Seminar Series 2018–19

All seminars are held in ECON 5 from 3:00–4:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted. 

Date

Sponsor

Speaker

Title

Contact
Thursday,
8/30/18		 CEA Pascal Michaillat,
Brown University		 Pricing under Fairness Concerns McCloskey
Wednesday,
9/5/18		 CEA Sumner La Croix,
University of Hawaii		 Did Speculation In Land Pay Off for British Investors? Buying and Selecting Land in South Australia, 1835-1850 Carlos
Friday,
9/7/18		 CEA Stuart Rosenthal,
Syracuse University		 Separating Selection From Spillover Effects: Using the Mode to Estimate the Returns to City Size de Bartolomé
Friday,
9/14/18		 CEA Pablo d'Erasmo,
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia		 Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics Peri
Friday,
9/28/18		 CEA Bernard Salanié,
Columbia University		 Empirical Work on Matching Models Carballo or
Mansfield
Friday,
10/5/18		 CEA Yingyao Hu,
Johns Hopkins University		 Illuminating Economic Growth Liu
Friday,
10/12/18		 CEA Joseph Price,
Brigham Young University		 Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records:
New Data Linking the 1900-1940 US Censuses and Death Records		 Jaworski
Friday,
10/19/18		 CEA Arthur Lewbel,
Boston College		 Consumption Peer Effects and Utility Needs in India Liu
Friday,
10/26/18		 McGuire Steve Yeaple,
Pennsylvania State University		 Too Much of a Good Thing? Labor Market Imperfections as a Source of Exceptional Exporter Performance Keller
Friday,
11/2/18		 CEA Michael Ostrovsky,
Stanford Graduate School of Business		 Carpooling and the Economics of Self-Driving Cars Baranov
Thursday,
11/8/18
3:30-5:00		 McGuire Ferdinand Rauch,
UC Berkeley/Oxford		 Of Mice and Merchants: Trade and Growth in the Iron Age Keller
Friday,
11/9/18		 CEA Robert Gibbons,
MIT		 Organizations and Institutions: Governance of Unsolved political Problems? Kim
Friday,
11/16/18		 McGuire Alan Spearot,
UC Santa Cruz and Stanford		 Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Northern Tanzania Keller
Friday,
11/30/18		 CEA Jared Rubin,
Chapman University		 A Time to Print, a Time to Reform Jaworski
Friday,
12/14/18		 McGuire Anna Maria Mayda,
Georgetown University		 The political economy of protection in GVCs:
Evidence from Chinese micro data		 Maskus
Friday,
2/1/19		 CEA Stephen Heblich,
University of Bristol		 East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting Jaworski
Friday,
2/8/19		 CEA Judd Boomhower, 
University of California, San Diego		 Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters Hughes
Friday,
2/15/19		 CEA Andres Santos,
University of California,
Los Angeles		 The Wild Bootstrap with a “Small” Number of “Large” Clusters McCloskey
Friday,
2/22/19		 CEA Guido Kuersteiner,
University of Maryland		 Limit Theorems for Data with Network Structure Liu
Friday,
3/1/19		 CEA Leah Boustan,
Princeton University		 The Effect of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from Closing the Border in the 1920s Jaworski
Friday,
3/8/19		 CEA David Neumark,
University of California Irvine		 The Long-Run Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women's Earnings Mansfield
Friday,
3/15/19		 CEA Matthew Rognlie,
Northwestern University		   Kimball
Friday,
4/5/19		 Grad Recruitment  
Friday,
4/12/19		 CEA Xiaohong Chen,
Yale University		   McCloskey
Thursday,
4/18/19
3:30		 McGuire Alwyn Young, 
London School of Economics		 Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application Keller
Friday,
4/26/19		 McGuire Treb Allen,
Dartmouth College		   Nigai
Friday,
5/3/19		 CEA Guillermo Ordonez,
University of Pennsylvania		   Peri