Colloquium
Spring 2012
Leah Platt Boustan
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, April 19, 2:00 pm, Burkle 16 in Drucker, CGU
Natalia Kolesnikova
Thursday, April 12, 4:15 pm, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue
”The Role of Location in Evaluating Racial Wage Disparity”
http://research.stlouisfed.org/wp/2009/2009-043.pdf
Shalini Nageswaran
University of California, San Deigo
Friday, Feb 3, 1:30-2:45 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue
”Liquidity and Asset Returns: Evidence from Decimalization”
Xia Meng
Brandeis University, International Business School
Wednesday, Feb 1, 4:15-5:30 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue
”Extreme Realizations of Daily Stock Returns: Business Cycle Properties and the
Role of Rare Disasters”
Alberto Vargas
MIT
Monday, Jan 23, 4:15-5:30 PM, Hahn 101, 420 N Harvard Avenue
”Bayesian Estimation and Option Mispricing”
Michelle Zemel
New York University, Stern School of Business
Thursday, Jan 19, 4:15-5:30 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue
”The Information Content of Loan Growth in Banks”
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Fall 2011
Giovanni Peri, Professor of Economics University of California, Davis
Friday, September 30, 11:00 AM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue, Pomona College
“The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries”
Deirdre N. McCloskey, Professor of Economics University of Illinois, Chicago
Thursday, October 13, 4:15 PM, Hahn 101, 420 N Harvard Avenue, Pomona College
“Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World”
Michael T. Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis
Thursday, November 3, 4:15 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue, Pomona College
“Race, Redlining, and Subprime Mortgage Lending”
John Clithero ’05, Duke University
Thursday, November 10, 4:15 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue, Pomona College
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Spring 2011
Make up Opportunity:
A Green Economy: Evening Lecture plus Afternoon Student Q&A with Van Jones
Wednesday, January 26th; Q&A, 3pm, Rose Hills Theater and
Lecture, 7 pm Rose Hills Theater
Van Jones, the country’s leading green jobs expert and figurehead, founder of
environmental justice organization, Green for All, will be on campus on
January 26th!
Make up Opportunity:
Helena Fialova (Associate Professor of Economics, Czech Technical University)
“Who Will Pay the Recession Cost in the Czech Republic?
The Cost-Benefit Principle Can Hardly Be Applied”
Tuesday, January 25, 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM, Oldenborg Dining Hall, South Side
Make up Opportunity:
Helena Fialova (Associate Professor of Economics, Czech Technical University)
“Does the Roma Minority Have Any Chance For a Better Future
in the Czech Republic?”
Wednesday, January 26, 12-1 PM, Hampton Room, Malott Commons,Scripps
Paul Zak (Professor of Economics and Department Chair, Claremont Graduate University)
”The Moral Molecule”
Thursday, February 17, 4:15 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue, Pomona College
Lee Badgett (Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts Amherst and Research Director, Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA)
”The Economic Value of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples”
Accompanying paper: http://www.law.drake.edu/students/docs/badgett.pdf
Tuesday, February 22, 4:15 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue, Pomona College
GREG J. DUNCAN (Distinguished Professor Department of Education,
University of California Irvine)
”The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty” – accompanying papers to be emailed
Thursday, April 7, 4:15 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue, Pomona College
CANCELLED: Monday April 11, 4:15
ELEANOR BROWN (Pomona College)
”Is Volunteer Labor Part of Household Production? Evidence from Married Couples”
By Eleanor Brown and Ye Zhang
Wednesday, April 13, 4:15 PM, Carnegie 107, 425 N College Avenue, Pomona College
CANCELLED: Thursday, April 21, 4:15 _____________________________________________________________________________
Fall 2010
Tahir Andrabi (Professor of Economics, Pomona College) -Make up Opportunity:
“In Aid We Trust: Hearts and Minds in the Islamic World”
Friday, September 3, at 10:30 am in CMC”s Bauer Center 24
Manfred Keil (Claremont McKenna College, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance):
“The Great Recession, The Great Stabilization, and the Shape of the Recovery”
Thursday, September 16, at 4:15-5:15 pm in Carnegie 107 – RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
Silvio Contessi (Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis):
“Do Capital Injections Slow Lending Decline? Evidence From the TARP/CPP”
Thursday, October 7, at 4:15-5:15 pm in Carnegie 107
Atif Mian (Associate Professor, UC Berkeley):
“The Effects of Fiscal Stimulus: Evidence from the 2009 ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program”
Thursday, October 21, at 4:15-5:15 pm in Carnegie 107
Matt Shum (Professor of Economics, California Institute of Technology):
”To Elect or to Appoint? Bias, Information, and Responsiveness of Bureaucrats and Politicians!”
Thursday, November 4, at 4:15-5:15 pm in Carnegie 107
RESCHEDULED:
Lesley Chiou (Occidental College, Department of Economics):
”How do Restrictions on Selectively Informative Advertising Affect Consumer Search?
Thursday, November 11, 4:15-5:15 pm in Carnegie 107
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2009-2010:
Spring 2010
J.R. DeShazo (UCLA)
“The Economics of Solar Power Policies in Los Angeles”
Tuesday, April 13 [rescheduled] at 4:15-5:15 pm in Carnegie 107
Henry Chesbrough (UC-Berkeley)
“Open Innovation – A New Paradigm for Industrial Research and Development”
Thursday, April 1 [rescheduled] at 4:15-5:15pm in Carnegie 107
Robert Jensen (UCLA)
“The Returns to Human Capital and Gender Bias: An Experimental Test for India”
Thursday, March 25 at 4:15-5:15pm in Carnegie 107
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas
(UC-Berkeley) “U.S. Monetary Policy, ‘Imbalances’ and the Financial Crisis”
Monday, March 22 [rescheduled] at 4:15-5:15pm in Carnegie 107
Heather Royer (UC-Santa Barbara)
“Incentives and Commitments for Exercise: Evidence from a Field Experiment at an On-site Corporate Fitness Center”
Thursday,February 11 at 4:15-5:15pm in Carnegie 107
Fall 2009
Joanna Lahey (RAND/Texas A&M University)
“Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition”
Thursday, September 24 at 4:15-5:15pm in Carnegie 107
Asaf Zussman (Hebrew University)
“Partisan Grading”
Friday, October 9 at 2:15-3:15pm in Carnegie 107
Sarah Baird (George Washington University)
“Designing Cost-Effective Cash Transfer Programs to Improve Schooling and Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa”
[paper 1] [paper 2]
Wednesday, October 14 at 4:15-5:15pm in Carnegie 107
John Romley (RAND/Occidental College)
“Hospital Spending and Mortality in California: Implications for Health-Care Reform”
Thursday, October 29 at 4:15-5:15 pm in Carnegie 107
Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas)
“First Degree Price Discrimination and Firm Learning: Evidence from Illegal Sports Bookmaking”
Thursday, November 12 at 4:15-5:15pm in Carnegie 107