Seminar Series & Brown Bags
Fall 2020 Seminar Series Schedule
Coordinators: Frank Fossen (Committee Chair), Kym Pram, Anna Solokova, Michael Taylor, Peter Toth, Dilek Uz, and Jingjing Yang
All seminars are virtual via Zoom on Fridays, 3:00-4:30pm, unless otherwise noted.
Date | Speaker | Title of presentation |
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9/18 | Makayla Palmer, UNLV | Effects of the ACA Medicaid and Marketplace Coverage Provisions on Labor Force Participation |
9/25 | Ege Can, UNR | Individual-Specific Income Tax Rates and Entry into Entrepreneurship: Examining Incorporated and Unincorporated Self-Employment in the U.S. |
10/2 (12-1:30 pm PT) |
Stephan Goetz, Penn State | Input Output Tables and Other Data Sources for Network-Based Research in Economics and Regional Science |
10/9 | Olga Shapoval, UNR | Discontinuous Incentives and Firm Behavior: Evidence from the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program |
10/16 | Stacy Dickert-Conlin, Michigan State U | Opioids and Organs: How Overdoses Affect the Supply of Donors, Waiting Lists, and Transplant Outcomes |
10/23 | Sydnee Caldwell, UC Berkeley | Experimental Evidence on Male and Female Labor Supply |
10/30 | Nevada Day (no seminar) | |
11/6 | Sourik Banerjee, UNR | A Note on Overlapping Generations Accounting and its Implications for Interest Rate Theory |
11/13 | Kate Pennington, UC Berkeley | Does Building New Housing Cause Displacement?: Supply and Demand Effects of Construction in San Francisco |
11/20 | Benjamin Krause, UC Berkeley | Balancing Purse and Peace: Tax Collection, Public Goods and Protests |
11/27 | Day after Thanksgiving (no seminar) | |
12/4 | Mobarak Hossain, UNR | Employer and Non-employer Entrepreneurs: A Dynamic Structural Microeconometric model |
12/11 | Dalia Ghanem, UC Davis | Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments |
Fall 2020 Brown Bag Schedule
All seminars are virtual via Zoom on Wednesdays, 11:45am-12:45pm, unless otherwise noted.
Date | Speaker | Title of presentation |
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10/21 | Sukjoon Lee, UC Davis | Liquidity Premium, Credit Costs, and Optimal Monetary Policy |
10/28 | Sourik Banerjee | Should I Stay or Should I Go? - A model of participation in IMF programs |
11/4 | Peter Toth | Imputation in GMM models with nonparametric missingness structure |
11/11 | Veterans Day (no brown bag) | |
11/18 | Egan Cornachione | Pricing and Efficiency in Nevada Water Rights Markets |
12/2 | Derek Rury, UC Davis | Ability, Beliefs and College Major Choice |