Past Seminars

Brian D Wright (UC Berkeley)

Wednesday, August 31, 2022 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Description:  Brian D. Wright (UC Berkeley) "A weak latent trend hides strong price predictabilty: an empirical method for an unrecognized problem"

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Contact Person: GianCarlo Moschini

Tracy Turner (ISU)

Friday, February 18, 2022 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Tracy TurnerDescription: Department Seminar: Tracy Turner (Assoc. Prof. Finance, ISU)

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: “The Housing Market Lottery: Impacts of Purchase Timing and Location on Net Worth”

Min Kyong Kim (ISU)

Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Min Kyong KimDescription: Joint Labor-Public Economics Workshop/Job Market Talk: Min Kyong Kim

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: "The impact of beef ban on infant mortality rate in India"

John V. Winters (ISU)

Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

John WintersDescription: Labor-Public Economics Workshop: John V. Winters

Title: "Immigrant Self-Employment across the United States"

Abstract: Immigrant entrepreneurs are critical to regional and national economies. Immigrants in the U.S. have higher self-employment rates than natives, and immigrants have made outsized contributions as founders of numerous highly successful firms.  However, immigrant self-employment rates vary considerably across areas. This paper documents important differences in immigrant self-employment rates across the U.S.  Our main measure is the percentage of immigrant workers in an area who are self-employed; i.e., the self-employment rate for the foreign-born. Northern regions have especially low self-employment rates among their immigrant populations compared to other areas of the U.S. This relationship holds for numerous sub-samples of immigrants and is not driven by any particular group. The relationship persists after controlling for numerous individual and local area characteristics. The results have important implications about the location choices of immigrant entrepreneurs.

Jared Hutchins (UIUC)

Monday, October 25, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Jared HutchinsDescription: Department Seminar: Jared Hutchins (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: "Heterogeneous Asset Replacement with Failure Costs: An Empirical Model of Livestock Replacement"

Nieyan Cheng (ISU)

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Nieyan ChengDescription: Job Market Talk: Nieyan Cheng

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: “The Impact of China’s Place-based Environmental Regulations on its Hog Industry: A Synthetic Difference-in-differences Approach”

Jian Chen (ISU)

Friday, October 15, 2021 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Event Type: 

Jian ChenDescription: Macro/Micro/Trade/Env Reading Group: Jian Chen
Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: "Heterogeneity in State Solar Deployment: Effects of Technology-neutral and Technology-specific Renewable Energy Policies"

Jiwon Lee (ISU)

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Jiwon LeeDescription: Job Market Talk: Jiwon Lee

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: "How can news articles on foreign animal diseases affect meat purchases? The case of African swine fever"

Contact: Otavio Bartalotti

Xiaoyin Li (ISU)

Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Xiaoyin LiDescription: Joint Labor-Public Economics Workshop/Job Market Talk: Xiaoyin Li

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: "Does Work Eligibility Work for Foreign-born Women? H-4 Visa Policy and Labor Outcomes"

Gary Lyn (ISU)

Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Gary LynDescription: Labor-Public Economics Workshop: Gary Lyn

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Title: "Market Adaptation to Climate Change in Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium"

Serkan Aglasan (NCSU)

Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Event Type: 

Dr. Serkan AglasanSerkan Aglason (North Carolina State Univ.)
Virtual Department Research Seminar
Thurs, 25 Mar 2021 - 3:40pm - 5:00pm
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Virtual Department Extension Seminar
Fri, 26 Mar 2021 - 10:00am - 11:00am

Sierra Howry (Univ. of Wisconsin)

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 11:00 am
Event Type: 

Dr. Sierra HowrySierra Howry (University of Wisconsin-River Falls)

Virtual Department Teaching Lecture
11:00 am - 11:50 am

Virtual Department Faculty Presentation
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm

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Matthew Shum (Caltech)

Monday, March 22, 2021 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Matthew ShumDescription: Virtual Department Seminar: Matthew Shum
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"The Impact of Privacy Measures on Online Advertising Markets" (joint with Miguel Alcobendas and Shunto Kobayashi)

