ECON 628:
Schedule of Class Presentations
Theme
A: Finance
November 8 Minlei He “Equity Incentives and Earnings Management in Bank and Insurance Holding Companies”
Minlei Ye
November 10 Qianqian Du “What Do
Entrepreneurs Pay for Venture Capital Affiliation?”
David Hsu
Journal of Finance, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1805-44.
Theme
B: Crime
November 15 Subrata Sarker “Urban Poverty and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from A Randomized Housing-Mobility Experiment”
Jens Ludwig, Greg J. Duncan and Paul Hirschfield;
The Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 2001).
November
17 Ran Jing “Instrumental Variables Methods
in Experimental
Criminology Research: What, Why, and How?”
Joshua Angrist
NBER Technical Working Paper No. T0314
Theme
C: Misc
November 22 Abhay Gupta “Can we improve the perceived quality of
economic forecasts?”
Clive W. J. Granger
Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 11, No. 5, Special Issue: Econometric Forecasting, Sep. - Oct., 1996
November 24 Ning Ning Zou “Testing the
Economic Model of Crime: The National Hockey League’s
Two-Referee Experiment”
Steven “Freakonomics” Levitt.
Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2002
Theme
D: Development
November 29 Shun Wang “Does Social Capital Have an Economic
Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation?”
Stephen Knack and Philip Keefer
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1997
November 29 Quoc Hung Nguyen “Aid, Policies, and Growth”
Craig Burnside and David Dollar
American Economics Review, Vol. 90, No. 4, September, 847-68
Theme
E: Labour
December 1 Anirban Mukherjee “Worker’s
Compensation and Injury Duration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”
Bruce D. Meyer, W. Kip viscusi, David L. Durbin
American Economic Review, June 1995
December 1 Viktoriya Galushko “An Experimental Examination of Labor Supply and Work Intensities”
David L. Dickinson
Journal of labor Economics, Vol. 17, No. 4, October 1999, 638-70.