Link to past brown-bag seminars
Spring 2016
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, Jan. 29 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky | Sparsity-Based Estimation of a Panel Quantile Count Data Model with Applications to Big Data |
Friday, Feb. 5 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota | The Impact of Credit Constraints on Employment, Earnings, and Entrepreneurship |
Friday, Feb. 12 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
David Berger, Northwestern University | "House Prices and Consumer Spending" |
Friday, Feb. 19 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Victor Rios-Rull, University of Pennsylvania | Financial Frictions, Asset Prices, and the Great Recession |
Friday, Mar. 4 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Kristine Brown, Economist with Rand Corporation | "Retirement Benefits and Teacher Retention: A Structural Modeling Approach" |
Friday, Mar. 11 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Kurt Mitman, Stockholm University | Labor Market Implications of Unemployment Benefit Extensions |
Friday, Apr. 22 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
James MacKinnon, Queen's University, Ont. Canada | "Difference-in-differences inference with few treated clusters" |
Fall 2015
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, Aug. 28 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
David Jacho-Chavez, Emory University | Functional Principal Component Analysis of Density Families with Complex Survey Data on UK Prices |
Friday, Sept. 11 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Zongwu Cai, University of Kansas | A New Semiparametric Quantile Panel Data Model: Theory and Applications |
Friday, Sept. 25 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Tim Landvoigt, University of Texas/Austin | Phasing Out the GSEs |
Friday, Oct. 2 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Baojun Jiang, Washington University in St. Louis | Signaling through Price and Quality to Consumers with Fairness Concerns |
Friday, Oct. 30 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Robert Reed, University of Alabama | Banking Concentration, Capital Accumulation, and Monetary Policy |
Friday, Nov. 6 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Liang Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Job Search Over the Life Cycle |
Friday, Nov. 13 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Thomas Winberry | Lumpy Investment, Business Cycles, and Stimulus Policy |
Friday, Dec. 4 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
David Wiczer | Network Search: Climbing the Job Ladder Faster |
Friday, Dec. 11 3:30 pm 212 Middlebush |
Stephen Terry Boston University |
The Macro Impact of Short-Termism |
Spring 2015
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday Feb. 6 3:30 p.m. Cornell 206 |
Szu-Chi Huang, Stanford University | What Drives You? A Dynamic Analysis of Motivation in Different Stages of Goal Pursuit. |
Friday, Feb 27 3:30 p.m. Cornell 206 |
Harris Schlesinger, University of Alabama | "Higher-Order Ambiguity Attitudes" |
Friday, March 6 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Robert de Jong,Ohio State University | The Econometrics of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter |
Friday, March 13 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Roger Koenker, University of Illinois | Unobserved Heterogeneity in Income Dynamics: An Empirical Bayes Perspective |
Friday, March 20 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Jim West, Baylor University | The Impact of Intergroup Contact on Racial Attitudes and Revealed Preferences |
Friday, April 10 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Unemployment Crises" |
Friday, April 17 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Aimee Chin, University of Houston | Impact of Bank Accounts on Migrant Savings and Remittances: Evidence from a Field Experiment |
Friday, May 1 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Eric Hanushek, Stanford University | The Evolution of Charter School Quality |
Friday, May 8 1:20 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Tom Holmes, University of Minnesota | "Competition for Land in a Market for Control with Economies of Density" |
Fall 2014
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, September 5 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Peter Cramton, University of Maryland |
The High-Frequency Trading Arms Race: Frequent Batch Auctions as a Market Design Response |
Wed, September 10 10:00 a.m. N206 Memorial Union |
Lisa George, City University of New York | Local News Online: Aggregators, Geo-Targeting and the Market for Local News |
Friday, September 12 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Ryan Oprea, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Testing the Theory of Continuous Time Games |
Friday, September 19 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Simone Schaner, Dartmouth College | The Persistent Power of Behavioral Change: Long-Run Impacts of Temporary Savings Subsidies for the Poor |
