PhD Student Seminars

Time and Location - Fall 2019

External PhD seminars

Date	Time	Location	Presenter	Title
September 27	4-5pm	EV3 3412	Jacob Loree, Ryerson University Field of interest: labour economics; search frictions; occupational skills	"Multidimensional Skill Accumulation and Mismatch Over the Lifecycle"
October 3	2-3pm	HH 259	Terrence (Adam) Rooney, Western University Field of interest: applied game theory	"The Value and Effect of Perceptiveness in a Market-Entry Setting"
November 5	2:30-3:30pm	HH 227	Renliang (Jason) Liu, University of Guelph Field of Interest: international economics and applied econometrics	"What drives illicit financial flows? An Analysis Based on Trade Misinvoicing with Nonlinearities"
January 17	2:00-3:00pm	HH 235	Alina Garnham, Queens University Field of Interest: Macroeconomics	"Fighting for Fares: Uber and the Declining Market Price of Licensed Taxicabs"
January 24	1:30-2:30pm	HH 235	Speaker: Chaoyi Chen, University of Guelph Field of Interest: Empirical Growth, Energy Economics and Financial Econometrics	"A GMM estimator of linear index threshold model"
March 13	2-3:00pm	HH 235	Speaker: Fulei (Fred) Liu, Western University Field of interest: Finance; Asset Pricing; Risk Management	"Is the Tail Wagging the Dog? What Idiosyncratic Tail Risk Implies about Institutional Investors and Asset Prices."

Goals

PhD Students in the Department of Economics at University of Waterloo organize a bi-weekly seminar in each semester. The goals of the seminar are to provide graduate students opportunities to develop presentation skills and to provide a friendly academic environment in which PhD students can present their research advancements and benefit from criticism. The seminar is a great opportunity to improve presentation skills, to receive feedback from colleagues and professors, to strengthen the PhD community, and to share our academic worries and questions in a constructive and friendly meeting.

Presenters

Following the successful passage of the Comprehensive Examinations, students will present in the Economics PhD student seminar starting in their second year and continuing until the semester of their thesis defense.

PhD students from other departments and universities are welcome to present if their topics are related to Economics. Master students and other academics are also welcome to contribute to the seminar.

The presentation will be 30-45 minute, followed by question time. The time and location will be announced in the beginning of every semester. The bi-weekly presentations will be scheduled as regularly as possible and repeated on a more or less regular basis.