Visiting Speaker Series Fall 2015 | Economics and Finance

Contact: Prof. Rene Kirkegaard

All seminars are on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in MacK 317, unless otherwise indicated

Date	Title	Speaker	Host
September 18th	TBA	Berta Esteve-Volart, York University	M. Plesca
September 25th	Politico-economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State-socialism	Michael Serafinelli, University of Toronto	L. Grogan
October 2nd	"Clueless Politicians", joint with Cheng Li	Christopher Cotton, Queen's University	R. Kirkegaard
October 9th	"Adaptive Elastic Net GMM Estimation with Many Invalid Moment Conditions: Simultaneous Model and Moment Selection" (with M. Caner and X. Han)	Yoonseok Lee, Syracuse University	A. Maynard
October 16th	Optimal Adaptive Testing	Rahul Deb, University of Toronto	R. Kirkegaard
October 23rd	Which pricing approach for options under GARCH with non-normal innovations?	Lars Stentoft, University of Western Ontario	I. Tsiakas
October 30th	Heterogeneity or Duration Dependence? Evidence from Labor Force Histories	Fabian Lange, McGill University	M. Plesca
November 6th	Limits to Limiting Greenhouse Gases: Intertemporal Leakage, Spatial Leakage, and Negative Leakage	Stephen Salant, University of Michigan	A. Sadanand
November 13th	Revealed Relative Utilitarianism	Tilman Borgers University of Michigan	A. Sadanand
November 23rd	Teacher Incentives and Sorting: Evidence from a joint Accountability and Pay Incentive Program	Joniada Milla CORE, Catholic University of Louvain	T. Stengos
November 27th	Do Property Rights Make People More Trusting and Prosocial? Evidence From a Large Scale Field Experiment	Daniel Rubenson, Ryerson University	K. Annen
December 4th	Bootstrapping factor models with cross sectional dependence	Silvia Goncalves University of Western Ontario	A. Maynard
December 11th	A Microeconometric Dynamic Structural Model of Copper Mining Decisions	Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto	H.Thille