Seminar Series On Economic Ideas | Department Of Economics

The economics department hosts weekly seminars led by experts across a variety of fields. All seminars are currently online. Graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in attending seminars should email the organizer directly.

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2025/2026 Academic Year

Shuhei Kitamura

Osaka University

Date: Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Ming Xu

Queen's University

Date: Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Siyang Xiong

UC Riverside

Date: Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Ceren Bayson

U of T

Date: Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Jean-Felix Brouillette

HEC Montreal

Date: Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics - "Variable Markups, Incomplete Pass-Throughs and R&D Misallocation"
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Donghai Zhang

National University of Singapore

Date: Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Gorkem Bostanci

UBC

Date: Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Cheng Zhong

York University

Date: Friday, October 31, 2025
Time: 4:00 - 4:45 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Aryan Manafi Neyazi

York University

Date: Friday, October 31, 2025
Time: 4:45 - 5:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Reinhard Ellwanger

Bank of Canada

Date: Friday, November 7, 2025
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Kjetil Storesletten

University of Minnesota

Date: Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025
Time: 9:30 - 11:00 AM
Topic: "Fiscal Progressivity of the U.S. Federal and State Governments" (Macroeconomics)
Location: VH 3006

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Ayda Abroufarakh

York University

Date: Friday, Nov. 14, 2025
Time: 4:00 - 4:45 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Emre Inan

York University

Date: Friday, Nov. 14, 2025
Time: 4:45 - 5:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Thomas Parker

Waterloo University

Date: Friday, Nov. 28, 2025
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Topic: "Partitioned Wild Bootstrap for Panel Data Quantile Regression" (Econometrics)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Kun Zhang

University of Queensland
https://kunzhang.org

Date: Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Selçuk Özyurt (ozyurt@yorku.ca)

Katarina Borovickova

Richmond Fed

Date: Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Marcin Peski

University of Toronto

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Selçuk Özyurt (ozyurt@yorku.ca)

Hannes Maimberg

University of Minnesota

Date: Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Keisuke Teeple

University of Waterloo

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Selçuk Özyurt (ozyurt@yorku.ca)

Stephen Snudden

Wilfrid Laurier University

Date: Friday, Feb. 6, 2026
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Rumen Kostadinov

McMaster University

Date: Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Selçuk Özyurt (ozyurt@yorku.ca)

Fernando Leibovici

St. Louis Fed

Date: Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca)

Toru Kitagawa

Brown University

Date: Friday, Feb. 27, 2026
Time: 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Fraser Summerfield

St. Francis Xavier University

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca & Matias Cortes (gmcortes@yorku.ca)

Yongseok Shin

Washington University at St. Louis

Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo

Roberto Pinheiro

Senior Research Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & Yanran Guo

Marcel Oestreich

Brock University

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Time: 2:00 - 3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Ida Ferrara (iferrara@yorku.ca)

2024/2025 Academic Year

Minki Kim

University of Mannheim

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: "Land Reform, Human Capital Accumulation, and Structural Transformation"
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Boon Han Koh

University of Exeter

Date:Thursday, September 26, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Itai Arieli

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Date: Thursday, October 3, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Rafael Guntin

University of Rochester

Date: Friday, October 4, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Arturas Juodis

University of Amsterdam

Date: Friday, October 4, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: “Dynamic Panel Data, Half Panel Jackknife and (near) Uniform Inference”
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Sergio Ocampo Diaz

University of Western Ontario

Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Zhigang Feng

University of Nebraska-Omaha

Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Natalie Millar

Stanford University

Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: Zoom

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Arthur Thomas

Paris Dauphine University

Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Xianwen Shi

University of Toronto

Date: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Kurt See

Bank of Canada

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Yuanyuan Wan

University of Toronto

Date: Friday, November 15, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Shahar Rotberg

Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation

Date: Thursday, November 28, 2024
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yanran Guo (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Claudia Olivetti

Dartmouth College

Date: Monday, December 2, 2024
Time: 2:30-4:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Clemens Possnig

University of Waterloo

Date: Friday, January 31, 2025
Time: 2:30-4:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Ravideep Sethi

University of Utah

Date: Friday, February 7, 2024
Time: 2:30-4:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Yishu Zeng (yrguo@yorku.ca) & Selçuk Özyurt (ozyurt@yorku.ca)

Mitsuru Igami

University of Toronto

Date: Friday, February 14, 2025
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Welfare Gains from Product and Process Innovations: The Case of LCD Panels, 2001-2011
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Jiaying Gu

