U.S. Department of Commerce

Center for Economic Studies (CES)

Skip top of page navigation

Seminars

The Center for Economic Studies hosts seminars throughout the year on a variety of topics. See below for our Spring 2013 seminar schedule. Note, the schedule is subject to change.


Center for Economic Studies Spring 2013 Seminar Schedule

Date1 Speaker Title Location2
01/24
Shigeru Fujita
(Federal Reserve Board Philadelphia)
Recall and Unemployment
CR1
02/07
Adalbert Mayer
(Washington College)
First Friends Then Co-Workers: An Empirical Investigation of Social Connections and the Initial Employment of College Graduates
2J253
02/21
Toshihiko Mukoyama
(Federal Reserve Board)
Job Search Behavior over the Business Cycle
T1
03/07
Paulo Bastos
(The World Bank)
Export Destinations and Input Prices
2J253
03/14
Fariha Kamal
(Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau)
Measuring "Factoryless" Manufacturing: Evidence from U.S. Surveys
CR1
03/21
Maggie Chen
(George Washington University)
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
T1
03/28
Mitsukuni Nishida
(Johns Hopkins University)
Consumer Search, Price Dispersion, and Spatial Competition: Evidence from the US Retail Gasoline Markets
T1
04/04
Kristina McElheran
(Harvard Business School)
Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from Plant-Level Data
T3
04/18
Richard Hough
(Census)
Measuring the Relationship between R&D, Innovation and Productivity in the U.S.
2J253
04/25
Ruben Hernandez-Murillo
(Federal Reserve Board St. Louis)
Did Affordable Housing Legislation Contribute to the Subprime Securities Boom?
T3
05/02
Hunt Allcott
(New York University)
TBA
T3
05/09
Andreas Mueller
(Columbia University)
Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data
2J253
05/16
David Byrne
(Federal Reserve Board)
The Scope of U.S. Factoryless Manufacturing
2J253
05/21
Lunch Seminar
Noon - 1:00 PM
Melissa Banzhaf
(Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau)
When it Rains, it Pours: Under What Circumstances Does Job Loss Lead to Divorce?
TBA

1 Seminars are held from 10:30 AM to noon unless otherwise noted.

2 Seminars are located at the U.S. Census Bureau headquarters in Suitland, MD.


[PDF] or PDF denotes a file in Adobe’s Portable Document Format. To view the file, you will need the Adobe® Reader® Off Site available free from Adobe. This symbol Off Site indicates a link to a non-government web site. Our linking to these sites does not constitute an endorsement of any products, services or the information found on them. Once you link to another site you are subject to the policies of the new site.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Center for Economic Studies | (301) 763-6460 | E-mail CES |  Last Revised: March 05, 2013