The economics department hosts weekly seminars led by experts across a variety of fields. All seminars are currently online. Graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in attending seminars should email the organizer directly.
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2024/2025 Academic Year
Minki Kim
University of Mannheim
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: “Land Reform, Human Capital Accumulation, and Structural Transformation”
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Boon Han Koh
University of Exeter
Date:Thursday, September 26, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Itai Arieli
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Rafael Guntin
University of Rochester
Date: Friday, October 4, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Arturas Juodis
University of Amsterdam
Date: Friday, October 4, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: “Dynamic Panel Data, Half Panel Jackknife and (near) Uniform Inference”
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Sergio Ocampo Diaz
University of Western Ontario
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Zhigang Feng
University of Nebraska-Omaha
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Natalie Millar
Stanford University
Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: Zoom
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Arthur Thomas
Paris Dauphine University
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Xianwen Shi
University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Kurt See
Bank of Canada
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Yuanyuan Wan
University of Toronto
Date: Friday, November 15, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Shahar Rotberg
Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Claudia Olivetti
Dartmouth College
Date: Monday, December 2, 2024
Time: 2:30-4:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Clemens Possnig
University of Waterloo
Date: Friday, January 31, 2025
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Past Seminars
Daniel Trefler
University of Toronto
Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Roxana Halbleib
University of Freiburg
Date: Friday, February 16, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: “Efficient Sampling for Realized Variance Estimation in Time-Changed Diffusion Models”
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Felipe Valencia Caicedo
The University of British Columbia
Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Marlène Koffi
University of Toronto
Date: Friday, March 15, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Laura García-Montoya
University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
R. Vijay Krishna
Florida State University
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Nikolay Kudrin
Queen’s University
Date: Friday, April 5, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Peter Reinhard Hansen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Onur Kesten
University of Sydney
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Vittoria Dicandia
Federal Reserve Bank at Cleveland
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Technological Change and Wage Disparities
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca)
Harold Chiang
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Friday, November 24, 2023
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Alex Maynard
University of Guelph
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Joe Kaboski
University of Notre Dame
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Jing Zhang
Chicago Fed
Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Nail Kashaev
Western University
Date: Friday, November 3, 2023
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: “Peer effects in consideration and preferences” (joint with Natalia Lazzati and Ruli Xiao)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)
Elif Incekara-Hafalir
University of Technology Sydney
Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Matteo Camboni
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Jeremy Lise
University of Minnesota
Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Chris Bidner
Simon Fraser University
Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Yao Luo
University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Ying Feng
National University of Singapore and University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)
Felix Koenig
Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
David Weiss
Tel Aviv University
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Deniz Dizdar
University of Montreal
Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Bernhard Schmidpeter
Johannes Kepler University
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca)
Chuan Goh
University of Guelph
Date: Friday, March 31, 2023
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
McGill University
Fernando Garcia-Belenguer
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Topic: Capital, Income, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap: A Tale of Two Elasticities
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca)
Marine Carrasco
University of Montreal
Date: Friday, March 3, 2023
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)
Yan Bai
Rochester, CEPR, NBER
Date: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Macroeconomics World Financial Cycles
Location: Online
Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & George Stefanidis (stefa107@yorku.ca)
Jean-Marie Dufour
McGill University
Date: Friday, November 18, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)
Tianyi Wang
University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics
Waves of Empowerment: Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement (PDF)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Kerem Tuzcuoglu
Bank of Canada
Date: Friday, November 11, 2022
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)
Xavier D’Haultfoeuille
CREST
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: Online
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Caroline Arteaga Cabrales
University of Toronto
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Gaston Chaumont
Rochester
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & George Stefanidis (stefa107@yorku.ca)
David Green
Vancouver School of Economics, UBC
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
UPenn, UAB, Barcelona GSE, CEPR
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: (TBA)
Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & George Stefanidis (stefa107@yorku.ca)
Lena Song
Columbia University
Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: (TBA)
Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)
Dalibor Stevanovic
UQAM
Date: Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)
Matt Webb
Carleton University
Date: Friday, April 1, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)
Saraswata Chaudhuri
McGill University
Date: Friday, March 25, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)
Viktoria Hnatkovska
University of British Columbia
Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Time: 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Topic: TBA
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Terry Cheung
Academia Sinica
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 9:30-11:00 AM
Topic: TBA
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Julieta Caunedo
Cornell University
Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Time: 10:00- 11:30 AM
Topic: TBA
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, December 4, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM
Tamon Asonuma (IMF)
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday November 17, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Robert Garlick (Duke University)
Topic: Aspirations, Assets, and Anti-Poverty Policy
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, November 13, 2020
Time: 10:00-11:30 A.M.
