ECO 4060: GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE (2005-06)

Organizers:

Michael Baker (baker@chass.utoronto.ca)

Joanne Roberts (joanne.roberts@utoronto.ca)

ALL PRESENTATIONS TAKE PLACE IN THE WOODSWORTH RESIDENCE

WO 25 IN THE FALL AND WO 20 IN THE SPRING

ON FRIDAY MORNINGS FROM 9:00-11:00 UNLESS SPECIFICALLY NOTED OTHERWISE

Last updated September 6, 2005

Preliminary Presentations

Fri Sept 16 Carlos Serrano (University of Toronto)

Paper: The Market for Intellectual Property

Fri Sept 23 Razvan Sufana

Paper: Derivative Pricing with Wishart Multivariate Stochastic Volatility: Application to Credit Risk

Discussant: Angelo Melino

Student Discussant: Baha Circi

(Please post papers on your website at least two weeks prior to your seminar, and email the link to your discussants and to Michael and Joanne.)

SECOND YEAR PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Fri Sept 30 Brian McCaig

Paper: International welfare comparisons and nonparametric testing of multivariate stochastic dominance

Advisor: Adonis Yatchew

Discussant: Gordon Anderson

Student Discussant: Max Rempel

Field Workshop: October 14.

Fri Oct 7 Marcelin Joanis

Paper: Public Investment as Political Investment: Evidence from Road Spending in Quebec

Advisor: Robert McMillan

Discussant: Heidi Shierholz

Student Discussant: Jean Guillaume Forand

Field Workshop: Friday, Dec. 16

Fri Oct 14 Mingxiao Ye

Paper: Creating Artifical Demand: Monopoly Profit Extraction

Advisor: Martin Osborne

Discussant: Simon Board

Student Discussant: Hui Wang

Field Workshop: November 29

Fri Oct 21 Simiao Zhou

Paper: The Impact of Financial Distress: Evidence from the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing

Advisor: Varouj Aivazian

Discussant: Jim Pesando

Student Discussant: Mohammad Rahaman

Field Workshop: Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 12:00 - 13:30

Fri Oct 28 CLASS CANCELLED

Fri Nov 4 Zhaoxia Xu

Paper: Does Market Timing Affect Capital Structure?

Advisor: Laurence Booth

Discussant: Katya Malinova

Student Discussant: Zhe Li

Field Workshop: Tuesday, November 15 12:00 - 13:30 Sydney Smith, Room 5017A

Fri Nov 11 Courtney Ward

Paper: Insurance Premiums, Rate Classifications and Public Automobile Insurers in Canada

Advisor: Mark Stabile

Discussant: Dwayne Benjamin

Student Discussant: Eik Leong Swee

Field Workshop: Friday, 6 January 2006

Fri Nov 18 Ling Sun

Paper: Heterogeneous Agents and Sustained Societal Benefit of Illiquid Bond

Advisor: Shouyong Shi

Discussant: Andreas Park

Student Discussant: Florian Hoffman

Field Workshop: Thursday, 1 December 2005

Fri Nov 25 Baran Doda

Paper: Defaultable Debt, Fiscal Policy and the Underground Economy

Advisor: Andres Erosa

Discussant: John Maheu

Student Discussant: Moritz Ritter

Field Workshop: December 8

Fri Dec 2 Baha Circi

Paper: Corporate Governance and Valuation: The Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley

Advisor: Jin-Chuan Duan

Discussant: Varouj Aivazian

Student Discussant: Min Zhang

Field Workshop: Tuesday, 6 December 2005

Fri Dec 9 Joel Blit

Paper: Developing country innovation and the role of multinational corporations

Advisor: Dan Trefler

Discussant: Gilles Duranton

Student Discussant: Elena Capatina

Field Workshop: December 15, 2005

Second Year Student Presentations

Fri Jan 13

9-10 Zhe Li

Fri Jan 20

9-10 Elena Capatina

10-11 Muji Rahaman

Fri Jan 27

9-10 Jean Guillaume Forand

10-11 Max Rempel

Fri Feb 3

9-10 Hui Wang

10-11 Florian Hoffman

Fri Feb 10

9-10 Elk Swee

10-11 Moritz Ritter

Fri Feb 17

9-10 Luhang Wang

10-11 Min Zhang

Fri Feb 24

(Reading Week)

Second Year Paper Proposals (Please invite your second year paper advisor 3 weeks ahead)

Fri Mar 3

9-10 Zhe Li “Who Pollutes and Who Pays: Optimal Pollution Policies under Idiosyncratic Shocks”

Advisor: Shouyong Shi

10-11 Joanne Roberts “Research and Supervision”

Fri Mar 10 CLASS CANCELLED

Fri Mar 17

9-10 Florian Hoffman “Network Effects and Educational Attainment of Young Immigrants”

Advisor: Phil Oreopoulos

10-11 Mohammad Rahaman “Corporate Bankruptcy Decision”

Advisor: Varouj Aivazian

Fri Mar 24

9-10 Max Rempel “Are New Goods Driving Labour Supply? Evidence from Video Consoles”

Advisor: Aloysius Siow

10-11 Luhang Wang “Village Governance and Public Investment in Rural China”

Advisor: Loren Brandt

Fri Mar 31

9-10 Hui Wang “The Role of Matchmakers in the Chinese Rural Marriage Market”

Advisors: Aloysius Siow and Loren Brandt

10-11 Jean Guillaume Forand “Information Structures in Auctions”

Advisor: Li, Hao

Fri April 7

9-10 Min Zhang “More on Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies – Evidence from Canada”

Advisor: Miquel Faig

10-11 Moritz Ritter “Efficiency in Search Models of Money: The Role of Fiscal Policy”

Advisor: Shouyong Shi

Wednesday April 12 11-1 in SS5017

9-10 Elena Capatina “A Model of Talent Distribution over Education Fields”

Advisor: Ettore Damiano

10-11 Elk Swee “Of religious beliefs and participation”

Advisor: Martin Osborne