ECO 4060 WORKSHOP PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

Organizers:

Angelo Melino (angelo.melino@utoronto.ca)

Aloysius Siow  (siow@chass.utoronto.ca)

 

ALL PRESENTATIONS TAKE PLACE IN THE COACH HOUSE CONFERENCE ROOM

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

Preliminary Presentations

Fri Sept 12 Andreas Park

Paper: Caller Number Five: Timing Games that Morph from One Form to Another

 

Fri Sept 19 Tasso Adamopoulos

Paper:  Distribution Margins and Prosperity

Discussant: Gueorgui Kambourov

Student Discussant: Stephen Eli Ahiabu


(Please post papers at least two weeks prior to your seminar)

SECOND YEAR PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Fri Sept 26 Razvan Sufana

Paper: A Discrete Time Quadratic Term Structure Model
Field: Finance
Advisors: Alan White (Rotman)

Discussant: Angelo Melino

Student Discussant: Chun Liu

Field Workshop: On November 13 (10:30-12, RT 151)

 

 

Fri Oct 3 Xu Peng

Paper: Pricing S&P500 Index Option With Splines
Field: Finance
Advisors: Christian Gourieroux

Discussant:  John Maheu

Student Discussant: Wei Liu

Field Workshop: Econometrics on April 16, 2004 (tentatively)

 

Fri Oct 10 CANCELLED

 

Fri Oct 17 Leo Teng Wah

Paper: Child Custody and Familial Choices: A Differential Fecundity Perspective
Field: Industrial Organization, History of Thought
Advisors: Aloysius Siow

Discussant: Luisa Fuster

Student Discussant: Louis-Phillipe Morin

Field Workshop: Empirical Micro on Friday Oct 31 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Fri Oct 24 Travis Ka Ho

Paper: Repeated Corruption Deals
Field: Development, Applied Micro
Advisors: Shouyong Shi

Discussant: Li Hao

Student Discussant: Stephen Cheung

Field Workshop: Microeconomics on Tuesday Mar 2, 2004 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Fri Oct 31 Jean Eid

Paper: Adverse Selection in the Interregional Market for Slaves
Field: Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics
Advisors: Eugene Choo

Discussant: Matt Turner

Student Discussant: Qing Liu

Field Workshop: Industrial Organization on Monday Nov 17 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)        

 

Fri Nov 7 Silvia Martinez Gorricho

Paper: The Gender Division of Labor under Heterogeneity
Field: Microeconomic Theory, Marriage Markets
Advisors: Aloysius Siow, Ettore Damiano

Discussant: Martin Osborne

Student Discussant: Xiuhua Huangfu

Field Workshop: Microeconomics on Tuesday Dec 9 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Fri Nov 14 Winnie Chan

Paper: The Impact of Competition on Public School Productivity
Field: Public Economics
Advisors: Rob McMillan

Discussant: Phil Oreopoulos

Student Discussant: Yanli Wang

Field Workshop: Empirical Micro on Friday Mar 19, 2004 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Fri November 21 Stephen Eli Ahiabu

Paper: Endogenous Commodity Money with Divisible Goods
Field: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics
Advisors: Shouyong Shi

Discussant: Miquel Faig

Student Discussant: Hongfei Sun

Field Workshop: Macroeconomics on Thursday Feb 26, 2004 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Fri Nov 28 Melanie O'Gorman

Paper: Apartheid’s Entrenched Effect on Earnings and Wealth Inequality in South Africa
Field: Macroeconomics, Development
Advisors: Diego Restuccia, Xiaodong Zhu

Discussant: Andres Erosa

Student Discussant: Yee-Fei Chia

Field Workshop: Macroeconomics on Thursday April 15, 2004 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Wed Dec 3 Rhys Mendes 4:00-5:30 CHCR

Paper: Uncertainty and the Productivity Slowdown
Field: Macroeconomics
Advisors: Michelle Alexopoulos

