2017 -2018
Spring 2018
THURSDAY, JANUARY 11
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
THOMAS PHELAN (Minnesota), “On the Efficient Level of Inequality in Business Income”
FRIDAY, JANUARY 12
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-107
TITAN ALON (Northwestern), "Earning More by Doing Less: Human Capital Specialization and the College Wage Premium"
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARK COLAS (University of Oregon), "Dynamic Responses to Immigration"
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
QING GONG (Pennsylvania), "Physician Learning and Treatment Choices: Evidence from Brain Aneurysms"
THURSDAY, JANUARY 18
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SIMEON ALDER (Wisconsin - Madison), "The Macroeconomics of Sorting and Turnover in a Dynamic Assignment Model"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 19
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-111
ALONSO DE GORTARI (Harvard), "Disentangling Global Value Chains"
MONDAY, JANUARY 22
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
DMITRY MUKHIN (Princeton), "An Equilibrium Model of the International Price System"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
JOHN ICELAND (Penn State), "Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Poverty and Affluence, 1959-2015"
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JOSE ASTURIAS (Georgetown University Qatar), "Competition and the Welfare Gains from Transportation Infrastructure: Evidence from the Golden Quadrilateral of India"
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-123
ANDREW MCCLELLAN (NYU), "Experimentation and Approval Mechanisms"
THURSDAY, JANUARY 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SERGIO SALGADO IBANEZ (Minnesota), “Technical Change and Entrepreneurship"
FRIDAY, JANUARY 26
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
ANA REYNOSO (Yale), "The impact of divorce laws on the equilibrium in the marriage market"
MONDAY, JANUARY 29
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
BRIAN FINCH (USC), "Correlates of Police Homicides: A Research Proposal and Preliminary Data"
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
JOSEPH MULLINS (Western Ontario), "Improving Child Outcomes through Welfare Reform"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
CAROLINE KRAFFT (St. Catherine's), "The Impact of Refugees on Employment and Wages in Jordan"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SAMUEL MYERS (Minnesota), "The Narrowing Racial Gap in Drowning Rates Among Males, 1960-2015"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Department Recruiting Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
FRANCESCO AGOSTINELLI (ASU), "Investing in Children’s Skills: An Equilibrium Analysis of Social Interactions and Parental Investments''
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
MARC BELLEMARE (Minnesota), "Producer Attitudes toward Output Price Risk: Experimental Evidence from the Lab and from the Field"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
LAURA SCHECTER (Wisconsin-Madison), "Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CHRISTIAN MOSER (Columbia Business), "Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage" with Niklas Engbom
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
TIM BRUCKNER (UC-Irvine), "Cohort Variation in Selection in Utero: Evidence from California and France"
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14
Applied Micro,12:00, HMH 4-190
COLLEEN FLAHERTY MANCHESTER (Minnesota), "Regulation and the Internal Workings of the Firm: The Case of Ending Mandatory Retirement in the U.S.," with Anders Frederiksen
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Department Seminar, 12:00, HMH 1-111
TIMO BOPPART (IIES), "Labor Supply in the Past, Present, and Future: Who and how much?" (with Per Krusell, and Jonna Olsson)
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
ARIELL ZIMRAN (Vanderbilt), "Complete Count Data and the Age of Mass Migration: Selection and Shocks"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KEVIN LANG (Boston University), "The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice"
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FRANCESCO BIANCHI (Duke), TBA
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, Ruttan 119
PAUL FERRARO (Johns Hopkins), "The Longer-term Impacts of Efficient Technology as a Solution to Environmental Externalities: Behavioral Economists versus Engineers and Environmental Scientists"
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
KHANDKER WAHEDUR RAHMAN (Minnesota), "Effect of Foreign Migration on School Choice of Kids Remaining Back at Home: Analysis Using Bangladesh HIES Data"
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, Ruttan 230
BIXUAN SUN (Minnesota), "Heterogeneous Impacts of Residential Solar Rebate Programs in the U.S."
