Economics Workshop

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Department of Economics Workshop Series

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John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

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Alfred Marshall (1842-1924)

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Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950)

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Mancur Olson (1932-1998)

All seminars are held in Carswell 118. For additional information, contact Jac Heckelman.

Spring 2013

March 21 5:00pm	Power-Sharing in Monetary Policy Committees: Evidence from the United Kingdom and Sweden	Chip Chappell	University of South Carolina
April 2 5:00pm	Profit Maximizing Goes Global, the Race to the Bottom	David Kiefer	University of Utah

Fall 2012

September 10 4:45pm	The Germ Theory of Disease and the Market for Patent Medicines	Werner Troesken	University of Pittsburgh
October 2 5:00pm	Robust Estimation of the Term Structure	Rob Bliss	Wake Forest University
October 17 5:00pm	Fiscal Policy and Unemployment	Stephen Coate	Cornell University
November 5 5:00pm	Skyscraper Height and the Business Cycle	Jason Barr	Rutgers University - Newark
November 29 5:00pm	Disturbed Gun Sights and Adaptive Expectations	Judy Klein	Mary Baldwin College

Spring 2012

March 6 5:00pm	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Murdering Journalists as an Enforcement Mechanism of Corrupt Deals	Andreas Freytag	Friedrich-Schiller University Jena
March 29 5:00pm	Loss of Control: Apportionment Changes and the State-Local Relationship	Jessica Hennessey	Furman University

Fall 2011

September 15 5:00pm	Political Limits on World Oil Trade	Kevin Tsui	Clemson University
October 5 5:00pm	Campaigning and Election Outcomes: *Evidence from the 2008 Democratic Primaries*	Steven Bednard	Elon University
October 31 3:00pm	Trade Liberalization, Growth, and Productivity	Timothy Kehoe	University of Minnesota
November 15 5:00pm	Environmental Decentralization and Political Centralization	Per Fredrikson	University of Louisville
November 30 4:00pm	Correlated Equilibrium for Clinical Trial Randomization	William Grant	James Madison University

Spring 2011

February 22 5:00pm	Banking Crises: Do Special Interest Groups Matter?	Bonnie Wilson	St. Louis University
March 24 5:00pm	Ben and Ted's Excellent Adventure: *The Impact of FOMC Actions on Risk Premiums*	Marc Tomljanovich	Drew University
April 6 4:30pm	Culture, Caution, and Trust	Jan Boucher Breuer	University of South Carolina

Fall 2010

September 27 4:00pm	The Performance of Alternative Monetary Regimes	Lawrence Ball	Johns Hopkins University
October 11 5:00pm	The Economics of Infectious Disease: *Externalities, Decentralization and Public Policy*	Flavio Toxvaerd	University of Cambridge
October 21 11:00am	Investing in Local Currency Bond Markets	John Burger	Loyola University
November 1 4:00pm	Procedures, Health Outcomes, and Lawsuits in Obstetrics	Adam Hyde	Wake Forest University
November 17 4:00pm	Mass Media and Public Goods: *The effects of radio access on public education in Benin*	Philip Keefer	The World Bank

Spring 2010

POSTPONED TBA	The Ethnicity Distraction? *Political Credibility and Partisan Preferences in Africa*	Philip Keefer	The World Bank
February 23 4:30pm	More Tickets, Fewer Accidents: *How Cash-Strapped Towns Make for Safer Roads*	Thomas Stratmann	George Mason University
April 27 11:00am	The Output Effects of Employer-Based Health Insurance	Jennifer Platania	Elon University

Fall 2009

September 10 11am	Standardized Testing in Higher Education	Kevin Rask	Wake Forest University
October 12 4:15pm	The Effects of Food Stamp Benefits on Weight Gained by Expectant Mothers	Charles Baum	Middle Tennessee State University
October 22 4pm	*Microfoundational* *Programs*	Kevin Hoover	Duke University
November 11 4:30pm	*A New Paradigm: a Joint Test of Structural and Correlation Parameters in Instrumental Variables Regression When Perfect Exogeneity is Violated*	Melinda Sandler Morrill	North Carolina State University

Spring 2009

March 17 4pm	Trade Misinvoicing: The Dark Side of International Trade	Andreas Buehn	Technical University of Dresden
April 2 4pm	*"To Set Devils Free": Manumission in Nineteenth-Century Virginia*	Howard Bodenhorn	Clemson University
April 13 12pm*	*Durable Goods and Sticky Prices: Industry-Level Evidence*	David VanHoose	Baylor University

Fall 2008

September 18 4pm	The Introduction of the Reserve Clause in Major League Baseball: *Evidence of its Impact on Select Player Salaries During the 1880s*	Craig Depken	University of North Carolina - Charlotte Belk College of Business
October 14 4pm	*House Prices and Credit Constraints: Making Sense of the U.S. Experience*	John Duca	Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
October 28 11am	Eight Lessons from Neuroeconomics	Paul Zak	Claremont Graduate University Center for Neuroeconomics Studies
November 6 11am	*Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Bubble: Florida, 1926*	Eugene White	Rutgers University Department of Economics

