Spring 2024
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars (including virtual ones) will take place on Tuesdays from 3:30 – 5:00pm in SSH 337.
| Date | Time | Presenter | Title | Host | Modality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 16 | 3:30 p.m. | Eric Hilt
Wellesley College |
Inflation, War Bonds, and the Rise of Republicans in the 1950s | Cosgel/Baggio | In-person |
| Jan. 23 | 3:30 p.m. | Kareen Rozen
Brown University |
As If | Levin | In-person |
| Jan. 30 | 3:30 p.m. | Alex Imas
University of Chicago |
Over- and Underreaction to Information | Levin | In-person |
| Feb. 20 | 3:30 p.m. | Jiwon Choi
Brandeis University |
The Effect of Deindustrialization on Local Economies: Evidence from New England Textile Towns | Baggio |
In-person |
| Feb. 27 | 3:30 p.m | Jackson Dorsey
University of Texas at Austin |
Soaking Up the Sun: Battery Investment, Renewable Energy, and Market Equilibrium | Kim | Virtual |
| Mar. 5 | 3:30 p.m. | Akshaya Jha
Carnegie Mellon University |
Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the Power Sector from 1938-1994: Anticipation and Adaptation | Kim | In-person |
| Apr. 2 | 3:30 p.m. | Alex Pfaff
Duke University |
Comparing Protection Types in The Peruvian Amazon: Multiple-Use Protected Areas Did No Worse for Forests | Segerson | In-person |
| Apr. 9th | 3:30 p.m. | Freddie Papazyan
Texas Tech |
Power Consolidation in Groups | Levin/Vidart | In-person |
| Apr. 23 | 3:30 p.m. | Martin Fiszbein
Boston University |
Agrarian Origins of Individualism and Collectivism | Levin | In-person |
Fall 2023
| Date | Time | Presenter | Title | Host | Modality |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 11 | 2:30 p.m. | Shinsuke Tanaka
UConn-ARE |
The Light of Life: The Effects of Sunlight on Suicide | Baggio | In-person |
| Sept. 18 | 2:30 p.m. | Andrea Matranga
Università di Torino |
Once Upon a Time in America: the Mafia and the Unions | Levin | Virtual |
| Sept. 25 | 2:30 p.m. | Michele Baggio
UConn |
Racial Diversity and Team Performance: Evidence from the American Offshore Whaling Industry | Baggio | In-person |
| Oct. 2 | 2:30 p.m. | Krishna Dasaratha
Boston University |
Equity Pay in Networked Teams | Levin | In-person |
| Oct. 9 | 2:30 p.m. | Meiping Sun
Fordham University |
Mistrust and Long-term Impacts of a Quality Shock | Huang | In-person |
| Oct. 16 | 2:30 p.m. | David Weil
Brown University |
Climate Change, Population Growth, and Population Pressure | Levin | In-person
Joint w/Macro |
| Oct. 23 | 2:30 p.m. | Luke Sanford
Yale School of the Environment |
Remote Control: Debiasing Remote Sensing Predictions for Causal Inference | Levin | In-person |
| Oct. 30 | 2:30 p.m. | Ian Chadd
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Choosing to search: Choice with a Default Option | Shor | In-person |
| Nov. 6 | 2:30 p.m. | Cuicui Chen
SUNY – Albany |
Colluding Against Environmental Regulation | Kim | Virtual |
| Nov. 13 | 2:30 p.m. | Charles Noussair
University of Arizona |
Which institutions matter for economic growth? An experiment | Levin | Virtual |
| Nov. 27 | 2:30 p.m. | Yijia Gao/Tiange Du
UConn |
Job Market Talks | Segerson/Langlois | In-person |
| Dec. 4 | 2:30 p.m. | Dario Pozzoli
Copenhagen Business School |
TBA | Baggio | In-person |
Spring 2023
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tue., Jan. 24 | 3:30 p.m. | Ling Huang, Uconn
Tragedy of the Commons in Transportation and the Future of AI-powered Smart Traffic Location: Oak 337 and online |
| Tue., Jan. 31 | 3:30 p.m. | Cihan Artunc, Middlebury College
The Power of Connections: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Corporate Performance in Egypt, 1890 – 1950. Location: online |
| Tue., Feb. 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Max Auffhammer, UC Berkeley
Destructive Behavior, Judgement, and Economic Decision-Making under Thermal Stress. Location: online |
| Tue., Feb. 21 | 3:30 p.m. | Derek Lemoine, ASU
