Seminars & Research

Seminar Series 2024–25

All seminars below are held 3–4:30 p.m. in Seminar Room 5 unless otherwise noted. 

2025-2026 Calendar

Date

Sponsor

Speaker

Title

Contact

Friday,
8/30/2024 

 

Ruoyao Shi,
UC Riverside

Martins-Filho

Friday,
9/6/2024 

 CEA

Peter Newberry,
University of Georgia

The Impact of Return Policies in E-Commerce

Kim

Friday,
9/13/2024 

 CEA

Florian Gunsilius,
Emory University

Free Discontinuity Regression–
With an Application to the Economic
Effects of Internet Shutdowns 

McCloskey

Friday,
9/20/2024 

 CEA

Paul Rhode,
University of Michigan

 How Suitable are FAO Crop Suitability
Indices for Historical Analysis?

Shiue/Jaworski

Friday,
9/27/2024 

 CEA

Kaspar Wuthrich,
University of California San Diego 

McCloskey

Friday,
10/4/2024 

CEA

David Dillenberger,
University of Pennsylvania

 Allocation Mechanisms with Mixture-Averse Preferences

 Song

Friday,
10/11/2024 

CEA

Michael Leung,
University of California Santa Cruz

Graph Neural Networks for Causal Inference
Under Network Confounding 

Liu

Friday,
10/18/2024 

 CEA

Kris Mitchener,
Santa Clara University

 How do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?

Jaworski

Friday,
10/25/2024 

 CEA

Daniel Rappoport,
Chicago Booth 

Signaling Good Faith by Taking Stands​ 

 Song/Rivera Mora

Friday,
11/1/2024 

CEA 

Luciano Pomatto,
Caltech

Understanding rational inattention
through f-informativity and duality 

Song/Rivera Mora

Friday,
11/8/2024 
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CEA 

Scott Carrell,
University of Texas 
at Austin

Evaluating Incentives for Full-Time Enrollment
at California Community Colleges 
CANCELLED

Mansfield

Friday,
11/15/2024 

CEA 

Jing Li,
Tufts University

 Entry and Coordination in the U.S.
Electric Vehicle Charging Industry

 Weber

Friday,
11/22/2024 

 CEA 

Roland Strausz, 
Humboldt Universität Berlin

 Informative Certification: Screening vs. Acquisition

Song

Friday,
12/6/2024 

 CEA

Xuechao Qian,
UC Irvine

 Love It or Leave It: Medicaid Expansion
and Physician Location Choice

Antman

Friday,
12/13/2024 

 

Heitor Pellegrina,
Notre Dame

Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective 

 Carballo/Nigai

Friday,
1/24/2025 

CEA

Matt Nagler,
The City College of New York

Altruism and the Endowment Effect

Mansfield

Friday,
1/31/2025 

 

Chris Taber,
University of Wisconsin–Madison

 

Mansfield

Friday,
2/7/2025 

CEA

Ron Yang,
University of British Columbia

Economies of Scale and Scope in Railroading

 Weber/Hughes

Friday,
2/14/2025 

CEA

Scott Carrell,
University of Texas 
at Austin

Evaluating Incentives for Full-Time Enrollment
at California Community Colleges 
(rescheduled)

Mansfield

Friday,
2/21/2025 

 

Faculty Recruitment

 

 

Friday,
2/28/2025 

 CEA

Erich Muehlegger,
University of California, Davis 

 

 Weber

Friday,
3/7/2025 

 

Pablo Guerron-Quintana,
Boston College

 

Peri

Friday,
3/14/2025 

 

Nitya Pandalai Nayar,
UT Austin

 

 Nigai

Friday,
3/21/2025 

 

Lydia Cox,
Wisconsin

 

 Keller

Friday,
4/4/2025 

 

Grad Recruitment

 

 

Friday,
4/11/2025 

 

Juan Rubio-Ramirez,
Emory University​

 

 Peri

Friday,
4/18/2025 

 

Vincenzo Quadrini,
USC Marshall 

 

Peri

Friday,
4/25/2025 

CEA 

Abdelaati Daoula,
Toulouse School of Economics 

 

Martins-Filho

Friday,
5/2/2025