Research Seminar Series

Department of Economics holds a weekly Economics Research Workshop during Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters. This Workshop provides a forum for presenting and debating faculty research, and for inviting U.S. and international specialists to discuss their research and published work.

Upcoming Speakers Schedule

Listed below is the Wednesday Economics Seminar Schedule for Winter Quarter, 2010. The seminar will be from 2:00-3:50 p.m. in VB 126 (unless otherwise noted). The seminar is free to anyone who is interested.

Most Recent Event Recordings

January 27, 2010 - Michele Boldrin, Washington University, St. Louis, "Against Intellectual Monopoly"

• Part 1 (MP3 audio 25 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (MP3 audio 22 MB - 44 minutes)
• Part 1 (WMV video 208 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 202 MB - 44 minutes)

January 20, 2010 - Nan Maxwell, CBE, CSUEB, "Do Firms use Both Wages and Employment-Based Health Insurance to Purchase Workforce Skills?"

• Part 1 (WMV video 206 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 120 MB - 33 minutes)

January 13, 2010 - Terri Swartz, CBE, CSUEB, "Piracy and Pragmatism in China"

• Part 1 (WMV video 188 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 101 MB - 32 minutes)

December 2, 2009 - Jed DeVaro and Scott Fung, CBE CSUEB, "The Retention Consequences of Caps on Executive Compensation"

• Part 1 (WMV video 234 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 224 MB - 50 minutes)

November 18, 2009 - Charles Kroncke and Ronald White, College of Mount Saint Joseph, "The Modern Health Care Craze "

• Part 1 (MP3 audio 24 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (MP3 audio 23 MB - 49 minutes)
• Part 1 (WMV video 363 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 293 MB - 57 minutes)

November 4, 2009 - Al Henning, Aquarian Microsystems, Inc., "The Economics of Clean-Tech Startups"

• Part 1 (WMV video 206 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 212 MB - 57 minutes)

October 28, 2009 - Stephen Shmanske, Dept. of Economics, CBE, CSUEB, "Sustainability and the Economics of Giving 110%"

• Part 1 (WMV video 203 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 182 MB - 50 minutes)

October 21, 2009 - Ed Hymson, Research Fellow, State bar of New Mexico, "The Pressures That Compel Persons to Adopt Milton Friendman's Business Ethics Paradigm"

• Part 1 (WMV video 225 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 250 MB - 56 minutes)

October 14, 2009 - Stephen Hicks, The center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, Rockford College, "Is Capitalism Bad for Art?

• Part 1 (MP3 audio 25 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (MP3 audio 26 MB - 54 minutes)
• Part 1 (WMV video 255 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 308 MB - 54 minutes)

October 7, 2009 - Rob Leathern, CPM Advisors, "The Economics of Internet Advising"

• Part 1 (WMV video 203 MB - 53 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 183 MB - 46 minutes)

September 30, 2009 - Jagdish Agrawal, CBE, CSUEB, "Yes Virginia, Tiger Woods is Worth It"

• Part 1 (WMV video 195 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (Wmv video 105 MB - 32 minutes)

June 10, 2009 - Carl Stephenson, CSUEB, "Tranches of Responsibility for the Mortage Meltdown"; Richard Chu, CSUEB, "The Economics of Online Games"; Olu Olandunjoye, CSUEB, "Economic Philosophy: The Differences Between the Major Parties"; Victor Alves, CSUEB, "SFO's Attempted Evolution"

• Part 1 (WMV video 175 MB - 55 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 110 MB - 43 minutes)

June 3, 2009 - Monica Serrano, CSUEB, "The Cost of High SChool Proficiency Testing"; Joseph Quintana, CSUEB, "Ever Evolving Russia"; Joseph Garcia, CSUEB, "How Japan Became the Second Biggest Economy"; Takuya Uchida, CSUEB, "Trends in Japanese Interbank Money Market"

• Part 1 (WMV video 142 MB - 51 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 108 MB - 42 minutes)

May 27, 2009 - Rosa Bravo, CSUEB, "The New Housing Sector: Build-up and the Resulting Fallout"; Sandeep Kapadia, CSUEB, "An Economic Analysis of English Football"; John Morales, CSUEB, "The Dominance of X-Box Live"; Hooman Amanat, CSUEB, "China's Economic Development"

• Part 1 (WMV video 166 MB - 50 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 132 MB - 42 minutes)

May 20, 2009 - Marius Schwartz, Georgetown University, "Net Neutrality: Theory and Policy"

• Part 1 (WMV video 158 MB - 57 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 135 MB - 50 minutes)

May 13, 2009 - Joon An, CSUEB, "Are Trasportation Subsidies Justified"; Caroline Gikanga, CSUEB, "The Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Who Benfitted and Who Got Hurt"; Philip Sien, CSUEB, "Determinants of Wages in the U.S."

