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Cornell System Dynamics Network (CSDNet)
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Applied Microeconomics Workshop

2009 Seminars top

Date Speaker Topic
1/23 Jayson Lusk
Oklahoma State Univ.
Bridging the Gap Between Laboratory Experiments and Naturally Occurring Markets: An Inferred Valuation Method
2/10 Ankur Pareek
Yale School of Mgmt.
Information Networks: Implications for Mutual Fund Trading Behavior and Stock Returns
2/11 Todd Schmit
Cornell Univ.
Extension Seminar: Real Option Analysis of Ethanol Plant Development
2/11 Yan Li
Cornell Univ.
Underconditioning and Overconditioning: Testing the Conditional CAPM and the Conditional Fama-French Three-Factor Model
2/12 Bo Sun
Univ. of Virginia
Asset Returns with Earnings Management
2/17 Darwin Choi
Yale School of Mgmt.
Omitted Markets, Idiosyncratic Risk, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
2/27 William Horrace
Syracuse Univ.
The Value of Statistical Life: Pursuing the Deadliest Catch
3/27 David Levine
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Choose and Use: Preliminary Results on How Behavioral Decision-Making and Experience Affect Households' Preferences for and Use of Safe Water Products
4/8 NY FarmNet & NY FarmLink Team
Cornell Univ.
Extension Seminar: Putting Non-Production Practices to Work at NY FarmNet
4/10 Daniel Kaffine
Colorado School of Mines
The Windy Commons?
4/24 Lucas Davis
Univ. of Michigan
International Trade in Used Durable Goods: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA
5/6 Andrew Feltenstein
National Science Foundation
High Growth and Low Consumption in
East Asia: How to Improve Welfare While Avoiding Financial Failures
5/15 James Choi
Yale School of Management
The Effect of Providing Peer Information
on Retirement Savings Decisions
6/26 Chandra Shekhar Kumar
Cornell Univ.
Credit Rationing and the Economics of Informal Lending: Theoretical Results and Econometric Inferences Using the Household Surveys of China and India
9/04 Roberton C. Williams III
Univ. of Maryland
Distribution, Distortionary Taxation, and the Evaluation of Public Goods
09/17 Elinor Ostrom
Indiana Univ.
Collective Action and the Commons: What Have We Learned? (University Lecture Co-Sponsored by AEM)
09/18 Ravi Kanbur, Calum Turvey, & Nancy Chau
Cornell University
Xiaobo Zhan
IFPRI
China Symposium
10/2 A. Mushfiq Mobarak
Yale Univ.
Development Effects of Electrification:
Evidence from the Geologic Placement of
Hydropower Plants in Brazil
10/14 David Lee
Cornell Univ.
Building Response Strategies to Climate Change in Agricultural Systems in Latin America
10/20 Brent Gloy
Cornell Univ.
The Potential for Adoption of Anaerobic Digestion on U.S. Dairy Farms
10/21 David Colman
Univ. of Manchester
Agriculture’s Terms of Trade: Issues and Implications
11/6 Peter Sandøe
Univ. of Copenhagen
What Economists Can Do For Animal Welfare
11/18 Brian Henehan
Cornell Univ.
Assessing the Educational Needs of Priority Extension Audiences
11/20 Betty Daniel
Univ. of Albany-SUNY
Private Sector Risk and Financial
Crisis in Emerging Markets

