Claremont Economics Seminars

Spring 2006 Schedule

Friday January 20th, 4:15-5:45pm, Jonathan Lanning (UMICH), BC 25,
"Testing Standard Theories of Economic Discrimination: Productivity, Prejudice, and Lost Profits During Baseball's Integration."

Monday January 23rd, 4:15-5:45pm, Manisha Shah (UC-Berkeley), BC 25,
"Enforcing Licensing Requirements: Implications for Disease Transmission in the Sex Market."

Monday January 30th, 4:15-5:45pm, Patrick Nolan (Cornell), BC 36,
"Unemployment and Family-Values: A Household Distribution Sensitive Measure of Unemployment and Some Applications."

Monday February 6th, 4:15-5:45pm, Christopher Rohlfs (UCHICAGO), BC 36,
"How Much Did the US Government Value its Troops' Lives in World War II?: Evidence from Dollar-Fatality Tradeoffs in Land Battles."

Friday February 3rd, FINANCE INSTITUTE CONFERENCE (See Janet Smith for details)

Friday February 10th, 12-1pm, Daniela Iorio (UPENN, Currently Visiting CMC), BC 35,

"Electoral Uncertainty and Stability of Coalition Governments"

Wednesday February 15th, 4:15-5:45pm, Christo Pirinsky (Rutgers), BC 36,
"How Important are Relationships for IPO Underwriters and Institutional Investors?"

Friday February 17th, 4:15-5:45pm, Rajashri Chakrabarti (Harvard University), BC 36,
"Do Public School Facing Vouchers Behave Strategically? Evidence from Florida"

Friday February 24th, 12-1pm, Joshua Rosett (CMC), BC 2,
TBA

Friday March 3rd, 3:30-5pm, John Ham (USC), BC 36,
TBA

Friday March 10th, 12-1pm, Darren Filson (CGU), BC 36,
"The Impacts of Price Controls on the Performance of the Research-Based Pharmaceutical Industry"

Friday March 24th, 12-1pm, Georgina Moreno (Scripps), BC 36,
"Is Smart Growth Regressive?"

Friday March 31st, 3:30-5pm, Regis Renault (U-CERGY), BC FOUNDERS,
"Comparative Advertising"

Friday April 7th, 12-1pm, Fernando Lozano (POMONA), BC 36,
"Coming to Work? The Hours Work of Immigrants in the US"

Friday April 14th, 3:30-5pm, Kate Antonovics (UCSD), BC 36,
"A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department". http://econ.ucsd.edu/~kantonov/RacialProfilingPaper12.pdf

Friday April 21st, 3:30-5pm, Steve Stern (UNIV of VIRGINIA), BC 36,
Theme: The Lemon's Market. www.people.virginia.edu/~sns5r/resint/empiostf/usedcarpapers.html

Friday April 28th, 12-1pm, Jennifer Ward-Batts (CMC), BC 36,
"Time Allocation of Parents and Investments in Sons and Daughters"

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