Departmental Seminar Series
Fall 2012-Spring 2013
Notes: All seminars will be held in the SBS Building on the campus of the University at Stony Brook (SUNY) in Room N-603 from 4pm to 5:30pm unless otherwise indicated. Alexis Anagnostopoulos and Eva Carceles-Poveda are this year's seminar organizers.
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday September 11 | Alexis Anagnostopoulos | SUNY-Stony Brook | Value preserving weights for social optimization problems |
| Thursday September 20 | Yair Tauman | SUNY-Stony Brook | Voting power and proportional representation of voters |
| Thursday September 27 | Juan Carlos Conesa | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | Gambling for Redemption and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises |
| Thursday October 4 | Jay H. Hong | University of Rochester | Life Cycle Uncertainty and Portfolio Choice Puzzles |
| Tuesday October 9 | John Jones | University at Albany | Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education |
| Tuesday October 16 | Davied Jaeger | CUNY-Graduate Center | Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence between the United States and the Taliban |
| Thursday October 25 | Frank Heiland | CUNY-Baruch College | Uncertain Lifespans and Retirement Benefit Take-up: How Can Social Security Mitigate the Risk?" |
| Friday October 26, 12pm, N-603. | Celia Patricia Vera | Stony Brook University | A Structural Approach to Explain Teachers' Attrition and Returning Decisions Accounting for Fertility Behavior |
| Tuesday October 30 | Ying Fan | University of Michigan | TBA |
| Tuesday November 13 | Fernando Martin | St. Louis Fed. | Debt, Inflation and Central Bank Independence |
| Thursday November 15 | Eric Young | University of Virginia | Optimal Policy for Macro-Financial Stability |
| Thursday November 29 | Jidong Zhou | NYU-Stern | Exploding Offers and Buy-Now Discounts |
| Friday November 30 | Chris Flinn | NYU | Job Search Research: An Overview |
| Monday December 3 | Maria Jose Luengo-Prado | Northeastern University | Moving to a Job: The Role of Home Equity, Debt, and Access to Credit |
| Tuesday December 4 | Daniele Coen Pirani | University of Pittsburgh | Do Returns to Skills Explain the Evolution of Educational Attainment in the U.S.? |
| Thursday March 7 | Wilbert van der Klaauw | NY Fed | Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation: Announcement and Implementation Effects |
| Thursday March 14 | Albert Ma | Boston University | Competition, Gatekeeping, and Health Care Access |
| Tuesday March 26 | Eleonora Patacchini | Syracuse University | Peer Effects: Social Multiplier or Social Norms? |
| Tuesday April 2 | Nathan Miller | Department of Justice | Approximating the Price Effects of Mergers: Numerical Evidence and an Empirical Application |
| Tuesday April 9 | Ying Fan | University of Michigan | TBA |
| Tuesday April 16 | Jonathan Heathcote | Minneapolis Fed. | TBA |
| Thursday April 25 | Chris Conlon | Columbia University | TBA |
| Tuesday April 30 | Qingmin Liu | Columbia University | TBA |
| Tuesday May 7 | Gustavo Ventura | Arizona State University | TBA |