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
PAMELA HERD (UW-Madison), "Genetics, Gender, and Educational Attainment"
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
THOMAS WINBERRY (Chicago - Booth), "Financial Heterogeneity and the Investment Channel of Monetary Policy"
THURSDAY, MARCH 1
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
CHAO FU (UW-Madison), "Government Expenditure on the Public Education System" with Shoya Ishimaru and John Kennan
MONDAY, MARCH 5
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
WENDY MANNING (Bowling Green), "Young Adulthood for Boomers and Millennials"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ALESSANDRO DOVIS (University of Pennsylvania), "Fiscal Rules, Bailouts, and Reputation in Federal Governments"
THURSDAY, MARCH 8
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
LARRY SAMUELSON (Yale), "The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference"
FRIDAY, MARCH 9
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
LI-PIN JUAN (Minnesota), "A Life-Cycle Analysis of Wealth Taxation with Entrepreneurship and Housing"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CHAD SYVERSON (Chicago-Booth), "Misallocation Measures: The Distortion That Ate the Residual"
TUESDAY, MARCH 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CHRISTOPHER HUCKFELDT (Cornell), “Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires”
MONDAY, MARCH 19
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, Ruttan 119
HASEEB ALI (Minnesota), "Changes in the Perceptions of Risk in the Japanese Housing Market following the Great Tohuku Earthquake & Tsunami"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
OWEN THOMPSON-FERGUSON (UW-Milwaukee), "Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM 1-149
ELLIOT LIPNOWSKI (Chicago), ELLIOT LIPNOWSKI (Chicago), "Cheap Talk with Transparent Motives," with Doron Ravid
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TODD SCHOELLMAN (Minneapolis Fed), "The Changing Roles of Family Income and Academic Ability for US College Attendance"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
YANGHAO WANG (Minnesota), "The Welfare Impacts of Increased Demand for 'Super Grain': The Case of Teff in Ethiopia"
THURSDAY, MARCH 22
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
TAREK HASSAN (Boston University), "Currency Manipulation" with Thomas Mertens and Tony Zhang
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM L122
URBAN JERMANN (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton),"Negative Swap Spreads and Limited Arbitrage"
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JEFFREY BLOEM (Minnesota), "How Much Does the Cardinal Treatment of Ordinal Variables Matter? An Empirical Investigation"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PEDRO TELES (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella), "Should Robots be Taxed?"
MONDAY, MARCH 26
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
BASILE GRASSI (Bocconi), "IO in I-O: Size, Industrial Organization and the Input-Output Network Make a Firm Structurally Important"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
MIRIAM KING, DEVON KRISTIANSEN, AND MATT SOBEK (IPUMS), "New Developments in Integrated Global Health Microdata"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM 1-149
AYCA OZDOGAN (TOBB University and Minnesota), "Is it possible to prevent deception through reputation?"
TUESDAY, MARCH 27
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CHRISTOPHER TONETTI (Stanford University GSB), "Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CASEY MULLIGAN (Chicago), "Public Policies and the Reward to Work: Measurement and Consequences"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
TERRY HURLEY (Minnesota), "Weather Risk: How Does It Change the Yield Benefits of Nitrogen Fertilizer and Improved Maize Varieties in Sub-Saharan Africa?"
FRIDAY, MARCH 30
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM L122
TONI WHITED (University of Michigan), "Information Distortion, R&D, and Growth"
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JAMES SEALE (University of Florida), "International Food Consumption Patterns: Selected Results using a "New" Family of Demand Systems"
MONDAY, APRIL 2
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, Ruttan 119
CHRIS MCINTOSH (Minnesota Duluth), "Minnesota – Where Is Your State Sovereign Wealth Fund?"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ALI SHOURIDEH (Carnegie Tepper), "Inequality, Redistribution and Optimal Trade Policy: A Public Finance Approach"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
LEE FRELICH, EVAN ROBERTS, BRYAN RUNCK, DAVE VAN RIPER, AND KYUNGS00 Y00 (IPUMS), "One State, Two Populations, and Two Histories: Swedes and European Earthworms in Minnesota"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
DOMINIQUE ROLANDO (Minnesota), "Dieting with Dollars: What do SNAP Participants Buy When They Get More Benefits?"
