The Economics Department within the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business hosts a vibrant seminar series spanning the areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, experimental and behavioral economics, international trade, industrial organization, labor and public economics. Seminar speakers consist of Purdue faculty, numerous nationally and internationally recognized scholars outside of Purdue, and departmental PhD students. Samples of recent seminar activity, and a preview of upcoming events, are provided in the menus below.
Seminars are scheduled from 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. in RAWLS 2058 unless otherwise indicated.
** registration required
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| September 6 | PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon, Ben Zou, Purdue University |
| **11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., RAWLS 3011** | |
| September 12 | Sanjay Singh, UC Davis |
| September 19 | Ryan Chahrour, Cornell University |
| September 20 | David Albouy, University of Illinois |
| October 3 | Mtotsugu Shintani, University of Tokoyo |
| October 4 | PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon, Huseyin Gulen, Purdue University |
| **11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., RAWLS 3011** | |
| October 13 | Gilles Durantan, University of Pennsylvania |
| November 8 | PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon, Jillian Carr, Purdue University |
| **11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., RAWLS 3011** | |
| November 16 | Charles Bellemare, Universite Laval |
| November 29 | Matt Notowidigdo, University of Chicago |
| November 30 | Mackenzie Alston, University of Illinois |
| December 6 | PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon, Miguel Sarzosa, Purdue University |
| **11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., RAWLS 3011** |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| January 25 | Aaron Hedlund, PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon Economic Policymaking in the White House |
| February 15 | Rich Patterson, Brigham Young University Intergenerational Effects of Occupation Choice: Evidence from the U.S. Army |
| February 22 | Tim Moore, PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon The Opioid Crisis: Policy Options |
| February 27 | Chenzhong Wu, PhD student Semiparametric Common Stochastic Volatility for Large Bayesian VARs |
| March 1 | Tim Bond, Dean's Fellows for DEI Seminar Statistical Discrimination and Optimal Mismatch in College Major Selection |
| March 3 | Nitya Nayar, University of Texas, Austin Supply Chain Resilience: Evidence from Indian Firms |
| March 7 | Davin Chor, Dartmouth Contracting Frictions in Global Sourcing: Implications for Welfare |
| March 8 | Lee Lockwood, University of Virginia Renting Hedges Wage Risk |
| March 8 | Huilin Zhang, PhD student Working from home, productivity externalities, and regional welfare |
| March 9 | Sisi Zhou, PhD student The Geography of Consumption and Residential Choice |
| March 10 | Linh Nguyen, PhD student Multistep Forecast Averaging with Stochastic and Deterministic Trends |
| March 21 | Woan Foong Wong, University of Oregon Multimodal Transport Networks |
| March 22 | Lindsay Relihan, PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon Technology Innovation & Real Estate Markets |
| March 22 | Tal Gross, Boston University Social Defaults and Plan Choice: The Case of Spousal Following |
| March 24 | Cosmin Ilut, Duke University Uncertainty Aversion and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Linear Models |
| March 29 | Andra Ghent, University of Utah The Work-from-Home Technology Boon and its Consequences |
| March 30 | Gerelt Tserenjigmid, University of California, Santa Cruz Price Heterogeneity as a Source of Heterogeneous Demand |
| March 31 | Charles Engel, Wisconsin University Collateral Advantage: Exchange Rates, Capital Flows, and Global Cycles |
| April 4 | Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis The End of Privilege: A Reexamination of the Net Foreign Asset Position of the United States |
| April 5 | Vikram Maheshri, University of Houston A Unified Empirical Framework to Study Segregation |
| April 12 | Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University A Unified Framework for Production Networks: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine's War |
