Fall 2021
All seminars are held online at https://s.uconn.edu/econseminar unless otherwise noted.
| 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 |
Macroeconomics Workshops | Labor, Development, and Health Workshops