Yet More Seminars to Go to This Semester
David Romer's Econ 291--unfortunately, it's W 4-5:30, and that's when Jim Powell scheduled me to teach...
Econ 291, Fall 2007:
*September 12: Raghuram Rajan, University of Chicago: "The Persistence of Underdevelopment: The Role of Constituencies and Competitive Rent Preservation"
* September 26: Peter Klenow, Stanford University: "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India"
* October 10: Samuel Kortum, University of Chicago: "Unbalanced Trade"
* November 7: Nathan Nunn, Harvard University: "Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa"
* November 28: Enrico Moretti, University of California, Berkeley: "To Be Announced"
* December 5: Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley: "Uncovering the American Dream: Inequality and Mobility in Social Security Earnings Data since 1937"