Winter 2023
| Date | Time | Location | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Feb 10 |
1:00pm-2:00pm |
Hybrid Online Zoom Meeting/HH 235 | Sudipto Ghosh, University of Waterloo | Modeling "Good" and "Bad" Volatilities Under a Threshold Realized Semivariance GARCH |
Fall 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Dec 2 |
2:00pm-3:00pm |
Hosted Online Zoom Meeting | Khusro Mir, University of Waterloo | "A global meta-analysis of forested watershed valuation studies" |
Winter 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
April 8 |
10:00am-11:00am |
Hosted Online Zoom Meeting | Zetian Zhang, University of Waterloo | "A consistent test of fractional Brownian motion" |
Fall 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
October 6 |
2:00pm-3:00pm |
Hosted Online Zoom Meeting | Aidi Yu, University of Waterloo | "Living and Working: Spatial Sorting, Commuting and Wage Inequality" |
| October 20 | 2:00pm-3:00pm | Hosted Online Zoom Meeting | Khusro Mir, University of Waterloo | "Comparing alternative decision-making paradigms to explain moral hazards in Payments for Ecosystem Services " |
| October 27 | 11:00am-12:00pm | Hosted Online Zoom Meeting | Wenzuo Xu, University of Waterloo | "Machine Learning Empowered Instrumental Variable Regression for Causal Inference under Weak Identification" |
Winter 2021
| Date | Time | Location | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 14 |
2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Christopher Dobronyi, University of Toronto Field of Interest: non-parametric identification and estimation of demand systems and preference; big data |
"Consumer Theory with Non-Parametric Taste Uncertainty and Individual Heterogeneity" - joint work with Christian Gourieroux |
| January 21 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Samantha Goertz, Western University Field of Interest: climate and development |
"Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity in the Climate-Migration Relationship: A Study of Internal Migration in Kenya and Tanzania" |
|
March 4 |
2:30pm - 3:30pm | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Frank Leenders, University of Toronto Field of Interest: macroeconomics and labour economics |
"Recall and Heterogeneity in the Scarring Effects of Displacement" |
| March 18 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
John Baker, University of Waterloo Field of interest: macroeconomics and policy evaluation |
"Business Cycles, Immigration and Labour Markets: Analysis of a Policy Experiment" |
| April 1 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Hosted on WebEx - |
Renliang (Jason) Liu, University of Guelph Field of interest: economic development, international economics, applied econometrics |
"A Domino Theory of Regionalism Revisited: The Role of Homogeneity/Heterogeneity in Institutions" |
Fall 2020
| Date | Time | Location | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
September 10 |
2:30-3:30pm |
Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Zehua Pan, University of Waterloo |
The Impact of Green Infrastructure on Water Treatment Costs and Drinking Water Incidents: A Spatial Instrumental Variable Regression Model |
| September 17 | 2:30-3:30pm | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link | Xinyuan Yang, University of Waterloo | Agricultural fertilizer use under uncertainty |
| October 1 | 2:30-3:30pm | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Fulei Liu, Western University Field of Interest: financial econometrics, machine learning, asset pricing, risk management |
Can the Premium for Idiosyncratic Tail Risk be Explained by Exposures to its Common Factor? |
| October 15 | 10-11am | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link | Zhuojing Zhang, University of Waterloo | "Where does the heaviness start from?" |
| November 5 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm |
Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Iuliia Nesterova, University of Waterloo | "Consumption in Extended Family and Race Differentials" |
| November 19 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Meng Li, Queen's University Field of interest: Macroeconomics and Urban Economics |
"Within-city Income Inequality, Neighborhood Gentrification, and House Prices" |
| December 3 | 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Hosted on WebEx - meeting link |
Zijian Wang, Western University Field of Interest: Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics, Search Theory |
"Tax Compliance, Payment Choice, and Central Bank Digital Currency" |
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.