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2009 Summer Lunch Schedule

Tuesdays, 12:00-1:00 PM, Robinson 301 (unless otherwise indicated)

DATE
PRESENTER
TITLE
NOTE
June 29 (Monday)
Nate Schiff


July 9 (Thursday) Stelios Michalopoulos (Tufts) The Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence
July 14
Adam Storeygard
Corruption on the road less travelled

July 21
Luigi Pascali (Boston College)
Local financial market and economic development: an instrumental variable approach using the Jewish population in Italian Renaissance
July 28
Alex Levkov
The Effect of Competition on Unions

August 6 (Thursday)
Francisco Campos-Ortiz
Countering Bribery: Theory and Experimental Evidence
August 11
Steve Bednar (Yale) The effect of campaign visits on election outcomes
August 18



August 25
Kenju Kamei
Public Goods and Voting on Sanction Schemes: An Experiment (with Louis Putterman and Jean-Robert Tyran)
Fall 2009
Summer 2009
Spring 2009
Fall 2008
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Fall 2007