The University of Western Ontario
The Economics Newsletter
  April 9, 2009 Editor: Sharon Phillips  

Upcoming Workshops

Monday
April 13
Douwere Grekou & Jackie Zhao (University of Western Ontario)
"TBA"
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
Money/Macro
Monday
April 13
Yao Li & Chris Mitchell (University of Western Ontario)
"TBA"
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
Money/Macro
Monday
April 13
Itai Sher (University of Minnesota)
"Optimal Shill Bidding in the VCG Mechanism"
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Economic Theory
Tuesday
April 14
Yufeng Wang, Zhibo Jia, Pujun Liu, Jing Wu & Mike
McCausland (University of Western Ontario)

"TBA"
10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
Applied Economics/
Econometrics
Tuesday
April 14
Laurence Ales (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Non-exclusive Dynamic Contracts, Competition, and the Limits of
Insurance"

(joint with Pricila Maziero)
4:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
Money/Macro
Wednesday
April 15
Kai Xu, Jacob Wibe & Xiaoyu Yu (University of Western Ontario)
"TBA"
12:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
Money/Macro
Wednesday
April 15
David Stewart (University of Calgary)
"The Absent Majority: Non-Voters and the 2008 Alberta Election"
3:00 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
PERG/EPRI
Thursday
April 16
Janice Compton (University of Manitoba)
"Why do Smokers Divorce? Time Preference and Marital Stability"
12:00 p.m., Room 4161 SSC
CIBC Human Capital
Productivity Project/
Applied Economics/
Econometrics
Friday
April 17
Matias D. Cattaneo (University of Michigan)
"Small Bandwith Asymptotics for Density-Weighted Average Derivatives"
(joint with Richard K. Crump and Michael Jansson)
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m., Room 4107 SSC
Michigan/Western
Econometric
Workshop
Friday
April 17
Martijn van Hasselt (University of Western Ontario)
"A Bayesian Analysis of Binary Misclassification: Inference in Partially
Identified Models"

(joint with Chris Bollinger)
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
Michigan/Western
Econometric
Workshop
Friday
April 17
Yoonseok Lee (University of Michigan)
"Likelihood Ratio Based Joint Test for the Exogeneity and the
Relevance of Instrumental Variables"

(joint with Dukpa Kim)
2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
Michigan/Western
Econometric
Workshop
Friday
April 17
Youngki Shin (University of Western Ontario)
"Testing for Linearity in Regression Models"
(joint with Sokbae (Simon) Lee and Myung Hwan Seo)
3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m., Room 4107 SSC
Michigan/Western
Econometric
Workshop


News and Announcements

Good Friday and Easter Monday - Office Hours

The Department of Economics will be closed on Friday, April 10, 2009. Regular office hours will resume on Monday, April 13, 2009.


Research Notices

**All funding applications or proposals by UWO researchers must be accompanied by a completed Research Data and Approval Form (RDAF). Forms can be obtained and submitted using Research On-Line Approvals
(ROLA).

Funding Announcements