Mary Evans

Assistant Professor of Economics

University of Tennessee

CV • Research • Brown Bag Seminar

 

The University of Tennessee Economics Brown Bag Research Workshop meets weekly throughout the year.

The workshop provides an informal forum for such things as:

During the 2007 Fall semester, the workshop will meet on Wednesdays in SMC 502 (unless otherwise noted).

The room will open at 11:30 a.m.  Workshops will begin promptly at 12:00 noon and end no later than 1:00 p.m.

Participants are invited to bring their own lunch.

 

Contact Mary Evans (974-1700 or mevans12@utk.edu) if you are interested in presenting on one of the open dates,

or if you would like to propose a workshop on a special topic.

Spring 2008 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
1-23 No workshop scheduled Open
1-30 No workshop scheduled Open
2-6

NO WORKSHOP

Job candidate visit
2-13 No workshop Originally scheduled workshop will be rescheduled
2-20 Zach Richards TRA97 and the Taxation of Capital Gains From Owner-Occupied Housing: Has It Dampened the Effects of Monetary Policy?
2-27 Bryan Shone Are Realized Gains in Property Values Limited by Property Tax Assessment Caps?
3-5 Omer Bayar Inertia in Discount Rate Policy
3-7 Mary Evans On the Income Elasticity of the VSL  (NOTE:  This workshop was originally scheduled for earlier in the semester. Please note the Friday date.)
3-12 Lirong Liu Causes and Consequences of Environmental Auditing: Evidence from Regulated Facilities in Michigan  (NOTE:  This workshop will begin at noon in 605 Hodges Library. Please note the location change. Because the seminar will be held in the library, please enjoy your lunch before you come to the seminar.)
3-19 NO WORKSHOP SPRING BREAK
3-26 NO WORKSHOP PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED WORKSHOP POSTPONED TO NEXT SEMESTER DUE TO CONSTRUCTION
4-2 Ann Watts
State Conformity: Factors that Influence States’ Decisions to Decouple from U.S. Federal Tax Provisions  (NOTE:  This workshop will begin at 12:15 in SMC 720. Please note the time and location change date.)
4-9 NO WORKSHOP PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED WORKSHOP POSTPONED TO NEXT SEMESTER DUE TO CONSTRUCTION
4-16 No workshop scheduled Open
4-23 NO WORKSHOP PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED WORKSHOP POSTPONED TO NEXT SEMESTER DUE TO CONSTRUCTION

 

Fall 2007 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
8-29   Organizational Meeting
9-5 No workshop scheduled Open
9-12

NO WORKSHOP

DEPARTMENTAL REVIEW
9-19 Georg Schaur New Faculty Showcase
9-26 Bryan Shone Applying a Hybrid Incentive-Based Instrument in a Non-Point Source Pollution Setting
10-3 Simone Silva New Faculty Showcase
10-10 Kate Harper Tax Incentives for Investing in Low-Income Communities: Has the New Markets Tax Credit Led to Increased Investment in Targeted Communities?
10-17 No workshop
10-24 Shillang Deng and Stephen Cotten Best-shot Public Goods Provision When Resources Are Heterogeneous
10-31 Martin Tackie Oil Price Shocks and the Disaggregated U.S. Economy
11-7 Luke Jones and Stephen Cotten Linking Provision and Appropriation in Common-Pool Resource Experiments
11-14 Mohammed Mohsin Is There a Laursen-Metzler Effect in a Small Open Economy?
11-21 NO WORKSHOP DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING
11-28 NO WORKSHOP PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED WORKSHOP POSTPONED TO NEXT SEMESTER

 

Spring 2007 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
1-24   Organizational Meeting
1-31 NO WORKSHOP JOB CANDIDATE CAMPUS VISIT
2-7

Bill Neilson

Imprecise Preferences
2-14 Rudy Santore Incentive contracts when agents can misreport output
2-21 Julie Marshall Metropolitan Fiscal Structure and Urban Sprawl
2-28 NO WORKSHOP
3-7 Mark Assibey-Yeboah and Mohammed Mohsin Investment Tax Credit in a Small Open Economy with External Debt and Imperfect Capital Mobility
3-14 NO WORKSHOP SPRING BREAK
3-21 Avik Chakraborty Exchange Rate Forecasting under Learning
3-28 Zach Richards An Examination of Wage Reactions to the Earned Income Tax Credit
4-4 Scott Gilpatric Delay and Procrastination in Search: A Model of Why People Stay Too Long in Bad Relationships
4-11 NO WORKSHOP
4-18 Laura Ullrich Tennessee's Basic Education Program: Equity Issues and Behavioral Responses
4-25 Mary Evans and Christian Vossler Bridging the Gap between the Field and the Lab: Environmental Goods, Policy Maker Input, and Consequentiality

 

