The Department of Economics hosts a seminar series featuring guest speakers from various fields of economics. Please visit this page regularly, as it will be continually updated with information regarding upcoming speakers and links to the papers scheduled for presentation.
2024-25 Seminar Series
Yihong Bai, Western University
Paper title:
Assessing the impact of welfare reform in the UK on mental health, life satisfaction, and impairments: a quasi-experimental study
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024
9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in GSB 307
Marco Cozzi, University of Victoria
Paper title:
Optimal Capital Taxation with Incomplete Markets and Schumpeterian Growth
Monday, Nov. 4, 2024
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in PLZ 410
Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto
Paper title:
McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression: Evidence from Hollywood
Monday, Nov. 18, 2024
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in PLZ 410
Samuel Norris, University of British Columbia
Paper title:
Mobile Crisis Response Teams Support Better Policing: Evidence from CAHOOTS
Friday, Nov. 22, 2024
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in GSB 306
David Escamilla-Guerrero, University of St Andrews
Paper title:
The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
Monday, Nov. 25, 2024
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in PLZ 410
David Ong, Jinan University-University of Birmingham Joint Institute
Paper title:
Gender differences in the mating and cross-productivity effects of competitiveness on partner income
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in GSB 206
Derek Messacar, Memorial University
Paper title:
Telework and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Canada
Tuesday, Mar. 11, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in GSB 306
Tilman Börgers, University of Michigan
Paper title:
Diversity, Disagreement, and Information Aggregation
Tuesday, Mar. 18, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in GSB 306
Christine Neill, Wilfrid Laurier University
Paper title:
TBD
Tuesday, Mar. 25, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in GSB 306
Halis Yildiz, Toronto Metropolitan University
Paper title:
TBD
Tuesday, Apr. 1, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in GSB 306
Rob Gillezeau, University of Toronto
Paper title:
TBD
Tuesday, Apr. 8, 2025
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in GSB 306
Visit the current seminar calendar.
Past seminars
Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023
Arthur Sweetman, McMaster University
Paper title: Physician Labour Supply: Efficient Use of General-Purpose Surveys
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 203
Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023
Tony Fang, Memorial University
Paper title: Where Did The Time Go? The Effects of China’s Two-Day Weekend Policy on Labor Supply, Household Work, and Leisure Activities
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 217
Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023
Matthew Harvey, University of Washington-Tacoma
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 215
Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023
Jamein Cunningham, University of Texas at Austin
Paper title: State Recreational Cannabis Laws and Racial Disparities in the Criminal Legal System
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 203
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023
Ashantha Ranasinghe, University of Alberta
Paper title: Gender Differences in Firm Performance: Selection and Misallocation in Mexico
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 215
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023
Ruben Gaetani, University of Toronto
Paper title: Are Cities Losing Innovation Advantages? Online versus Face-to-face Interactions
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 203
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Ying Feng, National University of Singaporee
Paper title: The Reversal of the Gender Education Gap with Economic Development
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in WH 324
Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023
Jonathan Créchet, University of Ottawa
Paper title: Life-cycle Worker Flows and Cross-country Differences in Aggregate Employment
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 215
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023
Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo
Paper title: Power of Economists
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 215
Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024
Mohammed Dore, Brock University
Paper title: Recurrent Financial Crises and US Monetary Regulation: Bubbles and Blisters
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in STH 216
Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024
Laetitia Renee, Université de Montréal
Paper title: The Impact of After-School Care on Maternal Income: Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in STH 201
Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2024
Adam Lavecchia, McMaster University
Paper title: “The Impact of Comprehensive Student Support on Crime: Evidence from the Pathways to Education Program”
2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in STH 216
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Nikolai Cook, Wilfrid Laurier University
Paper title: Stay Frosty: Climate Change and Gun Violence in North America
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in STH 201
Thursday April 4, 2024
Larry Samuelson, Yale University
Paper title: “What you don’t know may be good for you”
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in WH 303
Thursday, September 15, 2022
Guillaume Sublet, University of Montréal
Paper title: Fiscal Rules with Discretion for an Economic Union
1:30pm – 3:00pm in STH201
Host: Katerina Koka
Monday, September 26, 2022
Jonathan Moreno-Medina, University of Texas at San Antonio
Paper title: TBD
1:00pm – 2:30pm via Zoom
Host: Taylor Wright
Monday, October 3, 2022
Jay Hyun, HEC Montréal
Paper title: Bound by Ancestors: Immigration, Credit Frictions, and Global Supply Chain Formation
1:30pm – 3:00pm in WH327
Host: Miguel Cardoso
Monday, October 24, 2022
Artem Prokhorov, University of Sydney
Paper title: Dependence Modelling in Stochastic Frontier Models
1:00pm – 2:30pm in WH327
Host: Ivan Medovikov
Thursday, October 27, 2022
Siha Lee, McMaster University
Paper title: Universal Childcare, Fertility, and Parental Time Investments
1:00pm – 2:30pm in WH327
Host: Qian Liu
Monday, October 31, 2022
Mengxiao Liu, Lehigh University
Paper title: Quality Innovation, Cost Innovation, Exporting, and Firm Productivity Evolution: Evidence from the Chinese Electronics Industry
1:00pm – 2:30pm in WH303
Host: Xue Bai
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto
Paper title: Slavery and the British Industrial Revolution
1:30pm – 3:00pm in WH203
Host: Andrew Dickens
Monday, November 28, 2022
Ida Ferrara, York University
Paper title: Does Waste Management Policy Crowd out Social and Moral Motives for Recycling?
