The Economics Department Seminar meets on Wednesdays from 3-4:15PM. Subscribe to our event calendar here.
Academic Year 2025-2026
09/10/2025: Niklas Engbom (NYU), “The Long-term Decline of the U.S. Job Ladder.” Host: Hamid Firooz
09/17/2025: Meghan Skira (Univ. of Georgia) (rescheduled from Spring 2025), Host: Adriana Corredor-Waldron
09/24/2025: Atila Abdulkadiroglu (Duke), Host: Umut Dur
10/01/2025: Dongho Song (Johns Hopkins), Host: Daisoon Kim
10/29/2025: Alex Hollingsworth (Ohio State), Host: Adriana Corredor-Waldron
11/05/2025: Bulent Guler (Indiana-Bloomington), Host: Ayse Dur
1/14/2026: Ryan Tierney (SDU), Host: Will Phan
1/21/2026: Svetlana Boyarchenko (UT-Austin), Host: Filomena Garcia
2/18/2026: Samuel Dodini (Fed - Dallas), Host: Trung Ly
2/25/2026: Gaurab Aryal (Boston Univ.), Host: Thayer Morrill
3/11/2026: Gal Wettstein (Boston College - CRR), Host: Melinda Morrill
3/25/2026: Yuan Liao (Rutgers), Host: Ilze Kalnina
4/08/2026: Ekaterina Smetanina (Chicago Booth), Host: Ilze Kalnina
4/15/2026: Pamela Medina (Toronto), Host: Hamid Firooz
4/22/2026: Mark Watson (Princeton), Host: Ayse Dur
Archived: AY 2024-25
9/4: Saltuk Ozerturk (SMU), "Regulating Spillovers in Teamwork"
9/11: No regular seminar
9/18: Internal seminar -- Lee Craig (NCSU), "Death or Life: Who survived the July 20, 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, and why?"
9/25: Xiaoxia Shi, (Wisconsin), "Testing Inequalities Linear in Nuisance Parameters"
10/9: Conor Walsh (Columbia)
10/16: No seminar (faculty meeting)
10/23: De Fen (Ariel) Hsu (NCSU, Practice job talk), "Intervention in Networks: Evaluating Positive Youth Development Programs in the U.S."
10/30: Akhil Vohra (UGA)
11/6: Chloe East (UC-Denver)
11/13: Marc Rysman (BU)
11/20: Ricardo Masini (UC-Davis)
3/12: NC State Spring Break
3/19: Meghan Skira (UGA) CANCELED, new date TBD
4/9: Galina Hale (UCSC)
4/16: Tatevik Sekposyan (TAMU)
Archived: AY 2023-24
September 27: Torsten Jaccard (UBC), “The Trade-Creating Effects of Immigrants: Evidence from Detailed Consumption Data”
October 6 (11am-12:15, 1130 Nelson Hall): Alex Teytelboym (Oxford), “Equilibrium Existence and Implementability”
October 18 (11:45am-12:45, 3220 Nelson Hall): Marla P. Ripoll (U of Pittsburgh), "A Neoclassical Theory of Population"
October 18 (1:30pm-2:30, 3220 Nelson Hall): Toshihiko Mukoyama (Georgetown U), "Occupational Reallocation within and across Firms: Implications for Labor Market Polarization"
November 8: Lauren Hoehn-Velasco (Georgia State U), "Germ Theory at Home: Health Information and Child Mortality during the Epidemiological Transition"
December 1: (11am-12:15, 1130 Nelson Hall): Andreas Neuhierl (Wash U), “Robust Stock Index Return Predictions Using Deep Learning”
January 12 (10:45am-12pm): Ryan Tierney (University of Southern Denmark), "School Capital, Funding, and Student Choice"
February 21: Peter Reinhard Hansen (UNC Chapel Hill), "Convolution-t Distributions"
March 6: Chris Chambers (Georgetown U), "Coherent Distorted Beliefs"
April 3: Luis Cabral (NYU Stern), "Asset Specificity and Inefficient Bargaining: Theory and Evidence from Television Shows"
April 17: Ariel Hsu (NCSU), "Intervention in Networks: Evaluating Positive Youth Development Programs in the U.S."
April 19 (2402 Nelson Hall): Triangle Econometrics Conference. Keynote speaker: Dacheng Xiu (Chicago Booth)
May 1: Shrihari Santosh (Maryland U), "Disagreement, Skewness, and Asset Prices"