2008 Seminars top

Date Speaker Topic
1/24 Yang Yao
Peking Univ.
Health Shocks, Village Elections, and Long-term Income: Evidence from Rural China
2/11 Joshua P. Berning
Washington State Univ.
Consumer Preferences for Alternative Formats of Nutrition Information on Grocery Store Shelf Labels
2/13 Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
International Monetary Fund
Where Did All the Borrowing Go? 
A Forensic Analysis of the U.S. External Position
2/15 Miguel Gomez
Univ. of Illinois
Empirical Analysis of Budget and Allocation of Trade Promotions in the U.S. Supermarket Industry
2/18 Bradley Rickard
California Polytechnic State Univ.
How Would Compliance with Dietary Recommendations Affect
Revenues for Agricultural Producers?
2/20 John Tschirhart
Univ. of Wyoming
A Bioeconomic Model of Cattle Stocking on Land Threatened by Invasive Plants and Nitrogen Deposition
2/21 Lia Nogueira
Washington State Univ.
The Effects of Changing Sanitary and Phytosanitary Barriers to Trade on Revenue and Surplus
2/29 Nancy Chau
Cornell Univ.
Shadow Pricing Market Access: A Trade Benefit Function Approach
3/3 Nathan Rudgers
Western New York Farm Credit
Public Policy and Biofuels
3/4 Greg Perry
Oregon State Univ.
What Is the Future of the Agricultural Economics Profession?
3/7 Amit Batabyal
Rochester Institute of Technology
Trade, the Damage from Alien Species, and the Effects of Protectionism Under Alternate Market Structures
3/12 M. Ayhan Kose
International Monetary Fund
Global Business Cycles: Convergence or Decoupling?
4/11 Maximilian Auffhammer
U of California Berkeley
Forecasting U.S. CO2 Emissions Using State-Level Data
4/14 Eswar Prasad
Cornell Univ.
Managing India's Integration into the Global Economy
5/1 Harry deGorter
Cornell Univ.
The Looming $20 Billion Mistake: How the New U.S. Biofuel Legislation Will Actually Subsidize Oil Consumption
5/5 Indra Surbakti
Central Statistical Agency, Republic of Indonesia
Indonesia’s Statistical Agency and Its Data
5/12 Christopher Barrett
Cornell Univ.
Poverty Traps and Social Protection
5/14 Brent Gloy
Cornell Univ.
Renewable Energy from Livestock Waste: The Economics of Anaerobic Digestion
5/23 Robert L. Thompson
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The 2008 Farm Bill and the WTO Trade Agreement: What Happened to Reform?
8/29 Wolfram Schlenker
Columbia Univ.
Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects
9/10 Chris Watkins
Cornell Univ.
A Discussion of Federal Formula Funds at Cornell
9/16 Jeffrey McNeely
World Conservation Union
Ecoagriculture: Origins, Development, Implementation and Challenges
9/17 Jeffrey McNeely
World Conservation Union
Ecoagriculture Approaches to Bioenergy Development
9/19 Daniel J. Henderson
SUNY Binghamton
Imposing Monotonicity Nonparametrically in First-Price Auctions
9/23 Jura Liaukonyte
Univ. of Virginia
Is Comparative Advertising an Active Ingredient in the Market for Pain Relief? An Empirical Model of Advertising Content
10/6 Billur Akdeniz
Michigan State Univ.
Three Essays on the Dynamic Role of the Quality Perception Gap Relating Marketing Signals to Brand Performance
10/8 Mark Stephenson
Cornell Univ.
The Extension-Research Interface
10/9 Thomas J. Steenburgh
Harvard Univ.
Choice Among Similar Alternatives Revisited
10/9 Timothy Richards Network Externalities in Supermarket Retailing
10/16 Brennan Davis
AZUSA Pacific Univ.
Fast Food Around Schools and Youth Obesity: A Study of Place, Sociability and Unhealthy Consumption
10/17 Martin Smith
Duke Univ.
Beach Nourishment as a Dynamic Capital Accumulation Problem
10/31 Alex Anas Urban Growth, Congestion and Suburban
Sprawl.
11/5 J.V. Meenakshi
Univ. of Delhi
The Demand for Biofortified Foods: Reflections on Some Experimental Evidence
11/5 Marc Smith
Cornell Univ.
Applied Research at Geneva and New York’s Upstate Economy
11/11 Pedro Sanchez
Columbia Univ.
The African Green Revolution Moves Forward
11/21 Richard Howarth
Dartmouth College
Rethinking the Theory of Discounting under Uncertainty
11/25 Aaron Chatter
Duke Univ.
The Impact of Climate Change on the Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
12/1 Emmy Simmons
Independent Consultant
USAID, Foreign Assistance, and Aid Reform: Challenges for the New President
and
Global Agricultural Issues: Where and How US Leadership or Partnership Can Make a Difference
12/10 Gerald White
Cornell Univ.
Economic Analysis of the Tart Cherry Federal Marketing Orders
12/12 Robert Chambers
Univ. of Maryland
The Equity Premium and the Aggregate Technology

