Department of Economics Workshop Series
Department of Economics Workshop Series
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) |
Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) |
Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) |
 Mancur Olson (1932-1998) |
All seminars are held in Carswell 118. For additional information, contact Jac Heckelman.
| September 18 4pm |
The Introduction of the Reserve Clause in Major League Baseball: Evidence of its Impact on Select Player Salaries During the 1880s |
Craig Depken | University of North Carolina - Charlotte Belk College of Business |
| October 14 4pm |
House Prices and Credit Constraints: Making Sense of the U.S. Experience | John Duca | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
| October 28 11am |
Eight Lessons from Neuroeconomics | Paul Zak | Claremont Graduate University Center for Neuroeconomics Studies |
| November 6 11am |
Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Bubble: Florida, 1926 | Eugene White | Rutgers University Department of Economics |
| January 24 4pm |
Applying Sustainability: Complex Decision Making in Agriculture | Susan Kask | Warren Wilson College Department of Economics |
| March 3 4pm |
Globalization, Oil Prices, and U.S. Economic Activity | Nathan Balke | Southern Methodist University Department of Economics |
| March 18 4pm |
Public Policy, Economic Conditions, and WIC Caseloads | Chris Swan | University of North Carolina - Greensboro Bryan School of Business and Economics |
| April 7 4pm |
Why Rome Accepted Christianity: A Supply-side Economic Analysis | Robert Tollison | Clemson University John E. Walker Department of Economics |
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Applying Sustainability: Complex Decision Making in Agriculture | Susan Kask | Warren Wilson College Department of Economics |
| October 10 4pm |
Impacts of Endogenous Bribes on Direct Foreign Investment | Xiaodong Wu | University of North Carolina Department of Economics |
| October 23 11am |
Judges' Political Orientations and the Selection of Disputes for Litigation | Ahmed Taha | Wake Forest University School of Law |
| November 6 11am |
Does Direct Democracy Increase State Expenditures? The Case of Switzerland |
Christina Zenker | Elon University Martha and Spencer Love School of Business |
| November 29 11am |
Strategic Behavior and Private Information in the EU Emissions Trading System |
Andrew Yates | University of Richmond Robins School of Business |
| September 7 4:30pm |
Sales Tax Revenue Effects of Sporting Events | Dennis Coates | University of Maryland - Baltimore County Department of Economics |
| September 18 4pm |
Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Global Warming Scenarios | Mark Strazicich | Appalachian State University Walker College of Business |
| October 5 11am |
Receipt of Health Supervision Visits Among SSI Eligible Children in the DC Medicaid Program: A Comparison of Fee–for–Service and Partially Capitated Managed Care | Jean Mitchell | Georgetown University Public Policy Institute |
October 17 |
Foreign Aid and Market Liberalizing Reform | Jac C. Heckelman | Wake Forest Univeristy
Department of Economics |
| November 9 4:30pm |
The Effects of Schooling on Parental Time in Education Production | Angela Dills | Clemson University John E. Walker Department of Economics |
| February 1 4pm |
The Profits of Infringement: Learned Hand v. Richard Posner | Stephen E. Margolis | North Carolina State University |
| February 22 11am |
Economic and Political Progress (?) in Central and Eastern Europe | Perry Patterson and Helga Welsh |
Wake Forest University
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| March 22 4pm |
Economic Theory and Epidemiological Modeling of HIV Transmission | Fred Chen | Wake Forest University |
April 6 |
Biology Interrupted: Robert Malthus on Human Nature, Prudence and Constitutional Political Economy | Ross Emmett | Michigan State University |
| September 6 4pm |
An Extension on the Traditional Theory of Customer Discrimination: Customers versus Customers | Stephanie Crofton | High Point University Earl N. Phillips School of Business |
| October 20 11am |
The Intervention Principle and Its Application to Pharmaceuticals | Earl Grinols | Baylor University
Hankamer School of Business |
| November 1 4pm |
Kinship Care: Does the Child Welfare System Serve the Neediest Families? | Michelle Sylvester | UNC-Greensboro Bryan School of Business and Economics |
December 1 |
Airline Concentration and Pricing: Testing the Effects of Mergers and Uncertainty | John MacDonald | Wake Forest University Department of Economics |
| January 25 4pm |
Monetary Policy Regimes in Macroeconomic Data: An Application of Fractal Analysis | Robert Mulligan | Western Carolina University College of Business |
| February 10 4pm |
Majoritarian Incoherence and Arrow Impossibility | Geoffrey Brennan | Australian National University Research School of Social Science |
| February 23 4pm |
Impact of Science and Technology on Growth in Africa | Sylvain Boko | Wake Forest University Department of Economics |
March 22 |
The Gender Pay Gap: The Intersection of Mating Markets and Labor Markets | Richard McKenzie | University of California - Irvine Graduate School of Management |
| April 6 4pm |
Matching and Learning in Cities: Evidence from Patent Data | Jerry Carlino | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
| September 23 4pm |
Deflation and Recovery | Frank Steindl | Oklahoma State University College of Business Administration |
| October 7 4pm |
The Stutz Squeeze | George Oldfield | College of William and Mary Graduate School of Business |
