Econ150_F

Seminar Series

Spring 2013

 Date  Speaker  Affiliation  Title of Paper 
March 29 Bradley Heim  Indiana University  Does Health Reform Lead to Increased Job Mobility? Evidence from Massachusetts.
April 12    Josh Robinson    University  of Alabama, Birmingham The Effects of Asymmetric and Symmetric Fetal Growth Restriction on Human Capital Development
April 19 Vikesh Amin Central Michigan University Mothers' Schooling Matters – New Evidence on the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling using Swedish Twin Data
April 26 Xiaobo Zhang  International Food Policy Research Institute   Status Competition and Housing Prices 

* Seminar starts at 3:00 p.m. in WB 151.

Fall 2012

 Date  Speaker   Affiliation  Title of Paper

September 14

Zhuo (Adam) Chen

Centers for Disease Control

The Role of Geographic Scale in Testing the Income Inequality Hypothesis as an Explanation of Health Disparities    

September 28

Phil Coelho and Jim McClure

Ball State University

Editorial Favoritism in the AER  

October 5

John Bowblis

Miami University, Ohio

Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility Reimbursement and Upcoding  

October 12

Wayne Dunham

Department of Justice

Regulatory and Antitrust Issues in the Recent AT&T/T-Mobile Merger

November 9

Phil Coelho and Tung Liu

Ball State University

The Returns to College Education

Spring 2012

Date Speaker Affiliation Title of Paper
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 of Paper
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 

Date  Speaker Affiliation  Title of Paper 
January 21 Lee Spector and Cliff Stone Ball State University Suspicious Estimates of Ex Ante Real Interest Rates
February 18 Christina Marsh   University of Georgia Nonprofit and For-profit Competition in Hospice Industry
April 15 Shin-Yi Chou Lehigh University Provider Responses to a Glaobal Budget System: The Case of Drug Expenditures in Taiwan Hospitals 
April 18 Andy Glover  University of Minnesota  Bankruptcy, Incorporation, and the Nature of Entrepreneurial Risk 
April 22 Kathy Baylis University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mandates, Management or Money: What Works Best for Conservation?
April 29 Kosali Simon Indiana University The Macroeconomy and Health/Health Insurance

2010

Date  Speaker  Affiliation Title of Paper
February 19 Phil Coelho Ball State University The Colonists' Choice of Agricultural Labor in Early America: What's Eating You?
March 18-19 George Chressanthis – Competing on Analytics for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Companies
– Physician Sales Rep Access Restrictions and New Product Adoption
– Brand Strategy and Segmentation, Pharmaceutical Sales Force Optimization and Sales Execution: Current Practice and Directions for the Future
April 6 Anne Royalty Indiana Univeristy-Pudue University Indianapolis

Rising Health Care Costs: The Effect on Employment Outcomes
April 30 Marc Berger Eli Lilly Comparative effectiveness issue and health technology assessment
September 17 Cecil Bohanon Ball State University A Pedagogical Note on Bastiat’s Restraint of Trade
September 30 Kerry Anne McGeary Ball State University Health Policy Debate: What's Next?
October 1 Wayne Dunham Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice Framing the Right Suspects: Measuring Media Bias
October 15 Steven Wu Purdue University Market Competition and Contracting Outcomes: Theory and Experimental Evidence
October 29 Anca Cotet Ball State University Technological Improvement and Climate Change Mitigation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Air Conditioning and Seasonal Mortality in the U.S.
November 5 Kevin Tsui Clemson University Aid and Fertility: A Cross-Country Panel Analysis
November 19 Li Gang Shanghai Normal University 

International Comparison of the Degree and Display of the Irrationality of the Lottery Players
November 30 James Capretta Fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center – Thinking About Health Care Cost Control
– Understanding the Policy and Politics of Health Care Reform

2009

 Date Speaker Affiliation  Title of Paper 
January 16  David D. VanHoose Baylor University  Openness, Income-Tax Progressivity, and Inflation 
February 20  Cecil Bohanon and Mike Hicks  Ball State University  Telecom Reform, a survey of the Options 
October 16  Dong Geun Han  Yeungnam University, Korea   Exchange Rates and Housing Market: Korean Case
October 30  Hexin Jiang  Shanghai Normal University, China   An Introduction to China’s Macroeconomic Policy and its Effect 
November 19  Kevin Mumford  Purdue University   Welfare Stigma due to Public Disapproval 
December 4  Maoyong Fan  Ball State University   – Workers in U.S. Agricultural Labor Market
– Mobility and Wages in U.S. Agricultural Labor Market 

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."

 

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