Informationally Efficient Climate Policy: Designing Markets to Measure and Price Externalities. Location: online |
| Tue., Mar. 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Michelle Marcus, Vanderbilt
Burying the Lead: Effects of Public Lead Service Line Replacements on Blood Lead Levels and Property Values. Location: online |
| Tue., Mar. 21 | 3:30 p.m. | Vincent Geloso, GMU
Canadian Evidence on the American Antebellum Puzzle Location: online |
| Tue., mar. 28 | 3:30 p.m. | Sebastien Houde, University of Lausanne
Watt Watchers and The Seesaw of Energy Dieting: Evidence from Low-Income Urban Households Location: online |
| Tue., Apr. 4 | 3:30 p.m. | Ilia Murtazashvili, U of Pittsburg
Selective Enforcement of Property Rights: Comparative Studies of American Indians and Chinese Villagers Location: online |
| Tue., Apr. 11 | 3:30 p.m. | Luke Sanford, Yale
CANCELLED |
| Tue., Apr. 18 | 3:30 p.m. | Sherry Gao, UMass Amherst
(This talk will be in person: Oak 337) |
| Tue., Apr. 25 | 3:30 p.m. | Alexander Cappelen, Norwegian School of Economics
Fairness Across the World Location: online |
Fall 2021
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mon., Sep. 13 | 2:30 p.m. | Laura Bakkensen, University of Arizona Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap |
| Mon., Sep. 27 | 2:30 p.m. | Zach Brown, NC State University The interaction of prices and peers in shaping demand for environmental health technologies: a clean cookstove experiment in Northern Ghana |
| Mon., Oct. 11 | 2:30 p.m. | Patrick Baylis, University of British Columbia Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires |
| Mon., Oct. 18 | 2:30 p.m. | Jorge Lemus, University of Illinois The Benefit of the Doubt: Decision Making under Strategic Obfuscation |
| Mon., Nov. 1 | 2:30 p.m. | David Laibson, Harvard – link to seminar Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy |
| Mon., Nov. 8 | 2:30 p.m. | Kailin Kroetz, Arizona State University
Distributional impacts of fishery disasters and implications for aid program design |
| Mon., Nov. 15 | 2:30 p.m. | Frances Moore, UC Davis
Noah’s Ark in a Warming World: Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss and Public Adaptation Costs in the United States |
| Mon., Nov. 29 | 2:30 p.m. | Heshan Zhang, UConn
Team Formation and Innovation |
| Mon., Dec. 6 | 2:30 p.m. | Chuang Li, UConn Opportunity Cost and Employment Effect of Emission Reduction: An Inter-Industry Comparison of Targeted Pollution Reduction |
Spring 2021
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tue., Feb. 2 | 3:30 p.m. | (recruiting seminar) |
| Tue. Feb. 9 | 3:30pm | Peter Hull, University of Chicago Measuring Racial Discrimination in Bail Decisions |
| Tue., Feb. 16 | 3:30 p.m. | David Reiley, UC Berkeley & Pandora Measuring Consumer Sensitivity to Audio Advertising: A Field Experiment on Pandora Internet Radio |
| Tue., Feb. 23 | 3:30 p.m. | Steve Ross, UConn Documenting Loss Aversion in Housing Markets using Evidence of Round Number Bias |
| Tue., Mar. 2 | 3:30 p.m. | Teddy Mekonnen, Brown University Random versus Directed Search for Scarce Resources |
| Tue., Mar. 16 | 3:30 p.m. | Victor Volkman & Chuang Li, UConn Crime Trends in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone & A Resource Reallocation Model of Chinese Steel Industry |
| Tue., Mar. 30 | 3:30 p.m. | Jonathan Hughes, University of Colorado Driving, Speed, Congestion and the Accident Externality: Evidence from COVID-19 |
| Tue., Apr. 6 | 3:30 p.m. | Corinne Langinier, University of Alberta The Effect of Patent Continuation on the Patenting Process |
| Tue., Apr. 20 | 3:30 p.m. | Utteeyo Dasgupta, Wagner College Games of Prejudice – Experiments at the Extensive and Intensive Margin |
| Tue., Apr. 27 | 3:30 p.m. | Jingyun Chen & Tongan Liu, UConn Chaotic Behavior in Two-Dimensional Dynamic Games with Bounded Rationality & Collusion in First-Price Auctions |
Fall 2020
