Friday Workshop

The Department of Economics conducts a weekly research and reading workshop. Attendees are asked to read the selections ahead of time.

Fridays 3:30-5:00 p.m. in DMH 135 or 149A followed by Barstool Economists meeting at listed eatery.

Please email Matt Holian or Ed Lopez if you have any questions about our workshop, or are interested in presenting your research. Students, access the weekly comment form here.

Date

 

Presenter

Topic

Barstool

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"

 

4th 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.

4th 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?”

4th 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

4th 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”

4th Street Pizza

 

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