Past Talks in the Economics Seminar Series: 2015 – 2016

Fall 2015

Date Speaker Paper Title/Topic & Link Time/Place
8/25 Juan Manuel Rodriguez-Poo
Univ. of Cantabria, Spain		 Precautionary savings over the life cycle: efficient two-stage nonparametric instrumental variables estimation
 10-11:30am,
Friday 207
9/11 Matthew Freedman
Drexel University		 Persistence in Industrial Policy Impacts: Evidence from Depression-Era Mississippi 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
9/18 Scott Baker
Northwestern University (Kellogg)		 Income Changes and Consumption: Evidence from the 2013 Federal Government Shutdown 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
10/2 Brad Humphreys
West Virginia University		 Physical Activity, Present Bias, and Habit Formation: Theory and Evidence From Longitudinal Data 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
10/23 David Dicks
UNC Chapel Hill
(Kenan Flagler)		 Innovation Waves, Investor Sentiment, and Mergers 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
11/6 Christian Ahlin
Michigan State University		 Group Lending, Matching Patterns, and the Mystery of Microcredit: Evidence from Thailand 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
11/20 Miguel Morin
Univ. of Cambridge, UK		 Adapting to Workplace Technological Change over the Long Run: Evidence from US Longitudinal Data 10-11:30am,
Friday 212

Spring 2016

Date Speaker Paper Title/Topic & Link Time/Place
2/5 Simon Alder
UNC Chapel Hill		 Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
2/19 Melinda Sandler Morrill
NC State University		 Special Education Financing and ADHD Medications: A Bitter Pill to Swallow 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
4/1 John Whitehead Appalachian State Estimating Lost Recreational Use Value of Visitors to Northwest Florida from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill using Revealed and Stated Preference Data 10-11:30am,
Friday 207
4/8 Dan Thornton
St. Louis Fed
(joint seminar with Finance)		 The Parable of the Loaves and Fishes and the (Near) Impossibility of Forecasting Bond Excess Returns 10-11:30am,
Friday 212
4/22 Pietro Peretto
Duke University		 Robust Endogenous Growth 11:00-12:30pm,
Friday 207