----- Tuesday, April 01, 2008 -----
Econ Brown Bag Seminar - Anne Villamil
1:00 PM-2:00 PM (170 Wohlers Hall)
 Anne Villamil, UIUC, "The Impact of Owner Characteristics and Institutions on Firms" Neus Herranz, Stefan Krasa and Anne Villamil
Development/International Economics Workshop - Erica Field
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (219 David Kinley Hall)
 Erica field, Harvard University, "The Cognitive Link Between Georgraphy and Development: Iodine Deficiency and Scholling Attainment in Tanzania"
----- Wednesday, April 02, 2008 -----
Microeconomics Seminar - Attila Ambrus
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (219 David Kinley Hall)
 Attila Ambrus, Harvard, "A Continuous Model of Bargaining with Random Arrival Times"
Labor Economics Seminar - John Budd
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (TBA)
 John Budd, Univeristy of Minnesota, "Unionism Over the Life Cycle: First-Timers and the Never-Unionized in a Cohort of the U.S. Labor Force"
----- Friday, April 04, 2008 -----
Departmental Seminar - Andy Rose
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (123 David Kinley Hall)
 Andy Rose, University of California-Berkeley, "Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate"
----- Monday, April 07, 2008 -----
Macroeconomics Workshop - Berthold Herrendorf
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (174 wohlers Hall)
 Berthold Herrendorf, ASU, "Cheap Food, Exploding Population, and the Easterlin Paradox""
----- Wednesday, April 09, 2008 -----
Microeconomics Seminar - Vijay Krishna
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (219 David Kinley Hall)
 Vijay Krishna, Penn State, "On the Benefits of Costly Voting"
----- Thursday, April 10, 2008 -----
Econ Brown Bag Seminar - Daniela Puzzello
1:00 PM-2:00 PM (170 Wohlers Hall)
 Daniela Puzzello, UIUC, "Stationarity without Degeneracy in a Model of Commodity Money" Ricardo Cavalcanti and Daniela Puzzello
----- Friday, April 11, 2008 -----
Applied Microeconomics Workshop - Art Shneyerov
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (119 David Kinley Hall)
 Art Shneyerov, UBC, "What Model for Entry in First-Prince Auctions? A Nonparametric Approach"
Econometrics Seminar - Chung Ming Kuan
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (123 David Kinley Hall)
 Chung Ming Kuan, UCSD and Academica Sinica, "Estimation of Conditional Moment Restrictions without Assuming Parameter Identifiability"
----- Tuesday, April 15, 2008 -----
Brown Bag Seminar
1:00 PM-2:00 PM (170 Wohlers Hall)
 Nicholas Yannelis, UIUC, "Under What Conditions is the REE Learnable and Stable?"
Development/International Economics Workshop joint with Labor - Marianne Bertrand
4:00 PM-5:30 PM (219 David Kinley Hall)
 Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago, "Affirmative Action in Education: Evidence from Engineering College Admissions in India"
----- Wednesday, April 16, 2008 -----
Microeconomics Seminar joint the Applied Microeconomics - Ignacio Esponda
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (219 David Kinley Hall)
 Ignacio Esponda, New York University Stern School, "Behavioral Equilibrium in Economies with Adverse Selection"
Regional Economics Applications Laboratory & Regional Science Program Seminar - Philip McCann
5:30 PM-7:30 PM (219 Davenport Hall)
 Philip McCann, University of Reading, UK, University of Waikato, New Zealand, "Human Capital, Graduate Migration & Innovation in British Regions"
----- Friday, April 18, 2008 -----
Departmental Seminar - Joel Slemrod
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (241 Wohlers Hall)
 Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan, "Tax Policy Issues"
----- Monday, April 21, 2008 -----
Macroeconomics Workshop - Romain Wacziarg
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (174 Wohlers Hall)
 Romain Wacziarg (Stanford), "The Diffusion of Development"
----- Tuesday, April 22, 2008 -----
Econ Brown Bag Seminar
1:00 PM-2:00 PM (170 Wohlers Hall)
 Odilon Camara, UIUC, "The Dynamics of Promotions, Quits and Layoffs"
----- Wednesday, April 23, 2008 -----
Microeconomics Seminar joint with Applied Micro - Minjung Park
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (219 David Kinley Hall)
 Minjung Park, University of Minnesota, "M&A Incentives and Outcomes: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry"
Labor/Econometrics Seminar - Debopam Battacharya
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (133A ILIR)
 Debopam Battacharya, Dartmouth Univeristy, "Inferring Optimal Resource Allocation from Experimental Data"
Dept. of Statistics Seminar - Ivan Mizera
4:00 PM-5:30 PM (122 Illini Hall)
 Ivan Mizera, University of Alberta, Quantile Tomography: Using Quantiles with Multivariate Data"
----- Friday, April 25, 2008 -----
Departmental Seminar - Chris Taber
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (123 David Kinley Hall)
 Chris Taber, Univeristy of Wisconsin, "Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capital"
----- Monday, April 28, 2008 -----
Macroeconomics Workshop - Cristina Arellano CANCELLED
3:30 PM-5:00 PM (174 Wohlers Hall)
  CANCELLED - Cristina Arellano, Univ. of Minnesota, TBA