Seminar Series

The Department of Economics invites guest speakers to present their research in our Seminar Series. The Economics Seminar generally meets on Fridays from 2:00 – 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted. Anyone is welcome to attend.

Past Seminars

Spring 2020

Date Title Speaker Affiliation Paper Info
Fri, 02/07/2020
Contests, Qverbidding, and Contest Avoidance: A Cross-cultural Examination
Patrick McGuire
Appalachian State University
Seminar, 3010 PH 2pm
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

Date Title Speaker Affiliation Paper Info
Fri, 11/01/2019
Creative Destruction, Job Reallocation, and Subjective Well-Being
Mona Ahmadiani
Wake Forest University
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm
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
Fri, 10/04/2019
Network Formation with Multigraphs and Strategic Complementarities
Sudipta Sarangi
Virginia Tech
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm
Fri, 09/27/2019
Testing Predictions in Weighted Networks with the Dirichlet Covariate Model†
David Rojo Arjona
Chapman University
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm
Fri, 09/20/2019
Why Join a Team?
David Cooper
Florida State University
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm
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

Date Title Speaker Affiliation Paper Info
Fri, 04/26/2019
Assessing the Literature on School Reform From an Entrepreneurship Perspective
John Garen
University of Kentucky
Seminar, 3010 PH at 2pm
Date Title Speaker Affiliation Info
Tue, 04/16/2019
Workman Distinguished Lecture : Energy Transitions, Carbon Pricing and the Green New Deal
Brian Murray
Duke University
Room: 114 Belk Library