Claremont Economics Seminars

Spring 2003

  • January 21, 4:15, Bauer 33
    James Wallace, University of California, Irvine
    "Agency Costs and Efficient Contracting"


  • January 23, 3:00, Bauer 36
    Todd Kendall, University of Chicago
    "Which Workers Specialize More? Theory and Some Evidence from Academic Economists"


  • January 28, 4:15, Bauer 36
    Joshua Rosett, Tulane University
    "Accounting and Labor"


  • January 29, 4:15, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Charles Horioka, University of Osaka, Japan
    "The Impact of Bequest Motives on the Saving Behavior of the Aged in Japan"


  • February 3, 4:15, Bauer 35
    Eric Chiang, New Mexico State University
    "Copyright Protection in U.S. Universities"


  • February 4, 4:15, Bauer 36
    Chandra Subramaniam, Texas Christian University
    "The Timing of Option Repricing"


  • February 6, 3:00, Bauer 36
    Betty Daniel, SUNY-Albany
    "Fiscal Policy, Price Stability, and Politics"


  • February 11, 4:15, Bauer 36
    Randall Reback, University of Michigan
    "Capitalization under School Choice Programs: Are the Winners Really the Losers?"


  • February 14, 2:00, Bauer 36
    Christine Eibner, Princeton University
    "Population Heterogeneity and Voter Turnout, 1972-1992"


  • February 27, 4:15, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley
    "Restructuring Sovereign Debt: Analytical Issues and Policy Proposals"


  • February 28, noon, Bauer 33
    Gerald Garvey, Drucker Graduate School of Management
    "Do Executives Benchmark Their Pay Opportunistically?"


  • March 3, 2:30, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
    "Do Electronic Site Licenses for Academic Journals Benefit the Scientific Community?"


  • March 5, 4:15, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Gordon Hanson, University of California, San Diego
    "Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China"


  • March 7, 3:00, Bauer 33
    Ron Harstad, Rutgers University
    "Private Information Revelation in Common-Value Auctions"


  • March 12, 4:15, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Clive Granger, University of California, San Diego
    "Modeling, Evaluation, and Methodology in the New Century"


  • March 26, 4:15, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Kar-yiu Wong, University of Washington, Seattle
    "Optimal Timing of Foreign Trade"


  • March 28, 4:00, Carnegie 213 - Pomona College
    Roy Radner, NYU
    "Strategic Analysis of `Petty Corruption': A Project Description"


  • April 2, 2:35, Bauer 34
    Curt Hunter, Chicago Fed
    "The Value of Banking Relationships During a Financial Crisis: Evidence from Failures of Japanese Banks"


  • April 4, noon, Bauer 33
    Richard Burdekin and Marc Weidenmier, CMC
    "Circulating Interest-Bearing Currency: An Arkansan Experiment, 1861-1863"


  • April 11, noon, Bauer 33
    David Harrington, Kenyon College
    "Breaking Barriers in the Funeral Market: The Effect of Market Growth on the Cremation Rate"


  • April 18, noon, Bauer 33
    Madeline Zavodny, Occidental College
    "Does Immigration Affect Wages?"


  • April 25, Lowe Institute
    Workshop on "The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation and the Prospects for Global Deflation"


  • April 30, 4:15, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College
    "Subcontractors for Tractors: How Does Asset Specificity Affect Contracting?"


  • May 2, noon, Bauer 33
    Rick Harbaugh, CMC
    "Skill Signaling, Prospect Theory, and Regret Theory"


  • May 7, 4:15, Davidson Lecture Hall
    Arie Melnik, University of Haifa
    "International Institutional Lending Arrangements to Sovereign Borrowers"


  • May 8, 3:00, Bauer 35
    Mike Maloney, Clemson University
    "The Response of the Debt Market to Municipal Financial Distress"


  • May 16, noon, Bauer 33
    Jennifer Ward-Batts, CMC


  • June 9, noon, Bauer 33
    Janet Smith and K. Kutsuna, CMC


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