Economics-Finance Seminar Series, 2008-2009

Seminars will take place fortnightly on Fridays from 3:30 to 5:00 in Room 206

We socialize after the seminar has concluded.

Date	Speaker	Paper Title
Fall Quarter, 2008
October 03, 2008	Ed Coulson Economics, Penn State U.	Housing Tenure and Labor Market Impacts: The Search Goes On
October 17, 2008	Jesus Sierra, Finance, USC	Imperfect financial Integration, Uncovered Interest parity and Central Bank foreign exchange reserves
October 24, 2008	Satish Thosar, Eric Fisher, and Phil Cohl	An Open Forum on the Global Financial Crisis
November 14, 2008	Tim Richards Economics, ASU	Promotion and Fast Food Demand
November 21, 2008	Ted Bergstrom Economics, UCSB	One Chance in a Million: Altruism and the Bone Marrow Registry
December 5, 2008	Rod Garratt Economics, UCSB	Which Bank is the "Central" Bank? An Application of Markov Theory to the Canadian Large Value Transfer System
Winter Quarter, 2009
January 16, 2009	Herve Roche, Finance, Calpoly	Optimal Consumption and Investment Strategies under Wealth Ratcheting
January 30, 2009	Jonathan Robinson, Economics, UCSC	Savings Constraints and Microenterprise Development: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
February 13, 2009	Stathis Tompaidis, Finance U. of Texas, Austin	Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is:  The Effect of Commitment and Competition on Mutual Fund Allocations.
February 27, 2009	Nicholas Flores, Economics, University of Colorado	Public Goods Referenda without Perfectly Correlated Prices and Quantities
March 13, 2009	Matthew Kotchen Economics, UCSB	Green Clubs
Spring Quarter, 2009
April 03, 2009	Till Requate, Economics, University of Kiel	Investment Incentives under Emission Trading: An Experimental Study
April 10, 2009	Jacob S. Sagi Finance, Vanderbilt U.	Time Varying Corporate Capital Stocks, the Cross Section and Intertemporal Variation in Stock Returns
May 1, 2009	Dean Foster Wharton, UPenn	Gaming Performance Fees by Portfolio Managers
May 15, 2009	Pete Klenow Economics, Stanford U.	Reset Price Inflation and the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks
May 22, 2009	Russell Lundholm Accounting, U of Michigan	Fundamental Analysis and Hedge Trading in a Disagreement Model
June 5, 2009	Lucile Faurel Accounting, UC Irvine	Do Investors use CEO’s Stock Options as Signals for Future Firm Performance?