Rachel L. Ngai (London School of Economics)
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, November 6, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM
Wyatt Brooks (Arizona State University)
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday November 5, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
David Price (University of Toronto)
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 30, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM
Juan Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday October 29, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Claudia Persico (American University)
Topic: The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 23, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM
Todd Schoellman (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday October 22, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Román Andrés Zárate (University of Toronto)
Topic: Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday October 8, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Joshua Lewis (Université de Montréal)
Topic: The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 2, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM
Zhigang Feng (University of Nebraska)
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday October 1, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Jeff Denning (Brigham Young University)
Topic: Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Jamin Speer (University of Memphis)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
David Price (University of Toronto)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Serdar Ozkan (University of Toronto)
Topic: “Dissecting Idiosyncratic Income Risk”
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ida Ferrara, iferrara@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, December 2, 2019
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
James MacGee (Western Economics & Bank of Canada)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, November 29, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Marc Henry (Penn State University)
Topic: “Revealing Gender-Specific Costs of STEM in an Extended Roy Model of Major Choice.”
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 28, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Maggie Jones (University of Victoria)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Lisa Kahn (University of Rochester)
Topic: “Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading”
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Ronald Wolthoff (University of Toronto)
Topic: “Search, Screening and Sorting”
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Date: Monday, November 11, 2019
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Gajendran Raveendranathan (McMaster University)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
PLEASE NOTE THE SEMINAR BELOW HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 24, 2020
Date: Thursday, October 31, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Osea Giuntella (University of Pittsburgh)
Topic: “Gender-Specific Economic Shocks and Household Bargaining Power. A Machine Learning Approach to Expenditure Data”
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 25, 2019
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Prosper Dovonon (Concordia University)
Topic: Relevant moment selection under mixed identification strength. (pdf)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca
Date: Monday, October 21, 2019
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
João Galindo da Fonseca (University of Montreal)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 11, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Nicolas Vincent (HEC Montreal)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Aman Ullah (University of California)
Topic: )” A Journey in Search of Unknown “True Model” : Data based non-parametric econometrics and empirical economics”.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, October 7, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Markus Poschke (McGill University)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Fernando Leibovici (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, September 27, 2019
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm
John Ham
Topic:.Novelty, Knowledge Spillovers and Innovation: Evidence from Nobel Laureates.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm
Yelena Larkin (Schulich)
Topic:TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, September 16, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Juan Carlos Hatchondo (Western University)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Alessandro Dovis (University of Pennsylvania)
Topic: Fiscal Rules, Bailouts, and Reputation in Federal Governments.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Kim Huynh (Banque of Canada)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Time: TBA
Zachary Mahone (McMaster University)
Topic: Entrepreneurship, Housing and Wealth.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, March 22, 2019
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Simona Zambelli (University of Bologna)
Topic: Due Diligence and Investee Performance
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, aadamo@yorku.ca & Razvan Sufana, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ryan Decker (Fed Board)
Topic: Firm Dynamics and Local Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Shale Oil and Gas Boom
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 18, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Adam Lavecchia (McMaster University)
Topic: The Timing of Tax incentives for Saving, Asset Location and Crowd-Out: Evidence from Tax-Free Savings Accounts
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, laura.h.salisbury@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, March 08, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Michael Dinerstein (University of Chicago)
Topic: Allocative Efficiency in K-12 Education
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca,
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Federico Rossi (Johns Hopkins University)
Topic: The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 19, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
Topic: Endogenous Political Turnover and Fluctuations in Sovereign Default Risk
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Theodore Papageorgiou (McGill)
Topic: Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 26, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ioana Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania)
Topic: Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Halis Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Natalie Bau (UCLA)
Topic: Negotiating a Better Future: How Inter-personal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Time: TBA
Bettina Brueggemann (McMaster University)
