Seminar Series
The Department of Economics offers weekly External and Internal Seminar Series in the fall and winter terms.
Our external speakers represent a variety of economics specializations and reflect the broad range of research interests of the department. Our internal speakers also cover a variety of topics – everything from pedagogical options to faculty research in progress.
All faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend any of the seminars.
The seminars for Winter 2025 will be offered through a combination of remote and in-person delivery.
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External Seminars
Time: Fridays, 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m., unless otherwise noted
Room: LH2066 or LH4114, or remote via Zoom (see schedule)
Schedule
February
- Tuesday, February 11: Topic TBD | Jennifer Hunt, Rutgers University (*11:30 a.m., LH4114)
- February 28: Topic TBD | Asha Sundaram, University of Auckland (Remote)
March
- March 7: Topic TBD | Yongquan Cao, International Monetary Fund (*11:30 a.m., Remote)
- March 21: Topic TBD | Berta Esteve-Volart, York University (LH2066)
- March 28: Topic TBD | Stephanie Thomas, St. Mary's University (Remote)
April
- April 4: Topic TBD | Ananth Ramanarayanan, Western University (LH2066)
- April 11: Topic TBD | Fabian Lange, McGill University (*11:30 a.m., LH4114)
Internal Seminars
Time: Thursdays, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m., unless otherwise noted
Room: LH4114, unless otherwise noted
Schedule
January
- January 23: Bank of Canada Competition Finals | Christos Shiamptanis
- January 30: Topic TBD | Antonella Mancino
February
- February 6: "Misallocation of Resources, Political Connections and External Flows" | Umaima Imran (1:00 - 2:00 p.m., Room TBD)
March
- March 27: Topic TBD | David Rosé
Past Seminars
External Seminars
September
- September 13: "Incentive-Based Pay and Building Decarbonization: Experimental Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program" | Erica Myers, University of Calgary (Remote)
- September 20: "Aggregate, Regional and Sectoral Implications of Transportation Costs" | Sophie Osotimehin, Université du Québec à Montréal
- September 27: "Tordesillas, Slavery and the Origins of Brazilian Inequality" | Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia
October
- October 4: "Education and Minority Language Loss: An Examination of Welsh and the 1870 Education Act" | Ben Milner, University of Alberta
- October 25: "Inflation and Inflation Attention" | Dalibor Stevanovic, Université du Québec à Montréal
November
- November 8: "Hidden Regressivities: The Incidence of Income and Presumptive Taxes in Pakistan" | Obeid Ur Rehman, Toronto Metropolitan University
- November 15: "Money Allocation, Unemployment and Monetary Policy" | Min Zhang, East China Normal University
- November 22: "The Long-Term Effects of School Quality in Low-Income Countries: Evidence From 15 Years of Data" | Catherine Michaud-Leclerc, Université Laval
- November 29: "Coal and the Spatial Economy" | Juan Moreno-Cruz, University of Waterloo
December
- December 13: "Beefing Up the Service Sector: Commodity Exports to China and Production Network Spillovers" | Francesco Amodio, McGill University
Internal Seminars
September
- September 12: Research Funding and Partnerships | Nan Zhou, Ali Solhi
- September 19: Applying for the SSHRC Insight Grant | Justin Smith
- September 26: MABE Program Updates | Christos Shiamptanis
October
- October 3: Teaching Dossiers: A celebration of sorts | Tracy Snoddon
- October 10: Meet and Greet with the Dean | Kyle Murray
- October 24: Using gamification to teach online | Eve Lamargot
November
- November 7: Bank of Canada Competition | Christos Shiamptanis
- November 21: "Far from City Lights: Spatial Isolation and Economic Activity" | Juan Morales
- November 28: "Don't Lose Your Cool: Temperature and Gun-Violence in North America" | Nikolai Cook
December
- December 5: "Supplemental Health Insurance for Paramedical Services: a Framework to Understand Reasonable & Customary Limits" | Logan McLeod
- December 12: "Railroads, Market Access, and Indigenous Land Dispossession" | Jeff Chan
