Past Seminars
Sponsored by the Christian A. Johnson Lecture Series
2022-2023 Seminars
Fall ’22 Thursday, September 29th Thursday, October 6th Thursday, November 17th Spring ’23 Thursday, April 20th Thursday, April 27th 2021-2022 Seminars Fall ’21 Wednesday, October 27th Wednesday, November 3rd Thursday, November 11th (will be in Diamond 141) Thursday, November 12th (Lecture – 7pm Ostrove) Monday, November 29th Spring ’22 Thursday, March 31st Thursday, April 21st 2019-2020 Seminars Spring ’20 Thursday, March 12, 2020, (Diamond 141) Thursday, March 19, 2020 Thursday, April 9, 2020 Thursday, April 16, 2020 Fall ’19 Friday, September 13, 2019 Thursday, October 10, 2019 Friday, November 1, 2019 (3 pm) Thursday, November 7, 2019 Monday, November 18, 2019 (sometime 1-3:30 in ALCM 205) Tuesday, December 10, 2019, (12:00-1:15pm) 2018-2019 Seminars Spring ’19 Friday, May 3, 2019 Friday, April 26, 2019 Friday, April 19, 2019 Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Monday, April 8, 2019 Thursday, February 21, 2019 Fall ’18 Thursday, December 6, 2018 Thursday, November 8, 2018 Thursday, November 1, 2018 Thursday, October 25, 2018 Monday, October 8, 2018 2017-2018 Seminars Spring ’18 Wednesday, April 4, 2018 Fall ’17 Friday, November 17, 2017 Monday, November 6, 2017 Friday, October 27, 2017 Thursday, October 19, 2017 Monday, October 2, 2017 Wednesday, September 20, 2017 2016-2017 Seminars Spring ’17 April 21, 2017 April 13, 2017 April 5, 2017 March 30, 2017 March 9, 2017 March 2, 2017 Fall ’16 “Pollution, Mortality Risk, and the Distribution of Income” November 3, 2016 October 25, 2016 October 21, 2016 October 13, 2016 September 29, 2016 2015-2016 Seminars Spring ’16 May 5, 2016 April 20, 2016 March 29, 2016 March 16, 2016 March 10, 2016 February 16, 2016 Fall ’15 November 4, 2015 October 28, 2015 (Todger Anderson Inaugural Lecture) October 22, 2015 October 15, 2015 October 2, 2015 (at 12:00pm in Diamond 221, joint with Sociology) September 24, 2015 September 14, 2015 2014-2015 Seminars Spring ’15 April 21, 2015 March 17, 2015 March 16, 2015 March 9, 2015 Fall ’14 December 4, 2014 November 19, 2014 November 14, 2014 (Presentation) November 6, 2014 (Panel Discussion) November 3, 2014 October 29, 2014 October 15, 2014 (Presentation) October 9, 2014 October 2, 2014 September 25, 2014 September 24, 2014 2013-2014 Seminars Spring ’14 April 17, 2014 April 10, 2014 April 2, 2014 March 19, 2014 (Presentation) March 19, 2014 (Panel Discussion) Fall ’13 November 17, 2013 (Film Premier) October 25, 2013 October 16, 2013 October 10, 2013 October 4, 2013 September 18, 2013 2012-2013 Seminars Spring ’13 April 23, 2013 (Lecture) April 15, 2013 (Economics Bicentennial Lecture) March 18, 2013 (Lecture) March 15, 2013 March 11, 2013 (Presentation) March 6, 2013 February 28, 2013 Fall ’12 October 18, 2012 2011-2012 Seminars Spring ’12 April 12, 2012 March 8, 2012 Fall ’11 November 30, 2011 October 27, 2011 October 19, 2011 2010-2011 Seminars Spring ’11 March 17, 2011 February 21, 2011 February 8, 2011 February 1, 2011 Fall ’10 December 1, 2010 November 17, 2010 November 3, 2010 October 6, 2010 September 23, 2010 2009-2010 Seminars Spring ’10 April 23, 2010 April 2, 2010 February 2010
“An Empirical Analysis of Informationally-Restricted Dynamic Auctions of Used Cars”
Harry J. Paarsch
University of Central Florida, School of Business
“Optimal Platform Pricing when Consumers Have Real Options”
Alexander Rodivilov
Steven’s Institute of Technology, NJ
“Name-based Racial Discrimination in Hiring”
Martin Abel
Bowdoin College, ME
“The US-China Trade War and Relocation of Global Value Chains to Mexico”
Hale Utar
Grinnell College
“What Drives Trends in Employment and Hours Worked per Worker? A Cross Country Analysis”
Brendan Epstein
UMass Lowell
