Research Seminar Series

Spring 2012

1:30-3:00pm

Alumni Common Room

(unless otherwise specified)


Contact: Judy Dean and Raphael Schoenle

 

Date Speaker Affil Title
2-9 Betsey Stevenson UPenn Growth in Income and Subjective Well-Being Over Time
2-16 Sara Ellison MIT An Empirical Study of Pricing Strategies in an Online Market with High-Frequency Price Information
2-29 Carsten Kowalczyk Tufts  Freeing Trade
3-1 Petia Topalova IMF

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India 
3-8* Mario Crucini
 Vanderbilt
 Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?
3-15 James Foster
 George Washington University
 New Frontiers in Poverty Measurement
3-22 Eric Jacquier
 MIT
 What can Realized Volatility tell us about Future Volatility?
3-29 Kei-Mu Yi
 Minneapolis Fed
 Structural Change in an Open Economy
4-5 David Sraer
 Princeton Speculative Betas
4-12 Spring Recess
No Seminar
4-19 Nageeb Ali
 UCSD
  Ostracism
4-25** Egon Zakrajsek Board of Governors FRB Interest Rate Risk and Bank Equity Valuations
5-15*** Sonia Bhalotra University fo Bristol/Oxford Shadows of the Captain of the Men of Death: Long-Run Effects of Early Life Pneumonia, Human Capital Investment and Institutions

*This seminar will be held from 2-3:30pm in the Chancellor's Suite
**This seminar will be from 12-1:30pm on a Wednesday.
***This seminar is on a Tuesday.

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These seminars are sponsored by the Martin Weiner Lecture Series