Seminars
This is a listing of all departmental seminars. All seminars, unless otherwise noted, are held on Fridays from 3:00 to 4:30pm in Saunders Hall 515.
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| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Friday January 16 |
Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley) |
"Monopsony, Markdowns, and Minimum Wages" |
| Friday January 23 |
Chamna Yoon (Seoul National University) |
"Childcare and Long-Term Care: A Tale of Altruism and Strategic Motives within the Family" |
| Friday February 6 |
Guillaume Rocheteau (UC Irvine) |
"Frictional Capital Markets and Economic Growth" |
| Friday February 13 |
Karl Aspelund (Harvard University) |
"Redistribution in Environmental Permit Markets: Transfers and Efficiency Costs with Trade Restrictions" |
| Friday February 20 |
Ryan Chahrour (Cornell University) |
"Risky Business Cycles" |
| Friday February 27 |
Annika Nivala (VATT Institute for Economic Research) |
"Making Employers: The Effects of Supporting First Hires in a Large-Scale Randomized Experiment" (with Elias Einiö) |
| Wednesday March 11 |
Guofang Huang (Purdue University) |
Leverage Service for Growth: Cross-Selling Synergies and Organizational Design |
| Friday March 13 |
Qi Li (Penn State) |
"Screening with Price and Data: Adverse Selection and Information Heterogeneity in Search Markets" (with Robert Shimer) |
| Friday March 27 |
Hitoshi Shigeoka (University of Tokyo) |
Two Inefficiencies of Self-Selection: Evidence from Health Care (with Toshiaki Iizuka and Junya Kawamura) |
| Friday April 10 |
Sarath Sanga (Yale Law) |
A Theory of Trust in Institutions |
| Thursday (Seiji Naya Lecture) April 16 (5:30pm) |
Dean Yang (University of Michigan) |
"Abundance from Abroad: International Migration and the Developing World." |
| Friday April 17 |
Dean Yang (University of Michigan) |
"Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Religious Identity and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India" |
| Friday April 24 |
Rhiannon Jerch (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Urban |