Friday, September 26 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Robert Porter*, Northwestern University | Testing Competition in U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Bidding |
Friday, October 3 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Brent Hickman, University of Chicago | Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment |
Friday, October 10 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Silke Forbes, Case Western Reserve University |
Doctor Switching Costs in Health Insurance |
Friday, October 17 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Ariel Rubinstein*, Tel Aviv University /New York University |
Complex Questionnaires |
Friday, October 24 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Brian Rogers, Washington University in St. Louis | Cooperation, Punishment and Immigration |
Friday, October 31 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Limor Golan, Washington University in St. Louis | What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital? |
Friday, November 7 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Cary Deck, University of Arkansas |
Do Prediction Markets Aid Defenders in a Weak-Link Contest? |
Friday, November 14 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Daniela Puzzello, Indiana University, Bloomington |
Trading Institutions in Experimental Asset Markets: Theory and Evidence |
Friday, November 21 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Michael Jetter, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín (Colombia) | Terrorism and the Media |
Friday, December 5 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Marcelle Chauvet, University of California, Riverside | Fear and Loathing in the Housing Market: Evidence from Search Query Data |
Friday, December 12 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Rebecca Thornton, University of Michigan | The Demand for Medical Male Circumcision |
Spring 2013
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, Jan. 17 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
Aaron Hedlund, Baylor University | The Cyclical Dynamics of Illiquid Housing, Debt, and Foreclosures |
Tuesday, Jan. 21 2:00 p.m. S203 Memorial Union |
Paul Sullivan, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | Implications of U.S. Tax Policy for House Prices, Rents and Homeownership |
Friday, Jan. 24 9:00 a.m. 2205 A&B Student Center |
Brent Bundick, Boston College | Forward Guidance Under Uncertainty |
Monday, Jan. 27 3:45 p.m. S016 Memorial Union |
Felix Wellschmied, University of Bonn | The Adverse Effects of Asset Means-Testing Income Support |
Friday, March 14 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Mo Xiao, University of Arizona | Losing to Win: Reputation Management of Online Sellers |
Friday, April 4 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Li Hao, University of Arkansas | Analysis of Dynamic Games with Biased Beliefs: An Experimental Study |
Friday, April 11 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Thomas DeLeire, Georgetown University | The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply |
Friday, April 18 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Yoosoon Chang, Indiana University, Bloomington | Nonstationarity in Time Series of State Densities |
Thursday, April 24 12:30 pm 217 Mumford |
Marianne Bitler, University of California, Irvine | The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: The Safety Net, Living Arrangements, and Poverty in the Great Recession |
Friday, April 25 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Espen Henricksen, UC-Davis | TBA |
Fall 2013
Date/Time/Place | Topic |
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Friday, August 23 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
A Quantitative Theory of Credit Scoring |
Friday, September 6 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
Is the World Getting Smaller After All? On the Measurement of International Relative to Intranational Trade Costs in Gravity Equations |
Friday, September 13 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
Choices, Values and Neurons |
Monday, Sept. 16, 5:00 pm Allen Auditorium |
The Economy Today from the Perspective of the Great Depression, and the Great Depression from the Perspective of the Economy of Today |
Wed., Sept. 18 7:00 pm, Student Center 2501 (Leadership Auditorium) |
Stand Up Economics |
Friday, September 27 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
Inference on Treatment Effects after Selection Amongst High-Dimensional Controls |
Friday, October 4 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
The Role of Selection Bias in Estimated Racial Healthcare Disparities: Evidence from Travelers |
Friday, October 11 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
If financial development matters, then how? National banks in the United States 1870–1900 |
Friday, October 18 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
