The Effect of Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Natural Within-Family Variation"(pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2008-09, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2009 | ||||
| Jan 23 - DSB C122 | Chris Aulds Economics, U Calgary |
Effect of Large-Scale Social Interactions on Body Weight (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 30 - 2:30 p.m., DSB C122 | Frank Heiland Economics, Florida State U |
Social Dynamics of Obesity (pdf paper) | ||
| Feb 6 - DSB C122 | Ilan Noy Economics, U Hawaii, Manoa |
Inflation Targeting and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 6 | Andrew Leach Economics, U Alberta |
Would Hotelling Kill the Electric Car? (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 13 | Carl Mosk Economics, UVic |
Elites in the Industrialization of China and Japan, 1850-2000 (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 20 | TBA Economics, UBC |
Doux Commerces: Does Market Competition Cause Trust (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 26 - 2:30 p.m., DSB C126 (Joint with Business) | TBA Business, SFU |
Institutional Risk Taking and Incentives: Evidence from US Defined Benefit Pension Plans (pdf paper) | ||
| Apr 2 - 7:00-8:30 p.m., Social Sci. & Math. Bldg., A102 (Lansdowne Lecture, Joint with Business) | Andrew Karolyi Ohio State U |
Financial Reform, Capital Markets Regulation and the Future Competitiveness of Global Financial Markets | ||
| April 3 - 2:30 p.m. (Lansdowne Lecture, Joint with Business) | Andrew Karolyi Ohio State U |
Commonality in Returns, Liquidity, and Turnover Around the World (pdf paper) | ||
| Apr 24 - 2:30 p.m., BEC 402 (Joint with Business) | John McHale Business, Queen's U |
Selecting Economic Immigrants: An Actuarial Approach (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2008-09, First Term, Sep-Dec 2008 | ||||
| Sep 12 | Fernando Martin Economics, SFU |
Debt, Inflation and Central Bank Independence | ||
| Sep 19 | Elena Panova Université du Québec à Montréal |
Informative Campaign Promises (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 3 | Amartya Lahiri Economics, UBC |
Interest Rate and The Exchange Rate: A Non-Monotonic Tale (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 10 | Bertille Antoine Economics, SFU |
Portfolio Selection With Estimation Risk: A Test Based Approach (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 17, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Science Buiding A104 | TBA | Panel Session on the Financial Crisis - Chair: Paul Schure (Economics, UVic); Basma Majerbi (Business, UVic): "Failing Financial Institutions"; Merwan Engineer (Economics, UVic): "Derivative & the Financial Crisis"; Issam Hallak (Economics, Bocconi U.): Bank Bailout & the Budgets of National Governments"; Graham Voss (Economics, UVic): "How Should Cetral Banks Manage the Financial Crisis?"; & Martin Barnes (BCA Research): "The Financial Crisis & the Canadian Economy" | ||
| Oct 24 - 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m., DSB C128 | Eugene Beaulieu Economics, U Calgary |
Why are Women More Protectionist Than Men? (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 30 - 7:00-8:30 p.m., MAC A144 (Lansdowne Lecture, Joint with Business) | John Helliwell Economics, UBC |
What Can We Learn About Life from the Science of Well-Being? | ||
| Oct 31 (Lansdowne Lecture, Joint with Business) | John Helliwell Economics, UBC |
Life Satisfaction and Quality of Development | ||
| Nov 7 | Eric Santor Bank of Canada |
Trading Places: Impact of Foreign Ownership Changes on Canadian Firms (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 14 - 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., DSB C128 (Joint with Business) | Lindsay Tedds Public Admin, UVic |
Options Backdating: A Canadian Perspective (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 19 - 12:30-1:20 p.m. | Enrico Moretti Economics, UC Berkeley |
Real Wage Inequality (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 27 - 2:30-4:00 p.m., DSB C118 | Jeff Racine Economics, McMaster |
