Applied Microeconomics Seminar

UNC Department of Economics

The UNC Applied Microeconomics Seminar meets on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00 in Gardner 211 unless otherwise indicated.  If you have questions about the seminar, please contact Brian McManus (email) or Lisa Gaines (email).

Click here for the 2012-13 seminar series

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Paper title & link	Time & place
February 29	Matthew Wiswall New York University	Evolution of Gender Differences in Post-Secondary Human Capital Investments: College Majors	3:30 in G211
March 14	Brett Gordon Columbia University	“Political Advertising and the Electoral College.” Background paper linked here.  Abstract for main paper is here.  Preliminary draft of main paper to be circulated via email.	3:30 in G211
March 21	Flavio Cunha University of Pennsylvania	An Empirical Model of Parental Learning about the Technology of Skill Formation.  (Access restricted to UNC ONYEN accounts.  To get a copy by email, contact Brian McManus.)	3:30 in G211
March 28	Fabian Lange Yale University	“Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment.”  Paper circulated by email.  Contact Brian McManus if you need a copy of it.	3:30 in G211
April 11	James Roberts Duke University	“Airline Mergers and the Potential Entry Defense.”  Slides circulated by email.  Contact Brian McManus if you need a copy of them.	3:30 in G211
May 2	William Pizer Duke University	How Will Climate Change Policies Affect Domestic Manufacturing?	3:30 in G211

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Paper title & link	Time & place
September 19 (Monday)	Christopher Flinn New York University	Household Choices and Child Development	1:00 in G211
September 28	Limor Golan Carnegie-Mellon Univ.	Estimating the Returns to Parental Time Investment in Children Using a Life Cycle Dynastic Model	3:30 in G211
October 19	Robert Hammond North Carolina State Univ.	Heterogeneity in Tournaments with Incomplete Information: An Experimental Analysis	3:30 in G211
October 26	George-Levi Gayle Carnegie-Mellon Univ.	Identifying and Testing Models of Managerial Compensation	3:30 in G211
November 15 (Tuesday)	Barton Hamilton Washington University	Using Expectations Data to Infer Managerial Preferences	3:30 in G211

Click here to view the 2010-11 seminar calendar.

Last edited: November 8, 2011