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Yellow Pad Research Seminar Series

All Yellow Pad seminars take place usually during 12:00 noon ~ 1:30 pm time period.

Academic Year 2011-2012

Winter 2012

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Title	Location
Wednesday, March 14	Noam Yuchtman	Univeristy of California, Berkeley		Lucas 201

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Affliation	Title	Location
Wednesday, September 21	Fred Foldvary	Santa Clara University	Why Rent Matters: Explaining wage and output stagnation with the classical determination of wages and rent	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 5	Katheryn Russ	University of California, Davis	All Banks Great, Small, and Global: Loan pricing and foreign competition	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 12	Michael Kevane	Santa Clara University	Robustness of climate as an instrumental variable to estimate effect of GDP declines on political change in Africa	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 19	Alan Barreca	Tulane University	Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States	Lucas 201
Wednesday, October 26	Jesse Cunha	Naval Postgraduate School	The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 9	Alexander Field	Santa Clara University	The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 16	Fernanda Nechio	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco	Are people aware of the Taylor rule?	Lucas 201
Wednesday, November 30	Thomas Jeischo (Chair's Research Series)	Michigan State University	Endogenous Entry in Markets with Adverse Selection	Lucas 125

Academic Year 2010-2011

Spring 2011

Lilia Maliar Serguei Maliar	A Cluster-Grid Projection Method: Solving Problems With High Dimensionality
Michael Bar	Longevity, Schooling and Lifetime Labor Supply
Jiawei Chen	How do Switching Costs Affect Market Concentration and Prices in Network Industries?
Mario Belotti	World Food Production and Population Growth: The Next 40 years - Can We Feed the Next 2 Billion People?
Desmond Lo	A Theory of Bargaining Costs and Price Terms in the Absence of Specific Investments
Helen Popper	Trilemma Stability and International Macroeconomic Archetypes
Adina Ardelean	Trade Liberalization and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Data

Winter 2011

Ricardo Fernholz	Exchange Rate Manipulation and Constructive Ambiguity: The Meaning of Transparency
Samuel Pienknagura	Financial Development, R&D and Growth
Alessandro Barattieri	Comparative Advantage, Service Trade, and Global Imbalances
David Rothschild	Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations
John Ifcher	Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random- Assignment Experiment
Andrea Ajello	Financial Intermediation, Investment Dynamics and Business Cycle Fluctuations
Jane Zhang	Do Girls in China Compete Just As Much As Boys? Evidence from an Experiment that Predicts Educational Choice

Fall 2010

George Chacko	An Index-Based Measure of Liquidity
Dongsoo Shin	Voluntary Quality Disclosure under Price-Signaling Competition
Martha Bailey	The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception, Women's Labor Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages
Alexander Field	The Adversity/Hysteresis Effect: Depression Era Productivity Growth in the U.S. Railroad Sector
Jason Lepore	Demand Uncertainty Leads to Diverse Collusive Dynamics
John Ifcher	Economic Growth and Subjective Well Being Inequality: Evidence from the World Value Survey

Academic Year 2009-2010

Spring 2010

Latika Chaudhary	Private to Public Ownership: A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways
Jennifer Poole	Business Travel as an Input to International Trade
Carolyn Evans Adina Ardelean	Electoral Systems and Protectionism: An Industry-Level Analysis
Olivier Armantier	A Reverse Auction for Toxic Assets
John Rasmus	How Fragile is the Epic Recession: Prelude To Global Depession

Winter 2010

Luigi Pascali	Recruitment seminar Banks and Development: Jewish Communities in the Italian Renaissance and Current Economic Performance
Ryan Banerjee	Recruitment seminar Which coutries receive aid as insurance and Why? A theory of optimal aid policy
Arunima Sinha	Recruitment seminar Learning and the Yield Curve
Pym Manopimoke	Recruitment seminar Trend Inflation and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Sebastian Fossati	Recruitment seminar Dating U.S. Business Cycles with Macro Factors
Ilan Noy	Recruitment seminar Natural Disasters and Economic Growth

Fall 2009

Kathryn G. Marshall	Consistent Cross-Country Estimates of Labor Productivity
Dongsoo Shin	Hierarchical Structures and Dynamic Incentives Click here for abstract
Jill Luoto	Information and Persuasion: Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya
Alex Field	Do Economic Downturns have a Silver Lining?
Jose Julian Cao-Alvira	Financial Frictions and Money-Driven Variability in Velocity Note on Velocity: Solution to a cash-in-advance economy using finite elements and a parameterized expectations algorithm
Linda Kamas	Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men?

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