Illinois State University Economics Department
Seminar Series

from Previous Semesters

 

Fall 2005

 
Date Location Speaker Affiliation Title
 
Wednesday, October 19 STV 436 Sherrilyn Billger Illinois State University "Reconstructing School Segregation:  On the Efficacy and Equity of Single-Sex Schooling"
 
Wednesday, October 26 STV 436 Ronald Harstad University of Missouri - Columbia "Rational Participation Revolutionizes Auction Theory"
 
Wednesday, November 9 STV 436 Anthony Pennington-Cross Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis The Impact of Local Predatory Lending Laws
 
Wednesday, November 16 STV 436 Ardeshir Dalal Northern Illinois University "Alpha Countries and International Economic Policy"

 

Spring 2005

 
Date Location Speaker Affiliation Title
 
Wednesday, February 2 STV 126 Juha Seppala University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Monetary Policy and the Term Structure of Interest Rates”
 
Wednesday, February 16 STV 126 Neil Skaggs Illinois State University "Awaiting the Deluge:  The Delayed Acceptance of the Theory of Money and Finance in Development Economics"
 
Friday,
February 25
STV 126 Brad Humphries University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Proximity Benefits and Voting on Stadium and Arena Subsidies"
 
Monday, March 28 STV 126 Wojciech Olszewski Northwestern University "A Welfare Analysis of Arbitration", Figures
         

 

Fall 2004

 

Date Location Speaker Affiliation Title
Friday,
October 15
STV 436 Pavel Kapinos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Endogenous Shocks in the New Keynesian Model
 
Wednesday,
October 27
STV 214 Karie Barbour Illinois State University The Effects of Motor Vehicle Wealth Taxes on Vehicle Age Distributions and Emissions
Friday,  November 12 STV 101 Steve Ziliak Roosevelt University Size Matters:  The Standard Error of Regressions in the American Economic Review
 
         

Spring 2004

 
Friday,
April 2
STV 436 Jan K. Brueckner University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Friendship Networks
 
Friday,
April 9
STV 436 Kevin J. Murphy Oakland University The Impact of Unemployment Insurance Taxes on Wages
 
Wednesday,
April 14
STV 120 Michael Brün University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Entrepreneurship, Prophecy, Bubbles: A Complicating Aspect of Market and Non-Market Economic Systems
 
Wednesday,
April 21
STV 120 Sherrilyn M. Billger Illinois State University Principals as Agents? Investigating the Impact of Accountability on the Compensation and Performance of School Principals

Fall 2003

 
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
 
October 1 Raymond Cohn Illinois State University The Transition from Sail to Steam in Immigration to the United States
 
October 10 Richard MacMinn Illinois State University, Katie School of Insurance On Corporate Risk Management and Insurance
 
October 15 Todd Elder University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An Evaluation of Instrumental Variable Strategies for Estimating the Effects of Catholic Schools
 
October 22 George Waters Illinois State University Regime Changes, Learning and Monetary Policy
 
October 29 Julian Jamison Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Evaluation and Aggregation of Discounting Procedures
 
November 7 Bengte Evenson Illinois State University Evaluating the Determinants of Open Space Provision: the Political Economy of "Smart Growth"
 
November 14 Emek Basker University of Missouri at Columbia Selling a Cheaper Mousetrap: Wal-Mart's Effect on Retail Prices

 

 

Spring 2003

 
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
 
April 10 Risa Kumazawa Univ. of Texas at Austin, Visiting at Illinois Wesleyan University The Effects of Heterogeneity of Marital Status on Welfare Participation
 
April 17 Daniel McMillen University of Illinois at Chicago Airport Expansions and Property Values: The Case of Chicago O'Hare Airport
 
April 24 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
 
April 29 Hassan Mohammadi Illinois State University Cyclical Behavior of Real Wages: New Evidence Using Historical Data
 
February 24 George Waters   An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach to Rational Expectations

 

 

Fall 2002

 
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
 
September 26 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
 
October 3 Saku Aura University of Missouri at Columbia Uncommitted Couples: Some Efficiency and Policy Implications of Marital Bargaining
 
October 10 Hoyt Bleakley MIT, Visiting at Univ. of Chicago Disease and Development: Evidence from the American South
 
October 15 Dan Rich Illinois State University Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
 
October 22 Leemore Dafny Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University How do Hospitals Respond to Price Changes?
 
October 29 Kevin Hallock University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Does Managed Care Change the Mission of Nonprofit Hospitals? Evidence from the Managerial Labor Market
 
November 15 Darren Lubotsky University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings

 

 

Spring 2002

 
Date Speaker Affiliation Title
 
January 31 Sherrilyn Billger   Does Attending Predominately-Female Schools Make a Difference? Labor Market Outcomes for Women
 
February 21 Bengte Evenson   Understanding House Price Volatility: Measuring and Explaining the Supply Side of Metropolitan Area Housing Markets

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Last updated 19 December 2003