Seminar Series

The Department of Economics invites guest speakers to present their research in our Seminar Series. The Economics Seminar generally meets on Fridays from 2:00 – 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Past Seminars

Fall 2012

Date Title Speaker Affiliation Paper Info
Fri, 10/05/2012
Measuring Talent through Benchmarking: Babe Ruth is the Home Run King
Pete Groothuis
Appalachian State University
Workshop, RH 3100, 2 pm
Fri, 09/28/2012
Cognitive Resource Depletion, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences
David Dickinson
Appalachian State University
Seminar, RH 3010, 2 pm

Spring 2012

Date Title Speaker Affiliation Paper
Fri, 04/20/2012
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop
Fri, 04/13/2012
Coordination and Coercion: The Nature of Rules, Governments, States, and Social Dynamics
John Wallis
University of Maryland
Fri, 03/30/2012
The impact of uncertainty methodologies on dealing with time issues in LCA and GHG accounting
Eric Marland
Appalachian State University
Fri, 03/23/2012
Real-Time Exchange Rate Predictability with Taylor Rule Fundamentals
Tanya Molodtsova
Emory University
Fri, 02/24/2012
Enrollment and Plan Choice in a First-Year High-Risk Pool
Mark Holmes
University of North Carolina
Fri, 02/17/2012
Willingness-to-pay for Oyster Consumption Risk Reductions
John Whitehead
Appalachian State University
Fri, 02/10/2012
The Effects of Minimum Salaries on Career Length: Evidence from the National Football League
Johnny Ducking
North Carolina A&T State University
Fri, 01/13/2012
Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination
Marco Castillo
George Mason University