Seminars, Brown Bag Seminars, IPE Workshops

Winter 2024

Wed., April 17, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Yu Su, Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Short-term rentals and housing market
 
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Noha Razek, University of Regina
Title: Can U.S. strategic petroleum reserves calm a tight market exacerbated by the Russia–Ukraine conflict?
 
Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Asha Sadanand, University of Guelph
Title: Selten’s Horse: And Experiment on Sequential Rationality
 
Wed.,May 8, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Xiao Lu, Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Features and Predictors of Canadian GDP Tail Risks
 

Past events: Fall 2023 - Winter 2024

Friday, April 12, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Devashish Mitra, University of Syracuse
Title: The Effect of Export Market Access on Labor Market Distortion: Evidence from Vietnam
 
Wedn., April 10, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON IPE Hanson Lecture (Telus International Centre)
Anil Arora, Chief Statistician of Canada
Title: Data to Insights for a Better Canada
 
Friday, April 5, 2024, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Patrick Lloyd-Smith, University of Saskatchewan
Title: Stated preference methods during a public opinion polling crisis: Who’s picking up the phone, and does it matter?
 
Friday, April 5, 2024, 3:30 pm
Business school Seminar (BUS 4-04)
Kristian Behrens, University of Quebec, montreal
Title: Prime Locations
 
Friday, March 15, 2024, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Pinar Gunes, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: The Effect of Brazil’s Family Health Program on Cognitive Skills b
 
Friday, March 15, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Fang Yang, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Title: Marriage and Work Among Prime-Age Men - Dallasfed
 
Wed., March 13, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Kyle Phong, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Labour Market Concentration in Canada
 
Fri., March 8, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Cory Smith, University of Maryland
Title: Is Basic Democracy Enough? Evidence from Pakistan's Local Governments
 
Fri., March 8, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (12-15 HM Tory Building)
Michelle Alexopoulos, University of Toronto
Title: Mixed signals? How media distills central bank messages
 
Fri., March 8, 2024, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Beyza Ural Marchand, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Enhanced Intergenerational Occupational Mobility through Trade Expansion: Evidence from Vietnam
 
Fri., March 1, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Baxter Robinson, University of Western Ontario
Title: Publicly-Listed Firms, Capital Misallocation, and Cross-Country Productivity
 
Fri., March 1, 2024, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Ryan Cardwell, Professor, University of Manitoba
Title: TBA
 
Wed., February 28, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Kenichi Shimizu, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Scalable Estimation of Multinomial Response Models with Uncertain Consideration Sets
 
Fri., February 23, 2024, 11 am
ECON Macro Seminar (Online)
Marco M. Sorge, U Salerno (Italy)
Title: "Left and right: A tale of two tails of the wealth distribution"
 
Fri., February 2, 2024, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Filip Premik, Department of Economics, Monash University, Melbourne
Title: The costs of variety and public procurement: the case of municipal buses
 
Friday, January 26, 2024, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Filip Premik, Department of Economics, Monash University, Melbourne
Title: The Cost of Variety: About Productivity of Differentiated Input b
 
Thurs., January 11, 2024, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Dan Yu, Department of REES, University of Alberta
Title: Loose-constraint Estimator for Dynamic Discrete Choice Model
 
Fri., December 8, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Tony Fang, Memorial University
Title: Intersectional Analysis of the Labour Market Impacts of COVID: The Triple-whammy of Female, Children, and Lower Skill
 
Fri., Dec. 1, 2023, 8:45-3:30 pm
ECON Symposium (12-15 HM Tory Building)
2023 Labour Market Symposium
This event is sponsored by the University of Alberta, WELM Arts, and IPE.
 
Fri., November 24, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Lars Ehlers, University of Montreal
Title: On the constrained efficiency of strategy-proof random assignment
 
Fri., November 10, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Marco Castillo, University of Texas A&M
Title: Compliers, defiers and the evaluation of information interventions
 
Thurs., November 9, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Xiaoli Fan, Department of REES, University of Alberta
Title: Consumer Preference for Production Claims on Food Labels: Insights from Race Models with Response Time
 
Wed., November 1, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Fang Li, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Corporate Cash, Investment, and Uncertainty
 
Fri., October 27, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (Online)
Luigi Pollio, Wesleyan University
Title: Customer Capital and the Aggregate Effect of Short-Termism
 
Fri., October 20, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Brendon Andrews, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Physician Quality and the Flexner Report of 1910
 
Fri., October 13, 2023, 2:00 pm
BUEC Seminar (BUS 4-04)
Trevor Tombe, Department of Economics, University of Calgary
Title: The Alberta pension advantage: a quantitative analysis of a separate provincial plan
 
Fri., October 6, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Dana Andersen, Department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: The Unintended Environmental Consequences of Investment Stimulus Policy
 
Wed., October 4, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Jiatong Zhong, University of Alberta
Title: Learning in Non-routine Tasks: Productivity and Quality Improvement on a Digital Platform
 
Thu., September 28, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Sven Anders, Department of REES, University of Alberta
Title: Public Support for Carbon Removal and the Issue of Cross-border Transport of CO2
 
Fri., September 15, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (TBA)
Munseob Lee, UC San Diego
Title: Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences
 