University of Toronto

Date: Friday, February 28, 2025
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Empirical Bayes for Compound Adaptive Experiments
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Raymond Kan

Rotman School of Management

The seminar has been canceled and will be rescheduled for a later date

Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063
Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Ana Oliveira

Utrecht University

Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Keeping up with automation: worker and firm outcomes after technology adoption
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Matias Cortes (gmcortes@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Past Seminars

Daniel Trefler

University of Toronto

Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Roxana Halbleib

University of Freiburg

Date: Friday, February 16, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: "Efficient Sampling for Realized Variance Estimation in Time-Changed Diffusion Models"
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Felipe Valencia Caicedo

The University of British Columbia

Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Marlène Koffi

University of Toronto

Date: Friday, March 15, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Laura García-Montoya

University of Toronto

Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

R. Vijay Krishna

Florida State University

Date: Thursday, April 4, 2024
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Nikolay Kudrin

Queen's University

Date: Friday, April 5, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Peter Reinhard Hansen

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Econometrics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Onur Kesten

University of Sydney

Date: Thursday, April 26, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Vittoria Dicandia

Federal Reserve Bank at Cleveland

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Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Technological Change and Wage Disparities
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca)

Harold Chiang

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: Friday, November 24, 2023
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Alex Maynard

University of Guelph

Date: Friday, November 17, 2023
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Joe Kaboski

University of Notre Dame

Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Jing Zhang

Chicago Fed

Date: Thursday, November 9, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Nail Kashaev

Western University

Date: Friday, November 3, 2023
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: "Peer effects in consideration and preferences" (joint with Natalia Lazzati and Ruli Xiao)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca) & Ilya Archakov (iarch@yorku.ca)

Elif Incekara-Hafalir

University of Technology Sydney

Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Matteo Camboni

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Jeremy Lise

University of Minnesota

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Chris Bidner

Simon Fraser University

Date: Thursday, October 19, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Yao Luo

University of Toronto

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Ying Feng

National University of Singapore and University of Toronto

Date: Thursday, October 5, 2023
Time: 10:00-11:30 AM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Chaoran Chen(chenecon@yorku.ca) & Etienne Lale (elale@yorku.ca)

Felix Koenig

Carnegie Mellon University

Date: Thursday, September 21, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

David Weiss

Tel Aviv University

Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Deniz Dizdar

University of Montreal

Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Bernhard Schmidpeter

Johannes Kepler University

Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca)

Chuan Goh

University of Guelph

Date: Friday, March 31, 2023
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado

McGill University

Fernando Garcia-Belenguer

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Date: Friday, March 24, 2023
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Topic: Capital, Income, and the Agricultural Productivity Gap: A Tale of Two Elasticities
Location: VH 1063

Organizer: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca)

Marine Carrasco

University of Montreal

Date: Friday, March 3, 2023
Time: 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)

Yan Bai

Rochester, CEPR, NBER

Date: Thursday, November 24, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Macroeconomics World Financial Cycles
Location: Online

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & George Stefanidis (stefa107@yorku.ca)

Jean-Marie Dufour

McGill University

Date: Friday, November 18, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)

Tianyi Wang

University of Toronto

Date: Thursday, November 17, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics
Waves of Empowerment: Black Radio and the Civil Rights Movement (PDF)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Kerem Tuzcuoglu

Bank of Canada

Date: Friday, November 11, 2022
Time: 4:00- 5:30 PM
Topic: (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)

Xavier D’Haultfoeuille

CREST

Date: Thursday, November 10, 2022
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: Online

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Caroline Arteaga Cabrales

University of Toronto

Date: Thursday, November 3, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Gaston Chaumont

Rochester

Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & George Stefanidis (stefa107@yorku.ca)

David Green

Vancouver School of Economics, UBC

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: VH 1063

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis

UPenn, UAB, Barcelona GSE, CEPR

Date: Thursday, October 6, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM
Topic: Macroeconomics (TBA)
Location: (TBA)

Organizers: Chaoran Chen (chenecon@yorku.ca) & George Stefanidis (stefa107@yorku.ca)

Lena Song

Columbia University

Date: Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM
Topic: Microeconomics (TBA)
Location: (TBA)

Organizers: Yishu Zeng (zengyish@yorku.ca) & Jun Zhao (zhaoj11@yorku.ca)

Dalibor Stevanovic

UQAM

Date: Friday, April 8, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)

Matt Webb

Carleton University

Date: Friday, April 1, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)

