Past Economic Seminars
Friday, 09/08/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Dan Gibbs, Virginia Tech, PPE
“Representation in Collective Policymaking: the Veto’s Appeal”
Monday, 09/11/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Emerson Melo, Indiana University
“Wishful thinking is risky thinking: A statistical-distance-based approach”
Friday, 09/22/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Brantly Callaway, University of Georgia
"Difference-in-differences with a continuous treatment"
Monday, 09/25/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Ananth Seshadri, Univ. of Wisconsin
"On the origin and causes of economic growth"
Monday, 10/02/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Madison Arnsbarger, Univ. of Pittsburgh
"The Political Economy of Women's Suffrage and World War I"
Wednesday, 10/04/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Kailing Shen, Australian National University
Industries as in a Network: Micro Evidence from Job Search
Monday, 10/09/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Francisca Antman, Univ. of Colorado Boulder
Innovation Nation: Evidence from Broadening Access to Ph.D. Training in the U.S.
Monday, 10/16/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Scott Adams, Univ. of Wisconsin
"The Local Effect of School Shootings on Hospital and Mortality"
Friday, 10/20/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Yuan Liao, Rutgers University
"Fast Inference for Quantile Regression with Tens of Millions of Observations"
Friday, 11/03/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Chao Wei, George Washington University
"A Tale of Two Families: Societal Selection Mechanism, Marital Formation, and Parental Human Capital Investment"
Monday, 11/06/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Yichen Su, Federal Reserve - Dallas
"The Effects of Working from Home on the Agglomeration Economies of Cities: Evidence from Advertised Wages"
Friday, 11/10/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Joseph Flavian Gomes, UC Louvain
"It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! Using Mass Media to Fight Intolerance"
Monday, 11/13/23
4:00 pm
Derring 3081
Anton Badev, Federal Reserve Board
"Interconnected DeFi: Ripple Effects from the Terra Collapse"
Friday, 12/01/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Jeongbin Kim, Florida State University
"Patience is Power: Bargaining and Payoff Delay"
Friday, 01/20/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Job Candidate
Wednesday, 01/25/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Job Candidate
Friday, 01/27/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Job Candidate
Monday, 01/30/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Job Candidate
Wednesday, 02/01/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Job Candidate
Friday, 02/03/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Job Candidate
Monday, 02/06/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Job Candidate
Friday, 02/10/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Anqi Li, Virginia Tech
Rationally inattentive statistical discrimination: Arrow meets Phelps
Friday, 02/17/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Krishna Dasartha, Boston University
Learning from Viral Content
Friday, 03/17/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Antonio Galvao, Michigan State University
Intertemporal Substitution and Risk with Multiple Assets and Quantile Preferences
Monday, 03/20/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Nathaniel Burke, West Virginia University
Inference from Biased Polls
Friday, 03/24/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Gaurav Chiplunkar, University of Virginia
Decentralizing the Department - Conservation Trade-off: Evidence from Forestland Diversions in India
Monday, 03/27/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Jaden Chen, UNC Chapel Hill
Market Selection with Recursive Preferences: A General Framework and Robust Analysis
Friday, 03/31/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Yingyao Hu, Johns Hopkins University
"Revealing Unobservables by Deep Learning: Generative Element Extraction Networks (GEEN)"
Monday, 04/03/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Lakshmi Iyer, Notre Dame
The Importance of Being Local: Administrative Decentralization and Human Development
Friday, 04/07/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Qingqing Cao, Michigan State University
Adverse Selection, Liquidity Shortage, and Government Liquidity Facilities
Monday, 04/10/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Friday, 04/14/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Yuhta Ishii, Penn State
Monitoring with Rich Data
Monday, 04/17/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Khai Chiong, University of Texas - Dallas
AI and AI-human based Salesforce Hiring using Conversational Interview Videos
Friday, 04/21/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Nic Tideman, Virginia Tech
Why the Fed Should Have an Instrument Equivalent to Fiscal Policy
Monday, 04/24/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Fang Han, University of Washington
Estimation based on nearest neighbor matching: from density ratio to average treatment effect
Friday, 04/28/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Santanu Chatterjee, University of Georgia
Road Infrastructure and the Skill Premium: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Monday, 05/01/23
4:00 pm
Pamplin 32
Satoshi Fukuda, Bocconi Univeristy
Shaping Institutions
Monday, 08/29/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Charles Courtemanche, University of Kentucky
School Reopenings, Mobility, and COVID-19 Spread: Evidence from Texas
Monday, 09/12/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Terry Cheung, Academia Sinica
"Education Attainment and Structural Transformation"
Monday, 09/19/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Archisman Chakraborty, Yeshiva University
Selected Facts
Monday, 09/26/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Graduate Presentations
Chao Hung Chan
and
Promit Chaudhuri
Friday, 09/30/22
2:00 pm
Pamplin 2003
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University
Model Complexity, Expectations, and Asset Prices
Monday, 10/03/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
George Charlson, Cambridge University
