Policy Notes

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Bernard Schwartz

SCEPA
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CEPA Events: Fall 2001


CEPA Workshop Series

All CEPA workshops are held in the conference room at CEPA, 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, New York. The workshops are free and open to the public.

Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 6 p.m.
Jesus Felipe (Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology)
"Extensions of the Humbug Production Function and Implications: the Humbug Production Function is Alive and Kicking - A Tribute to Anwar Shaikh"



Economics Department Seminars

Prof. Willi Semmler of the Economics Department has organized a seminar series for the fall. All seminars are free and open to the public, and will be held Mondays from 5:40 to 7:40 p.m. in room 302 of the Graduate Faculty building, 65 Fifth Avenue (except the Nov. 15 seminar). Copies of the presented papers can be downloaded from a seminar page on the Web site of the Economics Department.

Monday, September 10, 2001
Herbert Dawid (University of Southern California)
Spillover Effects and the Evolution of Firm Clusters

Monday, October 1, 2001
Sanjay Reddy (Barnard College, Columbia University)
How Not to Count the Poor

Monday, October 15, 2001
Simon Potter (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Markov Switching in Disaggregate Unemployment Rates

Monday, November 12, 2001
Robert Axtell (Brookings Institution)
A Methodologically-Individualist Theory of the Firm

Thursday, November 15, 2001, 4:00 - 5:40 p.m., 65 Fifth Ave., Room 314
Martin Lettau (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Trends and Cycles in Asset Return

Monday, November 26, 2001
Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)
The European Monetary Union

Monday, December 10, 2001
Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The Memberships Theory of Poverty




Dissertation Workshop

The Economics Department's dissertation workshop is designed to discuss development of thesis topics, thesis proposals and research methods. All students are welcome to attend and students may present their research at any stage in its development. The workshops meet in room 302 of the Graduate Faculty building at 65 Fifth Avenue, from 5:40 to 7:40 p.m. If you would like to present your work, please contact Prof. Duncan Foley (foleyd@newschool.edu).

Monday, October 8, 2001
Ricardo Ruiz: "An Industry as a Self-organizing System: An Agent-based Microeconomic Model"

Monday, October 22, 2001
Norma Vite: "Science and Engineering Education and Entrepreneurship in Mexico"

Monday, October 29, 2001
Mishael Milakovic: "Maximum-entropy Modelling of Wealth and Income Distributions"

Monday, November 5, 2001
Janine Berg: "Industrial Restructuring and Labor Demand in Chile"

Monday, November 19, 2001
Leanne Ussher: "A Simulation Model of Speculative Market Price Formation"

Monday, December 3, 2001
Friedrich Huebler: "Child Labor and Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Diego Sanchez: "Globalization and structural change in small countries: The case of Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic"

  

 

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