Federico Ciliberto, University of Virginia, will present the Bob Holdren Memorial Seminar on Monday, April 16. "Push-Me Pull-You: Comparative Advertising in the OTC Analgesics Industry," is the title of his talk which will be presented in 368A Heady Hall starting at 4:10 PM.

Federico Ciliberto is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Virginia. He holds a Laurea (magna cum laude) from the Università di Firenze (Italy) and a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University. Prior to joining the University of Virginia he was on the faculty at North Carolina State University, and more recently he was a visiting scholar at the Université de Cergy-Pontoise, THEMA (France). Federico’s research focuses on empirical industrial organization, an area where he has already made important contributions (including a highly cited Econometrica article). He also has research interests in health economics and economic history.

"Property Rights and Efficiency in OLG models with Endogenous Fertility," is the title of Friday's, April 6 Department Seminar with Alice Schoonbroodt, University of Iowa. The seminar will be presented in 368A Heady Hall at 3:40 PM

Alice Schoonbroodt earned her PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 2006, spent five years at the University of Southampton, UK, upon graduation and recently returned to the Midwest to join the faculty at the University of Iowa as an assistant professor. Her main focus in research lies in the demographic aspects of applied Growth and Development Theory. That is, how does the economic environment affect demographic choices such as fertility and how do these choices and changes thereof feed back into the macroeconomy? Besides the positive questions on the topic, she also asks normative (policy) questions such as: should the government subsidize/tax fertility?

David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will present the I. W. Arthur Memorial Seminar on Friday, April 13th. "Impacts of Rising Imports from China on the Operation of U.S. Labor Markets: Differential Effects by Exposure," is the title of his talk, which will begin at 12 PM in 368A Heady Hall.

Autor received his Ph.D. in Public Policy, J.F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in 1999, and has been on the faculty at MIT since then. He is also a Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research. His fields of specialization are human capital, skill supply and demand, and earnings inequality; labor market impacts of technological change and globalization; disability insurance and labor force participation; contingent and intermediated work arrangements. He has published five articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, two in the Review of Economics and Statistics, and others in Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal and Industrial and Labor Relations Review and the Economic Journal. He also has two handbook chapters on topics in labor economics. He is a Fellow of the Society for Labor Economics and received the Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics.

Andrew Leach, University of Alberta, Canada, will present Monday's William Murray Memorial Seminar entitled "Buying Greenhouse Insurance with Lottery Tickets," at 4:10 PM in 368A Heady Hall.

Leach is an energy and environmental economist and an associate professor at the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Queen’s University, and an M.A. (Economics) from the University of Guelph. Leach was previously an assistant professor at HEC Montreal. He teaches courses in energy markets and environmental management as part of the Alberta School of Business Natural Resources, Energy and Environment (NREE) programs, and his academic research interests span climate and energy economics and policy. Leach has also consulted for Environment Canada, the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE), the Auditor General of Alberta, Alberta Environment, Alberta Finance and Enterprise, and Alberta Energy.