Spring 2008

January 24 4pm	*Applying Sustainability: Complex Decision Making in Agriculture*	Susan Kask	Warren Wilson College Department of Economics
March 3 4pm	*Globalization, Oil Prices, and U.S. Economic Activity*	Nathan Balke	Southern Methodist University Department of Economics
March 18 4pm	Public Policy, Economic Conditions, and WIC Caseloads	Chris Swan	University of North Carolina - Greensboro Bryan School of Business and Economics
April 7 4pm	*Why Rome Accepted Christianity: A Supply-side Economic Analysis*	Robert Tollison	Clemson University John E. Walker Department of Economics

Fall 2007

RESCHEDULED	*Applying Sustainability: Complex Decision Making in Agriculture*	Susan Kask	Warren Wilson College Department of Economics
October 10 4pm	Impacts of Endogenous Bribes on Direct Foreign Investment	Xiaodong Wu	University of North Carolina Department of Economics
October 23 11am	*Judges' Political Orientations and the Selection of Disputes for Litigation*	Ahmed Taha	Wake Forest University School of Law
November 6 11am	*Does Direct Democracy Increase State Expenditures?* The Case of Switzerland	Christina Zenker	Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business
November 29 11am	Strategic Behavior and Private Information in the EU Emissions Trading System	Andrew Yates	University of Richmond Robins School of Business

Fall 2006

September 7 4:30pm	*Sales Tax Revenue Effects of Sporting Events*	Dennis Coates	University of Maryland - Baltimore County Department of Economics
September 18 4pm	Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Global Warming Scenarios	Mark Strazicich	Appalachian State University Walker College of Business
October 5 11am	Receipt of Health Supervision Visits Among SSI Eligible Children in the DC Medicaid Program: A Comparison of Fee–for–Service and Partially Capitated Managed Care	Jean Mitchell	Georgetown University Public Policy Institute
October 17 4:30 pm	*Foreign Aid and Market Liberalizing Reform*	Jac C. Heckelman	Wake Forest Univeristy Department of Economics
November 9 4:30pm	The Effects of Schooling on Parental Time in Education Production	Angela Dills	Clemson University John E. Walker Department of Economics

Spring 2006

February 1 4pm	*The Profits of Infringement: Learned Hand v. Richard Posner*	Stephen E. Margolis	North Carolina State University
February 22 11am	Economic and Political Progress (?) in Central and Eastern Europe	Perry Patterson and Helga Welsh	Wake Forest University
March 22 4pm	Economic Theory and Epidemiological Modeling of HIV Transmission	Fred Chen	Wake Forest University
April 6 4pm	*Biology Interrupted: Robert Malthus on Human Nature, Prudence and Constitutional Political Economy*	Ross Emmett	Michigan State University

Fall 2005

September 6 4pm	*An Extension on the Traditional Theory of Customer Discrimination: Customers versus Customers*	Stephanie Crofton	High Point University Earl N. Phillips School of Business
October 20 11am	The Intervention Principle and Its Application to Pharmaceuticals	Earl Grinols	Baylor University Hankamer School of Business
November 1 4pm	Kinship Care: Does the Child Welfare System Serve the Neediest Families?	Michelle Sylvester	UNC-Greensboro Bryan School of Business and Economics
December 1 4pm	*Airline Concentration and Pricing: Testing the Effects of Mergers and Uncertainty*	John MacDonald	Wake Forest University Department of Economics

Spring 2005

January 25 4pm	*Monetary Policy Regimes in Macroeconomic Data: An Application of Fractal Analysis*	Robert Mulligan	Western Carolina University College of Business
February 10 4pm	Majoritarian Incoherence and Arrow Impossibility	Geoffrey Brennan	Australian National University Research School of Social Science
February 23 4pm	*Impact of Science and Technology on Growth in Africa*	Sylvain Boko	Wake Forest University Department of Economics
March 22 11am	*The Gender Pay Gap: The Intersection of Mating Markets and Labor Markets*	Richard McKenzie	University of California - Irvine Graduate School of Management
April 6 4pm	Matching and Learning in Cities: Evidence from Patent Data	Jerry Carlino	Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Fall 2004

September 23 4pm	*Deflation and Recovery*	Frank Steindl	Oklahoma State University College of Business Administration
October 7 4pm	The Stutz Squeeze	George Oldfield	College of William and Mary Graduate School of Business
October 21 11am	Fixed Effects and Related Estimators for Correlated Random Coefficients and Treatment Effect Panel Data Models	Jeffrey Woolridge	Michigan State University Dept of Economics
November 4 4pm	*The Importance of Democratization in Determining Central Government Spending, 1870-1938*	Jari Eloranta	Appalachian State University Department of History
November 30 11am	Informal Care and Medicare Expenditures	Courtney Harold Van Houtven	Health Services Research Group