Topic: Long-term Changes in Married Couples’ Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the U.S. and Europe Since the 1980s” (joint with A. Bick, N. Fuchs-Schuendeln and H. Paule-Paludkiewicz)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Dimitris Thomakos (University of Peloponnese)
Topic: Adaptive Learning Forecasting
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 12, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Bin Chen (University of Rochester)
Topic: A Unified Approach to Testing Stability of Conditional Distributions and Conditional Moments (joint with Liquan Huang)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Kelly Vosters (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
Topic: Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Baris Kaymak (Université de Montréal)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, October 26, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
James MacKinnon (Queen’s University)
Topic: How Cluster-Robust Inference Is Changing Applied Econometrics
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca
Department Seminar {Toronto Seminar}
Date: Friday, November 2, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Eric Renault (Brown University)
Topic: Weak Instruments Test in Discrete Choice Models (joint with David T. Frazier, Donald Poskitt, Lina Zhang and Xueyan Zhao)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30
Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston)
Topic: The Role of Land in Temperate and Tropical Agriculture
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, November 9, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm
Firmin Doko Tchatoka (University of Adelaide)
Topic: A Rotation Approach to Subset Inference in Weakly Identified Linear Structural Models
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, November 12, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Heather Sarsons (University of Toronto / Chicago Booth)
Topic: Interpreting Signals in the Labour Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ben Sand (York University)
Topic: Estimating the Gains from Trade in Frictional Local Labor Markets
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Time: TBA
Nicola Bianchi (Northwestern University)
Topic: Chains of Opportunity Revisited
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Paul Gaggl (UNC Charlotte)
Topic: The Macroeconomic Effects of Automation: Does Capital Aggregation Matter
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, Dec 5, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Andrey Stoyanov “Chemical pollution and altered sex ratios”
Matias Cortes “Caught in the Cycle: Timing of Enrollment and Labor Market Performance of University Graduates”
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Joseph Mullins (University of Western Ontario)
Topic: Improving Child Outcomes through Welfare Reform
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ridwan Karim (University of Toronto)
Topic: Voter-Buying, Electoral Reform and Health Outcomes in Brazil
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Michel Serafinelli (University of Toronto)
Topic: Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Timothy Bond (Purdue)
Topic: Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Trade in the 1970’s and 1980’s
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Jonathan Hall (University of Toronto)
Topic: Is Uber a Complement or Substitute with Public Transit (with Joseph Price and Craig Palsson)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, November 3, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Martin Besfamille (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Topic: Asymmetric Regions and the Optimal Degree of Fiscal Decentralization
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, bucovetsky1052@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, Oct 23rd, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Michael Boehm (University of Bonn and UBC)
Topic: Firms’ Heterogeneity and the Return to Cognitive Skills (with Giovanni Gallipoli)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, May 1st, 2017
Time: 12:15-1:15pm
Daniela Scur (Oxford University)
Topic: All in the family? CEO choice and firm organization
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, April 27th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Arthur Blouin (University of Toronto)
Topic: Erasing Ethnicity? Nation Building, (mis)trust and the salience of Identity in Rwanda
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Nippe Lagerlöf, lagerlof@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Mustafa Ulus, Galatasaray University, Istanbul (visiting Ryerson University)
Topic: The Role of the Informal Sector in Promoting Immigrant Integration
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Treb Allen (Dartmouth College)
Topic: The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements (with Costas Arkolakis).
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado (McGill University)
Topic: Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Timea Laura Molnar (UBC)
Topic: How Do Mothers Manage? Universal Daycare, Child Skill Formation, and the Parental Time-Education Puzzle
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, February 10, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Gustavo Bobonis (University of Toronto)
Topic: Vulnerability and Clientelism
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Matthew Greenblatt (University of Minnesota)
Topic: Bailouts, Inflation, and Risk Sharing in Monetary Unions
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
François de Soyres (Toulouse School of Economics)
Topic: Value Added and Productivity Linkages Across Countries
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, February 3, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Daniel Goetz (Princeton University)
Topic: Competition and Dynamic Bargaining in the Broadband Industry
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Claudia Macaluso (University of Chicago)
Topic: Skill remoteness and post-layoff labor market outcomes
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Kirsten Cornelson (University of Toronto)
Topic: Residential segregation and social segregation by race
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Jessica Leight (Williams College)
Topic: Complementarity between non-agricultural and agricultural shocks in local industrialization: Evidence from China
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, January 30, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Chaoran Chen (University of Toronto)
Topic: Technology Adoption, Capital Deepening, and International Productivity Differences
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, January 27, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Salvatore Lo Bello (Universidad Carlos III)
Topic: Like Father, Like Son: Occupational Choice, Intergenerational Persistence and Misallocation
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, January 26, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Oksana Leukhina (University of Washington)
Topic: How Risky Is College Investment?
