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Events: Spring 2002
CEPA events
are free and open to the public (unless noted otherwise) and are
usually held in the CEPA conference room, 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor,
New York City.
- Potential
Paths of Social Security Reform
Took place on February 13, 2002.
- Conference
on Labor and the Globalization of Production
Took place on March 8, 2002.
- Economics
Department Seminars
Last seminar took place on April 15, 2002.
- Roundtable
Discussion
"Do labor market rigidities explain the employment problems
of developed countries in recent decades?" Took place on
April 19, 2002.
- Bernard
L. Schwartz Lecture Series
"The world economy after the U.S. recession: Bob Kerrey interviews
Robert Rubin and Stanley Fischer." Took place on April 30,
2002. Aired on C-Span on Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 8 p.m.
- CEPA
Workshop on Markets, Equality and Democracy
Last workshop took place on May 1, 2002.
- Dissertation
Workshop
Last workshop took place on May 6, 2002
- CEPA
Workshop Series
Last workshop took place on May 8, 2002
- CEPA
Workshop on Economic Modeling and Econometrics
Last workshop took place on May 15, 2002
Bernard
L. Schwartz Lecture Series: "The World Economy After the U.S.
Recession: Bob Kerrey Interviews Robert Rubin and Stanley Fischer"
Tuesday, April
30, 2002, 7:00 p.m.
Swayduck Auditorium, New School University
65 Fifth Avenue
New York City
Aired on C-Span on Thursday, May 30, 2002 at 8 p.m.
New School University
and CEPA announce the first lecture in the Bernard L. Schwartz Lecture
Series and Project
in Markets, Equality and Democracy, "The World Economy
After the U.S. Recession: Bob Kerrey Interviews Robert Rubin."
New School University President Bob Kerrey will interview
former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and will be joined
by economist Stanley Fischer.
The topics that
will be discussed include: the Bush administration's economic policies
(in particular, the consequences of planned tax cuts and budget
deficits); Bush's energy policy; the role of the Federal Reserve
in today's economy; the Enron scandal and business ethics. Kerrey
will also interview Rubin on the regulation of international finance:
How the Argentina collapse occurred, and how we can avoid futue
Argentinas. The discussion will conclude with a look at the future
of the Democratic Party, focusing on the new role of the Democrats
as fiscal conservatives and free traders.
For more information,
please call 212-229-5662, ext. 250, or read the full press
release.
Roundtable
Discussion: "Do labor market rigidities explain
the employment problems of developed countries in recent decades?"
Friday, April
19, 2002, 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Cohen Conference Room
New School University
72 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor
New York City
With Andrew
Glyn (Oxford University), David Howell (New School University)
and John Schmitt (Economic Policy Institute). The participants
will present and discuss work in progress that critically assesses
the conventional wisdom on employment problems.
This event is
part of CEPA's research project on "Liberalization
and Employment Performance in the OECD." Recent working
papers can be downloaded from the project's Web site.
Potential
Paths of Social Security Reform - Lecture and discussion with Martin
Feldstein and Bob Kerrey
The Center for
Economic Policy Analysis at New School University presents:
Potential
Paths of Social Security Reform
Guest Speaker:
Martin Feldstein, President of the National Bureau of Economic
Research and George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
Dr. Feldstein
will offer his views on the state of the Social Security system
in America and suggest potential paths of reform. An open discussion
with Bob Kerrey, President of New School University, will
follow the lecture. The moderator is Lance Taylor, Director
of CEPA and Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development
at the New School's Department of Economics.
Wednesday, February
13, 2002
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Orozco Room
New School University
66 West 12th Street, 7th Floor
New York City
For more information,
call 212-229-5890. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Jeff
Susman (susmar01@newschool.edu).For
more information, call 212-229-5890. If you would like to attend,
please RSVP to Jeff Susman (susmar01@newschool.edu).
Conference
on Labor and the Globalization of Production
On March 8,
2002, CEPA will host a conference on Labor and the Globalization
of Production, as part of the project on Markets, Equality and Democracy.
The organizer is Will Milberg, Professor in the Economics
Department of New School University.
CEPA
Workshop Series
All CEPA workshops
are held in the conference room at CEPA, 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor
(except the April 24 workshop). The workshops are free and open
to the public. Copies of the presented papers will be made available.
Wednesday,
February 27, 2002, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Dean Baker (Center for Economic and Policy Research)
"Social Security: Getting Behind the Myths"
Wednesday,
April 10, 2002, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Meredith Woo-Cummings (University of Michigan)
"The Political Economy of Famine: The North Korean Catastrophe
and Its Lessons"
Wednesday,
April 24, 2002, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Alice Amsden (MIT)
"Ownership and High-Tech Industry in Latecomers"
Wolff Conference Room, New School University, 65 Fifth Avenue, 2nd
Floor
Wednesday,
May 8, 2002, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Randall Dodd (Economic Strategy Institute)
"Untangling Enron: The Reforms We Need"
CEPA
Workshop on Economic Modeling and Econometrics
The objective
of these workshops is to build an advanced research and debate forum
on economic modeling and econometrics. The workshops generally review
leading works from the field and consist of a one-hour presentation
of a specific topic (by faculty, students, or guests), followed
by a one-hour open discussion. The topic of spring 2002 is macroeconometrics
and the workshops will follow Carlo Favero's Applied Macroeconometrics
(Oxford University Press, 2001). All workshops are held on Wednesdays
from 6 to 8 p.m., in the conference room at CEPA, Fifth Ave., 5th
Floor. Those interested in participating should contact Claudio
dos Santos (dossc197@newschool.edu).