THURSDAY, APRIL 5
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
NICK PAPAGEORGE (Johns Hopkins), "Innovation and Diffusion of Medical Treatment," with Hamilton, Hincapie, and Miller
FRIDAY, APRIL 6
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM L122
OWEN ZIDAR (University of Chicago), "Who Profits from Patents? Rent-sharing at Innovative Firms," with Kline, Petkova, and Heidi Williams
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
SAM JONES (University of Copenhagen), "How can the returns to education be so high when school quality is so low? A view from East Africa"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARINA HALAC (Columbia), "Commitment vs. Flexibility with Costly Verification"
MONDAY, APRIL 9
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SARAH CATHERINE BILLUPS, HAEMA NILAKANTA (Minnesota), Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow Presentations
TUESDAY, APRIL 10
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PONTUS RENDHAL (Cambridge), "Labor Income Risk, Asset Prices, and Unemployment Cyclicality"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CECILIA PARLATORE (NYU - Stern), "Volatility and Informativeness"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
MICHAEL BOLAND (Minnesota), "The Business Merits of Agricultural Trade"
THURSDAY, APRIL 12
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
FLAVIO CUNHA (Rice), "Parental Beliefs and Investments in Human Capital," with Attanasio and Jervis
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM L122
RAMANA NANDA (Harvard), TBA
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JOHN HODDINOTT (Cornell), "Transfer Modalities, Behavior Change Communication and Child Nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ERIK LOUALICHE (Minnesota-Carlson), "Import Competition and Household Debt"
MONDAY, APRIL 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ROBERT ULBRICHT (TSE), "Information-Driven Business Cycles: A Primal Approach"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
RHONDA JONES-WEBB (Minnesota), "Preventing Violent Encounters Between Police and Young Black Men: A Comparative Case Study"
TUESDAY, APRIL 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
THIBAUT LAMADON (University of Chicago), "Imperfect Competition and Rent Sharing in the U.S. Labor Market"
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JOHN ROGERS (Federal Reserve Board), "Monetary Policy Uncertainty"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
MARINA MILEO GORSUCH (St. Catherine University), "Customer Prejudice & Salience: The Effect of the 2016 Election on Employment Discrimination," with Deborah Rho
THURSDAY, APRIL 19
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 4:00, CSOM 1-149
STEFANIE STANTCHEVA (Harvard), “Dancing with the Stars: Innovation through Interactions” joint with Ufuk Akcigit, Santiago Caicedo, Ernest Miguelez and Valerio Sterzi
FRIDAY, APRIL 20
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM L122
KELLY SHUE (Yale), "Leverage-Induced Fire Sales and Stock Market Crashes," with Jiangze Bian, Zhiguo He, Kelly Shue, and Hao Zhou
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
DAVID EVANS (The World Bank), "Management, Supervision, and Health Care: A Field Experiment"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FERNANDO ALVAREZ (Chicago), "The Analytic Theory of a Monetary Shock"
MONDAY, APRIL 23
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, 230 Ruttan
STEVE MILLER (Minnesota), "Harvest Responses to Environmental Forecasts"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DAVID BAQAEE (LSE), "Productivity and Misallocation in General Equilibrium"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
MARIA GLYMOUR (UC-San Francisco), "The Challenge of Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: Where Evidence From Epidemiology Leads and Misleads"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM 1-149
CHRISTOPH KUZMICS (University of Graz), "Limit Orders under Knightian Uncertainty" (abstract, no paper)
TUESDAY, APRIL 24
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PHILIPP KIRCHER (Edinburgh), "How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search Behavior"
Final Defense, 2:30, HMH 4-190
LUIS DIEZ (Minnesota), TBA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
EMMANUEL FARHI (Harvard), "The Macroeconomic Impact of Microeconomic Shocks: Beyond Hulten’s Theorem"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
FRANK ASCHE (University of Florida), TBA
THURSDAY, APRIL 26
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
IOANA MARINESCU (University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice), "The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund"
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 1-132
KYLE HERKENHOFF (Minnesota), "Can the Unemployed Borrow? Implications for Public Insurance," with Carter Braxton and Gordon Phillips
MONDAY, APRIL 30
Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, 12:00, 230 Ruttan
