ECO 4060: GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE (2006-07)

Organizers:

Michael Baker (baker@chass.utoronto.ca)

Joanne Roberts (joanne.roberts@utoronto.ca)

ALL PRESENTATIONS TAKE PLACE IN THE DEPARTMENT SEMINAR ROOM SS5017

ON FRIDAY MORNINGS FROM 10:00-12:00 UNLESS SPECIFICALLY NOTED OTHERWISE

Last updated February 14, 2007

Preliminary Presentation

Fri Sept 15 Introduction, Presentation Skills and Supervision

All second year papers in 4060 will be taped by the TATP office. There will be some delay between taping each student’s presentation and the viewing of these recordings. The TATP office needs time to transfer the recording to their office laptop and burn a DVD for you. A TATP staff member will contact each of you when your DVD recording is ready to be viewed. A time will be set up for you to come into the TATP office to view the recording with a TATP staff member. You should feel free to contact the TATP office at services.ta@utoronto.ca or to phone Kathleen at (416) 946-3619 to check on the progress of the DVD transfer. Because the TATP office is so busy at the beginning of term (running seminar series and delivering departmental training sessions), they conjecture that no DVDs will be ready to be viewed and no in-person consultations can take place until the end of October.

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. Please remind your supervisors before each of your talks so that hopefully they will be able to attend.

Discussants – please send us your slides after your talk so that we can post them for reference. Thanks.

SECOND YEAR PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Friday September 22: Florian Hoffman

Paper: Network Effects and Educational Attainment of Young Immigrants

Advisor: Phil Oreopoulos

Discussant: Gustavo Bobonis

Student Discussant: Kunio Tsuyuhara

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 1

Friday September 29: Min Zhang

Paper: More on Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies – Evidence from Canada

Advisor: Miquel Faig

Discussant: Michelle Alexopoulos

Student Discussant: Arvind Magesan

Field Workshop: December 7, 2007

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 2

Friday October 6: Zhe Li

Paper: Optimal pollution policies with heterogeneous plants

Advisor: Shouyong Shi

Discussant: Diego Restuccia

Student Discussant: Leilei Shen

Field Workshop: November 30, 2006

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 3

Friday October 13: Max Rempel

Paper: Are New Goods Driving Labor Supply - Evidence from Video Consoles

Advisor: Aloysius Siow

Discussant: Dwayne Benjamin

Student Discussant: Lai, Tat-Kei

Field Workshop: December 15, 2006

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 4

Friday October 20: Dr. Jane Freeman, English Language and Writing Support

“Developing an Essay from Topic to Idea”

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 1 (This meeting may be shorter than normal.)

Friday October 27: Elena Capatina

Paper: A Model of the Distribution of Talent Across Education Fields

Advisor: Ettore Damiano

Discussant: Carolyn Pitchik

Student Discussant: Sacha Kapoor

Field Workshop: November 21, 2006

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 2

Friday November 3: Moritz Ritter

Paper: Efficiency in Search Models of Money: The Role of Fiscal Policy

Advisor: Shouyong Shi

Discussant: Andres Erosa

Student Discussant: Trevor Tombe

Field Workshop: November 22, 2006

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 3

Friday November 10: Luhang Wang

Paper: Public investment and village governance in rural China

Advisor: Loren Brandt

Discussant: Matthew Turner

Student Discussant: He Zhongfang

Field Workshop: February 9, 2007

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 4

Friday November 17: Muji Rahaman

Paper: Managerial Discretion and Value Destruction in Financial Distress

Advisor: Sergei Davydenko

Discussant: John Maheu

Student Discussant: Yong Song

Field Workshop: December 10, 2007

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 1

Friday November 24: Eik Swee

Paper: Social Networks and Migration

Advisor: Gustavo Bobonis

Discussant: Aloysius Siow

Student Discussant: Hugh Macartney

Field Workshop: December 8, 2007

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 2

Friday December 1: Wang Hui

Paper: Matchmakers' Negotiation Role in Marriages: A Public Good Story

Advisor: Loren Brandt and Aloysius Siow

Discussant: Xiaodong Zhu

Student Discussant: Luhang Wang

Field Workshop: February 16, 2007

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 3

Friday December 8: Jean Guillaume Forand

Paper: Competing Through Information

Advisor: Li, Hao

Discussant: Simon Board

Student Discussant: Sun, Ying

Field Workshop: December 15, 2006

Discussion Group Meeting: Group 4

Reminders:

