Tuesday, November 1, 2016 11:00 AM to 12:15 PM EDT
Van Metre Hall (formerly Founders Hall), #477
MICRO-ECONOMIC POLICY SEMINAR (MEPS)
organized by the Center for Micro-Economic Policy Research (CMEPR)
joint organizers: John Earle (Public Policy) and Thomas Stratmann (Economics)
September 6: Eun-Hee Kim (George Washington University) “Customer Reactions and Analyst Stock Recommendations: Evidence from S&P 500 Electric Power Companies’ Twitter Accounts“
September 13: Adam Isen (Treasury) “Parental Resources and College-Going: Evidence from Lottery Wins?”
September 20: Aparna Mathur (American Enterprise Institute) “Did right-to-work laws impact income inequality? Evidence from US states using the Synthetic Control Method”
September 27: Sven Neelsen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) “Progressive Universalism? The Impact of Targeted Coverage on Healthcare Access and Expenditures in Peru”
October 4: Ha Nguyen (World bank) “Demand-driven propagation: evidence from the Great Recession”
October 11: Sanjay Patnaik (George Washington University) “Cap(-ture) and Trade: How Multinational Firms Capture Economic Rents through Environmental Regulations”
October 18: Joanne Hsu (Federal Reserve) “Minimum Wages and Consumer Credit: Do Lender and Borrowers Respond to Changing Policy?”
October 25: Stephen Weymouth (Georgetown University) “Winners and Losers in International Trade: The Effects on U.S. Presidential Voting” (joint work with Brad Jensen and Dennis Quinn)
November 1: Jessica Golberg (University of Maryland)
November 8: Mark Gersovitz (Johns Hopskins University) “The VAT in Africa is in Trouble”
November 15: Jon Lanning (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) “Does Prejudice Impact Discretionary Market Transactions? Evidence From The Indirect Auto Lending Market”
November 22: No Seminar (Thanksgiving week)
November 29: TBD
December 6: Theodore Breton (Universidad EAFIT, Colombia) “Where the Education Went: Evidence that Effects of Increased Schooling on GDP are Substantially Lagged”