HASEEB ALI (Minnesota), "Changes in the Perceptions of Risk in the Japanese Housing Market following the Great Tohuku Earthquake & Tsunami"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SEBASTIAN DI TELLA (Stanford), "A Neoclassical Theory of Liquidity Trap"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SARAH FLOOD and PHYLLIS MOEN (Minnesota), "Better Together? Couples’ Time Use and Well-Being in Encore Adulthood"
TUESDAY, MAY 1
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SEBASTIAN FINDEISEN (University of Mannheim), "Optimal Need-Based Financial Aid"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
TRAVIS SMITH (University of Georgia), "Aging out of WIC and Child Nutrition: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design"
Final Defense, 12:00, HMH 4-190
MONS CHAN (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 1:00, HMH 4-190
MING XU (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, MAY 3
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM L114
ALESSANDRA VOENA (Chicago), "Marriage, Labor Supply and the Dynamics of the Social Safety Net," with Low, Meghir, and Pistaferri
FRIDAY, MAY 4
Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship Seminar, 10:15, CSOM 2-219
AMEET MORJARIA (Northwestern - MEDS), "Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills"
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
ERIC VERHOOGEN (Columbia), "Using Exchange Rates to Estimate Production Functions: Evidence from Colombia"
TUESDAY, MAY 8
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-190
MATTHEW SHAPIRO (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, MAY 14
Final Defense, 4:00, HMH 4-190
FATIH FAZILET (Minnesota), TBA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DANIELE SIENA (Banque de France), "Real Interest Rates and Productivity in Small Open Economies"
MONDAY, MAY 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CECILE GAUBERT (UC-Berkeley), "Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
Final Defense, 1:00, HMH 4-190
BORA YUNN (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-190
ROBERT MRKONICH (Minnesota), TBA
FRIDAY, MAY 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MORITZ KUHN (Universitat Bonn), "Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2016"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
Final Defense, 12:00, HMH 4-168
IGNACIO CAMPOMANES (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, MAY 31
Final Defense, 12:00, HMH 4-190
SHIV DIXIT (Minnesota), TBA
TUESDAY, JUNE 5
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
CARLOS GARRIGA (St. Louis Fed), "Housing Finance, Boom-Bust Episodes, and Macroeconomic Fragility"
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6
Final Defense, 2:00, HMH 4-168
YINXIAO CHU (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, JUNE 11
Final Defense, 1:30, HMH 4-190
ARUN KANDANCHATHA (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, JUNE 14
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KYLE HERKENHOFF (Minnesota), “Worker Mobility and the Diffusion of Knowledge”
FRIDAY, JUNE 15
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DOUGLAS ALMOND (Columbia), "Gender and Perinatal Health Among 1 Million American Born Chinese"
TUESDAY, JUNE 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PETE KLENOW (Stanford), "Internet Rising, Prices Falling: Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce"
MONDAY, JUNE 25
Final Defense, 9:00, HMH 4-190
WILLIAM WALSH (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-190
KATHLEEN MCKIERNAN SCHLEHUBER (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 11:00, HMH 4-190
JOAQUIN GARCIA-CABO HERRERO (Minnesota), TBA
FRIDAY, JULY 6
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-190
THOMAS PHELAN (Minnesota), TBA
THURSDAY, JULY 12
Final Defense, 9:00, HMH 4-190
DIRK VAN DUYM (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, JULY 23
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SEPHORAH MAGNIN (ANU), "Efficiency in Search and Matching Models: A Generalized Hosios Condition"
FRIDAY, JULY 27
Final Defense, 8:00, HMH 4-190
ALEXANDRA SOLOVYEYA (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 9:00, HMH 4-190
PARISA KAMALI (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-190
HYUNJU LEE (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 10:00, HMH 4-168
DAVID RUIZ (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 11:00, HMH 4-190
GUILLAUME SUBLET (Minnesota), TBA
Final Defense, 12:00, HMH 4-168
WEIWEN LEUNG (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, JULY 30 - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1
Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory, 9:00 - 4:30, CSOM 1-102
MONDAY, AUGUST 13
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LUISA BLANCO (Pepperdine), “Racial and Ethnic Differences in Financial Outcomes & Literacy: The Role of Neighborhood Effects”
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LENA EDLUND (Columbia), “It’s the Phone, Stupid”
Final Defense, 12:00, HMH 1-107
MARCOS MARCOLINO (Minnesota), TBA
Fall 2017
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MYRON ORFIELD (Minnesota Law), "Why Are the Twin Cities So Segregated?"
