Brown Bag Workshops

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

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
April 7, 2023 Lucas Garcez
April 14, 2023 Gabriel Abeyie
April 21, 2023 Alannah Shute
April 28, 2023 Ivan Anich
May 5, 2023 Prabuddha Prakeash
May 12, 2023 TBD

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”