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 |
Estimation with Aggregate Shocks | 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 |
Investment, Heterogeneity, Inattention: the dynamic effects of monetary policy shocks revisited | Kimball |
| Friday, 4/5/19 |
Grad Recruitment | |||
| Friday, 4/12/19 |
CEA | Xiaohong Chen, Yale University |
CANCELLED | McCloskey |
| Thursday, 4/18/19 3:30 |
McGuire | Alwyn Young, London School of Economics |
Consistency without Inference: Instrumental Variables in Practical Application CANCELLED |
Keller |
| Friday, 4/26/19 |
McGuire | Treb Allen, Dartmouth College |
The Geography of Path Dependence | Nigai |
| Friday, 5/3/19 |
CEA | Guillermo Ordonez, University of Pennsylvania |
Retirement in the Shadow (Banking) | Peri |