Economics Department Seminar Series
2025 - 2026
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| JUNE | |||
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June 25, 2026 |
Jeffrey Wheble American University Department of Economics |
"Cross-Border Shopping for Marijuana: Evidence from California and Oregon" | All Day RH303 |
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June 25, 2026 |
Tinatin Mumladze American University of Sharjah Department of Economics |
"Common Ancestry, Uncommon Findings: Revisiting Cross-Cultural Research in Economics" | All Day RH303 |
| June 25, 2026 (Thursday) |
Catherine Falvey Gettysburg College Department of Economics |
"Comprehensive Sexual Health Education Mandates: Effectiveness and Impact on Teens" | All Day RH303 |
| MAY | |||
| May 19, 2026 (Tuesday) |
Arthur Campbell Monash University Department of Business & Economics |
"Strategic Influence: The Diffusion of Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors" | All Day RH204 |
| APRIL | |||
| April 10, 2026 (Friday) |
Nicholas Carollo Federal Reserve Board of Governors Labor Markets Section |
"The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States" | All Day RH303 |
| April 10, 2026 (Friday) |
Maya Rossin-Slater Stanford University Department of Health Policy |
"Birth Centers and Maternal and Infant Health" | All Day RH303 |
| April 10, 2026 (Friday) |
Madison Arnsberger Weber State University Department of Economics |
"The Political Economy of Women’s Suffrage and World War I" | All Day RH303 |
| MARCH | |||
| March 27, 2026 (Friday) |
Rachel Young UC Berkeley Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics |
Cancelled: "Mortality Caused by Tropical Cyclones in the United States" | Cancelled |
| March 27, 2026 (Friday) |
Laura Bakkensen University of Oregon Department of Economics |
"Limited Liability and Disaster Underinsurance" | All Day RH303 |
| March 27, 2026 (Friday) |
Jacob Gellman Oregon State University Department of Applied Economics |
"The Cost of Hurricane Evacuations" | All Day RH303 |
| FEBRUARY | 2026 | ||
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February 20, 2026 |
Maroš Servátka Macquarie Business School Department of Economics |
"Designing Donor Registries: Behavioral Drivers of Enrollment and Giving AND Coordination in altruistic markets with imperfect substitutes" | All Day RH303 |
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February 20, 2026 |
Cary Deck University of Alabama Department of Economics |
"Multidimensional Arbitration" | All Day RH303 |
| February 20, 2026 (Friday) |
Alex James University of Wyoming Department of Economics |
"Factors that Influence Perceptions of Research Quality in Economics" | All Day RH303 |
| SEPTEMBER 2025 | |||
| September 26, 2025 (Friday) |
Zara Contractor Middlebury College Department of Economics |
“Job-level Skill Mismatch over the Business Cycle” | All Day RH303 |
| September 26, 2025 (Friday) |
Glen Waddell University of Oregon Department of Economics |
“Mean Convergence, Combinatorics, and Grade-Point Averages” | All Day RH303 |
| September 26, 2025 (Friday) |
Jacob French New York University Economics Department |
“Technological Change, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility: The Case of Early 20th Century Agriculture” | All Day RH303 |
2024 - 2025
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARCH | |||
| March 21, 2025 (Friday) |
Jim Sanchirico University of California, Davis Department of Environmental Science and Policy |
“Applications of High-Frequency Movement Data For Exploring and Modeling Fishing Behavior” | All Day RH303 |
| March 21, 2025 (Friday) |
Matt Reimer University of California, Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
“Structural Evaluation of Quota Markets in Catch Share Fisheries” | All Day RH303 |
| March 21, 2025 (Friday) |
Jen Meredith Colby College Department of Economics |
“The Impact of Transferable Permits on Rural Alaskan Salmon Harvesters” | All Day RH303 |
| JANUARY 2025 | |||
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January 8, 2025 |
Victoria Wang The University of California, Los Angeles Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
“Migration as Climate Adaptation: Evidence from California Wildfires” | All Day RH303 |
| January 10, 2025 (Friday) |
Jacob Gellman University of Alaska, Anchorage Department of Applied Economics |
“Is a Photo Worth 1,000 Likes? The Influence of Instagram at U.S. National Parks” | All Day RH303 |
| January 13, 2025 (Monday) |
Amy Burnett Cross American University Department of Economics and Public Policy |
“Women’s Entry into Nontraditional Occupations: Impacts of the Gender Desegregation of the U.S. Army” | All Day RH303 |
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January 21, 2025 |
Anna Papp Columbia University Department of Economics |
"Who Bears Climate Change Damages? Evidence from the Gig Economy" |
All Day |
| OCTOBER 2024 | |||
| October 11, 2024 (Friday) |
Bjorn Vollan University of Marburg Department of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources |
"Behavioral Biases and Decision-Making in Climate-Vulnerable Populations: Insights from Rapid and Slow-Onset Hazards" | All Day RH303 |
| October 11, 2024 (Friday) |
Maria Alejandra Velez Universidad de los Andes Faculty of Economics |
"Coca-Based Local Growth and Its Socio-Economic Impact in Colombia" | All Day RH303 |
| October 11, 2024 (Friday) |
Sabine Kroger Universitet Laval Department of Economics |
"Social Networks and the Role of Risk and Time Preferences" | All Day RH303 |
2023 - 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEPTEMBER | 2023 | ||
| September 22, 2023 (Friday) |
Jordan Suter Colorado State University Agricultural and Resource Economics |
“Abatement Subsidies for Groundwater Conservation” | All Day RH303 |
| FEBRUARY | 2024 | ||
| February 23, 2024 (Friday) |
Katherine Wagner University of British Columbia Vancouver School of Economics |
“Technology Lock-In and Costs of Delayed Climate Policy” | All Day RH303 |
| February 23, 2024 (Friday) |
Yukiko Hashida University of Georgia Agricultural and Applied Economics |
“Prescribed fires as a climate change adaptation tool” | All Day RH303 |
| February 23, 2024 (Friday) |
Philip Wagner University of Wisconsin Madison Risk and Insurance Department |
“Money to Burn: Crowdfunding Wildfire Recovery” | All Day RH303 |
| MARCH | |||
| March 29, 2024 (Friday) |
Roger van Haefen North Carolina State University Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
“The Welfare Effects of Air Pollution on Outdoor Recreation: An Application to Shoreline Fishing Along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts” | All Day RH303 |
| March 29, 2024 (Friday) |
Steve Dundas Oregon State University Department of Applied Economics |
“Is a Photo Worth 1,000 Likes? The Influence of Instagram at U.S. National Parks” | All Day RH303 |
| March 29, 2024 (Friday) |
Jude Bayham Colorado State University Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
“The Promise and Peril of Mobile Device Data for Recreation Demand: A Case Study of the Knoxville Urban Wilderness” | All Day RH303 |
| APRIL | |||
| April 26, 2024 (Friday) |
Chris Malloy Oklahoma State University Department of Economics |
“The Value of Electricity Transmission in Reducing Renewable Generation Uncertainty” | All Day RH303 |
| April 26, 2024 (Friday) |
Justin Gallagher Montana State University Department of Agricultural Economics |
“Natural Disasters, Local Bank Market Share, and Economic Recovery” | All Day RH303 |
| April 26, 2024 (Friday) |
Laura Grant Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance |
“Consumers Can Respond to Nonlinear Marginal Price: New Evidence from Electricity Billing” | All Day RH303 |
2022 - 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title | Time/Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUGUST | 2022 | ||
| August 26, 2022 (Friday) |
Bjorn Vollan University of Marburg Department of Economics |
“Postponed” | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 101 |
| SEPTEMBER | |||
| September 9, 2022 (Friday) |
Erich Muehlegger University of California Davis Department of Economics |
“Energy Prices and Electric Vehicle Adoption” | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 117 |
| September 23, 2022 (Friday) |
Danila Serra Texas A&M; University Economics Department |
“Diversifying economics: Evidence from field experiments with university students and high school counselors” | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 101 |
| OCTOBER | |||
| October 7, 2022 (Friday) |
Radovan Vadovic Carleton University Department of Economics |
“Correlated Equilibria and Forecasts based on Naive Play in Hawk-Dove Games” | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 101 |
| October 14, 2022 (Friday) |
Duncan James Fordham University Department of Economics |
“TBD” | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Rasmuson Hall 101 |
| October 21, 2022 (Friday) |
Kenneth Gillingham Yale University School of the Environment/Department of Economics |
“The Electric Vehicle Rebound Effect” | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 101 |
| FEBRUARY | 2023 | ||
| February 24, 2023 (Friday) |
Soren Anderson Michigan State University Department of Economics |
“Attribute Production and Technical Change in Automobiles” | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 303 |
| MARCH | |||
| March 3, 2023 (Friday) |
“Q&A; with Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith” | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | |
| March 10, 2023 (Friday) |
Jay Shogren University of Wyoming Department of Economics |
“Economics of Migratory Species” | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 303 |
| March 10, 2023 (Friday) |
Eli Fenichel Yale University School of the Environment |
“Natural capital: a new era of economic measurement” | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Rasmuson Hall 303 |
| APRIL | |||
| April 7, 2023 (Friday) |
Dan Phaneuf University of Wisconsin - Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics |
“TBD” | All Day RH303 |