The Greer Seminar Series brings world-class economists to the UTK Economics Department. They present the latest advances in economic research to Haslam faculty and graduate students.
Unless otherwise noted, the seminar is held at 3:00 pm in HBB 440 (West Wing).
There are currently no upcoming workshops. Check back for updates.
J. Aislinn Bohren – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: “Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement“
(joint with Peter Hull and Alex Imas)
Kasey Buckles – Notre Dame.
Paper Title: “Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data,” written with Joe Price, Zach Ward, and Haley Wilbert
Lydia Cox – Yale University
Paper Title: “The Regressive Nature of the U.S. Tariff Code: Origins and Implications”
(joint with Miguel Acosta)
Ina Ganguli – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Paper Title: “The Effect of Minimum Wage Changes on Scientific Production”
(joint with Raviv Murciano-Goroff)
Elena Krasnokutskaya – Johns Hopkins University
Brian J. Phelan – DePaul University
Please note that the seminar for Brian Phelan will be held on 4/24 at HBB 121
Niklas Buehren
Paper Title: “Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment in Conflict-Affected Settings: Experimental Evidence from South Sudan”
Mary Evans – University of Texas
Paper Title: “Citizen Complaints and Regulator Behavior”
Gregorio Caetano – University of Georgia
Paper Title: “The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children: Evidence from Bunching”
Daniel Waggoner – Atlanta Federal Reserve
Paper Title: “Uniform Prior for Impulse Responses, Joint work with Jonas Arias and Juan Rubio-Ramirez.”
Stefano Barbieri – Tulane University
Paper Title: “Winner’s Effort in Multi-Battle Team Contests.”
Olga Malkova – University of Kentucky
Paper Title: Time to Grow Up? Adult Children as Determinants of Parental Labor Supply
Luke Rodgers – Florida State University
Presenting a joint paper with Keith Ihlanfeldt titled “Beyond Assessment: Racial and Gender Disparities in Property Taxation.”
Andrew Dustan – Vanderbilt University
Paper Title: “Preferences, access, and the STEM gender gap in centralized high school assignment“
Lesley Turner – Vanderbilt
Paper Title: “Race and Nativity Earnings Gaps: The Role of College Networks” (joint with Dylan Conger and Colin Chellman)
Gillian Brunet – Wesleyan
Paper Title: “War, Pandemic, and Household Saving The COVID-19 Pandemic through the Lens of WWII”
Julie Cullen – UC San Diego – West Wing HBB 440
Paper Title: “DIRECT AND SPILLOVER EFFECTS OF PROVIDER VACCINE FACILITATION” co-authored with Maria Knoth Humlum, Agne Suziedelyte and Peter Rono Thingholm.
Akshya Jha – Carnegie Mellon – West Wing HBB 440
Paper Title: “Blackouts in the Developing World: The Role of Wholesale Electricity Markets”, co-authored with Fiona Burlig and Louis Preonas.
Marc Bellemare – University of Minnesota
Paper Title: “Why Not Insure Prices? Experimental Evidence from Peru”
Greg Leo – Vanderbilt
Paper Title: “Minimal Experiments” joint with PJ Healy
Erik Johnson – University of Alabama
Paper Title: “Machine Learning and Land Valuation (Black Boxes all the way down)”
Gadi Barlevy – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Paper Title: “On Speculative Frenzies and Stabilization Policy”
Matt Burgess – University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper Title: “Why win-wins are rare in complex environmental management”
M. Kathleen Ngangoué – UCLA
Paper Title: “The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle”
Kalena Cortes – Texas A&M
Paper Title: “A Bridge to Graduation: Testing the Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail Exit Exams”
Mackenzie Alston – Florida State University
Paper Title: “Does Black and Blue Matter?: An Experimental Investigation of Race and Perceptions of Police Bias”
Guillaume Frechette – New York University
Paper Title: “Beliefs in Repeated Games”
Lesley Turner – Vanderbilt
Paper Title: “Race and Nativity Earnings Gaps: The Role of College Networks” (joint with Dylan Conger and Colin Chellman).
Prottoy Akbar – University of Pittsburgh
Paper Title: “Who Benefits from Faster Public Transit?”