All seminars are held online unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mon., Sep. 21 | 2:30 p.m. | Kirby Nielsen, Caltech When Choices are Mistakes |
| Mon., Sep. 28 | (no seminar) | |
| Mon., Oct. 5 | 2:30 p.m. | Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell Tax Professionals and Tax Evasion |
| Mon., Oct. 12 | 2:30 p.m. | Sarah Jacobson, Williams College How Does the Deterrence Effect of Regulatory Enforcement Differ between Privately and Government Owned Facilities |
| Mon., Oct. 19 | 2:30 p.m. | Mark Schneider, Alabama Asset Prices with the Best and Worst in Mind |
| Mon., Oct. 26 | 2:30 p.m. | Kelly Bishop, Arizona State Hazed and Confused: The Effect of Air Pollution on Dementia |
| Mon., Nov. 2 | 2:30 p.m. | Dan Kaffine, Colorado Who Benefits from Utility-Scale Renewables in California? |
| Mon., Nov. 9 | 2:30 p.m. | Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell The Historical Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Global Agricultural Productivity |
| Mon., Nov. 16 | 2:30 p.m. | (open) |
| Mon., Nov. 30 | 2:30 p.m. | Dan Benjamin, UCLA Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being |
| Mon., Dec. 7 | 2:30 p.m. | David McAdams, Duke Viral Social Learning |
| Mon., Dec. 14 | 2:30 p.m. | Wensu Li, UConn Is Working from Home a Way of Adaptation to Climate Change? |
Spring 2020
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tue., Jan. 21 | 3:30 p.m. | Neil Thompson, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology: Why Deep Learning and the End of Moore’s Law are Fragmenting Computing. The seminar will be held in the School of Business Boardroom (321) |
| Tue., Feb. 18 | 3:30 p.m. | David Keiser, UMass Amherst
The Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan |
| Tue., Feb. 25 | 3:30 p.m. | Leshui He, Bates College
Featured in the News: from the Attention Aura to Competing Complements |
| Tue., Mar. 3 | 3:30 p.m. | Steven Nafziger, Williams College
Financing Nascent Industry: Leverage, Politics, and Performance in Imperial Russia |
| Tue., Mar. 10 | 3:30 p.m. | Heshan Zhang, Uconn
A Firm Survival Analysis on Patents’ Scientific and Economic Values |
| Tue., Mar. 24 | 3:30 p.m. | Sarah Jacobson, Williams College (CANCELLED)
Discretionary Exemptions from Environmental Regulation: Flexibility for Good or for Ill |
| Tue., Apr. 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell (CANCELLED) |
| Tue., Apr. 14 | 3:30 p.m. | Laura Panza, University of Melbourne (CANCELLED) |
| Tue., Apr. 21 | 3:30 p.m. | Eleonora Patacchini, Cornell (CANCELLED) |
| Tue., Apr. 28 | 3:30 p.m. | Marty Smith, Duke (CANCELLED) |
Fall 2019
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mon., Aug. 26 | 2:30 p.m. | Organizational meeting |
| Tue., Sep. 17 | 2:30 p.m. | Ina Ganguli, UMass Amherst
Joint with the Labor, Development & Health Workshop |
| Mon., Sep. 23 | 2:30 p.m. | Joseph Aldy, Harvard Kennedy School
“Evaluating a Discretionary Safety Valve: The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Waiving Fuel Content Regulations in Response to Supply Shocks” |
| Mon., Oct. 7 | 2:30 p.m. | Shilpa Sethia, UConn
“Nonparametric Measurement of Potential Gains from Mergers: An Additive Decomposition and Application to Indian Bank Mergers” |
| Mon., Oct. 14 | 2:30 p.m. | Katrina Jessoe, UC Davis
“Water Markets and Climate Change Adaptation: Micro-level Evidence on Agricultural Water Demand” |
| Mon., Oct. 21 | 2:30 p.m. | Wensu Li, UConn
“Challenges in preventing illegal recycling in developing countries” |
| Thu., Oct. 24 | 4:30 p.m. | Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins University
“Ending Extreme Poverty Without Endangering Ecosystems” as part of the Teale lecture series |
| Mon., Oct. 28 | 2:30 p.m. | Matt Neidell, Columbia
“Cognitive fatigue and strategic inattention: Evidence from the (baseball) field” |
| Mon., Nov. 11 | 2:30 p.m. | Angela de Oliveira, UMass Amherst
“Yours, Mine and Ours: Paying to Mitigate Risks to Self and Others” |