| April 12 | Qilu Pan Gender Gap, Gender Norm, and Gender Attitude |
| April 13 | Charles Bellemare, Laval University |
| April 13 | Diego Martin Essays in Labor and Development |
| April 14 | Seunghoon Na, Purdue University |
| April 18 | Andre Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics Dealer Costs and Customer Choice |
| April 19 | Victor Couture, University of British Columbia Quantifying Social Interactions Using Smartphone Data |
| April 20 | John Umbeck, PURCE Economic Policy Luncheon Creating a Center for Economics |
| April 20 | Kirby Nielsen, Cal Tech Distinguishing Common Ratio Preferences from Common Ratio Effects Using Paired Valuation Tasks |
| April 25 | Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago Remote Work and City Structure |
| April 26 | Jesse Gregory, Wisconsin University The Continuing Significance of Race in America in Neighborhood Choice and Change |
| April 27 | Kota Saito, California Institute of Technology Axiomatization of Random Utility Model with Unobservable Alternatives |
| May 2 | Joel Rodrigue, Vanderbilt University Regulation, Emissions and Productivity: Evidence from China’s Eleventh Five-Year Plan |
| May 12 |
Ke-Li Xu Local Projection Based Inference under General Conditions |
| May 22 | Anthony Yim **10-11 a.m. KRAN 301** Three Essays in Labor and Education Economics |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| August 26 | David Wiczer, Stony Brook University Redistributive Consequences of Insuring Local Disability Risks |
| September 8 | Rafael Jimenez Duran, University of Chicago The Economics of Content Moderation: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Hate Speech on Twitter |
| September 16 | Todd Morris, HEC Montreal Longer Careers: A Barrier to Hiring and Coworker Advancement? |
| September 19 | Chenzhong Wu, PhD student A High-Dimensional Additive Nonparametric Model |
| September 21 | Nick Papageorge, John Hopkins Genetic Endowments, Income Dynamics, and Wealth Accumulation Over the Lifecycle |
| September 22 | Lokting Yim, PhD student How Early Morning Classes Change Academic Trajectories: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| September 27 | Roberto Chang, Rutgers University Optimal Foreign Reserves and Central Bank Policy Under Financial Stress |
| September 28 | Rosalie Pacula, University of Southern California The Impact of Recreational Cannabis Laws on Cannabis Related Health Encounters: Measuring Medical Markets Matters |
| September 29 | Uri Gneezy, University of California, San Diego Tipping is More About Who is Giving Than Who is Receiving: Evidence from a Nationwide Study |
| October 6 | Ben Bushong, Michigan State University Heterogeneous Tastes and Social (Mis)Learning |
| October 7 | Dmitry Mukhin, London School of Economics Optimal Exchange Rate Policy |
| October 13 | Shakun Mago, University of Richmond The Infinitely Repeated Volunteer’s Dilemma: An Experimental Study |
| October 14 | Xiaoxiao Li, Villanova University Major Complexity Index and College Skill Production |
| October 17 | Clint Harris, Wisconsin University Peer Effects in University Housing: Evidence from Fuzzy Central Assignment |
| October 19 | Kevin Schnepel, Simon Fraser University Welfare Payment Misalignment and Crime |
| October 20 | Chris Brown Local Public Goods in Dynamic Networks |
| October 26 | Kevin Williams, Yale Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S. Airline |
| October 27 | Conor Ryan, Pennsylvania State University How Does Insurance Competition Affect Medical Consumption |
| October 28 | David Cooper, University of Iowa Managerial Leadership, Truth-Telling, and Efficient Coordination |
| November 2 | Maria Fitzpatrick, Cornell University Does Access to an Algorithmic Decision-Making Tool Change Child Protective Service Caseworkers’ Investigation Decisions? |
| November 4 | Ana Marie Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions |
| November 8 | Junya Zhou Complexity, Communication and Misrepresentation |
| November 9 | Abigail Banan The Effects of Post-Release Supervision on Crime and Recidivism |
| November 10 | Matthew Polisson, University of Bristol Ever Since Allais |
| November 14 | Wei Zhang, PhD student Asymmetric Dynamic Factor Model |
| November 15 | Indulekha Guha Hate crimes and elections in the US: testing alternative explanations |
