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      George Mason University

      4400 University Drive

      MSN 1D3-Carow Hall

      Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

      Phone: (703) 993-2330

      Fax: (703) 993-2323

Wednesday Public Choice Seminar Series

The Seminar Series, now over 30 years old, invites scholars from around the world to share their work in a formal lecture which is followed by a rigorous question and answer session and a light dinner.

The Spring 2012 seminars will be hosted by Drs. John Nye and Noel Johnson and coordinated by Jane Perry. All papers made available will be posted on this site for downloading. For more information call the Center: (703) 993-2330.

Most Spring 2012 seminars will be held on the following dates from 4:00-5:15 in Carow Hall, which is on George Mason University's Fairfax campus.

****Due to possible construction at Carow Hall during Spring 2012, some lectures may take place at BUCHANAN HOUSE. Watch this site and email messages for details!

Spring 2012 Schedule of Speakers:

2/1	Karl Smith University of North Carolina	Austrian Business Cycles and the Great Recession	Carow Hall
2/8	Timur Kuran Duke University	Economic Modernization in Late British India: Hindu-Muslim Differences	Carow Hall
2/15	Agnieszka Anna Tymula New York University	Tacit Quid Pro Quo Agreements: An Experimental Study Supplements	Carow Hall
2/22	Suresh Naidu Columbia Univ. & Santa Fe Institute		Carow Hall
2/29	Panu Poutvaara Univ. of Munich & Ifo Institute	The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Voters Reward It	Carow Hall
3/7	Eugene White Rutgers University
3/14	Spring Break	no seminar
3/21	Fabian Lange Yale University
3/28	Jean-Paul Carvalho Univ. of California, Irvine
4/4	Eric Schliesser Ghent University
4/11	James Kung Hong Kong University & Harvard Univ.
4/18	Alan Dye Barnard College
4/25	Deniz O. Igan International Monetary Fund
5/2	Eric Hilt Wellesley College

Fall 2011 Schedule of Speakers:

9/7	Adam Looney Brookings Institute http://www.brookings.edu/experts/looneya.aspx	Are Earnings Falling? The Causes and Consequences of Declining Job Opportunities for American Workers
9/14	Eric Chaney Harvard University http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/chaney	Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Power
9/21	Frank Gunter Lehigh University http://www4.lehigh.edu/business/faculty/a-z	Entrepreneurship in Post-Conflict Iraq
9/28	John Wallis University of Maryland http://econweb.umd.edu/~wallis	Governments and States
10/5	Phillip Swagel University of Maryland http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/directory/swagel	Reform of the GSEs and Housing Finance
10/12	Tuan-Hwee Sng Princeton Niehaus Center for Globalization & Governance	Size and Dynastic Decline:The Principal-Agent Problem in Late Imperial China 1700-1850
10/19	David D. Friedman Santa Clara University http://www.daviddfriedman.com	Schelling Points and Self-enforcing Contracts
10/26	Rikhil Bhavnani University of Wisconsin http://rikhilbhavnani.com	Corruption Among India's Politicians: Suggestive Evidence from Asset Disclosures
11/2	Douglas Irwin Dartmouth University http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin	Did France Cause the Great Depression?
11/9	Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill http://sites.google.com/site/sayremccord	Reasons to Vote
11/16	Alexander Field Santa Clara University http://lsb.scu.edu/economics/faculty/afield/default.htm	Chained Index Methods and Productivity Growth During the Depression
11/23	Thanksgiving Break	--
11/30	--	--
12/7	Charles Calomiris Columbia University http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/ccalomiris	Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938?