Fall 2005 Seminar Series

Thursday, September 8, 2:30-4:00 p.m., SHB 139

Media Substitution in Liqor Advertising

Mark W. Frank, Sam Houston State University

Thursday, September 15, 2:30-4:00 p.m., SHB 139

Drunk Driving Legislation and Traffic Fatalities: What Works and What Doesn't?

Donald G Freeman, Sam Houston State University

Thursday, September 29, 2-3:30 p.m., SHB 139

What Ended the Great Depression?   It  Wasn't World War II

Frank G Steindl, Oklahoma State University

Thursday, October 6, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 139

Factors Influencing Governors’ Salaries, 1961-2001

Don Bumpass and Mark Tuttle, Sam Houston State University

Thursday, October 13, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 139

Measuring the U.S. Information Economy: An Exercise in National Income Accounting

Hiranya K Nath, Sam Houston State University

Wednesday, October 19, 2:30-4:00 p.m., SHB 139

A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity

Daniel J. Henderson, State University of New York at Binghamton and SMU

Thursday, November 3, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 139

The Determinants of European Migration to South America in the late XIX Century: the Case of Brazil and Argentina

Ulyses J. Balderas, Sam Houston State University

Thursday, November 10, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m., SHB 139

Endogenous Mortality, Human Capital and Economic Growth

Jayanta Sarkar, Southern Methodist University

Thursday, December 1, 2:00-3:30 p.m., SHB 139

Income Inequality and Economic Growth in the U.S.: A Panel Cointegration Aproach

Mark W. Frank, Sam Houston State University

Thursday, December 8, 2:30-4:00 p.m., SHB 139

Bilateral Trade Agreements and the Feasibility of Multilateral Free Trade

Halis Murat Yildiz, Ryerson University, Toronto

(The seminar is cancelled!)