Public Choice Center Seminar Series – Fall 2008

Seminars are held from 4:00-5:15 in Carow Hall.

Date	Speaker	Topic
8/27	--	--
9/3	Lee Lane American Enterprise Institute	Political Institutions and Greenhouse Gas Controls
9/10	Lisa Verdon Koch Foundation	Economic Growth and the Entrepreneurial Environment
9/16 Tues!	James Hamilton UC San Diego	“Understanding Crude Oil Prices”
9/24	Andrew Healy Loyola Marymount	“Preferring a Pound of Cure to an Ounce of Prevention: Voting, Natural Disasters, and Government Response”
10/1	Joel Schneider Illinois State University	Can the Implicit Association Test Be Used as A Lie Detector? Morality, Implicit Attitudes, and Big Brother’s Help Measuring Illegal File Sharing Behavior
10/8	--	--
10/16 Thurs!	Larry Bartels Princeton University	The Opinion-Policy Disconnect: Cross-National Spending Preferences and Democratic Representation
10/22	Antonio Spilimbergo IMF	Growing Up in Bad Times: Macroeconomic Volatility and the Formation of Beliefs
10/29	Bryan Caplan George Mason University	“Systematically Biased Beliefs About Political Responsibility”
11/6 Thurs!	Giovanni Peri UC Davis	Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages
11/12	William Dickens Northeastern University	What Is g?
11/19	Ilia Rainer George Mason University	Does the Leader’s Ethnicity Matter? Ethnic Favoritism, Education and Health in Sub-Saharan Africa
11/26	--	--
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