Kevin Kim (AEDE)

Friday, March 19, 2021 - 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Event Type: 

Virtual Department Extension Seminar

Kevin KimKevin Kim (AEDE)
“Enhancing Financial Literacy in the Ag Supply Chain”

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Ethan Sabala (Texas Tech)

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 - 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Event Type: 

Virtual Department Extension Seminar

Dr. Ethan SabalaEthan Sabala (Texas Tech University)

“Seed/Herbicide Bundling and Price Discrimination”

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Todd Sarver (Duke University)

Friday, November 20, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Todd SarverDescription: Virtual Department Seminar: Todd Sarver
Professor, Department of Economics

“An Evolutionary Perspective on Updating Risk and Ambiguity Preferences"

Contact person: Jian Li

John Komlos (University of Munich)

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 12:20 pm to 1:40 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. John KomlosDescription: Virtual Department Seminar: John Komlos
Professor of Economics, Emeritus, University of Munich

Seminar topic: “The Hidden Racism in Economics”

Background material: "Foundations of Real-World Economies"

Contact Person: Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Job Market Talk Practice: Xibo Wan (ISU)

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 4:40 pm
Event Type: 

Xibo WanDescription: Virtual Department Seminar: Xibo Wan
"The Impact of Chemical Disclosures and Regulations in Consumer Products: Evidence from Bisphenol A (BPA)"

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Contact Person: Otavio Bartalotti

Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago)

Friday, October 16, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Shaoda WangDescription: Virtual Department Seminar: Dr. Shaoda Wang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Economics and EPIC

"The Environmental and Economic Consequences of Internalizing Border Spillovers"

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Contact Person: Wendong Zhang

Job Market Talk Practice: Liyuan Ma (ISU)

Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Liyuan MaDescription: Virtual Labor-Public Economics Workshop: Liyuan Ma
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“The Role of Marital Transfers in Marrying up in the Chinese Marriage Market”

Contact Person: Otavio Bartalotti

Job Market Talk Practice: Gyu Hyun Kim (ISU)

Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Event Type: 

Gyu Hyun KimDescription: Virtual department seminar: Gyu Hyun Kim
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"Short-Run Equilibrium of International Trade under Heterogeneous Discrete Firms with Multiple Continuous Varieties"

Contact Person: Otavio Bartalotti

Job Market Talk Practice: Seungki Lee (ISU)

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 - 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Event Type: 

Seungki LeeDescription: Virtual department seminar: Seungki Lee
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"Estimating the Value of Innovation and Extension Information: SCN-Resistant Soybean Varieties"

Contact Person: Otavio Bartalotti

Jesse Shapiro (Brown University)

Monday, September 28, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Jesse ShapiroDescription: Virtual department seminar: Jesse Shapiro
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"Bounds on a slope from size restrictions on economic shocks"

Contact Person: Katie Harris-Lagoudakis

Nese Yildiz (University of Rochester)

Friday, September 25, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Nese YildizDescription: Virtual department seminar: Nese Yildiz
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"A Test of the Selection on Observables Assumption Using a Discontinuously Distributed Covariate"

Contact Person: Desire Kedagni

Michael Carter (UC Davis), Samuel Bird (Luther)

Monday, September 21, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Michael Card, Dr. Sam BirdDescription: Virtual department seminar: Dr. Michael Carter
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Davis

Co-presenter: Samuel Bird
Assistant Professor, Luther College

Contact person: Wendong Zhang

Benjamin Rosa (Virginia Tech)

Friday, March 6, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Benjamin RosaLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Benjamin Rosa
"Subcontracting Requirements and the Cost of Government Procurement"

Contact Person: Donghyuk Kim

Hongli Feng (Michigan State University)

Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Hongli FengLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Hongli Feng
"Over-perception of land use changes and biased beliefs: some evidence based on a farm level data"

Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom

Ruiqing Miao (Auburn University)

Monday, December 2, 2019 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Ruiqing MiaoLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Ruiqing Miao (Auburn University)
"Climate Change Effects on U.S. Agriculture: Distributional Heterogeneity, Technological Adaptability, and Spatial Spillovers"

Contact Person: Joshua Rosenbloom

Sharon Belenzon (Duke University)

Friday, November 1, 2019 - 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Sharon BelenzonLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Sharon Belenzon
"Back to Basics: Why do Firms Invest in Scientific Research?"

