Spring 2012 Schedule Department Seminar Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon Monday January 23 12:00pm Presented by: Eduardo Souza Department of EconomicsYale University Energy Efficiency Gains from Trade: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and India's Manufacturing Sector Wednesday January 25 12:00pm Presented by: Leslie Martin Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices Friday January 27 12:00pm Presented by: Hendrik Wolff University of Washington Climate Change Policy and Patterns of International Trade Monday January 30 12:00pm Presented by: Tao Wang Department of EconomicsPrinceton University Climate Change, Rainfall Variability,and Adaptation through Irrigation: Evidence from Indian Agriculture Wednesday February 1 12:00pm Presented by: Ram Fishman Kennedy School of GovernmentHarvard University Growth, Deforestation and the Efficiency of the REDD Mechanism Friday February 3 12:00pm Presented by: Helene Ollivier Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley Optimal Food Price Stabilization in a Small Open Developing Country Friday February 10 12:00pm Presented by: Christophe Gouel World Bank Poverty and Land Redistribution Friday February 17 3:00pm Presented by: Michael Carter Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies Friday March 9 12:00pm Presented by: Jonathan Hughes Department of EconomicsUniversity of Colorado-Boulder Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests and Targeting of Malaria Treatment Friday March 23 12:00pm Presented by: Pascaline Dupas Department of EconomicsStanford University Why do Firms Hold Oil Stockpiles? Friday April 13 12:00pm Presented by: Charles Mason Department of Economics and FinanceUniversity of Wyoming The Culture War Over Food and Farming: Who is Winning? Friday April 20 12:00pm Presented by: Robert Paarlberg School of Public PolicyHarvard University Development Economics Workshop Heterogeneous Signaling at the Convergence of Formal and Informal Finance in Ghana Thursday February 23 3:45pm Presented by: Kweku Opoku-Agyemang Development Studies ProgramUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Heterogenous Impact of Agro-Input Subsidies on Maize Production: A Field Experiment in Mozambique Thursday March 29 3:45pm Presented by: Rachid Laajaj Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Violence, Emotional Distress and Induced Changes in Risk Attitudes among the Internally Displaced Population in Colombia Thursday April 26 3:45pm Presented by: Andres Moya Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis Does trade really lead to productivity growth? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa Thursday May 3 3:45pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead and Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Unconditional Convergence: The Spread of Manufacturing to the Periphery 1870-2007 Thursday May 10 3:45pm Presented by: Jeffrey Williamson Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison & Harvard University
Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon Monday January 23 12:00pm Presented by: Eduardo Souza Department of EconomicsYale University
Energy Efficiency Gains from Trade: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and India's Manufacturing Sector Wednesday January 25 12:00pm Presented by: Leslie Martin Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Value of Time: Speeding Behavior and Gasoline Prices Friday January 27 12:00pm Presented by: Hendrik Wolff University of Washington
Climate Change Policy and Patterns of International Trade Monday January 30 12:00pm Presented by: Tao Wang Department of EconomicsPrinceton University
Climate Change, Rainfall Variability,and Adaptation through Irrigation: Evidence from Indian Agriculture Wednesday February 1 12:00pm Presented by: Ram Fishman Kennedy School of GovernmentHarvard University
Growth, Deforestation and the Efficiency of the REDD Mechanism Friday February 3 12:00pm Presented by: Helene Ollivier Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Optimal Food Price Stabilization in a Small Open Developing Country Friday February 10 12:00pm Presented by: Christophe Gouel World Bank
Poverty and Land Redistribution Friday February 17 3:00pm Presented by: Michael Carter Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis
Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies Friday March 9 12:00pm Presented by: Jonathan Hughes Department of EconomicsUniversity of Colorado-Boulder
Price Subsidies, Diagnostic Tests and Targeting of Malaria Treatment Friday March 23 12:00pm Presented by: Pascaline Dupas Department of EconomicsStanford University
Why do Firms Hold Oil Stockpiles? Friday April 13 12:00pm Presented by: Charles Mason Department of Economics and FinanceUniversity of Wyoming
The Culture War Over Food and Farming: Who is Winning? Friday April 20 12:00pm Presented by: Robert Paarlberg School of Public PolicyHarvard University
Heterogeneous Signaling at the Convergence of Formal and Informal Finance in Ghana Thursday February 23 3:45pm Presented by: Kweku Opoku-Agyemang Development Studies ProgramUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Heterogenous Impact of Agro-Input Subsidies on Maize Production: A Field Experiment in Mozambique Thursday March 29 3:45pm Presented by: Rachid Laajaj Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Violence, Emotional Distress and Induced Changes in Risk Attitudes among the Internally Displaced Population in Colombia Thursday April 26 3:45pm Presented by: Andres Moya Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis
Does trade really lead to productivity growth? Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa Thursday May 3 3:45pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead and Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Unconditional Convergence: The Spread of Manufacturing to the Periphery 1870-2007 Thursday May 10 3:45pm Presented by: Jeffrey Williamson Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison & Harvard University