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Juan Morales (University of Toronto)
Topic: Legislating During War: Conflict and Politics in Colombia
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, January 23, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Matias Cortes (University of Manchester)
Topic: The End of Men and the Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, November 25th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Francisco Gonzalez (University of Waterloo)
Topic: “Skill mismatch in competitive search equilibrium” (joint with Sonja Chen and Matt Doyle)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia)
Topic: The long-run effects of the Spanish Inquisition
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, Bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, October 3rd, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Laura Turner (University of Toronto)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, September 30th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Theodore Papageorgiou (McGill University)
Topic: Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Learning: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, September 26, 2016
Time: 1:00-2:30pm
Andrew Dickens (York University)
Topic: Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Nippe Lagerlöf, lagerlof@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Yosh Halberstam (University of Toronto)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, Bertaev@gmail.com
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, April 18th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Charles Gottlieb (University of St. Gallen)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, April 1st, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Kei-Mu Yi (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Topic: Sectoral Heterogeneity and the Gains from Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Runjuan Liu (University of Alberta)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, February 26th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Hakki Yazici (Sabanci University and CMU)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Dave Donaldson (Stanford University)
Topic: Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Jeffrey Chan (University of Toronto)
Topic: Any Port in a Storm: Import Competition and Match Quality Downgrading
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, February 1, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Anderson Frey (University of British Columbia)
Topic: Cash Transfers, Clientelism, and Political Enfranchisement: Evidence from Brazil
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Alisa Tazhitdinova (Berkeley)
Topic: Adjust Me if I Can’t: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Daniel Shack (University of British Columbia)
Topic: What Do Parents Know and When do They Know It: How Learning Matters for Parents’ Dynamic Education Choices
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, January 25, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Uros Petronijevic (University of Toronto)
Topic: The Productivity Effects of School Competition in the Presence of Education Accountability
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, December 07, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Werner Antweiler (Souder School of Business)
Topic: TBA
Location: Ross S101
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, November 23, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Duan Qi (Beihang University)
Topic: Market Size, Cannibalization, and Policy Competition for a Multiproduct Multinational Firm (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Cesar Sosa Padilla (McMaster University)
Topic: Sovereign Default and Banking Crises (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Pamela Campa (University of Calgary)
Topic: Politico-economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State-socialism (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Kevin Donovan (University of Notre Dame)
Topic: Local Knowledge and Managerial Capital: Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Hakki Yazici (Sabanci University and CMU)
Topic: Determinants ofWage and Earnings Inequality in the United States (PDF) (CANCELLED)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Fernando Aragon (SFU)
Topic: Mining closure, gender and employment reallocations: the case of UK coal mines (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Taylor Jaworski (Queens University)
Topic: National Policies for Regional Development: Evidence from the Appalachian Development Highway System.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, September 24, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.caTopic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)
Topic: Universal Gravity (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Brown Bag Seminar
Date: Monday, April 27, 2015
Time: 1200-1:00pm
Fernando Leibovici
Topic: Financial Frictions and Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Jan Grobovsek (University of Edinburgh)
Topic: Communal Land and Agricultural Productivity (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, April 20, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Holger Strulik (University of Gottingen)
Topic: Desire and Development (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Kunal Dasgupta (University of Toronto)
Topic: Inattentive Importers (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, April 13, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Carlos Serrano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Topic: Patent collateral, investor commitment, and the market for venture lending (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Brown Bag Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Ben Sand
Topic: The Effects of Macroprudential Mortgage Insurance Regulation During a Housing Boom: Evidence from Canada – Joint with Lu Han (Rotman) and Chandler Lutz (CBS)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Brown Bag Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Laura Salisbury
Topic: Married Women’s Property Laws, Marriage Markets, and Bankruptcy Protection: The Case of the American South in the 1840s
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Brown Bag Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Matthew Brzozowski
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Andriana Bellou, University of Montreal
Topic: Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 2, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Nippe Lagerlof (York University)
Topic: Natural Borders
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Brown Bag Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Ben Sand
Topic: Taking Selection To Task: Bounds on occupational task prices.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
David Kohn (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)
Topic: Addicted to Debt: Foreign Purchases of U.S. Treasuries and the Term Premium (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Brown Bag Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Ida Ferrara
Topic: Consumption Externalities, Product Quality, and the Role of National Treatment
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Yoto Yotov (Drexel University)
Topic: Growth and Trade: A Structural Estimation Framework (PDF)
Location: CLH-J (Curtis Lecture Hall)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Brown Bag Seminar
Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Andrey Stoyanov
Topic: Population Aging and Comparative Advantage in International Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, January 19, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Allison Shertzer, University of Pittsburgh
Topic: Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ana Maria Santacreu (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and INSEAD)
Topic: International R&D Spillovers and Asset Prices1063
Location: Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014
Time: 2:30-4:00pm
Arnaud Costinot (MIT)
Topic: Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Fernando Leibovici (York University)
Topic: International Trade Fluctuations and Monetary Policy
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Hakon Tretvoll (BI Norwegian Business School)
Topic: International Correlations and the Composition of Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Christos Shiamptanis (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Topic: At what point is Italy insolvent? Revisiting fiscal limits.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Joshua Lewis (University of Montreal)
Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, November 24, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Julian Emami Namini (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Topic: Labor market discrimination and international trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Viktoria Hnatkovska (University of British Columbia)
Topic: The exchange rate response puzzle
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Matilde Bombardini (University of British Columbia)
Topic: Does Exporting Improve Matching? Evidence from French Employer-Employee Data (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, February 10, 2014
Time: 4-5:30pm
Andrey Stoyanov (York University)
Topic: Do Preferential Trade Agreements Affect Tariffs of Non-Members?
