Seminars

Seminars in the Center for Research on International Economics and the Department of Economics

This semester all seminars will be held in Lubar College of Business, Room S195 at 2:00-3:30pm.

Spring 2024 Seminars Schedule

February 2, 2024
Jonathan Rose, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
“Blockbusting and the Challenges Faced by Black Families in Building Wealth through Housing in the Postwar United States”.

February 9, 2024
Christopher Udry, Northwestern University
“Structural Change and Declining Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa”.

February 23, 2024
Victoria Prowse, Purdue University
“The Creativity Premium: Exploring the Link Between Childhood Creativity and Life Outcomes”.

March 8, 2024
TBA
“TBA”.

March 15, 2024
Karam Kang, UW-Madison
“Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market”.

March 29, 2024
Dave McEvoy, Appalachian University
“The effect of solar geoengineering technologies on climate cooperation”.

April 5, 2024
Andrew “Lee” Smith, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
 Maintaining the Anchor: An Evaluation of Inflation Targeting in the Face of COVID-19”.

April 12, 2024
Yongheng Deng, UW-Madison
“Online Learning and the Education Gap: A Digital Footprint Approach”.

April 19, 2024
George Gayle, Washington University in St. Luois
“The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave: Exploiting Forty Years of US Policy Variation ”.

April 26, 2024
Neele Balke, University of Chicago
“TBA”.