Past Economic Seminars
All Fall 2020 Seminars will be held via Zoom.
Friday, 09/18/20
4:00 pm
Suqin Ge, Virginia Tech
"Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes"
Friday, 09/25/20
4:00 pm
Jorge M. Aguero, University of Connecticut
"Human Capital, Internal Migration and Structural Transformation in Africa"
Friday, 10/02/20
4:00 pm
Arun Gautham Chandrasekhar, Stanford University
Interacting Regional Policies in Containing a Disease
Monday, 10/05/20
4:00 pm
Danila Serra, Texas A&M
"Gender and leadership in organizations: Promotions, demotions and angry workers"
Friday, 10/09/20
4:00 pm
Amanda Gregg, Middlebury College
"Corporate Finance of Industry in a Developing Economy: Panel Evidence from Imperial Russia"
Friday, 10/16/20
4:00 pm
Jan Hausfeld, University of Amsterdam
"Redistribution beyond equality and status quo"
Monday, 10/19/20
4:00 pm
Mariagiovanna Baccara, Washington University in St. Louis
"Task Allocation and On-the-job Training"
Friday, 10/23/20
4:00 pm
Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell University
"Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion"
Monday, 11/02/20
4:00 pm
Asen Kochov, University of Rochester
"Sequential Trading with Coarse Contingencies"
Monday, 11/09/20
4:00 pm
David Gill, Purude University
"Cognitive Skills, Strategic Sophistication, and Life Outcomes"
Friday, 11/13/20
4:00 pm
Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon
"Pro-capitalist Culture and Long-Term Development"
Monday, 11/16/20
4:00 pm
Bart Lipman, Boston University
“Acquisition of/Stochastic Evidence”
Friday, 11/20/20
4:00 pm
Celeste Carruthers, University of Tennessee
“'Free College' Promises, High School Achievement, and College Enrollment”
Friday, 12/04/20
4:00 pm
Donna Feir, University of Victoria
“'The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains”
Monday, 12/07/20
4:00 pm
Timo Hiller, PUC Rio
"Targeting in Adaptive Networks"
Friday, 01/31/20
Mohammad Jahan-Parvar, Federal Reserve
"SONOMA: a Small Open ecoNOmy for MAcrofinance"
Friday, 02/07/20
Erik Kimbrough, Chapman University
"A Theory of Injunctive Norms"
Monday, 02/10/20
Donghyuk Kim, Iowa State University
"Government Incentives and Firm Location Choices"
Monday, 02/24/20
Edi Karni, Johns Hopkins
"Competitive Equilibrium Fraud in Markets for Credence-Goods"
Friday, 02/28/20
Attila Ambrus, Duke University
"Investments in social ties, risk sharing and inequality"
Monday, 03/02/20
Andrew Foster, Brown University
"Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size?"
The remaining seminars were cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19
Monday, 03/16/20
Nancy Lutz, National Science Foundation
Friday, 03/20/20
Dongrul Lee, University of Alabama
Friday, 03/23/20
Marco Battaglini, Cornell University
Monday, 03/30/20
Mehmet Caner, North Carolina State University
Friday, 04/03/20
Hendrik Rommeswinkel, National Taiwan University
Monday, 04/06/20
Efe Ok, New York University
Friday, 04/10/20
David Ahn, University of California - Berkeley
Friday, 04/17/20
David Gill, Purdue University
Monday, 04/20/20
Fabrizio Zilibotti, Yale University
Friday, 04/24/20
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University
Monday, 04/27/20
Miaojie Yu, Peking University
Friday, 05/01/20
Pawel Dziewulski, University of Sussex
Friday, 9/6/19
Jonathan Chapman, NYU - Abu Dhabi
Loss Attitudes in the U.S. Population: Evidence from Dynamically Optimized Sequential Experimentation (DOSE)
Monday, 9/9/19
Faruk Gul, Princeton University
Market Design and Walrasian Equilibruim
Friday, 9/13/19
Colin Camerer, California Institute of Technology
Using Visual Salience in Empirical Game Theory
Monday, 9/16/19
Brad Shapiro, University of Chicago
Generalizable and Robust TV Advertising Effects
Monday, 9/23/19
Donna Ginther, University of Kansas
Do State TANF Policies Affect Child Abuse and Neglect?
