All seminars take place at 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC, Conference Room #714, from 4:30pm - 6:00pm, unless otherwise noted. January 27
Mu-Jeung Yang, Berkeley, “Micro-Level Misallocation and Selection: Estimation and Aggregate Implications” January 30
William Lincoln, University of Michigan "Entry Costs and Increasing Trade” January 31
Walker Hanlon, Columbia, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention: Input Supplies and Directed Technical Change” February 3
Anant Nyshadham, Yale, “Learning about Comparative Advantage in Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Thailand” February 6
Teresa Fort, University of Maryland, “Breaking Up is Hard To Do: Why Firms Fragment Production Across Locations” February 9
Slesh Shrestha, Michigan, “Human Capital Investment Responses to Skilled Migration Prospects: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nepal” February 10
Heiwai Tang, Tufts, “Factor Intensity, Product Switching, and Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Exporters” February 16
Jessie Handbury, Columbia, “Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U. S. Cities” February 23
Yi Huang, International Monetary Fund, “Can the Precautionary Motive Explain the Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle? Evidence from the Liquid Assets Perspective” March 1
Gerard Padro I Miquel, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics, "The Political Economy of Indirect Control" March 8
Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, “Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Dynamics” March 29
Stephen Yeaple, Associate Professor, Penn State, "Innovation and Production in the Global Economy" April 26
Erhan Artuc, World Bank, "Trade Policy and Wage Inequality: A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility (joint with John McLaren) FORMER SEMINAR SCHEDULESFall 2011 Spring 2011 Fall 2010
Spring 2010 Fall 2009 Spring 2009 Fall 2008 Spring 2008 Fall 2007
Spring 2006 Fall 2006
CONTACT INFORMATION For any questions regarding the seminar schedule, please contact:
Professor Prasanna (Guru) Sethupathy gsethupathy@jhu.edu
All Teas are from 4:00pm-5:00pm
October 7
BOB 736 October 21
BOB 736 November 4
BOB 736 November 18
BOB 736 December 2
BOB 714 CONTACT INFORMATION For any questions regarding the development tea schedule, please contact:
Professor Martinez-Bravo, mmart110@jhu.edu | 