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 3, 2014
Time: 4-5:30pm
Fernando Leibovici (York University)
Topic: Financial development and international trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Topic: Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market: Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Tanjim Hossain
Topic: Setting the Tone” and “Drawing the Line” in Chittagong Tea Auctions (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Shin-Hwan Chiang, schiang@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 10, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ben Sand (York University)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Simona Cociuba (University of Western Ontario)
Topic: Collateralized Borrowing and Risk Taking at Low Interest Rates (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 24, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Laura Salisbury (York University)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Brent Neiman (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)
Topic: Trade and the Global Recession (with Eaton, Kortum, and Romalis) (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 31, 2014
Time: 11:30-1pm
Wai-Ming Ho (York University)
Topic: International Outsourcing, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, February 3, 2014
Time: 11:30-1pm
Tasso Adamopoulos (York University)
Topic: Land Reform and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Pau Pujolas (McMaster University)
Topic: Trade Patterns, Income Differences and Gains from Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, September 27, 2013
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Roberto Galbiati (OSC-CNRS and Sciences Po Paris)
Topic: Earthquakes, Universities, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Jeanne Tschopp (University of British Columbia)
Topic: Wage Bargaining as a Social Interaction Problem: An Application to Germany (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Tim Bond (Purdue University)
Topic: Internal Labor Markets in Equilibrium (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
German Pupato (Ryerson University)
Topic: Performance Pay, Trade, and Inequality (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Internal Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Elie Appelbaum
Topic: The Dynamics of Hate and Violence (CANCELLED)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Javad Sadeghzadeh (York University)
Topic: Innovation Subsidies: Misallocation and Technology Upgrade (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Johannes Schmieder (Boston University)
Topic: The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Joseph Steinberg (University of Toronto)
Topic: Global Imbalances and Structural Change in the United States (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
David Ong (Peking University)
Topic: Tiger Women: An All-Pay Auction Experiment on Gender Signaling of Desire to Win
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University)
Topic: How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Migiwa Tanaka (University of Toronto)
Topic: Testing the Theory of Multitasking: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Shin-Hwan Chiang, schiang@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2013
Time: 2:30-4:00pm
Leonardo Martinez (IMF)
Topic: Mortgage Defaults and Prudential Regulations in a Standard Incomplete Markets Model (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, January 13, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
April Cai, University of New South Wales
Topic: Growth Through Intersectoral Knowledge Linkages (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, January 14, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Topic: The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions (joint with Natalia Zinovyeva) (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Svetlana Demidova (McMaster University)
Topic: Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Steven F. Lehrer (Queens School of Policy Studies)
Topic: Reinvestigating Who Benefits and Who Loses from Universal Childcare in Canada (w/ M. Kottelenberg)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Weili Ding (Queens School of Policy Studies)
Topic: Estimating Context-Independent Treatment Effects in Education Experiments (w/Steven Lehrer)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ananth Ramanarayanan (University of Western Ontario)
Topic: Imported Inputs and the Gains from Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Vadim Marmer (UBC Department of Economics)
Topic: Efficient Inference in Econometric Models When Identification Can Be Weak (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Yao Tang (Bowdoin College)
Topic: How did exchange rate affect employment in US cities?