| November 16 | Manasi Deshpande, Chicago University How Disability Benefits in Early Life Affect Adult Outcomes |
| November 18 | Michael Gilraine, New York University School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality |
| November 21 | Xiaoyan Zhou Heterogeneous Spatial Dynamic Panel Models with Shrinkage on Spatial Parameters |
| November 30 | Caitlin Gorback, University of Texas, Austin Global Capital and Local Assets: House Prices, Quantities, and Elasticities |
| December 1 | Mark Dean, Columbia University A Better Test of Choice Overload |
| December 2 | Jacob Robbins, University of Illinois, Chicago Searching for Neo-Fisher: A Model of Animal Spirit Driven Recessions |
| December 6 | Pooya Molavi, Northwestern University Model Complexity, Expectations, and Asset Prices |
| December 7 | Vivek Bhattacharya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Have Mergers Raised Prices? Evidence from U.S. Retail |
| December 8 | Annie Liang, Northwestern University Algorithm Design: Fairness and Accuracy |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| David Deming from Harvard Roberto Chang from Rutgers University Harald Uhlig from the University of Chicago Trust and Welfare Effects on Exogenous Sorting in Information Cascades |
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| January 20 | Ricardo Perez-Truglia, University of California, Berkeley Betting on the House:Subjective Expectations and Market Choices |
| March 1 | Victoria Prowse, Chaired Professor, Purdue University Childhood cognitive skills and life outcomes |
| March 4 | Bruno Conte, University of Bologna Climate Change and Migration: The Case of Africa |
| March 4 | Xiaoyan Zhou, PhD student Essays on Heterogeneous Spatial Econometric Models |
| March 10 | Sarah Ridout, Vanderbilt University A Theory of Ex-Post Rationalization |
| March 22 | Pablo Fajgelbaum, Princeton The US-China Trade War and Global Reallocations |
| March 24 | Wei Zhang, PhD student Flexible Nonlinear Time-Series Models in a Data-Rich Environment |
| March 25 | Saroj Bhattarai, University of Texas Inflation and GDP Dynamics in Production Networks: A Sufficient Statistics Approach |
| March 29 | Daniel Xu, Duke University Regulating Conglomerates: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Program in China |
| March 30 | Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University Information, Preferences, and Household Demand for School Value Added |
| March 31 | David Yang, Harvard University Policy Experimentation in China: The Political Economy of Policy Learning |
| April 5 | David Bagaee, UCLA Networks, Barriers, and Trade |
| April 6 | Chris Taber, University of Wisconsin Methods for Using Selection on Observed Variables to Address Selection on Unobserved Variables |
| April 7 | Alexander Jakobsen, University of Calgary Coarse Bayesian Updating |
| April 7 | Town Oh, PhD student Essays on Immigration & Education Economics |
| April 8 | Ehud Kalai, Northwestern University Critical Mass Reasoning and Equilibrium |
| April 11 | Diego Martin Essays on Impact Evaluation of Public Policies |
| April 12 | Giacomo Candian, HEC Montreal Imperfect Exchange Rate Expectations |
| April 13 | Jennifer Doleac, Texas A&M Registering Returning Citizens to Vote |
| April 14 | Drew Fudenberg, MIT Evaluating and Improving Economic Models |
| April 14 | Dangyang Zhang Essays on Labor Economics and International Trade |
| April 19 | Scott Barrett, Columbia Property Rights to the (Linear) Ocean in Customary International Law |
| April 21 | Matthew Kovach, University of Wisconsin Minimum Distance Belief Updating with General Information |
| April 22 | Jeff Smith, University of Wisconsin Learning More about Teachers: Estimating teacher Value-Added and Treatment Effects on Teacher Value-Added in Northern Uganda |
| April 25 | Huilin Zhang, PhD student Telework and Regional Inequality |
| April 26 | Sisi Zhu, PhD student The Geography of Consumption and Residential Choice |
| April 27 | Muriel Niederle, Stanford University Trickle-Down Effects on Affirmative Action: A Case Study in France |
| April 28 | Armin Falk, University of Bonn |
| April 28 | Linh Nguyen, PhD student Econometric Modeling with Persistent Data |
| April 29 | Kyle Jurado, Duke University Revisiting the Forecasts of Others |
| May 3 | Roberto Chang, Rutgers University Optimal Foreign Reserves and Central Bank Policy Under Financial Stress |
