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Brown bag seminars

Second Term, Jan-Apr 2026

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
07 Jan	Mohammadhossein Lashkaripour	Belief Dispersion and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Protection
14 Jan	Maggie O’Shea (Dartmouth Colleague)	Investigating Measurement Error and Attenuation Bias in Climate Damage Assessments
28 Jan	Jason Hicks	The Occupational Licensing of Uber Drivers
04 Feb	Muthoni Nganga	Participatory Rangeland Management and (Experimental) Collective Action Among Kenyan Pastoralists
11 Feb	Geoff Dunbar (Bank of Canada)	Preferences, Liquidity and Household Inflation
18 Feb	N/A - Reading Break	N/A
25 Feb	Justin Wiltshire	Exploiting the Threshold: Labor Market Power and Statutory Benefit Qualification Rules
04 Mar	Elisabeth Gugl	Matching and the Political Gender Gap
11 Mar	Amy Hill (Competition Bureau Canada)	Economics, Law, and Competition Policy – Career Path and Experiences. (Graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to attend!)
18 Mar	Georgia Lessard & Mathieu Lafreniere (UVic Econ Undergrad Students)	AIMC Stock Pitch Mock Presentations
25 Mar	Fengyi Zhang	Economic Conditions and Opioid Mortality
01 Apr DSB C128 12:30-2:20pm*	ECON Faculty	Economics Research at UVic: Research Agenda Summaries by ECON Professors
08 Apr	Richard Martin (Goverment of BC)	Simulating Occupational Mobility with Optimal Transport Theory
15 Apr	Jingyi Huang (Brandeis University)	Fence Laws: Liability Rules and Agricultural Development
29 Apr	Laurence Malafry (Aalto University)	Immigration Shocks in the Presence of Income Effects

Summer Session, May-August 2026

Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)

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Date	Speaker	Title
13 May *DSB C130	Sara Connolly (University of Leicester)	Tentative steps towards a behavioural model of financial wellbeing
20 May *DSB C130	Justin Wiltshire	Playing with Fire: The Unintended Consequences of Logging Restrictions in the Northern Spotted Owl Habitat (with Natalia Orlova and Fengyi Zhang)
3 June *DSB C130	Giuseppe Ippedico (University of Nottingham)	Firm-level Effects of Tax-Induced Immigration
10 June *DSB C130	Vasco Gabriel	Sanctions as Macro-Financial Shocks: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model of Iran
17 June *DSB C130	Janet Burlacu	Subsidizing Quality? Policy and the Market for Child Care Workers