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Douglas Gollin (Oxford University)
Topic: Urbanization with and without Industrialization (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, April 5, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Todd Schoellman (Arizona State University)
Topic: Refugees and Early Childhood Human Capital (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, April 8, 2013
Time: 3:30-5:00pm
Nikolay Zubanov (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Topic: The power of (no) recognition: Evidence from a field experiment
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)
Topic: A Global View of Cross-Border Migration (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)
Topic: Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Ken Jackson (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Topic: Trust and Vulnerability (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, November 12, 2012
Time: 2:30-4:00pm
Piyusha Mutreja (Syracuse University)
Topic: Capital Goods Trade and Economic Development
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 22, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Chew Soo Hong (National University of Singapore)
Topic: Partial Ambiguity (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Markus Poschke (McGill University)
Topic: The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm
Constantine Angyridis (Ryerson University)
Topic: Endogenous Growth with Public Capital and Progressive Taxation (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, December 10, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Stergios Skaperdas (University of California at Irvine)
Topic: Guns, Lawyers, and Money : Economic Consequences of Costly Conflict (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, sam@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Mikal Skuterud (University of Waterloo)
Topic: Reported Sickness Absenteeism and the Weather
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 12, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Brent Kreider (Iowa State University)
Topic: Identifying the Effects of Food Stamps on Child Health Outcomes When Participation is Endogenous and Misreported (with John Pepper, Craig Gundersen, and Dean Jolliffe)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Nicolas Ziebarth (Cornell University)
Topic: In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Monday, March 19, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Hongfei Sun (Queen’s University)
Topic: Monetary and Fiscal Policies In a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (SUNY-Binghampton)
Topic: Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University)
Topic: Trade Liberalization and Labor.s Slice of the Pie: Evidence from Indian Firms (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota)
Topic: Demand Shocks as Productivity Shocks
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Steve Williamson (Washington University)
Topic: Keynes in a Nutshell: A New Monetarist Approach (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Ed Nosal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Topic: Equilibrium Bank Runs Revisited (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Professor Oksana Leukhina (University of Washington)
Topic: The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30
Professor Olena Ivus (Queen’s School of Business)
Topic: The Diversi.cation Motive for Tariff Protection (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Department Seminar
Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30
Susumu Imai (Queen’s university)
Topic: The Effect of Workfare on Crime: Incapacitation and Program Effects (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Empirical
Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Logan McLeod (University of Alberta)
Topic: A Nonparametric Versus Latent Class Model of General Practitioner Utilization: Evidence from Canada
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Empirical
Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Ben Sand (Copenhagen Business School)
Topic: How Much is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Empirical
Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Padmaja Ayyagari (Yale University)
Topic: Understanding Heterogeneity in Price Elasticities in the Demand for Alcohol
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Empirical
Date: Friday, February 11, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Joel Blit (George Washington University)
Topic: Learning Remotely: R&D Satellites, Intra-Firm Networks, and Knowledge Diffusion
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Empirical
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Christian Dippel (University of Toronto)
Topic: Forced Coexistence and Economic Development – Evidence from Native American Reservations
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Empirical
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Richard Mansfield (Yale University)
Topic: Teacher Quality and Student Inequality
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Svetlana Demidova (McMaster University)
Topic: Firm Heterogeneity And Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy And Policy Experiments (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Lori Curtis ( University of Waterloo)
Topic: Does Social Assistance Participation lead to lower Self-Reported Health? (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Phil Curry (University of Waterloo)
Topic: Social Welfare and the Benefits to Crime (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, sam@econ.yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Archishan Chakraborty (Schulich School of Business – York University)
Topic: Media Bias and Electoral Competition
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, sam@econ.yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Monday, April 4, 2011
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm
Mark Melatos (University of Sydney) and Stephanie Dunn
Topic: Flexibility in Trade Bloc Design
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor George Georgopoulos, georgop@yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Time: 11:30-1:30 am
Tammy Schirle (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Topic: Senior Health and Life Expectancy: The Role of Attentive Children (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Macroeconomics
Date: Monday, April 11, 2011
11:30-1:30 am
David Fuller (Concordia University)
Topic: A Quantitative Analysis of Unemployment Insurance in a Model with Fraud and Moral Hazard
Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Martin Dooley (McMaster University)
Topic: The Impact of Cost on the Choice of University (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Microeconomics
Date: Monday, April 18, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University)
Topic: On the Relationship between Preferential and Multilateral Trade Liberalization: The Case of Customs Unions (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca
Macroeconomics
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Trevor Tombe (University of Toronto)
Topic: The Missing Food Problem: How Low Agricultural Imports Contribute to International Income Differences (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca
Macroeconomics
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm
Constantine Angyridis (Ryerson University)
Topic: TBA
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca