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Sponsored by the Department of Economics

Except where stated otherwise, all seminars begin at three o'clock p.m. and are held in Faner 4135.

September

• Thursday, September 16, 2004; 7:00 p.m.
  Lesar Law Building, Room 120 (auditorium)
  The Annual Vandeveer Chair Lecture in Economics
  Professor Arvind Panagariya
  "The Outsourcing Debate: Sorting out the Confusions"

October

• Friday, October 1, 2004
  Professor Jeremy Piger, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
  "A Steady-State Approach to Trend/Cycle Decomposition"
  
  
• Friday, October 8, 2004
  Professor Thomas Mitchell, Department of Economics, SIUC
  "Microsoft Excel as a Visual [Basic] Teaching and Learning Tool"
  
  
• Friday, October 15, 2004
  Professor Jiahua Che, Department of Economics, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
  "Dual Track Reform: With and Without Losers"
  
  
• Tuesday, October 19, 2004; 7:30 p.m.; Faner Hall, Museum Auditorium
  Emeritus Professor Marianne A. Ferber, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
  "Women: Their Past, Present and Future"
  The talk will begin by providing a brief summary of how women's roles changed from prehistoric times to the present, followed by a more thorough review of their situation in various parts of the world today. In conclusion, there will be a brief discussion of the outlook for women (and men) for the future.

  Marianne A. Ferber, Professor of Economics and Women's Studies, Emerita, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign obtained her B.A. at McMaster University in Canada in 1944 and her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1954. She is co-author of The Economics of Women, Men, and Work, (4th ed. 2002), editor of Women in the Labor Market, 1998, co-editor of Work and Family, 1991; Beyond Economic Man, 1993; Academic Couples, 1997; Nonstandard Work, 2000, and Feminist Economics Today, 2003. She has published in economics, sociology, education and women's studies journals and serves on several editorial boards. She was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Radcliffe (1993-95), president of the Midwest Economic Association (1986-87) and president of the International Association for Feminist Economics (1995-97). She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from McMaster University (1996), the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (2002), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Eastern Illinois. 2002.

• Friday, October 22, 2004
  Professor Patrick Emerson, University of Colorado-Denver
  "Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Starting to Work as a Child on Adult Earnings"
  
  
• Friday, October 29, 2004
  Norman Schofield, Professor of Economics and Political Science and Director of the Center in Political Economy and William R. Taussig Professor of Political Economy at Washington University in St. Louis
  "Political Equilibria and Smooth Elections"
  This event is jointly sponsored by the Departments of Economics and Political Science.

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November

• Wednesday, November 3, 2004, 12:30 p.m.
  Professor Fadah Khalil, University of Washington
  Topic TBA
  
  
• Friday, November 19, 2004
  Professor Zsolt Becsi, Department of Economics, SIUC
  "Bilateral War in a Multilateral World — Carrots and Sticks for Conflict Resolution"

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December

• Thursday, December 2, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
  Professor Sajal Lahiri, Vandeveer Chair Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, SIUC
  "An Economic Analysis of Terrorism"