Discussant:  Shouyong Shi

Student Discussant: Lijun Zhang

Field Workshop:

 

Fri Dec 5 Xiao Junji

Paper:  Digital Camera Market Structure and Brand Advantage
Field: Industrial Organization
Advisors: Frank Mathewson, Ig Horstmann, Avi Goldfarb

Discussant: Eugene Choo

Student Discussant: Hankook Kim

Field  Workshop: Industrial Organization on Monday April 19 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Fri Dec 12 CANCELLED

 

Wed March 3 Millan Mulraine  4:00-5:30 CHCR

Paper: Investment-Specific Technology Shocks in a Small Open Economy
Field: International Macroeconomics, Financial Economics
Advisors: Shouyong Shi

Discussant: Gueorgui Kambourov

Student Discussant:  Aamir Hashmi

Field Workshop: Macroeconomics on Thursday April 1 (4:10-5:30, CHCR)

 

Wed March 24 Alonso Gomez 4:00-5:30 CHCR

Paper: Conditional Pricing in an Emerging Country
Field: Finance, Applied Econometrics
Advisors: Adonis Yatchew, Angelo Melino

Discussant:  Kevin Wang (Rotman)

Student Discussant:

Field Workshop:

 

T.B.A. Jing Wang 

Paper: Tax Policy and Tax Mobilization: China 1981-1991
Field: Public Economics
Advisors: Michael Smart

Discussant: Xiaodong Zhu

Student Discussant:

Field Workshop:

 

Second Year Student Presentations

Fri Jan 9

9-10 Yee-Fei Chia

10-11 Chun Liu

 

Fri Jan 16

9-10 Stephen Cheung

10-11 Qing Liu

 

Fri Jan 23

9-10 Yanli Wang

10-11 Wei Liu

 

Fri Jan 30

9-10 Aamir Rafique Hashmi

10-11 Louis-Phillipe Morin

 

Fri Feb 6

9-10 Xiuhua Huangfu

10-11 Honfei Sun

 

Fri Feb 13

9-10 Hankook Kim

10-11 Lijun Zhang

 

 Fri Feb 20 (Reading Week)

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

Fri Feb 27

9-10 Yee-Fei Chia: Maternal Labour Supply and Childhood Obesity

Advisor: Mark Stabile

10-11 Chun Liu: Forecasting Realized Volatilities using a Model Average Approach

  Advisor: John Maheu

 

Fri Mar 5

9-10 Stephen Cheung: Regime Change, Structural Transformation and Growth

Advisor:  Xiaodong Zhu

10-11 Qing Liu: A Search-Theoretic Theory of the Nominal Exchange Rate

  Advisor: Shouyong Shi

 

Fri Mar 12

9-10 Yanli Wang: The Effect of Dividend Announcements on Returns: A Propensity Score Matching Approach

Advisor: Varouj Aivazian

10-11 Wei Liu: Distribution of portfolio: An analysis in copula

  Advisor: Christian Gourieroux

 

Fri Mar 19

9-10 Aamir Rafique Hashmi: Competition and Innovation: Evidence from a Panel of Canadian Firms

Advisor: Dan Trefler

10-11 Louis-Phillipe Morin: The Effect of Grade 13 on University Performance: Evidence from the Double Cohort

  Advisor: Aloysius Siow

 

Fri Mar 26

9-10 Xiuhua Huangfu: Endogenous Search Intensity in an Economy with Villages

Advisor: Miquel Faig

10-11 Honfei Sun: An Integrated Theory of Money and Banking

  Advisor: Shouyong Shi

 

Fri April 2

9-10 Hankook Kim: Productivity, Exports, and Foreign Ownership

Advisor: Jo van Biesebrouck

10-11 Lijun Zhang: Endowments, FDI and FPE

  Advisor: Dan Trefler

 

 Fri April 9 (GOOD FRIDAY)

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