Seminars are held Wednesdays, 1:00-2:00 pm in Room 624 of 19 West 4th St .

Student coordinators: Anja Sautmann, Gulseren Mutlu (for Sergio Vicente, who is on leave)
Supervising faculty: Alessandro Lizzeri, Nicola Persico

Lunch is provided jointly by the GEA and the Economics Department.

The goal of this seminar is to give students active assistance in getting their own research started, and to encourage interaction and cooperation among students and between students and faculty. Alternatingly, there will be interview sessions with faculty, and student presenter sessions with a (student or faculty) discussant.

Schedule Spring 2008

January 22	Special event: Dr. Sean Keenan, Portfolio Analytics Leader, GE Commercial Finance; Kete Chalermkraivuth, Risk & Value Management and Financial Engineering Lab
February 27	Maria Eugenia Garibotti "Estimating the Effect of an Immigration Amnesty" Discussant: Christopher Flinn
March 5	Mark Dean "Search, Choice and Revealed Preference" Discussant: Alessandro Lizzeri
March 12	Silvana Melitsko "'Accounting for Gender Differences in Intergenerational Mobility" Discussant: Christopher Flinn
March 19	***Spring Break!!!***
March 26	Pietro Ortoleva "The Price of Flexibility" Discussant: Mark Dean
April 2, 12-1pm	Note change in time! Special event: Wolly Ehrblatt, Ana Cecilia Fieler, Matthias Kredler, Michael Richter "Job Market 2008: Academic and Private Sectors"
April 9	Presenter: Bernardo Silveira "Campaign Advertising and Election Outcomes: Quasi-Natural Experiment Evidence from Gubernatorial Elections in Brazil" Discussant: Emanuel Vespa
April 16	Presenter: Anna Ingster "Modeling Online Auction Markets: A Dynamic Approach" Discussant: Daniel Xu
April 23	Presenter: Selçuk Özyurt "A Theory of Market Microstructure and Reputation" Discussant: TBA
April 30	[cancelled]
May 7	Presenter: Yilmaz Koçer "A Boundedly Rational Theory of Choice" Discussant: TBA

Past Schedule: Fall 2007

October 10	Interview: Prof. Andrew Caplin
November 14	Interview: Prof. Raquel Fernández
November 28	Student presenter: Marina Agranov [CANCELLED] Discussant: TBA
December 12	Student presenter: Pritha Dev, "Identity and Fragmentation in Networks" Discussant: Gulseren Mutlu

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