Academics

• Friday, September 11: Robert Johnson, Dartmouth College, "Accounting for Intermediates: Production Sharing and Trade in Value Added", 2 pm, Hamilton College
• Friday, September 25: Derek Laing, Syracuse University, "Decision Making as Epiphany: A Search Based Model of Limited Rationality", 2pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, October 9: Emily Conover, Hamilton College, "Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment", 2pm, Hamilton College
• Friday, October 23: Emily Owens, Cornell University, "Are underground markets really more violent? Evidence from early 20th century America", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, November 13: CHANGE IN SCHEDULE: Dean Scrimgeour, Colgate University, "Dynamic Scoring in a Romer-style Economy", 2pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, December 4: David Toomey, Hamilton College, 2 pm, Hamilton College
• Friday, December 11: Davide Cantoni, Harvard University, "TBA", 2pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University

• Friday, September 12: Will Pyle, Middlebury College, "Organized Business, Political Competition and Property Rights: Evidence from the Russion Federation" 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, September 26: Chris Parmeter, VA Tech, "Has the World Trade Organization Promoted Successful Regional Trade Agreements?", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, October 3: Tom Michl, Colgate University, "Capital and Unemployment: Some Preliminary Results", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, October 10: Suresh Naudu, Harvard Academy, "Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information", Hamilton College
• Friday, October 24: Gary Yohe, Wesleyan University, "Pricing Carbon in 2009", 1 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, November 7: Emily Conover, Hamilton College, "Effects of Public Health Insurance on Newborn Health in Colombia", Hamilton College
• Friday, November 14: Kosali Simon, Cornell, "Do you get what you pay for? The relationship between premiums and benefits in medicare prescription drug plans",Hamilton College, 2 pm, KJ 201 
• Friday, November 21: Mary Lovely, Syracuse University, "Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, December 5: Sarah Pearlman, Vassar College, "Can Low Returns to Capital Explain Low Formal Credit Use? Evidence from Microentrepreneurs in Ecuador" 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, February 13: Niels Westergard-Nielsen, Aarhus School of Business,"Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal?", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, March 6:  Emil Iantchev, Syracuse University, "Risk or Loss Aversion? Evidence from Personnel Records", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, March 27: Muzhe Yang, Lehigh University, "Regression Discontinuity Design: Identification and Estimation of Treatment Effects with Multiple Selection Biases", 2pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
• Friday, April 3: Elizabeth Jensen and Stephen Wu, "Early Decision and College Performance", 2 pm, Hamilton College
• Friday, April 17: Wayne Grove, LeMoyne, "Closing the Loop: Enhancing Collegiate Perfomance by Self-Assessment" (co-authors: Jerry Evensky, Yue Hu, and Tim Wasserman), 2 pm, Hamilton College
• Friday, April 24: Elizabeth Peters, Cornell University, "Altruism and Relatedness in a Multi-person Dictator Experiment", 2 pm, Hamilton College, KJ 201

