Villanova Department of Economics Seminar Series
All of the seminars will take place on Fridays in Bartley PWC 1011 at 11 am except where otherwise stated.
| Spring 2023 | |||
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| January 27 | Lukas Wellner | University of Göttingen | Does Foreign Aid Reduce Migration? Micro-Evidence from World Bank Projects |
| March 24 | Carola Binder | Haverford College | Central Bank Communication and House Price Expectations |
| April 14 | Doug Webber | Federal Reserve Board | When Do Students and Taxpayers See a Return? Optimal Accountability Thresholds in Higher Education* |
| * This talk will take place in Bartley 1063 | |||
| Fall 2022 | |||
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| September 23 | Hajime Shimao | McGill University | Welfare Cost of Fairness and Accountability in Insurance Pricing* |
| * This talk will take place from 9:30-11am in Bartley 027A | |||
| September 30 | Richard Clark | Cornell University | Conditionality and the Composition of IO Staff |
| October 21 | John Rogers | Fudan University | U.S.-China Tensions |
| October 28 | Bryan Stuart | Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement |
| Spring 2022 | |||
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| January 28 | Scott Dressler | Villanova University | A Cautionary Tale of Fat Tails |
| April 1 | Katherine Smith | US Naval Academy | Beyond Risk Sharing: FDI and Tangible Gains from Financial Integration |
| April 8 | Sebastian Bradley | Drexel University | Property Tax Limitations and Exposure to Housing Market Risk* |
| * This talk will take place from 10:30am-12pm | |||
| Fall 2021 | |||
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| October 29 | Kevin Stange | University of Michigan | *Skills, Majors and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond? |
| * This talk will take place on Zoom | |||
| November 5 | Maria Pia Olivero | Drexel University | Credit Access Among Minority-Owned Businesses: A General Equilibrium Approach* |
| * This talk will take place from 9:30am-11am | |||
| November 12 | Rhiannon Jerch | Temple University | Local Public Finance Dynamics and Hurricane Shocks |
| November 19 | Jason Sockin | University of Pennsylvania | Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around? |
| Spring 2021 | |||
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| February 26 | Zeynep Yom | Villanova University | Optimal Bailouts in Banking and Sovereign Crises |
| April 16 | Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti | Brookings / IMF | Portfolio Debt Flows to Emerging Markets |
| April 23 | Philip Keefer | IADB | Demand-Side Determinants of Public Spending Allocations: Voter Trust and Time Preferences |
| April 30 | Hajime Shimao | Santa Fe Institute | Cost of Research and Education Activities in US Colleges - Complementarity, Scalability, and Heterogeneous Efficiency* |
| *This talk will take place at 10am. | |||
| Fall 2020 | |||
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| October 23 | Helene Purcell | Fordham University | The Heterogeneous Impacts of Natural Disasters on Risk Preferences in Indonesia |
| October 30 | Jonathan Wright | Johns Hopkins University | Event Day Options |
| November 6 | Alain Naef | Bank of France | Imported or Home Grown? The 1992-3 EMS Crisis |
| November 13 | Fabio Ghironi | University of Washington | Interest Rate Uncertainty as a Policy Tool* |
| *This talk will take place at 2pm. | |||
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Spring 2020 |
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| February 21 | Frank Warnock | University of Virginia (Darden Business School) | The Natural Level of Capital Flows |
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| ** This talk will be in Bartley 025 at 11:30 am. | |||
| Fall 2019 | |||
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| October 25 | Andrew Shephard | University of Pennsylvania | Household Labor Search, Spousal Insurance and Health Care Reform |
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November 15 |
Yannick Timmer |
International Monetary Fund |
Tech in Fin before FinTech: Blessing or Curse for Financial Stability?* |
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November 22 |
Russell Goldman |
Carnegie Mellon University |
The Dual Accumulator Model of Strategic Deliberation and Decision Making* |
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December 6 |
Christopher Neilson |
Princeton University |
Student Choices and the Return to College Major and Selectivity |
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* This talk will be in Bartley 3001 at 11:30 am. |
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Spring 2019 |
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February 22 |
Benjamin Lockwood |
University of Pennsylvania |
Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax* |
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March 15 |
Andrew Samuel |
Loyola University Maryland |
Licensing and the informal sector in rental markets: theory and evidence |
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April 5 |
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay |
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
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April 11 |
Stephen O'Connell |
Swarthmore College |
Africa's Development Debts* |
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May 1 |
Marla Ripoll |
University of Pittsburgh |
Accounting for the International Quantity-Quality Trade-off** |
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* This talk will be in Bartley 2001 at 5 pm. |
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** This talk will be in Bartley 1010 at 11 am. |
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Fall 2018 |
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September 14 |
Scott Dressler |
Villanova University |
Preference Heterogeneity, Liquidity, and Welfare |
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September 21 |
Gabi Xuan Jiang |
Ohio State University |
Planting the Seeds for Success: Why Women in STEM Don't Stick in the Field |
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September 28 |
Daniel Fragiadakis |
Villanova University |