| Mon., Nov. 18 | 2:30 p.m. | Brad Humphreys, Univ. of West Virginia
“NCAA Football Coach Compensation and Non-price Competition for Football Players” |
| Mon., Dec. 2 | 2:30 p.m. | Chiara Margaria, Boston University
“Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” |
Spring 2019
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title |
|---|---|---|
| Tue., Jan. 22 | 3:30 p.m. | Ivan Rudik, Cornell
When NASCAR comes to town: Quasi-experimental evidence of the effects of leaded gasoline |
| Tue., Feb. 19 | 3:30 p.m. | Nick Tsivanidis, Dartmouth – Cancelled
The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio |
| Tue., Feb. 26 | 3:30 p.m. | Laura Gee, Tufts
Salary Disclosure and Hiring: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Field Experiment |
| Tue., Mar. 5 | 3:30 p.m. | Joseph Aldy, Harvard – Rescheduled Fall 2019
Transparency in Climate Policy: Using Forecasting Tools to Evaluate Emission Mitigation Efforts |
| Tue., Mar. 12 | 3:30 p.m. | Barbara Biasi, Yale
The Labor Market for Teachers Under Different Pay Schemes |
| Tue., Apr. 2 | 3:30 p.m. | Timothy Guinnane, Yale
The Impact of Bismarck’s social insurance program on marriage and fertility in Prussia |
| Tue., Apr. 9 | 3:30 p.m. | Luke Froeb, Vanderbilt
Nash-in-Shapley: Bargaining with Recursive Threat Points |
| Tue., Apr. 16 | 3:30 p.m. | Jun He, UConn
Should the Law Enable Counterfeit Hunters? |
| Tue., Apr. 23 | 3:30 p.m. | Nasya Al-Saidy, UConn
Banking of Emissions Permits Under Market Power and Incomplete Information Dominic Albino, UConn An Experimental Proposal: Severe Punishment in a Public Goods Game |
| Tue., Apr. 30 | 3:30 p.m. | Joshua Abbott, Arizona State
Structural Behavioral Models for Rights-Based Fisheries |
Fall 2018
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon., Aug. 27 | 2:30 p.m. | Organization meeting | Hosted by Talia Bar and Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Sep. 10 | 2:30 p.m. | Garth Heutel, Georgia State U. Adaptation and the Mortality Effects of Temperature Across U.S. Climate Regions | Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Sep. 17 | 2:30 p.m. | Treb Allen, Dartmouth Border Walls |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Sep. 24 | 2:30 p.m. | Olivier Deschenes, UC Santa Barbara Weather and Death in India: Implications for Climate Change |
Hosted by Michele Baggio and David Simon |
| Mon., Oct. 1 | 2:30 p.m. | Richard Langlois, UConn The Fisher Body Case and Organizational Economics |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Oct. 8 | 2:30 p.m. | ||
| Mon., Oct. 15 | 2:30 p.m. | Erich Muehlegger, UC Davis Pass-Through of Input Cost Shocks under Imperfect Competition: Evidence from the U.S. Fracking Boom |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Oct. 29 | 2:30 p.m. | Michael Price, University of Alabama Robbing Peter to Give to Paul: Using Field Experiments to Understand How Incentives to Give to One Charity Impact the Allocation of Funds Amongst Recipients |
Hosted by Mike Shor |
| Mon., Nov. 5 | 2:30 p.m. | Paul Conant, UConn Tightening Environmental Stringency and its Effect on Innovation: Evidence from the EU-ETS Market |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
| Mon., Nov. 12 | 2:30 p.m. | Lint Barrage, Brown Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Nov. 19 | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| Mon., Nov. 26 | 2:30 p.m. | Edlira Cocoli, UConn
Impact of Promise Scholarship, on student enrollment: A nation wide analysis of enrollment impact by gender and race. Shilpa Sethia, UConn Conditions for sub-additivity of a multi-product cost function and gains from merger in the long-run and in the short-run |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
| Mon., Dec. 3 | 2:30 p.m. | Imke Reimers, Northeastern University Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
Spring 2018
