Fall 2004

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
October 6	Bill Lord Department of Economics UMBC	Family Production and Economic Growth	1:00 PM 367 PUP
November 11	William J. Baumol New York University	Independent Entrepreneurs and Gian Enterprises: The David-Goliath Pertnership?	4:00 PM Albert O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor
November 12	Nandita Dasgupta Department of Economics UMBC	Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to India Since the 1990s--Issues and Challenges: Comparison with China	1:00 PM 367 PUP
November 19	Roger Betancourt University of Maryland College Park	The Role of the State in a "Democratic" Transition: Cuba	1:00 PM 367 PUP

Spring 2004

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
March 14	Leandro Prados de la Escosura Universidad Carlos III, Madrid Georgetown University	Long-Run International Inequality in Real Income and Human Development: Evidence from Europe and the New World	1:00 367 PUP
April 2	Kenneth Koford University of Delaware	Experiments on Trust and Bargaining in Bulgaria: The Effects of Institutions and Culture	1:00 367 PUP
April 16	Bryan L. Boulier and Herman Stekler George Washington University	Evaluating National Football League Choices: The Passing Game	1:00 4th Floor Conference Room, PUP

Fall 2003

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
Sep. 24	Mark A. Carlson Federal Reserve Board of Govenors	Were There Other Ways Out? Bank Failures During the Panics of the Great Depression	1:00 829 Admin
Oct. 10	Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong National Science Foundation and University of South Florida	Alcohol Avalibility and Crime: A Robust Approach	1:00 829 Admin
Oct. 15	Tim Gindling UMBC	The Effects of Legal Minimum Wages in Costa Rica on Wages, Employment, Hours Worked and Monthly Earnings Throughout the Distribution	1:00 829 Admin
Nov. 10	Daniel Hamermesh University of Texas	Time Use, Time Crunch and Work Time in America 8th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture	3:00 AOK Library, 7th Floor

SPRING 2003

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
Mar. 10	John Robst Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	"Estimation of a Hedonic Pricing Model for Medigap Insurance"	1:00 TBA
Apr. 4	Laura Razzolini University of Mississippi and National Science Foundation	"Raising Revenues for Charity: Auctions Versus Lotteries"	1:00 829 Admin
Apr. 4	Stanley Engerman University of Rochester	"Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies" Washington Area Economic History Seminar For information about dinner preceding the seminar, contact David Mitch	8:00 pm 318 Commons
Apr. 11	Hakan Berument Bilken University	Treasury Auction Interest Rates and Economic Performance in Turkey Figure 1 Figure 2	1:00 829 Admin
Apr. 16	Eva Marikova Leeds, Moravian College Michael Leeds, Temple University Irina Pistolet, Temple University	What's in a Name? The Value of Naming Rights	1:00 pm 829 Admin
May 2	Bill Lord, UMBC	"Re-thinking the Early Decline in American Fertility"	1:00 pm 829 Admin

FALL 2002

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
Sept. 26	Phil Cook Duke University	"Evaluating Gun Policy" (Sponsored by Social Sciences Forum)	4:00 pm UC, Room 312
Nov. 14	Gregory Mankiw Harvard University	"Economics Education and Economic Policy: From the Classroom to the White House" 7th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture	4:00 pm AOK Library, 7th floor
Dec. 6	Robert Goldfarb George Washington University	"Inequality of What Among Whom: Rival Conceptions of Distribution in the 20th Century"	1:00 pm Admin 829

SPRING 2002 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
Mar. 4	Malay K. Dey Morgan State	Order Time, Multiple Shocks, and Short Selling in Security Price Adjustment	1:00 pm Admin 829
Mar. 15	Dennis Coates UMBC	Voting on Stadium and Arena Subsidies	1:00 pm Admin 829
Apr. 10	Mike Bailey Georgetown University	Do States Race to the Bottom?	1:00 pm Admin 829
Apr. 15	Burton Malkiel Princeton	A Random Walker Looks Back: Is the Stock Market Predictable After All? Sponsored by a generous donation from TIAA-CREF	4:00 AOK Library, 7th floor
May 1	Tim Gindling UMBC	Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality in Costa Rica	1:00 pm Admin 829
May 3	Tim Haab Ohio State University	Information Conveyance on Behavioral Changes from Perceived Risks: An Application to Seafood Consumption and Pfiesteria Piscicida	1:00 pm Admin 829
May 8	Shoshana Grossbard-Schectman San Diego State University	Marriage and the Economy	1:00 Admin 829

FALL 2001 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
Sept. 14	George Deltas FTC and University of Illinois U.C.	"Passenger Shipping Cartels and Their Effect on Transatlantic Migration"	1:00 pm Admin 829
Oct. 16	Alice Rivlin The Brookings Institution
"Reviving the Economy: What Can Policies Do?" 6th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture	4:00 pm Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor

SPRING 2001 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title/Topic	Time and Location
Mar. 30	Nathan Rosenberg, Stanford	"America's University/Industry Interfaces, 1945-2000"	7:45 pm, UC Room312
Feb. 15	Philip Keefer, Development Research Group, The World Bank	"When do special interests run rampant? Disentangling the role of elections, incomplete information, and checks and balances in banking crises."	1:00 pm, UC Ballroom Lounge
Mar. 27	Stanley Black, Chapel Hill, IMF	Economic Reform in Mongolia	1:00 pm, Location: TBA

FALL 2000 SPEAKER SCHEDULE

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title	Time and Location
Sept. 13	Jim Bessen, Research on Innovation	"The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution"	1:00 pm, Administration 829
Sept. 25	Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge	Resource Policy in Imperfect Economies 5th Annual Jack Mullen Lecture	4:00 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Oct. 3	Tyler Cowan, George Mason University	"The Economics of Global Culture" (Lecture sponsored by the UMBC Social Sciences and Humanities Forums)	4:00 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery
Nov. 30	Peyton Young, Johns Hopkins Univerity	"The Evolution of Social Institutions" (Sponsors: Social Sciences Forum, Department of Economics, Department of Political Science)	4:00 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

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