- Monday September 9, 2019
Dan Fragiadakis, Villanova University
The Belief Elicitation by Superimposition Approach - Tuesday, September 4, 2019
Nick Reynolds, Brown University
A Decline in the Health and Human Capital of Americans Born After 1947 - Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Amy Guisinger, Lafayette College
News vs. Noise: What Information is Contained in the Revisions of the JOLTS Data? - Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Pablo Montagnes, Emory College
'Politics from the Bench? Ideology and Strategic Voting in the U.S. Supreme Court - Monday, November 4, 2019
Benjamin Lockwood, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
What is the Optimal Lottery Tax? - Tuesday, December 3, 2019
William Carrington, Congressional Budget Office
Simulating the Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment and Poverty - Tuesday, Feburary 18, 2020
Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania
Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination - Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Tristan Potter, Drexel University
Discouragement Traps
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Department of Economics
Economics Colloquium
2020-21 Seminar Series
The Haverford Economics Department hosts a regular seminar series. The Economics Colloquium events will all be held virtually using Zoom. Speakers and talk titles will be added as they become available.
Please email Kim Minor for the Zoom meeting passcode. Meeting ID: 921 9869 1371
Spring 2020
| Date and Time | Speaker and Topic | Location |
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| Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Aislinn Bohren, University of Pennsylvania Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination | Stokes 102 |
| Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Tristan Potter, Drexel University. Discouragement Traps | Stokes 102 |
| Tuesday, April 7, 2020 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Clayton Featherstone, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. Talk title TBA. | Stokes 102 |
| Tuesday, April 21, 2020 4:00-5:30 p.m. | Andrea Robbett, Middlebury College Talk title TBA | Stokes 102 |
Spring 2021
Date and Time | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
Wednesday, March 3, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. ET | Carly Will Sloan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Sciences at Claremont Graduate University. "Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls" |
Wednesday, March 24, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. ET | Christine Strong, Assistant Professor of Economics, Old Dominion University. "The impact of Fiscal Rules on Government Debt: Evidence from the CFA Zone." |
Monday, April 5, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET | Hunt Allcott, Associate Professor of Economics, NYU. "Are High Interest Loans Predatory? Theory and Evidence from Payday Lending" |
Fall 2020
Date and Time | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
Monday, September 28, 7:30 p.m. EST | Damon Jones, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Wealth, Race and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Income Shocks. |
Friday, October 9, 9:00 a.m. EST | Martin Schmalz, University of Oxford, Saïd Business School (Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits? |
Monday, October 26, 7:30 p.m. EST** | Emily Weisburst, Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles "Whose help is on the way?" The importance of individual police officers in law enforcement outcomes. |
**Indicates that the seminar is part of ECON396A. A required talk for Senior Economics Majors.
Past Seminars
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2019-20
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2018-19
- Monday September 10, 2018
Sonia Gilbukh, Baruch College
Heterogeneous Real Estate Agents and the Housing Cycle - Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Lauren Velasco, Bryn Mawr College
The Long-term Impact of Preventative Public Health Programs - Monday, October 1, 2018
Ben Keys, University of Pennsylvania
Eyes Wide Shut? The Moral Hazard of Mortgage Insurers during the Housing Boom. - Monday, October 22, 2018
Alexis Pozen, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health
Competition and quality in New York's Medicaid managed care program. - Thursday, November 1, 2018
Mark Melitz, Harvard University
The Impact of Exports on Innovation: Theory and Evidence. - Monday, November 12, 2018
Jessica Brown, Princeton University
Does Public Pre-K Have Unintended Consequences for the Child Care Market for Infants and Toddlers? - Monday, December 3, 2018
Robert Eisinger ('87), Chief of Staff, Research Science division at The NPD Group
Whither Presidential Approval? - Monday, January 28, 2019
Tucker McElroy, Census Bureau
"Variable Targeting and Reduction in Large Vector Autoregressions With Applications to Workforce Indicators" - Monday, February 11, 2019
Erin Bronchetti, Swarthmore College
Local Food Prices, SNAP Purchasing Power, and Child Health - Monday, February 25, 2019
John Burger, Loyola University, Maryland Benchmarking
Portfolio Flows - Monday, March 25, 2019
Dan Hamermesh, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas, Austin. Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College
“O Youth and Beauty:” Children’s Looks and Children’s Cognitive Development - Monday, April 1, 2019
Dean Karlan, Northwestern University and the co-director of the Global Poverty Research Lab at the Buffett Institute for Global Studies
Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes - Monday, April 22, 2019
Kenneth Troske, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Outreach, University of Kentucky
Ambulance Service Ownership and Management: How It Affects Quality of Service Delivery for Medicare Patients
