Claremont Economics Seminars

Spring 2002 Schedule

• February 1, Recruiting Seminar (2:00 pm)
  Andy Seltzer, Royal Holloway College
  "Can Incomes Policies Reduce Real Wages? Micro-Evidence from the 1931 Australian Award Wage Cut"



• February 4, Recruiting Seminar (3:30 pm)
  Mireille Jacobson, Harvard University
  "Baby Booms and Drug Busts: Youth Drug Use in the United States, 1975-2000"



• February 8, Claremont Economics Seminar/CGU Psychology Seminar (2:00 pm)
  Jean Ensminger, Cal Tech
  "Experimental Economics in the Bush: From Africa to Small Town America"



• February 13, Claremont Economics Seminar (4:15 pm)
  Livia Markoczy, UCR
  "Motives behind cooperation in social dilemmas: The California Energy Crises"



• March 1, SPE Graduate Student Conference, Claremont Graduate University

• March 6, Claremont Economics Seminar (4:15 pm)
  Pierre Siklos, Wilfred Laurier University
  "Optimal Reaction Functions, Taylor's Rule and Inflation Targets: The Experiences of Dollar Bloc Countries"



• March 8, Claremont Economics Seminar (2:00 pm)
  Justin Tobias, UCI
  "Learning About Unobserved Heterogeneity in Returns to Schooling"
  
  
• March 15-17 The All-UC Group in Economic History Conference



• March 25, Claremont Economics Seminar (4:15 pm)
  King Banaian, St. Cloud
  "Ukraine and the IMF" 
  
  
• March 26, Claremont Economics Seminar
  Thomas W. Hazlett, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
  "Legislators v. Regulators: The Case of Low Power FM Radio"
  
  
• April 5, Claremont Economics Seminar (2:00 pm)
  Art De Vany, UCI
  "Why do we get fat?" 



• April 12, Claremont Economics Seminar (2:00 pm)
  Joel Mokyr, Northwestern/Stanford
  "The Rise and Fall of the Factory System: Technology, firms, and households since the Industrial Revolution"
  
  
• April 15, Claremont Economics Seminar
  Duncan Thomas, UCLA
  TBA
  
  
• April 19, Claremont Economics Seminar
  Ray Riezman, University of Iowa
  "The Sources of Protectionist Drift in Representative Democracies"
  
  
• April 26, Claremont Economics Seminar (2:00 pm)
  Jeff Coles, ASU
  "Corporate Policies Restricting Insider Trading"



• May 1, Claremont Economics Seminar (4:15 pm)
  Marcelle Chauvet, UCR
  "Markov Switching in Disaggregate Unemployment Rates" 
  
  

Related Claremont seminars and events:

• Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquium
• Claremont Research Institute of Applied
  Mathematical Sciences
• Drucker Graduate School of Management events
• Claremont University Center events
• CMC Athenaeum Speaker Series

Local universities:

• Caltech seminars
• UC Irvine seminars
• UCLA seminars
• UC Riverside seminars
• UC San Diego seminars
• UC Santa Barbara seminars
• USC seminars

Previous semesters:

• Fall 2001
• Spring 2001
• Fall 2000
• Spring 2000
• Fall 1999