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Winter 2019 seminar schedule
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title |
Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friday, February 8, 2019 | 3:30-5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Grant Gibson, McMaster | SWORDC | |
| Friday, March 8, 2019 | 3:30-5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Brian McCaig, WLU | “Microenterprise performance and export markets: Evidence from Vietnam” | Joel Blit |
| Friday, March 15, 2019 | 3:30-5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Robert de Jong, Ohio State |
The autoregressive sign process |
Dinghai Xu |
| Friday, March 22, 2019 | **2:00-3:30pm | EV3 3412 | Aaron Sojourner, Minnesota | "Using Machine Learning to Translate Applicant Work History into Predictors of Performance and Turnover" | Chris Riddell |
| Friday, March 29, 2019 | 3:30-5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Ben Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | "Job Referrals and Hiring Frictions" | Francisco Gonzalez |
| Friday, April 5, 2019 | 3:30-5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Fabian Lange, McGill | "Signalling and Employer Learning with Instruments" | Stephanie Lluis |
| **Tuesday, April 9, 2019 | 3:30-5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Arpad Abraham, European University Insitute | “Climbing the Wage Ladders: Determining the Sources of Idiosyncratic Wage Dynamics and Implications for Policy” | Francisco Gonzalez |
Fall 2018 seminar schedule
| Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 21, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State Uiversity. | “Adaptation to Climate Change: Extreme Events versus Gradual Changes.” | Margaret Insley |
|
September 27, 2018 *Thursday |
3:30pm-5:00pm | EV3 3412 | David Card, University of California, Berkeley | “Are Referees and Editors in Economics Gender Neutral” | Chris Riddell |
| October 5, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Jon Eguia, Michigan State University | "Regime Change" | Jean Guillaume Forand |
| October 12, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | DC 1304 | Steve Lehrer, Queens/NYU Shanghai | "Assessing the Hype of Machine Learning for Empiricists" | Chris Riddell |
| October 19, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
EV3 3412 |
Briana Chang, Wisconsin | “Endogenous Market Making and Network Formation”. | Francisco Gonzalez |
| October 26, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | No seminar | ||
| November 2, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario (SWORDC) | "Parental Support, Savings and Student Loan Repayment" | SWORDC |
| November 9, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Carlos Lamarche, Kentucky | Tom Parker | |
| November 16, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Roy Allen, University of Western Ontario | "Assessing Misspecification and Aggregation for Structured Preferences," (joint with John Rehbeck) | Pierre Chausse |
|
November 23, 2018 |
3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Kory Kroft, University of Toronto | “Pay Transparency and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Canada" (with Michael Baker, Yosh Halberstam, Alex Mas, and Derek Messacar). | Stephanie Lluis |
| November 30, 2018 | 3:30pm - 5:00pm | EV3 3412 | Daniel Barron, Northwestern Kellogg | "The Use and Abuse of Coordinated Punishments," joint with Yingni Guo | Jean Guillaume Forand |
If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please contact the listed host.
Information about previous seminar series is available on the Past Department Seminars page.
- PhD Student Seminars
- The Waterloo Laurier Labour (WALL) Seminar
- Centre for behavioural decision research
- Statistics and actuarial science seminars
- Centre for International Governance Innovation seminars
- Wilfrid Laurier University seminars
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For further information contact: Lynn Skelly, 519-888-4567 ext. 32186