| Spring 2008 |
|
| March 3 |
Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University
(Economics), "Middlemen Margins and
Globalization" |
| March 24 |
Nathan Nunn, Harvard University
(Economics), "Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad
Geography in Africa" |
| March 31 |
Dean Yang, University of Michigan
(Economics), "Insurance, Credit, and Technology
Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi" |
| April 7 |
John Giles, Michigan State
University (Economics), "Migrant Labor Markets
and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China" |
| April 14 |
Ethan Ligon, UC Berkeley (ARE),
"The Value of Social Networks in Rural Paraguay" |
| April 21 |
Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy
School of Government, "The Great Discrimination: Borders as a Labor Market
Barrier" |
| April 28 |
Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University
(Economics) |
| May 5 |
Manuela Angelucci, Yale University
(Economics), "Insurance and Family Networks," |
| 2007 |
|
| March 5 |
Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley, "Spring Cleaning: A Randomized Evaluation of Source Water
Quality Improvement" |
| April 2 |
Erica Field, Harvard University,
"Iodine Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in
Tanzania" |
| April 9 |
Asim Khwaja, Harvard University,
"Dollars Dollars Everywhere, Not a Dime to Lend:
Credit Limit Constraints on Financial Sector Absorptive Capacity" (with Atif Mian
and Bilal Zia) |
| April 16 |
Stefan Klonner, Cornell University, “Cosigners Help” |
| April 23 |
Maitreesh Ghatak, LSE, "The de Soto Effect: Markets, Networks and the
Political Economy of Property Rights" |
| April 30 |
Joe Kaboski, Ohio State University,
"Testing a Structural Model of Credit
Constraints Using a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimantal Microfinance Initiative" (with
Robert M. Townsend) |
| September 10 |
Pierre Dubois, University
of Toulouse, "Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in
LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence" |
| September 17 |
Michael Kremer, Harvard
University, "Peer Effects, Pupil-Teacher Ratios,
and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya" |
| September 24 |
Christopher Udry, Yale
University, "The Profits of Power: Land Rights and
Agricultural Investment in Ghana" |
| October 1 |
Stephen Klasen, University
of Göttingen, "Geography Versus Institutions at
the Village Level" |
| October 8 |
Nava Ashraf, Harvard
Business School, "Can Higher Prices Stimulate
Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia" |
| October 15 |
Michele Tertilt, Stanford
University, "Women's Liberation — What was
in it for Men?" |
| October 22 |
Siwan Anderson, University
of British Columbia, "Caste as an Impediment to
Trade" |
| October 29 |
Madiha Afzal, Yale
Graduate Student, "Voter Rationality and Politician Incentives: Exploiting Luck in
Indian and Pakistani Elections" |
| November 5 |
Shing-Yi Wang, Yale
Graduate Student, "Credit Constraints, Job Mobility and Entrepreneurship: Evidence
from a Property Reform in China" |
| November 12 |
Frederico Finan, UCLA,
"Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local
Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports" |
| November 26 |
Christian Awuku-Budu, Yale
Graduate Student, "Financial Development and Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence
from Rural India" |
| December 10 |
David McKenzie, World Bank
"A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved
with Gold: Do Emigrants Have Over-Optimistic Expectations About Incomes Abroad?" |
| 2006 |
|
| February 27 |
Ben Olken, Harvard University, "Monitoring
Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia" |
| March 20 |
Kuznets Lecture:
Tim Besley, LSE, "Government and Development" |
| March 27 |
Ernesto Schargrodsky, Universidad
Torcuato Di Tella, "Property Rights for
the Poor: Effects of Land Titling" |
| April 3 |
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia
