Seminar Series
We are grateful for the generous support of our emeriti, alumni, and departmental friends who have sponsored the naming of the seminar series in the Department of Economics. The Seminar Series is organized by Assistant Professor of Economics Dongchen Zhao, PhD.
2024 Speakers
Tarun Sabarwal, University of Kansas
- Seminar Title: Computable Comparative Statics of Equilibria
- Date: Monday, October 14, 2024
- Time: 2-3 p.m.
- Reception to follow: 3-3:30 p.m.
- Location: 1115 Lindner Hall, 2906 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45221
- Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Saroj Bhattarai, University of Texas at Austin
- Seminar Title: TBD
- Date: Friday, October 18, 2024
- Time: 2-3 p.m.
- Reception to follow: 3-3:30 p.m.
- Location: 1115 Lindner Hall, 2906 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45221
- Organizer: Dongchen Zhao
Simon C. Buechler, Miami University
- Seminar Title: TBD
- Date: Friday, November 1, 2024
- Time: 2-3 p.m.
- Reception to follow: 3-3:30 p.m.
- Location: 1115 Lindner Hall, 2906 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45221
- Organizer: David Brasington
Bernard Cornet, University of Kansas
- Seminar Title: Dynamics of Exchange and Planning
- Date: Friday, September 13, 2024
- Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Anne Villamil, University of Iowa
- Seminar Title: Bankruptcy Dynamics
- Date: Friday, March 29, 2024
- Organizer: Dongchen Zhao
Nicholas Yannelis, University of Iowa
- Seminar Title: On the limit points of an infinitely repeated rational expectations equilibrium
- Date: Thursday, March 28, 2024
- Organizer: Dongchen Zhao
Giulia Iannone, Gran Sasso Science Institute
- Seminar Title: Combining Productivity and Economic Resilience in European Regions
- Date: Friday, March 22, 2024
- Organizer: Dongchen Zhao
John W. Keating, University of Kansas
- Seminar Title: A New Interpretation of the Volcker Disinflation, Money Growth Targeting, and the Monetarist Experiment
- Date: Friday, March 8, 2024
- Organizer: Dongchen Zhao
Matthew Ferranti, University of Cincinnati
- Seminar Title: International Reserve Currency Composition as a Signaling Device
- Date: Friday, February 9, 2024
- Organizer: Dongchen Zhao
Tilman Borgers, University of Michigan
- April 24, 2020
- Organizer: Rene Saran
Rick Harbaugh, Indiana University
- Seminar Title: Subversive Conversations
- Date: Friday, April 3, 2020
- Organizer: Rene Saran
SeHai-Anh Dang, World Bank
Seminar Title: Alternative Way to Tackle Survey Bias: Measuring Farm Labor in Tanzania with Multiple Imputations
February 28, 2020
Organizer: Nayoung Lee
William Ederington, University of Kentucky
Seminar Title: Equity and Efficiency Trade-offs in International
February 21, 2020
Organizer: Rene Saran
Stefano Barbieri, Tulane University
Seminar Title: Winners’ Efforts in Team Contests
November 8, 2019
Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Wojciech Olszewski, Northwestern University
Seminar Title: Effective Communication in Cheap Talk Games
October 4, 2019
Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University
Lecture Title: Are American Companies Badly Managed?
October 18, 2019
Organizer: Debashis Pal
Michael Kramm, Technical University Dortmund
Seminar Title: Information Design in Multi-Task Contests - Whom to Inform When the Importance of Tasks Is Uncertain
September 13, 2019
Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Shurojit Chatterji, Singapore Management University
Seminar Title: Decentralizability of Efficient Allocations with Heterogeneous Forecasts
May 6, 2019
Organizer: Rene Saran
Nick Netzer, University of Zurich
Workshop Title: Behavioral Welfare Economics
April 26, 2019
Organizer: Rene Saran
Chris Cunningham, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Seminar Title: Foreclosure Externalities and Vacant Property Ordinances
April 19, 2019
Organizer: David Brasington
Subir K. Chakrabarti, IUPUI
Seminar Title: Markovian dynamics in asynchronous stochastic models
April 5, 2019
Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Wolfgang Leininger, Technical University Dortmund
Seminar Title: Optimal Favoritism in Contests with Complete Information: The (almost) complete Theory
March 12, 2019
Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Paul J. Healy, Ohio State University
Seminar Title: Belief-Free Strategies in Repeated Games with Stochastically-Perfect Monitoring: An Experimental Test
March 1, 2019
Organizer: Rene Saran
Silvana Krasteva, Texas A&M University
Seminar Title: Informative fundraising: The signaling value of seed money and matching gifts
February 15, 2019
Organizer: Debashis Pal
Toshihiro Matsumura, University of Tokyo
Seminar Title: “Energy policy in Post Fukushima Japan”
November 2, 2018
Organizer: Debashis Pal
Huseyin Yildirim, Duke University
Seminar Title: “Biased Experts, Majority Rule, and the Optimal Composition of Committee”
October 26, 2018
Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan
Seminar Title: "Our changing lives: Work, family, and policy in a time of rising gender equality"
October 19, 2018
Organizer: Debashis Pal
Victoria Perez, Indiana University
Seminar Title: "Can We Trust Local Governments? Evidence from the Affordable Care Act on Local Government Support for Hospitals"
September 28, 2018
Organizer: Lenisa Chang
George Polak, Wright State University
Seminar Title: "ARIMA Mining: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting by Mathematical Programming"
October 5, 2018
Organizer: Olivier Parent
Charles Hokayem, US Census Bureau
Seminar Title: “Earnings Nonresponse, Earnings Volatility, and Working in KRDC”
September 21, 2018
Organizer: Michael Jones
Zheng Li, North Carolina State University
Seminar Title: Nonparametric Identification and Inference of First-Price Auctions with Heterogeneous Bidders
April 20, 2018
Organizer: Olivier Parent
Benjamin Sommers, Harvard University
Seminar Title: The Medicaid Expansions under the ACA and Future Policy
April 16, 2018
Organizer: Lenisa Chang
Michelle Marcus, Vanderbilt University
April 13, 2018
Organizer: Lenisa Chang
Richard Brown, FDIC
March 9, 2018
Organizer: Debashis Pal
Norovsambuu Tumennasan, Dalhousie University
Seminar Title: One truth and a thousand lies: Focal Points in Mechanism Design
February 22, 2018
Organizer: René Saran
Jim Dworkin, Purdue University
Workshop on negotiation
February 23, 2018
Organizer: Debashis Pal
Alex Mourmouras, IMF
Seminar Title: On Nations’ Economic Success: Results from a Welfare-based Measure.
November 15, 2017
Organizer: Erwin Erhardt
Felix Chang, College of Law, UC
Seminar Title: Workshop in Industrial Organization
November 4, 2017
Organizer: Olivier Parent
Miles Corak, University of Ottawa.
Seminar Title: Inequality, Life Chances, and Public Policy: How to Slide Down the Great Gatsby Curve
October 27, 2017
Organizer: Debashis Pal
Maximilian Todtenhaupt, University of Mannheim and ZEW
Seminar Title: Fiscal Competition and Public Debt
September 22, 2017
Organizer: Olivier Parent
Nam Vu, Miami University
Seminar Title: Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Help Those Most in Need? A County-Level Analysis
September 8, 2017
Organizer: Olivier Parent
Ron Siegel, Penn State University
Pareto Improvements in the Contest for College Admissions
April 14, 2017
Organizer: Iryna Topolyan
David Frankel, Iowa State University
Portfolio Liquidation and Security Design with Private Information
January 19, 2017
Organizer: David Brasington