Fall 2012 Schedule Department Seminar Negative Leakages Friday September 14 12:00pm Presented by: Don Fullerton Department of EconomicsUniversity of Illinois Strategic Decision-Making with Information and Extraction Externalities: A Structural Model of the Multi-Stage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production Friday September 28 12:00pm Presented by: Cynthia Lin Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis Global Hemispheric Temperature Trends and Co–Trending: A Shifting Mean Vector Autoregressive Analysis Friday October 5 12:00pm Presented by: Matt Holt Department of EconomicsUniversity of Alabama Local Leadership and the Provision of Public Goods: Field Evidence from Bolivia Friday October 12 12:00pm Presented by: Kelsey Jack Department of EconomicsTufts University Climate Adaptation as Mitigation: Agricultural Productivity, Global Land Use and GHG Emissions Friday October 26 12:00pm Presented by: Thomas Hertel Department of Agricultural EconomicsPurdue University The Market and Welfare Impacts of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs) Friday November 2 12:00pm Presented by: Amalie Yiannaka Department of Agricultural EconomicsUniversity of Nebraska China's Food Security and Trade: Past Performance and Future Prospective Friday November 16 12:00pm Presented by: Jikun Huang Center for Chinese Agricultural PolicyBeijing, China Brown Bag Seminars Future Scenarios in Global Development Monday November 26 12:00pm Presented by: Steven Radelet Chief EconomistU.S. Agency for International Development Development Economics Workshop Personal Rules within External Commitments: (Free) Willpower in Ghana's Susu Institution Thursday September 20 3:50pm Presented by: Kweku Opoku-Agyemang Development Studies ProgramUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Development Chutes and Ladders: A Joint Impact Evaluation of Asset and Cash Transfers in Brazil Thursday September 27 3:50pm Presented by: Dylan Fitz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Stability of Social, Risk, and Time Preferences over a Decade Thursday October 4 3:50pm Presented by: Laura Schechter Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Unintended Consequences of Conflict Mineral Policies Thursday October 11 3:50pm Presented by: Dominic Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison America’s First Century: Inequality and Growth 1774-1860 Thursday October 18 3:50pm Presented by: Jeffrey Williamson Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Mitigation and Investment Decisions in Valle Alto, Bolivia Thursday October 25 3:50pm Presented by: Dan Prager Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Do Cooperatives Help the Poor? Evidence from Ethiopia Thursday November 1 3:50pm Presented by: Mafe Rodrigo Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Role of Risk Preferences in Rural-to-Urban Migration Decisions: The Case of Indonesia Thursday November 8 3:50pm Presented by: Hillary Caruthers Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Introduction to the Chinese Center of Agricultural Policies in China Academy of Science Thursday November 15 3:50pm Presented by: Jikun Huang Implicit Quality Incentives in Informal Markets: The Case of Ecuadorian Cocoa Thursday November 29 3:50pm Presented by: Pilar Jano Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Gender and Agricultural Production in Mali Thursday December 6 3:50pm Presented by: Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Migration, Cooperation, and Public Goods in Mexico Thursday December 13 3:50pm Presented by: Emily Sellars Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Applied Economics Workshop Conserving Forest: Management, Mandates or Money? Thursday September 13 3:50pm Presented by: Kathy Baylis Department of Agricultural & Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois Rice, Irrigation and Downside Risk: A Quantile Analysis of Risk Exporsure and Mitigation on Korean Farms Wednesday September 19 4:00pm Presented by: Jean-Paul Chavas Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Does Open-Space Conservation Increase Neighboring Development Wednesday September 26 4:00pm Presented by: Kate Zipp Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Geography of Crop Yield Distributions Wednesday October 3 4:00pm Presented by: Sheldon Du Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Welfare Implications of Consumption Externalities: Consumer Value of Supercenter Avoidance Wednesday October 10 4:00pm Presented by: Becky Cleary Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Distributional Effects of the Transition to Property Rights for a Common Pool Resource Wednesday October 17 4:00pm Presented by: Corbett Grainger Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Princelings and Paupers: Capital Distortions, Demand for Skills, and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments in Vietnam Wednesday October 24 4:00pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison *** CANCELLED *** Wednesday October 31 4:00pm Presented by: Lindsay Amiel Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Micro Foundations of Macro Sorting Models Wednesday November 7 4:00pm Presented by: Dan Phaneuf Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The School Breakfast Program and National Lunch Program: Do They Increase Child Weight? Wednesday November 14 4:00pm Presented by: Kristen Capagrossi EconomistChristensen Associates, Madison, WI A Comparative Efficiency Analysis of Cooperative and Investor-Owned Dairy Manufacturing Firms Wednesday November 28 4:00pm Presented by: Christopher Kanter Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Career Concerns, Implicit Incentives, and CEO Pay: Evidence from Member-Owned Firms Wednesday December 12 4:00pm Presented by: Brent Hueth Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Negative Leakages Friday September 14 12:00pm Presented by: Don Fullerton Department of EconomicsUniversity of Illinois
