Brown bag seminars
First Term, Sep-Dec 2024
Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | Vasco Gabriel | TBD |
| Sep 11 | Emma Hutchinson | The Family Doctor Shortage in Canada |
| Sep 18 | Justin Wiltshire | TBD |
| Sep 25 | Donn Feir | TBD |
| Oct 2 | N/A - Lansdowne Lecture | N/A |
| Oct 9 | TBD | TBD |
| Oct 16 | Pascal Courty | TBD |
| Oct 23 | Felix Pretis | TBD |
| Oct 30 | TBD | TBD |
| Nov 6 | TBD | TBD |
| Nov 13 | N/A - Reading Break | N/A |
| Nov 20 | TBD | TBD |
| Nov 27 | TBD | TBD |
| Dec 4 | TBD | TBD |
Summer Term, Apr-Jun 2024
Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in DSB C130, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 24 | No Brown Bag This Week | No Brown Bag This Week |
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May 1 |
N/A Faculty Training Day | N/A |
| May 8 | TBD | TBD |
| May 15 | Peter Kennedy | Who Should Go to University? |
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May 22 *BEC 363 |
Vasco Gabriel | Down to the Last of the Mohicans: Disease, Trade, and Conflict in the Great Lakes |
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May 28 (Tuesday) *BEC 363 |
Donn Feir |
An Economic History of Indigenous Peoples in North America |
| Jun 5 | Dany Elias Jaimovich Busel (Universidad de Talca, Chile) | Indigenous Land Policy in Chile: The Effects of Restitution on Land Use and Productivity |
| Jun 12 | Abubakr Ayesh | Schools as a Colonial Institution & Indigenous Well-Being |
| Jun 19 | Justin Wiltshire | Playing with Fire: The Unintended Consequences of Logging Restrictions in the Northern Spotted Owl Habitat |
| Jun 26 | Sara Wray Enns | An Event History Analysis of First Nations Policing in Canada |
Second Term, Jan-Apr 2024
Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 10 | Bo Liu | Does Speed Bump Resolve the Problems of Mini Flash Crashes? Evidence from NYSE American |
| Jan 17 | No Brown Bag This Week | No Brown Bag This Week |
| Jan 24 | Honours Students: Bank of Canada Team | Governor's Challenge Presentation |
| Jan 31 | Paul Schure | Fiscal Solidarity in the Eurozone: Evidence from an Expert Survey |
| Feb 07 | Various Faculty | Showcase of Faculty Research Interests |
| Feb 14 | No Brown Bag This Week | |
| Feb 21 | Reading Break | Reading Break |
| Feb 28 | Abubakr Ayesh | Indigenous Economies at the Turn of the 20th Century |
| Mar 6 | Tao Wang | Taobao Villages Expansion and Urban-Rural Income Gap: Evidence from Kernel Mode-Based Panel Regression |
| Mar 13 | Felix Pretis | Testing for Random Locations of Outliers |
| Mar 20 | Donn Feir | The Price of Housing on First Nations Land: A Case Study from Vancouver Island |
| Mar 27 | Jason Hicks | The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States |
| Apr 03 | Matt Ayres, Chief Labour Market Economist | Current Labour Market Trends and the 10-year Labour Market Outlook in British Columbia |
| Apr 10 | No Brown Bag This Week | |
| Apr 17 | Jill Horwitz | The Effects of Tort Immunity on Nursing Home Staffing, Treatment, and Outcomes |
First term, Sep-Dec 2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 13 | Malcolm Rutherford | Racism, Segregation, Acceptance: The American Economics Profession and Black Studies, 1890-2022 (paper) |
| Sep 20 | Justin Wiltshire | Monopsony and Minimum Wages |
| Sep 27 | No Brown Bag This Week |
No Brown Bag This Week |
| Oct 4 | Abubakr Ayesh |
Mass Involuntary Migration and Educational Attainment |
| Oct 11 | Bo Liu |
Does Speed Bump Resolve the Problems of Mini Flash Crashes? Evidence from NYSE American |
| Oct 18 | No Brown Bag This Week |
No Brown Bag This Week |
| Oct 25 | Sara Wray Enns | Does Destroying Wildlife Reduce Human-Wildlife Conflict? Evidence from Black Bears in BC |
| Nov 1 | Cain Polidano | Historical Frontier Violence in Australia : Drivers and Legacy |
| Nov 8 | Herb Schuetze | Firm Characteristics and Immigrant Wage Outcomes in Canada |
| Nov 15 | Reading Break | Reading Break |
| Nov 22 | Nikolas Kuschnig | Shrinkage in Space - Spillovers and Networks in a Hierarchical Model |
| Nov 29 | Pascal Courty | Are EPL Teams Paid Like Bureaucrats? An Incentive Analysis of Monetary Match Importance |
| Dec 6 | Rebecca Wortzman | Big River Alanytics: Leveraging Statistical and Analytical Capacity to Benefit Indigenous Peoples |
| Dec 20 | Zoey Verdun | Health Risk Realization Versus Warning: Impact on Lifestyle Behaviours |