Past Seminars

Fall 2010

George Waters, Illinois State University
"Quantity Rationing of Credit and Involuntary Unemployment and the State of Macroeconomic Theory"
Andrea Beller, University of Illinois
"The Decline in Females in Consumer Economics"
Lea Kosnik, University of Missouri at St. Louis
"From Cournot to the Commons: An Analysis of Regulatory Property Rights"
Lia Noguiera, University of Illinois
"Food Import Refusals: Factors Affecting Refusals in the United States and Trade Diversion Effects in the European Union"
Xingyuan Zhang, Visiting Professor at Illinois State University
"A Survival Analysis of Patent Examination Requests by Japanese Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers"

James M. Sallee, University of Chicago
"Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Economy Standards."

Xingyuan Zhang, Okayama University (Japan),
"Patent Citations, Technology Diffusion and International Trade: Evidence from Some Asian Countries and Regions"
Rajeev Goel, Illinois State University
"Publication Uncertainty and Academic Research Behavior" ( with J. R. Faria from University of Texas at El Paso)
S. Lippert, Massey University (New Zealand)
"Venture Capital Syndication and Termination of Viable Projects" ( with S. Fabrizi from Massey University)
Diego Mendez-Carbajo, Illinois Wesleyan University
"Academic Salary Compression at Public Universities in Illinois"

Dan McMillan, University of Illinois at Chicago,
"Teardowns and Hedonic Land Value Fiunction Estimation Using Non-Sample Data"
T. Scott Findley, Illinois State University,
"Does it Pay to be SMarT?"
Shantanu Bagchi, Utah State University,
"Does Overconfidence Explain the Consumption Hump?"
Oz Dincer, Illinois State University,
"What's God Got to Do With It?"
Chris Ellis, University of Oregon,
"Democratic Errors"
Jeffrey Mills, University of Cincinnati,
"How to Test Hypotheses If We Must"

Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis,
"Optimal Response to a Transitory Demographic Shock in Social Security Financing?"
George Waters, Illinois State University,
"Learning, Commitment and Monetary Policy: The Case for Partial Commitment"
Eric Uslaner, University of Maryland,
"Where You Stand Depends Upon Where Your Grandparents Sat: The Inheritability of Generalized Trust"
James Payne, Illinois State University,
"'We Got Game and Some!' Efficiency in the WNBA: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach with Panel Data"
Michael Brun and Marianne Ferber, University of Illinois,
"What Impact Do Women in Government Have on Policy and How Do These Policies Affect Women and Men?"

William Hoyt, University of Kentucky,
"State Laffer Curves? Income Taxes and the Destination of Movers to Multistate MSA's"
Jim Koch, Old Dominion University
"The Influence of Religion, Moral Values and 'Gay Marriage' Votes on the 2004 Election"
Darren Lubotsky, University of Illinois,
"Kindergarten Entrance Age and Children's Achievement: Impacts of State Policies, Family Background and Peers"

Ronald Harstad, University of Missouri - Columbia,
"Rational Participation Revolutionizes Auction Theory"
Anthony Pennington-Cross, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis,
The Impact of Local Predatory Lending Laws"
Sherrilyn Billger, Illinois State University,
"Reconstructing School Segregation: On the Efficacy and Equity of Single-Sex Schooling"
Ardeshir Dalal, Northern Illinois University,
"Alpha Countries and International Economic Policy"

Juha Seppala, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
“Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates”
Neil Skaggs, Illinois State University,
"The Delayed Acceptance of the Theory of Money and Finance in Development Economics"
Brad Humphries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"Proximity Benefits and Voting on Stadium and Arena Subsidies"
Wojciech Olszewski, Northwestern University,
"A Welfare Analysis of Arbitration"

Pavel Kapinos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"Endogenous Shocks in the New Keynesian Model"
Karie Barbour, Illinois State University,
"The Effects of Motor Vehicle Wealth Taxes on Vehicle Age Distributions and Emissions"
Steve Ziliak, Roosevelt University,
"The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review"

Kevin J. Murphy, Oakland University,
"The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Taxes on Wages"
Jan K. Brueckner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"Friendship Networks"
Sherrilyn M. Billger, Illinois State University,
"Principals as Agents? Investigating the Impact of Accountability on the Compensation and Performance of School Principals"
Michael Brün, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"Entrepreneurship, Prophecy, Bubbles: A Complicating Aspect of Market and Non-Market Economic Systems"

Todd Elder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schools"
Raymond Cohn, Illinois State University,
"The Transition from Sail to Steam in Immigration to the United States"
Julian Jamison, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,|
"Evaluation and Aggregation of Discounting Procedures"
Richard MacMinn, Illinois State University,
Katie School of Insurance On Corporate Risk Management and Insurance
George Waters, Illinois State University,
"Regime Changes, Learning and Monetary Policy"
Emek Basker, University of Missouri at Columbia,
"Selling a Cheaper Mousetrap: Wal-Mart's Effect on Retail Prices"
Bengte Evenson, Illinois State University
"Evaluating the Determinants of Open Space Provision: the Political Economy of 'Smart Growth'"

Daniel McMillen, University of Illinois at Chicago,
"Airport Expansions and Property Values: The Case of Chicago O'Hare Airport"
Elizabeth Powers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Children's Health and Well Being: Evidence from the 1990s"
Hassan Mohammadi, Illinois State University,
"Cyclical Behavior of Real Wages: New Evidence Using Historical Data"
George Waters, Illinois State University,
"An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach to Rational Expectations"
Risa Kumazawa, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Visiting at Illinois Wesleyan University,
"The Effects of Heterogeneity of Marital Status on Welfare Participation"

Hoyt Bleakley, MIT, Visiting at Univ. of Chicago,
"Disease and Development: Evidence from the American South"
Andy Toole, Illinois State University,
"Does Public Scientific Research Complement Industry R&D Investment? The Case of NIH supported Basic and Clinical Research and Pharmaceutical Industry R&D"
Saku Aura, University of Missouri at Columbia,
"Uncommitted Couples: Some Efficiency and Policy Implications of Marital Bargaining"
Kevin Hallock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"Does Managed Care Change the Mission of Nonprofit Hospitals? Evidence from the Managerial Labor Market"
Leemore Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University,
"How do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes?"
Daniel Rich, Illinois State University,
"Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach"
Darren Lubotsky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
"Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings"