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Economics Department Seminars
Spring 2008

The seminars have several purposes: they provide a forum for discussing work in progress, a place to learn about recent research, and an opportunity to interact with researchers from inside the economics department and beyond.

All seminars will run from 1:05 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. and, unless otherwise indicated, will take place in the large conference room on the sixth floor of One Bowdoin Square.

Tuesday, March 25: Phuong Viet Ngo Topic: Habit Formation in State-Dependant Pricing Models: Implications for the Dynamics of Output and Inflation  

Thursday, March 27th: in Sawyer 1008: Miguel Schloos (former Executive Director of Transparency International). Topic: Recasting Governance for the XXI Centry

Thursday, April 10th: Kossi Makpayo Topic: The Dual Effects of Financial Liberalization: Does the positive effect really outweigh the negative effect?

Saturday, April 19th:   New England Statistical Symposium [A one-day conference, which we will be organizing this year, to be held in Sargent Hall. Also an opportunity to present suitable papers.]


Tuesday, April 22nd:  Bob Lawson (Captial University) Topic: Examining the Hayek-Friedman Hypothesis on Economic and Political Freedom


Wednesday, April 30th: Tolga Ergun Topic: On the Importance of Time Variation and Persistance in Higher Moments [paper with Jongbyung Jun]