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues., Jan. 23 | 3:30 p.m. | Nathan Fiala, UConn Agricultural and Resource Economics “Social accountability and service delivery: Evidence from a large-scale experiment in Uganda” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Tues., Jan. 30 | 3:30 p.m. | Leshui He, Bates College “A Theory of Pre-litigation Settlement and Patent Assertion Entities“ |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
| Tues., Feb. 6 | 3:30 p.m. | Richard Adelstein, Wesleyan University “The Exchange Order: Property and Liability as an Economic System“ |
Hosted by Tom Miceli |
| Tues., Feb. 13 | 3:30 p.m. | Wensu Li, UConn Economics “Understanding the growth pattern of household electricity consumption in China.” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Tues., Feb. 20 | 3:30 p.m. | Dominic Albino, UConn Economics “How to Bid on eBay” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Tues., Mar. 13 | Spring break | ||
| Tues., Mar. 20 | 3:30 p.m. | Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University “Fixing the Machine that Would Not Go of Itself: State Constitutional Change and the Creation of an Open-Access Social Order in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States.” |
Hosted by Metin Coşgel |
| Tues., Mar. 27 | 3:30 p.m. | David Skarbek, Brown University “Varieties of Prison Social Order: A Collection of Governance Mechanisms” |
Hosted by Richard Langlois |
| Tues., Apr. 3 | 3:30 p.m. | Matthew Kotchen, Yale University “Crowding in With Joint Production of a Public Good: Evidence from Volunteerism in national Parks” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Tues., Apr. 10 | 3:30 p.m. | Jose-Antonio Espin Sanchez, Yale University “La “Doña” e mobile: The role of women in social mobility” |
Hosted by Metin Coşgel |
| Tues., Apr. 17 | 3:30 p.m. | Alan Barreca, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability at UCLA “From Conduction to Induction: How Temperature Affects Delivery Date and Gestational Lengths in the United States” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio and David Simon |
Fall 2017
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri., Sep. 8 | 12:30 p.m. | Jesse Handbury, UPenn “Urban Revival in America, 2000 to 2010”.pdf |
Hosted by Stephen Ross |
| Mon., Sep. 11 | 2:30 p.m. | Stephen Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis “Subsidy Tagging in Privately Provided Health Insurance Markets” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Sep. 18 | 2:30 p.m. | Sofia Villas-Boas, Berkeley “Using Random Utility Structural Demand Models to Infer the Value of Quality Information”.pdf |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Sep. 25 | 2:30 p.m. | Peter Siegelman，Uconn School of Law “Do Judges Respond to Incentives? The Effects of the Six Month List” |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
| Mon., Oct. 2 | 2:30 p.m. | Subhash Ray，Uconn Econ “Economic Measures of Capacity Utilization: A Nonparametric Cost Function Analysis” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Oct. 16 | 2:30 p.m. | Adam Storeygard, Tufts “Accessibility and Mobility in Urban India” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Mon., Oct. 23 | 2:30 p.m. | Jeffrey Naecker, Wesleyan “When Fair Isn’t Fair: Sophisticated Time Inconsistency in Social Preferences”.pdf |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Oct. 30 | 2:30 p.m. | Chris Knittel, MIT “Seeing the (Random) Forest for the (Random) Trees: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Home Energy Reports” |
Hosted by Kathy Segerson |
| Fri., Nov. 10 | 12:00 p.m. in Oak 312 | Hongju Liu, Uconn School of Business “Technology and Market Structure: An Empirical Analysis of Entry and Exit in the Banking Industry” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Nov. 20 | 2:30 p.m. | Recess week | |
| Mon., Dec. 4 | 12:00 p.m. | Harim Kim, University of Mannheim “Heterogeneous Impacts of Cost Shocks, Strategic Bidding and Pass-Through: Evidence from the New England Electricity Market”.pdf |
