Previous Seminars
Fall 2019
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 10/6/17 | |||
| 10/13/17 | |||
| 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 |
Spring 2017
All Seminars held in 358 Snow at 3:30 pm unless noted otherwise.
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/20/17 | |||
| 1/27/17 | Michael Fan (Xiamen University) | Temperature and Performance: Evidence from Online Game Behavior in China | Cai |
| 2/3/17 | |||
| 2/10/17 | Aaron Hedlund (Missouri) | Mortgage Debt, Consumption, and Illiquid Housing Markets in the Great Recession | Keating |
| 2/17/17* | Joe Ballegeer (UMKC) | The Status of Entrepreneurs in Kansas City, Mo: Exploring the Quarterly Census of Employers and Wages. |
Barnett |
| 2/24/17 | Benjamin Keen (Oklahoma) | How Robust are Popular Models of Nominal Frictions? | Keating |
| 3/3/17 | Dan Henderson (Alabama) | A PARTIALLY PARAMETRIC MODEL | Cai |
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3/8/2017 |
Dan Grossman (WVU) Big XII Faculty Fellow |
Slusky | |
| 3/10/17 | Lucie Schmidt (Williams College) | Canceled | Ginther |
| 3/17/17 454 Snow Hall |
John Conley (Vanderbuilt) | Capitalization, Decentralization, and Intergenerational Spillovers in a Tiebout Economy with a Durable Public Good | Ginther |
| 3/24/17 | Spring Break-No seminar | ||
| 3/31/17 | Ben Schwab (K-State) | Sick and Tell: A Field Experiment Analyzing the Effects of an Illness-Related Employment Gap on the Callback Rate* |
Slusky |
| 4/5/17 4:30 Wednesday 120 Snow |
Leemore Dafny (Harvard Business School) |
The Price Effects of Cross-Market Hospital Mergers | Slusky |
| 4/7/17 DSGE Workshop |
Brent Bundick (Kansas City Fed) |
Perturbation Methods and DYNARE - 9:30-10:40 in The Jay 1st Floor Kansas Union Uncertainty Shocks in a Model of Effective Demand - 3:30 Seminar in 358 Snow |
Keating |
| 4/14/17 DSGE Workshop |
Alexander Richter (Dallas Fed) |
DSGE Workshop Session I - 9:00-11:00 in International Rm. Kansas Union Are Nonlinear Methods Necessary at the Zero Lower Bound? - 3:30 Seminar in 358 Snow |
Keating |
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4/20/17 |
Astrid Grasdal (Bergen) | Increased shared physical custody: Good or bad for the children's achievements in school? | Ginther |
| 4/21/17 |
Lee Smith (Kansas City Fed) |
Bond Premiums and the Natural Real Rate of Interest | Keating |
| 4/28/17 | Jonathan Hughes (University of Colorado Boulder) | When Should Carpools in HOV Lanes be Encouraged? | Tsvetanov |
| 5/3/17 4:00 Wednesday 120 Snow |
Doug Almond (Columbia) | Slusky | |
| 5/5/17 | Stop Day-No seminar |
Fall 2016
Fall 2016 Guest Speakers
All Seminars held in 358 Snow at 3:30 pm unless noted otherwise.
* indicates "Oswald Distinguished Speaker"
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/26/16 | No Seminar | Department Retreat | |
| 9/2/16 | No Seminar | Labor Day Weekend | |
| 9/9/16 | |||
| 9/16/16 | |||
| 9/23/16 2:30 pm |
Tess Stafford (New South Wales) | Earnhart | |
| 9/30/16 | Zheng Wang (Capital University, China) | How Consumer Data Can Alter Quality Races | Zhang |
| 10/7/16 | |||
| 10/14/16 | |||
| 10/21/16* | Kimberly Zieschang (Queensland) | Barnett | |
| 10/28/16 | |||
| 11/4/16 | |||
| 11/11/16 | |||
| 11/18/16 | Nicholas Sly (Kansas City Fed) | The Labor Market Effects of Offshoring by U.S. Multinational Firms: Evidence from Changes in Global Tax Policies | Keating |
| 11/25/16 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 12/2/16 | |||
| 12/9/16 | No Seminar | Stop Day |
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/22/16 | |||
| 1/29/16 | |||
| 2/5/16 | Liang Peng Georgia State |
Zongwu Cai | |
| 2/12/16 | Molin Zhong Fed Reserve Board in DC |
A New Approach to Identifying the Real Effects of Uncertainty Shocks | Zongwu Cai |
| 2/19/16 120 Snow 1:30-3:00 |
Jay Bhattacharya Stanford School of Medicine |
Age and the Trying Out of New Ideas & Neophilia Ranking of Scientific Journals |
Donna Ginther |
| 2/26/16 | |||
| 3/4/16 | Elie Tamer Harvard University |
Computationally Simple Confidence Set for Sets | Zongwu Cai |
| 3/11/16 | Gary Hoover University of Oklahoma |
Plagiarism in the Social Sciences | John Keating |
| 3/18/16 | Spring Break-No seminar | ||
| 3/23/16 Wednesday |
Brent Bundick Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank |
The Dynamic Effects of Forward Guidance Shocks | John Keating |
| 3/25/16 | Vincy Fon George Washington University |
A Talmudic Bankruptcy Solution: The CCC Principle | Joe Sicilian |
| 4/1/16 | Santanu Roy Southern Methodist University |
Competitive Signaling of Product Quality and the Cost of False Disclosure |
Tarun Sabarwal |
| 4/8/16 120 Snow Hall |
Susan Averett Lafayette College |
Minimum Wages and Health | David Slusky |
| 4/15/16 | |||
| 4/20/2016 Wednesday |
Zhiwei Liu | Jianbo Zhang | |
| 4/22/16 | Eric Sjöberg University of Utah |
The effect of ambient air pollutants on pregnancy outcomes and associated medical costs | Dietrich Earnahrt |
| 4/29/16 | Eric Emch Bates White Econ. Consulting |
Antitrust Policy: Current State and Emerging Trends | Tarun Sabarwal |
| 5/6/16 | Stop Day-No seminar |
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Faculty Host |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/28/15 | |||
| 9/4/15 | No Seminar | Labor Day Weekend | |
| 9/11/15 | No Seminar | Department Retreat | |
| 9/18/15 | Randall Bluffstone Portland State University |
Carbon Sequestration from Commonly Held Forestland in a Developing Economy | Dietrich Earnhart |
| 9/25/15 | Nicholas Yannelis University of Iowa |
Bernard Cornet | |
| 10/2/15 | Shawn Ni University of Missouri |
Detrending Macroeconomic Time Series Data | Zongwu Cai |
| 10/9/15 | Maxwell Stinchcombe University of Texas at Austin |
Patient Preferences and Programming | Tarun Sabarwal |
| 10/16/15 | |||
| 10/23/15 | Ted Joyce Baruch College |
"Do Students Know Best? Choice, Classroom Time, and Academic Performance" |
David Slusky |
| 10/30/15 | Alex Richter Auburn University |
Forward Guidance and the State of the Economy | Shu Wu |
| 11/6/15 | Jianqing Fan Princeton University |
Sufficient Forecasting Using Factor Models | Zongwu Cai |
| 11/13/15 | Jose Mustre-del-Rio Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank |
Downward Nominal Rigid Wages, Inflation, and Unemployment | Shu Wu |
| 11/20/15 | |||
| 11/27/15 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 12/4/15 | Willem Van Zandweghe Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank |
Kinked Demand Curves and Inflation Persistence in a Low-Inflation Economy | John Keating |
| 12/11/15 | No Seminar | Stop Day |