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

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”