2007 Seminars top

Date Speaker Topic
1/23 Charlie Cuykendall, Joe Bennett
Cornell Univ.
Income Tax Legislation and What You and Your Tax Preparer Need for 2006 Personal Income Tax Returns
2/12 Carmen Carrión-Flores
Univ. of Arizona
Does Induced Innovation Create an Environmental Policy Multiplier? An Empirical Study of Bi-Directional Links Between Environmental Policy
and Patenting
2/20 Antonio Bento
Univ. of Maryland at College Park
Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Increased U.S. Gasoline Taxes
2/22 Garth Heutel
Univ. of Texas at Austin
Plant Vintages, Grandfathering, and
Environmental Policy
3/2 Harry de Gorter
Cornell Univ.
What Will It Take to Have a Successful
Doha Round?
3/30 David Ng
Cornell Univ.
Cross-Country Differences in Firm Multiples
4/6 Yildiray Yildirim
Syracuse Univ.
Leverage, Option Liabilities, and Corporate Bond Pricing
4/23 James Murphy
Univ. of Massachusetts
The Economics of Environmental Enforcement
5/4 Chunchi Wu
Singapore Management Univ.
Are Liquidity and Information Risks Priced in the Treasury Bond Market?
5/11 Linda Fernandez
Univ. of California, Riverside
Water Pollution Across an International Border
9/13 Raymond Gradus
Free University, Amsterdam
Contracting Out: Dutch Municipalities Reject the Solution for VAT-Distortion
10/15 David Zilberman
U of California-Berkeley
The Intersection of Energy and Agriculture: Biofuel and New Technology
11/8 Erik Lichtenberg
U of Maryland
Local Officials as Land Developers: Urban Spatial Expansion in China
11/15 Jason Snyder
Northwestern Univ.
Competition and Socially Responsible Behavior: Evidence from the Liver Transplant Market
11/26 Hans Pongratz
Ludwigs-Maximilian Univ.
"Creative Destruction" and the Dynamics of Organizational Integration: Empirical Findings on Organizational Change in Large German Companies

2006 Seminars top

Date Speaker Topic
2/2 Arvind Panagariya
Columbia Univ.
Free Trade Area and the Rules of Origin: Economics and Politics
2/9 Richard Ready "Four bedrooms, two and a half baths, adjacent to farm land" Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
2/13 Frayne Olson
Univ. of Missouri
Selective Incentives and Exclusion Mechanisms: Addressing the Free Rider Problem Within Collective Action Organizations
2/14 Kala Krishna
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Trade Policy and Firm Heterogeneity
2/17 Todd Schmit
Cornell Univ.
Optimal Institutional Mechanisms for Funding Generic Advertising: An Experimental Analysis
3/1 Timothy Mount
Cornell Univ.
Will Markets Keep the Lights On?
3/29 Amitrajeet Batabyal
Rochester Institute of Technology
Average Patent Tendency and Examination Errors Queuing Theoretic Analysis
4/14 Peter Otto
Dowling College
Bill Siemer
Cornell Univ.
Group Modeling Building: A Case Study to Illustrate the Conceptualization of a Simulation Model for the NY Department of Environmental Conservation
4/26 Robert Innes
Univ. of Arizona
A Theory of Consumer Boycotts Under Symmetric Information and Imperfect Competition
8/4 Cynthia Bantilan
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
VLS Generation 2: For Insights into Poverty Dynamics in Rural Economies
10/4 Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
University of Gottingen
Vertical Price Transmission Between Wheat and Flour in Ukraine: A Markov-Switching Vector Error Correction Approach
10/23 Alfons Oude Lansink
Wageningen University
Dynamic Efficiency Measurement: A Directional Distance Function Approach
10/25 Allaidi Venkatesh Use-Oriented Technology Diffusion: The Household Context
11/1 Participants in the Roundtable: AEM Roundtable: The Disintegration of the Doha Development Deliberations
  Harry de Gorter
Cornell Univ.
How and Why Agriculture Caused the Disintegration
  Nancy Chau
Cornell Univ.
The Past and Future Role of Special and Differential Treatments
  Christopher Barrett
Cornell Univ.
The Stalemate Surrounding Food Aid and Potential Paths Forward
  Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Cornell Univ.
How the Least Developed Countries Would Have Been Affected by a Successful Doha Round
  Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel
University of Gottingen
What Economists Have Contributed or Failed to Contribute to the Doha Process
11/8 Mark Stephenson
Chuck Nicholson

Cornell Univ.
Financial Performance of Value-Added Dairy Operations in NY, WI and VT
11/21 Véronique de Rugy
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
What Does Homeland Security Buy?