“Alma Mater Matters: College Quality, Talent and Development”
Todd Schoellman
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
“Retail Mergers and Acquisitions and Food Prices: Evidence From California”
Ricky Volpe
Cal Poly
“Trade Shocks and Growth: The Impact of the Quartz Crisis in Switzerland”
Tate Twinam
College of William & Mary
“The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale”
John List
The University of Chicago
“Testing for Collusion in Procurement Auctions”
Bean Zhao
The University of Alabama
“Work From Home Before and After the COVID Outbreak”
Adam Blandin
Virginia Commonwealth University
Topic TBA
Leticia Arroyo Abad
City University of New York – Queens College
“Women’s Job Opportunities and Marriage Quality”
Jagori Chatterjee
Furman University
Title TBA
Alexander Rodivilov
Stevens Institute of Technology
Title TBA
Leticia Arroyo Abad
City University of New York, Queens College
Title TBA
Ben Griffey
University of Albany, SUNY
Title TBA
Kyle Herkenhoff
University of Minnesota
“Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime”
Brady Horn
University of New Mexico
“On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: Fertility, Parental Investments, and Mortality”
S Anukriti
Boston College
Title TBA
Brian Beach
Vanderbilt University
Topic TBA
Brian Baisa
Amherst College
Loss Aversion and Property Tax Avoidance
Peter Jones ’13
UC Berkeley
“Assessing the Direct and Spillover Effects of Shocks to Refugee Remittances”
Sarah Walker
University of New South Wales
“Skill Mismatch Unemployment”
Erin L. Wolcott
Middlebury College
“Manager Gender and the Effect of Performance Feedback on Effort and Attitude”
Martin Abel
Middlebury College
“Cooperation, reciprocity, and efficiency in polygynous pastoralist households”
Jessica Hoel
Colorado College
“Auction Mechanisms and Treasury Revenue: Evidence from the Chinese Experiment”
Dakshina De Silva
Lancaster University Management School
“Labor Market Flows and Development”
Kevin Donovan
Yale School of Management
“Minimum Wage Indexation As Equilibrium Selection in an Expectations-Driven Liquidity Trap”
Andy Glover
University of Texas, Austin
“Poole Rules: Implementing Monetary Policy Using Multiple Instruments”
Stephen D. Morris
Bowdoin College
“Labor Market Concentration, Earnings Inequality, and Earnings Mobility”
Kevin Rinz
U.S. Census Bureau
“Gender Differences in Executive Departure”
Rachel Landsman
University of Pittsburgh
“Subcontracting Requirements and the Cost of Government Procurement”
Benjamin Rosa
Virginia Tech
“The Impact of Summer Employment for Low-Income Youth: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines”
Emily Beam
University of Vermont
“Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?”
Cynthia Bansak
St. Lawrence University
“Rents and Welfare in the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from New York City”
Rowena Gray
University of California, Merced
“Forest Loss, Malaria, and Children’s Health and Education Outcomes in Nigeria”
Julia Berazneva
Middlebury College
“Implementing Faustmann-Marshall-Pressler: Stochastic Dynamic Programming in Space”
Harry Paarsch
University of Central Florida
Topic TBD
Alan Zebedee
Clarkson University
“Social Insurance and Efficient Occupational Mobility”
Pedro Silos
Temple University
“Sequential Second-Price Auctions with Budget-Constrained Bidders”
Gagan Ghosh
California State University Fullerton
To be determined
Dayanand Manoli
University of Texas at Austin
“What Impedes Efficient Adoption of Products? Evidence from Randomized Sales Offers for Fuel-Efficient Cookstoves in Uganda”
Andrew Simons
Fordham University
“Small and Large Firms Over the Business Cycle”
Neil Mehrotra
Brown University
Federal Reserve Board of Minneapolis
“Notching for free: Do cyclists reveal the value of time?”
