Loyola Marymount University

Department of Economics

2011-2012 Seminar Series

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars take place on selected Tuesdays from 4:30 – 5:45 PM in the Economics/Poli Sci Conference Room in the southeast corner of University Hall (UNH 4110).

Links to past seminar series: [2005-06] [2006-07] [2007-08] [2008-09] [2009-10] [2010-11]

For more information, contact Prof. James Konow at jkonow at lmu dot edu.

Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation	Talk	Location
September 13	Sean D'Evelyn	Loyola Marymount University	Using Economics to Predict Species Movements From 1850	McIntosh Center
September 20	Andrew Healy	Loyola Marymount University	Political Socialization Within the Household: The Effect of Having a Sister on Male Political Attitudes	McIntosh Center
October 11	David Miller	University of California, San Diego	Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies	UNH 4110
October 18	Matthias Blonski	Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Stanford	Moral Hazard with Excess Returns	UNH 4110
October 25th	Junyi Liu	Indiana University Bloomington	Lobbying, Public Capital and Endogenous Growth	UNH 4110
November 1	Yoshi Saijo	UCLA, Osaka University	The Approval Mechanism Experiment:A Solutionto Prisoner's Dilemma	UNH 4110
November 8	Stephanie Wang	University of Pittsburgh	Imperfect choice or imperfect attention? Understanding strategic thinking in private information games	UNH 4110
December 6	Alexander Cappelen	UC Berkeley, NHH	"Immoral criminals? An experimental study of social preferences among prisoners"	UNH 4110
January 24	Ingvild Almas	NHH, University of Oslo	Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness	UNH 4110
January 31	Ulrich Schmidt	University of Kiel Olshausenstr	Overconfidence and Risk Management of Ethiopian Farmers	UNH 4110
February 7	Michael Kevane	Santa ClaraUniversity	Robustness of climate as an instrumental variable to estimate effect of GDP change on political change in Africa	UNH 4110
February 14	Tom Hansford	UC Merced	The Information Dynamics of Vertical Stare Decisis	UNH 4110
March 6	Zaki Eusufzai	Loyola Marymount University	IMF Surveillance and the 2008 Financial Crisis	UNH 4110
March 20	David Gill	University of Oxford	Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams	UNH 4110
March 27	Naomi Feldman	Ben-Gurion University, Federal Reserve	The Impact of Tax Exclusive and Inclusive Prices on Demand	UNH 4110
April 10	Michael Gottfried	LMU	New Support for Older Students: The Effect of School Age Entry on Non-Cognitive Outcomes.	UNH 4110
April 17	Erik Snowberg	Caltech	"Confidence and Overconfidence in Political Economy" (with Pietro Ortoleva).	UNH 4110