Contact Person: Matthew Clancy

Wallace Huffman (ISU)

Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Wallace HuffmanLocation: 360 Heady Hall

Description: Wallace Huffman
“Convergence Theory and Conditional Income Convergence in Countries of Sub Saharan Africa from 1990-2015”

Contact Person: John V. Winters

Econ 693 Presentation: Bera

Monday, June 24, 2019 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Event Type: 

Somenath BeraLocation: 360 Heady Hall

Description: Somenath Bera (ISU)
"Are labor supply decisions Neoclassical or Reference-Dependent? Evidence from the Pacific Halibut fishery"

Econ 693 Presentation: Xiaogang Li

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Xiaogang LiLocation: 360 Heady Hall

Description: Xiaogang Li (ISU)
“Does Innovation Increase Stock Returns? The Role of Innovation Efficiency”

Contact Person: Brent Kreider

Shanto Iyengar (Stanford University)

Friday, April 26, 2019 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Shanto IyengarLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Shanto Iyengar
"The Intensification of Partisan Affect" 

This talk is based on two papers:
"The Home as a Political Fortress; Family Agreement in an Era of Polarization"
"Echo Chambers and Partisan Polarization: Evidence from the 2016 Presidential Campaign"

David Aadland (University of Wyoming)

Monday, April 22, 2019 - 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. David AadlandLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Economics Lecturer/Senior Lecturer candidate David Aadland (University of Wyoming)
Ph.D. Economics, University of Oregon, 1997

Contact Person: John Crespi

Darin Wohlgemuth (ISU)

Thursday, April 18, 2019 - 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm
Event Type: 

Darin WohlgemuthLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Economics Lecturer/Senior Lecturer candidate Darin Wohlgemuth (Department of Economics)
Ph.D. Economics, Iowa State University, 1997

Contact Person: John Crespi

Shakeeb Khan (Boston College)

Monday, April 8, 2019 - 3:00 pm to 4:20 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Shakeeb KahnLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Shakeeb Khan
"Dynamic Discrete Choice with Unobserved Heterogeneity"

The talk is based on two papers:
"Identification of Dynamic Panel Binary Response Models" and "Inference on Semiparametric Multinomial Response Models."

Contact Person: Otavio Bartalotti

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (Center for Policy Research)

Friday, February 22, 2019 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Dr. Alfonso Flores-LagunesDescription: Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
“Bounds on Average Treatment Effects with an Invalid Instrument, with an Application to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment"

Contact Person: Desire Kedagni

Econ 693 Presentation: Jiang

Thursday, December 13, 2018 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Shaobai JiangLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Shaobai Jiang
"An Analysis of House Price Using Machine Learning and Text Mining Techniques"

Contact Person: Brent Kreider

Barry Goodwin (NC State)

Friday, November 30, 2018 - 3:00 pm to 4:20 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Barry Goodwin Location: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Barry Goodwin
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
“Has Technology Increased Yield Risk? Evidence From the Crop Insurance Biotech Endorsement”

Econ 693 Presentation: Sicheng He

Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Sicheng HeLocation: 360 Heady Hall

Description: Sicheng He
"Endogenous Growth: Innovation, Credit Constraints, and Stock Price Bubbles"

Contact Person: Brent Kreider

Sheila Olmstead (University of Texas at Austin)

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Sheila OlmsteadLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
"The Value of Water Quality: Separating Amenity and Recreational Benefits"

Gregory Graff (Colorado State University)

Monday, August 27, 2018 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Gregory GraffPioneer Policy Lecture

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Gregory Graff
“Intellectual Property Control and Licensing of CRISPR-Cas9 and Implications for the Development of Gene Edited Crops”

