2008
FALL 2008
Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm*
Department of Economics Faculty Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building*
Organizers: Ayşe Mumcu and Burak Saltoğlu
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of the Paper |
| Oct. 6, 2008 | Stephen G. Hall | University of Leicester | Combining Density Forecasts |
| Oct. 7, 2008, 16:00 | Stephen G. Hall | University of Leicester | Estimation of Parameters in the Presence of Misspecification |
| Oct. 17, 2008 | Refet Gürkaynak | Bilkent University | Convergence and Anchoring of Yield Curves in the Euro Area |
| Oct. 24, 2008 | Fikret Adaman | Boğaziçi University | Willingness to Pay of Urban Households in Turkey for CO2 Emission Reductions: A Contingent Valuation Survey |
| Oct. 31, 2008 | Özgür Kıbrıs | Sabancı University | A Revealed Preference Approach to Simple Allocation Problems |
| Nov. 14, 2008 | Roger Betancourt | University of Maryland | Civil Liberties and Economic Development |
| Nov. 28, 2008 | İnci Gümüş | Sabancı University | Fiscal Uncertainty and Currency Crises |
| Dec. 19, 2008 | Özgür Yılmaz | Koç University | Kidney Exchange: An Egalitarian Mechanism |
| Dec. 26, 2008 | Stanislav Anatolyev | New Economic School, Moscow | Sequential testing with uniformly distributed size |
| Spring 2009 | Kıvanç Karaman | Boğaziçi University | European State Finances and Budgets in Comparative Perspective, 1500-1800 |
* Unless otherwise noted
SPRING 2008
Friday, 3:00-4:30 pm*
Department of Economics Faculty Lounge, Natuk Birkan Building*
Organizers: Burak Saltoğlu and Ünal Zenginobuz
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title of the Paper |
| Feb. 22, 2008 | Selim Jürgen Ergun | Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | From Plurality Rule to Proportional Representation |
| Feb. 25, 2008 | Esra Durceylan | Pennsylvania State University | Managerial Effort, Agency and Industrial Evolution |
| Feb. 29, 2008 | Beşinci Murat Sertel Öğrenci Şenliği | ||
| Mar. 18, 2008 | Jan Brueckner | University of California, Irvine | DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES The Economics of Airport Congestion |
| Mar. 20, 2008 | Behzad Yaghmaian | Ramapo College | OCCASIONAL TALK SERIES China: Journey from Socialism to Low-Wage Capitalism |
| Mar. 21, 2008 | Jan Brueckner | University of California, Irvine | A Theory of Urban Squatting and Land Tenure Formalization in Developing Countries |
| Mar. 28, 2008 | İpek Sanver | Bilgi University | Getting Better Students by Offering Lower Scholarships |
| Apr. 4, 2008 | Huub Meijers | UNU-MERIT and University of Maastricht | International ICT spillovers: evidence from cross country data |
| Apr. 11, 2008 | Ercan Uygur | Ankara University | TBA |
| Apr. 18, 2008 | Jean Lainé | CREREG - Centre de Recherche Rennais en Economie et Gestion | TBA |
| Apr. 25, 2008 | John Conley | Vanderbilt University | TBA |
| May 2, 2008 | SPRING BREAK | ||
* Unless otherwise noted
