Previous Seminars
Spring 2021 Guest Speakers
All Seminars held remotely at 3:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Zoom link will be sent via email announcement.
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
Fall 2020
All Seminars held remotely at 3:30 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Zoom link will be sent via email announcement.
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
| Sept 2 | Sebastian Laumer (Urbana-Champaign) | Government Spending between Active and Passive Monetary Policy | Ginther |
| Oct 21 | Jun Li (Syracuse University) | Value-based payments in health care: Evidence from a nationwide randomized experiment in the home health sector | Slusky |
| Oct 28 | Ben Blemings (West Virginia) | No Birthdate Retakes: Evidence on College Merit-Based Aid and Academic Performance from Multiple Discontinuities | Slusky |
| Nov 13 | Andres Carvajal (UC Davis) | Idiosyncratic risk and the equity premium | Sabarwal |
| Nov 18 | Eric Ofori (K-State) | Heterogenous adoption patterns of precision agriculture technology, potential learning curves and productivity effects | Slusky |
| Nov 20 | Jingwen Liao (K-State) | On the Importance of Modelling Dynamic Demand for Competition Analysis: The case of Caffeinated Beverages | Kim |
| Dec 2 | Kiran Ayub (K-State) | Product Differentiation and the Formation of PTAs | Tsvetanov |
| Dec 4 | Elif Dilden (K-State) | Strawberry or Plain Yogurt? Product Line Expansions and Manufacturer's Bargaining Power with Retailers | Parsaeian |
| Dec 9 | Natalia Emanuel (Harvard) | The Payoffs of Higher Pay: Elasticities of Productivity and Labor Supply with Respect to Wages | Slusky |
| Dec 11 | Jasmina Hasanhodzic (Babson College) | Life-Cycle Models: A Computational Algorithm, Fiscal Policies, and Asset Prices | Kim |
Spring 2020
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
| Feb 19 |
James Sullivan (Notre Dame) |
Can Intensive Case Management Move People Out of Poverty? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluation | Slusky |
| March 18 |
Derek Rury (UC Davis) |
Effort, Beliefs and Academic Achievement | Ginther |
| April 1 |
Molly Schnell (Northwestern) |
The Impacts of Physician Payments on Patient Access, Use, and Health | Slusky |
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postponed to Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 |
2019 Fall
All Seminars held in 452 Snow at 3:30 pm unless noted otherwise.
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
| Sept 4 |
Nicolai Kuminoff (Arizona State) |
Valuing statistical life using seniors' medical spending | Tsvetanov |
| Sept 13* 120 Snow |
Jean-Charles Rochet (Geneva) |
Insurance Capacity | Cornet |
| Sept 18 |
Valerie Bostwick (Kansas State) |
Semesters or quarters? The effect of the academic calendar on postsecondary student outcomes | Slusky |
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Oct 17* |
Steve Hanke John Ise Distinguished Speaker |
A discussion on Economics and everything under the sun | Barnett |
| Oct 30 | Brenden Timpe (Nebraska) | The Long-Run Effects of America’s First Paid Maternity Leave Policy | Slusky |
| Nov 15 | Nori Norikatsu Hiraide (K-State) | The Importance of Heterogeneity in Determining the Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements on FDI | Tsvetanov |
| Dec 6 | Naafey Sardar (K-State) | Do Gas Expenditure Shocks Have Different Effects in Recessions and Expansions | Tsvetanov |
| Dec 11 | Becatien Yao (K-State) | Mobile money, Signaling, and Market Participation: Evidence from Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire | Ginther |
2019 Spring
All Seminars held in 452 Snow at 3:30 pm unless noted otherwise.
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
| Jan 16 | Misaki Matsumura (Columbia) |
What price index should central banks target? An open economy analysis [pdf] | |
| Jan 18 | Gabriela Cugat (Northwestern University) |
Emerging markets, household homogeneity, and exchange rate policy [pdf] | |
| Jan 22 | Christopher D. Cotton (Columbia) |
The inflation target and the equilibrium real rate [pdf] | |
| Jan 24 | Rupal Kamdar (UC-Berkeley) |
The inattentive consumer: Sentiment and expectations [pdf] | |
| Jan 28 | Eungsik Kim (Carnegie Mellon) |
Preference heterogeneity, aggregate risk and the welfare effects of social security | |
| Jan 30 | Shujaat Khan (Johns Hopkins University) | Macroprudential policies in a heterogeneous agent model of housing default [pdf] | |
| Feb 8* | Xue (Yuki) Wang* (Jinan University in China) |
Network and spillovers of sector index returns in China’s Stock Market [pdf] | Barnett |
| Feb 20 | Diane Alexander (Chicago Fed) |
Diesel emissions, pollution, and health outcomes | Slusky |
| March 1* | Salam Fayyad* (Princeton) |
A conversation with former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad [pdf] | Barnett |
| March 22* | Pablo Kurlat* (Stanford) |
Deposit spreads and the welfare cost of inflation [pdf] | Barnett |
| March 25 |
Catherine de Fontenay |
Team Size, Noisy Signals, and the Evolution of Academic Science [pdf] |
Ginther |
| April 5 | Lianfen Qian (Florida Atlantic University) |
Asymptotic properties of the QMLE in a log-linear RealGARCH model with Gaussian errors [link] |
Cai |
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April 15 |
Paula Stephan |
The meaning and incidence of risk in research [pdf] |
Slusky |
| May 7, Tues 4-5:30pm start |
José Azar (Navarra) | Labor market concentration | Slusky |
| May 8 | Zoë Cullen (Harvard) |
The salary taboo: Privacy norms and the diffusion of information [pdf] |
Slusky |
Fall 2018 Guest Speakers
All Wednesday Seminars are held at 3:30 pm in 452 Snow and Friday Seminars are held at 3:30 pm in 120 Snow unless noted otherwise.
