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 “FreakonomicsLevitt.

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.