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Departmental Seminars – 2010

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
December 29, 2010 @ 16:30	Ahu Gemici	New York University	A General Equilibrium Model of Post-Secondary Field of Study Choice
December 22, 2010 @ 16:30	Ludo Visschers	U. Carlos III, Madrid and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver	Directed Search over the Life Cycle
December 15, 2010 @ 17:00	Vefa Tarhan	Loyola University	Global Uncertainities and Their Possible Effects on the Turkish Economy
December 9, 2010 @ 16:00	Öner Günçavdı	Istanbul Technical University	Balance-of-Payment Constraint and Economic Growth in a Small Island Economy in Isolation
November 5, 2010 @ 15:00	Remzi Kaygusuz	Sabancı University	Taxation and Household Labor Supply
October 13, 2010 @ 16:00	Timur Kuran	Duke University	Legal Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title of the Paper
January 19, 2010	Ceyhun Elgin	University of Minnesota	Political Turnover, Taxes and Shadow Economy
February 11, 2010	Ömer Tuğrul Açıkgöz	University of Rochester	The Rising Skill Premium and Deunionization in the United States
February 15, 2010	Ayça Özdoğan	University of Minnesota	Reputation Effects in Two-Sided Incomplete-Information Games
February 16, 2010	Harun Onder	Florida International University	International Cooperation in Trade and Investment: (When) Does Linking the Agreements Help?
February 17, 2010	Burak Uras	Washington University	Productive Entrepreneurship and Economic Development with Limited Contract Enforcement
February 18, 2010	Emin Karagözoğlu	Maastricht University	A Noncooperative Approach to Bankruptcy Problems with an Endogenous Estate
March 1, 2010	Murat Yilmaz	Boston University	Auctioning a Discrete Public Good under Incomplete Information
March 8, 2010	İpek Gürsel Tapkı	Sabancı University	Trade Rules for Uncleared Markets with a Variable Population
March 15, 2010	Tolga Umut Kuzubas	University of Minnesota	Endogenous Social Networks in the Labor Market
April 1, 2010	Ulrich Zachau	Country Director for Turkey Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank	Economic Development Priorities in Turkey: Opportunities and Challenges
April 22, 2010	Samuel Bowles	University of Siena and Santa Fe Institute	Social preferences and pubic economics why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens?
May 17, 2010	Yahya M. Madra	Gettysburg College	Late Neoclassical Economics: Making Sense of the Emerging Heterogeneity

Unless otherwise noted