NOTE: All seminars will be held at 3:10 in RBC 271 except where noted.

Spring 2023

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
March 3, 2023	Mikkel Plagborg-Moller	Princeton	“Local Projections vs. VARs: Lessons From Thousands of DGPs”
March 24, 2023	Juan Pantano	University of Arizona	TBD
April 14, 2023	Alexandre Olbrecht	Ramapo College of New Jersey	TBD
April 28, 2023	Ayca Kaya	University of Miami	TBD

Fall 2022

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
September 16, 2022	Jessica Leight	International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)	“FDI Liberalization, Structural Change, and Marriage Market Outcomes”
October 21, 2022	Conor B. Ryan	Pennsylvania State University	“How Does Insurance Competition Affect Medical Consumption?”
November 4, 2022	Abby Alpert	The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	“Opioid Use and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Military”
November 11, 2022	Niklas Engbom	Stern School of Business, New York University	“Contagious Unemployment”
December 2, 2022	Morgan Williams	Barnard College, Columbia University	“The Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Health and Hospitalization over the Life-Cycle”

Spring 2022

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
March 4, 2022	Andy Ferrara	University of Pittsburgh	“The Other Great Migration: Southern Whites and the New Right”
March 25, 2022	Ashley Swanson	Columbia Business School	“No Free Lunch? Welfare Analysis of Firms Selling Through Expert Intermediaries”
April 8, 2022	Leila Agha	Dartmouth College	“Fixing Misallocation with Guidelines: Awareness vs. Adherence“
April 22, 2022	Syon Bhanot	Swarthmore College	“Applying Behavioral Science to Prosocial Behavior”

Fall 2021

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
September 24, 2021	Kate Ho	Princeton University	“Contracting over Rebates: Formulary Design and Pharmaceutical Spending”	Online seminar
October 1, 2021	Mengxiao Liu	Syracuse University	“Quality Innovation, Cost Innovation, Exporting, and Firm Productivity Evolution: Evidence from the Chinese Semiconductor Industry”	In-person talk (RBC 241)
October 22, 2021	Yariv Fadlon	Muhlenberg College	“Social Skills and Promotion: A Study of Racial and Gender Gaps”	In-person talk (RBC 241)
November 5, 2021	Atul Gupta	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	“The corporatization of hospital care”	In-person talk (RBC 241)
November 12, 2021	Tianyi Wang	Princeton University	“Waves of Empowerment: Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement”	In-person talk (RBC 241)
November 19, 2021	Oleksandr (Sasha) Talavera	University of Birmingham	“The Voice of Monetary Policy”	In-person talk (RBC 241)

Spring 2021

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
March 26, 2021	Claudio Ferraz	UBC and PUC-Rio	“Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics“	Online seminar
April 9, 2021	James West	Baylor University	“The Impact of Chief Diversity Officers on Diverse Faculty Hiring“	Online seminar
April 23, 2021	Fabio Gomez	Lehigh University	“How does US Government Decisions affect its Borrowing costs?”	Online seminar
April 30, 2021	Julian Jamison	University of Exeter	“Credit building or credit crumbling? A credit builder loan’s effects on consumer behavior, credit scores and their predictive power”	Online seminar (@ 10am EST)

Fall 2020

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
October 2, 2020	Pablo Bortz	Universidad Nacional de San Martín	“Climate Change and Green Finance in Emerging Market Economies: The Open Economy Dimension“	Online seminar
October 16, 2020	Silvia Barcellos	University of Southern California	“The Great Equalizer? The Effects of Education on the Relationship between Early-Life Disadvantages and Later-Life SES”	Online seminar
October 30, 2020	Rustamdjan Hakimov	University of Lausanne	“Transparency in Centralised Allocation”	Online seminar
November 13, 2020	Nicolás Ajzenman	São Paulo School of Economics (EESP)	“Institutions Shape Culture: The Civic Imprint of Democracy”	Online seminar

Spring 2020

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
March 20, 2020	Edward Norton	University of Michigan	“Medicare’s Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program Overvalues Quality“	Cancelled due to COVID restrictions
April 24, 2020	John Cawley	Cornell University	“Effects of City-Level Beverage Taxes in the U.S. on Prices, Sales, and Consumption”	Cancelled due to COVID restrictions

Fall 2019

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
September 6, 2019	Eric Schmidbauer	University of Central Florida	“Free Product Trials“
September 13, 2019	Richard Spady	Johns Hopkins	“Gaussian Transformations, Recursive Learning, and the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Conditional Distribution Functions“
October 4, 2019	Erin Cottle Hunt	Lafayette College	“Welfare Gains of Automatic IRAs When Consumers Have Short Planning Horizons“
October 25, 2019	Weining Bao	University of Connecticut	“Paying to Brag? A Structural Model of Cheap Talk in Online Crowdlending“
November 1, 2019	David Papell	University of Houston	“(Hawks versus Doves) versus (Rules versus Discretion)“
November 8, 2019	Elliott Fan	National Taiwan University	“Understanding the Mechanisms of Parental Divorce Effects on Child’s Higher Education“
November 15, 2019	Olena Ogrokhina	Lafayette College	“When it Rains, it Drizzles: Capital Flows and Inflation Targeting“

Fall 2018

Date	Name	Affiliation	Presentation title & PDF file	Notes
September 7, 2018	Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy	Lehigh University	“Risk and Return in Sin City: The Economics of Prostitution”
September 14, 2018	Douglas Webber	Temple University	“Institution, Major, and Firm-Specific Premia: evidence from Administrative Data”
September 28, 2018	Garrett Johnson	Boston University	“Impact of European Privacy Policy”
October 5, 2018	Chad Sparber	Colgate	TBA
November 2, 2018	PK Kannan	University of Maryland	TBA
November 9, 2018	Kosuke Uetake	Yale University	TBA