Monday, 9/30/19
Thomas Stratmann, George Mason University
Moral Cost in Weighted Committee Decisions - Abstract
Monday, 10/7/19
Sudipta Sarangi, Virginia Tech
Network Formation with Multigraphs and Strategic Complementarities
Friday, 10/11/19
Jeff Kline, University of Queensland
Perfecting Correlated Equilibria with Mediator Mistakes
Monday, 10/14/19
Juan Moreno-Ternero, University of Seville
Sharing Revenues from Broadcasting Sports Leagues
Monday, 10/21/19
Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho, University of New South Wales
The Causal Effect of FTAs on the Trade Margins: Evidence from
Geographically Distant Partners
Friday, 10/25/19
Esfandiar Maasoumi, Emory University
Generalized Aggregation of Misspecified Models: With An Application to Asset Pricing
Monday, 10/28/19
Asim Khwaja, Harvard University
Glass Walls: Experimental Evidence on Access Constraints Faced by Women - Abstract
Monday, 12/2/19
Mo Xiao
License Complementarity and Package Bidding: U.S. Spectrum Auctions
2/15/19
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Virginia Tech
The Effect of Single-Sex Education on Educational Attainment of Men and Women: Evidence from Iran
2/22/19
Sean Horan, University of Montreal
Agenda in Legislative Decision-Making
3/4/19
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
Technological Advance and the Changing Nature of Work
3/6/19
Eric Bahel, Virgnia Tech
Strategyproof Choice of Social Acts: Bilaterality, Dictatorship and Consensuality
3/18/19
Jane Ryngaert, Wake Forest University
Do You Know That I Know That You Know?: Higher Order Beliefs in Survey Data
3/22/19
J. Isaac Miller, University of Missouri
Testing Cointegrating Relationships Using Irregular and Non-Contemporaneous Series with an Application to Paleoclimate Data
3/25/19
Justin Marion, University of California Santa Cruz
Why did firms practice segregation? Evidence from movie theaters during Jim Crow
3/29/19
Liza Charroin, University of Heidelberg
Homophily, peer effects and dishonesty
4/1/19
Ryan Webb, University of Toronto
Pairwise Normalization: A Neuroeconomic Theory of Multi-Attribute Choice
4/5/19
Emel Filiz Ozbay, University of Maryland
The Relevance of Irrelevant Information
4/8/19
Timothy Cason, Purdue University
Social Dilemmas with Agency Risk
4/12/19
Lung-fei Lee, Ohio State University
The Search for Best Linear and Quadratic Moment Conditions of the SAR Model
4/19/19
Mira Frick, Yale University
Misinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning
4/22/19
Chandan Kumar Jha, Le Moyne College
The Role of Historical Resource Scarcity in Modern Gender Inequality
4/26/19
Simon Alder, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Political Distortions and Infrastructure Networks in China: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Analysis
4/29/19
Katherine A. Eriksson, University of California Davis
The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothing Party
5/1/19
Xing Xia, Yale - NUS
Selective mortality and the long-term effects of early-life exposure to natural disasters
5/6/19
Rabah Amir, University of Iowa
Oliopoly with network effects: On the private and social incentives for interconnection
8/24/18
Brian McCaig, Wilfrid Lauier University
Export markets and household business performance: Evidence from Vietnam
8/27/18
Indrajit Ray, Cardiff University
Truthful Cheap Talk: Theory and Experiment
8/31/18
Myrna Wooders, Vanderbilt University
Non-Cooperative Team Formation and a Team Formation Mechanism
9/10/18
Todd Sarver, Duke University
An Evolutionary Perspective on Ambiguity
9/21/18
Alexander Persaud, University of Richmond
A (Paid) Passage to India: Migration and revealed willingness to pay for upper-caste status
9/28/18
John Quah, Johns Hopkins University
Revealed Price Preference: Theory and Empirical Analysis
10/8/18
Bernard Fortin, Laval University
Gender and Peer Effects on Performance in Social Networks
10/15/18
Tarun Jain, Indian School of Business
Respaping adolescents' gender attitudes: Evidence from a school-based experiment in India
10/29/18
John Rehbeck, Ohio State University
Assessing Misspecification and Aggregation for Structured Preferences
11/5/18
Aris Spanos, Virginia Tech
The Replication Crises and the Trustworthiness of Empirical Evidence
11/9/18
Vijay Krishna, Florida State University
Insurance and Inequality with Persisten Private Information
11/12/18
Peter Duersch, University of Heidelberg
Price Competition in an Inflationary Environment
11/29/18
Mackenzie Alston, Texas A&M University
The (Perceived) Cost of Being Female: An Experimental Investigation of Strategic Responses to Discrimination
11/30/18
P.J. Healy, Ohio State University
Belief-Free Strategies in Repeated Games with Stochastically-Perfect Monitoring: An Experimental Test
12/3/18
Roee Teper, Pittsburgh University
Exploration and Correlation
2/19/18
Alan Miller, University of Haifa
Voting in Corporations
2/23/18
Enghin Atalay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3/23/18
Shing-Yi Wang, University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School
Property Rights, Land Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China
3/30/18
Daniel Martin, Northwestern University
4/6-7/18
Virginia Tech Workshop on Advances in Decision Theory 2018
4/13/18
Pierre-Daniel Sarte, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Rethinking Detroit
4/16/18
Fahad Khalil, University of Washington
Competitive Procurement with Ex Post Moral Hazard
4/20/18
Colin Xu, World Bank
The War Origin of Property Rights and State Capacity: The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion
4/27/18
Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University
Silverback Bankers