Public Economics Workshop

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Department of Economics
Schedule for Spring 2008

Public Economic workshops meet Tuesdays at 3:45 - 5:15 pm in room 8417 of the William H. Sewell Social Science Bldg, 1180 Observatory Drive.

(*Exceptions noted below).

Coordinator: Jane Cooley

(Updates to follow. Please check back.)

DATE NAME
Affiliation
TITLE of paper
February 25, 2008 (*Monday in room *7324) DAN SILVERMAN
University of Michigan
"Factions and Political Competition."
[Joint with Nicola Persico (NYU) and J.C. Rodriguez (Mexico Finance Ministry)].
March 12, 2008 (*Wednesday in room *7324)
(Joint with IO workshop).
KATHERINE HO
Columbia University
“The Effects of Full-line Forcing Contracts”
with Justin Ho and Julie Mortimer.
April 14, 2008  (*Monday in room *7324)
(Joint with Labor workshop)
JOSHUA KINSLER
University of Rochester
Suspending the Right to an Education or Preserving It?
An Equilibrium Model of Student Behavior, Achievement, and Suspension
April 22, 2008 EFRAIM SADKA
Tel-Aviv University
"The Role of Stigma in the Design of Welfare Programs"
May 6, 2008
(Joint with IO workshop)
CHRISTOPHER TIMMINS
Duke University
"Recovering the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Ozone", #1
"Simple, Consistent Estimation of the Marginal Willingness to Pay Function", #2
May 13, 2008 JONATHAN GURYAN
Chicago GSB
"Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination"
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Other UW Department of Economic Workshops:

  • Labor Economics
  • Public Economics
  • International Economics
  • Industrial Organization
  • Macroeconomics
  • Econometrics
  • Theory Economics
  • Page last updated May 7, 2008.