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.

Spring 2004 Schedule
Jan 14	Fernando Ferreira, UC Berkeley You Can Take It With You: Transferability of Proposition 13 Tax Benefits, Residential Mobility, and Willingness to Pay for Housing Amenities
Jan 16	Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Chicago GSB Barriers to Entry and Productivity: Micro-Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Sector Reforms
Jan 20	Jonah Rockoff, Harvard Community Heterogeneity and Local Response to Fiscal Incentives
Jan 21	Hugo Mialon, UT-Austin An Economic Theory of the Fifth Amendment
Jan 22	Matthew Gentzkow, Harvard Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarity: Online Newspapers
Jan 23	John Asker, Harvard Measuring Cost Advantages from Exclusive Dealing: An Empirical Study of Beer Distribution
Jan 28	Grace Wong, Princeton Has SARS Infected the Property Market? Evidence from Hong Kong
Feb 06	Simon Board, Stanford GSB Dynamic Monopoly
Feb 12	Justin Wolfers, Stanford GSB Are Voters Rational? Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections
Feb 13	Betsey Stevenson, Harvard Evidence on the Effects of Sports Participation: Examining the Impact of Title IX
Feb 18	Andrew Sweeting, MIT Coordination Games, Multiple Equilibria and the Timing of Radio (and a further background paper)
Feb 25	Ebonya Washington, MIT How Black Candidates Affect Voter Turnout and Candidate Positioning
Mar 17	Gordon Dahl, Rochester (with Enrico Moretti) The Demand for Sons- Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage
Mar 24	Erzo Luttmer, Harvard Neighbors as Negatives- Relative Earnings and Well-Being
Mar 31	Caroline Hoxby, Harvard (with Ilyana Kuziemko) Robin Hood and His Not-So-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan
Apr 07	Jeffrey Kling, Princeton (with Jeffrey Liebman) Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth
Apr 13	Marianne Bertrand, Chicago GSB (with Sendhil Mullainathan) Cash Flow and Investment Project Outcomes: Evidence from Bidding on Oil and Gas Leases
Apr 21	Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard (with Richard Zeckhauser) Schmeduling
Apr 28	Alan Sorensen, Stanford GSB Bestseller Lists and Product Variety: The Case of Book Sales

Past Seminar Schedules

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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