Welcome: The Business and Public Policy Department

"Seminars" provide a forum for both outside speakers and Wharton faculty to present applied economic research of interest to the broad Wharton community. "Workshops" are a forum in which Wharton and allied faculty present applied economic research-in-progress.

The Applied Economics Seminar is organized by Alex Gelber, Katja Seim & Maisy Wong.

The Applied Economics Seminars are held in John M. Huntsman Hall room 355 on Wednesday's from 12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. {unless otherwise indicated}

Speaker Schedule

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Spring 2011 Business and Public Policy Department Schedule All seminars are held in JMHH 355, from 12:00-1:20 p.m., unless otherwise indicated
Jan 18 ~Tuesday~	Katrina Kosec, Stanford University "Politics and Preschool: The Political Economy of Investment in Pre-Primary Education"
Jan 20 ~Thursday~	Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yale University "Time to Build and Shipping Prices"
Jan 25 ~Tuesday~	Ethan Kaplan, Berkeley College "Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information"
Jan 27 ~Thursday~	Jee Yeon Lehmann, Boston University "Job Assignment and Promotion Under Statistical Discrimination: Evidence from the Early Careers of Lawyers"
Jan 31 ~Monday~	Christopher Nosko, Harvard University "Competition and Quality Choice in the CPU Market"
Feb 09	Matthew Levy, Berkeley College "Habit Formation Naivete, and Projection Bias in Gym Attendance"
Feb 17 ~Thursday~	Andreas Fuster, Harvard University "Expectations as Endowments: evidence on Reference-Dependent Preference from Exchange and Valuation Experiments"
*Feb 22* *~Tuesday~*	Kei Kawai, Northwestern University "Auction Design and the Incentives to Invest: evidence from Procurement Auctions"
Mar 16	Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth
Mar 23	Imran Rasul, University College London
Mar 30	Panle Jia, MIT
Apr 06	Douglas Bernheim, Stanford
Apr 13	Stephen Ryan, MIT
Apr 20	George Borjas, Harvard

Spring 2011 Health Care Department Schedule
Jan 20 ~Thursday~ 3:00-4:30 p.m. SHDH 1201	Keith M Marzilli Ericson, Harvard University "Market Design when Firms Interact with Inertial Consumers: Evidence from Medicare Part D"
*Jan 26* 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. JMHH 1201	Amanda Starc, Harvard University "Insurer Pricing and Consumer Welfare: Evidence from Medigap"
Feb 01 ~Tuesday~ 3:00-4:30 p.m. SHDH 1201	Neale Mahoney, Stanford University
*Feb 02* *10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.* *JMHH F92*	Jason Abaluck, MIT
*Feb 03* *~Thursday~* *3:00-4:30 p.m.* *SHDH 1201*	Lisa Kamran Bilir, Stanford University
*Feb 07* *~Monday~* 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. JMHH F92	Marika Cabral, Stanford University
Spring 2011 Insurance and Risk Management Department Schedule
Jan 26 *12:00-1:20 p.m.* *JMHH 355*	Angie Andrikogiannopoulou, Princeton University "Estimating Risk Preferences from a Large Panel of Real-World Betting Choices"
Jan 27 ~Thursday~ *4:30-6:00 p.m.* *JMHH 345*	*Charles Sprenger, UC San Diego* *"An Endowment Effect for Risk: Experimental Tests of Stochastic Reference Points"*
Feb 01 ~Tuesday~ JMHH 355 12:00-1:20 p.m	*Selim Gulesci, London School of Economics and Political Science* *"Labor-Tying and Poverty in a Rural Economy: Evidence form Bangladesh"*
Feb 03 ~Thursday~ JMHH 355 12:00-1:20 p.m.	*Tatyana Deryugina, MIT* *"The Dynamic Effect of Hurricanes in the US: The Role of Non-Disaster Transfer Programs"*
Feb 07 ~Monday~ JMHH 355 12:00-1:20 p.m.	*Dina Pomeranz, Harvard University* *"No Taxations Without Information: Deterrence and Slf-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax"*
Feb 08 ~Tuesday~ JMHH 355 12:00-1:20 p.m.	*Justin Gallagher, UC Berkeley* *"Learning About an Infrequent Event: Evidence from Flood Insurance Take-Up in the US"*
Feb 14 ~Monday~ JMHH 240 4:30-6:00 p.m.	*Gharad Bryan, Yale University*
Feb 15 ~Tuesday~ JMHH 355 12:00-1:20 p.m.	*Jeffrey Clemens, Harvard University* *"Regulatory Redistribution in the Market for Health Insurance"*
Mar 03 JMHH 355 12:00-1:20 p.m.	*Dylan Minor, UC Berkeley*
Spring 2011 Operations and Information Management Department Schedule *All seminars are held in the OPIM conference room located on the 5th floor of JMHH, from 12:10-1:15 p.m.*
*Feb 08* *~Tuesday~*	*Judd Kessler, Harvard University* *"Signals of Support and Public Good Provision"*
*Feb 17* *~Thursday~*	*Leila Agha, MIT*
Spring 2011 Real Estate Department Schedule All seminars are held in JMHH 355, from 12:00-1:20 p.m., unless otherwise indicated
Jan 24 ~Monday~	Elliot Anenberg, Duke University "Uncertainty, Learning, and the Value of Information in the Residential Real Estate Market"
*Feb 02*	Aurel Hizmo, Duke University "Risk in Housing Markets: An Equilibrium Approach"
*Feb 10* *~Thursday~*	Dragana Cvijanovic, London School of Economics "Real Estate Prices and Firm Capital Structure"
*Feb 14* *~Monday~*	Jeffrey Lin, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank
*Feb 23*	Jeffrey Brinkman, Carnegie Mellon University "Transportation Technologies, Agglomeration, and the Structure of Cities"

Past Seminar Schedules

Spring 2010 | Summer 2010 |

Spring 2009 | Summer 2009 | Fall 2009

Spring 2008 | Summer 2008 | Fall 2008

Spring 2007 | Summer 2007 | Fall 2007

Spring 2006 | Summer 2006 | Fall 2006

Spring 2005 | Summer 2005 | Fall 2005

Spring 2004 | Summer 2004 | Fall 2004

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