| May 4 | David Deming, Harvard University Soft Skills and the Science of Human Potential |
| May 4 | Daniel Kebede, PhD student Leveraging Promotions For Social Good: Insights From Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution |
| May 5 | Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago Neoclassical Growth Transition Dynamics with One-Sided Commitment |
| May 5 | Alexander Marchal, PhD student Trust and Welfare Effects on Exogenous Sorting in Information Cascades |
| May 10 | Xuewen Yu, PhD student Essays in Nonstationary Time Series Econometrics |
| May 19 | Debasmita Das Essays on Labor Economics |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| September 8 | Martha Bailey, UCLA How the 1963 Equal Pay Act and 1964 Civil Rights Act Shaped the U.S. Gender Gap |
| September 14 | Konstantin Kurcheryavyy, University of Tokyo A Tractable Model of Trade with Flexible Cost Structure |
| September 15 | George Bulman, UC Santa Cruz The Effect of Wealth on Household Formation and Structure: Evidence from State Lotteries |
| September 21 | Ben Zou, Michigan State University Home Location Choices and the Gender Commute Gap |
| September 23 | Rosemarie Nagle, University of Barcelona Iterated Reasoning and Efficiency Heuristics, and a Behavioral Taxonomy of 2x2 Games |
| September 28 | Benjamin Faber, Berkeley Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica |
| September 29 | Billur Aksoy, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (Anticipated) Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities in Prosocial Domains |
| October 1 | Nathanael Vellekoop, University of Toronto Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data |
| October 4 | Kasper Wuthrich, University of California (When) should you adjust inferences for multiple hypothesis testing?” |
| October 7 | Erin Kupka, University of Michigan Renegotiation Behavior and Promise-keeping Norms |
| October 14 | Aldo Rustichini, University of Minnesota Intelligence and the Wealth of Nations |
| October 15 | Zachary Stangebye, Notre Dame Sound and Fury: Signaling in sovereign Debt Markets |
| October 19 | Matthew Rognile, Northwestern University Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy with Heterogenous Agents: Sizing up the Real Income Channel |
| October 20 | Panka Bencsik, University of Chicago Policing Substance Use: Chicago's Treatment Program for Narctics Arrests |
| October 21 | Matthias Sutter, Max Planck Institute Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention |
| October 26 | Wataru Miyamoto, University of Hong Kong In Search of Dominant Drivers of the Real Exchange Rate |
| October 27 | Michael Makowsky, Clemson University Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow |
| November 2 | Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State Rethinking the Welfare State |
| November 3 | Town Oh, PhD student How International Students Affect Domestic Students' Achievement: Evidence from the OPT STEM-extension |
| November 5 | Clayton Featherstone, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania A Theory of information Nudges |
| November 9 | Kim Ruhl, University of Wisconsin - Madison The Aggregate Effects of Shipping Delays |
| November 10 | Christoph Walsh, Tilburg The Welfare Effects of Law Enforcement in Illegal Moneylending Market |
| November 12 | Roman Sheremeta, Case Western Reserve University Save to Win: Using Contests to Promote savings |
| November 15 | Cynthia Yang, Florida State University Matching Theory and Evidence on Civid-19 Using a Stochastic Network SIR Model |
| November 16 | John Cochrane, Stanford University The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level |
| November 18 | Pietro Ortoleva, Princeton University Caution and Reference Effects |
| November 30 | Nils Gornemann, Federal Reserve Board Devaluations, Deposit Dollarization, and Household Heterogeneity |
| December 1 | Anna Azier, Brown University The Persistent Effects of Decreasing Labor-Market Discrimination |
| December 2 | Yoram Halevy, University of Toronto Behavioral Bargaining |
| December 3 | Stanton Hudja, Baylor University An Exploratory Analysis of the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem |
| December 9 | Arjada Bardhi, Duke University Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics |
| December 13 | Steve Billings, University of Colorado Partisan Residential Sorting on Climate Change Risk |