Experimental Evidence of Bank Runs as Coordination Failures: Do Sunspots Matter? |
Monday, October 28 10:00 a.m. S203 Memorial Union |
Testing for Multiple Bubbles Testing for Multiple Bubbles 1: Historical Episodes of Exuberance and Collapse in the S&P 500 Testing for Multiple Bubbles 2: Limit Theory of Real Time Detectors |
Friday, November 1 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
Analyzing Emergent Phenomena with Synthetic Control: An Application to a Social Media-Inspired Boycott |
Friday, November 8 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
Inference Based on SVARs Identified with Sign and Zero Restrictions: Theory and Applications |
Friday, November 15 3:30 p.m. 309 Middlebush |
The Reverse Matthew Effect: Catastrophe and Consequence in Scientific Teams |
Spring 2013
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, January 18 3:30 p.m. S110 Memorial Union |
Pau S. Pujolas, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona | Trade Patterns, Income Differences and Gains from Trade |
Tuesday, January 22 3:30 p.m. S110 Memorial Union |
David Kaplan, UC San Diego |
IDEAL Inference on Conditional Quantiles via Interpolated Duals of Exact Analytic L-statistics |
Thursday, January 24 3:30 p.m. S16 Memorial Union |
Minkee Song, Columbia University | Asymptotic Theory for Dynamic Heterogeneous Panels with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Its Applications |
Friday, January 25 9:30 a.m. S110 Memorial Union |
Yoonseok Lee, University of Michigan | Model Selection in the Presence of Incidental Parameters |
, January 31 3:30 p.m. S110 Memorial Union |
Jose Asturias, University of Minnesota | Endogenous Transportation Costs |
Friday, February 1 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
Nathan Converse, London School of Economics | Uncertainty, Capital Flows, and Maturity Mismatch |
Friday, March 1 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
Jiandong Ju, University of Oklahoma | Industrial Dynamics, Endowment Structure,And Economic Growth |
Friday, March 8 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
Marius Schwartz, Georgetown University | Monopoly Differential Pricing and Welfare |
Friday, March 15 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
Daniel Sanches, Philadelphia Fed | On the Inherent Instability of Private Money |
Friday, April 5 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
John Elder, Colorado State University |
Jumps in Oil Prices: The Role of Economic News |
Friday, April 12 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
Maria Fitzpatrick, Cornell University | Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration |
Friday, April 19 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
Carmen Astorne-Figari, University of Memphis |
The Bunny and the Batteries: Advertising to Consumers with Limited Attention |
Friday, April 26 3:30 p.m. 210 Middlebush |
Tim Sass, Georgia State University |
Certification Requirements and Teacher Quality: A Comparison of Alternative Routes to Teaching |
Fall 2012
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, August 31 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Amy Farmer, University of Arkansas |
Competitive Markets When Customers Anticipate Stockouts |
Friday, September 28 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
William Evans, University of Notre Dame | The White/Black Educational Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term onsequences of Crack Cocaine Markets |
Friday, October 12 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Sarah Turner, University of Virginia | "Down and Enrolled: The Impact of the Great Recession on Investments in Post-Secondary Education" |
Friday,October 19 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
William Brock, University of Wisconsin/University of Missouri | Animal Spirits, Heterogeneous Expectations and the Amplification and Duration of Crisis |
Friday, November 2 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Zheng Michael Song, University of Chicago | "Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China" |
Thursday, November 8 3:30 p.m. Memorial Union, N222/223 (Joplin/Boone) |
Kelly Ragan, Stockholm School of Economics | Sex and the Single Girl: Cultural Persistence and the Pill |
Friday, November 9 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Mariagiovanna Baccara, Washington University in St. Louis |
"Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race" |
Friday, November 30 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Kevin Huang, Vanderbilt University |
“Sectoral Interactions and Monetary Policy Under Costly Price Adjustments” |
Friday, December 7 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlesbush | Georgia Kosmopoulou, University of Oklahoma | Limiting Price Uncertainty in Procurement Contracting: Policy Effects on Bidding Behavior and Firm Survival |
Spring 2012
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, January 20 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Cyril Monnet, University of Bern |
