Ball State University - Seminar Series

Department of Economics
Whitinger Business Building, room 201
2000 W. University Ave.
Muncie, IN 47306

Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Phone: 765-285-5360
Fax: 765-285-4313
E-mail: tliu@bsu.edu

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Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
January 26, 27, 30, 31, February 1	Job Candidates
March 16	David Harris	Ball State University	A Necessary Limitation for Models of Capital
March 23	XiuLing Yin	Shandong University of Political Science and Law	Current Development on Chinese Socioeconomic Structure
April 27	Jeff Green, Cliff Stone, Abera Zegeye	Ball State University	The Major Field Test in Business: A Pretend Solution to the Assurance of Learning Problem

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
September 30	Wendy Morrison	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	Expenditure Impact of the Introduction of a Care Management Program for a High Risk Medicaid Population
October 7	Ruth Uwaifo	Georgia Institute of Technology	Expenditure Impact of the Introduction of a Care Management Program for a High Risk Medicaid Population
October 13-14	Todd M. Nesbit	College of Charleston	Tax-Induced Criminal Action: Cigarette Smuggling in the U.S.
October 21	Mike Seeborg	Illinois Wesleyan University	On the Economics of Supervising Undergraduate Research
October 28	Tung Liu	Ball State University	On the Measure of Cost Inefficiency
November 4	Yaa Akosa Antwi	Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis	Does Physician Reimbursement Affect Treatment? Evidence from Restricting Balance Billing in California
November 7	Juan Sesmero	Purdue University	Energy and Water Policy Interactions: Corn Residue for Biomass and Groundwater Extraction in the U.S. Plains

Spring 2011

April 29, 2011, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Kosali Simon, Indiana University
Title: The macroeconomy and health/health insurance
April 22, 2011, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: Mandates, Management or Money: What works best for conservation?
April 18, Monday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Andy Glover, University of Minnesota
Title: Bankruptcy, Incorporation, and the Nature of Entrepreneurial Risk
April 15, 2011, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Shin-Yi Chou, Lehigh University
Title: Provider Responses to a Global Budget System: The Case of Drug Expenditures in Taiwan Hospitals
February 18, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Christina Marsh, University of Georgia
Title: Nonprofit and For-profit Competition in the Hospice Industry
January 21, 2011, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in Hall of Fame room (College Colloquium)
Lee Spector and Cliff Stone, Ball State University
Title: Suspicious Estimates of Ex Ante Real Interest Rates

2010

November 30, 2010, Tuesday (Co-sponsored by Intercollegiate Studies Institute)
James Capretta, Fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center
Tuesday - 3:30 p.m. in WB 138
Title: Thinking About Health Care Cost Control
Tuesday - 7:00 p.m. in TC 101
Title: Understanding the Policy and Politics of Health Care Reform
November 19, 2010, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Li Gang, Shanghai Normal University
Title: International Comparison of the Degree and Display of the Irrationality of the Lottery Players
November 5, 2010, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Kevin Tsui, Clemson University
Title: Aid and Fertility: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis
October 29, 2010, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in Hall of Fame room (College Colloquium)
Anca Cotet, Ball State University
Title: Technological Improvement and Climate Change Mitigation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Air Conditioning and Seasonal Mortality in the U.S.
October 15, 2010, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Steven Wu, Purdue University
Title: Market Competition and Contracting Outcomes: Theory and Experimental Evidence
October 1, 2010, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Wayne Dunham, Research Economist with the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
Title: Framing the Right Suspects: Measuring Media Bias
September 30, 2010, Thursday - 5:00 p.m. in Student Center, Room 301
Kerry Anne McGeary, Ball State University
Title: Health Policy Debate: What's Next?
September 17, 2010, Friday - 3:00 p.m. in Hall of Fame
Cecil Bohanon, Ball State University
Title: A Pedagogical Note on Bastiat’s Restraint of Trade
April 30, 2010, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Marc Berger, Eli Lilly
Title: Comparative effectiveness issue and health technology assessment
April 6, 2010, Tuesday – 3:30 p.m. in WB 151
Anne Royalty, Indiana Univeristy-Pudue University Indianapolis
Title: Rising Health Care Costs: The Effect on Employment Outcomes
March 18-19, 2010
George Chressanthis
Thursday, March 18th – 9:30 a.m. in AR 217
Title: Competing on Analytics for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies
Thursday, March 18th – 3:30 p.m. in WB 152
Title: Physician Sales Rep Access Restrictions and New Product Adoption
Friday, March 19th – 3:30 p.m. in WB 144
Title: Brand Strategy and Segmentation, Pharmaceutical Sales Force Optimization and Sales Execution: Current Practice and Directions for the Future.
February 19, 2010, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Phil Coelho, Ball State University
Title: The Colonists' Choice of Agricultural Labor in Early America: What's Eating You?