| December 14 | Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Harvard University Quality is in the Eye of the Beholder: Taste Projection in Markets with Observational Learning |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| February 25 | Maria Bigoni, University of Bologna Rational Cooperation and Reputational Effects |
| March 16 | Jaroslav Borovicka, NYU Survey data and subjective beliefs in business cycle models |
| March 30 | Sam Kortum, Yale University Optimal Unilateral Carbon Policy |
| April 8 | Sigrid Seutens, Tilburg University Hot Versus Cold reciprocity |
| April 13 | Scott Taylor, University of Calgary Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow-motion Extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales |
| April 15 | Ange Kajakaite, Berlin Social Science Center Lying for Image |
| April 20 | Michael Waugh, NYU Quantifying the Losses from International Trade |
| April 23 | Sally Sadoff, UC San Diego Do People Respond to the Climate Impact of their Behavior? The Effect of Carbon Footprint Information on Grocery Purchases |
| April 27 | Yinxi Xie, Bank of Canada Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interaction under Limited Foresight |
| April 29 | Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania The Negative Consequences of Loss-Framed Performance Incentives |
| April 30 | Wataru, Miyamoto, Hong Kong University |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| Climate Contagion: Temperature and Growth in Spatial General Equilibrium | |
| September 1 | Karen Kopecky, Atlanta How Important is Health Inequality for Lifetime Earnings Inequality |
| September 11 | Pol Antras, Harvard Globalization and Pandemics |
| September 23 | Emma Tominey, York UK Mothers working during preschool years and child skills. Does income compensate? |
| September 24 | Dirk Engelman, Humboldt University, Berlin Decomposing Trust |
| September 29 | Ralph Ossa, Zurich University Are Trade Agreements Good for You? |
| September 30 | Jeanne Lafortune, Universidad Catolica, Chile Electrifying? How New Technologies Impact Productivity and Jobs |
| October 1 | Anna Dreber, Stockholm School of Economics Replications and Predicting Replication Outcomes |
| October 6 | Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics What are the price effects of trade? Evidence from the U.S. and implications for quantitative trade models |
| October 7 | Randi Hjalmarsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden The impact of the first professional police forces on Crime |
| October 12 | Gianmarco Ottaviano, Bocconi University Comparative Advantage, Competition, and Firm Heterogeneity |
| October 13 | Sam Antil, Harvard Business School Are Bankruptcy professional fees excessively high? |
| October 15 | Mouli Modak, 5th year PhD student Multiple Contact in the Presence of Asymmetric and Symmetric Prisoner’s Dilemma |
| October 19 | Arman Sabbaghi, PhD student Collaborative Design for Improved Casual Machine Learning on Big Observational Data |
| October 20 | Gary Lyn, Iowa State Climate Contagion: Temperature and Growth in Spatial General Equilibrium |
| October 21 | Richard Mansfield, UC boulder How Do Changes in U.S. Trade Engagement Affect the Demographic and Spatial Distribution of Employment and Earnings? Exploring New Pathways Using an Equilibrium Matching Approach |
| October 22 | William Brown, 5th year PhD Student The Effect of Complexity in an Electorate: Experimental Evidence |
| October 27 | Eduardo Morales, Princeton Firm Export Dynamics in Interdependent Markets |
| October 30 | Daniel Woods, 6th year PHD Student Using QRE Simulations for Improving Ex-ante Power Analysis and Experimental Design |
| November 4 | Sandra McNally, Surry and LSE Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England |
| November 5 | Junya Zhou, 4th year PhD Student Costly Verification and Commitment in Communication: Theory and Experiment |
| November 6 | Daniel Sgroi, University of Warwick Self-awareness & Dishonesty |
| November 10 | Swati Dhingra, LSE Trade and Worker Deskilling |
| November 11 | Sarit Weisburd, Tel Aviv University Police response time and injury outcomes |
| November 12 | Ori Heffetz, Cornell University Behavior-Predictive Beliefs are Inconsistent with Information-Based Beliefs: Evidence from COVID-19Behavior-Predictive Beliefs are Inconsistent with Information-Based Beliefs: Evidence from COVID-19 |
