Department of Economics Seminar Series
The Department of Economics maintains a seminar series to enhance the development and transmission of knowledge and research. The department series and related forums have hosted key figures in economics, including Noble Laureates, Members of the Council of Economic Advisors, and top academic economists.
2004-05 Seminar Series
| September 24 "Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement" [paper] Angela Dills; Clemson University |
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| October 8 "Cross Media Pollution and Mechanism Design--Can We Avoid Future MTBE's?" Chris Dumas; University of North Carolina, Wilmington |
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| October 29 "Celebrity Misbehavior" [paper] Todd Kendall; Clemson University |
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| November 12 "It Doesn't Pay to be Young in the NBA" [paper] Dan Rosenbaum; University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
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| February 11 "Rent Seeking and Collusion in the Military Allocation Decisions of Finland, Sweden and the UK, 1920-38" [paper] Jari Eloranta, History Department, Appalachian State University |
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| February 18 "Stationarity of Global Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Implications for Global Warming Scenarios" Mark Strazicich, Appalachian State University |
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| February 25 "A Competitive Model of (Super)Stars" Timothy Perri, Appalachian State University |
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| April 8-9 "Experimental Economics and Public Policy Workshop" [website] [website] |
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| April 15 "Testing for Unit Roots and Cointegration Using Instrumental Variables" Paper 1: [text tables] Paper 2: [text tables] Junsoo Lee, University of Alabama |
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| April 19 "Tradable Set-Aside Requirements (TSARs): An Application of a TPP Policy to Spatially Dependent Land Uses" Gregory Parkhurst, Mississippi State University |
