Department of Economics

Macro Lunch Schedule, Spring 2009

Mondays 12-12:50 pm, Robinson 301

If you wish to present, please contact:
Ishani Tewari (Ishani_Tewari@brown.edu)
Eren Arbatli (Cemal_Arbatli@brown.edu)

P.S.: We highly encourage you to present your preliminary work!

Date	Title	Speaker	Abstract/Paper
01/26	Is it Capital or TFP? Causal Implications of the Neoclassical Growth Theory	Yuya Sasaki	Abstract
02/02	Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Sector: 1909-2006	Ariell Reshef	Abstract/Paper
02/09	How Substitutable are Fixed Factors in production?  Evidence from Pre-industrial England	Joshua Wilde	Abstract
02/14 - 02/17	Long Weekend
02/23	The European Origins of Economic Development	Ross Levine	Abstract
03/02	A Unified Growth Theory of Persistent Income Differences	Christos Pargianas	Abstract
03/09	Climate Variability, Risk Sharing, and the Historical Emergence of Generalized Trust: Evidence from European Regions	Ruben Durante	Abstract
03/16	Patterns of International Capital Raisings	Juan Carlos Gozzi Valdez	Abstract/Paper
03/21 - 03/29	Spring Recess
03/30	Where the *&%$#@! is the scale effect? Schumpeterian growth, Durable Goods, and Dependent Producers	Omer Ozak	Abstract
04/06	Agriculture, Innovations and the Industrial Revolution (Part II)	Petros Milionis	Abstract
04/13	No Lunch	No Lunch	No Lunch
04/20	Random Encounters in the City: When is Public Space an Opportunity for Social Integration?	Eren Arbatli	Abstract
04/27	Legislative Malapportionment and Economic and Political Outcomes: A Political Economy Assessment	Massimiliano Onorato	Abstract
05/04	Pre-Historical Geographical Isolation and Contemporary Economic Development	Omer Ozak (joint with Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor)	Abstract
05/11	An Alternative Measure of Human Capital Stocks: Adjusting for Quality Differences	Nicolai Kaarsen	Abstract
05/18	TBD	Ishani Tewari	Abstract

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