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Departmental Seminars – 2009

Spring & Fall 2009 Schedule

Schedule: Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm*

Place: Department of Economics Faculty Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building*

Organizers: Ayşe Mumcu & Burak Saltoğlu

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
January 19, 2009	Ceyhun Elgin	University of Minnesota	Political Turnover, Taxes and Shadow Economy
February 4, 2009	Selçuk Özyurt	New York University	A Reputation-Based Theory of Spatially-Separated Duopoly Competition and Bargaining
February 13, 2009	Deniz Selman	University of Pennsylvania	Optimal Sequencing of Presidential Primaries
February 17, 2009	Tümer Kapan	Columbia University	Property Division Laws: The Effects on Labor Supply and Household Bargaining
February 24, 2009	Özlem Bedre	Toulouse School of Economics	Pricing Payment Cards
February 26, 2009	Şebnem Uçar	University of British Columbia	Persuasion or Information? Advertising and Pricing of Image Goods
March 2, 2009	Murat Koyuncu	University of Washington, Seattle	Can Progressive Taxation Explain Cross-Country Variation in Labor Supply?
March 13, 2009	Serkan Küçükşenel	California Institute of Technology	Behavioral Mechanism Design
March 20, 2009	Serra Boranbay	Northwestern University	—
March 25, 2009	Stavros Loannides	Panteion University	Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence--The Case of Greece
March 30, 2009	Pınar Uysal	Boston College	Foreign Direct Investment and Contract Enforcement
April 10, 2009	Kıvanç Karaman	Boğaziçi University	European State Finances and Budgets in Comparative Perspective, 1500-1800
April 17, 2009	Cem Behar	Boğaziçi University	Turkey: Demographic Trends and Trajectories
May 15, 2009	Erik Olsen	University of Missouri Kansas City	New Developments in Worker Ownership: The U.S. Case
October 22, 2009	Gary S. Fields	Cornell University and IZA	Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-Term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept
October 23, 2009	Yanis Varoufakis	University of Athens	Game Theory: Can it Unify the Social Sciences?
December 7, 2009	Francis Bloch	Ecole Polytechnique	Markovian Assignment Rules
December 11, 2009	Akin Sayrak	Sabanci University	Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance
December 24, 2009	Ozgur Arslan	Hacettepe University	How and why do firms establish financial flexibility?
December 25, 2009	Ariel Rubinstein	Tel Aviv University and New York University	TALK SERIES ON GAME THEORY AND SOCIAL SCIENCES II "Some thoughts on neuroeconomics and choice theory"

Unless otherwise noted