University, "General Education versus
Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition" |
| April 10 |
Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University,
"The Formation of Risk Sharing Networks" |
| April 17 |
Laura Schechter, University of
Wisconsin, "Theft, Gift-giving, and
Trustworthiness: Honesty is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay" |
| April 24 |
Chang-Tai Hsieh, UC Berkeley,
"Resource Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity in China and India" |
| May 1 |
Jonathan Morduch, New York
University, "Do
Interest Rates Matter? Evidence from the Dhaka Slums" |
| May 8 |
Orazio Attanasio, University College
London, "Medium and Long Run Effects of
Nutrition and Child Care: Evaluation of a Community Nursery Programme in Rural
Columbia" |
| September 11 |
A. Mushfiq Mobarak, University of
Colorado at Boulder, visiting Yale, "Protection
for Sale to Firms: Evidence from Indonesia" |
| September 18 |
Pascaline Dupas, Dartmouth College, "Relative Risks and the Market for Sex: Teenagers,
Sugar Daddies and HIV in Kenya" |
| September 25 |
(UC San Diego) "Does Better Health Care lead to Higher AIDS
Rates? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa" |
| October 2 |
Hyeok Jeong, University of Southern
California, "Complementarity and Transition to
Modern Economic Growth" |
| October 9 |
Lori Beaman, Yale University, "Social Networks and the Dynamics of Labor Market
Outcomes: Evidence from Refugee Resettlement" |
| October 16 |
Chris Ksoll, Yale University,
"Family Networks and Orphan Placement in Tanzania" |
| October 23 |
Jeremy Magruder, Yale University, “Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and
Persistent Inequality in South Africa” |
| October 30 |
Hanan Jacoby, World Bank, "Incomplete Contracts and Holdup: Land Tenancy and
Investment in Rural Pakistan" (with Ghazala Mansuri) |
| November 6 |
Rema Hanna, New York University, "Monitoring Works: Getting teachers to come to
class" |
| November 13 |
Kaivan Munshi, Brown University, “From Farming to International Business: The Social
Auspices of Entrepreneurship in a Developing Economy” |
| November 27 |
Amit Khandelwal, Yale University, “The Long and Short, of) Quality Ladders”
CANCELLED |
| December 4 |
Dalia Marin, University of Munich,
visiting New York University, “Corporate
Hierarchies and the Size of Nations Theory and Evidence” (with Thierry Verdier),
CANCELLED |
| December 11 |
Malgosia Madajewicz, Columbia
University, "Can Information Alone Change
Behavior? Response to Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh" |
| 2005 |
|
| February 21 |
Kuznets lecture: Robert Townsend,
University of Chicago, "The Thai Economy: Growth, Inequality, and the Evaluation of
Financial Systems" |
| February 28 |
Philippe Aghion, Harvard University,
"Volatility and Growth: Implications for
Macropolicy" |
| March 21 |
Jenny Lanjouw, UC Berkeley,
"Patents, Price Controls and Access to New Drugs: How Policy Affects Global Market
Entry" |
| March 28 |
Rohini Pande, Yale University,
"Political Selection and the Quality of
Government: Evidence
from South India" (with Tim Besley and Biju Rao) |
| April 4 |
Tavneet Suri, Yale University,
"Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption" |
| April 11 |
Dani Rodrik, Harvard University,
"Growth Diagnostics" |
| April 18 |
Marianne Bertrand, University of
Chicago, "How Much Does Psychology Matter? A
Field Experiment in the Consumer Credit Market" |
| April 25 |
Paul Gertler, UC Berkeley, "The
Effect of Cash Transfers on Long Term Living Standard" |
| September 12 |
Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard
University, "Is Corruption Efficient?" |
| September 19 |
Xavier Gine, World Bank, "Land Security in Rural Thailand: Evidence from a
Property Rights Reform" |
| September 26 |
Juan Carlos Hallak, Univ. of
Michigan, “Estimating Cross-Country Differences
in Product Quality” (with Peter Schott) |
| October 3 |
Bob Staiger, Univ. of Wisconsin at