Saraswata Chaudhuri

McGill University

Date: Friday, March 25, 2022
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM
Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou (daa@yorku.ca) & Pujee Tuvaandorj (tpujee@yorku.ca)

Viktoria Hnatkovska

University of British Columbia

Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Time: 2:00-3:30 P.M.
Topic: TBA
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Terry Cheung

Academia Sinica

Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Time: 9:30-11:00 AM
Topic: TBA
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Julieta Caunedo

Cornell University

Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Time: 10:00- 11:30 AM
Topic: TBA
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, December 4, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM

Tamon Asonuma (IMF)

Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday November 17, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Robert Garlick (Duke University)

Topic: Aspirations, Assets, and Anti-Poverty Policy
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, November 13, 2020
Time: 10:00-11:30 A.M.

Rachel L. Ngai (London School of Economics)

Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, November 6, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM

Wyatt Brooks (Arizona State University)

Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday November 5, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

David Price (University of Toronto)

Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 30, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM

Juan Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday October 29, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Claudia Persico (American University)

Topic: The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 23, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM

Todd Schoellman (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday October 22, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Román Andrés Zárate (University of Toronto)

Topic: Choice and Consequence: Assessing Mismatch at Chicago Exam Schools
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday October 8, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Joshua Lewis (Université de Montréal)

Topic: The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 2, 2020
Time: 2:00- 3:30 PM

Zhigang Feng (University of Nebraska)

Topic: TBA
Location: Online
Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday October 1, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Jeff Denning (Brigham Young University)

Topic: Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? An Analysis of Rising Grades
Location: Online
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Jamin Speer (University of Memphis)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

David Price (University of Toronto)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Serdar Ozkan (University of Toronto)

Topic: "Dissecting Idiosyncratic Income Risk"

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Ida Ferrara, iferrara@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, December 2, 2019

Time: 10:00-11:30 AM

James MacGee (Western Economics & Bank of Canada)

Topic: TBA

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, November 29, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM

Marc Henry (Penn State University)

Topic: "Revealing Gender-Specific Costs of STEM in an Extended Roy Model of Major Choice."

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 28, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Maggie Jones (University of Victoria)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Lisa Kahn (University of Rochester)

Topic: "Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading"
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Ronald Wolthoff (University of Toronto)

Topic: "Search, Screening and Sorting"
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Date: Monday, November 11, 2019

Time: 10:00-11:30 AM

Gajendran Raveendranathan (McMaster University)

Topic: TBA

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

PLEASE NOTE THE SEMINAR BELOW HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 24, 2020

Date: Thursday, October 31, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Osea Giuntella (University of Pittsburgh)

Topic: "Gender-Specific Economic Shocks and Household Bargaining Power. A Machine Learning Approach to Expenditure Data"

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 25, 2019
Time: 3:00-4:30 PM

Prosper Dovonon (Concordia University)

Topic: Relevant moment selection under mixed identification strength. (pdf)

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca

Date: Monday, October 21, 2019

Time: 10:00-11:30 AM

João Galindo da Fonseca (University of Montreal)

Topic: TBA

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 11, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Nicolas Vincent (HEC Montreal)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019

Time: 4:00-5:30 PM

Aman Ullah (University of California)

Topic: )" A Journey in Search of Unknown "True Model" : Data based non-parametric econometrics and empirical economics".

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, October 7, 2019

Time: 4:00-5:30 PM

Markus Poschke (McGill University)

Topic: TBA

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, October 3, 2019

Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Fernando Leibovici (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

Topic: TBA

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 PM

Alexander Monge-Naranjo (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, September 27, 2019
Time: 3:00-4:30 pm

John Ham

Topic:.Novelty, Knowledge Spillovers and Innovation: Evidence from Nobel Laureates.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca & Paul Rilstone, pril@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Time: 3:30-5:00 pm

Yelena Larkin (Schulich)

Topic:TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, September 16, 2019

Time: 4:00-5:30 PM

Juan Carlos Hatchondo (Western University)

Topic: TBA

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Chaoran Chen, chenecon@yorku.ca and Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Alessandro Dovis (University of Pennsylvania)

Topic: Fiscal Rules, Bailouts, and Reputation in Federal Governments.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Kim Huynh (Banque of Canada)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Time: TBA

Zachary Mahone (McMaster University)

Topic: Entrepreneurship, Housing and Wealth.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, March 22, 2019
Time: 1:00-2:00pm

Simona Zambelli (University of Bologna)

