Spring 2023
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
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.

Fall 2022
Date			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 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 13, 2018	Andrew Balthrop	University of Arkansas	Gibrat's Law in the Trucking Industry
Fall 2017
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
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
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
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
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
* Joint AgEcon & Econ seminar, 9:30-10:30am AGRI0301A. ** Joint AgEcon & Econ seminar.
Spring 2015
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
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