Fri., September 8, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (TBA)
José Doric, Bank of Canada
Title: Assessing the importance of observed inflation expectations in inflation dynamics: a new approach
 

Past events: Fall 2022 - Winter 2023

Thurs., May 25, 2023, 4:00 pm
ECON IPE Hanson Lecture (BUS 2-09)
Thomas Lemieux, Vancouver School of Economics
Title: Unions and Earnings Inequality in the 21st Century
 
Fri., May 19, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Katherine Wagner, University of British Columbia, Department of Economics
Title: Technology Lock-in and Optimal Carbon Pricing
 
Fri., May 12, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Martin Smith, Duke University
Title: The economics of delaying the inevitable at the coast
 
Wed., May 17, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Frederic Staut, University of Pau et des Pays de l’Adour
Title: Individual Decisions in Energy Communities
 
Mon., May 8, 2023, 4:00 pm
ECON IPE Workshop (1-093 Tory Building)
Laurel Wheeler, University of Alberta
Title: Beyond Conventional Models: Lending by Native Community Development Financial Institutions
 
Mon., April 24, 2023, 4:00 pm
ECON IPE Workshop (1-093 Tory Building)
Ashantha Ranasinghe, University of Alberta
Title: Female entrepreneurship, distortions on production and economic development
 
Fri., April 14, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (ONLINE)
Oren Levintal, Reichman University
Title: Heterogeneous Portfolios and the Wealth Distribution
 
Wed., April 12, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Laurel Wheeler, University of Alberta
Title: Drained Away: Oil Lost from First Nations Reserves
 
Wed., April 5, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Brendon Andrews, University of Alberta
Title: TBA
 
Fri., March 17, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia
Title: TBA
 
Mon., March 13, 2023, 4:00 pm
ECON IPE Workshop (Tory Breezeway 1)
Andrew Leach, University of Alberta
Title: How much does the world need Canadian oil and gas? The oil sands and LNG in a climate-constrained world.
 
Fri., March 10, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
David Brown, department of Economics, University of Alberta
Title: Centralized vs Decentralized Demand Response: Evidence from a Field Experiment
 
Wed., March 1, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Yu Su, University of Alberta
Title: TBA
 
Fri., February 17, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Brent Swallow, department of REES, University of Alberta
Title: Building Community Capacity for Development in Rural Tanzania
 
Fri., February 3, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Vincent Starck, Department of Economics, Brown University
Title: Improving control over unobservables with network data
 
Thurs., February 2, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Hanbat Jeong, Department of Economics, The Ohio State University
Title: Dynamic Network Interaction Models with Robust Decision-making
 
Fri., January 27, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Kenichi Shimizu, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
Title: Semiparametric Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
 
Fri., January 20, 2023, 3:30 pm
ECON Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Thomas Stringham, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Title: Fast Bayesian Record Linkage With Record-Specific Disagreement Parameters
 
Fri., January 13, 2023, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Bruno Nkuyia, University of Alberta, campus Saint-Jean
Title: Stochastic growth and regime shift risk in renewable resource management
 
Wed., December 7, 2022, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Yiang Guo, University of Alberta
Title: The Emissions Impacts of Behind-the-Meter Battery Storage: The Role of Real-Time Pricing"
 
Fri., December 2, 2022, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Derek Brewin, University of Manitoba
Title: Economic Problems in Crop Rotation Choices
 
Wed., November 30, 2022, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Francis Chiparawasha, University of Alberta
Title: Employment Inequality Among Prime-Age Men in Canada
 
Fri., November 25, 2022, 3:00 pm
ECON Macro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, San Francisco Fed
Title: From Deviations to Shortfalls: The Effects of the FOMC's New Employment Objective
 
Fri., November 18, 2022, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Anthony Fowler, University of Chicago
Title: Extreme Leaders, Partisan Constituencies, and Congressional Polarization
 
Fri., November 18, 2022, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Douglas Mugabe, University of Alberta
Title: Real option investments and exercise timing: Lessons from the US shale gas industry
 
Wed., November 16, 2022, 3:30 pm
ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building)
Longzhou Wang, Universty of Alberta
Title: The Impact of National Expressways on International Trade: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
 
Thurs., November 3, 2022, 4:00 pm
ECON IPE Workshop (2-99 Tory Building)
Jack Stecher, University of Alberta
Title: Borrower defaults arising from coordination failure, bad luck, and strategic default
 
Fri., October 28, 2022, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Michael Gilraine, New York University
Title: It Takes Time: The Asymmetric Impacts of Imposing and Removing a Teacher Incentive Scheme
 
Thurs., October 27, 2022, 3:30 pm
REES Brown Bag Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Kira Pronin, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Futures Markets in the Management of Common Pool Fisheries
 
Fri., October 21, 2022, 3:30 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
Shahidul Islam, MacEwan University
Title: Fifty Years of Agricultural Development in Bangladesh
 
Fri., October 21, 2022, 3:30 pm
ECON Micro Seminar (Tory Breezeway 2)
Terri Kneeland, University College London
Title: Is Bounded Reasoning about Rationality Driven by Limited Ability?
 
Thurs., October 20, 2022, 4 pm
REES Seminar (550 General Services Building)
John Janmaat, University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Title: Trading Opportunity for Success: A Choice Experiment with Resident Hunters in British Columbia