Haslam College of Business Brown Bag Workshops

Brown Bag Workshops

The Brown Bag Workshops hosted by the Department of Economics are held Fridays at noon in Haslam Business Building, room 132, unless otherwise noted.

Spring 2024 Schedule

• January 26, 2024
  John Mayo
• February 2, 2024
  James Lake
• February 9, 2024
  Micah Villareal
• February 16, 2024
  Maria Padilla-Romo
• February 23, 2024
  Matt Van Essen
• March 1, 2024
  Trenton Marable
• March 8, 2024
  Xin Jin
• April 12, 2024
  Chris Jepsen
• April 19, 2024
  Kaden Grace
• April 26, 2024
  Thomas Verville
• May 3, 2024
  Trinity Douglass
• May 10, 2024
  Linnea Endersby
• May 17, 2024
  Debanjali Dasgupta

Fall 2023 Schedule

• August 25, 2023
  Ryan Swartzentruber
• September 1, 2023
  Ketki Sheth
• September 8, 2023
  Alannah Shute
• September 15, 2023
  Maria Padilla-Romo
• September 22, 2023
  Prabuddha Prakash
• September 29, 2023
  Prubesh Balgobin
• October 6, 2023
  Nate Neligh
• October 13, 2023
  Diego Guerrero
• October 27, 2023
  Michael Kofoed
• November 3, 2023
  Ivan Anich
• November 3, 2023
  Lucas Garcez
• November 10, 2023
  Gabe Abeyie
• November 17, 2023
  Trinity Douglas
• November 24, 2023
  Thanksgiving
• December 1, 2023
  Matt Harris

Spring 2023 Schedule

• January 20, 2023
  Cathy Wu – Paper Title: “Do Wildfires Harm Students Learning?”
• February 3, 2023
  James Lake – Paper Title: “Tokyo Drift: US Specific Tariffs Around the Tokyo GATT Round”
• February 10, 2023
  Nate Neligh – Paper Title: “Active Memory Re-encoding”
• February 17, 2023
  Matt Van Essen – Paper Title: “Wisdom of the ‘Bidding’ Crowd”
• March 10, 2023
  Andrew Hanson – Paper Title: “Lender of Last Rites: Impact of Foreign US Treasury Demand”
• March 17, 2023
  Spring Break – No Seminar
• March 24, 2023
  Seth Neller – Paper Title: “Do Place-Based Factors Affect Healthcare System Choice? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veteran Movers”
• March 31, 2023
  Diego Guerrero – Paper Title: “Business as Usual? The impact of the EITC on firm dynamics”
• April 14, 2023
  Lucas Garcez – Paper Title: “My Parents Are Not Home: Parental Employment and Teenage Fertility.”
• May 5, 2023
  Gabriel Abeyie – Paper Title: “Identifying Oil Price Shocks Using Oil Market Reports: A Textual Analysis”
• May 12, 2023
  Ivan Anich – Paper Title: ““Exceptional Dispatch: How Potential Solar Generation Breaks the Electric Grid”

Fall 2022 Schedule

• Wednesday, August 24, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, August 31, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, September 7, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, September 14, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, September 21, 2022
  Ivan Anich – Paper Title: “How trade affects adoption of emissions abatement equipment”
• Wednesday, September 28, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, October 5, 2022
  Alecia Evans – Post-doctoral scholar in the Baker Center will present – Paper title: “Noisy Payoffs in an Infinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma – Experimental Evidence”
• Wednesday, October 12, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, October 19, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, October 26, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, November 2, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, November 9, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, November 16, 2022
  TBD
• Wednesday, November 30, 2022
  TBD

Spring 2022 Schedule

• Friday, March 11, 2022
  Prubesh Balgobin – Paper Title: “Empirical assessment of the impact of (California) Protected Areas on the location choice of industrial establishments. A county level approach”
• Friday, March 25, 2022
  Michael Brown – Paper Title: “Effects of Air Pollution on Physical Performance”
• Friday, April 1, 2022
  Lucas Garcez – Paper Title: “Provision of Education and Teenage Fertility”
• Friday, April 8, 2022
  Diego Guerrero – Paper Title: “Do slum upgrading programs impact school attendance? Evidence from Uruguay”
• Friday, April 22, 2022
  Dressel Cruz – Paper Title: “Tax Competition and its Fiscal Effects on Local Governments”
• Friday, April 29, 2022
  TBD
• Friday, May 6, 2022
  TBD
• Friday, May 13, 2022
  Alannah Shute

Fall 2021 Schedule

• Friday, August 27, 2021
  Richard Beem – Paper Title: “Broadband Internet and Business Activity.”
• Friday, September 3, 2021
  Vasudha Chopra – Paper Title: “Are we doing more harm than good? Hypothetical bias correction techniques in potentially consequential survey settings”
• Friday, September 10, 2021
  Bokseong Jeong – Paper Title: “Behavioral Responses to Changes in Enforcement Priorities”
• Friday, October 8, 2021
  Ge Wu – Paper Title: “Do Wildfires Harm Students Learning?”
• Friday, October 15, 2021
  Ivan Anich
• Friday, October 22, 2021
  Prubesh Balgobin
• Friday, October 29, 2021
  Michael Brown
• Friday, November 5, 2021
  Lucas Garcez
• Friday, November 12, 2021
  Diego Guerrero
• Friday, November 19, 2021
  Dressel Ruiz
• Friday, December 3, 2021
  Ben Blachly
• Friday, December 10, 2021
  TBD

Spring 2021 Schedule

• Wednesday, February 10, 2021
  Bokseong Jeong – Paper Title: “Refugees and Crime in Germany (Revised)”
• Wednesday, February 17, 2021
  Josh Norris – Paper Title: “New Technology Adoption and Industry Emission Dynamics”
• Wednesday, February 24, 2021
  Richard Beem – Paper Title: “Failure to Launch: Measuring the impact of Tax Base Erosion of Business Formation”
• Wednesday, March 17, 2021
  Matt Van Essen – Paper Title: “Peer Evaluation: Exploiting Truth telling as a Social Norm”
• Wednesday, April 7, 2021
  Maria Padilla-Romo – Paper Title: “Long-term spillover effects of violence”
• Wednesday, April 14, 2021
  Nathan Neligh – Paper Title: TBD
• Wednesday, April 28, 2021
  Andrew Hanson – Paper Title: “Fiscal Bubbles”