'07 - '08 Colgate-Hamilton Economics Workshop

• Friday, Sept. 14: Christopher Kilby, Vassar College, "Changing Aid Regimes? The Impact of the Cold War and the War on Terror on the Distribution of US Bilateral Aid," 2 p.m., KJ 242, Hamilton College
• Friday, Sept. 21: Marc Law, University of Vermont, "Medical Licensing Board Characteristics and Physician Discipline: An Empirical Analysis," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Monday, Oct. 1: Mary Daly, SF Federal Reserve Bank, "TBA," Colgate University Cancelled
• Friday, Oct. 19: Mariana Spatareanu, Rutgers University, "TBA," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall Cancelled
• Friday, Oct. 26:Hodaka Morita, University of New South Wales, "Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure", 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, Nov. 9: Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University, "Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence",2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Thursday, Nov. 15:Catherine Mann, Brandeis University, "Globalization,  Technological Change, and the US Economy: Implications for Trade, Finance, and Labor.", 7:30 pm, Hamilton College Levitt Center, Science Center Auditorium
• Wednesday, Nov. 28:Professor Yang Yao, Beijing University currently visiting Cornell, "Elections, Accountability, and Farmers' Welfare in Chinese Villages", 2:45-4:00 pm, Colgate University, 107 Persson Hall
• Friday, Dec. 7: Ahmed Rahman, US Naval Academy, "The English Skill Premium Puzzle," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Tuesday, Jan. 22: Yosef Bonaparte, University of Texas at Austin, "Estimating the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution with Household-Specific Portfolios", 11:30am-1:00pm,Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, Jan. 25: Benjamin Mathew, University of Chicago, "Stock Performance and Merger Choices", 2:00-3:30 pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Monday, Jan. 28: Raymond Guiteras, MIT, "The impact of Climate Change on Indian Agriculture", 8:45-10:15 am, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Tuesday, Jan. 29: Bing-ru Teh, University of CA, Berkeley, "Do Liquor Stores Increase Crime and Urban Decay? Evidence from Los Angeles", 11:30am-1:00pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Wednesday, Jan. 30: Hening Liu, Northern Illinois University, "Dynamic Asset Allocation and Consumption under Ambiguity for Regime Switching Mean Returns", 8:45-10:15am, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, Feb. 1: Jillian Berk, Brown University, "Does Work Release Work?", 2:00-3:30 pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Monday, Feb. 4: Christina Peters, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Does Access to Family Planning and Health Services Improve Women's Welfare?", 8:30-10:00 am, Colgate University, Persson Hall
• Tuesday, Feb. 5: Sean Cash, University of Alberta, "Do Ethical Consumers Care About Price? A Revealed Preference Analysis of Fair Trade Coffee Purchases", 11:30am-1:00pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, Feb. 8: Marie Petkus, University of Chicago, "Market Structure and Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the Solid Waste Industry", 2:00-3:30 pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, April 4: B. Ravikumar, University of Iowa, "The return to Capital and the Business Cycle", 2:00-3:30 pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, April 11: Gunjan Sharma, University of Missouri, "Industrial Deregulation, Skill Upgrading and Wage Inequality in India", 2:00-3:30 pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Tuesday, April 29: Giovanni Peri, University of California at Davis, "Migration and Trade in a World of Technological Differences: Theory with an Application to Eastern-Western European Integration", 11:30 am-1:00 pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, May 2: Niels Westergard-Nielsen, Aarhus School of Business, "The Dispersion of Employees Wage Increases and Firm Performance", 3:15 pm, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Thursday, May 8: Nahid Rahman, University of Technology Sidney, "International Evidence on Restructuring and Employment Adjustment", 4:00 pm, Hamilton College, KJ221.

