Orfalea College of Business Seminar Series, 2010-2011

Seminars will take place fortnightly on Fridays from 3:30 to 5:00

in Room 03-206 unless otherwise noted.

We socialize after the seminar has concluded.

 

Date

Speaker

Paper Title

Fall Quarter, 2010

September 24

Start Time: 3 PM

Morton Pincus

Accounting, UC Irvine

Pricing of Book-Tax Differences: Evidence from Short Arbitrage

October 8

Bart Wilson

Economics, Chapman

An Experimental Economic History of Whalers’ Rules of Capture

October 22

NO SEMINAR

November 5

Burkhard Schipper

Economics, UC Davis

Unbeatable Imitation

November 19

Erik Snowberg

Economics, Cal Tech

Selective Trials: A Principal-Agent Approach to Randomized Controlled Experiments

December 3

Christopher Costello

Economics, UCSB

The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Global Fisheries

Winter Quarter, 2011

January 14

Robert Innes,

Economics, UC Merced

Is Dishonesty Contagious?

January 28

Eduardo Zambrano

Economics, Cal Poly

The United Nations' Measurement of Human Development in Theory and in Practice

February 4

Steve Hamilton, Economics, Cal Poly

Emissions Standards and Ambient

Environmental Quality Standards in

Stochastic Receiving Media

February 18

NO SEMINAR

February 26-27

Southwest Economic Theory Conference

March 4

NO SEMINAR

March 11

Larry Fauver, Finance, University of Tennessee

The Impact of International Governance Reforms on Domestic and Cross-Listed Firms: A

Multi-Country Examination

Spring Quarter, 2011

April 8

Jean-Pierre Fouque,

Finance, UCSB

Multiscale Stochastic Volatility for Equity, Interest-Rate and Credit Derivatives

April 15

Gary Charness, Economics, UCSB

Overconfidence, Self-Esteem, and Strategic Deterrence

April 22

Mary Evans,

Economics, Claremont McKenna

Abatement, Care, and Compliance by Firms in Financial Distress

May 6

Jaksa Cvitanic

Finance, Cal Tech

Complete Market Equilibrium with Heterogeneous Agents

May 13

NO SEMINAR

May 20

Helen Popper,

Economics, Santa Clara University

Trilemma Stability and International Macroeconomic Archetypes in Developing Countries

June 3

Marigee Bacolod, Economics, A.P.E. and Lisa Wise Consulting

Beyond Incentives: Do Schools Use Accountability Rewards Productively?