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-149
PIERRE YARED (Columbia Business), "Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Self-Enforcement," joint with Marina Halac
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
A. MUSHFIQ MOBARAK (Yale), "Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets"
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-224
MARTIN SCHMALZ (Michigan), "(Why) do central banks care about their profits?"
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
JANET CURRIE (Princeton), "Inequality in Mortality: Evidence from the U.S. and Canada"
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
EMI NAKAMURA (Columbia Business), "Housing Wealth Effects: The Long View"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 119 Ruttan
CASEY J. WICHMAN (Resources for the Future), "The Effects of Climate on Leisure Demand: Evidence from North America"
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
BRAD LARSEN (Stanford), "A mechanism design approach to identification and estimation"
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PETE KLENOW (Stanford), "Assessing the Gains from E-Commerce"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
ERIC SHOOK (Minnesota), "Inequality in Mortality: Evidence from the U.S. and Canada"
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
SERDAR OZKAN (Toronto), “Sources of Inequality in Lifetime Earnings Growth”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
LEE OHANIAN (UCLA), “Tarnishing the Golden and Empire States: Land-Use Restrictions and the U.S. Economic Slowdown”
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
VIVEK BHATTACHARYA (MIT), "An Empirical Model of R&D Contests: An Analysis of the DOD SBIR Program"
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
JIANJUN MIAO (Boston University), "Asset Bubbles and Monetary Policy"
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
TOMOKO UTSUMI (Minnesota), TBA
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DEREK NEAL (Chicago),“The Prison Boom and Sentencing Policy”
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
JONATHAN SCHROEDER (MPC), "IPUMS NHGIS Progress and Plans: Enhancing U.S. Census Geographic Data"
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TOMMASO PORZIO (UC-San Diego), "Human Capital and Structural Change"
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 119 Ruttan
NELSON VILLORIA (Kansas State), "Technology Spillovers and Land Use Change: Empirical Evidence from Global Agriculture"
Applied Econ/Minnesota Economics Seminar, 3:45, Blegen 10
DANIEL MCFADDEN (UC-Berkeley), "Foundations of Welfare Economics and Product Market Applications"
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Finance Department Seminars, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
NINA BOYARCHENKO (New York Federal Reserve), "Taking Orders and Taking Notes: Dealer Information Sharing in Financial Markets"
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JULIETH SANTAMARIA (Minnesota), "Are Disaster Funds Enough to Smooth Consumption?"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DAVID NAGY (CREI), "City Location and Economic Development"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 2
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
DAVID SLUSKY (Kansas), "The Effect of an Increase in Lead in the Water System on Fertility and Birth Outcomes: The Case of Flint, Michigan"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 119 Ruttan
SHOULI ZHAO (Minnesota), "Investigating Consumer Community Supported Agriculture Purchasing Decision under Risk: An Application of Cumulative Prospect Theory"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PIERRE OLIVIER WEILL (UCLA), “Incentive Constrained Risk Sharing, Segmentation, and Asset Pricing”
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
JOSEPH MULLINS (Western Ontario), "Firms’ Choices of Wage-Setting Protocols in the Presence of Minimum Wages"
Job Market Talk, 5:30, HMH 4-190
IGNACIO CAMPOMANES (Minnesota), "The Political Economy of Inequality, Mobility and Growth"
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
ISAAC MBITI (University of Virginia), "Results from two (related) papers that examine the effect of teacher incentives on student learning outcomes in Tanzania"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 9
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
