Santa Clara University

Yellow Pad Research Seminar Series

All Yellow Pad seminars take place during 12:00 noon ~ 1:30 pm time period unless otherwise indicated

Academic Year 2012-2013

Spring 2013

Date Speaker Affiliation Title Location
Wednesday,
April 10
Nicholas Wilson Williams College

Is Sex Like Driving? HIV Prevention and Risk Compensation

Lucas 201

Wednesday,
April 17

Rhys Bidder San Francisco Fed Doubt and Variability Lucas 201

Wednesday,
May 1

Josh Tasoff Claremont Craduate University Exponential-Growth Bias and Lifecycle Consumption Lucas 201
Wednesday,
May 15
Gonçalo Pina Santa Clara University  Feedback and Performance in Tournaments: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment Lucas 201

Wednesday,
June 5

Johanna Francis Fordham/Visiting UC Santa Cruz   Lucas 201
Wednesday,
June 12
Arunima Sinha Santa Clara University   Lucas 108


Winter 2013

Seminars for the Winter 2013 quarter will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.unless otherwise indicated

Date Speaker Affliation Title Location

Monday,
January 14

Marcella Alsan NBER The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development Lucas 125

Wednesday,
January 16

Vikram Maheshri University of Houston Do "Broken Windows" Matter? Identifying Dynamic Spillovers in Criminal Behavior Lucas 108

Wednesday,
January 23

Willa Friedman UC Berkeley Antiretroviral Drug Access and Behavior Change Lucas 301
Friday,
January 25
Marissa Beck Stanford University Incentives for Overbidding in Minimum-Revenue Core-Seleting Auctions Lucas 301
Monday,
February 4
Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio Universite Catholique Louvain On Ranking Intergenerational Allocations in Risky Environments Lucas 301

Wednesday,
February 6

Laura Gee UC San Diego Social Networks and Labor Markets: How Strong Ties Relate to Job Transmission On Facebook's Social Network Lucas 301
Friday,
February 8
Teny Maghakian Shapiro UC, Merced What a Difference a Day Makes: Quantifying the Effects of Birth Timing Manipulation on Infant Health Lucas 201
Wednesday,
February 13
10:30-12:00
Jaqueline Oliveira Yale University The Value of Children: Intergenerational Transfers, Fertility and Human Capital Lucas 201
Friday,
February 15
10 - 11:30 a.m.
Javier Cravino UCLA Exchange Rates, Aggregate Productivity and the Currency of Invoicing of
International Trade
Lucas 205
Monday,
March 4
Christian Helmers  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid My precious! The location and diffusion of scentific research: evidence from the
Synchrotron Diamond Light Source
Lucas 108
Wednesday,
March 6

Ayca Kaya

University of Iowa Transparency and Price Formation Lucas 125


 

 Fall 2012

Date

Speaker Affliation Title Location

Wednesday,
September 26

Alex Whalley University of California, Merced

Private Gains from Public University Research: The Case of Productivity:
Spillovers from Agricultural Experiment Stations

Lucas 201
Wednesday,
October 3
Marianne Bitler University of Califonia, Irvine Experimental Evidence on Distribution Effects of Head Start Lucas 201
Monday,
October 8
Andrea Matranga Universitat Pompeu Fabra Mankind's Best Mistake: How the Frist Farmers Accepted Subsistence Living in Exchange for Stability Lucas 201
Wednesday,
October 24
Michael Bauer Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco The Signaling Channel for Federal Reserve Bond Purchases Lucas 201
Wednesday,
November 7
Bill Sunstrom
Michael Kevane
Santa Clara University Public libraries and political participation, 1870-1930 Lucas 201
Wednesday,N
ovember 14
Stephan Seiler Stanford Graduate School of Business Free to Choose? Reform and Demand Response in the English National Health Service Lucas 201
Wednesday,
November 28
Thomas Wu University of California, Santa Cruz

Familiarity and Surprises in International Financial Markets: Bad news travels like wild.re, good news travels slow

Lucas 201
 

Academic Year 2011-2012

 Winter and Spring 2012

Date Speaker Affliation Title Location

Wednesday,
March 7

Michael Bordo Rutgers & Hoover

Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record

Lucas 201
Wednesday,
March 14
Noam Yuchtman University of California, Berkeley -- Haas Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution Lucas 201
Wednesday,
April 4
Alessandra Cassar University of San Francisco Institutions, Culture and Economic Exchange: Experimental Evidence from Italy and Kosovo on the Causal Effect of Legal Institutions Lucas 201
Wednesday,
April 18
Dongsoo Shin Santa Clara University Agency Problem as a Self-Disciplining Device Lucas 201
Wednesday,
April 25
Stephen Salant University of Michigan Lucas 201
Wednesday,
May 2
Rick Hornbeck Harvard University Railroads and American Economic Growth:  "A Market Access" Approach Lucas 201
Monday,
May 7
Galina Hale San Francisco Federal Reserve Gender Ratios at Top PhD Programs in Economics Lucas 201
Wednesday,
May 16
Bill Sundstrom Santa Clara University Did the Great Depression Leave a Scar? Long-Run Impact of Exposure to Very High Unemployment Early in the Career Lucas 201
Wednesday,
May 23
Arunima Sinha Santa Clara University Expectations from the Term Structure Lucas 201

