Kent State University - Department of Economics

Seminar series

Coordinator: Emmanuel Dechenaux, edechena@kent.edu

Seminars meet in the College of Business at KSU, in the room indicated in the schedule below.

Fall 2010

2:00pm, Friday, September 24, 2010

Room: 483

Kevin Pflum, The Ohio State University

Title: Regulating a Monopolist with Unverifiable Quality

[download]

10:30am, Friday, October 22, 2010

Room: 483

Filippo Occhino, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Title: Debt Overhang and Credit Risk in a Business Cycle Model

[download]

2:00pm, Friday, November 12, 2010

Room: 483

Stephen Snyder, University of Pittsburgh

Title: The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic on Later Life Mortality: Testing the Developmental Origins Hypothesis

10:30am, Friday, December 3, 2010

Room: 483

Rebecca Lessem, University of Wisconsin

Title: US Mexico Immigration: Effects of Wages and Border Enforcement

[download]

Other seminar series in Northeast Ohio:

Economics Seminar Series at Cleveland State University

Economics Seminar Series at University of Akron

Spring 2010

10:30am, Friday, February 19th, 2010

Room: 483

Yoonsoo Lee, Cleveland Fed

Title: The Importance of Reallocation in Cyclical Productivity and Returns to Scale: Evidence from Plant-level Data

[download]

10:30am, Date change: Friday, April 9th, 2010

Room: 483

Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University

Title: The Effect of Exposure to Educated Professionals on Parental Aspirations towards Children's Schooling: Evidence from Mexico

[download]

2:00pm, Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Room: A325 (Vaughn-Hoover)

Matthew Henry, Cleveland State University

Title: Do Judges Learn?

Previous semesters

Fall 2009

1:30pm, Wednesday, September 9^th, 2009

Room: 483

Myong-Hun Chang, Cleveland State University

Title: Firm Turnovers and the Endogenous Market Structure in Technologically Turbulent Industries with Heterogeneous Firms

[download]

10:30am, Friday, September 25th, 2009

Room: 483

Jonathan Lanning, Albion College

Title: Why Equal Wage Policies May Not Eliminate Wage Disparity

[download]

10:30am, Friday, October 9th, 2009

Room: 483

Jordan Suter, Oberlin College

Title: Dynamic Pollution Taxes under Regulatory Uncertainty

[download abstract]

10:30am, Friday, October 23rd, 2009 (canceled)

Room: 483

Justin Sydnor, Case Western Reserve University

Title: Inattention in the Used Car Market

Spring 2009

10:30am, Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Room: 483

Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University

Title: Endogenous Fertility, Inequality and Human Capital

10:30am, Friday, April 10th, 2009

Room: 483

Murat Tasci, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Title: Specificity of Human Capital and European Unemployment

10:00am, Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Room: 483

Kazuki Onji, Australian National University

Title: Tariff evasion, tax incidence, and price disparity in the Japanese market for imported pork parts [download]

Fall 2008

10:30am, Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Room: A325 (Vaughn Hoover Room)

Subhra Saha, Cleveland State University

Title: Economic Effects of Universities and Colleges [Download]

10:00am, Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Room: 483

Yogesh Uppal, Youngstown State University

Title: Does political turnover adversely affect the state expenditure policy? Evidence from Indian state legislative elections [Download]

10:00am, Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Room:  A325 (Vaughn Hoover Room)

Shreemoy Mishra, Oberlin College

Title: TBA

Spring 2008

10:00am, Friday, January 25th, 2008

Room: 483 CBA

Recruiting

10:15am, Friday, February 1st, 2008

Room: 483 CBA

Recruiting

2:00pm, Friday, February 5th, 2008

Room: 483 CBA

Recruiting

9:30am, Friday, February 6th, 2008

Room: 483 CBA

Recruiting

10:30am, Tuesday, April 22^nd, 2008

Room: 483 CBA

Heather Royer, Case Western Reserve University

Title: “A Field Experiment Incentivizing Exercise Among Workers”

Fall 2007 schedule

1:30pm, Friday, September 28th, 2007

Room: 324 CBA

Nicola Lacetera, Case Western Reserve University

Title: “The Simple Economics of Scientific Misconduct” [download]

10:30am, Friday, October 26th, 2007 [Note the time change!]

Room: 205 CBA

Bolong Cao, Ohio University

Title: “Rebalancing Policies with a Standard Deviation Trigger for a Constant Mix Strategy” [download]

10:30am, Friday, December 7th, 2007 [the time, date and room have changed]

Room: 205 CBA

Sucharita Ghosh, University of Akron

Title: “Regional Trading Arrangements and Per Capita Income: Is there a Link?”

Fall 2006 schedule (click on the presenter's name to view the paper, if any)

Date	Presenter	School	Room	Time
22-Sep	Matt Lewis	The Ohio State University	483	1:30pm
06-Oct	Matthias Paustian	Bowling Green State U.	483	2:00pm
03-Nov	Kirill Chernomaz	The Ohio State University	483	2:00pm
06-Dec	Sebastien Buttet	Cleveland State University	483	2:00pm

Spring 2006 schedule (click on the presenter's name to view the paper, if any)

Date	Presenter	School	Room
27-Jan	David Cooper	Case	324
10-Feb	David Vera	KSU	324
24-Feb	Marty Gaynor	CMU	324
10-Mar	Kathy Wilson	KSU	324
24-Mar	Vasilis Kosteas	CSU	324
14-Apr	Francisca Richter	CSU	324
5-May	Richard Kent	KSU	324