Strategic Decision-Making with Information and Extraction Externalities: A Structural Model of the Multi-Stage Investment Timing Game in Offshore Petroleum Production Friday September 28 12:00pm Presented by: Cynthia Lin Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis
Global Hemispheric Temperature Trends and Co–Trending: A Shifting Mean Vector Autoregressive Analysis Friday October 5 12:00pm Presented by: Matt Holt Department of EconomicsUniversity of Alabama
Local Leadership and the Provision of Public Goods: Field Evidence from Bolivia Friday October 12 12:00pm Presented by: Kelsey Jack Department of EconomicsTufts University
Climate Adaptation as Mitigation: Agricultural Productivity, Global Land Use and GHG Emissions Friday October 26 12:00pm Presented by: Thomas Hertel Department of Agricultural EconomicsPurdue University
The Market and Welfare Impacts of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs) Friday November 2 12:00pm Presented by: Amalie Yiannaka Department of Agricultural EconomicsUniversity of Nebraska
China's Food Security and Trade: Past Performance and Future Prospective Friday November 16 12:00pm Presented by: Jikun Huang Center for Chinese Agricultural PolicyBeijing, China
Future Scenarios in Global Development Monday November 26 12:00pm Presented by: Steven Radelet Chief EconomistU.S. Agency for International Development
Personal Rules within External Commitments: (Free) Willpower in Ghana's Susu Institution Thursday September 20 3:50pm Presented by: Kweku Opoku-Agyemang Development Studies ProgramUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Development Chutes and Ladders: A Joint Impact Evaluation of Asset and Cash Transfers in Brazil Thursday September 27 3:50pm Presented by: Dylan Fitz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Stability of Social, Risk, and Time Preferences over a Decade Thursday October 4 3:50pm Presented by: Laura Schechter Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Unintended Consequences of Conflict Mineral Policies Thursday October 11 3:50pm Presented by: Dominic Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
America’s First Century: Inequality and Growth 1774-1860 Thursday October 18 3:50pm Presented by: Jeffrey Williamson Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Mitigation and Investment Decisions in Valle Alto, Bolivia Thursday October 25 3:50pm Presented by: Dan Prager Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Do Cooperatives Help the Poor? Evidence from Ethiopia Thursday November 1 3:50pm Presented by: Mafe Rodrigo Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Role of Risk Preferences in Rural-to-Urban Migration Decisions: The Case of Indonesia Thursday November 8 3:50pm Presented by: Hillary Caruthers Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Introduction to the Chinese Center of Agricultural Policies in China Academy of Science Thursday November 15 3:50pm Presented by: Jikun Huang
Implicit Quality Incentives in Informal Markets: The Case of Ecuadorian Cocoa Thursday November 29 3:50pm Presented by: Pilar Jano Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Gender and Agricultural Production in Mali Thursday December 6 3:50pm Presented by: Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Migration, Cooperation, and Public Goods in Mexico Thursday December 13 3:50pm Presented by: Emily Sellars Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Conserving Forest: Management, Mandates or Money? Thursday September 13 3:50pm Presented by: Kathy Baylis Department of Agricultural & Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois
Rice, Irrigation and Downside Risk: A Quantile Analysis of Risk Exporsure and Mitigation on Korean Farms Wednesday September 19 4:00pm Presented by: Jean-Paul Chavas Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Does Open-Space Conservation Increase Neighboring Development Wednesday September 26 4:00pm Presented by: Kate Zipp Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Geography of Crop Yield Distributions Wednesday October 3 4:00pm Presented by: Sheldon Du Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Welfare Implications of Consumption Externalities: Consumer Value of Supercenter Avoidance Wednesday October 10 4:00pm Presented by: Becky Cleary Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Distributional Effects of the Transition to Property Rights for a Common Pool Resource Wednesday October 17 4:00pm Presented by: Corbett Grainger Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Princelings and Paupers: Capital Distortions, Demand for Skills, and the Distribution of Human Capital Investments in Vietnam Wednesday October 24 4:00pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Wednesday October 31 4:00pm Presented by: Lindsay Amiel Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Micro Foundations of Macro Sorting Models Wednesday November 7 4:00pm Presented by: Dan Phaneuf Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The School Breakfast Program and National Lunch Program: Do They Increase Child Weight? Wednesday November 14 4:00pm Presented by: Kristen Capagrossi EconomistChristensen Associates, Madison, WI
A Comparative Efficiency Analysis of Cooperative and Investor-Owned Dairy Manufacturing Firms Wednesday November 28 4:00pm Presented by: Christopher Kanter Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Career Concerns, Implicit Incentives, and CEO Pay: Evidence from Member-Owned Firms Wednesday December 12 4:00pm Presented by: Brent Hueth Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison