Seminar Series
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars take place from 3 p.m. to 4:15 p.m in WJWH 427.
Fall 2022 |
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Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Notes | |||
| September | 16 | Arya Gaduh | Arkansas | Enhancing Social Accountability with Performance Pay: Evidence from Remote Schools in Indonesia | |||
| September | 23 | Andrew Liu | Arkansas | Labor Market Power and Worker Turnover | |||
| October | 7 | Bo Chen | SMU | Everybody's Talkin' at Me: Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers | |||
| October | 28 | Toshihiko Mukoyama | Georgetown | Firm Growth through New Establishments | |||
| November | 4 | Andrea Civelli | Arkansas | Worth the Risk? The Performance of Banks Reliant on CLO Funding | |||
| December | 2 | Xiaoyue Shan | UPenn | The Minority Trap: Minority Status Drives Women Out of Male-Dominated Fields | |||
Spring 2023 |
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Notes | |
| February 10 | Andrew Liu | Arkansas | Unconventional Monetary Policy and Labor Demand | ||
| February 23 | Sarah Bermeo | Duke | Climate Change, Migration, and Development | PLSC & INST | |
| March 3 | Daniela Puzzello | Indiana | Is Money Essential? An Experimental Approach | ||
| March 10 | James Konow | Loyola Marymount | Moral Salience and Conditional Altruism: Reconciling Jekyll and Hyde Paradoxes | ||
| March 17 | Johanna Mollerstrom | George Mason | Gender Quotas and Support for Women in Board Elections |
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| March 31 | Lindsay Dolan | Wesleyan | Conditionality and the Composition of the World Bank Staff | PLSC & INST | |
| April 7 | Melanie Khamis | Wesleyan | What happens When Men Don’t Migrate? Partnership and Fertility in a Migrant Sending Country | ||
| April 14 | Isabelle Cohen | U. Washington | Technology and the State: Building Tax Capacity via Text | ||
| April 21 | Devin Pope | Chicago | Incentives, Motivation, and Vaccination Decisions | ||
| April 28 | Tingting Ding | SUFE | Waiting for the Right Offer: Laboratory Evidence on How News Affects Bargaining and the Market for Lemons | ||
| Notes: PLSC & INST is joint with the Department of Political Science and International and Global Studies Program. These seminars will take place on Thursday from 3:30-5:00 PM. | |||||
Previous Seminar Series
Spring 2022 |
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | Notes |
| February 18 | John List | U. Chicago | The Voltage Effect |
Zoom, 1:30-3:00 |
| February 25 | Josh McGee | Arkansas | Introduction to the State of Arkansas Data and Analytics Team (ARData) and Discussion of Potential Areas for Research Collaboration | |
| March 4 | William Ridley | UIUC | Determinants of Policy Responses in the US-China Tit-for-Tat Trade War | |
| March 11 | David Wiczer | Stony Brook | Cyclical Earnings, Careers and Employment Transitions | |
| March 18 | Grace Arnold | Portland State | The Impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers Laws on Abortions and Births | |
| April 1 | Rebecca Thornton | UIUC | Learning More about Teachers: Estimating Teacher Value-Added and Treatment Effects on Teacher Value-Added in Northern Uganda | |
| April 8 | Difei Geng | Arkansas | Tariff Liberalization and the Welfare Effect of National Treatment in Product Standards | |
| April 15 | Arman Rezaee | UC Davis | The Viral Spread of COVID-19 Information: A social media experiment in Pakistan | |
| April 22 | Xiaodong Liu | CU Boulder | A Structural Network Formation Model and Its Application in R&D Networks | |
| April 29 | Yan Chen | Michigan | Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy | |
| NOTES: SC - Joint with Supply Chain, 2Y - second year paper presentation, JM - job market talk, P - professional seminar. | ||||
Fall 2021 |
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | Notes |
| September 17 | Juan Carrillo | Southern California | Dynamic coordination in efficient and fair strategies: a developmental perspective | Zoom |
| October 8 | Ahmad Shah Mobariz | Arkansas | Foreign Military Withdrawal, Male Migration, and Female Education | JM |
| October 15 | Logan Miller | Arkansas | Joint vs. Individual Performance in a Dynamic Choice Problem | JM |
| October 22 | Lichen Zhang | U. of Hong Kong | Intangibles, Concentration, and the Labor Share | |
| October 29 | Matt Knepper | U. of Georgia | Why is Workplace Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Outside Options Amid the Threat of Retaliation | Zoom |
| November 12 | Irina Panovska | UT Dallas | Jobless Recoveries and Time Variation in Labor Markets | |
| November 19 | Brian Owensby | UVA | New World of Gain: Europeans, Guaraní, and the Global Origins of Modern Economy | H/E |
| December 3 | Simin He | SHUFE | Real-time Monitoring in a Public-Goods Game | Zoom; 10 AM |
| NOTES: H/E- Joint with History and English, 2Y - second year paper presentation, JM - job market talk, P - professional seminar, Zoom - remote seminar. | ||||
Spring 2021 |
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | Notes |
| January 22 | Andrew Liu | Arkansas | The large volatility and the slow recovery of the job-finding rate | |
| February 12 | Jiabin Wu | University of Oregon | Decentralized Matching with Transfers: Noncooperative and Experimental Analyses | |
| February 26 | Remy Levin | University of Connecticut | Risk-Taking Adaptation to Macroeconomic Experiences: Theory and Evidence from Developing Countries | |
| March 5 | Andy Brownback | Arkansas | Inference from biased polls | |
| April 9 | John Duffy | UC Irvine | Rational Inattention in a Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma Experiment | |
| April 16 | Hyunseok Jung | Arkansas | Test for network structure | |
| NOTES: SC - Joint with Supply Chain, 2Y - second year paper presentation, JM - job market talk, P - professional seminar. | ||||
Fall 2020 |
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | Notes |
| September 11 | Don Koh | Arkansas | Working in the Distance: Productivity Dispersion and Labor Reallocation | |
| September 18 | Jessica White | Arkansas | Choice Overload and Charitable Giving: Can There Be Too Much of a Good Thing? | JM |
| September 25 | Sadek Yousuf | Arkansas | Exploring dynamics between conflict density, foreign aid allocation and economic growth in Africa using a Spatial VAR approach with spatially correlated disturbances | JM |
| October 2 | Braxton Gately | Arkansas | Well, at Least I Tried: Partial Willful Ignorance, Information Acquisition, and Social Preferences | JM |
| October 23 | Hanchen Jiang | University of North Texas | Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility | |
| October 30 | Andy Brownback | Arkansas | Behavioral Food Subsidies | |
| November 13 | Stephen Leider | University of Michigan | Dynamic Decision Making in Operations Management | |
| December 4 | David Dickinson | Appalachian State University | Unethical decision making and sleep restriction: Experimental evidence | |
Spring 2020 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | Notes |
| February 28 | Sergey Nigai | CU Boulder | Highways and Globalization: The Role of Domestic Trade Costs in Regional Development | |
| March 6 | Sutanuka Roy | Australian Natl U. & U. Chicago | British Colonial Legal Gender Laws and Gender Gap in Human Capital Investment: Evidence from the Child Marriage Abolition Act of 1929 | |
| March 18 | Bill Greene | NYU | Zombie Econometrics: The Linear Probability Model | POSTPONED |
| March 20 | Bo Chen | SMU | TBA | POSTPONED |
| April 3 | Ragan Petrie | Texas A&M | TBA | POSTPONED |
| April 17 | Xiaodong Liu | CU Boulder |
A structural model for the co-evolution of networks and behavior |
POSTPONED |
| April 24 | Yan Chen | Michigan | TBA | POSTPONED |
Fall 2019 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | Notes |
| September 6 | Ryan Oprea | UC Santa Barbara | What is Complex? | |
| September 13 | Nathaniel Burke | Arkansas | Willingness to Pay for Reindeer Meat: A Niche Market Adaptive Choice Experiment | 2Y |
| September 20 | Ahmad Mobariz | Arkansas | Towards reducing the inequality in higher education: Impact evaluation of an MP education program in Afghanistan | 2Y |
| September 27 | Elena Katok | UT Dallas | Supplier Competition and Cost-Saving Incentives | SC |
| October 4 | Subhayu Bandyopadhyay | St. Louis Fed | Offshoring and Trade Taxes | |
| October 18 | James Willbanks | Arkansas | Not It! Reverse Framing the Volunteer’s Dilemma | 2Y |
| October 25 | Melanie Khamis | Wesleyan University | Declining Outmigration and Local Labor Markets | |
| November 1 | Logan Miller | Arkansas | Market Completeness by Income Group | 2Y |
| November 8 | Josue Cox | NYU | The Construction of Crises: Time-To-Build and Financial Frictions in Real Estate | |
| November 15 | Kirby Nielsen | Stanford/CalTech | Are Axioms Normative? | |
| December 6 | Dunpei Gan | Arkansas | Fiscal Policy at the Lower Bound with Labor Search and Matching Frictions | |
Spring 2018 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Wed Jan 31, 4:00 - 5:30, RCED 202 | Hyunseok Jung | Syracuse University | Adaptive LASSO for Stochastic Frontier Models with Many Efficient Firms | |
| Monday Feb 5th, 4:00PM, RCED 202 | Hao Teng | University of Rochester | Social Networks and Consumer Behavior: Evidence from Yelp | |
| Thursday Feb 8th, 12:30PM, RCED 202 | Nicolas Bottan | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices and Relative Income | |
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Mar. 30, 2018** 11:30-1:00PM, WJWH 427 |
Joseph P. Price | Brigham Young University | The Contribution of the School Environment to the Overall Food Environment Experienced by Children | |
| April 6, 2018 | Ellen Fitzpatrick | University of Arkansas |
Evaluating the Asset Transfer Model in Facilitating Sustainable Livelihoods in Rural Malawi |
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| April 13, 2018 | Andrew Balthrop | University of Arkansas | Gibrat's Law in the Trucking Industry | |
Fall 2017 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Aug. 25, 2017 | Ron Harstad | University of Missouri | Efficiency Measurement via Revealed Thresholds, Without Knowing Valuations | |
| Sep. 8, 2017 | Arlo Redwine | University of Arkansas | Bribery and Tacit Collusion in Experimental Procurement Auctions | |
| Sep. 22, 2017** | Di Fang | University of Arkansas | Influence of neighborhood and school peers on BMI of elementary schoolchildren | |
| Sep. 29, 2017** | Bong Kyun Kim | University of Arkansas | Move more, Gain less: Effect of a Recreational Trail System on Childhood Body Mass Index. | |
| Oct. 13, 2017** | Aaron Novotny | University of Arkansas | Effect of WIC Participation on Relative Quality of Household Food Purchases | |
| Oct. 27, 2017** | Arya Gaduh | University of Arkansas | Unity in Diversity? Ethnicity, Migration, and Nation Building in Indonesia | |
| Dec. 1, 2017** | Andrea Civelli | University of Arkansas | Business loans and the transmission of monetary policy | |
SPRING 2017 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Jan. 20, 2017 | Jungmin Lee | Seoul National University | The Deficiency of Competitiveness: Did Socialism Fail to Foster It? | |
| Feb. 3, 2017 | Don Koh | University of Arkansas | Consumption and Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Self-Farming over the Lifecycle | |
| Feb. 10, 2017 | Michael Kuhn | University of Oregon | Mapping Food Expenditure Cycles to Missed Meals: The Importance of Being in School | |
| Feb. 17, 2017**(AGRI301A 12-1pm) | David Ortega | Michigan State University | TBA | |
| Mar. 10, 2017 | Keith Maskus | US Department of State and University of Colorado Boulder | Intellectual Property-Related Preferential Trade Agreements and the Composition of Trade | |
| April 7, 2017 | Kamal Saggi | Vanderbilt University | TBA | |
| April 14, 2017 | Douyoung Lee | University of Arkansas | Financial Variables' Predictive Content for the U.S. Economy during the Great Recession | |
| April. 21, 2017** | Stephen Devadoss | Texas Tech University | TBA | |
| April. 28, 2017 (3:30pm-5pm) | CHEW, Soo Hong | National University of Singapore | Haze and Decision Making: A Natural Laboratory Experiment | |
Fall 2016 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Oct. 14, 2016*(BBRL Brown Bag Lunch seminar) | Enno Siemsen | University of Wisconsin-Madison | TBA | |
| Oct. 21, 2016 (4-5pm) | Andrew Brownback | University of Arkansas | The Elicitation of Willingness to Pay for Stigmatized Goods | |
| Oct. 28, 2016** | Yan Yuan | Southwest University of Finance and Economics | Interlinkage between Farmland Rental and Credit Markets in China | |
| Nov. 4, 2016 | Mark DeSantis | Chapman University | When the Market Cannot Do it All: Informational Efficiency & Information Dispersion | |
| Nov. 11, 2016 | Amy Farmer | University of Arkansas | Costly Voluntary Disclosure with Negative Expected Value Suits | |
| Dec. 2, 2016**（AGRI-301A, 12-1pm) | Trey Malone | Oklahoma State University | The Excessive Choice Effect Meets the Market: Experiments on Craft Beer Choice | |