William G. Murray Memorial Seminar: Catherine Eckel

Monday, April 24, 2017 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Catherine EckelLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Catherine Eckel (Texas A&M University)
"Gender in Financial Markets"

Papers:
Thar SHE Blows? Gender, Competition, and Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets
Hidden vs. Known Gender Effects in Experimental Asset Markets

Donna Gilleskie (University of North Carolina)

Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Donna GilleskieLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Donna Gilleskie
"The Effects of a Criminal Record on Employment, Welfare Participation, and Health:  A Model of Long-run Behaviors and Outcomes when Lagged Variables are Missing Non-Randomly"

Kristy Buzard (UC San Diego)

Friday, February 3, 2017 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Kristy BuzardLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Kristy Buzard CV
"Self-enforcing Trade Agreements and Lobbying"

Contact Person: David Frankel

Jialing Yu (Oregon State University)

Tuesday, January 31, 2017 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Jialing YuLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Jialing Yu CV
"Welfare Effects of Publicly Subsidized Crop Insurance Programs: The Sufficient Statistics Approach"

Contact Person: Catherine Kling

Gary Lyn (Penn State)

Monday, January 30, 2017 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Gary LynLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Gary Lyn
"Grounded by Gravity: A Well-Behaved Trade Model with Industry-Level Economies of Scale"

Contact Person: David Frankel

Guilherme DePaula (Yale)

Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Gil DePaulaLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Guilherme DePaula
"Technological Diffusion and Bundled Contracts: Soy Boom in Brazil"

Andrew Stevens (UC Berkeley)

Thursday, January 19, 2017 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Dr. Andrew StevensLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Andrew Stevens CV
"Temperature, Wages, and Agricultural Labor Productivity"

Contact Person: Catherine Kling

Paul Collier (Oxford University)

Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Paul ColierLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Paul Collier

"The Economics of Dysfunctional Cultures in Organizations"

Contact Person: Wallace Huffman

Lutz Kilian (University of Michigan)

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Lutz KilianLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Lutz Kilian

"A General Approach to Recovering Market Expectations from Futures Prices With an Application to Crude Oil”

Mar Reguant (Northwestern)

Monday, March 7, 2016 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Mar ReguantLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Mar Reguant (Northwestern)

"Using High-Frequency Interval Meter Data to Evaluate Energy Efficiency Investments in Schools"

 

NSF Economics Program Director Q&A: Nancy Lutz

Friday, March 4, 2016 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Location: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Nancy Lutz, Program Director for Economics at the National Science Foundation

Lutz is in charge of the Economics Program in the Division of Social and Economic Sciences and is currently also a member of the coordinating committee for NSF's Science and Technology Centers Program. Her responsibilities include coordinating the review process, making funding recommendations, and participating in the development of new NSF initiatives.

Nick Kuminoff (Arizona State University)

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Nickolai KuminoffLocation: 368A Heady Hall

Description: Nickolai Kuminoff  (Arizona State University)

"Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture: An Application to the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market"

Human Resources Workshop/Econ 693 Presentation: Jonathan McFadden (ISU) "Consumer Willingness to Pay for Conventional and Genetically Modified, Low-Acrylamide Potato Products with Information Effects"

Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Event Type: 

Location: 360 Heady  Hall

Description:  Jonathan McFadden (Iowa State University)

"Consumer Willingness to Pay for Conventional and Genetically Modified, Low-Acrylamide Potato Products with Information Effects"

Abstract: N/A

Contact Person:  Peter F Orazem

George A. Fuller Memorial Lecture: Rachel Croson (University of Texas/Arlington) "Mentoring Women: The Case of Academic Economists"

Monday, February 24, 2014 - 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Event Type: 

Location:  368A Heady Hall

Description:  Rachel Croson (University of Texas/Arlington) "Mentoring Women:  The Case of Academic Economists"

Abstract:  This talk will briefly describe the status of women in tenured and tenure-track faculty roles, and identify a mentoring intervention that has proven effective in increasing their representation in the Economics profession. 

Contact Person:  N/A