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NERDS:
New Economic Research
Development Series

2008/9 Academic Year

 
Spring 2009
Monday, January 26
3:00

Jennifer Kohn (Rutgers)

Change Matters: Empirical Tests of the Dynamic Demand for Medical Care

Jennifer's PowerPoint slides
Tuesday, January 27
4:00

Jessica Hennessey (Maryland)

The Adoption of Constitutional Home
Rule: A test of endogenous
policy decentralization


Jessica's PowerPoint slides
Friday, January 30


Shannon Mudd (Ursinus)

"Contestability in Banking Markets and
Small Firm Use of Bank Financing:
A Cross-Country Investigation
"

Friday, February 6
3:00

Yang Wang (Duke)

Subjective Expectations: Test for Bias
and Implications for Choice


Yang's presentation slides
Friday, February 20
3:00

Andrew Ewing (Washington)

Estimating the Impact of Relative
Expected Grade on Student
Evaluations of Teachers


Andy's presentation slides
Monday, February 23
3:00

Kristiana Hansen (UC Louvain)

Short-Term Leases or Long-Term
Transfers? An Econometric Test of
Water Market Structure in the
Western United States


Friday, March 6


Pao-Lin Tien (Wesleyan)

"Using Long-Run Restrictions to
Identify the Sources of Exchange Rate
Fluctuations
"

Friday, April 3



Sonia Aziz (Moravian)

"Valuation of Avoiding Arsenic in Drinking
Water in Rural Bangladesh
"


Friday, April 17



Baybars Karacaovali (Fordham)

"Productivity Matters for Trade Policy:
Theory and Evidence
"


Friday, May 1

Christopher Barrett (Cornell)

"Incomplete Credit Markets and
Commodity Marketing Behavior
"

 
Fall 2008
   
Friday, September 5
TO BE RE-SCHEDULED

Fred Joutz
(GWU)

"The Relationship between Oil Markets
and Shipping Tanker Rates: The West
African-U.S. Gulf of Mexico Market
"

Friday, September 26
Nicole Simpson (Colgate College)

"Happiness and International
Migration
"

Friday, October 10
Johanna Francis (Fordham)

"Entrepreneurs, Wealth and Capitalist
Spirit
"

Friday, October 24


Chris Magee (Bucknell University)

"The Incumbant Spending Puzzle"


Friday, November 14


Kerry Anne McGeary (Drexel)

"Do Federal Nutrition Programs Promote
a Healthy Lifestyle?
"