Seminars

Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
Friday, April 5th @ 3:00 pm	Kirby B02	John Haltiwanger University of Maryland	“Whither Technological Innovation, Business Dynamism and Productivity”
Friday, April 12th @ 3:00 pm	Kirby 103	Matthias Kehrig Duke Unviversity	“Within-firm and between-firm job flows and productivity”
Wednesday, April 17th @ 3:30 pm	Kirby 103	Michael Owyang Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis	https://research.stlouisfed.org/econ/owyang
Friday, April 26th @ 3:00 pm	Kirby 104	Ariell Zimran  Vanderbilt University	TBA

Fall 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
Friday, September 15th @ noon Junior Faculty Workshop	Kirby 103	Brian Marein Wake Forest University Economics	“Narrow paths out of poverty and educational demand: Evidence from the Dominican baseball”
Friday, September 22nd @ 3:00 pm	Kirby 103	Imke Reimers Cornell University	“A Framework for Detection, Measurement, and Welfare Analysis of Platform Bias”
Friday, September 29th @ 3:00 pm	Kirby 103	Jonathan Williams University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	“Steering Incentives of Gatekeepers in the Telecommunications Industry”
Friday, October 6th @ 11 am Junior Faculty Workshop	Manchester 121	Aeimit Lakdawala Wake Forest University	“Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomics Forecasts”
Friday, October 20th @ 12 pm Junior Faculty Workshop	Kirby 103	Leah Lakdawala Wake Forest University	“Frosty Climate, Icy Relationships: Frosts and Intimate Partner Violence in Peru”
Friday, November 10th @ 12 pm Junior Faculty Workshop	Kirby 103	Aeimit Lakdawala and Andre Mouton Wake Forest University	“Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts” and “What Drives West German Wage Sorting?”
Monday, November 13th @ 3:15 pm	Kirby 103	Kurt Lunsford Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland	Business Cycles and Low-Frequency Fluctuations in the US Unemployment Rate (clevelandfed.org)
Friday, December 1st @ 3:00 pm	Kirby 103	Adrienne Lucas University of Delaware	“Learning Beyond School: Another Chance for Out of School Adolescent Girls in Pakistan”

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Spring 2023

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
March 15th @ 3:30 pm	Kirby 103	Ezgi Cengiz NC State	“Is Traditional Advertising Effective? New Evidence from Mass-produced Lager Beer in the U.S.”
April 7th @ 3:30 pm	Kirby 103	Paul Gaggl UNC Charlotte	“Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth”
April 14th @ 2:00 pm	Kirby 102	Marie Hull UNC Greensboro	“Public Insurance Coverage and Child Development: Evidence from Medicaid and CHIP Expansions”
April 19th @ 3:30 pm	Kirby 103	Noémie Pinardon-Touati  Columbia University	“The Crowding Out Effect of Local Government Debt: Micro-and Macro-Estimates.”
April 24th @ 3:30 pm	Kirby 103	Kevin Roberts Duke University	“Firm Pay Policy and the Personal Labor Market Experiences of Business Owners”

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Fall 2022

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
August 31st @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby 103	Aeimit Lakdawala Wake Forest University	“Partisan Bias in Professional Macroeconomic Forecasts”
September 7 @ 3:30 p.m.	Virtual	Derek Lemoine  University of Arizona	“Informationally Efficient Climate Policy: Designing Markets to Measure and Price Externalities”
September 12 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby B02	Gary A. Hoover Tulane University	“Plagiarism in the Social Sciences”
September 20 @ 3:15 p.m.	Manchester 229	Viral Acharya New York University	“Liquidity Dependence: Why Shrinking Central Bank Balance Sheets is an Uphill Task
September 28 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby 103	André Mouton Wake Forest University	“Partial Job Automation”
October 3 @ 4 p.m.	Kirby 103	Maria-Jose Carreras-Valle Purdue University	“Increasing Inventories:  The Role of Delivery Times”
October 12 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby 103	Andreea Rotarescu Wake Forest University	“Estimating Dynamic Spillover Effects along Multiple Networks in a Linear Panel Model”
November 9 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby 103	Laura Castillo-Martinez Duke University	“Firm Exit and Financial Frictions”
November 16 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby 103	Leah Lakdawala and Alex Yu Wake Forest University	“Extreme Cold and Political Trust: Evidence from the Peruvian Highlands” and “Identifying Chronic Traffic-related Air Pollution’s Causal Effects on COVID-19 Outcomes: Beware Correlation Between Demographics and Local Air Quality”.
November 30 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby 103	Daisoon Kim NC State University	“Aggregate Fluctuations from Clustered Micro Shocks”

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Spring 2022

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
April 11 @ 10 a.m. EST	Virtual	Luis Aguiar  University of Zurich	“Digitization and the Gender Gap in Product Ratings: Evidence from the Movies”

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Fall 2021

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
September 22 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby B02	Robyn Meeks  Duke University	“Smart Meters and the Benefits from Electricity Quality Improvements”
September 27 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby B02	Peter Arcidiacono  Duke University	“Equilibrium Grade Inflation with Implications for Female Interest in STEM Majors”
October 5 @ 11 a.m.	Virtual	Alessandro Tarozzi  Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE	“The Rise and Fall of SES Gradients in Heights around the World”
November 29 @ 3:30 p.m.	Kirby B02	Francis Wong  UC Berkeley/NBER	“Racial Disparities in Housing Returns”

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Spring 2021

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
February 8 @ 10 a.m.	Virtual	Christian Peukert  University of Lausanne	“Digitization and Market Efficiency: Evidence from Bookpublishing Deals”
February 23 @ 3:30 p.m.	Virtual	Tatyana Deryugina  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	“Pollution and Mortality in the United States: Evidence from 1972-1988”
March 17 @ 3:30 p.m.	Virtual	Paul Rhode  University of Michigan	“Slave Productivity in Cotton Picking” with Alan Olmstead
March 31 @ 3:30 p.m.	Virtual	Celeste Carruthers  University of Tennesee-Knoxville	““Free College” Promises, High School Achievement, and College Enrollment” with Jonathon Attridge
April 28 @ 3:30 p.m.	Virtual	Anusha Chari  UNC-Chapel Hill	“Capital Flows in Risky Times: Risk-on/Risk-off and Emerging Market Tail Risk”