September 29
Ethan Kaplan, University of Maryland at College Park
"The Persistence of Partisan Politics: Evidence from 9/11" (with Sharun Mukand)
October 13
Laura Feiveson, MIT
"General Revenue Sharing and Public Sector Unions"
October 20
Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
"Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South"
October 27
Amartya Lahiri, University of British Columbia
"The Exchange Rate Response Puzzle"
November 1 (6:30pm, Kenney Auditorium)
Matthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS
“After the Crisis, the Compromise: The Politics of Economic Adjustment”
November 3
Amit Khandelwal, Columbia University
"Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters" (with Peter Schott and Shang-Jin Wei)
November 10
Sergi Basco, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
"Globalization and Financial Development: A Model of the Dot-Com and the Housing Bubbles"
November 17
Mushfiq Mobarek, Yale University
"Under-investment in Profitable Technologies when Experimenting is Risky: Evidence from a Migration Experiment in Bangladesh"
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