Aug 24

Student Research Presentations

Jim Caton and Anand Saxena.

TBA

Students can crash the Grad student orientation, DMH 149A, 5:30-7pm

Aug 31

No Workshop

Sep 7

No Workshop

Sep 14

Reading Group Discussion (Part I)

Violence and Social Orders, by North, Wallis and Weingast.

Grande Pizzeria

Sep 21

No Workshop

Sep 28

Colleen Haight, San Jose State University

“Lessons from Delphi: Religious Markets and Spiritual Capitals,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 18 November 2010

Grande Pizzeria

Oct 5

No Workshop

Oct 12

Reading Group Discussion (Part II)

 Violence and Social Orders, by North, Wallis and Weingast.

"Violence, access, and competition in the market for protection", by Douglas B. Rogers, Adam C. Smith, and Bart J. Wilson

 Grande Pizzeria

Oct 19

No Workshop

Oct 26

Kirill Chernomaz, San Francisco State University

Doing experiments in economics

Grande Pizzeria

Nov 2

Barry Weingast, Stanford Univesity

Political-Economic Development Traps

(paper available on table outside the main office of the Econ Dept.)

Grande Pizzeria

Nov 9

Tom Means, San Jose State University

Unintended or intended consequences? The effect of below market housing mandates on housing markets in California

Grande Pizzeria

Nov 16

No Workshop – SEA conference

Nov 23

No Workshop

Nov 30

Student Research Presentations

Kevin Chiu

Who Supports Growth Control Initiatives in San Francisco?

Grande Pizzeria

Date TBD

Post-Comp Exam Barstool Celebration!

Location TBD

01-27

No Workshop-First week of class

02-03

No Workshop-Faculty Teaching Summit

02-10

Claudia Williamson (Development Research Institute, New York University)

http://www.claudiawilliamson.com/

"Constraining Private Predation"

4^th Street Pizza

02-17

No Workshop Scheduled

02-24

Readings Group

Michael C. Munger, "Euvoluntary or Not, Exchange is Just," (Social Philosophy & Policy 2011) ungated copy on author's website.

4^th Street Pizza

03-02

Matt Zwolinski (University of San Diego) http://home.sandiego.edu/~mzwolinski/

-Exploitation and Unfair Pricing- (emphasis on pp.7-8, 18-25)

Grande Pizza

03-09

Readings Group

Assigned reading:

Peter Leeson, "Trading With Bandits," J. of Law & Economics, 2007

Additional suggested reading:

Alvin Roth, "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets," J. of Economic Perspectives, 2007 

Grande Pizza

03-16

Alexandre Padilla (Metropolitan State College of Denver)

-Why are HIV outbreaks in the adult film industry the exception and not the norm?-

4^th Street Pizza

03-23

Placeholder: student presentations

03-30

No Workshop-Spring Break

04-06

No Workshop-APEE Conference

04-13

Jed DeVaro (CSU East Bay)

-Using -Opposing Responses- and Relative Performance to Distinguish Empirically Among Alternative Models of Promotions.-

Grande Pizza

04-20

Joshua C. Hall (Beloit College)

Frictions in Polycentric Administration with Non-Congruent Borders: Evidence from Ohio School District Class Sizes

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1980843

4^th Street Pizza

04-27

No Workshop Scheduled

05-04

Bart Wilson (Chapman University)

-An Experimental Economic History of Whalers' Rules of Capture-

Grande Pizza

05-11

William F. Shughart, II (Utah State University)

-Hope and Change in the Obama Administration-s Antitrust Policy-

4^th Street Pizza

08-26

Grande Pizza

Introduction and Group Discussion

Video and Discussion, TBD

09-02

Smoke Eaters

McCloskey on Rhetoric

Rhetoric of Inquiry (19pp.)
Discussion Leader: Ed Lopez

09-09

Grande Pizza

McCloskey on Econometric Methodology

Size Matters (20pp.)
Discussion Leader: Matt Holian
optional readings: Leamer comment; Hooks & Robinson

09-16

Smoke Eaters

McCloskey on the Bourgeois Era

Bourgeios Dignity Chapters:
1 (The Tide of Innovation)
26 (Institutions Cannot Be Viewed As...) (NB: this is ch.33 in final book)
27 (Nor Did The Glorious Revolution...); (NB final ch #)

Discussion Leader: Jeff Hummel
optional: 28 (And So the Chronology...); 29 (And Anyway the Entire Absence...); Boettke comment

09-23

Grande Pizza

Special Event*

*room change: DMH 149B

A Video Conversation with Dierdre McCloskey

09-30

Grande Pizza

" Center City Vibrancy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transportation"

Matt Holian, SJSU

10-07

4th St Pizza

“ The Financial Crisis in the U.K.: Uncertainty, Calculation, and Error”

Anthony J. Evans, Fulbright Scholar in Residence and ESCP Europe Business School

10-14

No Workshop Scheduled

10-21

NoWorkshop Scheduled

10-28

Grande Pizza

"An Analysis of Tax-Induced Cigarette Smuggling in America"

Todd Nesbit, College of Charleston

11-04

4th St Pizza

"L'Oreal v. eBay: Trademarks Reshaping Cross-border Internet Trade."

Tsvet Tsonsevski, Foundation for Economic Education

11-11

Grande Pizza

“The U.S.-E.U. Antitrust Coordination Doctrine”

Robert Dixon Crouch, M.A. Candidate, Department of Economics, SJSU

11-18

No Workshop Scheduled

Southern Economic Association meeting

11-25

No Workshop Scheduled

Thanksgiving Holiday

12-02

4th St Pizza

“The retention consequences of caps on executive compensation during financial crises”

Jed de Varo, CSU East Bay

12-09

Grande Pizza

“Brief, Renewable, and Private: A Better Fashion Copyright” (paper not available yet but here is a short background reading)

Ed Lopez