RACHEL WIDOME (Minnesota), "Using a Natural Experiment to Assess School Schedule Policies’ Influence on Adolescent ‘Sleep Debt’ and Body Weight"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10
Applied Micro, 12:00, HMH 4-190
MONS CHAN (Minnesota), "Estimating the Demand for Heterogeneous Inputs"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 230 Ruttan
JOEL CUFFEY (Minnesota), "Food Desert Policy and Consumer Choice of Store Format"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MARY DALY (San Francisco Fed), TBA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-149
GREG LEWIS (Microsoft Research), "Dynamic Demand Estimation in Auction Markets," with Matthew Backus
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
BRUCE WYDICK (University of San Francisco), "An Empirical Investigation into the Nestlé Infant Formula Controversy"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16
Job Market Talk, 9:00, HMH 4-190
JOAQUIN GARCIA-CABO (Minnesota), "The Macroeconomic Effects of Employment Protection on Human Capital and Jobs"
Job Market Talk, 10:00, HMH 4-190
KATHLEEN MCKIERNAN (Minnesota), "Welfare Gains from Social Security Reform: The Case of Chile in 1981"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
KIRSTEN DELEGARD (Augsburg), "Mapping Prejudice: Racial Covenants and Housing Segregation in Minneapolis, 1900-1968"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-170
YINXIAO CHU (Minnesota), "Information Acquisition and Revelation in the Financial Markets"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ALISDAIR MCKAY (Boston University and Minneapolis FRB), "Optimal Automatic Stabilizers"
Applied Micro, 12:00, HMH 4-190
DIRK VAN DUYM (Minnesota), "The Commons: Groundwater and Crop Permanence in California'
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 119 Ruttan
HUICHUN SUN (Minnesota), "Economic and Behavioral Drivers of Herbicide Resistance Management in the U.S."
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
EDUARDO DAVILA (NYU-Stern), “Optimal Financial Transaction Taxes”
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
MATT SHAPIRO (Minnesota), "Uber: A Technology or Regulatory Innovator?"
Job Market Talk, 5:30, HMH 4-190
MARCOS MARCOLINO (Minnesota), "Structural Transformation, Energy Saving Productivity and Carbon Emission in the US"
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-149
JOSÉ VÍCTOR RÍOS RULL (Penn), "Banking Dynamics and Capital Regulation" with Tamon Takamura and Yaz Terajima
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
PAUL DOWER (UW-Madison), "Asymmetry in Civic Information: An Experiment on Tax Incidence among SMEs in Togo"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 23
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JULIANA SALOMAO (Minnesota), "Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
JASON JURJEVICH (Portland State), "Retiring to Portlandia? Rethinking Portland’s Migration of the Young and College-Educated"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-170
DAVID RUIZ (Minnesota),"Critical Types in Dynamic Games with Payoff Uncertainty"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
PABLO KURLAT (Stanford), "The Social Value of Financial Expertise"
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JENNIFER LA'O (Columbia), "Optimal Monetary Policy with Informational Frictions"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 119 Ruttan
EDWARD (TED) JAENICKE (Penn), "Estimating Food Waste at the Individual Household Level" with Yang Yu
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-190
ANTON KOLOTILIN (University of New South Wales), "When to Drop a Bombshell," with Gabriele Gratton and Richard Holden
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-149
PABLO KURLAT (Stanford), "Signaling to Experts"
Job Market Talk, 3:30, Blegen 105
ROB MRKONICH (Minnesota), "Heterogeneous Completeness of Markets"
Job Market Talk, 4:30, Blegen 105
ALEXANDRA SOLOVYEVA (Minnesota), "Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Volatility"
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30
Job Market Talk, 10:00, HMH 4-190
MING XU (Minnesota), "Understanding the Decline in Job Switching Rates"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GIOVANNI VIOLANTE (Princeton), "Aggregate Recruiting Intensity"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