| November 13 | Munseob Lee, UC San Diego Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US |
| November 16 | Abigail Banan, 4th year PhD Student The Impact of Vape Bans on Tobacco Usage |
| November 17 | Amrita Sanyal, 3rd year PhD student Impact of Teacher-Student Gender-Matching on Girls’ STEM |
| November 18 | Jeff Prince, Indiana University The Role of International Travel in Explaining Geographic Heterogeneity for the Spread of Covid-19 |
| November 20 | Kelly Bishop, Arizona State Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia |
| December 2 | Indulekha Guha, 4th year PhD Student The Impact of Electoral Politics on the Incidence of Hate Crimes |
| December 3 | Marie Claire Villeval, National; Center for Scientific Research Homophily, peer effects and honesty |
| December 10 | Vessela Daskalova, University College Dublin Discrimination in Collective Decisions |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| March 2 | Eric Simdss, Notre Dame The Four Equation New Keynesian Model |
| March 4 | Lutz Hendricks, UNC Chapel Hill Skilled Labor Productivity and Cross-country Income Differences |
| March 5 | Noah Williams, University of Wisconsin- Madison Optimal Contracts with Hidden Risk |
| March 9 | Topi Miettinen, University of Michigan Encouragement Effect in Team Exploration and Open Innovation: Theory and Experimental Evidence |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| September 11 | Dan Black, University of Chicago Simple Tests for Selection Bias |
| September 13 | John & Katie Lopresti, William and Mary College Using Equity Market Reactions to Infer Exposure to Trade Liberalization |
| September 16 | Andrew Steckley, PhD student Netflix and Crime |
| September 19 | Anijit Chakraborty, UC Davis Cooperation in Finitely Repeated Prisoner's Dillema |
| September 20 | Juan Carrillo, USC Steps of reasoning in children and adolescents |
| September 27 | Svetlana Beilfuss, PhD student Pharmaceutical Opioid Marketing and Physician Prescribing Behavior |
| October 1 | Kosali Simon, Indiana University Can Policy Affect Initiation of Addictive Substance Use? Evidence from Opioid Prescribing |
| October 9 | Mary Kate Bastistich, PhD student Skill Biased Technical Change and Employment in Manufacturing |
| October 14 | Stanton Hudja, PhD student Behavioral Bandits: Examining How Individuals Resolve the Exploration versus Exploitation Trade-Off |
| October 15 | Haiqing Zhao, PhD student FECM Averaging in Predictive Regressions |
| October 16 | Emily Nix, University of Southern California What Causes the Child Penalty and How Can It Be Reduced? Evidence from Same-sex Couples and Policy Reforms |
| October 22 | Scott Imberman, Michigan State The Returns to College Major Choice: Mean Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Volatility |
| October 28 | Ben Zhou, Michigan State University Industrialization from Scratch: The “Construction of Third Front” and Local Economic Development in China’s Hinterland |
| October 29 | Gabriele Gratton, University of South Wales Political Capital |
| November 5 | Ian Schmutte, University of Georgia Estimating Compensating Wage Differentials with Endogenous Job Mobility |
| November 6 | Costas Arkolakis, Yale General Equilibrium Indirect Effects in Space: Theory and Measurement |
| November 12 | Joshua Gottlieb, University of Chicago The Cost of Payment Uncertainty in Healthcare Markets |
| November 13 | Natalie Bau, UCLA Affirmative Action and Pre-College Human Capital |
| November 18 | Sebastian Sotelo, University of Michigan Migration, Specialization and Trade: Evidence from Brazil's March to the West |
| November 20 | Juan Vargas, Universidad Del Rosario The Rise and Persistence of Illegal Crops: Evidence from a Naive Policy Announcement |
| November 21 | Chang-Jin-Kim, University of Washington Markov-switching Models with Unknown Error Distributions: Identification and Inference within the Bayesian Framework |
| November 22 | Chad Kendall, USC Herding and Contrarianism: A Matter of Preference? |
| December 3 | Brandon Norton Pharmaceutical Pricing and Bargaining |
| December 10 | Sergi Yuksel, University of California, Santa Barbara "TBD" |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| January 14 | Jiatong Zhong, PhD student Reputation of Quality in International Trade: Evidence from Consumer Product Recalls |
| January 14 | Stanton Hudja, PhD student Voting for Experimentation: A Continuous Time Analysis |
