SPRING 2006 SCHEDULE ALL SEMINARS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAYS FROM 4:30 TO 6:00 PM IN ROOM N508, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED February 9 Aart Kraay, World Bank What has 100 Billion Dollars Worth of Debt Relief Done for Low-Income Countries? February 23 Anna Maria Mayda, Georgetown University Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants across Countries March 2 Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins Univeristy (SAIS) Relative Deprivation and Civil Conflict in Nepal March 9 Ana Fostel, George Washington University A Supply Story: Emerging Markets, High Yield and Market Closures March 23 No Seminar (Spring Break) March 30 No Seminar April 13 Andrei Levchenko, International Monetary Fund Trade, Inequality and the Political Economy of Institutions April 20 Ernesto Hernandez-Cata, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) On Transition: Theory and Empirical Evidence for the former Soviet Union April 27 Mary Amiti, International Monetary Fund Service Offshoring, Productivity and Employment: Evidence from the United States May 4 Philip McCalman, University of California Santa Cruz Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Trade Liberalizations |