Orfalea Seminar Series, 2007-2008

Seminars will take place fortnightly on Fridays from 3:30 to 5:00

We will meet in Orfalea Room 003-207, and we will socialize after the seminar has concluded.

Date	Speaker	Topic
Fall Quarter
28 September	Robert Innes, University of Arizona	“Editorial Favoritism” Table of Empirical Results
12 October	Kathryn Marshall, Cal Poly	“The Empirical Validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin Model”
26 October	Stephen Leroy, UCSB	"Liquidity"
2 November	Peter Docherty, Chalmers University of Technology	"Socially Sustainable Work-Organization Development"
16 November	David Reid, Seattle University	"Win the China IP War and Gain Globally" The paper has been published in the Sloane Management Review and The Wall Street Journal
30 November	Samuel Culbet, UCLA	'Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight-Talk at Work" The speaker declined to allow any paper to be posted.
Winter Quarter
11 January	Eric Fisher, Cal Poly	"The Structure of the American Economy"
25 January	Dan Friedman, UCSC	"Preemption Games: Theory and Experiment"
1 February	Andrew Abel, University of Pennsylvania	"Optimal Capital Income Taxation"
15 February	Doug Steigerwald, UCSB	"Accurately Sized Test Statistics with Misspecified Conditional Homoskedasticity"
22 February	Sanjiv Das, Santa Clara University	"Credit Risk with Hybrid Models " Abstract "An Integrated Model for Hybrid Securities"  "Implied Recovery" "Hedging Credit: Equity Liquidity Matters"
29 February	Massimiliano De Santis, Dartmouth College	"Excess Volatility Meets Irreversible Investment" "Demystifying the Equity Premium"
7 March	Eduardo Zambrano, Cal Poly	"'The Credibility Problem in Politics"
Spring Quarter
4 April	Jeff Danes, Cal Poly	"Eliciting Thoughtful Evaluation of Ideas"
11 April	Stephen Hamilton, Cal Poly, Cancelled	"Excise Taxes with Multi-Product Transactions"
25 April	Steven Rosefielde, University of North Carolina	"The Illusion of Westernisation in Russia and China"
2 May	Thomas Davidoff, UC Berkeley	"Illiquid Housing as Self-Insurance: the Case of Long-Term Care" "Housing, Health, and Annuities"
9 May	Federico Echenique, Caltech	"On Behavioral Complementarity and its Implications"
23 May	Pierre-Olivier Weill, UCLA	TBA
6 June	Sanjiv Jaggia, Cal Poly, Postponed	TBA