Hosted by Jungbin Hwang |
Spring 2017
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues., Jan. 24 | 3:30 p.m. | Talia, Bar “Patent Reexamination” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Tues., Feb. 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Konrad Menzel, NYU “Strategic Network Formation with Many Agents” https://18798-presscdn-pagely.netdna-ssl.com/km125/wp-content/uploads/sites/2027/2015/05/network_formation-1.pdf |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
| Tues., Feb. 14 | 3:30 p.m. | Resul Cesur, Uconn “The Impact of Genetic Diversity on Religiosity: Evidence from the Exodus of Homo Sapiens out of Africa” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Tues., Feb. 28 | 3:30 p.m. | Abhijit Ramalingam, University of East Anglia “The Market for Talent: Competition for Resources and Self-Governance in Teams” |
Hosted by Nishith Prakash |
| Tues., Mar. 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Richard Sweeney, Boston College “Capital versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Tues., Mar. 14 | 3:30 p.m. | Spring Break | |
| Tues., Mar. 21 | 3:30 p.m. | Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University “Social Learning and Solar Photovoltaic Adoption: Evidence from a Field Experiment” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Tues., March 28 | 3:30 p.m. | Nicholas J. Sanders, Cornell University “Long-Run Pollution Exposure and Adult Mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Tues., April 4 | 3:30 p.m. | Jay Shimshack, University of Virginia “Does mandatory labeling of outfall points influence pollution and compliance? Evidence from a natural experiment in Ohio” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Tues., April 11 | 3:30 p.m. | Dean Karlan, Yale University “Sustainable Income for Ultra Poor Households: Evidence from the ‘Graduation’ Program in Six Countries, and from a Religion Experiment in the Philippines” http://karlan.yale.edu/sites/default/files/science-2015-banerjee-.pdf |
Hosted by Nishith Prakash |
Fall 2016
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon., Sep. 19 | 2:30 p.m. | Suyong Song, University of Iowa “Nonseparable Models with Information Frictions” https://tippie.uiowa.edu/people/suyong-song |
Hosted by Jungbin Hwang |
| Mon., Oct. 3 | 2:30 p.m. | Guy David, Wharton, UPenn “THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE PATIENT CENTERED MEDICAL HOME MODEL” https://hcmg.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1506/ |
Hosted by Resul Cesur |
| Mon., Oct. 10 | 2:30 p.m. | Michael Luca, Harvard Business School “Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment” |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
| Mon., Oct. 17 | 2:30 p.m. | Brendan Cunningham, Eastern Connecticut State University “The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Media: Strategic Political Gridlock” |
Hosted by Thomas Miceli |
| Mon., Oct. 31 | 2:30 p.m. | Subhash Ray, UConn “Nonparametric Measures of Efficiency in the Presence of Undesirable Outputs: A By-production Approach with Weak Disposability” http://econ.uconn.edu/ray/ |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Nov. 7 | 2:30 p.m. | Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Ohio State “Shoreline Defense against Climate Change and Capitalized Impact of Beach Nourishment” http://aede.osu.edu/our-people/sathya-gopalakrishnan |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Nov. 14 | 2:30 p.m. | Peter Maniloff, Colorado School of Mines “Learning and Regulatory Deterrence: Evidence from Oil & Gas Production” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Nov. 28 | 2:30 p.m. | Kyle Emerick, Tufts University “Agricultural productivity and the sectoral reallocation of labor in rural India” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
Spring 2016
