Seminars

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Spring 2025

Thursday, February 20, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Javier Bianchi, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Ryan Family Fund for Economics Seminar, International Reserves: Safeguarding Macroeconomic and Financial Stability.

Thursday, March 6, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Bumsoo Kim, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, A Ricardian Theory of the Current Account.

Thursday, March 13, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Lucia Corno, Uni Cattolica Milano, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Norm Replacement and Information.

Thursday, April 10, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Isaiah Andrews, MIT, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Communicating Scientific Uncertainty via Approximate Posteriors.

Thursday, April 17 and Friday, April 18, CDE Conference on Monetary Transmission in Developing Economies.

Thursday, April 24, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Oyebola Okunogbe, World Bank, joint CDE and Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Long-term Impacts of Winning a Business Plan Competition.

Thursday, May 1, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Doug Irwin, Dartmouth, joint Ryan Family Fund for Economics and CDE seminar, Trade Policy, Exchange Rates, and the Globalization Surge of the 1990s.

Thursday, May 8, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Schapiro 129.  Matthew Chao, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, Relative Social Distances and Their Effects on Social Preferences.

Fall 2024

Friday, September 20, 12:00pm-1:00pm.  Wachenheim B11.  Bilal Zia, Duolingo, Economics special presentation, “Paths to data science and economics careers in tech”.

Friday, September 27 – Saturday, September 28, LACDev Conference.

Friday, September 27, 5:00pm-6:00pm.  Griffin 3.  Seema Jayachandran, Princeton, LACDev Keynote.

Thursday, October 3, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Tina Mumladze CDE ’18, American University PhD program, Economics Department Seminar, Cultural Non-Independence in the Ethnographic Atlas and What to Do About It.

Wednesday, October 16, 12:45pm-2:00pm, Griffin 6.  Simone Schaner, USC, joint Economics Class of 1960 Scholars and CDE Seminar, Accountability at a Cost? The Impact of Citizen-Led Auditing on Government Service Provision.

Wednesday, October 23, 12:45pm-2:00pm, Griffin 6.  Shyam Raman, Williams College, Economics Department Seminar, In the Shadow of Lawrence: Sodomy Laws and Health-Seeking Behaviors.

Friday, October 25, 11:45am-1:00pm, Hopkins 001.  David Cuberes, Clark University, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, The Impact of Horse Adoption on Native American Nations.

Monday, October 28, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Griffin 3.  Anna Weber, West Point, Economics Seminar, The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military.

Friday, November 1, 11:45am-1:00pm, Schapiro 129.  Delia Furtado, University of Connecticut, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Can Parental Leave Policies Change Leave-Taking Norms? Evidence from Immigrants.

Thursday, November 7, 4:00pm-5:15pm.  Griffin 6.  Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Tufts University, Ryan Family Fund for Economics Seminar, Climate Policies, Labor Markets, and Macroeconomic Outcomes in Emerging Economies.

Friday, November 8, 11:45am-1:00pm, Schapiro 129.  Lucy Page ’16, Yale/Pitt, Economics Department Seminar, Reaching across the aisle: Does affective polarization hinder grassroots climate mobilization?.

Thursday, November 14, 4:00pm-5:15pm, Griffin 6.  Jeff Carpenter, Middlebury, Economics Class of 1960 Scholars Seminar, Does racial animus determine redistributive policy in the United States?.

Thursday, November 21, 4:00pm-5:15pm, Griffin 6.  Todd Keister, Rutgers, Ryan Family Fund for Economics Seminar, Do we need a digital dollar? Money and payments in the digital age.

Friday, December 6, 12:00pm-1:00pm, Hopkins 001. Nathanael Vellekoop, Williams College, Economics brown bag lunch seminar.

 

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