Why Rent When You Can Buy? A Theory of Repurchase Agreements |
Friday, February 3 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
John Mayo, Georgretown University |
Demand in a Portfolio-Choice Environment: The Evolution of Telecommunications |
Friday, February 10 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Ryan Lampe, DePaul University |
"This Paper is Not Yet Rated" |
Friday, February 17 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Guangjian Xu Renmin University of China |
Why Has China's Final Consumption Rate Declined Since 1978? Causes and Implications |
Friday,February 24 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Emily Owens, Cornell University |
"The Birth of the Organized Crime? The American Temperance Movement and Market-Based Violence" |
Friday, March 9 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University |
"The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood" |
Friday, March 16 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Matti Sarvimaki, Aalto University and MIT |
"Why People Stay in Rural Areas? Evidence from a Resettlement Policy" |
Friday, April 6 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Joon Park, University of Indiana |
High Frequency Regressions with 1. Evaluating Factor Pricing Models |
Friday, April 13 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Greg Huffman, Vanderbilt University |
"Unemployment and Welfare Implications of the Current US Tax Treatment of Employer-Provided Medical Insurance" |
Thursday, April 19 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Gabriele Camera, Purdue University |
"The Coordination Value of Monetary Exchange: Experimental Evidence" |
Friday, April 20 3:30 p.m. 133 Middlebush |
Kei Hirano, University of Arizona | "Identification of Time and Risk Preferences in Buy Price Auctions" |
Fall 2011
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, Sept. 2 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Joon Park, Indiana University |
POSTPONED |
Tuesday, Sept. 6 3:30 p.m. 2501 MSC (MU Student Center) Chambers Aud |
Henry Schneider, Cornell University |
Do Bidders on Ebay Exhibit Nonstandard Behavior? |
Friday, Sept. 9 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Brian Jacob, University of Michigan |
The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: Evidence from Public Schooling |
Friday., Sept. 23 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University |
How History and State Legislatures Shaped State Courts |
Friday., Sept. 30 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Hwansik Choi, Purdue University |
Ambiguity and Asymmetric Information in Securities Markets |
Friday, October 7 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Mark Hoekstra, University of Pittsburgh | Finance and Growth: A Counter-Example from the Origins of Banking in Russia |
Friday,October 28 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Charles Thomas, Clemson University |
Equilibrium Behavior in a Model of Multilateral Negotiations |
Friday, November 11 3:30 p.m. 212 Middlebush |
Zhu Wang, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
The Determinants of Geographic Concentration of Industry: A Quantitative Analysis |
Spring 2011
Date/Time/Place | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday, January 21 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Dara Lee, Boston University |
"The Digital Scarlet Letter: The Effect of Online Criminal Records on Crime" |
Monday, January 24 10:15 a.m. 2212 A&B MSC |
Richard Mansfield, Yale University |
"Teacher Quality and Student Inequality" |
Wed., January 26 10:00 a.m. N201-202 Memorial Union |
Genevieve Pham-Kanter, Princeton University |
"The Gender Weight Gap: Sons, Daughters, and Maternal Weight" |
Friday, February 25 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Tom Garrett, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
Local Price Variation and the Tax Incidence of State Lotteries |
Friday, March, 11 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Jason Abrevaya, University of Texas at Austin | A GMM approach for dealing with missing data on regressors and instruments |
Friday, March, 18 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Qihong Liu, University of Oklahoma |
Tacit Collusion with Low-Price Guarantees |
Friday, April, 8 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Phillip Dybvig, Washington University |
Screening of Possibly Incompetent Agents and Welfare Analysis without Common Priors |
Friday, April, 15 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
William Brock, University of Wisconsin, Madison | "Energy Balance Climate Models and the Economics of Climate Change" |
Friday, April, 29 3:30 p.m. 211 Middlebush |
Pol Antras, Harvard University |
"Poultry in Motion: A Study of International Trade Finance Practices" |
Friday, May, 6 3:30 p.m. 132 Middlebush |
Eduardo Melero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | How Dead is the Renaissance Man? The Various Origins of Knowledge Variety in Teams of Inventors |