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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 2013 seminars will be hosted by Dr. Mark Koyama 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.

Spring 2013 seminars will be held from 4:00– 5:15 in Carow Hall, which is on George Mason University's Fairfax campus.

Spring 2013 Schedule of Speakers:

1/30	Boris Gershman American University	The Two Sides of Envy
2/6	Remi Jedwab George Washington University	Colonial Investments and Long-Term Development in Africa: Evidence from Ghanaian Railroads
2/13	Branko Milanovic World Bank	Global Income Inequality in Numbers: in History and Now
2/20	Roy Mill Stanford University	Race, Skin Color, and Economic Outcomes in Early Twentieth-Century America
2/27	Joshua Rosenbloom University of Kansas	Did the Productivity of Chemists Increase Since 1990?
3/7*	Andrew Pickering University of York	(rescheduled to 3/7 due to weather) Voting and theMacroeconomy: Separating Trend From Cycle
3/13	Spring Break	no seminar
3/20	Neil Cummins Queens College, CUNY	The Beckerian Family and the English Demographic Revolution of 1800
3/28	Tim Guinnane Yale University	Adapting Law to Fit the Facts: the GmbH, the SARL, and the Organization of Small Firms in German and France, 1982-1930
4/3	Stelios Michalopoulos Brown University	Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
4/10	Dan Hungerman Notre Dame University	Public Goods, Hidden Income, and Tax Evasion: Some Non-Standard Results from the Warm-Glow Model
4/17	Ethan Kaplan University of Maryland	The Persistence of Political Partisanship: Evidence from 9/11
4/24		no seminar
5/2*	James Robinson Harvard University	*Joint seminar with PPE - will be held at the Mercatus Center on the Arlington Campus

Fall 2012 Schedule of Speakers:

9/5	Stephen Quinn Texas Christian University http://personal.tcu.edu/squinn/site/Stephen_Quinn.html	Responding to a Shadow Banking Crisis: The Lessons of 1763	BUCHANAN HOUSE
9/12	John Earle GMU Public Policy http://policy.gmu.edu/tabid/86/default.aspx?uid=168	Complementary and Custom in Wage Contract Violation	BUCHANAN HOUSE
9/19	Marian Moszoro IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain http://moszoro.net	Third-Party Opportunism and the (In) Efficiency of Public Contracts	CAROW HALL
9/26	John Van Reenen, London School of Economics,Centre for Economic Performance http://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/staff/person.asp?id=1358	The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals	CAROW HALL
10/3	Naomi Lamoreaux Yale University http://www.econ.yale.edu/faculty1/lamoreaux.htm	Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in U.S. History	CAROW HALL
10/10	Peter Grajzl Washington & Lee University http://home.wlu.edu/~grajzlp	Jusrisdiction, Crime and Development: The Impact of Public Law 280 in Indian Country	CAROW HALL
10/17	Zorina Khan Bowdoin College http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/b/bkhan	Related Investing: Corporate Ownership and the Dynamics of Capital Mobilization	CAROW HALL
10/24	Eugene White Rutgers University http://econweb.rutgers.edu/ewhite	Bagehot on the Continent? How the Banque de France Managed the Crisis of 1889	CAROW HALL
10/31	CANCELLED
11/7	Carl Magnus Bjuggren University of Linkoping http://www.hhs.se/EHFF/People/Pages/Faculty.aspx	The Effect of Employment Protection Rules on Firm Productivity - A Natural Experiment	CAROW HALL
11/14	Daniel Chen ETH Zurich, Switzerland http://www.dlchen.ethz.ch	The Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty? Evidence from British Communtations During World War I	CAROW HALL
11/21	FALL BREAK – NO SEMINAR
11/28	Benito Arrunada Pampeu Fabra www.econ.upf.es/~arrunada	The Role of Verifiable Contract Publicity in Impersonal Trade	CAROW HALL
12/5	Melissa Dell Harvard University http://scholar.harvard.edu/mdell	Trafficking Networks and the Mexican Drug War	CAROW HALL