The Department of Economics Seminar series encourages and explores the latest research by scholars.
Past Research Seminars
| March 21 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) | Meri Davlasheridze, assistant professor at Texas A&M University at Galveston. Meri will present her paper The persistent effect of natural disasters on Opioid deaths. | Zoom Meeting |
| Mar 7, 2022 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) | Ross Levine, Chair in Banking and Finance at Haas School of Business, UC Berkley, will present his paper Selection into Entrepreneurship and Self-employment. | Zoom Meeting |
| December 6 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Yu Xiao, Associate Professor in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University (PSU)
“Community Businesses as Social Units in Post-Disaster Recovery” |
Zoom Meeting |
| November 8, 12:00 – 1:15pm |
Jose Berrospide, Chief of Financial Institutions Risk Evaluation Section at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
“Un-used Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply Shocks at SMEs during the Pandemic” |
Zoom Meeting |
| October 21 | Yongqiang Chu, Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of North Carolina
“Political Risk and Toxic Release” |
Zoom Meeting |
| November 8 | Jose Berrospide, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System “Un-used Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply Shocks at SMEs during the Pandemic” |
Zoom Meeting |
| November 29 | Yu Xiao, University of Portland | 316 Lake Hall |
| Thursday, April 29, 11:45 am – 1:15 pm |
Gangs, Labor Mobility and Development
Maria Micaela Sviatschi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Her research interests are labor and development economics, with a focus on human capital, gender-violence and crime. |
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| Thursday, April 15, 12:00 – 1:15 pm |
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October 26
- Justin Gallagher, Montana State University
November 16
- Gautam Rao, Harvard
The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep Among the Urban Poor
November 23
- Jenny Aker, Tufts
Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel
- September 19 Nidhiya Menon
The Brazilian Bombshell? The Long-Term Impact of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic the South American WayBrandeis University - September 23 Michael Kremer
Is Development Innovation a Good Investment? Which Innovations Scale? Evidence on Social Investing from USAID’s Development Innovation VenturesHarvard University - October 7 Florian Ederer
Killer AcquisitionsYale University - November 7 Leila Agha
Drug Diffusion through Peer Networks: Evidence from Industry PaymentsDartmouth College
| January 24 (Thursday) | Shahid Alam | Northeastern |
| February 7 (Thursday) | Kevin Boudreau | Northeastern |
| February 11 (Monday) | Michael Mueller-Smith | University of Michigan |
| February 21 (Thursday) | Felipe Barrera | Harvard |
| February 25 (Monday) | Klaus Desmet | Southern Methodist University |
| March 14 (Thursday) | David Atkin | MIT |
| CANCELED March 21 (Thursday) will be rescheduled for the Fall series. | Jonathan Zinman | Dartmouth |
| April 4 (Thursday) | David Yang | Harvard |
| April 8 (Monday) | Judith Chevalier | Yale |
| April 18 (Thursday) | James Nason | North Carolina State |
| April 22 (Monday) | Alicia Sasser Modestino | Northeastern |
| 17-Sep | Nina Pavcnik | Dartmouth College |
| 24-Sep | Chloe East | University of Colorado, Denver |
| 1-Oct | Matt Lowe | Briq Institute of Behavior & Inequality |
| 11-Oct | Chang-Jin Kim | University of Washington |
| 22-Oct | Adriaan Soetevent | Groningen University |
| 5-Nov | Rebecca Thornton | University of Illinois |
| 8-Nov | Heikki Rantakari | University of Rochester |
| 15-Nov | Peter Hull | University of Chicago |
| 19-Nov | Ludovica Gazze | University of Chicago |
| 28-Nov | Arindrajit Dube | (U-Mass Amherst) |
| 29-Nov | Andrew Foster | Brown |
| 6-Dec | Jere Berhman | U Penn |
- February 22, 2018 Ariel Dora Stern, HBS
- February 26, 2018 Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois
- March 14, 2018 Alicia Sasser Modestino, Northeastern University
- March 19, 2018 Leemore Dafny, HBS
- March 29, 2018 John Maluccio, Middlebury Development
- April 2, 2018 Debi Prasad Mohapatra, Umass Amherst IO
- April 9, 2018 Rafael Dix Carneiro, Duke Development/Trade
| 18-Sep | Chris Udry | Northwestern University |
| 2-Oct | Enrico Spolaore | Tufts |
| 30-Oct | Seema Jayachandran | Northwestern |
| 8-Nov | Petra Moser | New York University School of Business |
| 13-Nov | Stephen O’Connell | Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT SEII |
| 4-Dec | Bruce Sacerdote | Dartmouth College |
| 11-Dec | Tanya Byker | Middlebury College |