Department seminars

First term, Sep. - Dec. 2024

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Sep 20	Amy Sun (Queens)	TBD	Ke Xu
Sep 27	Augustin Tapsoba (Tolouse School of Economics)	TBD	TBD
Oct 4 *Lansdowne	Marianne Bitler (UC Davis)	TBD	Justin Wiltshire
Oct 11	Ian Luby (The Nature Conservancy)	TBD	Colette Salemi
Oct 18	Jing Tao (University of Washington)	TBD	Tao Wang
Oct 25	Witson Pena Tello (University of Barcelona)	TBD	TBD
Nov 1	Carl McPherson	TBD	Justin Wiltshire
Nov 8	Nicholas Carollo (Federal Reserve Board)	TBD	Jason Hicks
Nov 15	TBD	TBD	TBD
Nov 22	TBD	TBD	TBD

The Departmental Seminar Coordinators are Colette Salemi, Tao Wang and Justin Wiltshire.

Seminars are held in BEC 363 on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., unless otherwise indicated (in bold).

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Jan 26	Matt Webb, Carleton University	Cluster-Robust Jackknife and Boostrap Inference for Binary Response Models	Ke Xu
Feb 02	Gorkem Bostanci, UBC	Business and Information Cycles	Ke Xu
Feb 16	Derek Rury, University of Chicago Harris	Student Demand for Relative Performance Feedback: Evidence from a Field Experiment	Justin Wiltshire
Feb 23	Reading Break	No Seminar
Mar 01	Bertille Anotine, SFU	Factor IV Estimation in Conditional Moment Models with an application to Inflation Dynamics	Tao Wang
Mar 08	Marshall Steinbaum, University of Utah	The Effect of Franchise No-poaching Restrictions on Worker Earnings	Justin Wiltshire
Mar 15	Michael Jansson, UCB	Cluster Robust Inference in Linear Regression Models with Many Covariates	Tao Wang
Mar 22	Pierre Mouganie, SFU	Keep Me In, Coach: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Targeted Academic Coaching	Colette Salemi
Mar 29	Good Friday	No Seminar
Apr 05	Kathy Baylis, UCSB	Policy Design for Effective and Equitable Reductions in Deforestation Emissions	Colette Salemi
Wed. Apr 10 *3:00-4:30pm	Reid Elliot Seminar David Autor, MIT (Eng/Comp Science Bldg, Room 116)*	The Unexpected Compression: Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market	Justin Wiltshire

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
Sep 22	Seojeong Lee, Seoul National University	What Impulse Response Do Instrumental Variables Identify?	Tao Wang
Lansdowne Lecture Sep 29	Nathan Nunn, UBC	The Social Consequences of Traditional Religion in Contemporary Africa*	Department of Economics
Oct 6	Sebastian Gomez-Cardona, UBC	Financial Literacy, Shocks and Portfolio Adjustments	Ke Xu
Reid Elliot Seminar Oct 13	Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Oregon State University	Land Tenure Security and Deforestation: Experimental Evidence from Uganda	Colette Salemi
Oct 20	Dominic Parker, Wisconsin Madison	Farm Size, Spatial Externalities, and Wind Energy Development	Donn Feir and Colette Salemi
Oct 27	Bo Liu, UVic	Does Speed Bump Resolve the Problems of Mini Flash Crashes? Evidence from NYSE American	Donn Feir
Nov 3	Paul Beaudry, UBC	Asset Demand and Real Interest Rates*	Paul Schure
Nov 10	Abubakr Ayesh, UVic	Mass Involuntary Migration and Educational Attainment
Nov 24	Farouk Nathoo, UVic	Investigating the relationship between the Bayes factor and the separation of credible intervals	Tao Wang
Dec 01	Brianna Ballis, University of California Merced	Early Life Health Conditions and Racial Gaps in Education	Justin Wiltshire