International Economics/Economic Development Seminar

Fall 2003

Date Speaker Title
25 September Christopher Udry, Yale University Gender, Power and Agricultural Investment In Ghana
9 October Xiaodong Wu, UNC Intellectual Property Rights and Quality Improvement
16 October Eric Bond, Vanderbilt University Consumption Smoothing and the Time Profile of Self-Enforcing Contracts
6 November Alessandro Tarozzi, Duke University Calculating Comparable Statistics from Incomparable Surveys, with an Application to Poverty in India
13 November Rouben Atoian, UNC IMF Program Implementation, Institutional and Political Environment, and Macroeconomic Outcomes
4 December Nicholas Sisto, Monterrey Institute of Technology Voluntary Pollution Control Agreements in Developing Countries: The Case of the Leather Tanning Industry of Leon, Mexico

This is a partial listing; please check back in the near future for additions. All seminar meetings will be held in Gardner Hall, Room 211, at 3:30 of the date listed. Papers will be available in electronic form from the links above.