Economics Visiting Speaker Series
Please contact the series organizers with any questions:
Jean Eid, e-mail jeid@wlu.ca, ext. 2262, Justin Smith, e-mail jusmith@wlu.ca, ext. 4554 and Azim Essaji, e-mail aessaji@wlu.ca, ext. 2561
Link to University of Waterloo Economics Department Seminar Page
Economics Visiting Speaker Series
- Winter 2013
- Fall 2012
- Winter 2012
- Fall 2011
- Winter 2011
- Fall 2010
- Winter 2009
- Fall 2008
- Winter 2008
- Fall 2007
- Winter 2007
- Winter 2006
- Fall 2006
- Fall 2005
| Date, Time & Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| March 15, 2013 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. SBE1230 CANCELLED |
Shari Eli University of Toronto |
Income Effects on Health: Evidence from Union Army Pensions |
| March 22, 2013 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. SBE1230 |
Fernanda Estevan University of Ottawa |
College Admission and High School Integration |
| April, 5, 2013 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. SBE1230 |
Bean Sand |
Industrial Composition, Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from U.S. Cities |
| April 19, 2013 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. SBE1230 |
William Strange University of Toronto |
TBA |
| Date, Time & Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| September 21, 2012
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. SBE1230 |
Svetlana Demidova McMaster University |
Firm Heterogeneity and Costly Trade: A New Estimation Strategy and Policy
Experiment |
| September 28, 2012
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. SBE1230 CANCELLED - to be rescheduled |
Ben Sand York University |
Industrial Composition, Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from U.S. Cities |
| October 19, 2012
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. SBE1230 |
Ross Hickey University of British Columbia, Okanagan |
Immigrant Labour Market Participation and Earnings: The Effect of Regulation |
| October 26, 2012
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. SBE1230 |
Fabio Rumler Oesterreichische National Bank (National Bank of Austria) |
A Micro-based Non Inflationary Rate of Capacity Utilisation as a Measure of Inflationary Pressure - Evidence for Austria |
| November 16, 2012
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. SBE1230 |
Myrna Wooders (Vanderbilt) |
Subgame Perfect Cooperation in an Extensive Game |
| Date, Time & Location |
Speaker | Topic |
|
March 2, 2012 |
Gillian Hamilton University of Toronto
|
Fertility and Wealth in New France |
| March 5, 2012 4:00-5:30 p.m. P2067 |
John Roemer Yale University |
Kantian equilibrium, externalities, and social ethos |
| March 7, 2012 4:00-5:30 p.m. BA112 |
John Roemer Yale University |
North-South convergence in the presence of global warming |
|
March 16, 2012 |
Sonia Laszlo |
Social Exchange and Ambiguity Preferences |
|
March 23, 2012 |
Bridget O'Shaughnessy |
Rethinking Assessment: What, When, Where, Why, and How? |
|
March 30, 2012 |
Tasso Adamopoulos York University |
TBA |
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| Date, Time & Location
|
Speaker | Topic |
| September 30, 2011
3:00-4:30 p.m. 2C17 |
Corinne Langinier
University of Alberta |
Subjective Performance of Patent Examiners and Implicit Contracts
|
| October 14, 2011
3:00-4:30 p.m. 2C17 |
Wei Dong
Bank of Canada |
The Role of Expenditure Switching in the Global Imbalance Adjustment
|
| October 28, 2011
3:00-4:30 p.m. 2C17 |
Peter Matthews
Middlebury College |
|
| November 18, 2011
3:00-4:30 p.m. 2C17 |
Louis-Philippe Morin
|
TBA
|
| November 25, 2011
3:00-4:30 p.m. 2C17 |
Chris Bidner
UBC |
TBA
|
| December 9, 2011
3:00-4:30 p.m. 2C17 |
Bridget O'Shaughnessy
McMaster |
TBA
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| Date, Time &
Location |
Speaker | Topic |
|
March 18, 2011
|
Leah Brooks
|
Sclerosis of the City: Inefficiency and the Assembly of Urban Land", by Leah Brooks and Byron Lutz |
|
April 1, 2011
|
Ingela Alger
|
"Evolutionary stability, cooperation and Hamilton's rule" Joint with Jorgen W. Weibull
|
| Date, Time &
Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| Oct. 1, 2010
|
Lin Peng
Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College/CUNY |
Managerial Incentives and Stock Price Manipulation |
|
Oct. 15, 2010
|
Matthias Neuenkirch
Phillips-Universitat Marburg |
Managing Financial Markets' Expectations: The Role of Central Bank Transparency and Central Bank Communication |
|
Nov. 12, 2010
|
Andrey Stoyanov
York University |
Productivity Spillovers Across Firms through Worker Mobility
|
HH = Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo
SBE = Schlegel Building, Wilfrid Laurier University
| Date, Time &
Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| Jan. 29, 2009
|
Elisabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto
|
Is September Better than January? The Effect of School Entry Age Laws on Skill Accumulation (Abstract)
|
| Feb. 5, 2009
|
Ed Nosal, Federal Research Reserve Bank of Chicago | Pairwise Trade, Payments, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy (Abstract)
|
| Feb. 12, 2009
|
Garth Frazer, University of Toronto
|
Firm Productivity, Worker Ability, and Returns to Education (Abstract)
|
| Feb. 19, 2009 | Reading Week | No seminar |
| March 5, 2009
|
