"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 Fernando Ferreira, Katja Seim & Betsey Stevenson.
The seminar meets on Wednesdays, from 12:00 - 1:20 p.m.

Spring 2007 Schedule
Jan 08	Joshua Gans, Melbourne Business School Concentration-Based Merger Tests and Vertical Market Structure Bilateral Bargaining with Externalities
Jan 10	Emel Filiz, Columbia Incorporating Unawareness into Contract Theory
Jan 12	Ilyana Kuziemko, Harvard Going Off Parole: How the Elimination of Discretionary Prison Release Affects the Social Cost of Crime
Jan 17	Amit Kumar Gandhi, Chicago GSB Rational Expectations at the Racetrack : Testing Expected Utility Theory Using Prediction Markets
Jan 19	Felix Reichling, Stanford - Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Labor Market Equilibrium when Workers Can Self-Insure
Jan 24	Claudia Sahm, Michigan Does Risk Tolerance Change?
Jan 31	Jeffrey Brown, College of Business, University of Illinois "Why is the Market for Long-Term Care Insurance is so Small?" "The Interaction of the Public and Private Insurance: Medicaid and the Long-Term Care Insurance Market"
Feb 09	Patrick Kline, Michigan Understanding Sectoral Labor Market Dynamics: An Equilibrium Analysis of the U.S. Oil and Gas Field Services Industry
Feb 14	David Reiley,  University of Arizona “The War for the Fare”: How Driver Compensation Affects Bus System Performance
Feb 21	Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins "Estimating the Distribution of Treatment Effects in Heterogeneous Populations"
Feb 28	Enrico Moretti, UC Berkeley Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap*
Mar 12	Gregory Crawford, Eller School at the University of Arizona The Welfare Effects of Endogenous Quality Choice:  The Case of Cable Television"
Mar 14	Alan Krueger, Princeton The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures
Mar 21	Alex Mas, UC Berkeley Peers at Work
Mar 28	James Snyder, MIT Issue Preferences and Measurement Error
Apr 02	Christian Gollier, University of Toulouse "Does Ambiguity Aversion Reinforce Risk Aversion? Applications to Portfolio Choices and Asset Price"
Apr 04	Austan D. Goolsbee, Chicago GSB "Vertical Integration and the Market for Cable and Broadcast Television Programming"
Apr 11	Niko Matouschek, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management When Does Coordination Require Centralization?
Apr 18	Jan Brueckner, UC Irvine Social Interaction and Urban Sprawl

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

Questions or suggestions about the seminar?
Contact Fernando Ferreira, Katja Seim, or Betsey Stevenson.
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