Economics

Greer Seminar Series

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).

Past Workshops

2024 Workshops

Monday, August 28, 2024

Matt Grant – Dartmouth

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Monday, September 11, 2024

Susan Parker – Maryland

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Monday, September 18, 2024

Erica Field – Duke

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Friday, September 22, 2024

Federico Echenique – Berkeley

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Monday, October 2, 2023

Isaac Mbiti – UVA Policy

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Monday, April 29, 2024

Duncan Thomas – Duke

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2023 Workshops

Fall Events

Monday, October 16, 2023

Karlye Stedman – Kansas City Fed

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Friday, October 20, 2023

Kei Hirano – Penn State

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Monday, October 30, 2023

Marinho Bertanha – Notre Dame

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Monday, November 6, 2023

Laura Puzzello – Monash

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Monday, November 13, 2023

Erdal Tekin – American U

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Spring Events

Friday, February 10

J. Aislinn Bohren – University of Pennsylvania
Paper Title: “Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement
(joint with Peter Hull and Alex Imas)

Monday, February 27

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

Monday, March 6

Lydia Cox – Yale University
Paper Title: “The Regressive Nature of the U.S. Tariff Code: Origins and Implications”
(joint with Miguel Acosta)

Monday, March 20

Ina Ganguli – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Paper Title: “The Effect of Minimum Wage Changes on Scientific Production”
(joint with Raviv Murciano-Goroff)

Friday, April 21

Elena Krasnokutskaya – Johns Hopkins University


Monday, April 24

Brian J. Phelan – DePaul University
Please note that the seminar for Brian Phelan will be held on 4/24 at HBB 121

Monday, May 1

Niklas Buehren
Paper Title: “Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment in Conflict-Affected Settings: Experimental Evidence from South Sudan”

2022 Workshops

Fall Events

Monday, September 12

Mary Evans – University of Texas
Paper Title: “Citizen Complaints and Regulator Behavior”

Monday, September 19

Gregorio Caetano – University of Georgia
Paper Title: “The Effect of Maternal Labor Supply on Children:  Evidence from Bunching

Monday, September 26

Daniel Waggoner – Atlanta Federal Reserve
Paper Title: “Uniform Prior for Impulse Responses, Joint work with Jonas Arias and Juan Rubio-Ramirez.”

Monday, October 10

Stefano Barbieri – Tulane University
Paper Title: “Winner’s Effort in Multi-Battle Team Contests.”

Monday, October 17

Olga Malkova – University of Kentucky
Paper Title: Time to Grow Up? Adult Children as Determinants of Parental Labor Supply

Monday, October 24

Luke Rodgers – Florida State University
Presenting a joint paper with Keith Ihlanfeldt titled “Beyond Assessment: Racial and Gender Disparities in Property Taxation.”

Monday, December 5

Andrew Dustan – Vanderbilt University
Paper Title: “Preferences, access, and the STEM gender gap in centralized high school assignment

Spring Events

Monday, March 7

Lesley Turner – Vanderbilt
Paper Title: “Race and Nativity Earnings Gaps: The Role of College Networks” (joint with Dylan Conger and Colin Chellman)

Monday, March 21

Gillian Brunet – Wesleyan
Paper Title: “War, Pandemic, and Household Saving The COVID-19 Pandemic through the Lens of WWII”

Monday, April 4

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.

Monday, May 9

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.

2021 Workshops

Fall Events

Monday, September 13

Marc Bellemare – University of Minnesota
Paper Title: “Why Not Insure Prices? Experimental Evidence from Peru”

Monday, October 4

Greg Leo – Vanderbilt
Paper Title: “Minimal Experiments” joint with PJ Healy

Monday, October 18

Erik Johnson – University of Alabama
Paper Title: “Machine Learning and Land Valuation (Black Boxes all the way down)”

Monday, November 1

Gadi Barlevy – Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Paper Title: “On Speculative Frenzies and Stabilization Policy”

Friday, November 5

Matt Burgess – University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper Title: “Why win-wins are rare in complex environmental management”

Monday, November 8

M. Kathleen Ngangoué – UCLA
Paper Title: “The Common-Probability Auction Puzzle”

Monday, November 15

Kalena Cortes – Texas A&M
Paper Title: “A Bridge to Graduation: Testing the Effects of an Alternative Pathway for Students Who Fail Exit Exams”

Spring Events

Monday, February 1

Mackenzie Alston – Florida State University
Paper Title: “Does Black and Blue Matter?: An Experimental Investigation of Race and Perceptions of Police Bias”

Monday, February 15

Guillaume Frechette – New York University
Paper Title: “Beliefs in Repeated Games”

Monday, March 7

Lesley Turner – Vanderbilt
Paper Title: “Race and Nativity Earnings Gaps: The Role of College Networks” (joint with Dylan Conger and Colin Chellman).

Monday, March 8

Prottoy Akbar – University of Pittsburgh
Paper Title: “Who Benefits from Faster Public Transit?”

Monday, April 26

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)

Monday, May 17

Mariacristina De Nardi – Minnesota University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

2020 Workshops

Monday, August 31

Ivan Rudig – Cornell
Paper Title: “The Causal Effect of Lead on Test Scores”

Monday, September 21

Belinda Archibong – Barnard College
Paper Title: “Prison Labor: The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration”

Monday, September 28

Charles Sprenger – UCSD
Paper Title: “Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing”

Monday, October 19

Ryan Oprea – UCSB
Paper Title: “What Makes a Rule Complex”

Monday, November 16

Alberto Martin – European Central Bank
Paper Title: “Collateral Booms and Information Depletion”

Monday, December 7

Jhacova Williams – Rand
Paper Title: “Confederate Streets and Black-White Labor Market Differentials”

Economics Department

Working Paper Series

Discover groundbreaking research from the Haslam’s Department of Economics through our Working Paper Series. Explore innovative studies and insights from our faculty and scholars, available on RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). Stay informed on the latest economic theories and applications.