2009

December 4, 2009, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in Hall of Fame room (College Colloquium)
Maoyong Fan, Ball State University
“Workers in U.S. Agricultural Labor Market” and “Mobility and Wages in U.S. Agricultural Labor Market”
November 19, 2009, Thursday – 3:30 p.m. in WB 151
Kevin Mumford, Purdue University
"Welfare Stigma due to Public Disapproval"
October 30, 2009, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Hexin Jiang, Shanghai Normal University, China
“An Introduction to China’s Macroeconomic Policy and its Effect”
October 16, 2009, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 144
Dong Geun Han, Yeungnam University, Korea
“Exchange Rates and Housing Market: Korean Case”
February 20, 2009 (MCOB Colloquium)
Cecil Bohanon and Mike Hicks, Ball State University
“Telecom Reform, a survey of the Options”
January 16, 2009, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
David D. VanHoose, Baylor University
“Openness, Income-Tax Progressivity, and Inflation”

2008

December 5, 2008, Friday – 2:00 p.m. in WB 142
Pablo Gottret, World Bank
"International Health Care Financing."
November 7, 2008, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Anca Cotet, Ball State University
"Oil and Conflict: Evidence from Oil Explorations and Discoveries."
October 10, 2008, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Tung Liu, Ball State University
"Revisiting Solow’s Decomposition of Economic Growth and Productivity Growth."
April 18, 2008, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Anca Cotet, Ball State University
"Are Physicians Licensing Requirements too Strict? Evidence from State Variation in Telemedicine Regulation."
March 24, 2008, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Lili Xie, Ball State University
"Information Sharing, Foreign Bank Entry and Access to Credit."
February 22, Friday – 3:30 p.m. in Hall of Fame
Philip Coelho, Ball State University
"Effects of Parasitic Diseases on Human Productivity."

2007

August 23, 2007, Thursday – 3:30 in WB 152
John Spry, Department of Finance, University of St. Thomas,
"Who Plays the Numbers Games in the Middle of the Day?"
February 2, 2007 – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Job Candidate,
"Death and Taxes: The Impact of Progressive Taxation Health"
January 26, 2007 – 3:00 p.m. in WB 140
Job Candidate,
"The Effect of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985 on Health Care Utilization of Employment Separators"

2006

November 8, 2006, Thursday – 2:00 p.m. in WB 148
Michael Moskow, President of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.
November 2, 2006, Thursday – 3:30 p.m. in WB 141
Wayne Dunham, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
"Determination of Antitrust Liability: Empirical Evidence in U.S. v. Microsoft"
November 1, 2006, Wednesday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 144
Wayne Dunham, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
"The Internet and the Assessment of Market Failure"
September 29, 2006, Friday – 3:00 p.m. WB 152
John B. Horowitz, Ball State University
"Income Mobility and the EITC Revisited"
April 7, 2006, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
Jeffrey J. Green, Courtenay C. Stone, Abera Zegeye, and Thomas A. Charles, Ball State University
"Changes in Math Prerequisites and the Performance of Business Statistics Students: Lessons Learned (Or, Perhaps, Not)."
February 27, 2006, Monday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
James Hueng, Western Michigan University
"Why Did the Sign of the Price-Output Correlation Change? Evidence from a Structural VAR with GARCH Errors," (coauthored with James Cover).

2005

October 31, 2005, Monday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 141
Murillo Campello, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Asset Tangibility and Corporate Performance under External Financing."
October 14, 2005, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 151
Cecil E. Bohanon, Ball State University
"Persistent Themes in Colleges of Business."
September 16, 2005, Friday – 3:00 p.m. in WB 152
John Pippenger, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Some Pitfalls in Testing the Law of One Price in Commodity Markets."
September 30, 2005, Friday – 2:00 p.m. in WB 139
Marilyn Flowers, Ball State University
"Some Thoughts on the Political Economy of Intergovernmental Grants."