Wednesday,
February 20, 2002, 6 - 8 p.m.
Claudio dos Santos
"An Introduction to Applied Macroeconometrics"
Wednesday,
March 6, 2002, 6 - 8 p.m.
Nelson Barbosa
"The Probabilistic Structure of Time Series Data"
Wednesday,
March 20, 2002, 6 - 8 p.m.
TBA
"The Identification Problem in Macroeconometrics"
Wednesday,
April 3, 2002, 6 - 8 p.m.
Claudio dos Santos
"The Cowles Commission Approach"
Wednesday,
May 1, 2002, 6 - 8 p.m.
Claudio dos Santos
"The LSE Approach"
Wednesday,
May 15, 2002, 6 - 8 p.m.
Massimiliano La Marca
"The VAR Approach"
CEPA
Workshop on Markets, Equality and Democracy
As part of its
research project on "Markets, Equality and Democracy,"
CEPA will host a bi-monthly series of interdisciplinary workshops
on economic, political, and sociological issues. The topic of this
spring is the current economic and political situation of different
developing countries. The goal is to analyze the mistakes and successes
of recent economic policies. The presenters, many of whom are country
nationals, are CEPA research fellows and staff as well as students
from the New School's Graduate Faculty. All workshops are held in
the conference room at CEPA, 80 Fifth Ave., 5th Floor. Those interested
in participating should contact Martin Abeles (abelm607@newschool.edu).
Wednesday,
February 20, 2002, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Martin Abeles and Juan Santarcangelo
"Argentina's (re)current crisis"
Wednesday,
March 6, 2002, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Diego Sanchez Ancochea
"Towards a new model of growth in small developing countries?
The case of Costa Rica"
Wednesday,
March 20, 2002, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Nelson Barbosa (CEPA) and João Feres Jr. (CUNY)
"Economic and political perspectives of Brazil after the Cardoso
administration"
Wednesday,
April 17, 2002, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Janine Berg
"Rising Income Inequality under Liberalization in Chile: Understanding
the outgrowth of the 1973 Reforms"
Wednesday,
May 1, 2002, 3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Edgar Pardo
"The drug shock in a weak society: Colombia in a historical
and regional perspective"
Economics
Department Seminars
Prof. Willi
Semmler (semmlerw@newschool.edu)
of the Economics
Department has organized a seminar series for the spring semester.
All seminars are free and open to the public, and will be held Mondays
from 5:40 to 7:40 p.m. in the CEPA conference room, 80 Fifth Avenue,
5th Floor (except the April 1 seminar, see below).
Monday, February
11, 2002
Andrew Schotter (New York University)
Taking Ourselves to Efficiency: Coordination in Intergenerational
Games
Monday, February
25, 2002
Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University)
Bundling Private and Public Goods
Monday, March
11, 2002
Michael Riordan (Columbia University)
Product Improvement and Technological Tying
Monday, March
18, 2002
Levent Kockesen (Columbia University)
Strategic Delegation
Monday, April
1, 2002
Mariana Mazzucato (Open University/LSE London)
Risk, Variety, and Volatility in the Early PC and Auto Industry
Different location: Graduate Faculty, 65 Fifth Avenue,
Room 300
Monday, April
15, 2002
Ray Fair (Yale University)
Testing for a New Economy in the 1990s
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 the CEPA conference
room at 80 Fifth Avenue, 5th Floor, on Mondays from 5:40 to 7:40
p.m. (except the May 6 workshop). If you would like to present your
work, please contact Prof. Duncan Foley (foleyd@newschool.edu).
Monday, February
4, 2002
José A. Tapia Granados
"Death rates and business fluctuations in Spain at the end
of the 20th century"
Monday, March
4, 2002
Norma Vite León
"Mexico's national innovation and education systems"
Monday, April
8, 2002
Friedrich Huebler, "Child labor and schooling: Empirical
evidence from Côte d'Ivoire"
Khalid Abu-Ismail, "The myth of export-led growth"
Monday, April
29, 2002
Chris Rude
"Uncertainty, Information, and the Pricing of Risky Financial
Securities"
Monday, May
6, 2002, 3 - 5 p.m., 65 Fifth Avenue, Room 315
Pierre Lacour, "Problems of Trust and Intention in Utility
Theory"
Dario Ibarra, "Social Security Reform in Mexico"
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