Fall 2006 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
8-30   Organizational Meeting
9-6 NO WORKSHOP
9-13

Panos Kasteridis

Demand for Cigarettes: A Mixed Binary-Ordered Probit Approach
9-20 Bill Neilson Endogenous Games
Note: Workshop will begin at 12:30 p.m.
9-27 Avik Chakraborty and Mohammed Mohsin Maple and Matlab as a Tool for Research
10-4 Christian Vossler An Experimental Exploration of Voluntary Mechanisms to Reduce Nonpoint Source Water Pollution with a Background Threat of Regulation
10-11 Murat Munkin Bayesian Analysis of the Finite Poisson-lognormal Mixture Model with an Endogenous Binary Treatment: Application to the Demand for Healthcare and Private Insurance
10-18 Penny Beasley The Market for Reactive Power: Using a Cost Minimization-Power Flow Model to Evaluate Selected Electricity Policy Options
10-25 Martin Tackie and Rudy Santore Stock Option Compensation and Corporate Fraud: A Double-Edged Sword Effect
11-1 Avik Chakraborty Sequential Pre-Market Signaling, Signal Withholding and Match Quality
11-8 Stephen Cotten and Rudy Santore Managerial Compensation and Corporate Fraud with Multiple Managers
11-15 Mark Assibey-Yeboah and Mohammed Mohsin Exchange Rate Policies in a Small Open Developing Economy
11-22 NO WORKSHOP DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING
11-29 Bryan Shone To What Extent Are Progressive Tax Systems Redistributive?

 

Spring 2006 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
1-25   Organizational Meeting
2-1 NO WORKSHOP
2-8

NO WORKSHOP

2-15 All attendees Open forum-topic TBA
2-22 Steven Yen Food Stamp Program Participation and Food Insecurity: A Simultaneous Equations Approach
3-1 Avik Chakraborty Econometrics of the Forward Premium Puzzle
Note: Workshop will begin at 12:15
3-8 Stephen Cotten and Zach Richards Hybrid Allocation Mechanisms for Rationed Goods
Note: Workshop will be held in Temple Court, Room 304
3-15 Brian Hill and Don Bruce An Econometric Investigation of the Relationship Between Small Business Activities and Economic Growth Among the States
3-29 Christian Vossler Altruism and Voting
4-5 Scott Gilpatric and Lirong Liu Incentives for Compliance with Voluntary Emissions Reporting Programs
4-12 Laura Ullrich Educational Efficiency in Tennessee: The Impact of No Child Left Behind
4-19 Sujit Das Monetary Approach to the Exchange Rate Determination: a Pre and Post Crisis Analysis on Selected East Asia Countries
4-26 Mohammed Mohsin On the Real Effects of Inflation in Open Economies

 

Fall 2005 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
9-7   Organizational Meeting
9-14 Avik Chakraborty An Overview of My Research Agenda
9-28

Pracha Koonnathamdee

A Vector Autoregressive Model of State and Local Government Expenditures
10-12 Mary Evans Quality of Life and the Dead Anyway Effect
10-26 Deborah Carroll The Hand That Rocks The Cradle: How State Economic Development Incentives Affect Local Infrastructure Provision
11-2 Christian Vossler Experiments on Damage-Based Ambient Taxes for Nonpoint Pollution Control
11-9 Laura Ullrich Grants and Community Development
11-16 Penny Beasley What Do You Mean It's Imaginary?  The Market for Reactive Power
11-23 NO WORKSHOP DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING
11-30 Sujit Das Finance and Growth:  Does the Relationship Depend on Financial Measures?
12-7 Panos Kasteridis Analysis of the Effect of Managed Care on Hospital Admission Rates Using an Endogenous Sequential Ordinal Probit Model with Individual-Specific Random Effects
12-14 Mohammed Mohsin  

 

Spring 2005 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
1-19   Organizational Meeting
3-9 Deborah Carroll Guns vs. Taxes?  A Look At How Defense Spending Affects U.S. Federal Tax Policy
3-16 All Participants Open Forum on Publishing in Academic Journals
3-23 SPRING BREAK - NO WORKSHOP
3-30 Panos Kasteridis
Bayesian Analysis of an Endogenous Hurdle Model:  An Application to the Demand for Health Care
4-6 Laura Ullrich Welfare Time Limits in Tennessee
4-13 Bill Fox and Matt Murray National Retail Sales Tax???
4-20 Scott Gilpatric Competition and Cheating:  Malfeasance in Tournaments
4-27 Brian Hill The Effects of Fiscal Interdependencies on Tax Decisions

 

