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.
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
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
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.
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.
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 1st, 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,
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
Julie
Econ Department On-Line Website/Calendar: http://www.economics.uiuc.edu
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