Constrained Nonparametric Kernel Regression: Estimation and Inference (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 27, 2:30-4:00 p.m., DSB C118 | Jeff Racine Economics, McMaster |
Constrained Nonparametric Kernel Regression: Estimation and Inference (pdf paper) | ||
| Summer 2008 | ||||
| Jun 9 | Malik Shukayev Bank of Canada |
Staggered Labor Contracts & Monetary Policy (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2007-08, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2008 | ||||
| Jan 11 | Joel Rodrigue Economics, Queen's U |
Foreign Direct Investment, Exports and Aggregate Productivity (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 15 | Jed Devaro Economics, Cornell U |
The Signaling Role Of Promotions: Further Theory and Empirical Evidence (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 18 | Ben Sand Economics, UBC |
Has There Been a Structural Change in the Labour Market? Evidence from U.S. Cities (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 25 | Pascal Courty Economics, EUI |
On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Specialties: Understanding Shortages and Growth in Specialization (pdf paper) | ||
| Feb 1 | Andrey Stoyanov Economics, UBC |
Trade Policy of a Free Trade Agreement in the Presence of Foreign Lobbying (pdf paper) | ||
| Feb 15 | Chris Wilmore Economics, UVic |
Targeted Advertising of Preventive Medicine in Canada (pdf paper) | ||
| Feb 22 | No Seminar (Reading Break) | |||
| Feb 29 | Simon Parker Economics, U Durham |
The Entrepreneur's Mode of Entry: Business Takeover or New Venture Start? (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 6HSD A240, 7:30 p.m. | Simon Parker Economics, U Durham (Lansdowne Lecture) |
Entrepreneurship Among Women | ||
| Mar 7 | Vadim Marmer Economics, UBC (PIMS Lecture) |
Comparison of Misspecified Calibrated Models: The Minimum Distance Approach (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 14 | Bill Warburton Child and Youth Development Trajectories Research Unit, UBC |
Can Placement of Adolescent Boys in Foster Care Be Harmful? An Analysis of Health, Education, Welfare and Correctional Outcomes (pdf paper - 98 pages!) | ||
| Mar 21 | No Seminar (Good Friday) | |||
| Mar 28 | Gregor Smith Economics, Queen's |
U.S. Interest Rate History: Lessons from Great Moderations and Professional Forecasters (pdf paper) | ||
| Apr 4 | TBA | |||
| Apr 30, 3:00 p.m., BEC 363 | Les Oxley Economics, U Canterbury |
China's Energy Economy: Technical Change, Factor Demand and Interfactor/Interfuel Substitution (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2007-08, First Term, Sep-Dec 2007 | ||||
| Sep 14 | Ashok Kotwal Economics, UBC |
How Does Poverty Decline? Evidence from India, 1983-1999 (pdf paper) | ||
| Sep 21 | Andrew Schmitz Agricultural-Food/Resource Economics, U of Florida |
The Pareto and Compensation Principles in Welfare Economics: Law and Applied Cost-Benefit Analysis (pdf paper) | ||
| Sep 28 | Henry Siu Economics, UBC |
Fiscal Role of Conscription in the U.S. World War II Effort (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 12 | Duane Rockerbie Economics, U Lethbridge |
Peculiarities of the Major League Baseball Posting System (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 19 | Badi Baltagi Economics & Center for Policy Research, Syracuse U (Lansdowne-Sponsored Lecture) |
Spatial Panels (pdf background paper) | ||
| Oct 26 | Michèle Tertilt Economics, Stanford U |
Women's Liberation: What's in it for Men? (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 2 | Siwan Anderson Economics, UBC |
Missing Women and the Epidemiological Transition | ||
| Nov 9 | Lynda Gagné Public Admin, UVic |
The Impact of Workplace Smoking Regulations on the Smoking Behavior of Canadian Workers (pdf draft paper) | ||
| Nov 16 | Ed Nosal Federal Reserve Bank-Cleveland |
Some Benefits of Cyclical Monetary Policy (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 23 | Pascal Lavergne Economics. SFU (PIMS Lecture) |
Efficient Smooth GMM Through Dimension Reduction (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 30 | Muriel Niederle Economics, Stanford U. |
How Costly is Diversity? Affirmative Action in Light of Gender Differences in Competitiveness (pdf paper) | ||