| January 15 | Ben Raymond, PhD student The Stabilizing Effect of Referral-Networks on the Labor Market |
| January 16 | Ben Bushong, Michigan State Misattribution of reference Dependence: Evidence from Real-Effort Experiments |
| January 18 | Clint Harris, PhD student Estimating the Perceived Returns to College |
| February12 | Anite Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism |
| March 1 | Julian Reif, UIUC The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction |
| March 4 | Tanya Rosenblat, University of Michigan The Role of Memory in Belief Formation |
| March 7 | Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax |
| March 8 | Mostafa Beshkar, IU Bloomington Interdependence of Trade Policies in General Equilibrium |
| March 19 | Debasmita Da, PhD Student The Labor Market Impact of the SNAP Time Limits |
| March 22 | Eugenio Proto, Bristol University How Intelligent Players Teach Cooperation |
| March 25 | Songfa Zhong, National University of Singapore How Intelligent Players Teach Cooperation |
| March 27 | Evgeny Kagan, John Hopkins Equity Contracting in Start-ups |
| March 28 | Mouli Modek, PhD Student Team Competition in the Presence of Cognitive Diversity |
| March 28 | Daniel Bonin, PhD Student To Greener Pastures: The Impact of Legalizing Recreational Marijuana on Domestic Migration |
| April 3 | Matt Wiswall, Wisconsin University Child Care and Early Childhood Skills |
| April 4 | Pablo Ottonello, University of Michigan Global Banks and Systemic Debt Crisis |
| April 5 | Kyle Handley, Michigan University The Impct of Chinese Trade on U.S. Employment: The Good, the Bad and the Apocryphal |
| April 8 | Mason Reasner, PhD student Geography of Defense: The Aggregate Consequences of Place-Based Policy |
| April 9 | Xuewen Yu, PhD student Estimation, Influence and Forecasting Under Persistence Uncertainity |
| April 10 | Emily Owens, University of California, Irvine How Valuable are Civil Liberties? Evidence from Gang Injunctions, Crime and Housing Prices in Southern California |
| April 11 | Rod Garrat, University of California, Santa Barbara Entrepreneurial Incentives and the Role of Initial Coin Offerings |
| April 12 | Devin Pope, University of Chicago Number Processing, Medical Guidelines and Doctor Decision Making |
| April 15 | Rob Johnson, Notre Dame Technology, Trade Costs and Trade Elasticities with Multi-stage Production |
| April 16 | Town Oh, PhD student They Took our A's! How a Foreign Student STEM-shock Affected Domestic Students in the US |
| April 17 | Ed Norsal, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlants Bank Runs Without Sequential Service |
| April 19 | Vivian Yue, Emory University Export Growth and Aggregate Dynamics in Large Devaluations |
| April 23 | Xiaotian Liu, PhD student Indirect Inference Estimation of Spatial Autogressions |
| April 23 | Svetlana Beifuss, PhD student Pharmaceutical Opioid Marketing and Physician Prescribing Behavior |
| April 24 | Yifei Xu, PhD student The Impact of the EUETS on Regulated Firms: Abatement Technology in Manufacturing Sector |
| April 25 | Marti Mestieri, Northwestern University How Substitutable Are Products of Different Countries |
| April 26 | Hyunseung Oh, Vanderbilt International Diffusion of the Automobile: 1913 to 1940 |
| April 29 | Ryan Opera, UCSB What is Complex? |
| April 30 | William Brown, PhD student Platform Divergence and Competitive Policy Development |
| April 30 | Aaron Fehl, PhD student Austerity and Fiscal Stability in Greece: A Synthetic Control Study & Losing the Lottery: An Analysis of national Lotteries in Illinois |
| May 1 | Chen Wei, PhD student Can Job Rotation Eliminate the Ratchet Effect: Experimental Evidence |
| May 2 | Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe, Columbia University Exchange Rates and Uncovered Interest Differentials: The Role of Permanent Monetary Shocks |
| May 3 | Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| September 7 | Maria Arbatskara, Emory Liability or Labeling |
| September 12 | Jonathan Smith, Georgia State Take Two! SAT Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps |
| September 18 | Clint Harris, PhD Student Estimating the Perceived Returns to College |
| September 19 | Rodney Strachan Reducing Dimensions in a Large TVP-VAR |
| September 25 | Pritha Chaudhuri, PhD student Optimal Monetary Policy with Skill Heterogeneity and Wage Rigidity |
| October 3 | Somnath Das, PhD student Effect of Merger on Market Price and Product Quality: American and US Airways |
| October 4 | Andrew Compton, PhD student Decomposing the Societal Opportunity Costs of Property Crime |
| October 5 | Greg Leo Second-Order Beliefs and Gender |
| October 10 | Tingmingke Lu, PhD student Response of New Car Buyers to Alternative Energy Policies: The Role of Vehicle -Use Heterogeneity |
| October 11 | Ben Raymond, PhD student The Stabilizing Effect of Referral-Networks on the Labor Market |
| October 12 | Mark Huggett Taxing Top Earners: A Human Capital Perspective |
| October 15 | Jiatong Zhong, PhD student Reputation of Quality in International Trade: Evidence from Consumer Product Recalls |
| October 16 | Glen Waddell, University of Oregon Dispersion-Weighted Synthetic Controls |
| October 17 | Myongjin Kim, Oklahoma The Value of Relational Contracts in Outsourcing: Evidence from the 2008 shock to the US airline industry |
| October 19 | Eliza Forsthye, University of Illinois Occupational Job Ladders and the efficient Reallocation of Displaced Workers |
| October 22 | Chris Conlon, New York University The Rise of Common Ownership Incentives & Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry |
| October 23 | Torsten Santavirta, Uppsala University The Informative Content of Names - Intergenerational Evidence from the Longitudinal Veteran Database |
| October 24 | Stanton Hudja, PhD student Voting for Experimentation: A Continuous Time Analysis |
| November 2 | Mark Borgschulte, Illinois University Schooling and Political Activism in the Early Civil Rights Era |
| November 5 | Ben Brook, University of Chicago Revenue Guarantee Equivalence |
| November 8 | John Lazarev, NYU Quantifying Delay Propagation in Airline Networks |
| November 9 | Jonathan Skinner, Dartmouth College Misperception and Technology Adoption |
| November 14 | Magne Mgostad, Chicago University Imperfect Competition and Rent Sharing in the US Labor Market |
| November 15 | Peter Wagner, PhD student I Think That You Think? AN Experimental Analysis of Level-K Reasoning in Repeated Mixed Strategy Games |
| November 26 | Haiqing Zhao, PhD student Factor-Augmented Forecasting with Model Averaging |
| November 29 | Wumian Zhao, PhD student Liquidity, Collective Moral Hazard and Government Bailouts |
| December 3 | Jiangtao Li, Northwestern University Strategically Simple Mechanisms |
| December 4 | Fatemeh Momeni, University of Chicago Are Measures of Early Education Program too Pessimistic? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment |
| December 6 | Simon Board, UCLA Learning Dynamics in Social Networks |
| December 13 | Joe Altonji, Yale Marriage Dynamics, Earnings Dynamics, and Lifetime Family Income |
| Date | Seminars |
|---|---|
| March 2 | Ahmad Lashkaripour, IU-Bloomington Industry-Level Scale Economies: from Micro-Estimation to Macro-Implications |
| March 23 | Rob Metcalfe, Boston University The Welfare Effects of Social Recognition: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment with the YMCA |
| March 26 | Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago The Effects of Sexism on American Women: Norms or Discrimination? |
| March 30 | Flavio Cunha, Rice University Parental Beliefs and Investments in Human Capital |
| April 2 | Krzyztof Karbownik, Northwestern Univ. Intergenerational Effects of School Entry Policies |
| April 3 | Andres Rodriguez-Clare, UC Berkeley External Economies of Scale and Industrial Policy: A View from Trade |
| April 9 | Dan Sacks, Indiana University Does the Individual Mandate Affect Insurance Coverage? Regression Kink Evidence from the Population of Tax Returns |
| April 12 | Diane Schanzenbach, Northwestern Univ. Food Insecurity & the Great Recession: The Role of Unemployment Duration, Credit, and Housing Markets |
| April 13 | Jonathan Dingel, Chicago Booth The Spatial Structure of Productivity, Trade, and inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate |
| April 16 | Kirsten Cornelson, Notre Dame Residential Segregation and Social Segregation by Race: Evidence from Flickr |
| April 17 | Chris Conin, Notre Dame The Labor Market Effects on Antidepressants: Evidence from the 2007 FDA Black Box Warning |
| April 18 | Russell Weinstein, UIUC Geography and Employer Recruiting |
| April 24 | Yu Fai Choi, University of Oxford Consumer Search and Price Competition |
| April 30 | Ji Hyung Lee, UIUC On Lasso for Predictive Regression |