Adriana Lleras-Muney – USC
Paper Title: “Do you employment programs Work? Evidence from the New Deal” (joint with Anna Aizer, Shari Eli and Keyoung Lee)
Mariacristina De Nardi – Minnesota University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Ivan Rudig – Cornell
Paper Title: “The Causal Effect of Lead on Test Scores”
Belinda Archibong – Barnard College
Paper Title: “Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration”
Charles Sprenger – UCSD
Paper Title: “Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing”
Ryan Oprea – UCSB
Paper Title: “What Makes a Rule Complex”
Alberto Martin – European Central Bank
Paper Title: “Collateral Booms and Information Depletion”
Jhacova Williams – Rand
Paper Title: “Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials”
The Brown Bag Workshops hosted by the Department of Economics are held Fridays at noon in Haslam Business Building, room 132, unless otherwise noted.
Connor Neff
Lucas Gurgel
Feb Xin Jin
Deng Pan
Kaden Grace
Trinity Douglass
Linnea Endersby
Spring Break
Halima Begum
Greer Seminar
Trenton Marable
Totally Secular Spring Holiday
Debanjali Desgupta
Pengzhen Li
TBD
John Mayo
James Lake
Micah Villareal
Maria Padilla-Romo
Matt Van Essen
Trenton Marable
Xin Jin
Chris Jepsen
Kaden Grace
Thomas Verville
Trinity Douglass
Linnea Endersby
Debanjali Dasgupta
Ryan Swartzentruber
Ketki Sheth
Alannah Shute
Maria Padilla-Romo
Prabuddha Prakash
Prubesh Balgobin
Nate Neligh
Diego Guerrero
Michael Kofoed
Ivan Anich
Lucas Garcez
Gabe Abeyie
Trinity Douglas
Thanksgiving
Matt Harris
Ryan Swartzentruber
Ketki Sheth
Alannah Shute
Maria Padilla-Romo
Prabuddha Prakash
Prubesh Balgobin
Nate Neligh
Diego Guerrero
Michael Kofoed
Ivan Anich
Lucas Garcez
Gabe Abeyie
Trinity Douglas
Thanksgiving
Matt Harris
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Ivan Anich – Paper Title: “How trade affects adoption of emissions abatement equipment”
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Alecia Evans – Post-doctoral scholar in the Baker Center will present – Paper title: “Noisy Payoffs in an Infinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma – Experimental Evidence”
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Prubesh Balgobin – Paper Title: “Empirical assessment of the impact of (California) Protected Areas on the location choice of industrial establishments. A county level approach”
Michael Brown – Paper Title: “Effects of Air Pollution on Physical Performance”
Lucas Garcez – Paper Title: “Provision of Education and Teenage Fertility”
Diego Guerrero – Paper Title: “Do slum upgrading programs impact school attendance? Evidence from Uruguay”
Dressel Cruz – Paper Title: “Tax Competition and its Fiscal Effects on Local Governments”
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Alannah Shute
Richard Beem – Paper Title: “Broadband Internet and Business Activity.”
Vasudha Chopra – Paper Title: “Are we doing more harm than good? Hypothetical bias correction techniques in potentially consequential survey settings”
Bokseong Jeong – Paper Title: “Behavioral Responses to Changes in Enforcement Priorities”
Ge Wu – Paper Title: “Do Wildfires Harm Students Learning?”
Ivan Anich
Prubesh Balgobin
Michael Brown
Lucas Garcez
Diego Guerrero
Dressel Ruiz
Ben Blachly
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Bokseong Jeong – Paper Title: “Refugees and Crime in Germany (Revised)”
Josh Norris – Paper Title: “New Technology Adoption and Industry Emission Dynamics”
Richard Beem – Paper Title: “Failure to Launch: Measuring the impact of Tax Base Erosion of Business Formation”
Matt Van Essen – Paper Title: “Peer Evaluation: Exploiting Truth telling as a Social Norm”
Maria Padilla-Romo – Paper Title: “Long-term spillover effects of violence”
Nathan Neligh – Paper Title: TBD
Andrew Hanson – Paper Title: “Fiscal Bubbles”
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