Seminars Archive

Summer 2026

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title	Time / Venue
July 13	Jordan Chamberlin	CIMMYT	Understanding Smallholder Investments in Soil Health in Sub-Saharan Africa	3:10PM - 4:30PM HULBERT 27

Spring 2026

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title	Time / Venue
Jan. 23	Hassan Benchekroun	McGill University	Leadership and Commitment in Oil Markets: Market Power Meets Climate Policy	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Jan. 30	Lindsey Bullinger	Georgia Tech	Effects of Universal and Unconditional Cash Transfers on Child Abuse and Neglect	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Feb. 6	Cesar Rodriguez	Portland State University	The Cost of Credibility: Fiscal Rules and Recession Risk During Consolidations	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Feb. 13	Marta Serra Garcia	UC San Diego	The Attention-Information Tradeoff	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Feb. 20	Teddy Kim	Emory University	Optimal Communication in Banking Supervision	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Feb. 27	Tomas Dominguez-Iino	Chicago-Booth	Critical Minerals, Geopolitics, and the Green Transition	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Mar. 6	Thomas Lyon	University of Michigan	Strategic Management of Carbon Regulatory Pressure: Evidence from Public Firms in China	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Mar. 13	Emily Arnesen	WSU Vancouver	The Effect of Legalizing Sports Gambling on Behaviors During Game Day	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Mar. 20	Spring Break	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mar. 27	Kyle Wilson	Pomona College	Quantifying Foreclosure: The Live Nation - Ticketmaster Merger	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Apr. 10	Yoto Yotov	Drexel University	Unfair Bilateral Trade Imbalances	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
Apr. 17	David Zilberman	UC Berkeley	What is the Bioeconomy and Why Should Economists Care About It?	CANCELLED
Apr. 24	Jesse Rothstein	University of California	How Do Neighborhoods and Firms Affect Intergenerational Mobility?	10:00 AM In person PACCAR 202
Apr. 24 Leigh Lecture	Jesse Rothstein	University of California	Good Jobs and Bad Jobs	4:30 PM In person CUE 203
May 1	Arthur van Benthum	Wharton University of Pennsylvania	An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®
May 8	Antonio Jimenez-Martinez	CIDE Mexico	Affecting Distributions of Opinions with Evidence	1:10PM - 2:30PM ZOOM®
May 15	Filomena Garcia	North Carolina State University	When Do Platform Mergers Benefit Users? The Role of Multi-Homing, Network Effects and Post-Merger Strategies	3:10PM - 4:30PM ZOOM®

Fall 2025

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title	Time / Venue
Aug. 22	Leila Safavi	Pomona College	Can Vertically Integrated Firms Evade Pricing Regulation? Evidence from Energy Utilities pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Aug. 29	Joaquin Poblete	PUC Chile	Measuring the Output Reduction due to Incentive Ratcheting in the Field pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Sep. 19	Martin Saavedra	Rutgers	Legislating Longevity: State-Level Public Health Laws and the Mortality Transition	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Sep. 26	Stefan Faridani	Georgia Tech	LINEAR ESTIMATION OF GLOBAL AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS	"3:10-4:30 PACCAR 202 In person"
Oct. 3	Alberto Galasso	University of Toronto	Fractional Ownership and Copyright Licensing: Evidence from the Music Industry	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Oct. 10	Danae Hernandez-Cortes	Arizona State University	The Transboundary Health Effects of Saline Lakebed Dust (Abstract)	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Oct. 17	Pierre Mérel	UC Davis	The Geographic Footprint of U.S. Dairy Policy	"3:10-4:30 PACCAR 202 In person "
Oct.24	Brian Greaney	University of Washington	Are We Consuming Too Much Groundwater (pdf)	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Oct. 31	Nicole Siegal	Indiana University	Controlled Substance Designation and Medical Substitution: Evidence from Gabapentin Monitoring and Upscheduling (pdf)	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Nov. 7	Hector Botello	PhD Student WSU	Vaccination Mandates and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from Peru’s COVID-19 Employment Requirement .pdf	3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27
Nov. 14	Nickson Cabote	PhD Student WSU	Time-Consistent Fiscal Policy and Business-Cycle Amplification in Emerging Markets .pdf	3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27
Nov. 21	Mengshan Zhao	PhD Student WSU	When the Worst Compete: Strategic Responses to Environmental Protection Interviews in China .pdf	"3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27"
Dec. 5	Nabittun Nahar	PhD Student WSU	The Impact of Piped-Water Reliability on Household Time Allocation in 12 Towns in Kenya .pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
Dec. 12	Jose Ignacio Cuesta	Standford University	Public Procurement vs. Regulated Competition in Selection Markets .pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®

Spring 2025

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title	Time / Venue
February 7	David Bradford	University of Georgia	THE EFFECT OF A LARGE PRESCRIPTION OPIOID DIVERSION EVENT ON OPIOID MORTALITY IN THE U.S. pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
February 21	Lindsey Novak	Reed College	The Economics of Abduction Marriage: Evidence from Ethiopia pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
February 28	Jorge Lemus	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	A Comparison of Contests and Contracts to Deliver Cost-Effective Energy Conservation pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
March 21	Xin Liu	Washington State University	Finite-Sample Auction Inference Using Transaction Prices pdf	3:10-4:30 In Person Hulbert 27
March 28	Dirk Foremny	University of Barcelona	Inequality, Efficiency, and Taxation: Understanding Fiscal Policy Preferences pdf	3:10-4:30 ZOOM®
April 4	Reserved
April 11	Martin Lopez-Daneri	US Congress, Joint Committee on Taxation		Cancelled
April 25	Dr. Dean Karlan pdf Dept. Seminar Leigh Lecture	Northwestern University	UNCONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFERS: A BAYESIAN META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED EVALUATIONS IN LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES Google doc. pdf The Future of Foreign Aid	10:00 am PACAR 202 4:30 pm CUE 203
May 2	Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes	University of California Merced		Cancelled

