Economics Department Seminar Series

2025 - 2026

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
APRIL
April 10, 2026
(Friday)

Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Labor Markets Section
"The Origins and Evolution of Occupational Licensing in the United States" All Day
RH303
April 10, 2026
(Friday)

Stanford University
Department of Health Policy
"Birth Centers and Maternal and Infant Health" All Day
RH303
April 10, 2026
(Friday)

Weber State University
Department of Economics
"The Political Economy of Women’s Suffrage and World War I" All Day
RH303
MARCH
March 27, 2026
(Friday)

UC Berkeley
Department of Agriculture & Resource Economics
Cancelled: "Mortality Caused by Tropical Cyclones in the United States" Cancelled
March 27, 2026
(Friday)

University of Oregon
Department of Economics
"Limited Liability and Disaster Underinsurance" All Day
RH303
March 27, 2026
(Friday)

Oregon State University
Department of Applied Economics
"The Cost of Hurricane Evacuations" All Day
RH303
FEBRUARY 2026

February 20, 2026
(Friday)


Macquarie Business School
Department of Economics
"Designing Donor Registries: Behavioral Drivers of Enrollment and Giving AND Coordination in altruistic markets with imperfect substitutes" All Day
RH303

February 20, 2026
(Friday)


University of Alabama
Department of Economics
"Multidimensional Arbitration" All Day
RH303
February 20, 2026
(Friday)

University of Wyoming
Department of Economics
"Factors that Influence Perceptions of Research Quality in Economics" All Day
RH303
SEPTEMBER                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              2025
September 26, 2025
(Friday)

Middlebury College
Department of Economics
“Job-level Skill Mismatch over the Business Cycle” All Day
RH303
September 26, 2025
(Friday)

University of Oregon
Department of Economics
“Mean Convergence, Combinatorics, and Grade-Point Averages” All Day
RH303
September 26, 2025
(Friday)

New York University
Economics Department
“Technological Change, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility: The Case of Early 20th Century Agriculture” All Day
RH303

2024 - 2025

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
MARCH  
March 21, 2025
(Friday)

University of California, Davis
Department of Environmental Science and Policy
“Applications of High-Frequency Movement Data For Exploring and Modeling Fishing Behavior” All Day
RH303
March 21, 2025
(Friday)

University of California, Davis
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
“Structural Evaluation of Quota Markets in Catch Share Fisheries” All Day
RH303
March 21, 2025
(Friday)
Jen Meredith
Colby College
Department of Economics
“The Impact of Transferable Permits on Rural Alaskan Salmon Harvesters” All Day
RH303
JANUARY                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  2025

January 8, 2025
(Wednesday)


The University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
“Migration as Climate Adaptation: Evidence from California Wildfires” All Day
RH303
January 10, 2025
(Friday)

University of Alaska, Anchorage
Department of Applied Economics
“Is a Photo Worth 1,000 Likes? The Influence of Instagram at U.S. National Parks” All Day
RH303
January 13, 2025
(Monday)

American University
Department of Economics and Public Policy
“Women’s Entry into Nontraditional Occupations: Impacts of the Gender Desegregation of the U.S. Army” All Day
RH303

January 21, 2025
(Tuesday)


Columbia University
Department of Economics
"Who Bears Climate Change Damages? Evidence from the Gig Economy"

All Day
RH303

OCTOBER                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 2024
October 11, 2024
(Friday)

University of Marburg
Department of Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
"Behavioral Biases and Decision-Making in Climate-Vulnerable Populations: Insights from Rapid and Slow-Onset Hazards" All Day
RH303
October 11, 2024
(Friday)

Universidad de los Andes
Faculty of Economics
"Coca-Based Local Growth and Its Socio-Economic Impact in Colombia" All Day
RH303
October 11, 2024
(Friday)

Universitet Laval
Department of Economics
"Social Networks and the Role of Risk and Time Preferences" All Day
RH303

2023 - 2024

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
SEPTEMBER 2023
September 22, 2023
(Friday)
Jordan Suter
Colorado State University
Agricultural and Resource Economics
“Abatement Subsidies for Groundwater Conservation”  All Day
RH303
FEBRUARY 2024
February 23, 2024
(Friday)

University of British Columbia
Vancouver School of Economics
“Technology Lock-In and Costs of Delayed Climate Policy” All Day
RH303
February 23, 2024
(Friday)

University of Georgia
Agricultural and Applied Economics
“Prescribed fires as a climate change adaptation tool” All Day
RH303
February 23, 2024
(Friday)

University of Wisconsin Madison
Risk and Insurance Department
“Money to Burn: Crowdfunding Wildfire Recovery” All Day
RH303
MARCH
March 29, 2024
(Friday)
Roger van Haefen
North Carolina State University
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
“The Welfare Effects of Air Pollution on Outdoor Recreation: An Application to Shoreline Fishing Along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts” All Day
RH303
March 29, 2024
(Friday)

Oregon State University
Department of Applied Economics
“Is a Photo Worth 1,000 Likes? The Influence of Instagram at U.S. National Parks” All Day
RH303
March 29, 2024
(Friday)

Colorado State University
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
“The Promise and Peril of Mobile Device Data for Recreation Demand: A Case Study of the Knoxville Urban Wilderness” All Day
RH303
APRIL
April 26, 2024
(Friday)

Oklahoma State University
Department of Economics
“The Value of Electricity Transmission in Reducing Renewable Generation Uncertainty” All Day
RH303
April 26, 2024
(Friday)

Montana State University
Department of Agricultural Economics
“Natural Disasters, Local Bank Market Share, and Economic Recovery” All Day
RH303
April 26, 2024
(Friday)

Claremont McKenna College
Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
“Consumers Can Respond to Nonlinear Marginal Price: New Evidence from Electricity Billing” All Day
RH303

2022 - 2023

Date Speaker Title Time/Place
AUGUST 2022
August 26, 2022
(Friday)
Bjorn Vollan
University of Marburg
Department of Economics
“PDzٱDzԱ” 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 101
SEPTEMBER
September 9, 2022
(Friday)

University of California Davis
Department of Economics
“Energy Prices and Electric Vehicle Adoption” 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 117
September 23, 2022
(Friday)

Texas A&M; University
Economics Department
“Diversifying economics: Evidence from field experiments with university students and high school counselors” 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 101
OCTOBER
October 7, 2022
(Friday)

Carleton University
Department of Economics
“Correlated Equilibria and Forecasts based on Naive Play in Hawk-Dove Games” 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 101
October 14, 2022
(Friday)
Duncan James
Fordham University
Department of Economics
“T” 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Rasmuson Hall 101
October 21, 2022
(Friday)

Yale University
School of the Environment/Department of Economics
“The Electric Vehicle Rebound Effect” 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 101
FEBRUARY 2023
February 24, 2023
(Friday)

Michigan State University
Department of Economics
“Attribute Production and Technical Change in Automobiles” 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 303
MARCH
March 3, 2023
(Friday)
  “Q&A; with Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith” 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
March 10, 2023
(Friday)

University of Wyoming
Department of Economics
“Economics of Migratory Species” 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 303
March 10, 2023
(Friday)

Yale University
School of the Environment
“Natural capital: a new era of economic measurement” 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Rasmuson Hall 303
APRIL
April 7, 2023
(Friday)

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Agricultural and Applied Economics
“T” All Day
RH303