UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY                          SPRING SEMESTER 2008
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS                                     Issued: 3/14/2008

                       SEMINARS - March 17, 2008
                 *Note Change from Regular Day/Time/Location


ECON 261: Monday              March 17, 12-2 p.m., 119 Moses 
COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS         TBA
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/groland/e261_s08/e261.shtml            

ECON 295: Monday              March 17, 12-2 p.m., 608-7 Evans
RESEARCH SURVEY               Topic: Macroeconomics
                              Gorodnichenko, C.Romer, D.Romer, DeLong 
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/hermalin/e295_s08/e295.shtml              

ECON 211: Monday              March 17, 2-4 p.m., 597 Evans
ECONOMIC HISTORY              Zorina Khan, Bowdoin College
                              "The Evolution of Useful Knowledge: 
                              Great Inventors, Science and Technology 
                              in British Economic Development, 1750-1930" 
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/cromer/e211_sp08/e211.shtml

ECON 231: Monday              March 17, 2-4 p.m., 608-7 Evans
PUBLIC FINANCE ECONOMICS      No Meeting 
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/quigley/e231_sp08/e231.shtml

ECON 208: Monday              March 17, 4-6 p.m., 639 Evans
MICROECONOMIC THEORY          Douglas Gale, NYU
                              "Archetypes and Polytypes"
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users//webfac/cshannon/e208_sp08/e208.shtml         

ECON 271: Monday              March 17, 4-6 p.m., 608-7 Evans
DEVELOPMENT & PLANNING        Stuti Khemani, World Bank 
                              "When Do Legislators Pass on 'Pork'? 
                              The Role of Political Parties and Affirmative
                              Action in Determining Legislator Effort"
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/bardhan/e271_s08/e271.shtml

ECON 221: Tuesday             March 18, 4-6 p.m., 608-7 Evans
INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION       TBA
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/farrell/e221_s08/e221.shtml

ECON 222: Wednesday           March 19, 12-2 p.m., C320 Cheit
ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION       KIRA FABRIZIO, Emory University
                              "Absorptive Capacity and the Strength 
                              of Intellectual Property Rights"
http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/wolfram/InnovSem/econ_222phdbac279i.htm

ECON 291: Wednesday           March 19, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
DEPARTMENTAL                  Colin Camerer, California Inst. of Technology 
                              "Cognitive Hierarchy Models of Bounded 
                              Rationality in Lab and Field Games"
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/akerlof/e291_sp08/e291.shtml

ECON 218: Wednesday           *March 19, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
PSYCHOLOGY & ECONOMICS        Joint with Departmental Seminar
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/dellavigna/e218_sp08/e218.shtml

ECON 237: Wednesday           *March 19, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
MACROECONOMICS & MONEY        Joint with Departmental Seminar
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/gorodnichenko/e237_s08/e237.shtml

ECON 242: Wednesday           *March 19, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
ECONOMETRICS                  Joint with Departmental Seminar
http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~mjansson/Courses/ECON242_SPRING08/ECON242.html

ECON 281: Wednesday           *March 19, 4-5:30 p.m., 608-7 Evans
INT'L TRADE & FINANCE         Joint with Departmental Seminar 
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/obstfeld/e281_s08/e281.shtml

ECON 251: Thursday            March 20, 2-4 p.m., 608-7 Evans
LABOR ECONOMICS               Rucker Johnson, UC Berkeley
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/moretti/e251_sp08/e251.shtml

ECON 225: Thursday            March 20, 4-6 p.m., C325 Cheit
Oliver E. Williamson Seminar  Phillip Leslie, Stanford, GSB 
on Institutional Analysis     "Nearly Optimal Pricing for Multiproduct Firms" 
http://imio.haas.berkeley.edu/workshops2008.htm

ECON 235: Thursday            March 20, 4-6 p.m., 639 Evans
FINANCIAL ECONOMICS           No Meeting
http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/malmendier/e235_s08/e235.shtml


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