External Seminars
January
- January 19: "Voter Misperceptions and Preferences for Democratic Institutions"
| Ceren Baysan, University of Toronto - January 26: "The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies" | Jean-William Laliberté, University of Calgary
February
- February 2: "What Can We Learn About Inflation From a Regime Switching Model?" | Ruoyun Mao, University of Arkansas
- February 9: "A Dynamic Model of Health, Addiction, Education, and Wealth" | Rong Hai, University of Miami
- February 23: "Making Public Law: Artificial Intelligence for Legal Accessibility and Judicial Legitimacy" | Lena Song, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
March
- March 1: "Free Trade and the Formation of Environmental Policy: Evidence from US Legislative Votes" | Jevan Cherniwchan, McMaster University
- March 8: "Oil price assumptions for macroeconomic policy" | George Filis, University of Patras
- March 15: "Central Bank Digital Currency and Transmission of Monetary Policy" | Mohammad Davoodalhosseini, Bank of Canada
- March 22: "Norm shifting interventions and beliefs about gender norms: a behavioural study in Paraguay" | Sonia Laszlo, McGill University
April
- April 12: "Are New Keynesian Models Useful When Trend Inflation is Not Low?" | Hashmat Khan, Carleton University
- April 19: "Identifying Oil Price Shocks with Global, Developed, and Emerging Latent Real Economy Activity Factors" | Antoine Djogbenou, York University
Internal Seminars
January
- January 11: Update: Wilfrid Laurier International College | Bruce McKay, Dean, WLIC
- January 18: "Smart Classrooms and Education Outcomes: Evidence from Rwanda" (with Aimable Nsabimana and Christine Niyizamwiyitira) | Muthoni Nganga
February
- February 8: "Purse Strings Versus Heart Strings: Transmission Channels in Economics and Psychology" (with Viet Nguyen) | Edda Claus
- February 15: "Statistical Significance and Science Mobilization: Evidence from 10,404 Hypotheses in Leading Health Journals" | Nikolai Cook
March
- March 7: "Moral Characters: Social Media and US Congressional Elections" (joint with Edoardo Grillo and Allessandra Moresi) | Juan Morales
- March 14: "A Vaccination Scar: The Cutter Incident and Medical Mistrust in America" | David Rosé
- March 21: "Payments and the Provision of Privacy by Digital Platforms" | Zijian Wang
- March 28: MABE Program Update | Wing Chan
April
- April 11: "End of the Line: The Effects of Large Passenger Rail Cuts on Local Economic Outcomes" | Jeff Chan
- April 18: "Minimum wages and aggregate productivity: Evidence from Vietnam" (with Brian McCaig, Cynthia Kinnan and Margaret McMillan) | Alex Fakos, ITAM, Mexico
External Seminars
September
- September 15: "Does perceived labor market competition increase prejudice between refugees and their local hosts? Evidence from Uganda and Ethiopia" | Collette Salemi, University of Victoria
- September 22: "How Do Households Respond to Expected Inflation? An Investigation of Transmission Mechanisms" | Janet Hua Jiang, Bank of Canada
- September 29: "Can Transaction Cost Subsidies Increase Cost-effectiveness of Conservation Auctions? Evidence from Lab and Field" | Tongzhe Li, University of Guelph
October
- October 20: "Governors' Order: Twice Over-easy?" | Leo Krippner, Singapore Management University
- October 27: "The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions" | Jose P. Vasquez, London School of Economics
November
- November 3: "Politics at the Dinner Table: Thanksgiving and Family Influences on Political Opinions" | Kirsten Cornelson, Western University
- November 10: "From Bust to Boom: The Great Depression and Women's Fertility" | Joshua Lewis, Université de Montréal
- November 16: "Does Conflict Rule Racial Prejudice? Evidence from the Iraq War" | Taylor Wright
- November 17: "Strong Governments in Democracies and Economic Growth" | Kurt Annen, University of Guelph
- November 24: "News Schocks, Consumer Confidence, and Business Cycles" | Syed Hussain, James Madison University
Internal Seminars
September
- September 21: "Don't Ruin the Surprise: Temporal Aggregation Bias in Structural Innovations | Stephen Snudden
November
- November 2: Stata, markdown and LaTeX discussion | Jean Eid
- November 9: Bank of Canada Governor's Challenge | Christos Shiamptanis and the Bank of Canada team
- November 23: "Keeping the Enemies Closer: Exporting Behavior of Firms under Conflict" | Zara Liaqat
- November 30: Rapid Research Talks | Ridwan Karim, Muthoni Nganga, Ke Pang and Justin Smith
External Seminars
February
- February 3: "State dependent government spending multipliers: Downward nominal wage rigidity and sources of business cycle fluctuations" | Sarah Zubairy, Texas A&M University
- February 10: "Selective Public Schools and College Outcomes: Evidence Beyond Test Scores" | Roman Zarate, University of Toronto
March
- March 3: "Using Functional Shocks to Assess Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy in Canada" | Thorsten V. Koeppl, Queen's University (In person)
- March 17: "Unconventional Monetary Policy and Local Fiscal Policy" | Nora Traum, HEC Montréal
- March 24: "Policies of Criminal Records in Frictional Labor Markets" | Shiyun Zhang, Aarhus University
- March 31: "Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Candidate Adjustments in U.S. and French Elections" | Caroline Le Pennec, HEC Montréal
Internal Seminars
January
- January 12: Department Visit | Rob Kristofferson, WLUFA President
- January 19: "Faculty Qualifications and Sufficiency (Standard 3) - AACSB" | Logan McLeod, Department Chair
- January 26: "Laurier's data holdings and how to access them" | Matthew Rohweder, Librarian & Michael Steeleworthy, Data Librarian
February
- February 2: MABE Program | Wing Chan
- February 9: "The Impact of the 2017 Women's March on Female Political Representation" | Alessandra Moresi
- February 16: Co-op Office Information Session | Colleen Myronyk, Co-op Director and Laurie Lahn, Associate Director Co-op and External Relations
March
- March 2: "Uncovered Interest Parity" | Nusrate Aziz
- March 9: Topic TBD | David Rosé
- March 16: "Inter-generational education transmission: why is it different for Indigenous peoples in Canada than others?" | Christine Neill
- March 23: "Can online backlash stifle free speech?" | Juan S. Morales
- March 30: "Overeducation and Earnings: A comparison of 'Straight', Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual millennials" | Colin Mang
April
- April 6: AACSB Accreditation | Kalyani Menon, Interim Dean, Lazaridis School
External Seminars
September
- September 9: "Multinational enforcement of labor law: Experimental evidence on strengthening occupational safety and health (OSH) committees" | Laura Boudreau, Columbia Business School
- September 16: "The Impact of the US-China Trade War on Taiwan's International Trade" | Loretta Fung, National Tsing Hua University
- September 23: "College education, intelligence, and disadvantage: policy lessons from the UK in 1960-2004" | Giulio Zanella, University of Bologna
- September 30: "It Takes Time: The Asymmetric Impacts of Imposing and Removing a Teacher Incentive Scheme" | Michael Gilraine, New York University
October
- October 21: "Teacher Flexibility and School Productivity: Evidence from a Remedial Education Program in India" | Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware
- October 28: "The effect of universal full-day Kindergarten on student achievement" | Brian Krauth, Simon Fraser University
November
- November 4: "Who Knows? The Effect of Information Access on Social Network Centrality" | Laura Derkson, University of Toronto
- November 11: "Financial Technology and the Transmission of Monetary Policy: The Role of Social Networks" | Xiaoqing Zhou, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- November 18: Topic TBD | Tianyi Wang, University of Toronto
- November 25: "Green Patents in an Oligopolistic Market with Green Consumers" | Corinne Langinier, University of Alberta
Internal Seminars
September
- September 15: "One Bed, Two Dreams: Female Migration, Conservative Norms and Foreign Brides in South Korea" | Giulia Briselli, PhD Candidate, Collegio Carlo Alberto
- September 22: Brief introduction and Q&A about services and resources | Sherrie Steinberg, Manager Counselling Services, Student Wellness Centre
- September 29: Discussion of the MABE Program | Wing Chan