Topic: Due Diligence and Investee Performance
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, aadamo@yorku.ca & Razvan Sufana, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, March 21, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ryan Decker (Fed Board)

Topic: Firm Dynamics and Local Economic Shocks: Evidence from the Shale Oil and Gas Boom
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 18, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Adam Lavecchia (McMaster University)

Topic: The Timing of Tax incentives for Saving, Asset Location and Crowd-Out: Evidence from Tax-Free Savings Accounts
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
Time: 4:00-5:30

Jose Espin-Sanchez (Yale)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, laura.h.salisbury@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, March 08, 2018

Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Michael Dinerstein (University of Chicago)

Topic: Allocative Efficiency in K-12 Education

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca,

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Federico Rossi (Johns Hopkins University)

Topic: The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 19, 2018

Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Satyajit Chatterjee (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

Topic: Endogenous Political Turnover and Fluctuations in Sovereign Default Risk

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Georgios Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Theodore Papageorgiou (McGill)

Topic: Geography, Search Frictions and Endogenous Trade Costs

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 26, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ioana Marinescu (University of Pennsylvania)

Topic: Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Halis Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Natalie Bau (UCLA)

Topic: Negotiating a Better Future: How Inter-personal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Time: TBA

Bettina Brueggemann (McMaster University)

Topic: Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from the U.S. and Europe Since the 1980s” (joint with A. Bick, N. Fuchs-Schuendeln and H. Paule-Paludkiewicz)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, September 27, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Dimitris Thomakos (University of Peloponnese)

Topic: Adaptive Learning Forecasting
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 12, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Bin Chen (University of Rochester)

Topic: A Unified Approach to Testing Stability of Conditional Distributions and Conditional Moments (joint with Liquan Huang)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 19, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Kelly Vosters (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Topic: Spillover Bias in Multigenerational Income Regressions
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Baris Kaymak (Université de Montréal)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, October 26, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm

James MacKinnon (Queen's University)

Topic: How Cluster-Robust Inference Is Changing Applied Econometrics
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca

Department Seminar {Toronto Seminar}

Date: Friday, November 2, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Eric Renault (Brown University)

Topic: Weak Instruments Test in Discrete Choice Models (joint with David T. Frazier, Donald Poskitt, Lina Zhang and Xueyan Zhao)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30

Dietrich Vollrath (University of Houston)

Topic: The Role of Land in Temperate and Tropical Agriculture
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca & George Stefanidis, stefa107@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, November 9, 2018
Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Firmin Doko Tchatoka (University of Adelaide)

Topic: A Rotation Approach to Subset Inference in Weakly Identified Linear Structural Models
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Antoine Djogbenou, daa@yorku.ca and Razvan Sufana, rsufana@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, November 12, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Heather Sarsons (University of Toronto / Chicago Booth)

Topic: Interpreting Signals in the Labour Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ben Sand (York University)

Topic: Estimating the Gains from Trade in Frictional Local Labor Markets
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Time: TBA

Nicola Bianchi (Northwestern University)

Topic: Chains of Opportunity Revisited
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Paul Gaggl (UNC Charlotte)

Topic: The Macroeconomic Effects of Automation: Does Capital Aggregation Matter
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, Dec 5, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Andrey Stoyanov "Chemical pollution and altered sex ratios"

Matias Cortes "Caught in the Cycle: Timing of Enrollment and Labor Market Performance of University Graduates"

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Joseph Mullins (University of Western Ontario)

Topic: Improving Child Outcomes through Welfare Reform
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ridwan Karim (University of Toronto)

Topic: Voter-Buying, Electoral Reform and Health Outcomes in Brazil
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Michel Serafinelli (University of Toronto)

Topic: Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Timothy Bond (Purdue)

Topic: Symptoms Before the Syndrome? Stalled Racial Progress and Trade in the 1970's and 1980's
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Jonathan Hall (University of Toronto)

Topic: Is Uber a Complement or Substitute with Public Transit (with Joseph Price and Craig Palsson)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Uros Petronijevic, upetroni@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, November 3, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Martin Besfamille (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Topic: Asymmetric Regions and the Optimal Degree of Fiscal Decentralization
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, bucovetsky1052@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, Oct 23rd, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Michael Boehm (University of Bonn and UBC)

Topic: Firms’ Heterogeneity and the Return to Cognitive Skills (with Giovanni Gallipoli)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Matias Cortes, gmcortes@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, May 1st, 2017
Time: 12:15-1:15pm

Daniela Scur (Oxford University)