2005 Seminars top

Date Speaker Topic
1/28 Ignacio J. Martínez-Moyano
Univ. at Albany
Rule Dynamics: Toward a Theory of Rule Change in Organizations
2/9 Duane Chapman
Cornell Univ.
A Fourth Gulf War, Al Qaeda, and Persian Gulf Oil
2/18 John P. Comeau
Cornell Univ.
Assessing the Technical Feasibility of Incentive-Based Mobile Source Emission Control Strategies
2/23 Neha Khanna
Cornell Univ.
Preferences, Technology, and the Environment: Understanding the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis
3/9 David Castilla Espino Estimating Fishing Capacity of Red Seabream Fishery in the Straight of Gibraltar: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
3/14 Christopher Peterson
Michigan St. Univ.
Entrepreneurs, Innovation and Agriculture: A "New" Research Agenda
3/30 Daniel Simon
Cornell Univ.
The Impact of 9/11 on the Demand for Transportation: Air Travel and Driving Fatalities
4/6 Brian Henehan
Cornell Univ.
Analyzing Dairy Cooperative Marketing Strategies
4/27 Marc Bellemare
Cornell Univ.
Testing Between Competing Theories of Reverse Share Tenancy
5/3 Katherine Terrell The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
5/4 Albert Wang
Cornell Univ.
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Do Financial Firms Follow Their Own Recommendations?
5/19 Kerry Papps
Cornell Univ.
Asset Pricing in Created Markets for Fishing Quotas
5/24 Christine Ranney
Cornell Univ.
The Evolution and Evaluation of U.S. Food Assistance Policies for Domestic Low-Income Households: Implications for Future Research
6/21 Kent Messer
Cornell Univ.
Context and Voluntary Contributions: An Experimental Analysis of Communication, Voting, and Status Quo Bias
9/16 John Taber
Cornell Univ.
Examining the Effects of Deregulation on Retail Electricity Prices
9/28 David Just
Cornell Univ.
Marketing Obesity: Food Behavior and the Economics of Food Marketing
10/5 Vicki Bogan
Cornell Univ.
Oligopolistic Coordination Through the Use of Product Branding
10/10 Thomas Hertel
Purdue Univ.
Understanding the Poverty Implications of the Doha Development Agenda
10/20 John M. Antle
Montana State Univ.
Modeling the Supply of Environmental Services from Agriculture: A Minimum Data Approach
10/21 Jeremy Clark Sequence Effects in Contingent Valuation Surveys: Are They Due to Warm Glow Effects?
10/28 Tom Fiddaman
Ventana Systems, Inc.
Multipollutant Control Strategy in the Chinese Electric Power Sector
10/31 Erik Thorbecke, Per Pinstrup-Andersen, William Lesser, Steve Kyle, Ravi Kanbur, Robert Herdt, Chris Barrett
Cornell Univ.
A Roundtable Discussion of The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
11/1 David Ng, Hazem Daouk
Cornell Univ.
Unlevering Volatility Asymmetry: A
Cross-Sectional Approach
11/4 Felix Naschold
Cornell Univ.
Estimating the Effect of Transitory Income on Economic Mobility
11/7 Connie Yuan
Cornell Univ.
Social Capital and Transactive Memory Systems in Work Groups: A Multilevel Approach
11/14 Poppy McLeod
Cornell Univ.
Information Sharing and Decision Making
in Virtual Teams
11/16 Vicki Bogan, David Just
Cornell Univ.
Merger and Acquisition Decision Making Behavior
11/30 Aija Leiponen
Cornell Univ.
Why Decentralize R&D?
12/1 Chris Wardle Lessons in Development in Africa: A New Approach
12/7 Jeff Prince
Cornell Univ.
Relating PC Brand Loyalty to the Diffusion Curve
12/9 Juan Carlos Chavez-Martin del Campo
Cornell Univ.
Does Conditionality Generate Heterogeneity and Regressivity in Program Impacts? The Progresa Experience

2004 Seminars top

Date Speaker Topic
1/13 Doug Brown
Cornell Univ.
A Spatio-Temporally Explicit Model of Land Use Decisions: Shifting Cultivation and Forest Cover Dynamics in the Congo Basin
1/19 Christine Moser
Cornell Univ.
Altruism, Patronage, or Vote-Buying? The Allocation of Public Goods and the 2001 Election in Madagascar
1/23 Travis Lybbert
Cornell Univ.
Bayesian Herders: Optimistic Updating of Rainfall Beliefs in Response to External Forecasts
1/27 Daniel Snow
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Extraordinary Efficiency Growth in Response to New Technology Entries: The Carburetor's "Last Gasp"
1/29 Barrett Kirwan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Incidence of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies on Farmland Rental Rates
1/30 Peter Roberts
Emory Univ.
Broadcasting Information About Skilled Employees
2/6 Vicki Bogan
Brown Univ.
Stock Market Participation and the Internet
2/6 Robert Lowe
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Start-Ups, Established Firms, and the Commercialization of Univ. Inventions
2/9 Josh Nixt
Northwestern Univ.
How Do Changes in Sunk Costs Impact Entry? Evidence from the Medical Device Industry
2/11 Z. Jay Wang
Univ. of Michigan
Dividend Commitment and Discount Management: The Distribution Policy of Closed-End Funds
2/13 J.-C. Spender
Open Univ. Business School
A Note on Knowledge and Its Place in the Theory of the Firm
2/20 Eliot Rich
SUNY at Albany
The Sustainability of Organizational Knowledge:  A Simulation-Based Exploration
2/23 Douglas Hedley Policy Forces in Canadian Agriculture
2/26 Hazem Daouk
Cornell Univ.
The World Price of Short Selling
2/27 Aija Leiponen
Cornell Univ.
The Organization of Innovative Activities Across Industries: A Closer Look at the Patterns of Technological Change in Manufacturing Services
3/5 Daniel Simon
Cornell Univ.
Employee Satisfaction, Customer Satisfaction, and Sales Performance
3/9 Adonis Yatchew
Univ. of Toronto
Semiparametric Regression for the Applied Econometrician
3/11 Duane Chapman
Cornell Univ.
Global Oil Resources and the Persian Gulf: Security and Democracy
3/12 Judy Chevalier
Yale Univ.
The Effect of Word-of-Mouth on Sales: Online Book Reviews
3/15 Andrew Ford
Washington State Univ.
Boom & Bust in Power Plant Construction: Lessons from the California Electricity Crisis
4/1 Ravi Kanbur
Cornell Univ.
Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Some Hard Questions
4/2 Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra
Univ. of Minnesota
Regional Economic Integration and the Selection Among Methods of Resource Development
4/2 William Tomek
Dabin Wang