Can Individuals Correctly Respond to Strategic Attribute Disclosure? |
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October 26 |
Clayton Featherstone |
University of Pennsylvania |
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November 9 |
Klaus Volpert |
Villanova University (Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics) |
On the Mathematics of Income Inequality |
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*This talk will be at 10:30 am in Bartley 1011 |
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Spring 2018 |
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February 26 |
Linda Bell |
Barnard College |
Women-Led Firms and the Gender Gap in Pay: All Industry Analysis with Focus on Finance Sector Firms* |
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March 23 |
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde |
University of Pennsylvania |
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April 13 |
Andrea Presbitero |
International Monetary Fund |
Financial access under the microscope |
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April 20 |
Xiaoxiao Li |
Villanova University |
Multidimensional Skills and the Returns to Schooling: Evidence from an Interactive Fixed Effects Approach and a Linked Survey-Administrative Dataset** |
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* This talk is on a Monday, and the time is 1:30 - 2:30 pm |
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** This talk will take place in Bartley 1063. |
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Fall 2017 |
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September 15 |
Michal Kolesár |
Princeton University |
Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable |
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September 29 |
Jeremy Greenwood |
University of Pennsylvania |
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October 27 |
Ed Mansfield |
University of Pennsylvania |
The Political Economy of Financial
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November 10 |
Hajime Shimao |
Purdue University |
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November 20 |
Junpei Komiyama |
University of Tokyo |
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December 1 |
John Burger |
Loyola University Maryland |
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* This talk is on a Monday, the time is 2 pm and the room is Bartley 1063 |
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** This talk will be in Bartley 1030, the Executive Boardroom in the Dean's Suite |
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Spring 2017 |
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*** This talk will be in Bartley 3079, the Faculty Staff Lounge. |
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February 3 |
Sutirtha Bagchi** |
Villanova University |
Are efficient taxes responsible for big government? Evidence from tax withholding |
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February 17 |
Lauren Lambie-Hanson* |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
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February 24 |
Camelia Minoiu** |
International Monetary Fund |
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March 31 |
Burcu Eyigungor** |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
Endogenous Political Turnover and Fluctuations in Sovereign Default Risk |
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April 21 |
Pablo D'Erasmo |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
Reorganization or Liquidation: Bankruptcy Choice and Firm Dynamics |
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Fall 2016 |
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September 7 |
Andreas Fuchs* |
Universität Heidelberg |
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China's Foreign Assistance |
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October 21 |
Paul Schaudt |
Leibniz Universität Hannover |
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October 28 |
Chris Lafakis** |
Moody's Analytics |
Economic Implications of the 2016 Election |
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November 11 |
Andre Kurmann |
Drexel University |
Revisions in Utilization-Adjusted TFP and Robust Identification of News Shocks |
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December 9 |
Daniel Berkowitz |
University of Pittsburgh |
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** The talk will be at 1:30 pm |
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Spring 2016 |
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February 5 |
Andrew Samuel |
Loyola University |
Law enforcement and false arrests with endogenously (in)competent officers |
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February 19 |
Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy |
Lehigh University |
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March 9 (Wednesday) |
Sewon Hur |
University of Pittsburgh |
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March 18 |
Kristy Buzard |
Syracuse University |
Self-enforcing trade agreements, dispute settlement and separation of powers |
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April 8 |
Zeynep Kabukcuoglu |
Villanova University |
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Fall 2015 |
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October 2 |
Michael Curran |
Villanova University |
Understanding uncertainty, volatility and macroeconomic performance |
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October 23 |
Gerald Carlino |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
Localized Knowledge Spillovers: Evidence from the Agglomeration of American R&D Labs and Patent Data |
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November 6 |
Matilde Damelio |
Politecnico di Milano |
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November 13 |
Mikhail Dmitriev |
Florida State University |
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November 20 |
Benjamin Lester |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
* This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Global Leadership at the Villanova School of Business.