Topic: All in the family? CEO choice and firm organization
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, April 27th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Arthur Blouin (University of Toronto)

Topic: Erasing Ethnicity? Nation Building, (mis)trust and the salience of Identity in Rwanda
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Nippe Lagerlöf, lagerlof@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Mustafa Ulus, Galatasaray University, Istanbul (visiting Ryerson University)

Topic: The Role of the Informal Sector in Promoting Immigrant Integration
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Treb Allen (Dartmouth College)

Topic: The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements (with Costas Arkolakis).
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado (McGill University)

Topic: Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, February 13, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Timea Laura Molnar (UBC)

Topic: How Do Mothers Manage? Universal Daycare, Child Skill Formation, and the Parental Time-Education Puzzle
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, February 10, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Gustavo Bobonis (University of Toronto)

Topic: Vulnerability and Clientelism
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Matthew Greenblatt (University of Minnesota)

Topic: Bailouts, Inflation, and Risk Sharing in Monetary Unions
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

François de Soyres (Toulouse School of Economics)

Topic: Value Added and Productivity Linkages Across Countries
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, February 3, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Daniel Goetz (Princeton University)

Topic: Competition and Dynamic Bargaining in the Broadband Industry
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Claudia Macaluso (University of Chicago)

Topic: Skill remoteness and post-layoff labor market outcomes
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Kirsten Cornelson (University of Toronto)

Topic: Residential segregation and social segregation by race
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Jessica Leight (Williams College)

Topic: Complementarity between non-agricultural and agricultural shocks in local industrialization: Evidence from China
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, January 30, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Chaoran Chen (University of Toronto)

Topic: Technology Adoption, Capital Deepening, and International Productivity Differences
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, January 27, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Salvatore Lo Bello (Universidad Carlos III)

Topic: Like Father, Like Son: Occupational Choice, Intergenerational Persistence and Misallocation
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, January 26, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Oksana Leukhina (University of Washington)

Topic: How Risky Is College Investment?
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Juan Morales (University of Toronto)

Topic: Legislating During War: Conflict and Politics in Colombia
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, January 23, 2017
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Matias Cortes (University of Manchester)

Topic: The End of Men and the Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, November 25th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Francisco Gonzalez (University of Waterloo)

Topic: "Skill mismatch in competitive search equilibrium" (joint with Sonja Chen and Matt Doyle)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, October 20, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Mauricio Drelichman (University of British Columbia)

Topic: The long-run effects of the Spanish Inquisition
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, Bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, October 3rd, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Laura Turner (University of Toronto)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, September 30th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Theodore Papageorgiou (McGill University)

Topic: Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Learning: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, aadamo@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, September 26, 2016
Time: 1:00-2:30pm

Andrew Dickens (York University)

Topic: Ethnolinguistic Favoritism in African Politics
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Nippe Lagerlöf, lagerlof@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, September 22, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Yosh Halberstam (University of Toronto)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, Bertaev@gmail.com

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, April 18th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Charles Gottlieb (University of St. Gallen)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, April 1st, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Kei-Mu Yi (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)

Topic: Sectoral Heterogeneity and the Gains from Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Runjuan Liu (University of Alberta)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, February 26th, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Hakki Yazici (Sabanci University and CMU)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Dave Donaldson (Stanford University)

Topic: Nonparametric Counterfactual Predictions in Neoclassical Models of International Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Jeffrey Chan (University of Toronto)

Topic: Any Port in a Storm: Import Competition and Match Quality Downgrading
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, February 1, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Anderson Frey (University of British Columbia)

Topic: Cash Transfers, Clientelism, and Political Enfranchisement: Evidence from Brazil
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Alisa Tazhitdinova (Berkeley)

Topic: Adjust Me if I Can’t: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Daniel Shack (University of British Columbia)

Topic: What Do Parents Know and When do They Know It: How Learning Matters for Parents' Dynamic Education Choices
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, January 25, 2016
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Uros Petronijevic (University of Toronto)

Topic: The Productivity Effects of School Competition in the Presence of Education Accountability
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, December 07, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Werner Antweiler (Souder School of Business)

Topic: TBA
Location: Ross S101
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, November 23, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Duan Qi (Beihang University)

Topic: Market Size, Cannibalization, and Policy Competition for a Multiproduct Multinational Firm (PDF)

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 19, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Cesar Sosa Padilla (McMaster University)

Topic: Sovereign Default and Banking Crises (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Pamela Campa (University of Calgary)