Fall 2004 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
9-1   Organizational Meeting
9-15 Deborah Carroll Revenue Diversification vs. Revenue Complexity
9-22 Bob Muenchen An Overview of the UT Statistical Consulting Center
9-29 Bryan Shone Quantifying and Comparing the Value of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Amazon
10-6 Warren Neel Contemporary Issues in Corporate Governance
10-13 Jill Collins Valuing Air Quality Policy Options Using a Conjoint-based Choice Model
10-20 Mohammed Mohsin and Maria Sarigiannidou Fiscal Policy with Habit Formation and Consumer Durables
10-27 Brian Hill and Matt Murray Interactions between Local Labor Markets and Welfare Caseloads
11-3 Mary Evans Mixed Allocation Mechanisms and the Provision of Rationed Goods
11-10 Vicky D'Urso An Introduction to Computational Economics and Agent Based Models
11-17 Christian Vossler The Dynamics of Other-regarding Preferences and Decision Error: What's Really Going on in Voluntary Contributions Mechanism Experiments?
11-24 OPEN (Wednesday before Thanksgiving)
12-1 Murat Munkin Bayesian Analysis of the Endogenous Ordered Probit Model: Application to the Effect of Managed Care on the Demand for Medical Services
12-8 Penny Beasley  

 

Spring 2004 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
1-14 Anne B. Pope A Conversation with Anne B. Pope, Federal Co-Chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission  (NOTE:  This brown bag workshop will begin promptly at 11:30 a.m. in SMC 502.)
1-28 Don Bruce and Bill Fox Determinants of Welfare Caseload Fluctuations
2-4 Rudy Santore Managerial Incentives, Fraud, and Efficiency
2-11 John Deskins Tax Planning Revisited
2-18 Karie Barbour The Effects of Motor Vehicle Wealth Taxes on State Vehicle Age Distributions and Emissions
2-25 Lydia Zhang Exchange Rate Volatility and Trade Volume: Evidence from a Threshold Model
3-10 NONE SPRING BREAK
4-7 Vicky D'Urso Spillover Effects in Vehicle Choice Models
4-14 Scott Gilpatric Lessons from the Charter School Experiment in Texas
4-21 Scott Gilpatric More Lessons from the Charter School Experiment in Texas
4-28 Sujit Das Structural breaks, Volatility of Exchange rate and International Trade: Empirical Evidence from East Asian Countries

 

Fall 2003 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
8-27   Organizational Meeting
9-10 Sujit Das, Mary Evans, Scott Gilpatric, and Christian Vossler New Faculty Showcase
9-17 Don Bruce, John Deskins, and Mohammed Mohsin State Tax Policies and Entrepreneurial Activity:  A Panel Data Analysis
9-22 Don Bruce, John Deskins, and Bill Fox Is Tax Planning Efficiency Enhancing?  (Note Monday Date)
9-24 Glen Schuler Lessons From Enron
10-1 Brian Hill and Matt Murray An Empirical Test of Tax Competition Between Large and Small Jurisdictions
10-8 Mohammed Mohsin Fiscal Policy, Durability in Consumption, and the Dynamics of the Current Account
10-15 Scott Gilpatric Tournaments and Risk Seeking
10-22 Chris Kauffman The Effects of Attendance on Student Performance in Principles of Economics
10-29 Sujit Das Volatility of Exchange Rates and International Trade under Forward Exchange Markets: Theory and Evidence
11-5 Mary Evans VSL Properties and the 'Senior Discount'
11-12 Jeff Smith Assessing the Value of DOD Training
12-3 Milton Russell Social Control Challenges from Emerging Technologies

 

Spring 2003 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
2-19   Organizational Meeting
2-26 John Deskins and Friends Economics of State Lotteries
3-5 Mike McKee Market Experiments I
3-12 Karie Barbour The Consequences of Motor Vehicle Wealth Taxes on Fleet Turnover, Emissions, and Air Quality
3-19 NONE SPRING BREAK
3-26 Albert Wijeweera An Empirical Assessment of the Impact of Host Country and Home Country Corporate Taxes on Foreign Direct Investments in the U.S.
4-2 Mike McKee Market Experiments II
4-9 Murat Munkin Bayesian Analysis of the Roy Selection Model with Censored Outcomes
4-16 John Barkoulas Long-Memory Forecasting of U.S. Monetary Indices
4-23 Lydia Zhang Sources of Terms of Trade Shock and the Current Account: A Look Into the Laursen-Metzler Effect

 

Fall 2002 Schedule:

Date Presenter Topic
9-11 Noel Lotz Human Capital, International Trade, and Economic Growth
9-16 Tami Richards Car Ownership and Labor Market Outcomes Among Welfare Recipients
9-23 Don Bruce Introduction to Stata
9-30 Ken Baker Modelling Congressional Voting Behavior
10-7 Rudy Santore Stock Options, Fraud, and Efficiency
10-15 Ali Toossi An Introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory
12-4 Milton Russell DOE Legacy Waste Cleanup and Stewardship: Beyond the Top-To-Bottom Review

 

 

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