Previous Seminars
Fall 2023
The Economic Impact of Contemporaneous Energy Booms and Busts
Kyle Hoy, Lebanon Valley College
October 6, 2023: HSS 342, 1-2 p.m.
Economists in Tech Companies
Min Gong, Amazon
December 1, 2023: Coburn Hall, Room 140, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Young Adult Job Loss and Criminal Behavior
Nicholas Jolly, Marquette University
December 6, 2023: HSS 342, 1-2 p.m.
Spring 2023
The House Price-Income Relationship for US States
William Miles, Wichita State University
April 21, 2023: On Zoom, 1-2 p.m.
Import Competition, Trade Credit and Financial Frictions in General Equilibrium
Federico Esposito, Tufts University
March 29, 2023: HSS Room 342, 1-2 p.m.
Innovation and Economic Prosperity in South America
Christian Rodas, UMass Lowell
February 10, 2023: HSS 342, 1-2 p.m.
Fall 2022
Mapping the Two Faces of Information Technology in a Panel of Developed and Transition Economies
Marco Vincenzi, University of New Hampshire
October 28, 2022: HSS 342, 1-2 p.m.
Spring 2022 (Virtual)
Aid, Pressure Groups, and Reform
Bonnie Wilson, Saint Louis University
March 23: 1-2 p.m.
Medicaid-ing Uninsurance? Reducing the Duration of Uninsurance Spells
Elena Patel, University of Utah
April 06: 1-2 p.m.
Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Trade: a Machine Learning Counterfactual Analysis
Francesco Serti, University of Alicante, Spain and IMT, Lucca, Italy
April 13: 1-2 p.m.
Fall 2021 (Virtual)
Taxation, Social Welfare, and Labor Market Frictions
Brendan Epstein: UMass Lowell
September 17: 1-2 p.m.
Gender, Society, and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Randomized Controlled Experiments.
Abu Zafar M. Shahriar: Monash Business School
October 13: 5-6 p.m.
Lobbying for Globalization.Michael Blanga-Gubbay: University of Zurich
November 3: 1-2 p.m.
Spring 2021 (Virtual)
Working, Consuming, and Dying: Quantifying the Diversity in the American Experience
Rob Lester: Colby College
March 10: 1-2 p.m.
The Life Cycle of Businesses and their Internal Organization
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker: Bureau of Labor Statistics
March 17: 1-2 p.m.
Risk and the Misallocation of Human Capital
German Cubas: University of Houston
March 31: 1-2 p.m.
Trade Policy as an Exogenous Shock: Focusing on the Specifics
John Lopresti: William and Mary
April 14: 1-2 p.m.
Fall 2020
Climate Change, Epidemics and Human Capital Outcomes: Who Bears the Cost of Climate Change?
Belinda Archibong: Barnard College & Columbia University
October 14: 11 a.m.-Noon
Drug Overdose and Total Mortality During Resource Booms and Busts
Andy Boslett: University of Rochester
October 28: 1-2 p.m.
Hiding Filthy Lucre in Plain Sight: Theory and Identification of Business-Based Money Laundering
Alessandro Peri: University of Colorado Boulder
November 4: 1-2 p.m.
Optimal Allocation of the COVID-19 Stimulus Checks
Bent Sorensen: University of Houston
November 13: 1-2 p.m.