1. All Year 2 students must submit their thesis committees to Sophie before the end of the fall term. Please email Michael and Joanne to notify us of your committee and also to notify us when your second year paper has been signed off on by the Graduate Chair. Until both of these requirements are satisfied continued attendance in 4060 is mandatory.

2. All Year 1 students must be ready to begin their presentations first thing in the new year. If you have any questions about what is expected of you in these presentations, please contact Michael or Joanne.

Second Year Student Presentations

Friday January 12

10-11 Kunio Tsuyuhara

11-12 Arvind Magesan

Friday January 19

10-11 Leilei Shen

11-12 Yong Song

Friday January 26

10-11 Ying Sun

11-12 Trevor Tombe

Friday February 2

10-11 Sacha Kapoor

11-12 Christian Dippel

Friday February 9

10-11 Hugh Macartney

11-12 Lai, Tat-Kei

Friday February 16

10-11 Ioana Dan

11-12 He, Zhongfang

Reminder: Friday February 16 is the deadline for all second year paper agreements to be submitted. Here is the form: Second year Paper Agreement.

Friday February 23: No Meeting

(Reading Week)

Second Year Paper Proposals (Please invite your second year paper advisor well in advance)

Friday March 2

10-11 Kunio Tsuyuhara ‘Information and incentive inside the organization’

Advisor: Li, Hao

11-12 Arvind Magesan ‘The Value of Information in Public Decisions’

Advisor: Matt Turner

Friday March 9

10-11 He, Zhongfang ‘A tilt stochastic volatility model with leverage effect’

Advisor: John Maheu

11-12 Lai, Tat-Kei ‘The Role of General and Specific Skills in CEO Appointments’

Advisor: Arthur Hosios

Friday March 16

10-11 Ying Sun ‘Price Structure in two-sided markets: the case of the US video game industry’

Advisor: Victor Aguirregabiria

11-12 Sacha Kapoor ‘Education and Industrial Composition’

Advisor: Gustavo Bobonis

Friday March 23

10-11 Hugh Macartney ‘Teacher Effort: The Effects of Monitoring, Pressure and Other Incentives’

Advisor: Rob McMillan

11-12 Trevor Tombe ‘R&D Composition and the Business Cycle’

Friday March 30

10-11 Christian Dippel ‘What's a Whale's Worth? - Vote Buying in the International Whaling Commission’

11-12 Ioana Dan ‘Sources of Occupational Mobility in Transition Economies’

Advisor: Gueorgui Kambourov

Friday March 6: No Meeting

(Good Friday Holiday)

Friday April 13

10-11 Yong Song ‘Information flow and ultra-high-frequency data’

Advisor: John Maheu

11-12 Leilei Shen ‘Trade, Institutions and Growth’

Advisor: Dan Trefler

Reminder: First drafts of all second year papers are due at the very latest on September 1^st. This is an important deadline. (The very serious consequences of missing any of the deadlines associated with your second year paper are outlined in the Benjamin memo of 2004.)

Please schedule departmental talks (the one in the area group’s workshop) as early as possible. By September, it is very likely that the fall schedule will be entirely full (or at least that the more desirable dates will be taken). Again, finishing the second year paper requirement (including this presentation) in the fall is another important departmental deadline and missing it has serious consequences. It is each student’s responsibility to schedule their own talk (although your supervisor may be able to help you set up this talk). Please contact the course organizers (for fall 2007) as soon as possible if there are any scheduling difficulties.