Madison, "The GATT/WTO as an Incomplete
Contract" (with Henrik Horn, Giovanni Maggi) |
| October 10 |
Tavneet Suri, Yale University, "Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology
Adoption" |
| October 17 |
Jim Tybout, Penn State, "Industrial Evolution in Crisis-Prone Economies"
(with Eric Bond and Hale Utar) |
| October 24 |
Siddharth Sharma, Yale University,
"Imperfect Capital Mobility as a Constraint on
Regional Industrial Growth: Evidence from India" |
| October 31 |
Harsha Thirumurthy, Yale University,
"The Economic impact of AIDS treatment:
Labor Supply in Western Kenya" |
| November 7 |
Alan de Brauw, Williams College, "Migrant Opportunity and the Educational
Attainment of Youth in Rural China" |
| November 14 |
Garth Frazer, Univ. of Toronto, "Trade Growth under the African Growth and
Opportunity Act" |
| November 28 |
Muhammad Farooq Naseer, Yale
University, "Whither Quality? Incentives in the Sugarcane Market in Pakistan" |
| December 5 |
Maurice Kugler, University of
Southampton, "Factor Adjustments after
Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants" |
| December 12 |
Jaymin Lee, Yale University, Yonsei
University, "Empirical Test of Industrial Targeting" |
| 2004 |
|
| February 16 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, Kuznet Lecture Series |
| February 23 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT,
"Inequality, Growth and Trade Policy," Kuznet
Lecture Series |
| March 1 |
Chris Udry, Yale, "Gender, Power and Agricultural Investment in China" |
| March 5-19 |
Spring Break |
| March 22 |
Ann Harrison, UC-Berkeley, "The Nike Effect: Anti-Sweatshop Activists and Labor
Market Outcomes in Indonesia" |
| March 29 |
Imran Rasul, Graduate School of
Business, Chicago University, "Relative and Absolute
Incentives: Evidence on Worker Productivity" |
| April 5 |
Koichi Hamada & Masahiro Endo,
Yale, "The Metzler Paradox and the
Interpretation of GATT Article XXIV" |
| April 12 |
Siwan Anderson, UBC-Vancouver,
"Enforcement and Organizational Design in
Informal Saving Groups" |
| April 19 |
Somik Lall, World Bank, CANCELLED |
| April 30 |
Duncan Thomas, UCLA, "Causal Effect of Health on Labor Market Outcomes:
Evidence from a Random Assignment Iron Supplementation Intervention" Joint
with Labor and Population
Workshop |
| May 3 |
Steven Yeaple, University of
Pennsylvania, "Mergers and the Composition of
International Commerce" |
| September 13 |
Christopher Udry, Yale University,
"Consumption Smoothing and Livestock in Rural
Burkina Faso" |
| September 20 |
Pierre-Andre Chiappori, University
of Chicago, "Targeting from a collective
perspective: theory and
identification" |
| September 27 |
Irene Brambilla, Yale University,
"Introduction of new varieties of goods in the
Chinese manufacturing sector" |
| October 4 |
Peter Schott, Yale University,
"Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms" |
| October 18 |
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University,
"Trade,
Quality Upgrading, and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector: Theory and
Evidence from an Exchange-Rate Shock" |
| October 25 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Long Run
Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th century France" |
| November 1 |
Jonathan Conning, Hunter College,
"On the
Causes of Slavery or Serfdom and the Roads to Agrarian Capitalism: Domar's Hypothesis
Revisited" |
| November 8 |
Michele Tertilt, Stanford
University, "Polygyny, Fertility, and Savings" |
| November 15 |
Rohini Pande, Yale University,
"Dams" (with Esther Duflo) |
| November 29 |
Alwyn Young, University of Chicago,
"The
Gift of the Dying: The Tragedy of AIDS and the Welfare of Future African Generations" |
| December 6 |
Anne Case, Princeton University,
"The Impact of Parental Death on School Enrollment
and Achievement: Longitudinal Evidence from South Africa" |
| 2003 |
|
| March 3 |
Peter Debaere, University of Texas, "The Real-Side Determinants of Countries' Terms of