Fall 2024

Date	Name	Affiliation	Title
Sep. 6	Shahe Emran	Columbia University	Oportunity and Risk pdf
Sep. 13	Catherine Maclean	George Mason University	SOCIAL INSURANCE SPILLOVERS: EVIDENCE FROM PAID SICK LEAVE MANDATES AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION pdf
Sep. 20	Soran Mohtadi	John Hopkins University	Gendered Impacts of Oil Price Shocks: Analyzing Women’s Labor Force Participation in Petrostates pdf
Oct. 4	Alex Hollingsworth	Ohio State Uniersity	The power of reading: How in-class pedagogy and out-of-class environment affect academic performance Abstract pdf
Oct. 11	Ben Cowan	Washington State University	Political Partisanship and Remote Work: Evidence from U.S. States pdf
Oct. 25	Katherine Hauck	UC Davis	Crops Vs. Fences: Did Homesteaders and Purchasers Follow Different Investment Strategies in Their Land? pdf
Nov. 1	William Ottenheimer	Washington State University	The Role of the Courts in Environmental Property Rights Disputes: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Army Corp of Engineer Dams pdf
Nov.8	Dipanwita Barai	Washington State University	Costs, Market Conditions, and Inventories Impact on Uncompleted Oil Wells pdf
Nov. 15	Aditi Surve	Washington State University	Do more empowered women vaccinate more against East Coast Fever? Evidence from lab-in-the-field experiment pdf
Nov. 21	Illhoon Choi	Washington State University	The Effects of Minimum Wage on Employment and Low-Wage Routine Workers: Evidence from South Korea pdf
Dec. 6	Awad Koroles	Washington State University	Pink Brick Road: The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization in the US on the Inflow of Skilled Labor pdf

Spring 2024

Date	Name	Affiliation	Seminar Title	Time & Venue
February 2	Hassan Benchekroun	McGill University	On the Limits of Monopolization through Acquisitions and Mergers in Nonrenewable Resource Industries	3:10-4:30
February 9	Cezar Santos	Inter-American Development Bank	Financing Cost and Development	3:10-4:30
March 1	Juan Carlos Conesa	Stony Brook	The Evolution of Income and Wealth Inequality in China	3:10-4:30
March 22	Viviane Sanfelice	Temple University	Housing Improvement and Crime	3:10-4:30
March 29	Di Fang	University of Florida	Expertise Overlap and Team Productivity: Evidence from the Hospital Industry	3:10-4:30
April 11	Leigh Lecture Alvin Roth	Stanford University	Economists as Engineers: Matchmaking and Market Design	4:30-5:45 CUE 203
April 12	Alvin Roth	Stanford University	Controversial Markets and Prohibited Transactions	3:10-4:30 PACCAR 202
April 19	Donn Feir	University of Victoria	Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties	3:10-4:30
April 26	Brady Horn	University of New Mexico	Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers And Local Crime	3:10-4:30

Fall 2023

Date	Name	Affiliation	Seminar Title	Time & Venue
August 25	Syed Badruddoza	Texas Tech University	Substitutes or complements? The effects of opening a food store on customer visits to neighborhood food retailers	3:10-4:30
September 8	Pascual Restrepo	Boston University	Automation and Rent Dissipation: Implications for Inequity, Productivity, and Welfare	3:10-4:30
September 15	Marcos Vera Hernandez	University College London	Monetary Incentives and Image Motivation: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment with Nigerian Midwives	3:10-4:30
September 22	Tamar Oostrom	Ohio State University	The Effect of Insurance on Disparities in Trial Enrollment (Abstract)	3:10-4:30
September 29	Tiemen Woutersen	University of Arizona	Jackknife Estimation of a Cluster-Sample IV Regression Model with Many Weak Instruments	3:10-4:30 PACCAR 202
October 6	William King	Washington State University	Pharmaceutical competitors and their effect on clinical trial completion	3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27
October 13	Modhurima Day Amin	Texas Tech University	Demystifying AI and Machine Learning: Potential Applications in Agriculture, Economics and Business	3:10-4:30 PACCAR 202
October 20	Kairon Garcia	Washington State University	Childcare Responsibilities and Parental Labor Market Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic	3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27
October 27	Andres Carvajal	University of California Davis	Idiosyncratic Risk and the Equity Premium	3:10-4:30 ZOOM
November 3	Mingi Yang	Washington State University	Real Inflation Dynamics, Path Integrals, and Macroeconomics	3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27
November 17	Andre Murry	Washington State University	Imitation Game: The Rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies	3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27 In Person / ZOOM
December 1	Mohammad Davoodalhosseini	Central Bank of Canada	Central Bank Digital Currency and Banking: Macroeconomic Benefits of a Cash-Like Design	3:10-4:30
December 8	Bin Zhao	Washington State University	A Grand Socioeconomic Reshuffling: The One-Child Policy and Intergenerational Mobility in China	3:10-4:30 Hulbert 27

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