Previous Seminars
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 |
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 23 | No Seminar | First Week of Classes |
| Feb 6 | ||
| Feb 13 | Guilia La Mattina (S. Florida) | |
| Feb 20 | Michael Fan (St. Louis) | |
| Feb 27 | Jun Ma (Alabama) | What Drives Commodity Returns? Market, Sector or Idiosyncratic Factors? |
| March 6 | ||
| March 13 | ||
| March 20 | No Seminar | Spring Break |
| March 27 | ||
| April 3 | *Makram El-Shagi (Halle Inst & Henan) | Real Effective Exchange Rate Misalignment in the Euro Area: A counterfactual Analysis |
| April 10 | ||
| April 17 | ||
| April 20 Monday |
Tony Marino (USC) | Work Environment and Moral Hazard |
| April 24 | Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong (S. Florida) | Do African Countries Get Health from Health Aid? |
| May 1 | ||
| May 8 | No Seminar | Stop Day |
* indicates that the speaker was invited by William Barnett or Bernard Cornet as part of the Oswald Distinguished Chair Seminar Series.
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 29 | No Seminar | First Week of Classes/Department Retreat |
| Sept 5 | ||
| Sept 12 | ||
| Sept 19 | ||
| Sept 26 | ||
| Oct 3 | Aeimit Lakdawala (Mich St.) | How credible is the Federal Reserve? A structural estimation of policy re-optimizations (PDF) |
| Oct 10 | Lana Friesen (Queensland) | |
| Oct 17 | Laura Grant (Wisc) | |
| Oct 24 | Qi Li (Texas A&M) | |
| Oct 31 | ||
| Nov 7 | Steven Tadelis (Berkeley) | |
| Nov 14 | Carlos Lamarche (Kentucky) | |
| Nov 21 | Jun Nie (KC Fed) | |
| Nov 28 | No Seminar | Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec 5 | Shu Shen (UC-Davis) | |
| Dec 12 | No Seminar | Stop Day |
* indicates that the speaker was invited by William Barnett or Bernard Cornet as part of the Oswald Distinguished Chair Seminar Series.
Dr. Shu Wu, Professor of Economics and Associate Chair, Department of Economics at University of Kansas, and a resident of Overland Park, KS, passed away Thursday, May 31, 2018.