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues., Jan. 26 | 3:30 p.m. | Corey Lang, University of Rhode Island, UConn “VOTING WITH FEET AND VOTING WITH VOTES: USING HOUSING PRICES AND REFERENDA VOTING TO ESTIMATE THE NET VALUE OF OPEN SPACE CONSERVATION” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Tues., Feb. 2 | 3:30 p.m. | Stephen Holland, UNC Greensboro “Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA’s Clean Power Plan” |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Thur., Mar. 3 | 4:00 p.m. | Yoram Bauman, Teale lecturer “Comedy, Economics, and Climate Change”(location Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Center) http://standupeconomist.com |
Hosted by Kathy Segerson |
| Fri, Mar. 4 | 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Jean-Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Coase Revisited: Economic Efficiency under Externalities, Transaction Costs and Non-Convexity” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Tues., Mar. 22 | 3:30 p.m. | Joseph Shapiro, Yale “Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality” |
Hosted by Michele Baggio |
| Fri., Apr. 1 | 2:30 p.m. | Morris Davis, Rutgers University “Neighborhood Choices and Neighborhood Effects” |
Hosted by Steve Ross |
| Tues., Apr. 12 | 3:30 p.m. | Pietro Peretto, Econ-Duke | Hosted by Michele Baggio and Kai Zhao Joint seminar with Macro |
| Tues., Apr. 19 | 3:30 p.m. | Matthew Histen, Uconn | |
| Tues., Apr. 26 | 3:30 p.m. | Eric Kimbrough, Simon Fraser University | Hosted by Mike Shor |
Fall 2015
| Date | Time | Presenter and Title | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon., Sep. 14 | 2:30 p.m. | Koichiro Ito, Chicago “Sequential Markets, Market Power and Arbitrage” http://home.uchicago.edu/ito/ito_reguant_wind.pdf |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Sep. 21 | 2:30 p.m. | Ramya Shankar, City College of New York “Optimal Enforcement of Non-compete Covenants” |
Hosted by Talia Bar |
| Mon., Oct. 12 | 2:30 p.m. | Zhongmin Wang, RFF “Supermarkets and Gasoline: An Empirical Study of Bundled Discounts” http://www.rff.org/research/publications/supermarkets-and-gasoline-empirical-study-bundled-discounts |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Fri., Oct. 16 | 2:30 p.m. | Erin Mansur, Dartmouth “Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles?” http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mansur/papers/Holland_Mansur_Muller_Yates_ ElecCarSubsidy.pdf |
Hosted by Ling Huang |
| Mon., Oct. 19 | 2:30 p.m. | Zheng Liu, UConn “New Findings on the Long Term Effect of Mexico City’s 1989 Driving Restriction” |
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| Mon., Oct. 26 | 2:30 p.m. | Sadullah Yildirim, UConn “Religious Roots of Civil Conflict” |
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| Mon., Nov. 9 | 2:30 p.m. | Matthew Histen, UConn | |
| Mon., Nov. 30 | 2:30 p.m. | Ling Huang, UConn |
Fall 2014
| Date | Time | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| Mon., Sept. 8 | 2:30 p.m. | Leshui He, Trinity College “Subsidiaries vs. Divisions: a Property Rights Approach” |
| Mon., Sept. 15 | 2:30 p.m. | Kelsey Jack, Tufts University “Uncertainty, Self-Selection and Design of Subsidies: Evidence from Zambia” |
| Mon., Sept. 22 | 2:30 p.m. | Subhash Ray, Uconn Trinity College “Branching Efficiency in Indian Banking: An Analysis of a Demand-Constrained Network” |
| Mon., Sept. 29 | 2:30 p.m. | Zheng Liu, Uconn; Yishu Zhou, Uconn |
| Mon., Oct. 6 | 2:30 p.m. | Shanjun Li, Cornell University |
| Mon., Oct. 13 | 2:30 p.m. | Rong Zhou, Uconn |
| Wed. Oct. 15 | 4:00 p.m. | A. Ronald Gallant, Penn State (Joint seminar with Statistics Department) |
| Mon., Oct. 27 | 2:30 p.m. | Jesse Kalinowski, Uconn |
| Mon., Nov. 3 | 2:30 p.m. | John Lazarev, NYU |
| Fri., Nov. 7 | 2:30 p.m. | Geoffrey Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire |
| Mon., Nov. 10 | 2:30 p.m. | Bryce Casavant, Uconn; |
| Mon., Nov. 17 | 2:30 p.m. | Mike Shor, UConn |
| Mon., Dec. 1 | 2:30 p.m. | Ling Huang, UConn |