Topic: Politico-economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State-socialism (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Kevin Donovan (University of Notre Dame)

Topic: Local Knowledge and Managerial Capital: Evidence from Kenyan Microenterprises (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, October 29, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Hakki Yazici (Sabanci University and CMU)

Topic: Determinants ofWage and Earnings Inequality in the United States (PDF) (CANCELLED)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Fernando Aragon (SFU)

Topic: Mining closure, gender and employment reallocations: the case of UK coal mines (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Taylor Jaworski (Queens University)

Topic: National Policies for Regional Development: Evidence from the Appalachian Development Highway System.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Christopher Bidner (SFU)

Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.caTopic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)

Topic: Universal Gravity (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Brown Bag Seminar

Date: Monday, April 27, 2015
Time: 1200-1:00pm

Fernando Leibovici

Topic: Financial Frictions and Export Dynamics in Large Devaluations
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, April 23, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Jan Grobovsek (University of Edinburgh)

Topic: Communal Land and Agricultural Productivity (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, April 20, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Holger Strulik (University of Gottingen)

Topic: Desire and Development (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Kunal Dasgupta (University of Toronto)

Topic: Inattentive Importers (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, April 13, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Carlos Serrano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Topic: Patent collateral, investor commitment, and the market for venture lending (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Brown Bag Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Ben Sand

Topic: The Effects of Macroprudential Mortgage Insurance Regulation During a Housing Boom: Evidence from Canada - Joint with Lu Han (Rotman) and Chandler Lutz (CBS)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Brown Bag Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Time: 12:30-1:30pm

Laura Salisbury

Topic: Married Women's Property Laws, Marriage Markets, and Bankruptcy Protection: The Case of the American South in the 1840s
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Brown Bag Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Matthew Brzozowski

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Andriana Bellou, University of Montreal

Topic: Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)

Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 2, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Nippe Lagerlof (York University)

Topic: Natural Borders
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Brown Bag Seminar

Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Ben Sand

Topic: Taking Selection To Task: Bounds on occupational task prices.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

David Kohn (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella)

Topic: Addicted to Debt: Foreign Purchases of U.S. Treasuries and the Term Premium (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Brown Bag Seminar

Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Ida Ferrara

Topic: Consumption Externalities, Product Quality, and the Role of National Treatment
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, January 29, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Yoto Yotov (Drexel University)

Topic: Growth and Trade: A Structural Estimation Framework (PDF)
Location: CLH-J (Curtis Lecture Hall)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Brown Bag Seminar

Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Andrey Stoyanov

Topic: Population Aging and Comparative Advantage in International Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, January 19, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Allison Shertzer, University of Pittsburgh

Topic: Racial Sorting and the Emergence of Segregation in American Cities (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ana Maria Santacreu (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and INSEAD)

Topic: International R&D Spillovers and Asset Prices1063
Location: Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, October 16, 2014
Time: 2:30-4:00pm

Arnaud Costinot (MIT)

Topic: Comparative Advantage and Optimal Trade Policy
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Time: 12:00-1:00pm

Fernando Leibovici (York University)

Topic: International Trade Fluctuations and Monetary Policy
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Hakon Tretvoll (BI Norwegian Business School)

Topic: International Correlations and the Composition of Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Christos Shiamptanis (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Topic: At what point is Italy insolvent? Revisiting fiscal limits.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Joshua Lewis (University of Montreal)

Topic: TBA
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, November 24, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Julian Emami Namini (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Topic: Labor market discrimination and international trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Viktoria Hnatkovska (University of British Columbia)

Topic: The exchange rate response puzzle
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Matilde Bombardini (University of British Columbia)

Topic: Does Exporting Improve Matching? Evidence from French Employer-Employee Data (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, February 10, 2014
Time: 4-5:30pm

Andrey Stoyanov (York University)

Topic: Do Preferential Trade Agreements Affect Tariffs of Non-Members?
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 3, 2014
Time: 4-5:30pm

Fernando Leibovici (York University)

Topic: Financial development and international trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Marianne Wanamaker

Topic: Separate and Unequal in the Labor Market: Human Capital and the Jim Crow Wage Gap (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Laura Salisbury, lsalisbu@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Tanjim Hossain

Topic: Setting the Tone" and "Drawing the Line" in Chittagong Tea Auctions (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Shin-Hwan Chiang, schiang@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 10, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ben Sand (York University)

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, March 20, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Simona Cociuba (University of Western Ontario)