EILEEN CRIMMINS (USC), "Lifespan and Healthspan: Past Trends and Future Prospects"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JULIAN KOZLOWSKI (NYU), "Long-Term Finance and Economic Development"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 119 Ruttan
VANEESHA DUSORUTH (Minnesota), "Food Waste, Impulsivity and Risk: Heterogeneous Behavioral Responses"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
KJETIL STORESLETTEN (University of Oslo), TBA
Job Market Talk, 3:30, Blegen 105
HYUNJU LEE (Minnesota), "Gross capital flows and international diversification"
Job Market Talk, 4:30, Blegen 105
PARISA KAMALI (Minnesota), "Facilitating Export through Trade Intermediaries in Vietnam"
Job Market Talk, 6:30, HMH 4-190
THOMAS PHELAN (Minnesota), "On the Optimal Degree of Risk-taking and Inequality in Business Income”
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JACK ROSSBACH (Georgetown University Qatar), "Misallocation in the Presence of Multiple Production Technologies"
Job Market Talk, 3:30, Blegen 220
BORA YUNN (Minnesota), "Tax Reform and the Informal Sector"
Job Market Talk, 4:30, Blegen 220
GUILLAUME SUBLET (Minnesota), "Tariff vs Non-Tariff Measures: Trade Policy with Firm Heterogeneity"
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
RON KANIEL (Rochester), "Relative Pay for Non-Relative Performance: Keeping up with the Joneses with Optimal Contracts"
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
CHRIS BOYD LEON (Minnesota), "Are Rural Microsavings Commercially Viable? Experimental Evidence from a For-Profit Financial Education Program in Peru"
Fed Bag Lunch Seminar, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MATT DELVENTHAL (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), The Globe as a Network: Geography and the Origins of the World Income Distribution"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Job Market Talk, 9:00, HMH 4-190
FATIH FAZILET (Minnesota), "Implications of Equity Financing on Housing Markets”
Job Market Talk, 9:00, HMH 4-190
WILLIAM WALSH (Minnesota), “A Quantitative Assessment of Economics Sanctions"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MATTHIAS KREDLER (Carlos III), "Why do People Leave Bequests? A Quantitative Exploration"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
SINGDHANSU CHATTERJEE (MInnesota), "Using Geometry for Statistical Analysis of High-Dimensional Data"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 4-170
KELER MARKU (Minnesota), "Robust Contracts in Common Agency"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
RICHARD ROGERSON (Princeton), "Hours, Occupations and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminar, Noon, 119 Ruttan
YANGHAO WANG (Minnesota), "The Welfare Impacts of New Demand-Enhancing Products: The Case of Honeycrisp Apples"
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JAVIER CRAVINO (University of Michigan), “Trade Induced Structural Change and the Skill Premium”
Job Market Talk, 1:00, HMH 4-190
SERGIO SALGADO (Minnesota), “Technical Change and Entrepreneurship”
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Minnesota Economics Seminar, 12:00, CSOM 1-149
JAN EECKHOUT (UCL), "The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications," with Jan De Loecker
Job Market Seminar, 2:00, HMH 4-170
LUIS DÍEZ-CATALÁN (Minnesota), “The Labor Share in the Service Economy”
3rd Annual Jon Goldstein Memorial Lecture on Economics and Environmental Policy, 6:00, Cowles Auditorium HHH
ROBERT PINDYCK, (MIT-Sloan), "Climate (and Other) Catastrophes"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
TIMOTHY BEEBE (Minnesota), "Surveying Physicians: An Update on the Art and Science of Physician Survey Research"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, HMH 1-103
DAVID RUIZ (Minnesota),"Critical Types in Dynamic Games with Payoff Uncertainty"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
TAMON ASONUMA (IMF), "Sovereign Bond Prices, Haircuts, and Maturity"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DIEGO DARUICH (NYU), "The Macroeconomic Consequences of Early Childhood Development Policies"
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
MAR REGUANT (Northwestern), "Measuring Leakage Risk," with Meredith L. Fowlie
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FABIO CANOVA (BI Norwegian Business School), TBA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17
