Appalachian State University
Department of Economics
Seminars
Fall 2010
All seminars are in Raley 3010 at 2:00 P.M. unless otherwise indicated.
Date Speaker (Affiliation) [Host] Topic
September 17 Bruce Johnson (Centre) [Groothuis] "Labor Supply on the US Professional
Golfer's Tour"
(paper)
October 15 Charles Thomas (Clemson) [Bruner] "Equilibrium Behavior in a Model of
Multilateral Negotiations."
(paper)
October 29 George Parsons (Delaware) [Morgan] "Willingness to Pay for Electric Vehicles
and Their Attributes"
(paper)
November 5 Dan Houser (George Mason) [Dickinson] "Competition for Trophies Triggers Male Generosity"
(paper) (supplement)
November 19 Tibor Neugebauer (Luxembourg) [Dickinson] "Moral Impossibility in the Petersburg
Paradox: A Literature Survey and
Experimental Evidence"
(paper)
Appalachian State University
Department of Economics
Seminars
2009-2010
All seminars are in Raley 3010 at 2:00 P.M. unless otherwise indicated.
Date Speaker (Affiliation) [Host] Topic
October 9 Craig Depken (UNCC) [Groothuis] "Sited, Sighted, and Cited: The Effect
of JSTOR in Economic Research"
October 23 Garth Heutel (UNCG) [Strazicich] "Learning, Externalities, and Hybrid Vehicle Adoption"
October 30 Steve Holland (UNCG) [Strazicich] "Taxes and Trading versus Intensity Standards: Second-
Best Environmental Policies with Incomplete Regulation
(Leakage) or Market Power"
November 6 John Whitehead (ASU) "Angler Heterogeneity and the Species-Specific
Demand for Marine Recreational Fishing"
November 13 Kevin Rask (Wake Forest) [Whitehead] "The SAT as a Predictor of College Success:
Evidence from a Selective University"
January 15 Brad Sturgill (ASU) "Cross-country Variation in Factor Shares
and its Implications for Development Accounting"
March 19 Karine Yenokyan (ASU) Thesis Chapters.
April 9 Roger Von Haefen (NC State) [Whitehead] "Estimating the Costs of Beach Closures
along Cape Hatteras National Seashore"
April 16 Jim Cox (Georgia State) [Bruner] "Bosses, Kings and Dictators: Effects of Asymmetric
Power in Private and Common Property Environments"
2008-2009
All seminars are in Raley 3010 at 2:00 P.M. unless otherwise indicated.
Date Speaker (Affiliation) [Host] Topic
August 29 Dan Black (Chicago) [Groothuis]
Labor Supply of Married Women across
September 12 Tanga
McDaniel (ASU) Cheap Talk and Investment
Cycles (Download paper)
October 3 Tim Haab (Ohio St.) [Whitehead] Temporal Insensitivity of Willingness to Pay and
Implied Discount Rates (Download paper)
October 10 Dave Bruner (ASU) Be My Guinea Pig: Information Spillovers in a One-Armed
Bandit game (Download paper)
October 24 John Stranlund (U. of Mass.) [McEvoy] The Optimal Pricing of Pollution When Enforcement is Costly
November 7 John Whitehead (ASU) Using Revealed and Stated Preference Data to Estimate the Demand
and Consumption Benefits of Sporting Events: An Application to the NHL
January 23 David Dickinson (ASU) Naturally-occurring sleep choice and time of day effects
on p-beauty contest outcomes
February 27 Tim Perri (ASU) Deferments and the Relative Cost of Conscription
March 27 John Dawson (ASU) Federal Regulation and Aggregate Economic Growth
April 17 Peter Leeson (George Mason) [Williamson] Pirational Choice: The Eonomics of
Infamous Pirate Practices
April 24 Russell Sobel (West Virginia) [Williamson] Testing Baumol: Institutional Quality and the Productivity of
Entrepreneurship