- Monday September 10, 2018
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2017-18
- Monday, September 18, 2017
John Klopfer, United States Naval Academy
Labor supply, learning time, and the efficiency of school spending: evidence from school finance reforms. - Monday, October 2, 2017
Chris Ody, Northwestern University
A Dose of Managed Care: Efficiency in Medicaid Drug Benefits - Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Marc Remer, Swarthmore College
An Empirical Model of Dynamic Price Competition - Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Matthew Botsch, Bowdoin College
Inflation Experiences and Contract Choice: Evidence from Residential Mortgages - Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Daniel Lewis, Harvard University
Identifying Shocks via Time-Varying Volatility: New Evidence of Monetary non-Neutrality - Monday, February 26, 2018
Edoardo Grillo, Stanford University, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Economic and Social-Class Voting in a Model of Redistribution with Social Concerns - Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Jeremie Cohen-Setton, Peterson Institute
Large Fiscal Expansions in OECD Countries: Identification and Effects - Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Syon Bhanot, Swarthmore College
Poverty Identity and Competitiveness
- Monday, September 18, 2017
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2016-17
- Monday, September 12, 2016
Matthew Rablen, University of Sheffield
Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle (Joint work with Amedeo Piolatto) - Monday, September 26, 2016
Ben Ho, Vassar College
Rank Preserving Preferences - Monday, October 17, 2016
Callum Jones, PhD candidate in economics at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University
Aging, Secular Stagnation and the Business Cycle - Monday, October 24, 2016
Steven Smith, Post Doc in the department of economics, Haverford College - Monday, November 7, 2016
Charles Weise, economics professor at Gettysburg College
Political Pressures on Monetary Policy During the US Great Inflation - Monday, November 21, 2016
Shannon Mudd, Visiting Assistant Professor of economics, Haverford College
Stuck in the Past? Information Processing Individual Experiences and Expectations - Monday, February 27, 2017
Michael Curran, Villanova University
Interest Rate Volatility and Macroeconomic Dynamics: a Cross-Country Analysis - Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Eric Gaus, Ursinus College
Not Quite Rational: Expectations and Their Influence on Macroeconomics - Monday, March 13, 2017
Matt Jaremski, Colgate University
Stealing Deposits: Deposit Insurance, Risk-Taking and the Removal of Market Discipline in Early 20th Century Banks - Monday, March 20, 2017
Dayna Judge, Princeton University
Beyond Ethnicity: interviewer gender as a source of response bias in global survey data. - Wednesday, March 22, 2017
John Mondragon, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Regulating Household Leverage.
- Monday, September 12, 2016
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2015-16
- Monday, September 14, 2015
Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware
Adult Health Interventions and Children's Schooling: Evidence from Antiretroviral Therapy in Zambia - Monday, September 28, 2015
Christopher Kilby, Villanova University
Aid and democracy redux - Monday, October 19, 2015
Claudia Sahm, Federal Reserve Board & Council of Economic Advisors
Balance-Sheet Households and Fiscal Stimulus: Lessons from the Payroll Tax Cut and Its Expiration - Monday, November 2, 2015
Dustin Frye, Vassar College
Transportation Networks and the Geographic Concentration of Industry - Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Erick Sager
Development, Volatility and Intertemporal Distortions - Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Amanda Starc, Wharton
Ask Your Doctor: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Pharmaceuticals - Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Sutirtha Bagchi, Villanova
he Effects of Political Competition on the Funding and Generosity of Public-Sector Pension Plans - Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Daniel Gross, NBER/HBS - Monday, March 21, 2016
George Bulman, UC Santa Cruz,
Parental Income and College Outcomes - Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Jonathan Lafky, Lafayette College
Quality Versus Quantity in Information Transmission
- Monday, September 14, 2015
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2014-15
- February 23, 2015
Matthew Incantalupo, Princeton University
The Effects of Unemployment on Voter Turnout in U.S. National Elections - March 2, 2015
Andrew Samuel, Loyola University Maryland
Optimal Inspections Regimes for Regulation - With and Without Collusion - March 16, 2015
John Smith, Rutgers University, Camden
Cognitive Load and Strategic Sophistication - March 30, 2015
Jeremy Tobacman, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Do Payday Loans Cause Bankruptcy - April 13, 2015
Anne Preston, Haverford College
Do Star Performers Produce More Stars? Peer Effects and Learning in Elite Teams
- February 23, 2015
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2013-14
- February 10, 2014
Tim Lambie-Hanson, Haverford College - Agency and Incentives: Vertical Integration in the Mortgage Foreclosure Industry
- February 24, 2014
Giri Parameswaran, Haverford College
Your Ignorance is My Bliss: Learning by Acquaintance, Policy Distortions and the Slippery Slope - March 31, 2014
Lauren Lambie-Hanson, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
When Does Delinquency Result in Neglect? Mortgage Distress and Property Maintenance - April 28, 2014
Tao Wang, Swarthmore College
Climate Change Policy and Patterns of International Trade
- February 10, 2014