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Economics Colloquium

2020-21 Seminar Series

The Haverford Economics Department hosts a regular seminar series. The Fall 2020 Economics Colloquium events will all be held virtually using Zoom. Speakers and talk titles will be added as they become available.

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Please email Kim Minor for the Zoom meeting passcode. Meeting ID: 921 9869 1371

Spring 2020

Date and TimeSpeaker and TopicLocation
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

Schedule

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.

TBA

Devin Pope, Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business."Unveiling the Law of Demand Using a Large-Scale Natural Field Experiment." It includes data and an experiment from the rideshare app Lyft.

**Indicates that the seminar is part of ECON396A. A required talk for Senior Economics Majors.

Past Seminars