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Applied Microeconomics Lunch

 

Summer 2008 Schedule

 

All lunches are held in Robinson 301 on Wednesdays,

12:00-1:00pm, unless otherwise noted.

 

DATE

PRESENTER

TITLE

June 25

 

Brian Knight

 

Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements

July 2

Steven Bednar (Yale)

 

And “Odd” Phenomenon: Campaign Visits in the 2008 Democratic Primaries

July 9

 

Emilio Gutierrez

 

Do Voluntary Pollution Reduction Programs Help Reduce Pollution Levels?  Evidence from the Mexican Clean Industry Program

July 16

Francisco Campos-Ortiz

Louis Putterman

Property Rights, Collective Action and Public Choice: Experiments on Emergence of Institutions

July 21

Glenn Loury

Affirmative Action in Hierarchies

 

July 23

 

Steven Atlas (Columbia)

Louis Putterman

Setting up an Experimental Laboratory in a Virtual World: Trust Games in "Second Life"

July 30

Leo Feler

The Effect of Privatizing State-Owned Banks on Spatial Economic Development: Evidence from the Reform of the Brazilian Banking Sector

August 6

 

Dimitra Politi

 

The Impact of Iodine Deficiency Eradication on Schooling and Occupational Choice: Evidence from the Introduction of Iodized Salt in Switzerland

 
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