College of William and Mary Department of Economics
2004-2005 Seminar Schedule

 

All seminars will take place in Morton Hall 102 on Fridays.
  
Date and Time Speaker

September 24
12:00 p.m-1:30 p.m.
Nuno Garoupa, School of Law, George Mason University
   "Least Cost Avoidance"
October 1
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Marisa Domino, School of Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill
   "Cost Shifting To Jails After A Change To Managed Mental Health Care"
October 15
2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
(note different time)
Eric Leeper, Department of Economics, Indiana University
   "Monetary and Fiscal Switching"
October 28
(Thursday,
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.)
Tom Arnold, School of Business, University of Richmond
   "The NPV Intuition of Real Option Analysis"
November 5
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
David Blau, Department of Economics, UNC-Chapel Hill
   "Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model"
November 12
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Robert Archibald, Department of Economics, College of William and Mary and
David Feldman, Department of Economics, College of William and Mary
   "State Higher Education Spending and the Tax Revolt"
November 19
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
Troy Davig, Department of Economics, College of William and Mary
   "Monetary Policy and Fiscal Switching in a New Keynesian Model"
December 3
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Ira Gang, Department of Economics, Rutgers University
   "Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India"
Wednesday,
January 12
12:00 p.m-1:30 p.m.
Daniele Paserman, Hebrew University
   "Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives?
   Quasi-Experimental Evidence
"
February 4
12:00 p.m-1:30 p.m.
Ryan Mutter, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   "The Effects of Hospital Competition on Inpatient Quality of Care"
February 25
12:00 p.m-1:30 p.m.
Adam Winship, Franklin and Marshall College
   "Wars of Attrition with Hidden Budget Constraints"
April 1
12:00 p.m-1:00 p.m.
David Jaeger, College of William and Mary
   "The Spiral of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Violence in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict"
April 8
12:00 p.m-1:30 p.m.
Hideaki Miyajima, School of Commerce Waseda University and
   Reischauer Institute of Japenese Studies, Harvard University

   "Relationship Banking in Post-Bubble Japan: Coexistence of Soft- and Hard-Budget Constraints"
April 15
12:00 p.m-1:00 p.m.
Julie Agnew, School of Business, College of William and Mary
   "An Analysis of How Individuals React to Market Returns in One 401(k) Plan"
April 22
12:00 p.m-1:30 p.m.
Kara Levine, Washington and Lee University
   "Bequest Motives and Portfolio Choice"