Topic: Collateralized Borrowing and Risk Taking at Low Interest Rates (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 24, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Laura Salisbury (York University)

Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Brent Neiman (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business)

Topic: Trade and the Global Recession (with Eaton, Kortum, and Romalis) (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 31, 2014
Time: 11:30-1pm

Wai-Ming Ho (York University)

Topic: International Outsourcing, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy.
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, February 3, 2014
Time: 11:30-1pm

Tasso Adamopoulos (York University)

Topic: Land Reform and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Micro Data
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, September 26, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Pau Pujolas (McMaster University)

Topic: Trade Patterns, Income Differences and Gains from Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, September 27, 2013
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm

Roberto Galbiati (OSC-CNRS and Sciences Po Paris)

Topic: Earthquakes, Universities, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Jeanne Tschopp (University of British Columbia)

Topic: Wage Bargaining as a Social Interaction Problem: An Application to Germany (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Tim Bond (Purdue University)

Topic: Internal Labor Markets in Equilibrium (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

German Pupato (Ryerson University)

Topic: Performance Pay, Trade, and Inequality (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Internal Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:00pm

Elie Appelbaum

Topic: The Dynamics of Hate and Violence (CANCELLED)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Javad Sadeghzadeh (York University)

Topic: Innovation Subsidies: Misallocation and Technology Upgrade (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Johannes Schmieder (Boston University)

Topic: The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 21, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Joseph Steinberg (University of Toronto)

Topic: Global Imbalances and Structural Change in the United States (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

David Ong (Peking University)

Topic: Tiger Women: An All-Pay Auction Experiment on Gender Signaling of Desire to Win
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University)

Topic: How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, December 5, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Migiwa Tanaka (University of Toronto)

Topic: Testing the Theory of Multitasking: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment in Chinese Factories (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Shin-Hwan Chiang, schiang@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, December 12, 2013
Time: 2:30-4:00pm

Leonardo Martinez (IMF)

Topic: Mortgage Defaults and Prudential Regulations in a Standard Incomplete Markets Model (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Fernando Leibovici, flei@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, January 13, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

April Cai, University of New South Wales

Topic: Growth Through Intersectoral Knowledge Linkages (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, January 14, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Manuel Bagues (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Topic: The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions (joint with Natalia Zinovyeva) (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Svetlana Demidova (McMaster University)

Topic: Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: Estimation Strategy and Policy Experiments (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Steven F. Lehrer (Queens School of Policy Studies)

Topic: Reinvestigating Who Benefits and Who Loses from Universal Childcare in Canada (w/ M. Kottelenberg)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, March 7, 2013
Time: 12:00-1:30pm

Weili Ding (Queens School of Policy Studies)

Topic: Estimating Context-Independent Treatment Effects in Education Experiments (w/Steven Lehrer)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, March 22, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ananth Ramanarayanan (University of Western Ontario)

Topic: Imported Inputs and the Gains from Trade
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Vadim Marmer (UBC Department of Economics)

Topic: Efficient Inference in Econometric Models When Identification Can Be Weak (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ben Sand, bmsand@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Yao Tang (Bowdoin College)

Topic: How did exchange rate affect employment in US cities?
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, April 4, 2013
Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Douglas Gollin (Oxford University)

Topic: Urbanization with and without Industrialization (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, April 5, 2013
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Todd Schoellman (Arizona State University)

Topic: Refugees and Early Childhood Human Capital (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, April 8, 2013
Time: 3:30-5:00pm

Nikolay Zubanov (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Topic: The power of (no) recognition: Evidence from a field experiment
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Andrei Levchenko (University of Michigan)

Topic: A Global View of Cross-Border Migration (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University)

Topic: Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Ken Jackson (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Topic: Trust and Vulnerability (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, November 12, 2012
Time: 2:30-4:00pm

Piyusha Mutreja (Syracuse University)

Topic: Capital Goods Trade and Economic Development
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 22, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Chew Soo Hong (National University of Singapore)

Topic: Partial Ambiguity (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, November 29, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Markus Poschke (McGill University)

Topic: The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, December 6, 2012
Time: 2:30pm-4:00pm

Constantine Angyridis (Ryerson University)

Topic: Endogenous Growth with Public Capital and Progressive Taxation (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Tasso Adamopoulos, tasso@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, December 10, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Stergios Skaperdas (University of California at Irvine)

Topic: Guns, Lawyers, and Money : Economic Consequences of Costly Conflict (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, sam@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Mikal Skuterud (University of Waterloo)