October
- October 6: "We need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us About Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments" | Nikolai Cook
- October 27: Economic Outlook 2023 | Antonella Mancino
November
- November 3: "Who is the External Relations team? What do they do? Why would I want to help them out?" | Kate Tippin, Director of External Relations, Lazaridis School of Business & Economics
- November 17: "The Local Effects of the First Golden Age of Globalization: Evidence from American Ports, 1870-1900" | Jeff Chan
- November 24: "Labour market adjustment to new export opportunities: Evidence from Vietnam" | Brian McCaig
December
- December 1: "Signaling Worker's Quality: Lessons from a Certification Program in Colombia" | Antonella Mancino
External Seminars
January
- Jan. 7: "Debt sustainability and fiscal space in a heterogeneous Monetary Union: Normal times vs the zero lower bound" | Wenyi Shen, Oklahoma State University
- Jan. 14: "Global Risk and the Dollar" | Georgios Georgiadis, European Central Bank
- Jan. 21: "Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development" | Michela Giorcelli, UCLA
- Jan. 28: "Trade Liberalization and Child Mental Health in China" | Bilge Erten, Northeastern University
February
- Feb. 4: "On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access" | Francesco Agostinelli, University of Pennsylvania
- Feb. 11: "Bank Market Power and Central Bank Digital Currency: Theory and Quantitative Assessment" | Jonathan Chiu, Bank of Canada
March
- March 4: "The Politics of Drought Relief: Evidence from Southern India" | Lisa Tarquinio, Western University
- March 11: "Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice" | Pamela Jakiela, Williams College
- March 18: "Returns to Skill and the Evolution of Skills for Older Men" | Qian Liu, Brock University
- March 25: "Covid and the Labour Market" | Casey Warman, Dalhousie University
April
- April 8: "Mass Incarceration and Stopped Convergence in Black-White Educational Attainment" | Sitian Liu, Queen's University
- April 22: "Manager Selection, Sorting, and Demotion in the Public Sector" | Renata Lemos, World Bank
Internal Seminars
January
- Jan. 20: "The Global Safe Asset Shortage: Why it Matters for Canada" | Wendy Wu
- Jan. 27: "Special Economic Zones in Vietnam" | Brian McCaig
February
- Feb. 3: Topic TBD | David Rosé
- Feb. 10: “Remittances and Inequality” | Colin Mang
- Feb. 17: “Oligopoly Banking, Risky Investment and Monetary Policy” | Zijian Wang
March
- March 3: WLUFA Update | Rob Kristofferson, WLUFA President
- March 10: “Idiosyncratic Asset Return and Wage Risk of US Households” | Stephen Snudden
- March 17: “Pessimistic Workers” | Edda Claus
- March 24: "Prison-Based Training Programs, Recidivism, and Employment" | Antonella Mancino
- March 31: Strategic Planning Initiative | Christine Neill, Tammy Schirle
April
- April 21: "Variation in high school grading: Evidence from Alberta, Canada" | David Johnson
External Seminars
September
- Sept. 10: "What to tax? The macroeconomic and distributional effects of two progressive tax reforms" | Markus Poschke, McGill University
- Sept. 17: "Uncertain Policy Regimes and Government Spending Effects" | Shu-Chun Yang, Instititute of Economics, Academia Sinica
- Sept. 24: "Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa" | Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
October
- Oct. 1: "Trade with Correlation" | Natalia Ramondo, Boston University
- Oct. 22: "A Model of Retail Banking and the Deposits Channel of Monetary Policy" | Guillaume Rocheteau, University of California
- Oct. 29: "The Dynamics of Loneliness and the Labor Market Participation: Evidence from Australia" | Antoine Dedewanou, Carleton University
November
- Nov. 5: "Who Benefits from Meritocracy?" | Santiago Perez, University of California (Davis)
- Nov. 12: "Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths" | Rob Gillezeau, University of Victoria
- Nov. 19: "Death by Capitalism: Quantifying 'Social Murder'" | Mukesh Eswaran, Vancouver School of Economics (UBC)
- Nov. 26: "Accountability and Grand Corruption" | Cesar Martinelli, George Mason University