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).
Upcoming Workshops
Past Workshops
Spring 2023 Workshops
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”
Fall 2022 Workshops
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 2022 Workshops
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.
Fall 2021 Workshops
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 2021 Workshops
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
Fall 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”