Waterloo Economics Workshop

Starting in 2014, the Department of Economics has been holding a one-day workshop towards the end of the Winter semester. The idea behind this workshop is to bring together some top researchers in a specific area to present their research, with some focus on bringing in the top researchers in Ontario. This workshop is free and open to all academics and graduate students who would like to come.

Saturday, March 25, 2017 -- The Economics of Crime
EIT 1015, University of Waterloo

Time	Speaker	Agenda
9:45 - 10:00	--	Welcome and introduction
10:00 - 11:00	Jennifer Doleac, University of Virginia	"Does “ban the box” help or hurt low-skilled workers? Statistical discrimination and employment outcomes when criminal histories are hidden"
11:15 - 12:15	Amanda Agan, Rutgers	"Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment", with Sonja Starr
12:15 - 2:15	--	Lunch (University Plaza)
2:15 - 3:15	Marit Rehavi, UBC	"Tipping the Scales? Testing for Political Influence on Public Corruption Prosecutions" with (B. Nyhan)
3:30 - 4:30	David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna	"Using a Ratio Test to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates"

Saturday, March 26, 2016
QNC 1502, University of Waterloo

Time	Speaker	Agenda
9:45 - 10:00	--	Welcome and introduction
10:00 - 11:00	Rui Castro Western University	"Occupational Choice, Human Capital and Financing Constraints"
11:15 - 12:15	Miana Plesca University of Guelph	"Career Mobility of Post-secondary Graduates"
12:15 - 2:15	--	Lunch (University Plaza)
2:15 - 3:15	Ben Sand York University	"Taking Selection to Task: Bounds on Trends in Occupational Task Prices for the U.S., 1984-2013"
3:30 - 4:30	Ethan Lewis Dartmouth College	"Understanding the labor market impact of immigration: the role of capital-skill complementarity"

Workshop schedules from previous years are listed below.

Saturday, April 25, 2015
QNC 1502, University of Waterloo

Time	Speaker	Agenda
9:45 - 10:00	--	Welcome and introduction
10:00 - 11:00	Wojciech Kopczuk, Columbia University	"Stability and Persistence of Intergenerational Wealth Formation: Evidence from the Danish Wealth Records of Three Generations"
11:15 - 12:15	Mike Veall, McMaster University	"Piercing the Veil: Private Corporations and the Income of the Affluent Canadians"
12:15 - 2:15	--	Lunch (University Plaza)
2:15 - 3:15	Robin Boadway, Queen's University	"Revisiting Cash Flow Corporate Taxation: Risk Aversion and Asymmetric Information"
3:30 - 4:30	Jim Davies, Western University	"Trends in Global Wealth Inequality"

Saturday, March 15, 2014
RCH 110, University of Waterloo

Time	Speaker	Agenda
9:45 - 10:00 am	--	Welcome and introduction
10:00 - 11:00 am	Paul Beaudry, University of British Columbia	"Reconciling Hayek's and Keynes' views of recessions"
11:15 - 12:15	Simona Cociuba, Western University	"Collateralized borrowing and risk taking at low interest rates"
12:15 - 2:15	--	Lunch (University Plaza)
2:15 - 3:15	Allen Head, Queen's University	"Inequality, home-ownership, and the liquidity of housing"
3:30 - 4:30	Shouyong Shi, University of Toronto	"Financial frictions, investment delay and asset market interventions"