| Dec 18 | Brian McCaig Economics, U. of Toronto |
Exporting Out of Poverty: Provincial Poverty in Vietnam and U.S. Market Access (pdf paper) | ||
| Summer 2007 | ||||
| Aug 2, 3:00 p.m., BEC 363 | Thanasis Strengos Economics, U Guelph |
The Effect of Information Technology and Human Capital on Economic Growth | ||
| Winter 2006-07, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2007 | ||||
| Jan 12 | Aneta Boniskowska Economics, UBC |
Explaining the Education Gap Between Children of Immigrants and the Native Born: Allocation of Human Capital Investments in Immigrant Families (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 19 | Louis-Philippe Morin Economics, U Toronto |
Do College-Bound High School Students Need an Extra Year? Evidence from Ontario's 'Double Cohort' (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 26 | Ron Caldwell Economics, U Washington |
The Effects of Affirmative Action Policies in University Admissions on Human Capital Development of Minority Children: A Test of the Expectations Hypothesis (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 30, 2:30 p.m. | Kerry Papps Economics, Cornell U |
The Effects of Divorce Risk on the Labour Supply of Married Couples (pdf paper) | ||
| Feb 13, 3:00 p.m. | Elizabeth Dhuey Economics, U California, Santa Barbara |
Who Benefits from Kindergarten? Evidence from the Introduction of State Subsidization (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 2 | John Knowles Economics, U Penn |
Why Are Married Men Working So Much? (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 9 | Jill Horowitz Law, U Michigan |
Peer Pressure: Hospital Ownership Mix and Service Provision | ||
| Mar 16, 2:30 p.m., DSB C113 | Michel Robe Kogod School of Business, American U (Joint with Faculty of Business) |
Market Growth, Trader Participation and Pricing in Energy Futures Markets (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 23 | Steeve Mongrain Economics, SFU |
Why Do Most Countries Set High Tax Rates on Capital? (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 30 | Mark Wright Economics, UCLA |
Urban Structure and Growth (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2006-07, First Term, Sep-Dec 2006 | ||||
| Sep 15 | Carlos Martins-Filho Economics, Oregon State U |
A Class of Improved Parametrically Guided Nonparametric Regression Estimators (pdf paper) | ||
| Sep 21, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., MacLaurin D110 | Ron Lee Demography & Economics, U California, Berkeley (Lansdowne Seminar) |
Designing Pay As You Go Pensions for Intergenerational Equity and Fiscal Stability: Performance in a Stochastic Context | ||
| Sep 21, 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., HSD A240 | Ron Lee Demography & Economics, U California, Berkeley (Lansdowne Public Lecture) |
Global Population Aging and its Economic and Demographic Consequences | ||
| Sep 22 | Ron Lee Demography & Economics, U California, Berkeley (Lansdowne Seminar) |
Economics and Evolution: How Net Production and Intergenerational Transfers Shaped the Evolution of the Life Cycle (pdf background paper) | ||
| Sep 29 | David Andolfatto Economics, Simon Fraser U |
Jobless Recoveries (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 6 | Jed DeVaro ILR School, Cornell U |
An Empirical Analysis of Risk, Incentives, and the Delegation of Worker Authority (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 13 | Jean-François Wen Economics, U Calgary |
Redistribution and Entrepreneurship With Schumpeterian Growth (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 20, 2:30 p.m., DSB C113 | Herbert Grubel Economics, SFU (Joint Business-Economics Seminar) |
The Evolution of the Theory of Monetary Integration (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 3 | Berta Esteve-Volart Economics, York U |
Will Gender Parity Break the Glass Ceiling? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 9, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m., BEC 217 | Michael King Bank of Canada (Joint Business-Economics Seminar) |
The Long-Term Effects of Cross-Listing, Investor Recognition, and Ownership Structure on Valuation (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 10 | Mike McKee Economics, U Calgary |