| October 21 11am |
Fixed Effects and Related Estimators for Correlated Random Coefficients and Treatment Effect Panel Data Models | Jeffrey Woolridge | Michigan State University Dept of Economics |
November 4 |
The Importance of Democratization in Determining Central Government Spending, 1870-1938 | Jari Eloranta | Appalachian State University Department of History |
| November 30 11am |
Informal Care and Medicare Expenditures | Courtney Harold Van Houtven | Health Services Research Group |
| February 3 4pm |
The Tree of Science and Original Sin:
Do Christian Beliefs Inhibit the Supply of Scientists? |
Gregory Price | North Carolina A&T University |
| February 26 11am |
Crime in the Classroom: Does a Definition of Cheating Matter? |
Robert Burrus | University of North Carolina at Wilmington Cameron School of Business |
| March 23 11am |
Emerging Crisis: Population Growth, Drought, and Conflict over Water Use in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin | Jody Lipford | Presbyterian College Department of Economics and Business Administration |
| April 1 4pm |
Autobiography and the History of Economics | Roy Weintraub | Duke University Department of Economics |
| April 20 11am |
Some Simple Economics of Advertising, Marketing, and Product Design | Justin Johnson |
Cornell University |
| September 18 11am |
Profitability and Efficiency of Antebellum Cotton Gin Manufacturing | William Phillips | University of South Carolina Department of Economics |
| October 9 11am |
Reference Pricing of Pharmaceuticals
for Medicare: Evidence from Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand |
Patricia Danzon | University of Pennsylvania Health Care Systems Department |
| October 20 4pm |
Construction of an Index of Leading Indicators for the Haitian Economy | Kathleen Dorsainvil | Winston-Salem State University Dept of Business Administration and Economics |
| November 17 4pm |
The Creditor's Dilemma | Amanda Dawsey | UNC-Greensboro Department of Economics |
| December 1 4pm |
Engines of Growth: The Role of Farm Tractors in Increasing Twentieth-Century U.S. Economic Welfare | William White | Research Triangle Institute |
| January 27 4pm |
Contract Enforcement in Early Transition: Some Bulgarian Evidence |
Kenneth Koford | University of Delaware Department of Economics |
| February 17 3:30pm |
Are U.S. Households Becoming 'House Poor'?: The Declining Share of Home Equity in Net Worth |
Ellen Merry | Federal Reserve Board of Governors |
| March 4 3:30pm |
Dimensions of India's Political Economy: Space, Time, and Hierarchy |
John Adams | University of Virginia Center for South Asian Studies |
| April 3 11am |
National Income and Specialization in Quality: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Income and Quality Choice | Kellie Maskie | Appalachian State University Department of Economics |
| April 24 11am |
Making Spending On-Budget or Off-Budget: Does it Make a Difference? |
Hakan Berument | Bilkent University Department of Economics |
| September 26 11am |
The Impact of Litigation on Nursing Home Quality | Jennifer Troyer | University of North Carolina - Charlotte Department of Economics |
| October 17 4pm |
Creating Critical Thinking Spillovers with Electronic Class Discussions | Stephen DeLoach | Elon University Department of Economics |
| October 31 11am |
The Geographic Mobility of Displaced Workers: Do Local Labor Market Conditions Matter? |
Jeffrey Yankow | Furman University Department of Economics and Business Administration |
| November 19 3pm |
Trade and Child Labor: A General Equilibrium Analysis |
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay | West Virginia University Department of Economics |
| December 3 11am |
The Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Welfare Recipiency: Another Look | Mark D. Turner | Optimal Solutions Group and
Georgetown University Public Policy Institute |
| January 25 4pm |
The Military Recruiting Productivity Slowdown: The Roles of Resources, Opportunity Cost, and the Tastes of Youth | John Warner | Clemson University Department of Economics |
| February 28 3:30pm |
Achievement Awards for High School Matriculation:
Research Methods and Preliminary Findings |
Joshua Angrist | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics |
| March 21 4pm |
Threats to Actuarial Soundness and Reputation: Preventing Life Wagers, Murder, and Insurance Fraud |
Sharon Ann Murphy | University of Virginia Department of History |
| April 4 4pm |
Shacking Up and Breaking Up: Cohabitation and Marital Stability |
Fred Chen | Wake Forest University Department of Economics |
| April 30 11am |
Optimal Endowments in Two-sided Pollution Permit Markets | Andrew Yates | University of Richmond Robins School of Business |
| September 5 3pm |
Early U.S. Constitutions as Solutions to the Principal-Agent Problem | Robert Wright | University of Virginia Department of Economics |
| September 20 4pm |
International Governance of the Internet: An Economic Analysis |
Gordon Brady | George Mason University Center for Study of Public Choice |
| October 4 11am |
Optimal Cartel Pricing in the Presence of an Antitrust Authority | Joseph Harrington | Johns Hopkins University Department of Economics |
| October 30 11am |
The Nature of the Business Group | Raja Kali | University of Arkansas Sam Walton School of Business |
| November 13 11am |
The Empirics of Institutions and Growth: Update and Extension |
John Dawson | Appalachian State University Department of Economics |
| November 29 11am |
Perfect Information a la Marshall versus Perfect Information a la Walras | Michel De Vroey | Université catholique de Louvain Department of Economic Sciences |