ECONOMICS 231
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PUBLIC FINANCE SEMINAR
FALL SEMESTER 2004
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Instructor:
ALAN J. AUERBACH
Office:
525 Evans Hall
Office Hours:
Mondays, 10:00-11:30am
and by appointment
E-mail:
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Room:
639 Evans Hall
Time:
Monday 2-4PM
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August 30
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Organizational Meeting
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September 6
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Labor Day Holiday
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September 13
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Raj Chetty
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UC Berkeley,
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"Do Dividend Payments Respond to Taxes? Evidence from the
2003 Dividend Tax Cut." (coauthor Emmanuel Saez)
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September 22*
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Philippe Aghion
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Harvard University,
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"Volatility, R&D, and Growth: The Role of Financial Development"
(4-6 pm, 608-7 Evans, joint with Departmental Seminar)
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September 27
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Lawrence Dwight
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UC Berkeley,
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"The Role of Non-Performing Loans in China: A Public Finance Approach"
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October 6*
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Edward Lazear
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Stanford University,
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"Speeding, Tax Fraud, and Teaching to the Test"
(4-6 pm, 608-7 Evans, joint with Departmental Seminar)
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October 11
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Todd Sinai
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Wharton (visiting UC Berkeley),
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"Superstar Cities" (coauthors Joseph Gyorko and Christopher Mayer)
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October 20*
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Dilip Mookherjee
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Boston University,
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"Political Economy of Land Reform in West Bengal,
1978-98"
(4-6 pm, 608-7 Evans, joint with Departmental Seminar)
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October 25
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CANCELLED
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November 3*
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CANCELLED
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November 8
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Erica Greulich
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UC Berkeley,
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"Housing Affordability as a Regional Equilibration
Mechanism"
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November 17*
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James Poterba
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M.I.T.,
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"Tax Motivated Trading by Individual Investors"
(4-6 pm, 608-7 Evans, joint with Departmental Seminar)
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November 22
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Dhammika Dharmapala
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University of Connecticut,
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"Corporate Tax Avoidance and High Powered Incentives," (coauthor Mihir Desai)
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November 29*
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Martin Ravallion
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World Bank
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"Creating a Market: Land Reallocation in Vietnam's
Agrarian Transition"
(4-6 pm, 608-7 Evans, joint with Departmental Seminar)
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December 6
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Jim R. Hines, Jr.
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University of Michigan,
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"Economic Effects Of Regional Tax Havens",(with Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley)
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*note different day/date/room
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