1:00pm – 2:30pm in WH303
Host: Marcel Oestreich
Thursday, December 6, 2022
Walter Steingress, Bank of Canada
Paper title: The fiscal impact of immigration in the United States: Evidence at the local level
1:00pm – 2:30pm via Zoom
Host: Miguel Cardoso
Monday, March 6, 2023
Evelyn Forget, University of Manitoba
Paper title: Basic Income in the Wake of the Pandemic
1:00pm – 2:30pm in WH327
Host: Andrew Dickens
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Melissa Spencer, University of Richmond
Paper title: Safer Sex? The Effect of AIDS Risk on Birth Rates
1:00pm – 2:30pm (virtual)
Host: Taylor Wright
October 7, 2021
Sebastian Ottinger, Northwestern University
Paper title: The Political Origins of Racial Hate in Media: Evidence from the U.S. South
Host: Miguel Cardoso
October 25, 2021
Nathan Zorzi, Dartmouth College
Paper title: Inefficient Automation
Host: Katerina Koka
November 4, 2021
Martin Fiszbein, Boston University
Paper title: New Technologies, Productivity, and Jobs: The (Heterogeneous) Effects of Electrification on US Manufacturing
Host: Andrew Dickens
November 11, 2021
Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Paper title: How to Tax Capitalists in the 21st Century
Host: Teega Zeida
November 18, 2021
Mikal Skuterud, University of Waterloo
Paper title: Temporary Foreign Workers
Host: Miguel Cardoso
November 23, 2021
Juan Morales, Wilfrid Laurier University
Paper title: Can Online Dissent be (Effectively) Censored?
Host: Andrew Dickens
December 7, 2021
Alexis Anagnostopoulos, Stony Brook University
Paper title: Cross-Country Stock Market Comovement: A Macro Perspective
Host: Teega Zeida
March 1, 2022
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, 2022
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, 2022
Tom Handler, Statistics Canada
Paper title: Fine Tuning or Re-Skilling? Educational Strategies of Prime-Aged Displaced Workers
Host: Miguel Cardoso
September 22, 2020
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, 2020
Mick Coelli, University of Melbourne
Paper title: How Principals Affect Schools
Host: Lester Kwong
October 20, 2020
Andrea Ariu, University of Milan
Paper title: Foreign Workers, Product Quality, and Trade: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Host: Miguel Cardoso
October 27, 2020
Angela Lynn Zheng, McMaster University
Paper title: Valuation of Local School Quality under School Choice
Host: Marcel Oestreich
November 17, 2020
Ola Olsson, University of Gothenburg
Paper title: Pharaoh’s Cage: Environmental Circumscription and Appropriability in Early State Development
Host: Andrew Dickens
November 23, 2020
Chris Bidner, Simon Fraser University
Paper title: Marriage, Commitment and Unbundling Gendered Norms
Host: Lester Kwong
November 30, 2020
Janet Huang Jiang, Bank of Canada
Paper title: Adoption of a New Payment Method: Evidence from the Laboratory
Host: Ling Sun
February 4, 2021
Felipe Caicedo, University of British Columbia
Paper title: Country of Women? Repercussions of the Triple Alliance War in Paraguay
Host: Cornelius Christian
February 10, 2021
David Stasavage, NYU
Paper title: Foundations of a New Democracy: Schooling, Inequality, and Voting in the Early Republic
Host: Cornelius Christian
February 17, 2021
Eugene Tan, University of Toronto
Paper title: Investment Plans, Uncertainty, and Misallocation
Host: Teega Zeida
February 25, 2021
Gabriela Galassi, Bank of Canada
Paper title: The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Mothers as Role Models
Host: Teega Zeida
March 3, 2021
John Eric Humphries, Yale University
Paper title: Eviction and Poverty in American Cities: Evidence from Chicago and New York
Host: Bob Dimand
March 10, 2021
Brant Abbott, Queen’s University
Paper title: Permanent-Income Inequality
Host: Qian Liu
March 24, 2021
Frikk Nesje, University of Copenhagen
Paper title: Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism
Host: Marcel Oestreich
April 7, 2021
Larry Samuelson, Yale University
Paper title: The Analogical Foundations of Cooperation
Host: Bob Dimand
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
