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Economics

Seminars

R2 (Raw-Research) Seminars

Wednesdays or Thursdays

11:00-11:50 a.m., 170 FOB

2009 Speaker Topic
Jan 8    Mark Showalter Intertemporal Sleep Choice
Jan 15 Dick Butler Easuring Disparities and Their Impact: examples from Health Care 
Feb 26    Joe Price “Marriage and Infant Health”
May 14    Richard Evans “State-dependent Optimal Monetary Policy”
June 4 Scott Condie "Monitoring costs."
June 11 Michael Ransom "Trains and Traffic on Utah Highways"                        
Aug 11     Barrett Kirwan "The Impact of Mutliperil Crop Insurance on Farm Survival"
Note different date: Tuesday, Aug. 11
Sept  4 Frank McIntyre     "Do Lawyers Manipulate Consumer Bankruptcy Chapter Choices Based on Court 'No look' Lawyer Fees?"
Oct 16     Dave Sims "Rich Dad, Smart Dad: Deomposing the Integenerational Transmission of Income"
Oct 29     Kerk Phillips "A Simple Financial Model of Maize Storage and an Assessment of External Threat"
Nov 12     Brennan Platt "Savings and Wage Dispersion"
Nov 19 Richard Evans "NCAA Bowl Finance Dynamics: A Structural Estimation of the Effect of Playoff"
Dec 3-11:15 a.m Jim Kearl "Entertainment Shopping"--NOTE different starting time: 11:15 a.m.