Tuesdays, 1-2:20pm

Eldersveld Room, 5670 Haven Hall

Faculty Coordinators: Hoyt Bleakley, Edgar Franco-Vivanco, Mark Dincecco, Iain Osgood

Graduate Student Coordinators: Jun Fang and Pedro Luz de Castro

Fall 2024

9/26 (4-5:20pm, 201 Lorch): Christopher Blattman, University of Chicago, "Who Joins Drug-Selling Gangs and Why? Evidence from 10,000 Adolescent Boys in Medellin" (joint with Economic Development Seminar) (note different time and place)

10/22: Volha Charnysh, MIT, "Consequences of the Black Sea Slave Trade: Long-Run Development in Eastern Europe"

11/5: Hoyt Bleakley and Paul Rhode, UM Economics, "Settler Colonialism vs. Empire of Liberty: Early United States History in Comparative Perspective"

11/21: Saumitra Jha, Stanford University (Thursday, 4-5:20pm, 201 Lorch) (joint with Economic Development Seminar) (note different time and place)

12/3: Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University, "When Are Women Taken Seriously as Central Bankers?"

12/5: Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto (Thursday, 4-5:20pm, 201 Lorch) (joint with Economic Development Seminar) (note different time and place) 

Winter 2025

2/4: Amy Pond, Washington University in St. Louis, "Market Concentration and Property Rights"

2/25: Luis Schenoni, UCL, "Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America"

3/11: Hye Young You, Princeton University, "Who Pays for Protectionism? Partisan Bias in Buy American Act Enforcement"

4/8: Layna Mosley, Princeton University, "Sovereign Credit Ratings, Economic Information, and Political Survival"

4/15: Aditya Dasgupta, UC Merced, "Urbanization and the Rise of the Right in India"

4/22: Christopher Paik, NYU Abu Dhabi, "Under the Mandate of Heaven: A Historical Study of Omens and Executives"