The Department of Economics maintains a seminar series to enhance the development and transmission of knowledge and research. The department series and related forums have hosted key figures in economics, including Nobel Laureates, Members of the Council of Economic Advisors, and top academic economists.
Spring 2020
Spring 2020
| Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper | Info |
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Fri, 02/14/2020 |
The Attraction of Magnet Schools: Evidence from Embedded Lotteries in School Assignment |
Thayer Morrill and Melinda Morrill |
North Carolina State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH 11am |
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Fri, 02/07/2020 |
Contests, Qverbidding, and Contest Avoidance: A Cross-cultural Examination |
Patrick McGuire |
Appalachian State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH 2pm |
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Fri, 01/31/2020 |
Party schools, football schools and student quality |
Peter Groothuis and Austin Eggers |
Appalachian State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH 2pm |
Fall 2019
Fall 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper | Info |
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Fri, 11/01/2019 |
Creative Destruction, Job Reallocation, and Subjective Well-Being |
Mona Ahmadiani |
Wake Forest University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 10/25/2019 |
Political Distortions and Infrastructure Networks in China: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Analysis |
Simon Alder |
UNC - Chapel Hill |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 10/04/2019 |
Network Formation with Multigraphs and Strategic Complementarities |
Sudipta Sarangi |
Virginia Tech |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 09/27/2019 |
Testing Predictions in Weighted Networks with the Dirichlet Covariate Model† |
David Rojo Arjona |
Chapman University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 09/20/2019 |
Why Join a Team? |
David Cooper |
Florida State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 09/13/2019 |
Testing the water: Drinking water quality, public notification, and child outcomes |
Michelle Marcus |
Vanderbilt University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
Spring 2019
Spring 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper | Info |
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Fri, 04/26/2019 |
Assessing the Literature on School Reform From an Entrepreneurship Perspective |
John Garen |
University of Kentucky |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 04/12/2019 |
Project selection and competitive cheap talk: an experimental study |
Eric Schmidbauer |
University of Central Florida |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 04/05/2019 |
Match Fixing and Sports Betting in Football: Empirical Evidence from the German Bundesliga |
Brad Humphreys |
West Virginia University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 03/29/2019 |
On Language and Meaning: A Randomized Experiment |
Dan Houser |
George Mason University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 03/22/2019 |
Using contingent valuation responses to address travel cost endogeneity |
Adan L. Martinez-Cruz |
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE); Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE), ETH |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 03/15/2019 |
Community Monitoring and Crime: Evidence from Chicago’s Safe Passage Program |
Sarah Komisarow |
Duke University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm
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Fri, 02/22/2019 |
Diagnosing insensitivity to scope: The case of oil spills in a pristine arctic coastal area |
Ana Filipa Faria Lopes |
University of Stavanger (Norway) |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 02/15/2019 |
The Skill Development of Children of Immigrants |
Marie C. Hull |
University of North Carolina Greensboro |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 02/08/2019 |
We Only Kill Each Other |
Timothy Perri |
Appalachian State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Tue, 04/16/2019 |
Workman Distinguished Lecture : Energy Transitions, Carbon Pricing and the Green New Deal |
Brian Murray |
Duke University |
Room: 114 Belk Library |
Fall 2018
Fall 2018
| Date | Title | Speaker | Affiliation | Paper | Info |
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Fri, 11/30/2018 |
TBA |
JayJit Roy |
Appalachian State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 11/16/2018 |
"Price Setting on a Network" |
Toomas Hinnosaar |
Collegio Carlo Alberto |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 11/09/2018 |
"The Effect of Female Education on Infant and Maternal Health: New Causal Evidence" |
Ji Yan |
Appalachian State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 10/26/2018 |
“Our Bark is Bigger than Our Bite: Stated Preferences over the Distribution of Wages and the Effect on Productivity” |
Eric Cardella |
Texas Tech |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 10/05/2018 |
"Cooperation when Defection is Risky Too" |
Andrew Kloosterman |
University of Virginia |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm |
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Fri, 09/21/2018 |
"Emissions, Transmission, and the Environmental Value of Wind Energy" |
Harrison Fell |
North Carolina State University |
Seminar, 3010 PH at 1pm |