Trade" A Panel Data Analysis" |
| March 24 |
Robert F. Owen, University of Nantes and Visiting Professor at Yale, "Fundamental R&D Spillovers and the Internationalization of
a Firm's Research Activities" |
| March 31 |
Eliana La Ferrara, "Diamonds Are Forever,
Wars Are Not. Conflict Diamonds and the Value of Firms" |
| April 7 |
KUZNETS LECTURES, Institutional
Change and Economic Growth |
| April 14 |
Atif Mian, University of
Chicago, "Incentives, Supervision, and
Organizational Hierarchy: A Loan-Level Investigation of Banking" |
| April 21 |
Alejandro Cunat, London School of
Economics, "Neoclassical Growth and Commodity Trade"
|
| April 28 |
Richard Akresh, Yale University,
"Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child
Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso" |
| May 5 |
Lee Branstetter, Columbia University
Business School, "Do Stronger Intellectual
Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from
U.S. Firm-Level Panel Data." |
| May 12 |
Sofronis Clerides, Yale University,
"The Welfare Effects of Trade Liberalization:
Evidence from Used Automobiles" |
| September 8 |
Richard Akresh, Yale University,
"Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child
Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso" |
| September 15 |
Ethan Ligon, Berkeley, "Efficiency Wages for Rotten Kids: Intrahousehold Consumption
and Nutrition in the Philippines" |
| September 29 |
Angus Deaton, Princeton University,
"Measuring Poverty in a Growing World, or Measuring
Growth in a Poor World)" |
| October 13 |
Paul Gertler, Berkeley, "Lost Presents and Presence: How Parental Death Affects
Children" |
| October 20 |
David McKenzie, Stanford University,
"Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration
and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico" |
| October 27 |
Garance Genicot, Georgetown, "Contracts and
Externalities: How Things Fall Apart" |
| November 3 |
Shareen Joshi, Yale University,
"The Incidence, Determinants and Consequences of
Female Headship in Rural Bangladesh" |
| November 10 |
Matthias Schuendeln, Yale
University, "Firm Dynamics in the Presence of
Financing Constraints: Ghanaian Manufacturing Firms" |
| November 17 |
Lakshmi Iyer, Harvard Business
School, "Land Rights and Economic Development:
Evidence from Vietnam" |
| December 1 |
Andrew Foster, Brown University,
"Agricultural Development, Industrialization and
Rural Inequality" |
| 2002 |
|
| February 4 |
Devashish Mitra, Florida
International University, "Political Ideology and Endogenous Trade Policy: An
Empirical Investigation" |
| February 18 |
Gordon Hanson, University of
California at San Diego, "International Migration,
Self-Selection and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States" |
| February 25 |
Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik,
Dartmouth College, "Does Globalization
Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam" |
| March 4 |
Keijiro Otsuka, National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies, GRIPS), "Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade
Using a Structural Model of US MNCs" |
| March 25 |
Charles Engel, University of
Wisconsin, "Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Exchange
Rate Volatility, and Exchange Rate Disconnect (with Michael B. Devereux) |
| April 1 |
Michael Keane, Yale University,
"Accounting for the Growth of MNC-Based Trade Using
a Structural Model of US MNCs", with Susan E. Feinberg, University of Maryland) |
| April 8 |
Bart van Ark, University of
Groningen, The Netherlands, "Capital Formation and
Productivity Growth in South Korea and Taiwan: Beating Diminishing Returns Through
Realizing the Catch-Up Potential" (with Marcel P. Timmer) |
| April 15 |
Shareen Joshi, Yale University,
"Human Capital Investment, Entrepreneurship and Inequality" |
| April 18 |
Jeffrey Williamson, Harvard
University, "What Explains the Tariff Growth
Paradox, 1875-1997?" |
| April 22 |
Kishore Gawande, University of New
Mexico, "PAC Spending Tests of Theories" |
| April 29 |
Steve Redding, London School of
Economics, "Factor Endowments and Production in
European Regions", with Mercedes Vera-Martin, LSE) |
| September 9 |
Gene Grossman, Princeton University,
"International Protection of Intellectual
Property Rights" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
| September 19 |
Marc Melitz, Harvard University, "Exports vs. FDI" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
| September 23 |
Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth
College, "Vertical
Specialization in Multinational Firms", with Gordon Hanson, UC San Diego and
Raymond Mataloni, US Bureau of Economic Analysis) |
| October 7 |
Stefan Klonner, University of
Heidelberg, Visitor, Yale University, "Improving the Performance of Rotating Savings
and Credit Associations: A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Indian Chit Funds
Act" |
| October 28 |
Wolfgang Keller, Brown University
and University of Texas, "Multinational
Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the United States",
w/ Stephen Yeaple, UPENN) |
| November 4 |
Ashok Rai, Harvard University,
Visitor, Yale University, "Collateral Substitutes in
Microfinance" (with Philip Bond, Northwestern University) |
| November 11 |
Gustav Ranis, Yale University,
"Paths to Success: The Relationship Between Human
Development and Economic Growth", with Michael Boozer, Yale University and
Frances Stewart, University of Oxford) |
| November 18* |
Noel Maurer, ITAM, Visitor, Yale
University, "Do Institutions Matter in Extractive
Industries? The Case of Mexican Mining, 1900-1929" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| December 2 |
Edward Miguel, University of
California-Berkeley, Visitor, Princeton University, "Why Don't People Take Their Medicine? Experimental Evidence
from Kenya" |
| December 9 |
Peter Schott, Yale University,
"Survival of the Best Fit: Low Wage Competition and
the, Uneven) Growth of the US Manufacturing Plants" (with Andrew B.
Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen) |
| December 16 |
Stephen Yeaple, University of
Pennsylvania, "International Productivity
Differences, Infrastructure, and Comparative Advantage" (with Stephen Glub,
Swarthmore College) |
| 2001 |
|
| February 23 |
Hanan Jacoby, World Bank, "Monopoly Power and Distribution in Fragmented
Markets: The Case of Groundwater" (with Rinku Murgai and Saeed Ur Rehman) |
| February 26 |
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT, "Educational Policy and the Economics of the Family" |
| March 19 |
Costas Meghir, University College
London, "Changes in the Distribution of Wages Accounting for Changes in
Employment" |
| March 26 |
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern
University, "Finanical Market Globalization and Endogenous Inequality of
Nations" |
| April 2 |
Peter Schott, Yale University,
"Factor Price Equality and the Economies of the United States" |
| April 6 |
Robert Townsend, University of
Chicago, "The Nature of Financial Constraints: Distinguishing the Micro
Underpinnings of Macro Models" |
| April 9 |
Romain Wacziarg, Stanford
University, "Stages of Diversification" |
| April 23 |
Garth Frazer, Yale University,
"The Firm and the Family Network: Measuring the Relative Productivity of
Relatives" |
| April 30 |
Hiroyuki Chuma, Yale
University/Hitotsubashi University, "Sources of Machine-Tool Industry Leadership in
the 1990s: Overlooked Intrafirm Factors" |
| May 7 |
Rohini Pande, Columbia University,
"Can Mandated Political Representation Increase
Policy Influence for Disadvantaged Minorities? Theory and Evidence from India" |
| May 14 |
Ashok Guha, JNU/Yale University,
"A Comparative Analysis of FDI in Indian and Chinese Development: The Role of
the Expatriate" |
| September 10 |
Garth Frazer, Yale University,
"Linking Firms and Workers: Controlling for Ability Bias in Returns to
Education" |
| September 24 |
Ana Fernandes, Yale University,
"Trade Policy, Trade Volumes and Plant-Level
Productivity in Colombian Manufacturing Industries" |
| October 1 |
Christopher Udry, Yale University,
"Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Côte d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate
Accounts and Consumption Choices" |
| October 8 |
Takashi Kurosaki, Yale
University/Hitotsubashi University, "Effects of Education on Farm and Non-Farm
Productivity in Rural Pakistan" |
| October 15 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Women's Leadership and Policy Decisions: Evidence from a
Nationwide Randomized Experiment in India" |
| October 22 |
Nuno Limao, Columbia University,
"Trade Policy, Cross-Border Externalities and Lobbies: Do Linked Agreements Enforce
More Cooperative Outcomes" |
| October 29-30 |
KUZNETS LECTURES, Joel Mokyr,
Northwestern University, "The Industrial Revolution: The Continuing Paradox" |
| November 5 |
Robert Staiger, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, "Shifting Comparative
Advantage and Accession in the WTO" |
| November 12 |
Xavier Gine, Yale University and
University of Chicago, "Access to Capital in Rural Thailand" |
| December 3 |
Ashok Rai, Harvard University,
"Grants vs. Subsidies: Designing Development Banks" |
| December 10 |
Robin Burgess, London School of
Economics, "Labor Regulation and Economic Performance in India" |
| 2000 |
|
| January 18 |
Marc Melitz, University of Michigan,
"The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry
Productivity" |
| February 7 |
Bill Ethier, University of
Pennsylvania, "Unilateralism in a Multilateral World" |
| February 14 |
Pravin Krishna, Brown University,
"Reciprocated Unilateralism: A Political Economy Approach" |
| February 28 |
Stergios Skaperdas, University of
California at Irvine, "The Market for Protection and the Origin of the State" |
| March 20 |
Jim Levinsohn, University of
Michigan, "Estimating Production Functions Using Intermediate Inputs to Control for
Unobservables" |
| March 27 |
Peter Schott, Yale University, TBA |
| April 7-8 |
REGIONALISM CONFERENCE:
"Political and Economical Aspects of Regional Integration" |
| April 17 |
Anjini Kochar, Stanford University,
"Parental Benefits from Intergenerational Co-Residence: Empirical Evidence from Rural
Pakistan" |
| April 24 |
Student Presentation |
| September 18 |
Kenneth Leonard, Columbia
University, "Health Care in Rural Cameroun:
Structural Estimation of Production in Terms with Unobservable Effort" |
| September 25 |
Douglas Gollin, Williams
College/Yale University, "Farm Work, Home Work and
International Productivity Differences" (with Stephen L. Parente, University of
Illinois and Richard Rogerson, University of Pennsylvania) |
| October 2 |
Ann E. Harrison, Columbia Business
School, "Ownership Versus Environment:
Disentangling the Sources of Public Sector Inefficiency" (with Ann P. Bartel) |
| October 16 |
David McKenzie, Yale University,
"Consumption Growth in a Booming Economy: Taiwan
1976-1996" |
| October 24-25 |
KUZNETS LECTURES, Stanley Fischer,
IMF |
| October 30 |
Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College,
"Who Dies? International Trade, Market Structure,
and Plant Closures" (with J. Bradford Jensen, University of Maryland) |
| November 6 |
Peter Drysdale, Australian National
University, "The New Regionalism in East Asia" |
| November 13 |
Michael Kremer, Harvard University,
"Child Health and Education: The Primary School
Deworming Project in Kenya" (with Edward Miguel, University of California,
Berkeley) |
| November 27 |
Mohan Rao, University of
Massachusetts, "Globalization and the Fiscal Autonomy of the State" |
| December 4 |
Anandi Mani, Vanderbilt/Yale
University, "Democracy and Visibility"
(with Sharun W. Mukand, Tufts University) |
| December 11 |
Raymond Fisman, Columbia University,
"Does Competition Encourage Cooperation? Evidence
from Trade Credit Relationships" (with Mayank Raturi, Swissre) |
| 1999 |
|
| January 25 |
Nina Pavenik, Princeton University,
"Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean
Plants" Joint with Micro/Strategy Seminar |
| February 15 |
John McLaren, Columbia University,
"A Theory of Insidious Regionalism" |
| February 22 |
Christina Paxson, Princeton
University, "Growth, Demographic Structure and National Saving in Taiwan" |
| March 1 |
James Harrigan, Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, "Factor Quality and Comparative Advantage" |
| March 22 |
Shang-Jin Wei, Harvard University,
"Foreign Investors Before and During the Korean Currency Crisis" |
| March 29 |
Gur Ofer, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, "Trade, Trade Policy and Foreign Exchange Regime under Transition: Russia
and the Dutch Disease" |
| April 5 |
Andres Velasco, New York University,
"Financial Fragility and the Exchange Rate Regime" |
| April 12 |
Clive Bell, University of
Heidelberg, Germany, "Inequality and Economic Performance in Rural India Since
1955" |
| April 19 |
Pinelopi Goldberg, Russell Sage
Foundation and Princeton University, TBA |
| April 26 |
Koichi Hamada, Yale University,
"Incentive Mechanisms Surrounding International Monetary Institutions" |
| May 3 |
Ernest Aryeetey, University of
Ghana, TBA |
| September 13 |
Robert E. Evenson, Yale University,
"Agriculture and Economic Development in the Second Half of the 20th Century" |
| September 20 |
Alwyn Young, University of Chicago,
"Transport, Processing and Information: Value Added and the Circuitous Movement of
Goods" |
| September 27 |
Brian A'Hearn, Franklin and Marshall
College, "Could Southern Italians Cooperate? Banche Popolari in the
Mezzogioriano" Joint with Economic History
Workshop |
| October 4 |
Maitreesh Ghatak, University of
Chicago, "Public-Private Partnerships for the Provision of Public Goods: Theory and
an Application to NGOs" |
| October 11 |
Esther Duflo, MIT, "Reputation
Effects and the Limits of Contracting: A Study of the Indian Software Industry" |
| October 18 |
Sofia Sheidvasser and Hugo
Benitez, "Yale University, Returns to Education in Russia" |
| October 25 |
Kaivan Munshi, University of
Pennsylvania, "Learning from your Neighbors: Why Do Some Innovations Spread Faster
than Others?" |
| November 1 |
William Collins, Vanderbilt
University, "Race and Home Ownership, 1900-1990" Joint with Economic History Workshop |
| November 8 |
Stephen Haber, Stanford University,
"Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Performance: Evidence from
Revolutionary Mexico" Joint with Economic
History Workshop |
| November 15 |
Sherman Robinson, IFPRI,
"Reconciling Household Surveys and National Accounts Data Using Cross-Entropy
Estimation" |
| November 29 |
Oded Galor, Browne Hebrew
University, "Population, Technology and Growth: From Malthusian Stagnation to the
Demographic Transition and Beyond" |
| 1998 |
|
| January 27 |
Calgar Ozden, Stanford University,
"Efficiency Gains from Multilateral Trade Agreements" |
| February 9 |
Claus Chr. Pörtner, University of
Copenhagen, "Children as Insurance" |
| February 23 |
Xiaokai Yang, Harvard/Monash
Universities, "Empirical Evidence for the Endogenous Growth Generated by Evolution in
Division of Labor" |
| March 2 |
James Robinson, University of
Southern California, "When Is a State Predatory?" |
| March 23 |
Ricardo Paes de Barros, IPEA,
Brazil, "Labor Market Imperfections and the Level of Poverty and Inequality in Latin
America" |
| March 27-28 |
FESTSCHRIFT IN HONOR OF T.N. SRINIVASAN |
March 30-
April 2 |
HENRY L. STIMSON LECTURES: Alexandre
Lamfalussy, University of Louvain, "Globalization and Financial Fragility" |
| April 6 |
Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College,
"Did Late Nineteenth Century Tariffs Promote Infant Industries? Evidence from the
Tinplate Industry, 1869-1913" |
| April 13 |
Koichi Hamada, Yale University, IMF,
"Africa and Macroeconomics" |
| April 20 |
Shang-Jin Wei, Kennedy School of
Government, "Harvard University, How Taxing Is Corruption on International
Investors?" |
| April 27 |
Giovanni Maggi, Princeton
University, "Talent, Diversity and International Trade" |
| May 4 |
Dan Trefler, University of Toronto,
"Increasing Returns to Scale and All That: A View from Trade" |
| May 11 |
Wallace Huffman, Iowa State
University, "An Examination of Profit Inefficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern
Ghana" |
| September 7 |
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University,
"Household Labor Supply, Child Labor and Minimum Wage Legislation" |
| September 14 |
Mark Rosenzweig, University of
Pennsylvania, "Women's Teaching, Home Schooling and Economic Growth" |
| September 21 |
Beata Smarznska, Yale University,
"Foreign Direct Investment in Transition Economies" |
| September 28 |
Ingrid Henriksen, University of
Copenhagen, "Danish Cooperatives in a Comparative Context" |
| October 5 |
Sanjay DeSilva, Yale University,
"Tenancy Contracts as a Solution to Time Constraints of Skilled Farmers" |
| October 12 |
Vandana Sipahimalani, Yale
University, "Household Educational Expenditure and School Choice in Rural India: An
Empirical Analysis" |
| October 15 |
Yuan Chou, Yale University,
"Cheaper Dis-Inflation: Coordinating Wage Setting through Incentive-Based
Worker-Choice Wages" |
| October 19 |
Donald Davis, Harvard University,
"In Search of the Missing Trade: Theory and Evidence from the OECD" |
| October 26 |
Wolfgang Keller, University of
Texas, Austin, "On Theories Explaining the Success of the Gravity Equation" |
| November 2 |
Matthew Slaughter, Dartmouth
College, "Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing
Skill Differentials?" |
| November 9 |
Jonathan Morduch, Harvard
University, "Does Microfinance Really Help the Poor? Evidence from Flagship Programs
in Bangladesh" |
| November 16 |
Maristella Botticini, Boston
University, "Infectious Marriages: Did the Black Death Affect Tuscan Marriage
Markets?" |
| November 30 |
Andrew Foster, Brown University,
"Population Growth, Income Growth and Deforestation: Management of Village Land in
India" |
| 1997 |
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| September 8 |
Nadia Soboleva, Yale University,
"Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Policy: Japanese Manufacturing Investment in the
United States" |
| September 15 |
Jean Lanjouw, Yale University,
"The Introduction of Pharmaceutical Product Patents in India: "Heartless
Exploitation of the Poor and Suffering"?" |
| September 22 |
T. Paul Schultz, Yale University,
"Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How Is It Changing
and Why" |
| September 29 |
Beata Smarzynska, Yale University,
"Gravity Model of International Trade Reconsidered" |
| October 6 |
Andrew Bernard, Yale University,
SOM, "Trends and Transitions in Long-Run Growth" |
| October 13 |
Jonathan Eaton, Boston University,
"Technology and Bilateral Trade" |
| October 20 |
Nader Habibi, Yale University,
"Popular Attitudes Towards Market Institutions in Iran, Turkey and the Former Soviet
Union" |
| October 27 |
Carol Shiue, Yale University,
"Grain Trade and Storage in the Mid-Qing: 1742-1795" Joint with Economic History Workshp |
| October 30-31 |
KUZNETS LECTURE SERIES: Zvi Griliches,
Harvard University, "Productivity Growth: Where Did It Come From? Where Did It
Go?" Joint with Applied Microeconomics Workshop |
| November 3 |
Keijiro Otsuka, Tokyo Metropolitan
University and IFPRI, "Land Tenure and Forest Management in Asia" Joint
with Natural Resources Workshop |
| November 10 |
Kirit Parikh, Indira Ghandi
Institute of Development Research, "Rice Trade Liberalization in India: Accounting
for Large Country Effect in an Applied General Equilibrium Model" |
| November 19 |
Workshop on Governancce Issues in
South Asia
Session 1: India
Session 2: Bangladesh and Pakistan |
| December 1 |
Giovanni Maggi, Princeton
University, "Politically Motivated Trade Agreements" |
| December 8 |
Sofronis K. Clerides, Yale
University, "Is Learning by Exporting Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from
Colombia, Mexico and Morocco" |