| Dec. 2, 2016 | Klajdi Bregu | University of Arkansas | Overconfidence and (Over)Trading: The Effect of Feedback on Trading Behavior | |
| **Joint AEAB and ECON seminar | ||||
Spring 2016 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Jan. 19, 3:30-5pm, WJWH427 | Russell Hillberry | World Bank | A COASIAN MODEL OF INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION CHAINS | |
| Jan. 21, 3:30-5pm, WJWH427 | Mengxiao (Michelle) Liu | University of Toronto | Global Supply Chains without Principals | |
| Jan. 22, 3:30-5pm, WJWH427 | Ibrahim Gunay | University of Michigan | Local Welfare Impact of Trade Liberalization Trans-Pacific Partnership and U.S. States | |
| Jan. 25, 3:30-5pm, RCED202 | Obie C. Porteous | UC Berkeley | High Trade Costs and Their Consequences: An Estimated Dynamic Model of African Agricultural Storage and Trade | |
| Feb. 5, 2016 | Samuel Bazzi | Boston University | Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict | |
| Feb. 29, 2016 | Difei Geng | Vanderbilt University | International Agreements on Product Standards under Consumption Externalities: National Treatment versus Mutual Recognition | |
| March 4, 2016 | Bill Dupor | St. Louis Fed | Local and Aggregate Fiscal Policy Multipliers | |
| March 11, 2016 | Jaya Jha | Colby College | U.S. Agricultural Export Competitiveness and Export Market Diversification | |
| April 8, 2016 | Muhammad Saifur Rahman | University of Arkansas | Understanding the Effect of State Level Public Debt on State Level Growth: An Empirical Study | |
| April 22, 2016 | Yu Zheng | City University of Hong Kong | The Price of Growth:Consumption Insurance in China 1989-2009 | |
| April 29, 2016 | Ari Van Assche | HEC Montréal | Functional Upgrading in China's Export Processing Sector | |
Fall 2015 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Sep. 25 | Saad Ahmad | University of Arkansas | Globalization and Inflation: A Threshold and Dynamic Panel Investigation | |
| Oct. 2* | Tim Richards | Arizona State University | Retail Market Power in a Shopping-Basket model of Supermarket Competition | |
| Oct. 23 | Subhayu Bandyopadhyay | St. Louis Fed | Does Terrorism Reduce International Trade? | |
| Dec. 4** | Scott Rozelle | Stanford University | Identifying the Source of Human Capital Inequality in China: Why China Needs a New 50 Million Child Policy | |
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* Joint AgEcon & Econ seminar, 9:30-10:30am AGRI0301A. ** Joint AgEcon & Econ seminar. |
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Spring 2015 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Feb. 13, 2015 | Don Koh | University of Arkansas | Labor Share Decline and the Capitalization of Intellectual Property Products | |
| Feb. 20, 2015 | Arya B. Gaduh | University of Arkansas | Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia | |
| Feb. 27, 2015 | Christopher Kilby | Villanova University | With a little help from my friends: Global electioneering and World Bank lending | |
| Mar. 13, 2015 | Young Jo | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Increase Children’s Weight? The Impact of Policy-Driven Income on Childhood Obesity | |
| April 24, 2015 | Peter Katuscak | University of Arkansas | How to Boost Revenues in First-Price Auctions? The Magic of Disclosing Only Winning Bids from Past Auctions | |
Fall 2014 |
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| Date & Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Seminar Title | |
| Oct. 10, 2014 | Alexander Ugarov | University of Arkansas | Technology Spillovers and Rent Sharing in Developing Countries | |
| Oct. 24, 2014 | Gema Zamarro Rodriguez | University of Arkansas | The Intergenerational Transmission of Noncognitive Skills and Their Effect on Education and Employment Outcomes | |
| Oct. 31, 2014 | Emek Basker | University of Missouri | Taken by Storm: Business Financing, Survival, and Contagion in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina | |
| Nov. 7, 2014 | Adam Cole | U.S. Department of the Treasury | Match.edu: College Choice and Assortative Matching | |
| Nov. 14, 2014 | Indranil Chakraborty | National University of Singapore | Screening and inefficiency in auctions with risk averse bidders | |
| Dec. 5, 2014 | Hongwei Song | University of Arkansas | Understanding the Relational Properties of Foreign Aid: A Social Network Perspective | |
