Economics Research
Past Seminars
2010
November 5, 2010 - 12:30 pm
James Townsend of the University of Winnipeg
The Department of Economics
3rd Annual Lecture Highlighting the Basis for the Nobel Prize in Economics
2010 Recipients Peter Diamond, Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides
November 12, 2010 - 2:30 p.m.
Robert Cairns, Professor of Economics
McGill University
"Measurement of Manufactured, Intangible, Environmental and Other Capital"
September 24, 2010 -
2:30 p.m.
Janet Currie, Sami Mnaymneh Professor
of Economics of Columbia University
"Childhood health and
its effects on adult lives"
January 14, 2010 -
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Herb
Emery, Svare Professor in Health
Economics
Department of Economics, University of Calgary
"The
Influence of Federal Cost Sharing on Provincial Health Care
Expenditures"
2009
November 20, 2009 - 1:00 PM
Kim P Huynh, Indiana
University
"Age Effects, Leverage
and Firm Growth"
Co-author: Robert Petrunia
October 30, 2009 - 2:30 pm
Justin Smith of The University of
Manitoba
"Extra
Kindergarten and Future Outcomes: Evidence from a Failed Policy Experiment"
October
21, 2009 - 12:30 pm
Philippe
Cyrenne, University of Winnipeg
2nd
Annual Lecture Highlighting the Basis for
the Nobel Prize in Economics
2009 Recipients Oliver Williamson and Elinor Ostrom
Read the notes from the
lecture
October 16, 2009 - 2:30 pm
J. Compton, University of Manitoba
"Proximity and Coresidence of Adult Children and
their Parents: Description and Correlates"
September 25, 2009 - 12:30 pm
J. Townsend, University of Winnipeg
"Mandatory Retirement and the Employment Rights of Elderly Canadian Immigrants" (with Hugh Grant)
April 23, 2009 - 10:00 to 11:30 am
A. Rebecca Reuber, Professor of Strategical Management
Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto
"Reputational Strategies for Entrepreneurial Firms"
April 3rd, 2009 - 2:30 pm
Christine Neill of Wilfred Laurier University
"The
Effect of Student Loan Limits on University Enrolments"
This talk is being funded by the Manitoba Research Data
Centre (RDC).
March 18, 2009
Haifeng Chen of University of Manitoba
"Multivariate GARCH Models of Stock Market Returns and
Aggregate Volatility"
March 6, 2009
Robert Petrunia
Lakehead University
"The Impact of Initial Financial State on Firm Duration
Across Entry Cohorts"
February 27, 2009
Hugh Grant, University of Winnipeg
"How Keynesianism Came
to Canada: Canadian Economic Policy, 1936-–1945”"
Abstract
February 6, 2009
Bosu Seo , University of
Manitoba
"The Effect of
Education on Health among U.S. Residents in Relation to Country of Birth"
January 30, 2009
Umut Oguzoglu, University of Manitoba
"Severity of Work Disability"
January 23, 2009
James Townsend, The University of Winnipeg
"The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Provincial Wage Distributions"
Co-author: David A. Green
2008
March 7, 2008
Janet Hua Jiang, University of Manitoba
"Learning and experimental evidence in the
Diamond and Dybvig model of bank"
March 5, 2008
Soham Baksi, University of Winnipeg
"Production Externalities, Environmental Taxes, and the Gains from Trade"
February 29, 2008
Eugene
Beaulieu, University of Calgary
"Plant Scale and Exchange-Rate-Induced Productivity Growth"
January 25, 2008
Xiao-yuan Dong, University of Winnipeg
"Economic
Transition and Gender Differentials in Wages and
Productivity: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing
Enterprises"
2007
November 22, 2007
Ryan Cardwel, University of Manitoba
"Biotechnology IPRs in Developing Countries: GM Crops and the WTO"
November 15, 2007
Hikmet Gunay, University of Manitoba
"License Auctions With Endogenous Values And Social Welfare"
November 8, 2007
Phil Cyrenne, University of Winnipeg
"Predicting University Success: A Case Study"
October 25, 2007
Gabi Dragan, University of Winnipeg
"Supporting Collusion with Insufficient Capacity"
October 18, 2007
Ryan Compton, University of Manitoba
"War! What is it Good For?"
October 4, 2007
James Townsend, University of Winnipeg
"Wage Patterns for Low Skilled In Canada"