Minnesota Junior Finance Seminar, November 17 and November 18, HMH 1-108
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
JON EINAR FLATNES (Ohio State), "A Little Skin in the Microfinance Game: Reducing Moral Hazard in Joint Liability Group Lending Through a Mandatory Collateral Requirement"
The Minnesota Lecture, 4:00, HMH 1-104
FABIO CANOVA (BI Norwegian Business School), "Dealing with Misspecification in Macroeconometrics''
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
RYAN ALLEN (Minnesota), "The New Deal, Legislative Intent, and the First Public Housing Residents in New York City"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM 1-143
NEMANJA ANTIC (Northwestern - Kellogg), "Screening through Coordination"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
JESSE PERLA (UBC), "Isolating Limited Liability as a Financial Friction"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
HAO DONG (Princeton), "Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in Post-Revolution China"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
Applied Micro Bag Lunch, 12:00, HMH 4-190
AARON SOJOURNER (Minnesota), “School and Teacher Preferences: Evidence from a Multi-stage Internal Labor Market,” with Napat Jatusripitak, Elton Mykerezi, & Kristine West
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
NATHAN NUNN (Harvard), TBA
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
Fed Bag Lunch,11:30, Research Conference Room
LISA COOK(Michigan State), "Missing Women and Minorities, Innovation, and Economic Growth"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
FERNANDO ALVAREZ (Chicago), "Random Risk Aversion and Liquidity: a Model of Asset Pricing and Trade"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM 1-143
PIOTR DWORCZAK (Northwestern), "Mechanism Design with Aftermarkets: Cutoff Mechanisms"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
XAVIER RAGOT (Sciences PO), "Optimal Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Aggregate Shocks"
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6
Fed Bag Lunch, 11:30, Research Conference Room
BEN SMITH (UCLA), TBA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DAVID ANDOLFATTO (St. Louis Fed), "Understanding Lowflation"
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8
Finance Department Seminar, 10:30, CSOM 2-233
VICTORIA VANASCO (Stanford), "Securitization, Ratings, and Credit Supply"
Trade and Development Seminar, 10:30, 119 Ruttan
TOMOKO UTSUMI (Minnesota), "The “Scarring” Effects of Informal Employment in Indonesia"
MONDAY, DECEMBER 11
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
DAEHA CHO (Boston University), "Investment Shocks, Unemployment Risk, and Macroeconomic Comovement"
MPC Seminar Series, 12:15, 50 Willey Hall
BRIAN FINCH (USC), "Gangland Co-Residence as a Potential Social Determinant of Health"
Math Econ Seminar, 3:30, CSOM 1-143
PHILLIP STRACK (UC-Berkeley), "Groupthink and the Failure of Information Aggregation in Large Groups,"Matan Harel, Elchanan Mossel, Philipp Strack, Omer Tamuz
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13
Finance Department Seminar, 11:00, CSOM 1-149
MAX CROCE (University of North Carolina), "The Leading Premium"
Agricultural and Applied Economics Seminars, 12:00, 119 Ruttan
BRADY HORN (University of New Mexico), TBA
Applied Micro, 3:30, HMH 4-190
PETER NEWBERRY (Penn State), "Economies of Density in E-commerce: A Study of Amazon's Fulfillment Center Network,'' with J-F Houde and Katja Seim
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
GREGOR JAROSCH (Stanford), "Statistical Discrimination and Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate"
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15
Fed Bag Lunch Seminar, 1:00, Research Conference Room
VIRGILIU MIDRIGAN (NYU), "Discount Rates, Human Capital, and Employment Fluctuations"
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MONS CHAN (Minnesota), TBA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
MING XU (Minnesota), “Understanding the Decline in Occupational Mobility”
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
ANDY ATKESON (UCLA), "The Franchise Value of Banks: Preliminary Results"
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28
Fed Bag Lunch, 12:00, Research Conference Room
OKSANA LEUKHINA (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), "The Market Pronatalist? Inequality, Differential Fertility, and Growth Revisited"