Spring 2004

February 3 4pm	The Tree of Science and Original Sin: Do Christian Beliefs Inhibit the Supply of Scientists?	Gregory Price	North Carolina A&T University
February 26 11am	Crime in the Classroom: Does a Definition of Cheating Matter?	Robert Burrus	University of North Carolina at Wilmington Cameron School of Business
March 23 11am	*Emerging Crisis: Population Growth, Drought, and Conflict over Water Use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin*	Jody Lipford	Presbyterian College Department of Economics and Business Administration
April 1 4pm	*Autobiography and the History of Economics*	Roy Weintraub	Duke University Department of Economics
April 20 11am	*Some Simple Economics of Advertising, Marketing, and Product Design*	Justin Johnson	Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management

Fall 2003

September 18 11am	*Profitability and Efficiency of Antebellum Cotton Gin Manufacturing*	William Phillips	University of South Carolina Department of Economics
October 9 11am	Reference Pricing of Pharmaceuticals for Medicare: Evidence from Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand	Patricia Danzon	University of Pennsylvania Health Care Systems Department
October 20 4pm	*Construction of an Index of Leading Indicators for the Haitian Economy*	Kathleen Dorsainvil	Winston-Salem State University Dept of Business Administration and Economics
November 17 4pm	*The Creditor's Dilemma*	Amanda Dawsey	UNC-Greensboro Department of Economics
December 1 4pm	*Engines of Growth: The Role of Farm Tractors in Increasing Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare*	William White	Research Triangle Institute

Spring 2003

January 27 4pm	Contract Enforcement in Early Transition: Some Bulgarian Evidence	Kenneth Koford	University of Delaware Department of Economics
February 17 3:30pm	Are U.S. Households Becoming 'House Poor'?: The Declining Share of Home Equity in Net Worth	Ellen Merry	Federal Reserve Board of Governors
March 4 3:30pm	Dimensions of India's Political Economy: Space, Time, and Hierarchy	John Adams	University of Virginia Center for South Asian Studies
April 3 11am	*National Income and Specialization in Quality: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Income and Quality Choice*	Kellie Maskie	Appalachian State University Department of Economics
April 24 11am	Making Spending On-Budget or Off-Budget: Does it Make a Difference?	Hakan Berument	Bilkent University Department of Economics

Fall 2002

September 26 11am	*The Impact of Litigation on Nursing Home Quality*	Jennifer Troyer	University of North Carolina - Charlotte Department of Economics
October 17 4pm	*Creating Critical Thinking Spillovers with Electronic Class Discussions*	Stephen DeLoach	Elon University Department of Economics
October 31 11am	The Geographic Mobility of Displaced Workers: Do Local Labor Market Conditions Matter?	Jeffrey Yankow	Furman University Department of Economics and Business Administration
November 19 3pm	Trade and Child Labor: A General Equilibrium Analysis	Subhayu Bandyopadhyay	West Virginia University Department of Economics
December 3 11am	*The Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Welfare Recipiency: Another Look*	Mark D. Turner	Optimal Solutions Group and Georgetown University Public Policy Institute

Spring 2002

January 25 4pm	*The Military Recruiting Productivity Slowdown: The Roles of Resources, Opportunity Cost, and the Tastes of Youth*	John Warner	Clemson University Department of Economics
February 28 3:30pm	Achievement Awards for High School Matriculation: Research Methods and Preliminary Findings	Joshua Angrist	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
March 21 4pm	Threats to Actuarial Soundness and Reputation: Preventing Life Wagers, Murder, and Insurance Fraud	Sharon Ann Murphy	University of Virginia Department of History
April 4 4pm	Shacking Up and Breaking Up: Cohabitation and Marital Stability	Fred Chen	Wake Forest University Department of Economics
April 30 11am	*Optimal Endowments in Two-sided Pollution Permit Markets*	Andrew Yates	University of Richmond Robins School of Business

Fall 2001

September 5 3pm	*Early U.S. Constitutions as Solutions to the Principal-Agent Problem*	Robert Wright	University of Virginia Department of Economics
September 20 4pm	International Governance of the Internet: An Economic Analysis	Gordon Brady	George Mason University Center for Study of Public Choice
October 4 11am	*Optimal Cartel Pricing in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority*	Joseph Harrington	Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics
October 30 11am	*The Nature of the Business Group*	Raja Kali	University of Arkansas Sam Walton School of Business
November 13 11am	The Empirics of Institutions and Growth: Update and Extension	John Dawson	Appalachian State University Department of Economics
November 29 11am	*Perfect Information a la Marshall versus Perfect Information a la Walras*	Michel De Vroey	Université catholique de Louvain Department of Economic Sciences