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
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| Aug 29 Wednesday |
Daniel Tannenbaum (Nebraska) | Does eviction cause poverty? Quasi-experimental evidence from Cook County, IL | Slusky |
| Aug 31 | No Seminar | Labor Day Weekend | |
| Sept 5 | Jacquelyn Pless (Oxford) | Are "Complementary Policies" Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK | Earnhart |
| Sept 21 | Corina Mommaerts (Wisconsin-Madison) | Migration and Consumption Insurance in Bangladesh | Slusky |
| Sept 28 | JunJie Wu (Oregon State) | Mobility, Agglomeration, and the Effectiveness of Environmental Regulation | Tsvetanov |
| Oct 5 | Katie Genadek (Census Bureau) | Universal Full-Day Kindergarten and Maternal Labor Supply: A Life-Cycle Analysis | Ginther |
| Oct 12 | No Seminar | Fall Break | |
| Oct 31 Wednesday |
Han Wang (K-State Job Market Candidate) | Polarization of American Workers: The Big Squeeze from Occupational Exposure to Value-added Imports [pdf] |
Slusky |
| Nov 2 | Enrique Martínez-García (Dallas Fed) | Monetary policy expectations and economic fluctuations at the zero-lower bound [pdf] | Keating |
| Nov 7 Wednesday |
Mian Raza (K-State Job Market Candidate) | Dumping on free trade, optimal antidumping duties, and price undertakings: Welfare implications in a two-market equilibrium analysis | Tsvetanov |
| Nov 14 Wednesday |
Michelle Marcus (Vanderbilt) | Testing the water: Drinking water quality, public notifcation, and school outcomes |
Ginther |
| Nov 16 | Ying Lin (K-State Job Market Candidate) | How much do consumers value single-cup coffee brew technology? Assessing market impacts of single-cup brew technology on the U.S. brew-at-home coffee market [pdf] |
Earnhart |
| Nov 23 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| Nov 28 Wednesday |
Gautam Gowrisankaran (Arizona) | Slusky | |
| Nov 30 | Nuwan Indika (K-State Job Market Candidate) | Does Vertical Integration in the U.S. Carbonated Soft Drink Industry Lead to Anticompetitive Effects? | Tvetanov |
| Dec 5 | Shengnan Fang (K-State Job Market Candidate) | Competitive conduct and antitrust policy actions in the U.S. dairy industry--The case of Dean Foods and Foremost Farms USA [pdf] | Slusky |
| Dec 7 | No Seminar | Stop Day |
Fall 2017
Guest Speakers
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
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| 8/25/17 | Lee Smith (KC Fed) | Forward Guidance, Monetary Policy Uncertainty, and the Term Premium | Keating |
| 9/1/17 | No Seminar | Labor Day Weekend | |
| 9/6/2017 Wednesday 4 pm 120 Snow |
Jason Lindo (Texas A&M) |
"How Far Is Too Far? New Evidence on Abortion Clinic Closures, Access, and Abortions" |
Slusky |
| 9/8/17 | |||
| 9/13/17 Wednesday 4062 Wescoe |
Lucie Schmidt (Williams College) |
Supplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Weight Eligibility Cutoffs |
Ginther |
| 9/15/17 | Brad Hershbein (Upjohn Inst.) | Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings | Slusky |
| 9/22/17 | No Seminar |
Department Retreat |
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| 9/29/17 | Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt) | Monopolists of Scarce Information and Small Group Effectiveness in Large Quasilinear Economies | Cornet |
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| 10/20/17 | Manuel Pulido Velasquez |
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Department PhD Candidate |
| 10/27/17 3:00-4:30 |
Sasha Skiba (Wyoming) |
International trade, internal geography, and non-homothetic consumption patterns |
Ginther |
| 11/3/17 | Lutz Kilian (Michigan) | "Lower oil prices and the U.S. economy: Is this time different?" |
Keating |
| 11/10/17 1:30-3:00 358 Snow |
Morris Kleiner (Minnesota) | Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration? | Ginther |
| 11/17/17 | Farah Quazi (K-State) | Investment Brings Change: Implications for News-Driven Business Cycles | Slusky |
| 11/24/17 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 11/28/17 12:45-2:15 452 Snow Hall |
Michael Richards (Vanderbilt) | Slusky | |
| 11/29/2017 4:30 120 Snow |
Adeel Faheem (KState) | Slusky | |
| 12/1/17 1:30-3:00 358 Snow |
Russell Weinstein (Illinois) | Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments | Ginther |
| 12/8/17 | No Seminar | Stop Day |