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.
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Presenter |
Topic |
Barstool |
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No Workshop—First week of
class |
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No Workshop—Faculty
Teaching Summit |
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Claudia
Williamson (Development Research Institute, New York
University) |
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4th
Street Pizza |
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No Workshop
Scheduled |
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Readings
Group |
Michael C. Munger, "Euvoluntary or Not, Exchange is Just," (Social Philosophy & Policy 2011) ungated copy on author's website. |
4th
Street Pizza |
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Matt Zwolinski
(University of San Diego) http://home.sandiego.edu/~mzwolinski/ |
“Exploitation
and Unfair Pricing” (emphasis on pp.7-8, 18-25) |
Grande
Pizza |
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Readings
Group |
Assigned reading:Peter Leeson, "Trading With Bandits," J. of Law & Economics, 2007Additional suggested reading:Alvin Roth, "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets," J. of Economic Perspectives, 2007 |
Grande Pizza |
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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 |
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Placeholder: student
presentations |
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No Workshop—Spring
Break |
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No Workshop—APEE
Conference |
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Jed DeVaro
(CSU East Bay) |
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Grande
Pizza |
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Joshua C. Hall
(Beloit College) |
“Frictions
in Polycentric Administration with Non-Congruent Borders: Evidence from
Ohio School District Class Sizes”
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4th
Street Pizza |
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No Workshop
Scheduled |
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Bart Wilson (Chapman
University) |
“An Experimental
Economic History of Whalers' Rules of
Capture” |
Grande
Pizza |
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05-11 |
William F.
Shughart, II (Utah State University) |
“Hope and
Change in the Obama Administration’s Antitrust
Policy” |
4th Street
Pizza |