Current Schedule (see below for full details)
The current schedule of visiting speakers can be found on the calendar below. Visit this page often as it will be updated during the year as new speakers come to visit and as we obtain links for the papers scheduled for presentation.
2021-2022 SEMINAR SERIES
October 7
Sebastian Ottinger, Northewestern University
Paper title: The Political Origins of Racial Hate in Media: Evidence from the U.S. South
Host: Miguel Cardoso
October 25
Nathan Zorzi, Dartmouth College
Paper title: Inefficient Automation
Host: Katerina Koka
November 4
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University
Paper title: New Technologies, Productivity, and Jobs: The (Heterogeneous) Effects of Electrification on US Manufacturing
Host: Andrew Dickens
November 11
Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Paper title: How to Tax Capitalists in the 21st Century
Host: Teega Zeida
November 18
Mikal Skuterud, University of Waterloo
Paper title: Temporary Foreign Workers
Host: Miguel Cardoso
November 23
Juan Morales, Wilfrid Laurier University
Paper title: Can Online Dissent be (Effectively) Censored?
Host: Andrew Dickens
December 7
Alexis Anagnostopoulos, Stony Brook University
Paper title: Cross-Country Stock Market Comovement: A Macro Perspective
Host: Teega Zeida
March 1
Jonathan Zhang, McMaster University
Paper title: Impacts of Basic Income on Health and Economic Well-Being: Evidence from the VA’s Disability Compensation Program (with David Silver)
Host: Qian Liu
March 15
Yifan Gong, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Paper title: Examining Income Expectations in the College and Early Post-College Periods: New Distributional Tests of Rational Expectations
Host: Qian Liu
April 7
Tom Handler, Statistics Canada
Paper title: Fine Tuning or Re-Skilling? Educational Strategies of Prime-Aged Displaced Workers
Host: Miguel Cardoso
2020-2021 SEMINAR SERIES
September 22
Vincent Geloso, King’s College at Western University
Paper title: State Capacity and the Post Office: Evidence from 19th Century Quebec
Host: Cornelius Christian
September 29
Mick Coelli, University of Melbourne
Paper title: How Principals Affect Schools
Host: Lester Kwong
October 20
Andrea Ariu, University of Milan
Paper title: Foreign Workers, Product Quality, and Trade: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Host: Miguel Cardoso
October 27
Angela Lynn Zheng, McMaster University
Paper title: Valuation of Local School Quality under School Choice
Host: Marcel Oestreich
November 17
Ola Olsson, University of Gothenburg
Paper title: Pharaoh’s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
Host: Andrew Dickens
November 23
Chris Bidner, Simon Fraser University
Paper title: Marriage, Commitment and Unbundling Gendered Norms
Host: Lester Kwong
November 30
Janet Huang Jiang, Bank of Canada
Paper title: Adoption of a New Payment Method: Evidence from the Laboratory
Host: Ling Sun
February 4
Felipe Caicedo, University of British Columbia
Paper title: Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay
Host: Cornelius Christian
February 10
David Stasavage, NYU
Paper title: Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling,Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic
Host: Cornelius Christian
February 17
Eugene Tan, University of Toronto
Paper title: Investment Plans, Uncertainty, and Misallocation
Host: Teega Zeida
February 25
Gabriela Galassi, Bank of Canada
Paper title: The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Mothers as Role Models
Host: Teega Zeida
March 3
John Eric Humphries, Yale University
Paper title: Eviction and Poverty in American Cities: Evidence from Chicago and New York
Host: Bob Dimand
March 10
Brant Abbott, Queen’s University
Paper title: Permanent-Income Inequality
Host: Qian Liue
March 24
Frikk Nesje, University of Copenhagen
Paper title: Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism
Host: Marcel Oestreich
April 7
Larry Samuelson, Yale University
Paper title: The Analogical Foundations of Cooperation.
Host: Bob Dimand
2019-2020 SEMINAR SERIES
October 7
Max Tabord-Meehan, University of Chicago
Paper title: Stratification Trees for Adaptive Randomization in Randomized Controlled Trials
Host: Miguel Cardoso
October 23
Zhentong Lu, Bank of Canada
Paper title: Examining the Impact of Cooling Measures on China’s Housing Market: A Structural Model Approach
Host: Xue Bai
October 28
Ryo Makioka, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
Paper title: Do Trade Fairs Promote Export?
Host: Xue Bai
November 4
Ming Xu, Queen’s University
Paper title: Heterogeneous Passthrough from TFP to wages
Host: Qian Liu
November 18
Gustavo Bobonis, University of Toronto
Paper title: Externalities in Politicians’ Malfeasance: Norms of Corruption and Yardstick Competition
Host: Andrew Dickens
November 25
Leilei Shen, Kansas State University
Paper title: Export Expansion and Local Labor Market Outcomes in China
Host: Xue Bai
March 12
Brian McCaig, Wilfrid Laurier University
Paper title: Export Markets and Long-Run Industry Adjustment: State, Private, and Foreign Firms in Vietnam
Host: Katerina Koka