Peter Morrow University of Toronto |
International Economics
|
| March 12, 2009
|
Hashmat Khan Carleton University |
The Quantitative Importance of News Shocks in Estimated DSGE Models (Abstract) |
| March 19, 2009
|
Patrick Georges, University of Ottawa
|
Demographic Changes and the Gains from Globalisation: A Multi-Country Overlapping Generations CGE Model (Abstract)
|
| March 26, 2009
|
Daniel Parent McGill University |
Labour
|
| April 2, 2009
|
Hiroyuki Kasahara,
University of Western Ontario |
Trade
|
HH = Hagey Hall, University of Waterloo
SBE = Schlegel Building, Wilfrid Laurier University
| Date, Time & Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| March 7, 2008
|
|
2nd Annual Laurier Conference on Empirical International Trade (sponsored by LCEP) Organizer: Azim Essaji |
| March 14, 2008 |
Jim Davies University of Western Ontario |
The World Distribution of Household Wealth |
| March 28, 2008 |
Francisco Gonzales University of Calgary |
|
| April 4, 2008 |
Tasso Adamopoulos York University |
"Transportation Costs, Agricultural Productivity, and Cross-Country Income Differences" |
| April 4-5, 2008 |
Conference sponsored by LCEP | Laurier Conference on Education Policy (Schedule)
Organizer: Dr. Christine Neill |
| April 11, 2008 |
Yazid Dissou University of Ottawa Hosted by Randy Wigle |
"Household incidence of pollution control policies: a robust welfare analysis using general equilibrium effects" |
| April 24, 2008 | Workshop (sponsored by SSHRC and LCEP) | The Political Economy of Bargaining
Organizer: Maria Gallego |
| Date, Time &
Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| Sept. 21, 2007
|
Louise Frechette United Nations Assistant Deputy-General |
"Behind the Scene: Decision-making in International Organizations"
(by invitation only) |
| Sept. 28, 2007
|
Viessman Centre Conference
Organizer: Frank Millerd |
Comparing North American and European Approaches to Climate Change |
| Sept. 28, 2007
|
Steve Murchison (alumnus)
Bank of Canada |
"Trend Inflation, Wage and Price Rigidities, and Welfare" |
| Oct. 12, 2007
|
Martha Finnemore The Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University |
"Paradoxes in Humanitarian Intervention"
|
| Oct. 12, 2007
|
Susumu Imai
Queen's University |
A Quantile-Based Test of Protection for Sale Model |
| Oct. 17, 2007
|
Organizer: Bill Morrison
|
Economic Outlook 2008 |
| Oct. 19, 2007
|
Rama Mani International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo) |
|
| Oct. 19, 2007
|
Jasmin Kantarevic (CMA)
Ontario Medical Association |
Income Effects and Physician Labour Supply: Evidence from the Threshold System in Ontario |
| Oct. 26, 2007
|
Carlos Serrano University of Toronto |
The Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents
|
| Nov. 2, 2007
|
Mark Andre Letendre McMaster University |
Revisiting Cross-Country Anomalies |
| Nov. 9, 2007
|
Audra Bowlus University of Western Ontario |
An International Comparison of Lifetime Labor Income: Values and Inequality |
| Nov. 16, 2007
|
Nicolas Marceau University of Quebec at Montreal |
Tenancy Default, Excess Demand and the Rental Market |
| Nov. 23, 2007
|
Kim P. Huynh Indiana University |
Duration of New Firms Across Entry Cohorts |
| Nov. 30, 2007
|
Jorge Nef University of Guelph |
Latin America
|
| Dec. 7, 2007 | |
Department Lunch |
| Dec. 7, 2007
|
Jill Horwitz The University of Michigan Law School |
| Date, Time & Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| Jan. 10, 2007 |
Emmanuel Dhyne National Bank of Belgium |
Lumpy Price Adjustments: A Microeconometric Analysis |
| Feb. 9, 2007 |
Menzie Chinn University of Wisconsin |
|
| March 9, 2007 |
Vittorio Quadrini University of California |
Financial Integration, Financial Deepness and Global Imbalances |
| March 16, 2007 |
John McLaren University of Virginia |
Trade Shocks and Labour Adjustment: An Empirical Model |
| March 23, 2007 |
Creg Clark University of California |
Genetically Capitalist? The Malthusian Era, Institutions and the Formation of Modern Economic Preferences Abstract |
| March 30, 2007 |
Seungjin Han McMaster University |
A Bargaining Model of Tax Competition |
| April 13, 2007 | Gustavo Bobonis University of Toronto |
Postponed until Fall 2007 |
| April 20, 2007 | Kenneth Shepsle Harvard University |
The Senate Electoral Cycle and Bicameral Appropriations Politics |
| May 8, 2007 |
Lawrence Haddad Sussex University |
Development Issues |
| May 10, 2007 |
Ravi Kanbur |
"Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws" |
| Date, Time & Location |
Speaker | Topic |
| March 10, 2006
|
Don Saari University of California, Irvine |
From disposing Arrow's Dictator to understanding those mysteries about voting |
| March 17, 2006 | John Roemer Yale University |
Democracy, Education, and Equality |
| March 31, 2006 | Mark Stabile University of Toronto |
Short, Medium, and Long Term Consequences of Poor Infant Health: An Analysis using Siblings and Twins |
| April 7, 2006 |
Brian Copeland University of British Columbia |
Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons International Trade and the Depletion of Fisheries: A Domino Theory of Resource Collapse |
|
April 21, 2006 |
Sam Bucovetsky York University |
Preventing Public Input Competition |
|
April 28, 2006 |
European Union Studies Association (EUSA) Symposium | Workshop |