Managerial Incentives for Compliance with Environmental Information Disclosure Programs (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 17, 3:30 p.m. | Miles Corak Statistics Canada |
Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 24 | Francisco Gonzales Economics, U Calgary |
Social Spending as the Choice of the Governing Elite | ||
| Dec 1 | David Green Economics, UBC |
Title TBA | ||
| Summer 2006 | ||||
| Jun 16 | Pascal Courty Economics, European University Institute |
A General Test for Distortions in Performance Measures (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2005-06, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2006 | ||||
| Jan 13 | Jen Baggs Business, UVic |
Product Market Competition and Agency Costs (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 20 | Param Silvapulle Econometrics & Bus. Stats., Monash U. |
Testing for Non-Stationary Hypotheses Against Local and Global Non-Linear Stationary Alternatives (pdf paper) | ||
| Jan 24 | Kevin Leyton-Brown Computer Sci., UBC |
Computation-Friendly Game Representations (pdf background papers: 1 || 2 || 3) | ||
| Feb 3 | Mark Thoma Economics, U. Oregon |
Structural Change & Lag Length in VAR Models (pdf paper) | ||
| Feb 10 | Lindsay Tedds Economics, U. Manitoba |
Keeping it Off the Books: An Empirical Investigation Into the Characteristics of Firms That Engage in Tax Non-Compliance (pdf draft paper) | ||
| Feb 17 | Chris Veld Business, SFU |
Convertible Debt Issues and Convertible Arbitrage - Issue Characteristics, Underpricing and Short Sales (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 3 | Rob Fairlie Economics, UC Santa Cruz |
Liquidity Constraints, Household Wealth, and Entrepreneurship Revisited (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 10 | CANCELLED | |||
| Mar 13, 7 p.m., DSB C118 | Nancy Folbre Economics, U. Mass., Amherst (Women Scholars Lecture Series - Public Lecture) |
The Political Economy of Care | ||
| Mar 14 | Nancy Folbre Economics, U. Mass., Amherst (Women Scholars Lecture Series) |
The Value of Unpaid Child Care in the US in 2003 (pdf Background papers: 1 || 2) | ||
| Mar 17 | CANCELLED | |||
| Mar 24 | Claudia Landeo Economics, U. Alberta |
Split-Awards and Disputes: An Experimental Study of a Strategic Model of Litigation (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 31 | Hervé Moulin Economics, Rice U. |
Impartial Division of a Dollar (pdf paper) | ||
| Apr 7 | John Knight Economics, UWO |
Exact Properties of Measures of Optimal Investment for Institutional Investors (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2005-06, First Term, Sep-Dec 2005 | ||||
| Sep 9 | Glenn Otto Economics, U. NSW |
The Relationship Between Consumption, Income and Wealth in Australia (pdf paper) | ||
| Sep 30 | Michael Maschek Economics, SFU |
Currency Crisis: Evolution of Beliefs, Experiments with Human Subjects and Real World Data (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 7 | Matt Kotchen Environ. Sci. & Management, U. California, Santa Barbara |
Explaining The Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda For Open-Space Conservation (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 14 | Aaron Smith Ag. & Resource Econ., U. California, Davis |
Stochastic Permanent Breaks in Regression Coefficients (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 21 | Kevin Milligan Economics, UBC |
Universal Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply and Child Well-Being (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 28 | Case van Kooten Economics, UVic |
Elephant Economics in the Rough (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 4 | Jean de Bettignies Business, UBC |
Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 10, DSB C126 | Martin Gervais Economics, UWO |
Measuring Consumption Smoothing in CEX Data (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 18 | Ian King Economics, U. Otago |
Dynamic Language Policy | ||
| Nov 25, DSB C122 | Ming Kang Economics, UVic |
Q-Learning in Unstable Relationships (pdf paper) | ||
| Dec 2 | Mark Long Public Affairs, U. Washington |
College Quality and Early Adult Outcomes (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2004-05, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2005 | ||||
| Jan 26, 12:30 p.m. | Martin Farnham Economics, UVic |
State Fiscal Institutions and Empty-Nest Migration: Are Tiebout Voters Hobbled? | ||
| Jan 28 | Kailing Shen Economics, UBC |
How Were Canadian Labour Market Transitions Affected by the 1996 Employment Insurance Reform? | ||
| Feb 1, 2:30 p.m. | Geoffrey Dunbar Economics, Queens' U. |
Banking on Collateral: Wealth Distribution, Welfare and the Risk-Free Rate With Collaterlaised Lending | ||
| Feb 2, 12:30 p.m. | Umot Oguzoglu Economics, U. Guelph |
Empirical Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models With Fixed Effects | ||
| Feb 4 | Ryan Compton Economics, Washington U. St. Louis |
On the Evolution of Financial Development & Economic Growth | ||
| Feb 9, 12:30 p.m. | Michael Coelli Economics, UBC |
Parental Income Shocks and the Education Attendance of Youth | ||
| Feb 25 | Shelley Lundberg Economics, U. Washington |
The Division of Labor in Exigency: The Work Hours of New Parents | ||
| Mar 4 (Transferred from Brownbag Seminar series) | Helen Hui Economics, UVic |
Equivalence Scales for South Africa : A Fuzzy Bayesian Analysis | ||
| Mar 18 | Thomas Hellmann Business, UBC |
Bridging the Science to Market Gap: Academic Entrepreneurs and the Role of Patents (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 24, 11:00 a.m. (BEC 363) | Dale Mortensen, Lansdowne Visitor Economics, NorthWestern |
An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation (pdf paper) | ||
| Mar 24, 3:30 p.m. (Hickman, 110) | Dale Mortensen, Lansdowne Visitor Economics, NorthWestern |
Growth, Unemployment and Labor Market Policy (pdf paper) | ||
| Apr 1 | Engelbert Dockner Economics, U. Vienna |
Private Investment of a Public Good? A Multi-Period Analysis (pdf paper) | ||
| Apr 8 (Transferred from Brownbag Seminar series) | Paul Schure Economics, UVic |
A Theory of Loan Syndication (pdf paper) | ||
| Apr 15 (Transferred from Brownbag Seminar series) | Alok Kumar Economics, UVic |
Taxes, Labor Market Institutions, and the Dispersion of Wages | ||
| Apr 29 | Ross McKittrick Economics, U Guelph |
Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Global Warming Scenarios | ||
| May 20, 10:30 a.m., BEC 363 | Pierre-André Chiappori Economics, U Chicago, Lansdowne Visitor |
The legalization of Abortion and Women’s Bargaining Power: A Marriage Market Analysis (pdf paper) | ||
| May 20 | Pierre-André Chiappori Economics, U Chicago, Lansdowne Visitor |
Matching to Share Risk (pdf paper) | ||
| Winter 2004-05, First Term, Sep-Dec 2004 | ||||
| Sep 10 | Tae-Hwy Lee Economics, U. California, Riverside |
Bagging Binary and Quantile Predictors for Time Series (pdf paper) | ||
| Sep 17 | Ian King Economics, U. Auckland |
Coordination Unemployment (pdf paper 1 || paper 2) | ||
| Sep 24 | Doug Shaw Resource Economics, U. Nevada, Reno |
Perceived Risks of Nuclear Waste Transportation and Storage (pdf paper 1 || paper 2) | ||
| Oct 4 (3:30 p.m., DSB C124) | Julie Berry Cullen Economics, U. California, San Diego |
The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence From Randomized Lotteries (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 8 | Daan van Soest CentER, Tilburg U. |
CPR Conservation: Higher Fines, or Higher Probabilities of Conviction? (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 15 | Arthur Robson Economics, Simon Fraser U. |
A 'Bioeconomic' View of the Neolithic and Recent Demographic Transitions (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 22 | Ramo Gencay Economics, Simon Fraser U. |
Asymmetry of Information Flow Between Volatilities Across Time Scales (pdf paper) | ||
| Oct 29 | Shankha Chakraborty Economics, U. Oregon |
Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 19 | Andrey D. Pavlov Business, Simon Fraser U. |
Financial Risk Theory for a Regulated Insurer (pdf paper) | ||
| Nov 26 | Chris Worswick Economics, Carleton U. |
Mandatory Retirement Rules and the Retirement Decisions of University Professors in Canada | ||
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