Fall 2018

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

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. TBD	Hosted by Michele Baggio
Mon., Sep. 17	2:30 p.m.	Treb Allen, Dartmouth TBD	Hosted by Michele Baggio
Mon., Sep. 24	2:30 p.m.	Olivier Deschenes, UC Santa Barbara TBD	Hosted by Michele Baggio and David Simon
Mon., Oct. 1	2:30 p.m.
Mon., Oct. 8	2:30 p.m.
Mon., Oct. 15	2:30 p.m.	Erich Muehlegger, UC Davis TBD	Hosted by Michele Baggio
Mon., Oct. 29	2:30 p.m.	Michael Price, University of Alabama TBD	Hosted by Mike Shor
Mon., Nov. 5	2:30 p.m.
Mon., Nov. 12	2:30 p.m.	Lint Barrage, Brown TBD	Hosted by Michele Baggio
Mon., Nov. 19		Thanksgiving Break
Mon., Nov. 26	2:30 p.m.
Mon., Dec. 3	2:30 p.m.

Spring 2018

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

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

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

Date	Time	Presenter and Title	Note
Fri., Sep. 8	12:30 p.m.	Jesse Handbury, UPenn “Urban Revival in America, 2000 to 2010”	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”	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”	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”	Hosted by Jungbin Hwang

Spring 2017

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

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

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

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” http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=602417	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” http://www.easternct.edu/cunninghambr/	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”http://inside.mines.edu/Peter-Maniloff	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” https://ase.tufts.edu/economics/people/peopleEmerick.htm	Hosted by Michele Baggio

Spring 2016

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

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

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

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”
Mon., Oct. 26	2:30 p.m.	Sadullah Yildirim, UConn “Religious Roots of Civil Conflict”
Mon., Nov. 9	2:30 p.m.	Matthew Histen, UConn
Mon., Nov. 30	2:30 p.m.	Ling Huang, UConn

Fall 2014

All seminars are held in Oak 337 unless otherwise noted.

 

Date	Time	Presenter and Title	Note
Mon, Sep. 7	2:30 p.m.	Leshui He, Trinity College “Subsidiaries vs. Divisions: a Property Rights Approach”
Mon., Sep. 15	2:30 p.m.	Kelsey Jack, Tufts University “Uncertainty, Self-Selection and Design of Subsidies: Evidence from Zambia”
Mon., Sep. 22	2:30 p.m.	Subhash Ray, Uconn “Branching Efficiency in Indian Banking: An Analysis of a Demand-Constrained Network”
Mon., Sep. 29	2:30 p.m.	Zheng Liu, Uconn; Yishu Zhou, Uconn
Mon., Oct. 6	2:30 p.m.	Shanjun Li, Cornell University “Better Lucky Than Rich? Welfare Analysis of Automobile License Allocations in Beijing and Shanghai”
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)”Reflections on the Probability Space Induced by Moment Conditions with Implications for Bayesian Inference”
Mon., Oct. 27	2:30 p.m.	Jesse Kalinowski, Uconn
Mon., Nov. 3	2:30 p.m.	John Lazarev, NYU “The Welfare Effects of Intertemporal Price Discrimination: An Empirical Analysis of Airline Pricing in U.S. Monopoly Markets”
Fri., Nov. 7	2:30 p.m.	Geoffrey Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire “The Economics of Property Rights’ is about neither Property nor Rights”
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

 

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