Marshall School of Business

Fall 2009
FBE Applied Economics Workshop

The USC Finance and Business Economics Department sponsors three seminar series each semester.
Applied Economics Workshop | Finance Seminar Series | Macroeconomics and International Finance Workshop
The joint SPPD/Marshall School Lusk Center for Real Estate also offers a Real Estate Seminar series and the
FBE Dept. Center for Investment Studies has an occasional Distinguished Speaker Series.

Applied Economics Workshops are held on Fridays from 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in Room TBA
(TBA) unless otherwise noted below. We no longer provide hardcopies of the papers. If you want a
printout, please download and print the PDF file available by clicking on the paper title. Thank you. [Parking & seminar map]

Rev Date Speaker Title of Paper Room
  Aug. 28          - - - No seminar.     - - -
  Sept. 4          - - - No seminar.     - - -
  Sept. 11          - - - No seminar.     - - -
  Sept. 18 Darius Lakdawalla
  USC SPPD
 (previously Rand Corp)		 Health Insurance as a Two-Part Pricing Contract
 (revised paper posted 9/10/09;  revised version: June 2009)		 ACC-201
   Sept. 25          - - - No seminar.     - - -
  Oct. 2 Matias Iaryczower
  Caltech		 The Value of Information in the Court. Get it Right, Keep it Tight  (with Matthew Shum, California Institute of Technology) ACC-201
  Oct. 9 Antoinette Schoar
  Sloan, MIT 		The Importance of Hold-up in Contracting: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Rajkamal Iyer, Sloan School, MIT)   Joint with FBE Finance Seminar series.   Seminar: 10:30am ACC-201
10:30am
  Oct. 16 Simon Board
  UCLA		 Reputation for Quality  (with Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehnz, UCLA) ACC-201
  Oct. 23 Lisa Kahn
  Yale University 		Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures  (with Fabian Lange, Yale Econ) ACC-201
     Oct. 30 Ettore Damiano
  University of Toronto		 Seminar Cancelled 10/15/09 ACC-201
  Oct. 30 Odilon Câmara
  USC FBE Dept. 		Competence and Ideology  (with Dan Bernhardt, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Francesco Squintani, Essex University) ACC-201
  Nov. 6 Stefano DellaVigna
  UC Berkeley		 Testing for Altruism and Social Pressure in Charitable Giving  (with John A. List, Univ. of Chicago, and Ulrike Malmendier, UC Berkeley) ACC-201
  Nov. 13 Dan Bernhardt
  Univ. of Illinois at
  Urbana-Champaign		 The Case for Responsible Parties   (with John Duggan, Univ. of Rochester, and Francesco Squintani, Essex University) ACC-201
 > Nov. 20 Pietro Ortoleva
  Caltech

CANCELLED 11/19/09.  Rescheduled for April 9, 2010.

Modeling the change of paradigm: Non-Bayesian Reactions to unexpected news    (Abstract)   Per the presenter's request, this paper will not be posted. Hardcopies will be available in BRI-308 after 9am 11/18 and distributed at the seminar. If you desire a PDF via email, pease send your request directly to Pietro .

ACC-201
  Nov. 27          - - -
No seminar - Thanksgiving Holiday
     - - -
  Dec. 4 Thomas Hubbard
  Kellogg, Northwestern 		Paper TBA ACC-201
  Dec. 11

Kyna Fong
  Stanford
 (visiting at UC Berkeley)

 Paper TBA TBA
Click on the paper title to download a PDF.  To meet with a particular visitor contact Dr. Odilon Câmara at 213-740-7658 or ocamara@marshall.usc.edu.  For free parking, contact the FBE Dept. at (213) 740-6515 or fbe@usc.edu. Parking reservations require minimum 24 hours advance notice!
University of Southern California  ·  Finance and Business Economics Department  ·  BRI-308, MC-0804
3670 Trousdale Parkway, Ste. 308  ·  Los Angeles, CA 90089-0804 ·  213-740-6515  ·  213-740-6650 fax
fbe@usc.edu  ·  http://www.marshall.usc.edu/FBE

This page last modified: 11/19/09 by Terry Lichvar, Program Administrator, USC FBE Dept.     ©2003-2009 University of Southern California