Cornell Univ.
Commodity Prices and Unit Root Tests
4/8 David Just
Cornell Univ.
Behavior, Production, and Competition
4/15 Chris Barrett
Cornell Univ.
Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role
4/16 Talia Bar
Cornell Univ.
Defensive Publications in a R&D Race
4/20 Spiro Stefanou
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Dynamic Efficiency Estimation: An Application to U.S. Electric Utilities
4/23 Jean-Francois Hennart
Tilburg Univ., The Netherlands
Are There Advantages to Being the First to Manufacture in a Foreign Market? The Case of Japanese Firms in the United States
4/23 Philip Thornton
International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya; Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Edinburgh
Dynamic Simulation Modelling for Agricultural Development: Status and Needs
4/29 David Ng
Cornell Univ.
Capital Market Governance: Do Securities Laws Affect Market Performance?
4/30 Constance Helfat
Dartmouth College
Inter-temporal Economies of Scope, Organizational Modularity, and the Dynamics of Diversification
5/4 Rogelio Oliva
Harvard Business School
Cutting Corners and Working Overtime: Quality Erosion in the Service Industry
5/6 James Hagen
Tony Simons

Cornell Univ.
Opportunism and Trust in Buyer-Supplier Relations
5/7 Todd Zenger
Washington Univ. at St. Louis
Corporate Strategy and Analyst Incentives: Do Capital Markets Discourage Uniqueness in Strategy?
5/20 Sharon Tennyson
Cornell Univ.
Incentive Effects of Community Rating in Insurance Markets: Evidence from Massachusetts Automobile Insurance
7/26 Paulo Santos
Cornell Univ.
Interest and identity in network formation: Who do smallholders seek out for information in rural Ghana?
7/26 Jordan Suter
Cornell Univ.
The Importance of Spatial Data in Modeling Actual Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)
7/29 Erin Lentz
Cornell Univ.
Food Aid Targeting, Shocks and Private Transfers Among East African Pastoralists
9/13 Leida Mercado
United Nations
New UN Environmental Initiatives in Latin America
10/14 Pedro Perez
Cornell Univ.
The Aesthetics of Organizational Existence: Foucault's Technologies of the Self as the Locus of Aesthetics in Organizations
10/21 Johan F. M. Swinnen
Katholieke Univ.
Vertical Coordination in Emerging Supply Chains in Transition Countries
10/22 Todd Schmit
Cornell Univ.
Optimal Institutional Mechanisms for Funding Generic Advertising: An Experimental Analysis
10/22 Miguel Gomez
Daniel Simon

Cornell Univ.
The Competitive Causes and Consequences of Customer Satisfaction
10/28 Warren Bailey
Cornell Univ.
Alok Kumar
Notre Dame Univ.
David Ng
Cornell Univ.
Venturing Abroad: How Do U.S. Individuals Trade Foreign Equities?
10/29 Jeffrey T. Prince
Cornell Univ.
Hyperbolic Discounting and Durable Goods Purchases
11/10 Gregory L. Poe
Cornell Univ.
Choice Sets, Choices, and Values
11/12 Vicki Bogan
Cornell Univ.
Rationality and the Internet Bubble: Theory and Evidence from IPO Markets
11/19 Aija Leiponen
Cornell Univ.
Whose Technologies Become Standards and Why Does It Matter? The Case of Wireless Telecommunications

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