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• Walter M. Chamot.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2006-12-15

  Walter M. Chamot Visitation for Walter M. Chamot, 78, will be from 11 a.m. until the time of services at noon Saturday, Dec. 16, at Johnson Funeral Home, Ltd., 3845 Prairie Ave., Brookfield. Interment will be in Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. Born Oct....

  Tags: chemist, chemistry, Dr., M., University of Chicago, Walter

• Financial Services.(Focus: Who's Who)

  - 2006-09-04

  Carl S. Allegretti Midwest regional managing partner Deloitte Tax LLP Chicago Age: 45 Business: Professional services Revenues millions: $7,800 (Deloitte & Touche LLP) Professional: Economic Club; Chicago Business Forum;...

  Tags: AICPA, CEO, chairman, Chicago, Council, FINANCE, Illinois, Investment, Kellogg, LLC, M., Midwest, Museum, president, United, University of Chicago

• PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MADAGASCAR PYGMY KINGFISHER (ISPIDINA MADAGASCARIENSIS)

  - 2005-10-01

  ABSTRACT.-The avifauna of Madagascar presents a complicated taxonomic and biogeographic problem. Although Madagascar was once connected to Africa, the birds of the island are not all of African origin. The Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher Ispidina madagascariensis is sometimes placed in the African genus Ispidina and sometimes in the Southeast Asian genus...

  Tags: Africa, African, Bayesian, Biotechnology, DNA, Electronic Data Systems Corp., G., M., Molecular Inc., species, University of Chicago

• Micro data, heterogeneity and the evaluation of public policy Part 2

  - 2005-03-22

  7. TREATMENT EFFECTS The identification and estimation of structural econometric models are challenging tasks, especially for models with dynamics and uncertainty. The value of this research is beyond question. But the difficulty of this task is also clear. The task has been made harder by the empirical findings showing...

  Tags: analysis, Cambridge, Delta, Electronic Data Systems Corp., G., Government, Hansen, heterogeneity, Labor, Lancaster, M., salary, Singer, Studies, theory, University of Chicago, Wiley

• John M. Summerfield.(Obituaries)(Obituary)

  - 2005-01-09

  John M. Summerfield of Lake Barrington Services for Mr. John M. "Jack" Summerfield, 79, formerly of Long Grove, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, at St. Gregory Episcopal Church, corner of Wilmot and Deerfield Roads, Deerfield. Interment will be at 1:30 p.m. in...

  Tags: husband, M., University of Chicago, West Virginia University

• References.(Financial Markets and the Real Economy)

  - 2005-01-01

  [1] A. B. Abel, "Asset prices under habit formation and catching up with the joneses," American Economic Review, vol. 80, pp. 38-42, 1990. [2] Y. Ait-Sahalia, J. Parker, and M. Yogo, "Luxury goods and the equity premium," Journal of Finance, vol. 59, pp. 2959-3004,...

  Tags: asset, Campbell, cross-section, equity, FINANCE, financial, G., Hansen, Investment, M., manuscript, stock, University of Chicago

• North American urban history: the everyday politics and spatial logics of metropolitan life.

  - 2003-09-22

  Abstract At the start of the twenty-first century, North American urban history is flourishing. Compared to twenty-five years ago, the field has become more interdisciplinary and intellectually invigorating. Scholars are publishing increasingly sophisticated efforts to understand how the city as space intersects the...

  Tags: Baltimore, Cambridge, Canada, Chicago, environment, M., Mary, North, Richard, Robert, scholar, scholarship, Silver, U.S., University of Chicago, women

• Irving Fisher on the international transmission of booms and depressions through monetary standards.

  - 2003-02-01

  OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, considerable attention has been devoted to the role of monetary standards in the international transmission of booms and depression, particularly the role of the gold standard in transmitting the Great Depression (see Choudhri and Kochin, 1980, Huffman and Lothian, 1984, Eichengreen, 1988, 1990, Fremling, 1985,...

  Tags: Barry, Chicago, Depression, depression, FINANCE, Fisher, Friedman, Gold, Hamilton, M., Phillips, Quality, Robert, standards, theory, University of Chicago

• Remembrance and appreciation roundtable George J. Stigler : scholar, father, dissertation advisor, referee, textbook writer and policy analyst - 1911-1991

  - 2002-07-01

  I Moss on Stigler as a Historical Subject GEORGE JOSEPH STIGLER is an obvious subject target for historians of 20th-century economic thought. His Theory of Competitive Price (1942) helped shape the development of microeconomics after World War II and his remarkable topics for analysis produced seminal contributions to...

  Tags: advisor, Allen, analysis, Chicago, economist, Greg, hypothesis, M., professor, Robinson, theory, University of Chicago, Walter

• The earth is the lord's - Religious Foundations of Social Policy

  - 2001-12-01

  ROBERT V. ANDELSON (*) GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, in a letter written in 1905 to Hamlin Garland, describes how, more than twenty years earlier, he had attended Henry George's first platform appearance in London. He knew at once, he said, that the speaker must be an American, for four reasons:...

  Tags: Cambridge, Chicago, Earth, FINANCE, George Mason University, London, Lord, M., Marshall, Poverty, Robert, Sociology, taxation, Taxes, University of Chicago