Seminar Series & Brown Bags
Join us for outstanding presentations from accomplished presenters.
Coordinators: Kym Pram (Committee Chair), Anaka Aiyar, Frank Fossen, Anna Sokolova, Dilek Uz.
Spring 2022 Seminar Series schedule
- All seminars are on Fridays, 3:00-4:30pm, unless otherwise noted.
- Contact Ashley Melendez at apmelendez@unr.edu for the in-person location or the Zoom link.
| Date | Format | Speaker | Title of presentation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/28 | Zoom | Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University | The Good Wife? Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household |
| 2/4 | In-person | Alexander James, University of Alaska | Geography, Geology and Regional Economic Development |
| 2/11 | n/a | No seminar | n/a |
| 2/18 | Zoom | Andrew Bibler, UNLV | Is Sharing Really Caring? The Effect of Airbnb on Housing Prices and Affordability |
| 2/25 | Zoom | Joel Watson, UC San Diego | Contractual Chains |
| 3/4 | In-person | Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware | Teacher Autonomy and School Productivity: Remedial Education in Indian Secondary Schools |
| 3/11 | Zoom | Gigi Foster, University of New South Wales | The Great Covid Panic: How it happened and the tragedy it caused |
| 3/18 | n/a | No seminar - Spring Break | n/a |
| 3/25 | Zoom (10 a.m.) | Herbert Dawid, Bielefeld University | Digitization, Industry Dynamics and (Global) Value Chains: an Agent-based Analysis |
| 4/1 | n/a | No seminar | n/a |
| 4/8 | In-person | Ellen Bruno, UC Berkeley | The Dynamic Impacts of Pricing Externalities: Groundwater and Agricultural Land Use |
| 4/15 | n/a | No seminar | n/a |
| 4/22 | In-person | Daniel Houser, George Mason University | Using merit-based default to reduce the gender-gap in the contribution of ideas: Evidence from an online experiment. |
| 4/29 | Zoom | Anna Stansbury, MIT | Employer Concentration and Outside Options |
| 5/6 | In-person | Hector Chade, Arizona State University | Multidimensional Screening and Menu Design in Health Insurance Markets |
| 5/13 | In-person | Krista Ruffini, Georgetown University | Minimum Wages and Employment Composition |
Spring 2022 Brown Bag schedule
Bring your lunch and join us for presentations and discussions with our Economics faculty.
- All Brown Bags are virtual via Zoom on Wednesdays, 11:45am-12:45pm, unless otherwise noted.
- Contact Ashley Melendez at apmelendez@unr.edu for the Zoom link.
| Date | Speaker | Title of presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 3/2 | Nathan Wiseman | Ethics and Economic Choice: An Exploration of Endogenous and Constructive Preferences and Specifications for an Agent-Based Model |
| 3/9 | Aina Katsikas | TBA |
| 3/16 | n/a | No seminar - Spring Break |
| 3/23 | Nathan Wiseman | Agent-Based Core-Periphery Model |
| 3/30 | Bernard Baah-Kumi | Institutional adjustments for adapting to climate stress in snow-fed basins |
Economics seminar archive
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