Digital Gold? Pricing, inequality and participation in data markets
Tuesday, 10/04/22
3:30 pm
NCB 130A
Brianna Felegi, Notre Dame
Supply-Side Responses in School Choice
Monday, 10/10/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania
Contagion and Equilibria in Diversified Equity Holding Networks
Monday, 10/17/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada
House Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises: Evidence from the U.S. Listings Data
Friday, 10/21/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
William Dodds, Tulane University
Incentive Compatibility in Multidimensional Screening
Monday, 10/24/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Katy Bergstrom, World Bank
Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Familia
Friday, 10/28/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Amanda Agan, Rutgers University
"Removing the Mark: Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation"
Monday, 10/31/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Tim Cason, Purdue University
Contingent Reasoning and Dynamic Public Goods Provision
Friday, 11/4/22
3:30 pm
Pamplin 31
Graduate Presentations:
Promit Chaudhuri, Nazanin Sedaghatkish, and Long Minh Vu
Friday, 11/11/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
Racial Differences in Access to New Deal Work Relief in 1940
Monday, 11/14/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institue of Technology
Does Minimum Wage Increase or Reduce Crime? Evidence from a Negative Income Shock
Monday, 11/28/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Ernesto Rivera Mora, University of Arizona
Neutral Mechanisms: On the Feasibility of Information Sharing
Friday 12/02/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Yan Bai, University of Rochester
World Financial Cycles
Monday, 01/24/22
4:00 pm
Sarah Quintanar, Midwestern State Univ - Texas
"Uncovering Data: How Ordinary Police Work Can Provide Insights on Critical Influences and Bias"
Friday, 01/28/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Job Market Candidate
Monday, 01/31/22
4:00 pm
Robeson 210
Job Market Candidate
Friday, 02/04/22
9:00 am
Via Zoom
Job Market Candidate
Monday, 03/14/22
4:00 pm
Via Zoom
Chen Cheng, Johns Hopkins University
"A Theory of Multiplexity: Sustaining Cooperation with Multiple Relations"
Wednesday, 03/16/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 2002
Andrzej Baranski, NYU Abu Dhabi
"An Experiment on Gender Representation in Majoritarian Bargaining ''
Monday, 03/21/22
4:00 pm
Via Zoom
Luca Merlino, University of Antwerp
"Debunking Rumors in Networks"
Friday, 03/25/22
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Noel Johnson, George Mason University
"The Impact of the Black Death on Printing Press Adoption"
Monday, 03/28/22
4:00 pm
via ZOOM
Kremena Valkanova, ETH Zurich
"Markov Stochastic Choice"
Monday, 04/04/22
4:00 pm
Robeson 210
Rowena Gray, UC Merced
Task Inequality and Racial Mobility Over the Long Twentieth Century
Monday 04/11/22
4:00 pm
via ZOOM
Victor Aguiar, Western University
"Dynamic Stochastic Revealed Preference"
Monday 05/2/22
4:00 pm
Robeson 210
Sumit Agarwal, National University of Singapore
"Do sanitary pads alleviate period poverty and improve girls’ educational outcomes?"
Monday, 09/13/21
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Bo Zhou, Durham University, UK
"A general semiparametric approach when distribution is considered a nuisance parameter"
Monday, 10/04/21
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Kirby Nielsen, Caltech
"When Choices are Mistakes"
Wednesday, 10/06/21
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Sergio Barrera, University of Minnesota
"Is College Worth it for Me?"
Friday, 10/15/21
4:00 pm
Via ZOOM
Shaowei Ke, University of Michigan
Learning from a Black Box
Friday, 11/12/21
4:00 pm
Via ZOOM
Euncheol Shin, KAIST
Influence Maximization in Networks
Monday 11/15/21
3:00 pm
Via ZOOM
Colin Stewart, Univ. of Toronto
Consumer Surplus in the Dark
Monday 12/6/21
4:00 pm
Pamplin 31
Kwok Ping Tsang, Virginia Tech
"What Does Data Quality Tell Us? Learning Local Cultural Traits from Qing China Grain Prices"
All Spring 2021 Seminars will be held via Zoom. Click here to attend!
Monday, 02/8/21
4:00 pm
Gabriele Camera, Chapman University
"Introducing New Forms of Digital Money: Evidence from the Laboratory"
Friday, 2/26/21
4:00 pm
Alok Bhargava, University of Maryland
Econometric Modelling of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Concentrations, Ambient Temperatures and Ocean Deoxygenation
Friday, 3/5/21
3:00 pm
Friederike Mengel, Univeristy of Essex
"Irrational Statistical Discrimination"
Friday, 3/12/21
4:00 pm
Tim Hubbard, Colby College
"Bid-Separation in Asymmetric Auctions"
Monday, 3/15/21
4:00 pm
Nancy Qian, Northwestern University
State Capacity and Discrimination: WWII U.S. Army Enlistment
Friday, 3/19/21
4:00 pm
Bohdan Kukharskyy, City University of New York
Decoupling Global Value Chains
Monday, 3/22/21
4:00 pm
Ozan Candogan, University of Chicago Booth School of Busines
Persuasion in Networks: Public Signals and k-Cores
Friday, 3/26/21
CANCELLED
Rowena Gray, University of California
A Rising Tide? The Local Incidence of the Second Wave of Globalization
Monday, 3/29/21
4:00 pm
Pawel Dziewulski, University of Sussex
A comprehensive method for studying non-transitive indifferences and approximate utility maximisation with limited data
Friday, 4/2/21
4:00 pm
Jamein Cunningham, Univ. of Memphis
Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths
Monday, 4/5/21
4:00 pm
Annie Liang, Univ. of Pennsylvania
"Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information"
Friday, 4/9/21
4:00 pm
Jorge Miranda-Pinto, University of Queensland
"Trade Credit and Sectoral Comovement during the Great Recession"
Monday, 4/12/21
4:00 pm
Hiroki Nishimura, University of California Riverside
"Revealed Preferences of Individual Players in Sequential Games"
Friday, 4/16/21
4:00 pm
Subha Mani, Fordham University
Experimental Evidence from an Integrated Early Childhood Parenting Program in Sierra Leone
Friday, 4/23/21
4:00 pm
Priya Mukherjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Political Punishment and Financial Safety Nets: Evidence from India's Demonetization
Friday, 4/30/21
4:00 pm
Anusha Chari, Univ. of North Carolina
Capital Flows in Risky Times: Risk-on/Risk-off and Emerging Market Tail Risk
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