Department of Economics

Macro Lunch Schedule, Spring 2008

If you wish to present, please contact:
Ruben Durante (Ruben_Durante@brown.edu)
Ömer Özak (Omer_Ozak@brown.edu)

Date	Title	Speaker	Abstract/Paper
18/02/08	Presidents’ Day
02/25/08	American Economic Development or the Virtues of Education	Fabrice Murtin (Stanford)	Abstract Paper
03/03/08	Culture and Economic Performance Across the Globe	Mariko Klasing	Abstract
03/10/08	Affluence and Fertility in a Supply-Demand Framework	Christoph Sax	Abstract Paper
03/17/08	Financial Development, Capital Flight, and Income Differences between Countries: A Simple Model	Takuma Kunieda	Abstract Paper
03/24/08	Spring Break
03/31/08	Information Asymmetries and an Endogenous Productivity Reversion Mechanism	Oksana Leukhina (visiting professor)	Paper
04/07/08	Creditor Protection and the Dynamics of the Distribution in Oligarchic Societies	Manuel Oechslin (MIT)	Abstract Paper
04/14/08	Race Discrimination and Competition	Alex Levkov
04/21/08	Does Income Cause Democracy? Using Terms of Trade as an Instrument	Joshua Wilde	Abstract
04/28/08
05/05/08	Land Inequality and Child Labor	Carmiña Vargas	Abstract
05/12/08	Deregulation and Stability: Evidence from U.S. Banking	Martin Goetz	Abstract
05/19/08	Social Responses to Weather Variability and the Emergence of Generalized Trust	Ruben Durante	Abstract
05/26/08	Memorial Day