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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James Buchanan (1919-2013)

Spring 2015

February 23
4:00pm
Complexity and Behavioral Economics
Barkley Rosser James Madison University

March 2
4:00pm
Does Full-Day Kindergarten Combined with Small Class Size Boost Test Scores? David Frisvold University of Iowa

March 18
4:00pm
Endogeneity and Growth Regressions William Hauk University of South Carolina

April 1
4:00pm
Does a Ban on Informal Health Providers Save Lives?
Evidence from Malawi Susan Godlonton Williams College

Fall 2014

September 8
5:00pm

The Scottish Enlightenment and the Beginnings of Political Economy

James Otteson

Wake Forest University

September 29
4:00pm

Wage Discrimination when Identity is Subjective: Evidence from Changes in Employer-Reported Race

Ian Schmutte

University of Georgia

October 15
4:00pm

Leviathan Denied: Rules, Governments, Social Dynamics

John Wallis

University of Maryland

November 5
4:00pm

Beyond Physicians: The Effect of Licensing and Liability Laws on Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and the Healthcare System

Benjamin McMichael

Vanderbilt University

November 18
5:00pm

Taylor Rules for Sweden's Riksbank

Rob Roy McGregor

UNC Charlotte

Spring 2014

March 5
4:00pm

Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations

Brian Knight

Brown University

March 20
4:00pm

Violence and Migration: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Sarah Pearlman

Vassar College

April 22
4:00pm

Paul Samuelson on Public Goods and the Role of Government

Dan Hammond

Wake Forest University

Fall 2013

September 12
5:00pm

Low Priority Laws and the Allocation of Police Resources

Amanda Ross

West Virginia University

September 23
4:00pm

AGOA and Export Diversification

Jason Jones

Furman University

October 8
5:00pm

Estimating the Liquidity Premium to Paper Money in Colonial America: New Jersey, 1709-1775

Farley Grubb

University of Delaware

October 21
3:00pm

Estimating the Effects of Payday Lending Access and the Military Lending Act

Susan Carter

United States Military Academy

POSTPONED

Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Voter and Politician Responses to a Large-Scale Randomized Intervention

A. Mushfiq Mobarak

Yale University

November 14
5:00pm

Bilateral Trade and the Environment: A General Equilibrium Model Based on New Trade Theory

Ayse Erdogan

Rochester Institute of Technology

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 á la Marshall versus Perfect Information á la Walras
Michel De Vroey

Université catholique de Louvain
Department of Economic Sciences

February 23 4:00pm	*Complexity and Behavioral Economics*	Barkley Rosser	James Madison University
March 2 4:00pm	*Does Full-Day Kindergarten Combined with Small Class Size Boost Test Scores?*	David Frisvold	University of Iowa
March 18 4:00pm	*Endogeneity and Growth Regressions*	William Hauk	University of South Carolina
April 1 4:00pm	Does a Ban on Informal Health Providers Save Lives? Evidence from Malawi	Susan Godlonton	Williams College

September 8 5:00pm	*The Scottish Enlightenment and the Beginnings of Political Economy*	James Otteson	Wake Forest University
September 29 4:00pm	*Wage Discrimination when Identity is Subjective: Evidence from Changes in Employer-Reported Race*	Ian Schmutte	University of Georgia
October 15 4:00pm	*Leviathan Denied: Rules, Governments, Social Dynamics*	John Wallis	University of Maryland
November 5 4:00pm	*Beyond Physicians: The Effect of Licensing and Liability Laws on Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and the Healthcare System*	Benjamin McMichael	Vanderbilt University
November 18 5:00pm	*Taylor Rules for Sweden's Riksbank*	Rob Roy McGregor	UNC Charlotte

March 5 4:00pm	*Evaluating Competing Explanations for The Midterm Gap: A Unified Econometric Approach with Microfoundations*	Brian Knight	Brown University
March 20 4:00pm	*Violence and Migration: Evidence from Mexico's Drug War*	Sarah Pearlman	Vassar College
April 22 4:00pm	*Paul Samuelson on Public Goods and the Role of Government*	Dan Hammond	Wake Forest University

September 12 5:00pm	*Low Priority Laws and the Allocation of Police Resources*	Amanda Ross	West Virginia University
September 23 4:00pm	*AGOA and Export Diversification*	Jason Jones	Furman University
October 8 5:00pm	*Estimating the Liquidity Premium to Paper Money in Colonial America: New Jersey, 1709-1775*	Farley Grubb	University of Delaware
October 21 3:00pm	*Estimating the Effects of Payday Lending Access and the Military Lending Act*	Susan Carter	United States Military Academy
POSTPONED	*Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Voter and Politician Responses to a Large-Scale Randomized Intervention*	A. Mushfiq Mobarak	Yale University
November 14 5:00pm	*Bilateral Trade and the Environment: A General Equilibrium Model Based on New Trade Theory*	Ayse Erdogan	Rochester Institute of Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 á la Marshall versus Perfect Information á la Walras*	Michel De Vroey	Université catholique de Louvain Department of Economic Sciences