• Part 1 (WMV video 200 MB - 59 minutes) (one part only)
• Part 2 (WMV video 80 MB - 24 minutes) (one part only)

May 6, 2009 - Ahmad Nasri, CSUEB, "American Bailout Policies"; Dung Tran, CSUEB, "California Wetlands"; Brian Turner, CSUEB, "The Economics of Car Racing"

• Part 1 (WMV video 225 MB - 64 minutes) (one part only)
  
  

Apr 29, 2009 - Evan Osborne, Wright State University, "Commerce is Beautiful"

• Part 1 (MP3 audio - 28 MB - 60 minutes)
• Part 2 (MP3 audio - 4 MB - 8 minutes)
• Part 1 (WMV video 200 MB - 60 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 26 MB - 8 minutes)

Apr 22, 2009 - Antonia Malhi, CSUEB, "Globalization and the End of Poverty "; Bilal Salimi, CSUEB, "The Mortgage Meltdown and the Creation of a New Industry "; Mohamad Nasri, CSUEB, "Population Growth and Resource Scarcity"

• Part 1 (WMV video 141 MB - 59 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 96 MB - 37 minutes)

Apr 15, 2009 - Dion Ruben, CSUEB, "The Demise of the US Auto Industry "; Iat Nam Wong, CSUEB, "Economics Modernization in the Ukraine"; Jane Johnson, CSUEB, "Football Commentators: Do They Really Know What They are Talking About?"

• Part 1 (WMV video 193 MB - 52 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 48 MB - 17 minutes)

Apr 8, 2009 - Jacob Roberts, CSUEB, "Remittance Across the US-Mexico Border"; Paul Reyes, CSUEB, "The Farebox Ratio for BART"; Truyen Ha, CSUEB, "The Correlation Between Unemployment and Online Gossip Readership

• Part 1 (WMV video 159 MB - 56 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 65 MB - 23 minutes)

Mar 11 , 2009 - Goerge L. Duarte, Horizon Financial Associates, "Foreclosures: What Consumers Need to Know in Today's Real Estate market"

• Part 1 (WMV video 133 MB - 57 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 110 MB - 42 minutes)

Mar 4 , 2009 - Kim Shima, CSUEB, "Education and Productivity in China: New Approach, New Results "

• Part 1 (WMV video 155 MB - 60 minutes) (only one part)

Feb 25, 2009 - Stu Gasner, Keker & Van Nest LLP, "The Options Backdating Scandal"

• Part 1 (WMV video 140 MB - 54 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 105 MB - 51 minutes)

Feb 18, 2009 - Adrian Stoian, CSUEB-- "Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era"

• Part 1 (WMV video 160 MB - 56 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 70 MB - 35 minutes)

Feb 11, 2009 - Gary M. Galles, Peperrdine University -- "Defending Liberty is Worth the Abuse"
(sorry, audio and video not available for this event)

• Excerpts (PDF 99k)
• Quotes (PDF 40k)

Feb 4, 2009 - Andrew Wong, CSUEB, Anthropology Dept.-- "Brand Names as Paintings: The Applications of Linguistic Anthropology in Brand Name Development "

• Part 1 (WMV video 156 MB - 61 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 54 MB - 19 minutes)

Jan 28, 2009 - Chongqi Wu, CSUEB -- "Vertical Integration with Price-Setting Competitive Newsvendors"

• Part 1 (WMV video 196 MB - 62 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video 130 MB - 52 minutes)

Jan 21, 2009 - Ben Zycher, Manhattan Institute -- "Private Sector Contributions to Pharmaceutical Science"

• Part 1 (MP3 audio - 26 MB - 55 minutes)
• Part 2 (MP3 audio - 15 MB - 32 minutes)
• Part 1 (WMV video - 99 MB - 55 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video - 28 MB - 16 minutes)

Jan 14, 2009 - Franklin Lowenthal -- "The Saga of the Reserve Primary Fund and its Implications

• Part 1 (WMV video - 160 MB - 55 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video - 152 MB - 47 minutes)

Dec 3, 2008 - Matthew Ladner, Goldwater Institute -- "Demography is not Destiny in Education"

• Part 1 (MP3 audio - 23 MB - 51 minutes)
• Part 2 (MP3 audio - 17 MB - 38 minutes)

Oct 22, 2008 - Gerald P. O'Driscoll -- "Monetary Policy and the Current Crisis"

• Part 1 (MP3 audio - 29 MB - 58 minutes)
• Part 2 (MP3 audio - 20 MB - 40 minutes)
• Part 1 (WMV video - 348 MB - 59 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video - 223 MB - 40 minutes)

Oct 8, 2008 - Scott Fung-- "Is the Stock Market still a Sideshow for Corporate Investments? New Evidence on Information, Financing and Agency Effects"

• Part 1 (WMV video - 176 MB - 59 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video - 120 MB - 43 minutes)

Oct 1, 2008 - Markus Lang -- "Welfare Effects of Salary Caps in Sports Leagues with Win-Maximizing Clubs"

• Part 1 (WMV video - 133 MB - 57 minutes)
• Part 2 (WMV video - 114 MB - 44 minutes)