Casey Wichman
Resources for the Future
“Paying farmers to reduce phosphorus runoff into Lake Erie: How to do it cost effectively”
Scott Swinton
Michigan State University
Paper 1 Paper 2
Nicholas Muller
Middlebury College
“What’s Yours is Mine, and What’s Mine is Mine: Bargaining Power and Income Concealing Between Spouses in India”
Carolina Castilla
Colgate University
“Selecting (In) and Crowding Out: Experimental Evidence of the Power of Religious Authority in Afghanistan”
Sera Linardi
University of Pittsburgh
“Financing Imperial Russian Growth: New Evidence from Corporate Balance Sheets”
Amanda Gregg
Middlebury College
“Ranking Asymmetric Auctions with Several Bidders”
René Kirkegaard
University of Guelph
“The Disability Option: Labor Market Dynamics with Health and Economic Risks”
Amanda Michaud
Indiana University
“Family Background, Academic Ability, and College Decisions in the 20th Century U.S.”
Chris Herrington
Virginia Commonwealth University
“Do Disasters Affect Growth? Five Macro Model-Based Insights on the Empirical Debate”
Lint Barrage
Brown University
“Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity: Evidence from Air Pollution Exposure”
Namrata Kala
Harvard University and MIT
“Rational and Heuristic-Driven Trading Panics in an Experimental Asset Market”
Chad Kendall
University of Southern California
“Using Administrative Tax Data to Estimate Work Participation and Earnings Elasticities of Married Couples”
Patricia Tong
Office of Tax Analysis, US Treasury
To be determined
Eric Rosengren
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
“Bidding and Drilling Under Uncertainty”
Jimmy Roberts
Duke University
Todger Anderson Inaugural Lecture
Leonard Wolk
Colby College
To be determined
Julio Garin
University of Georgia
“Nuclear Shutdown, Coal Power Generation, and Infant Health: Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the 1980s”
Edson Severnini
Carnegie Mellon University
“The Spontaneous Emergence of Conventions: An Experimental Study of Cultural Evolution”
Damon Centola
University of Pennsylvania
“Risk and Ambiguity in an Experimental Market Featuring a Long-Lived Asset”
John Griffin (’95)
Fordham University
“Simulating a Homogenous Product Merger: A Case Study on Model Fit and Performance”
Dan Greenfield (’02)
Federal Trade Commission
“Increasing Demand for HIV Prevention Interventions: Evidence from Two RCTs”
Harsha Thirumurthy
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Tax Compliance and Fiscal Externalities: Evidence from U.S. Diesel Taxation”
Justin Marion
University of California, Santa Cruz
“Rounding the Corners of the Policy Trilemma”
Michael Klein
The Fletcher School
Tufts University
Commodity Futures
Jon Koplik
“Short Trading Cycles: The Case of Kidney Exchange”
Ivan Balbuzanov (’09)
University of California, Berkeley
“Organized Crimes Against Nature: Elephants in South Africa”
Adrian Lopes
Bates College
Job Prospects in International Policy and Development
Benjamin Wood
International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
William R. and Linda K. Cotter Debate Series
A Conversation on Unconventional Oil and Gas
Erin Mansur
Tuck School of Business
Dartmouth College
“Signals, Similarity and Seeds: Social Learning in the Presence of Imperfect Information and Heterogeneity”
Emilia Tjernström (’06)
University of California, Davis
“Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800”
Mark Koyama
George Mason University
“What in the World is Natural Resource Economics? Application to Fisheries Problems”
Sunny Jardine
School of Marine Science and Policy
University of Delaware
“The Returns to Higher Education and Effect of Student Loan Scheme Design”
Ian Walker
Lancaster University
“Reputation, Compliance and Judicial Decision Making”
Giri Parameswaran
Haverford College
“The Composition of Exports and Human Capital Acquisition”
Will Olney
Williams College
“Affirmative Action and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment”
Brent Hickman
University of Chicago
“Yardstick Competition and Property Tax Limit Overrides: Revisiting Massachusetts’ Proposition 2 1/2”
Jon Rork
Reed College
“Greening India’s Growth: Costs, Valuations, and Trade-Offs”
Muthukumara Mani
World Bank
“China at a Crossroads—Reform and Rebalance, or else…?”
