Spring 2009
All workshops are in room 7324 of the Sewell Social Science Building at 3:45 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
March 30 - April 3, 2009
- Monday, March 30
Econometrics (rescheduled from Friday, March 27)
JACK PORTER, UW-Madison
"Impossibility Results for Bounds Estimation" joint with Keisuke Hirano - Tuesday, March 31
International
MICHAEL MOORE, Queen's University Belfast
"Size, specialism and the nature of informational advantage in inter-dealer foreign exchange trading", with Richard Payne (pdf) - Wednesday, April 1
Macro
MARIACRISTINA DE NARDI, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and NBER
"Differential Mortality, Uncertain Medical Expenses, and the Saving of Elderly Singles" (pdf) and paper #2 (pdf) - Thursday, April 2 at 12:45 p.m.
Industrial Organization
DANIEL ACKERBERG, UCLA
"The Buy-it-now Option, Risk Aversion, and Impatience in an Empirical Model of eBay Bidding" with Keisuke Hirano and Quazi Shahriar (pdf)