Topic: Reported Sickness Absenteeism and the Weather
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 12, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Brent Kreider (Iowa State University)

Topic: Identifying the Effects of Food Stamps on Child Health Outcomes When Participation is Endogenous and Misreported (with John Pepper, Craig Gundersen, and Dean Jolliffe)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Friday, March 16, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Nicolas Ziebarth (Cornell University)

Topic: In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Monday, March 19, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Hongfei Sun (Queen's University)

Topic: Monetary and Fiscal Policies In a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Alfonso Flores-Lagunes (SUNY-Binghampton)

Topic: Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Devashish Mitra (Syracuse University)

Topic: Trade Liberalization and Labor.s Slice of the Pie: Evidence from Indian Firms (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Xianghong Li, xli@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Victor Rios-Rull (University of Minnesota)

Topic: Demand Shocks as Productivity Shocks
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Steve Williamson (Washington University)

Topic: Keynes in a Nutshell: A New Monetarist Approach (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Ed Nosal (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

Topic: Equilibrium Bank Runs Revisited (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Professor Oksana Leukhina (University of Washington)

Topic: The Return to College: Selection Bias and Dropout (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30

Professor Olena Ivus (Queen's School of Business)

Topic: The Diversi.cation Motive for Tariff Protection (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Department Seminar

Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30

Susumu Imai (Queen's university)

Topic: The Effect of Workfare on Crime: Incapacitation and Program Effects (PDF)
Location: 1063 Vari Hall (Seminar room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Empirical

Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Logan McLeod (University of Alberta)

Topic: A Nonparametric Versus Latent Class Model of General Practitioner Utilization: Evidence from Canada
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Empirical

Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Ben Sand (Copenhagen Business School)

Topic: How Much is Employment Increased by Cutting Labor Costs? Estimating the Elasticity of Job Creation
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Empirical

Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Padmaja Ayyagari (Yale University)

Topic: Understanding Heterogeneity in Price Elasticities in the Demand for Alcohol
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Empirical

Date: Friday, February 11, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Joel Blit (George Washington University)

Topic: Learning Remotely: R&D Satellites, Intra-Firm Networks, and Knowledge Diffusion
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Empirical

Date: Monday, February 14, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Christian Dippel (University of Toronto)

Topic: Forced Coexistence and Economic Development - Evidence from Native American Reservations
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Empirical

Date: Thursday, February 16, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Richard Mansfield (Yale University)

Topic: Teacher Quality and Student Inequality
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Berta Esteve-Volart, berta@econ.yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Svetlana Demidova (McMaster University)

Topic: Firm Heterogeneity And Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy And Policy Experiments (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Lori Curtis ( University of Waterloo)

Topic: Does Social Assistance Participation lead to lower Self-Reported Health? (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Phil Curry (University of Waterloo)

Topic: Social Welfare and the Benefits to Crime (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, sam@econ.yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Archishan Chakraborty (Schulich School of Business - York University)

Topic: Media Bias and Electoral Competition
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Sam Bucovetsky, sam@econ.yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Monday, April 4, 2011
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm

Mark Melatos (University of Sydney) and Stephanie Dunn

Topic: Flexibility in Trade Bloc Design
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor George Georgopoulos, georgop@yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Time: 11:30-1:30 am

Tammy Schirle (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Topic: Senior Health and Life Expectancy: The Role of Attentive Children (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Macroeconomics

Date: Monday, April 11, 2011
11:30-1:30 am

David Fuller (Concordia University)

Topic: A Quantitative Analysis of Unemployment Insurance in a Model with Fraud and Moral Hazard
Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)

Organizer: Ahmet Akyol, aakyol@econ.yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Martin Dooley (McMaster University)

Topic: The Impact of Cost on the Choice of University (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Microeconomics

Date: Monday, April 18, 2011
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Murat Yildiz (Ryerson University)

Topic: On the Relationship between Preferential and Multilateral Trade Liberalization: The Case of Customs Unions (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Andrey Stoyanov, andreyst@yorku.ca

Macroeconomics

Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Trevor Tombe (University of Toronto)

Topic: The Missing Food Problem: How Low Agricultural Imports Contribute to International Income Differences (PDF)
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca

Macroeconomics

Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Time: 4:00-5:30 pm

Constantine Angyridis (Ryerson University)

Topic: TBA
Location: Vari Hall 1063 (Charles Plourde Seminar Room)
Organizer: Professor Wai-Ming Ho, waiming@yorku.ca