Wednesday,
May 30

Jaesoo Kim IUPU Price Discrimination via Information Provision Lucas 201
Wednesday,
June 6
Kanda Naknoi The Risk Premium and Long-Run Global Imbalances Lucas 201
Wednesday,
June 13
John Morgan
(Chair's Research Series)
University of California, Berkeley and Yahoo! Research A Model of Flops Lucas 201

 

Fall 2011

Date Speaker Affliation Title Location

Wednesday,
September 21

Fred Foldvary Santa Clara University Why Rent Matters:  Explaining wage and output stagnation with the classical determination of wages and rent Lucas 201
Wednesday,
October 5
Katheryn Russ  University of California, Davis

All Banks Great, Small, and Global: Loan pricing and foreign competition

Lucas 201

Wednesday,
October 12
Michael Kevane Santa Clara University Robustness of climate as an instrumental variable to estimate effect of GDP declines on political change in Africa Lucas 201
Wednesday,
October 19
Alan Barreca Tulane University Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States Lucas 201
Wednesday,
October 26
Jesse Cunha Naval Postgraduate School The Price Effects of Cash Versus In-Kind Transfers Lucas 201
Wednesday,
November 9
Alexander Field Santa Clara University The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011:  A Comparative Historical Approach Lucas 201
Wednesday,
November 16
Fernanda Nechio Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Are people aware of the Taylor rule? Lucas 201

Wednesday,
November 30

Thomas Jeischo
(Chair's Research Series)

Michigan State University

Endogenous Entry in Markets with Adverse Selection

Lucas 125

 

Academic Year 2010-2011

Spring 2011

 

Lilia Maliar 
Serguei Maliar

A Cluster-Grid Projection Method: Solving Problems With High Dimensionality

Michael Bar Longevity, Schooling and Lifetime Labor Supply
Jiawei Chen How do Switching Costs Affect Market Concentration and Prices in Network Industries?
Mario Belotti World Food Production and Population Growth: The Next 40 years - Can We Feed the Next 2 Billion People?
Desmond Lo A Theory of Bargaining Costs and Price Terms in the Absence of Specific Investments
Helen Popper Trilemma Stability and International Macroeconomic Archetypes
Adina Ardelean Trade Liberalization and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Data

 

Winter 2011

Ricardo Fernholz Exchange Rate Manipulation and Constructive Ambiguity: The Meaning of Transparency
Samuel Pienknagura Financial Development, R&D and Growth
Alessandro Barattieri Comparative Advantage, Service Trade, and Global Imbalances
David Rothschild Forecasting Elections: Voter Intentions versus Expectations
John Ifcher Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random- Assignment Experiment
Andrea Ajello Financial Intermediation, Investment Dynamics and Business Cycle Fluctuations
Jane Zhang Do Girls in China Compete Just As Much As Boys? Evidence from an Experiment that Predicts Educational Choice

 

Fall 2010

George Chacko

An Index-Based Measure of Liquidity

Dongsoo Shin

Voluntary Quality Disclosure under Price-Signaling Competition

Martha Bailey

The Opt-In Revolution?  Contraception, Women's Labor Supply and the Gender Gap in Wages

Alexander Field The Adversity/Hysteresis Effect: Depression Era Productivity Growth in the U.S. Railroad Sector
Jason Lepore Demand Uncertainty Leads to Diverse Collusive Dynamics
John Ifcher Economic Growth and Subjective Well Being Inequality: Evidence from the World Value Survey

 

Academic Year 2009-2010

 

Spring 2010

Latika Chaudhary Private to Public Ownership:
A Historical Perspective from Indian Railways
Jennifer Poole Business Travel as an Input to International Trade
Carolyn Evans
Adina Ardelean
Electoral Systems and Protectionism: An Industry-Level Analysis
Olivier Armantier A Reverse Auction for Toxic Assets
John Rasmus How Fragile is the Epic Recession: Prelude To Global Depession

 

Winter 2010

Luigi Pascali

Recruitment seminar
Banks and Development: Jewish Communities in the Italian Renaissance and Current Economic Performance

Ryan Banerjee

Recruitment seminar
Which coutries receive aid as insurance and Why?  A theory of optimal aid policy

Arunima Sinha

Recruitment seminar
Learning and the Yield Curve

Pym Manopimoke

Recruitment seminar
Trend Inflation and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

Sebastian Fossati

Recruitment seminar
Dating U.S. Business Cycles with Macro Factors

Ilan Noy Recruitment seminar
Natural Disasters and Economic Growth

 

Fall 2009

 Kathryn G. Marshall  Consistent Cross-Country Estimates of Labor Productivity
 Dongsoo Shin

 Hierarchical Structures and Dynamic Incentives
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 Jill Luoto Information and Persuasion: Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya
 Alex Field Do Economic Downturns have a Silver Lining?
 Jose Julian Cao-Alvira

Financial Frictions and Money-Driven Variability in Velocity

Note on Velocity: Solution to a cash-in-advance economy using finite elements and a parameterized expectations algorithm

 Linda Kamas

Are Women Really Less Competitive Than Men?

 
 
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