UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

Department of Economics

330 Wohlers Hall

NEWSLETTER - SEMINAR NOTICE

April 21 - 25, 2008

Macroeconomics Workshop
Mon., April 21 Romain Wacziarg
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Stanford University
174 Wohlers Hall “The Diffusion of Development”
http://www.stanford.edu/~wacziarg/downloads/diffusion.pdf

Econ Brown Bag Seminar
Tues., April 22 Odilon Camara
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. UIUC
170 Wohlers Hall “The Dynamics of Promotions, Quits and Layoffs”

Microeconomics Seminar – joint with Applied Micro
Wed., April 23 Minjung Park
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. University of Minnesota
219 David Kinley Hall “M&A Incentives and Outcomes: Evidence from the Mutual Fund Industry”
http://www.econ.umn.edu/~mpark/Merger%20Paper.pdf

Labor Economics joint with Econometrics Seminar
Wed., April 23 Debopam Battacharya
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Dartmouth University
133A ILIR “Inferring Optimal Resource Allocation from Experimental Data”
http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/lubotsky/allocation1.pdf

Departmental Seminar
Fri., April 25 Chris Taber
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. University of Wisconsin
123 David Kinley Hall “Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous
Human Capital”

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Items of Interest

Econ Department Award Ceremony will be on Thurs., May 1^st, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 152 Wohlers Hall. All Econ Faculty, Staff and Grad students are invited to attend.

Department of Statistics Seminar: Ivan Mizera, University of Alberta, “Quantile Tomography: Using Quatiles with Multvariate Date”, Wed., April 23, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m., 122 Illini Hall

Center for Business and Public Policy Seminars:

Peter Orszag ( Director of the Congressional Budget Office) “Health Care: Capturing the Opportunity in the Nation’s Core Fiscal Challenge”, Tues., April 22, 2:00 p.m., 134 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall;

Julie Berry Cullen (UC San Diego), title TBA, Thurs., May 1, 2:30 p.m., 166 Wohlers Hall

Econ Department On-Line Website/Calendar: http://www.economics.uiuc.edu

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