Loyola Marymount University

Department of Economics

2008-2009 Seminar Series

Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars take place from 4:30 – 5:45 PM in the McIntosh Center on the third floor of University Hall (UNH 3999).

Links to past seminar series: [2005-06] [2006-07] [2007-08]

For more information, contact Prof. Andrew Healy at ahealy at lmu dot edu.

Date	Speaker(s)	Affiliation	Talk	Location
September 16	Andrew Healy	LMU	Preferring a Pound of Cure to an Ounce of Prevention: Voting, Natural Disasters and Government Spending (with Neil Malhotra)	McIntosh Center
September 30	James Devine	LMU	Needs and Health: Economic Concepts and Positive Analysis	McIntosh Center
October 14	Michelle Goeree	USC	Was Mr. Hewlett Right? Mergers, Advertising and the PC Industry	McIntosh Center
November 4	Kristin Kleinjans	USC	Do Gender Differences in Preferences for Competition Matter for Occupational Expectations?	McIntosh Center
November 11	Jennifer Pate	LMU	Price Dispersion in Internet Auctions of Retail Gift Cards (with Lesley Chiou)	McIntosh Center
November 18	Michael McBride	University of California, Irvine	Conflict and the Shadow of the Future: An Experimental Study	McIntosh Center
November 25	Neil Malhotra	Stanford University	The Effect of Convenience Voting on Election Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment	McIntosh Center
December 2	Alessandra Cassar	University of San Francisco	Does Social Capital Matter? Evidence from a Five-Country Group Lending Experiment	McIntosh Center
January 13	Brock Blomberg	Claremount McKenna College	Lines in the Sand: Price Dispersion, Border Effects, and Economic Integration of Post-War Iraq	McIntosh Center
January 27	Bart Wilson	Chapman University	An Experimental Inquiry into the Origins of Property Rights.	McIntosh Center
February 10	Zaki Eusufzai	LMU	Evaluating Asian Economic Growth – An Income Distribution Perspective	McIntosh Center
February 24	Dorothea Herreiner	LMU	What Makes Procedures Fair? An Experimental Investigation.	McIntosh Center
March 3	Pierre Olivier-Weill	UCLA	Liquidity Shocks and Order Book Dynamics (with Bruno Biais)	McIntosh Center
March 4	James Murphy	University of Alaska Anchorage	Rent Dissipation in Competitive Fisheries: An Experimental Analysis (with Gunnar Knapp)	Ethnic & Women’s Studies Conference Room (UNH 4422)
March 17	Leah Boustan	UCLA	Was Postwar Suburbanization White Flight? Evidence from the Black Migration	McIntosh Center
April 21	John Zaller	UCLA	The Duration of Advertising Effects in the 2000 Presidential Campaign	McIntosh Center