Spring 2020
Jeff Wagner, RIT
February 5, at Noon
Falmouth 302M
"Tort Reform and Public Harm"
Catalina Herrera Almanza, Northeastern University
March 4, at noon
Falmouth 302M
"Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: Community-Based Health Interventions, Fertility Choices and Child Health Investments"
(Later seminars in Spring 2020 were cancelled due to COVID-19)
Fall 2019
Gary Lyn, Iowa State University
October 7, 2019
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Grounded by Gravity: A Well Behaved Model with Industry-Level Economies of Scale"
Xiaofei Pan, Bryant University
October 15, 2019
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Team Incentive and Productivity: A real Effort"
Sarah Bana, Sloan School of Management
October 30, 2019
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Unequal Use of Social Insurance Benefits: The Role of Employers"
Cassandra Pattanayak, Wellesley College
November 13, 2019
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Effects of Advisors and Mentors on Choice of Major"
Fall 2018
Chris Foote, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
September 26, 2018
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Recent Empirical Evidence on the Source of the 2000s Housing Cycle
David Arsenault, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
October 3, 2018
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
Fields: Macroeconomics and Finance at paper title TBA
Mahdi Majbouri, Babson College
October 10, 2018
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Elimination Supply: A Natural Experiment in Higher Education"
Dave McEvoy, Appalachian State University
November 9, 2018
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
Suman Gautam, Daymark Energy Advisors
November 14, 2018
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
Catalina Herrera, Northeastern University
November 28, 2018
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: Community Health Workers at Fertility Choices at and Child Health Investments."
Rahul Mukherjee, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies at Geneva
December 5, 2018
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Financial Constraints at Institutions at and Foreign Ownership,"
Fall 2017
Anne Fitzpatrick, UMass Boston
October 2017
Alan Finkelstein Shapiro, Tufts University
November 2017
Matt Rutledge, Boston College
November 2017
Olga Shurchkov, Wellesley College
December 2017
Fall 2016
Maurizio Trippolini, Liberty Mutual Institute for Safety
September 21, 2016
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Research at the Center for Disability Research at Liberty Mutual Institute for Safety."
Simon Martin Abel, Middlebury College
October 12, 2016
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"The Value of Reference Letters - Experimental Evidence from South Africa."
Melissa McInerney, Tufts University
October 19, 2016
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Does Increased Access to Health Insurance Impact Claims for Worker's Compensation? Evidence from Massachusetts Health Care Reform."
Eric Hoyt, UMass Amherst
October 24, 2016
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"The Impact of Wrongful Discharge Laws on Union Density:1983-1999"
William Lazonick, UMass Lowell
November 9, 2016
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Innovative Enterprise or Sweatshop Economics? In Search of Foundations of of Economic Analysis."
Chan-Wung Kim, UMass Lowell (Finance Department)
November 14, 2016
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
Spring 2016
Druscilla Brown, Tufts University
February 2016
Simon Halliday, Smith College
February 2016
Rohini Somanathan, Delhi School of Economics; the Center for Ethics at Harvard University
February 2016
Ericka Sabbath, Boston College
February 2016
Jessica Simon, Babson College
March 2016
John Seater Boston College
March 2016
Hillary Sackett, Westfield State University
April 2016
Dhaval Dave, Bentley University
April 14, 2016
Falmouth 302M on North Campus
"Incarceration vs. Treatment-based Approaches to Juvenile Crime: Effects on Youth Outcomes"
Matthew S. Johnson, Boston University
April 20, 2016
Falmouth 302M on North Campus
"Regulation by Shaming: The Effects of Publicizing Violations of Workplace Safety and Health Laws"
Fall 2015
David Kuenzel, Wesleyan University
November 4, 2015
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"WTO Dispute Determinants"
Leonard Wolk, Colby College
November 18, 2015
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Forecasting With Colonel Blotto"
Spring 2015
Will Olney, Williams College
February 11, 2015
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Impact of English Proficiency on Labor Market Performance."
Gary Lyn, UMass Lowell
February 19, 2015
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"External Economies and International Trade: A Quantitative Framework"
Alicia Sasser-Modestino, Northeastern University
March 11, 2015
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Upskilling: Do Employers Demand Greater Skill When Workers Are Plentiful?"
David Simon, University of Connecticut
April 2, 2015
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Does Early Life Exposure to Cigarette Smoke Permanently Harm Childhood Welfare?Evidence From Cigarette Tax Hikes"
Laura Gee, Tufts University
April 9, 2015
Falmouth 302M at North Campus
"Centralized vs. Decentralized Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods"