Seminars

Fall 2024

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
Wednesday, August 28th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop	Kirby 103	Marlon Azinovic, Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill	TBA
Wednesday, September 18th @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop	Kirby 103	Alexander Marsh, PhD Student @ UNC Chapel Hill	TBA
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, Associate Professor, Darla Moore School of Business	“Wildfires, Smoke Pollution, and Household Purchasing Behaviors”
Wednesday, October 23rd @ 3:30 pm Jr. Faculty Workshop	Kirby 103	Hannah Postel, Assistant Professor, Duke Sanford	TBA
Thursday, November 7th	Kirby B02	Paul Ferraro, Professor, John Hopkins	TBA
Wednesday, November 13th Jr. Faculty Workshop	Kirby 103	Daniel Soques, Associate Professor, UNC Wilmington	TBA
Wednesday, November 20th @ 3:00 pm	Kirby 103	Santiago Perez, Associate Professor, UC Davis	“College Dynasties”

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”