Seminars
Join Our Economics Seminars
The WFU Economics Department hosts regular economics seminars in applied microeconomics and macroeconomics, featuring visiting scholars from leading institutions. Faculty and researchers from nearby universities are welcome to attend.
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Seminars typically meet Wednesdays at 3:30pm. Individual meetings with speakers may be arranged by contacting the relevant host.
Spring 2026
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Wednesday, January 14th @ 3:30 pm Macro Workshop | Kirby 103 | Andrii Babii University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill | TBA |
| Wednesday, January 28th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Tatevik Sekhposyan Texas A & M | TBA |
| Friday, February 6th @ 3:30 pm Macro Workshop | Kirby 103 | Maria Olivero Swarthmore College | TBA |
| Wednesday, February 11th @ 3:30 pm Applied Micro Workshop | Kirby 103 | Fernanda Rojas Ampuero University of Wisconsin -Madison | TBA |
| Friday, February 20th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Jing Cynthia Wu University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign | TBA |
| Monday, February 23rd @ 4:00 pm (reception held in the Kirby Atrium @ 2pm) | Kirby B02 | Daniel B. Klein George Mason University | “The Moral Authority of ’76: Adam Smith Today.” |
| Wednesday, February 25th @ 4:00 pm | Kirby B02 | Sandeep Mazumder President of Berry College | TBA |
| Monday, March 2nd @ 3:30 pm Applied Micro Workshop | Kirby 103 | Samuel Barker UNC Chapel Hill | TBA |
| Wednesday, March 18th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Anna Cieslak Duke University | TBA |
| Tuesday, March 24th @ 4:00 pm | Kirby B02 | Natalie Bau UCLA | TBA |
| Friday, March 27th @ 10:00 am | TBA | Laura Starks University of Texas, Austin | TBA |
| Friday, April 3rd @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Christy Zhou Clemson University | TBA |
| Friday, April 24th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Mariaflavia (Nina) Harari University of Pennsylvania | TBA |
Fall 2025
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Wednesday, September 10th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Andre Mouton Wake Forest University | TBA |
| Friday, September 12th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Rob Garlick Duke University | “Flexibility versus Performance: The Determinants of Labor Contracts in Nairobi, Kenya“ |
| Wednesday, September 17th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Andreea Rotarescu and Alex Yu, Wake Forest University | TBA |
| Wednesday, September 24th @ 4:00 pm | Kirby B02 | Gaurav Khanna University of California, San Diego | The Migration of Skills: Brain Drain, Brain Gain, and Innovation |
| Wednesday, October 1st @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Brian Marein Wake Forest University | TBA |
| Friday, October 17th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Abhiprerna Smit William & Mary | TBA |
| Wednesday, October 29th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Brian McManus UNC | “Dynamic Treatment Choices and Selection into RCTs: Evidence from Prostate Cancer.” |
| Friday, November 14th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Zachary Ward Baylor University | TBA |
| Wednesday, November 19th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Jinyoung Seo and Fabiola Alba-Vivar Wake Forest University | TBA |
Spring 2025
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Friday, February 28th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Andrew Dustan College of William & Mary | “Public-private partnerships in education: Experimental evidence from Colombia” |
| Wednesday, March 5th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Enghin Atalay, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | TBA |
| Friday, March 28th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Ana Herrera, University of Kentucky | TBA |
| Friday, April 4th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Michael Dinerstein, Duke University | “Student Loan Forgiveness” |
| Tuesday, April 8th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 121 | Francesco Bianchi, John Hopkins University | Smooth Diagnostic Expectations with Cosmin Ilut and Hikaru Saijo |
| Friday, April 11th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 104 | Paulo Lins, Clemson University | Consumption’s Response to Permanent Income: The Role of Consumption Commitments |
| Wednesday, April 16th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Zhenxuan Wang NC State University | TBA |
| Wednesday, April 23rd @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Hannah Postel Duke University | TBA |
Fall 2024
| Date | Location | Speaker | Topic |
| Wednesday, August 28th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Marlon Azinovic, UNC Chapel Hill | Intergenerational Consequences of Rare Disasters |
| Wednesday, September 18th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Alexander Marsh, UNC Chapel Hill | “Revenue Management with Reallocation.” |
| Monday, September 23rd @ 3:00 pm | Kirby 103 | Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | “Bank financing of global supply chains” |
| Friday, October 11th @ 3:00 pm | Kirby 103 | Tamara Sheldon, Darla Moore School of Business | “Wildfires, Smoke Pollution, and Household Purchasing Behaviors” |
| Wednesday, October 16th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Khushboo Thakkar UNC Chapel Hill | “The Macroeconomic Consequences of Government Spending (Re)Allocation” |
| Friday, November 1st @ 3:00 pm | Kirby 104 | Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania | “Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence Across Generations: Free College or Better Schools?” |
| Thursday, November 7th @ 4 pm | Greene 145 | Paul Ferraro, John Hopkins | “Alleviating Poverty without Endangering Biodiversity and Ecosystems” |
| Wednesday, November 13th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop | Kirby 103 | Daniel Soques, UNC Wilmington | “Perfect Recession Predictors” |
| Wednesday, November 20th @ 3:30 pm | Kirby 103 | Santiago Perez, UC Davis | “The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century” |
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” |
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” |
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” |
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” |
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” |
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” |