Previous Seminars 2008
December
- December 5: Money and Time Poverty Thresholds for Food Poverty: A Cost Difference Approach, George C. Davis (Virginia Tech)
- December 12: Measuring Racial Bias in Driving Under the Influence Enforcement, Brady Horn (SES)
November
- November 10: The Value of Statistical Life: Pursuing the Deadliest Catch, William C. Horrace (The Maxwell School of Syracuse University)
- November 14: Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: the Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects, Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia University)
- November 21: When Should a Firm Expand its Business? The Signaling Implications of Business Expansion (with Esther Gal-Or and Ana Espinola-Arredondo), Felix Munoz-Garcia (SES)
October
- October 3: Did Booker Unveil Implicit Discrimination Among Federal Judges?, Andrew Nutting (University of Idaho)
- October 10: Do the Selfish Mimic Cooperators? Experimental Evidence from Finitely-Repeated Labor Markets (with Steven Y. Wu), Abstract, Brian Roe (The Ohio State University)
- October 24: Would Hotelling Kill the Electric Car?, Andrew Leach (University of Alberta)
- October 31: The Location of U.S. States' Overseas Offices, Andrew Cassey (SES)
September
- September 19: Preparation for the Ph.D. Job Market, Jonathan Yoder (SES)
- September 5: Quality standard effects on goods with collective reputation and multiple components, Jason Winfree (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Alumni Lecture
- September 12: Consequentialist Ambiguity, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe (University of Texas, Austin)
July
- July 10: Free-riding and Cooperation in Environmental Games, Ana Espinola-Arredondo, Job Candidate seminar
June
- June 11: Nonlinear Structure in Regression Residuals, Michael McCullough (SES)
May
- May 2: Aggregation in Production Jeffrey LaFrance (SES)
- May 9: Strategic International Outsourcing John Gilbert (Utah State)
April
- April 4: Network Effects of the Point-to-Point Network: Evidences from the Spatial Entry Patterns of Southwest Airlines Jia Yan (SES)
- April 11: Taxation and Income Distribution Dynamics in a Neoclassical Growth Model, Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)
- April 18: Parameterizing Risk Tolerance Among Respondents of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 -- Abstract, Bidisha Mandal (SES)
- April 22: When will trade restrictions affect producer behavior: Oligopsony power in international trade -- Abstract Frank Asche (Norwegian Fisheries Economist, University of Stavanger, Norway)
- April 24: Family Transfers in Rural Mexico: An Application to Risk Sharing and Labor Supply Elasticity --Handout, Rachel Soloveichik (Economist, Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Dept of Commerce)
March
- March 21: The Determinants of Consuming Food Away from Home in China: The Role of Hosted Meals Junfei Bai (IMPACT WSU)
- March 27: 2008 Leigh Lecture in Economics Timothy Kehoe (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) SES Seminar - How and Why does Trade Grow? and Leigh Lecture - Economic Crises and Productivity Drops
February
- February 4, Pullman: Semi-Collusive Market Outcomes: Theory and Evidence, and February 5, Wenatchee: Market Value Maximization through Strategic Delegation, Shinn-Shyr Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- February 7: Evaluating the 100th Meridian Initiative: Assessing the Impacts of Zebra Mussel Invasion on the Columbia River Basin, Travis Warziniack (University of Wyoming)
- February 8: Factors influencing the temporal diffusion of broadband adoption: Evidence from Oklahoma, Brian Whitacre (Oklahoma State University)
- February 13: Beliefs and Social Preferences, Zachary Grossman (University of California, Berkeley)
- February 14, Pullman: Producer Preferences for Cottonseed in the Mississippi Delta via a Choice-Based Conjoint Experiment, and February 15, Wenatchee: "Producer Returns from Bt Cotton under Various Refuge Scenarios in the Mississippi Delta", Swagata Banerjee (Mississippi State University)
- February 18, Pullman: Wheat Quality Information Availability and its Impacts on Mexican Millers' Welfare, and February 19, Wenatchee: Mexican Millers’ Demand for Quality and Consistency in Hard Red Winter Wheat, R. Karina Gallardo (Oklahoma State University)
- February 25, Pullman: "Red Tides and Participation in Marine-based Activities: Estimating the Response of Southwest Florida Residents"; Febryary 26, Wenatchee: Marketing Opportunities for Perennial Peanut Hay, Market Development Strategies for Fresh Sweet Corn , Kimberly Morgan (University of Florida)
- February 26: Sources of Growth and Sources of Knowledge, Seung Mo Choi (University of Chicago)
- February 28: The importance of Foregone Options and Social Comparisons as a Device for Cooperation in Simultaneous-Move Games, Felix Munoz-Garcia (University of Pittsburgh)
- February 29: Financial Frictions and International Trade, Ruanjai Suwantaradon (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
January
- January 11: Consumer preferences for alternative formats of nutrition information on grocery store shelf labels, Joshua Berning (SES)
- January 14: Measurement error in discrete explanatory variables: Implications of conditional independence, Nandita Gawade (Princeton University)
- January 16: Market signaling with grades, Brendan Daley (Stanford University)
- January 18: State trade missions, Andrew Cassey (University of Minnesota)
- January 25: Coordination in learning to play Nash Equilibrium, Tomasz Sadzik (Stanford University)
- January 29: Intertemporal risk aversion, stationarity and discounting, Christian Traeger (UC Berkeley)