'06 - '07 Colgate-Hamilton Economics Workshop

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• Friday, Sept. 8: Bob Turner, Colgate University, "Valuation of Cultural and Natural Resources in North Cascades National Park" (PDF), 2 p.m, Hamilton College, KJ 221.
• Tuesday, Sept. 12: Cheryl Long (Colgate University), "Firm ownership and FDI spillovers in China" (PDF), 11:30 a.m, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall.
• Tuesday, Sept. 26: Gautam Bose (University of New South Wales), "Search and Intermediation: Toward a Model of the Merchant Trader" (PDF), 4 p.m, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall.
• Friday, Oct. 6: Nicolai Kristensen (Aarhus School of Business), "What Do We Learn From Self-Evaluations of Training? A Comparison of Subjective and Objective Evaluations" (PDF), 2 p.m, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall.
• Friday, Oct. 13: Andy Nutting (Hamilton College),The Marginal Accuracy of Weekly College Football Rankings: Are there Diminishing Returns? (PDF), 2 p.m, Hamilton College, 222 KJ.
• Friday, Oct. 27: Bruce Shearer (Université Laval), "The Response to Incentives and Contractual Efficiency: Evidence From a Field Experiment", 3 p.m, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall. Cancelled
• Friday, Nov. 3: Pedro Silos (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), "Crude Substitution: The Cyclical Dynamics of Oil Prices and the Skill Premium" (PDF), 2 p.m, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall.
• Friday, Nov. 10: Nicole Simpson (Colgate University), "Public education expenditures, taxation and growth: Linking data to theory, " 2 p.m, Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall.
• Monday, Nov. 13: Stanley Engerman (University of Rochester), "Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policies in the New World," 4:30pm, Colgate University, 27 Persson Hall.
• Wednesday, Nov. 15: Takao Kato (Colgate University), "Evoloving Employment Practices and Corporate Governance in East Asia," in honor of his appointment as the Schupf Professor, 4:30pm, Colgate University, 27 Persson Hall.
• Friday, Nov. 17: Panu Kalmi, "Regional Perspective on the Entry of Cooperatives: Preliminary Evidence from Finland," 2 p.m, Hamilton College.
• Wednesday, Jan. 31: Roland Fryer (Harvard University), "Toward a Unified Theory of Black America," 7:30 p.m., Hamilton College, Chapel
• Tuesday, Feb. 13: William Easterly (New York University), "Can Foreign Aid End World Poverty," 7:30 p.m., Hamilton College, Chapel
• Friday, March 2: Amit Batabayal (RIT), "Average Patent Pendency and Examination Errors: A Queuing Theoretic Analysis," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, March 23: Luis Alcala (University at Buffalo-SUNY), TBA, 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall (Cancelled)
• Thursday, March 29: Randy Albelda (University of Massachusetts), "Gender Inequality in the Labor Market," 7:30 p.m., Hamilton College, Science Auditorium
• Friday, March 30: Shaomin Li (Old Dominion University), "The Effect of Governance Environment on the Choice of Investment Mode," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall 
• Friday, April 6: Illoong Kwo (SUNY - Albany), "Status, Relative Pay, and Wage Growth: Evidence from M&A," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall
• Friday, April 13: Steven Levitt (University of Chicago), Freakonomics: A rogue Economist Explores Hidden Side of Everything, Public Lecture, 5 p.m., Colgate University, Cotterell Court.  Read more.
• Friday, April 13: Neha Khanna (Binghamton University), "Guns for Oil? Conventional Weapons Trade in the Cold War Era.", 2:30 p.m., Hamilton College, KJ 242.
• Friday, April 20: Frank Heiland (Florida State University), "Social Dynamics of Obesity," 2:30 p.m., Hamilton College, KJ 242.
• Friday, April 27: Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University), "Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall.
• Friday, May 4: Lee Branstetter (Carnegie Mellon University), "TBA", 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall. (Postponed until Fall 2007)
• Friday, May 4: Shi Young (Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea; Visiting Scholar, University of Hawaii at Manoa), "Economics of Guanxi as an Interpersonal Investment Game," 2 p.m., Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall

• Friday, Sept. 9: Edward Lazear (Stanford), "On Federal Tax Reform," 12:30pm @ Colgate, Alana Cultural Center.
• Friday, Sept. 23: Mary Beth Combs (Fordham), "They Lived and Saved: Evidence of the Bequest Motive for Saving among Small Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth Century Britain" 2pm@ Colgate, 226 Persson Hall. (paper)
• Friday, Oct. 21: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach(U. Chicago), "Do School Lunches Contribute to Childhood Obesity?" 2pm@ Hamilton, KJ 242. (paper)
• Friday, Nov. 4: John Moran (Syracuse), "Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts," (joint with Kosali Simon) 2pm @ Hamilton, KJ 242. (paper)
• Friday, Dec. 9: Marc Tomljanovich (Colgate), "TBA" 2pm @ Colgate, 226 Persson Hall. (paper).
• Friday, Feb. 3: Florenz Plassman (Binghamton), "More Readers of Gun Magazines, But Not More Crime" 2pm @Hamilton, KJ 242. (paper)
• Monday, Feb. 13: Alan Krueger (Princeton), "Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?" 2:30pm@Hamilton, KJ Auditorium. (paper) "The Economics of Terrorism" 7:30pm@ Hamilton College Chapel.
• Wednesday, March 1: Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia), "Free Trade Agreements: Where they come from, why they are bad, and what we can do about them" 4pm@Hamilton, Red Pit. "In Defense of Globalization" 7:30pm@ Hamilton College Chapel.
• Friday, March 3: Amitrajeet A. Batabyal (Rochester Institute of Technology), "Average Patent Pendency and Examination Errors: A Queuing Theoretic Analysis," 2pm@Colgate, 226 Persson Hall.
• Friday April 14: Julio Videras (Hamilton), "TBA" 2pm@Hamilton College, KJ 242. (paper)
• Friday April 28: Chris Georges (Hamilton), "TBA" 2pm@Hamilton College, KJ 242.
• Friday May 5: Patrick Kendall (Colgate), "The Problem of Carribean Debt" 2pm@Colgate, 226 Persson Hall.