Economics 841-842:
Research Seminar in International Economics
Schedule - Winter 2003
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| Seminar meets weekly, Fridays 11:40 AM - 1:00 PM except as noted,
in the Smith Seminar Room (201) of Lorch Hall. Titles that are highlighted
are available on line.
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| Date |
Speaker |
From |
Topic |
| Sep 27 |
Kathy Yuan |
U of M |
"What Drives Stock Market Liberalization? Politics of Financial Development in Emerging Markets" |
| Oct 4 |
Jean Imbs |
London Business School |
"Volatility, Growth, and Aggregation" |
| Oct 11 |
Sebastian Auguste, Kathryn Dominguez, Herman Kamil, and Linda Tesar
|
U of M |
"Cross-Border Trading as a Mechanism for Capital Flight: ADRs and the Argentine Crisis" |
| Oct 18 |
Lee Branstetter |
Columbia |
"Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States" |
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Oct 25 |
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
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| Jonathan Eaton |
NYU |
"Plants and Productivity in International Trade" |
| Peter Schott |
Yale |
"Survival of the Best Fit: Competition from Low Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth in US Manufacturing Plants" |
| Nov 1 |
Marc Melitz |
Harvard |
"Exports vs FDI" |
| Nov 8 |
Alex Monge |
Northwestern |
"Foreign Organizations and Human Capital" |
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Nov 15 |
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
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| Kristin Forbes |
MIT |
"One Cost of the Chilean Capital Controls: Increased Financial Constraints for Small Firms" |
| Nelson Mark |
Notre Dame |
"Continuous-Time Market Dynamics, ARCH Effects, and the Forward Premium Anomaly" |
| Nov 22 |
Ben Chabot and Chris Kurtz
|
U of M |
"That's Where the Money Was. Home Bias and English Investments Abroad" |
| Dec 6 |
Andrew Coleman |
U of M |
"Gold flows and triangular arbitrage: estimating the dollar-sterling gold points, 1886-1905" |
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