Department of Economics / FAS and
C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics
Applied Microeconomics Workshop
Fall 2007 Schedule


Seminars are held Mondays  from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in Room 517 of 19 W. 4th St. 

Coordinator: Prof. Matthew Wiswall @  (212) 998-8941 or mwiswall@nyu.edu
 
September 10
Ana Cecilia Lima-Fieler (New York University)

"Non-Homotheticity and Bilateral Trade Patterns:
Evidence and a Quantitative Explanation"



September 17
Ariell Reshef (New York University)

"Is Technological Change Biased Towards the Unskilled in Services?
An Empirical Evaluation"


October 1
Pieter Gautier (Tinbergen Institute)

"Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:
Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?"



October 15
Yijia Wang (New York University)    ** Please note the speaker change. **

"Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Durability on Automobile Demand"



October 22
Shannon Seitz (Boston College)

"An Empirical Model of Intra-Household Allocations and the Marriage Market" (joint with Eugene Choo and Aloysius Siow)


October 29
Greg Kaplan  (New York University)

"Moving Back Home: Insurance Against Labor Market Risk"


November 5
Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas)

"Total Work, Gender, and Social Norms"


November 12
Ronni Pavan (University of Rochester)

"A Flexible Model of Individual Wage Dynamics and Job Motility Outcomes"


November 19
Giorgio Topa (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

"The Emperical Implications of Models with Multiple Equlibria"


November 26*
Todd Stinebrickner (University of Western Ontario)

* Joint with the Institute for Education and Social Policy


December 3
Jean Marc Robin (Paris, UCL)

Paper 1: "An International Comparison of Lifetime Labor Income
Values and Inequality"


Paper 2: "Assessing the Equalizing Force of Mobility Using Short Panels: France, 1990-2000"


December 10*
Matthew Wiswall (New York University)

* Joint with the Institute for Education and Social Policy





Contact: anne.stubing-at-nyu.edu