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Spring 2009

Thursday, September 5

Jason Michael Fletcher (Yale School of Public Health)
“Friendship Networks and Health Behaviors of Adolescents”

Friday, September 25

Alok Chaturvedi (Purdue)
“Building an Always-On System Using Agents “

Friday, October 16

Chad Meyerhoefer (Lehigh)
“A Spoonful of Sugar Helps the Medicine Go Down: The Relationship Between Food Prices and Medical Expenditures on Diabetes “

Friday, October 30

Ben Liebman (St. Joseph’s)
“Trade Policy and Plant Exits in the Steel Industry”

Friday, November 13

Suzanne McCoskey (George Washington)
An Overview of Non-stationary Panel Data Econometrics

Friday, December 4

Michael Kelly (Lafayette College)
“The Role of the Constant Recovery Assumption in the Subprime Bubble”

Spring 2010

Wednesday, February 24

Walker Todd (American Institute for Economic Research)
“Why a Dual Mandate is Wrong for Monetary Policy”

Friday, March 5

Felicia Ionescu (Colgate)
“Credit Scores and College Investment”

Friday, April 16

Chris Ruebeck (Lafayette)
“Demand Curves and Consumer Rationing Rules in Oligopoly”

Friday, April 30

Cristian deRitis (Moody’s Economy.com)
“Give Me Shelter: Current Issues in Housing Finance”
Papers: “The Art of Defaulting Strategically” and “Assessing Efforts to Shore Up Housing”

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