Markus Rodlauer
International Monetary Fund
Yoram Bauman
The World’s First and Only Stand-Up Economist
“Managing the Risks from a Changing Climate: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies”
Yoram Bauman, Dylan Voorhees, Jennifer Kierstead, Tom Tietenberg
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
Q&A to follow with Producer/Director/Writer Jim Bruce
“Auctions for Charity”
Jeff Carpenter
Middlebury College
“Governance after the Glorious Revolution”
Dan Bogart
University of California–Irvine
“Community Forests, Carbon Sequestration and REDD+: Some Evidence from Ethiopia”
Randy Bluffstone
Portland State University
“Risk Taking, Tax Evasion and Labor Supply”
Denvil Duncan
Indiana University School of Public & Environmental Affairs
“Private Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from the Effect of Environmental Groups on Water Quality”
Laura Grant
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
“The Clock Auction Design and Bidder Strategy: What has Worked and What Hasn’t”
Allan Ingraham (Colby ’96)
Navigant Economics
“The Gender Gap: Going, Going…….But not Gone”
Francine Blau
Cornell University
“Accounting for Nature: Incorporating the Value of Ecosystem Services into Decision Making”
Steve Polasky
University of Minnesota
“More Schooling and More Learning: Effects of a 3-Year Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua After 10 Years”
John Maluccio
Middlebury College
“The Economics of Immigration”
Madeline Zavodny
Agnes Scott College
“Tradable Permits to Manage Environmental Externalities With Time Lags and Uncertainty”
Yusuke Kuwayama
Resources for the Future
“Transfer Pricing by Multinational Firms: New Evidence from Foreign Firm Ownerships”
Anca Cristea
University of Oregon
“Hui: A Case Study of a Sequential Double Auction of Capital”
Harry Paarsch
University of Melbourne
“Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict”
Masami Imai
Wesleyan University
“The Long Arm of Colonialism? Landownership and Institutions in Early Independent Peru”
Leticia Arroyo Abad
Middlebury College
“Taxation and the Extraction of Exhaustible Resources: Evidence from California Oil Production”
Nirupama Rao
New York University
“Does Happiness Matter? The Effect of Teacher Job Satisfaction on Productivity”
Lauren Calimeris (Colby ’03)
Metropolitan State College of Denver
“Child Ability, Parental Investments and Child Nutrition in Ecuador”
Emilie Bagby
Mathematica Policy Research
“Intermediaries in Corruption: An Experiment”
Danila Serra
Florida State University
“Media Proliferation and Electoral Outcomes with Quasi-Rational Voters”
Daniel Stone
Oregon State University
“Building Vintage and Electricity Use: Old Homes Use Less Electricity in Hot Weather”
Howard Chong
University of California-Berkeley
“Radical and Ethnic Disparities in Federal Sentencing: A Quantile Regression Approach”
Beth Freeborn
University of Virginia
“Recommendations and Demand for Digital Music”
Peter Newberry (Colby ’03)
University of Wisconsin
“Choosing Where to Teach: The Effect of Teacher Quality on the Charter Versus Public School Decision”
Lauren Calimeris (Colby ’03)
University of Colorado
“Explaining Health and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany Post-Reunification”
Jackie Smith Zweig (Colby ’04)
University of Southern California
“Effects of an Advertising Campaign to Boost Energy Efficiency”
Laura Malaguzzi Valeri
Colby College
“Induced Development in Risky Locations: Fire Suppression and Land Use in the American West”
Sheila M. Olmstead
Resources for the Future
“Does Access to Equity Finance Limit Innovative Activity? New Evidence from Europe”
Jamie Brown
College of Business, Iowa State University
“How Low Will You Go? The Depth of Negative Equity and Mortgage Default Decisions”
Jane Dokko
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
“Identifying the Role of Risk Shocks in the Business Cycle using Stock Price Data”
Sami Alpanda
Amherst College