The Economics Seminar Series has hosted economics lectures at Loyola Marymount University since 2011. Below are previous years' schedules. For this year's line-up, please click here.
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Date Speaker Affiliation Talk Location September 7 David Gill Purdue University Beliefs, learning, and personality in the indefinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma. UNH 4304 September 14 Greg Leo Vanderbilt University Minimal Experiments UNH 4304 September 26 Karl Schlag University of Vienna Fair Sequential Search UNH 4304 October 5 Kareem Haggag UCLA The Effects of Racial Segregation on Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from Historical Railroad Placement UNH 4304 November 7 Menusch Khadjavi Pour Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Do Scientists Tell the Truth? Evidence from Two Experiments
UNH 4511 November 9 Johanna Mollerstrom George Mason University Lucky to Work UNH 4304 November 16 Timothy Cason Purdue University Threshold Implementation with Refund Bonuses in Decentralized Financial Markets UNH 4304 December 7 Emiliano Huet-Vaughn Pomona College The Shape of Moral Values UNH 4304 January 18 Austin Davis American University The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
UNH 4304 February 1 Ketki Sheth University of Tennessee Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia UNH 4110 February 8 Zachary Grossman UC Merced Image-concern and signaling behavior: the bad, the good, and the practical. UNH 4110 February 15 Olga Stoddard BYU Who you gonna call?: Gender inequality in demand for parental involvement UNH 4110 March 8 Axel Ockenfels University of Cologne Behavioral Market Design UNH 4110 March 15 Peter Vanderschraaf University of Arizona "Anything Goes" in the Ultimatum Game? UNH 4110 March 22 Emily Nix USC Violence Against Women UNH 4110 April 13 Karen Kopecky Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta The Downward Spiral UNH 4110 April 17 Simon Halliday University of Bristol What Do We Think An Economist Should Know? A Machine Learning Investigation of Research and Intermediate-Level Textbooks UNH 4110 -
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 23
Pamela Jakiela
Williams College "A Firm of One's Own: Experimental Evidence on Credit Constraints and Occupational Choice." Virtual October 5, 2021
Olga Shurchkov
Wellesley College "The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Time Use and Academic Research Productivity" Virtual October 19, 2021
Nicholas Wright
Florida Gulf Coast University "Do Cellphone Bans Save Lives? Evidence From Handheld Laws on Traffic Fatalities"
UNH 4110 November 2, 2021
Gary Hoover Tulane University How You Can Work to Increase the
Presence and Improve the Experience
of Black, Latinx, and Native American
People in the Economics ProfessionUNH 4110 November 4, 2021
Malte Dold Pomona College F.A. Hayek on the Political Economy of Endogenous Preferences:
An Historical Overview and Contemporary AssessmentUNH 4110 November 9, 2021
Anna Sokolova University of Nevada, Reno Default Costs and Self-fulfilling Fiscal Limits in a Small Open Economy Virtual March 15,2022
Peter Hull Brown University Systemic Discrimination: Theory and Measurement∗ UNH 4302 March 22, 2022
Charlie Sprenger Cal Tech A Reconsideration of the Common-Ratio Effect and Probability Weighting UNH 4302 April 5, 2022
James Marton Georgia State University The Impact of the ACA on Coverage, Utilization, and Health Outcomes UNH 4302 -
2020-2021 Economic Seminar Series
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 22, 2020
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Demand for COVID-19 Antibody Testing, and Why It Should Be Free Virtual October 6, 2020
Trevon Logan The Ohio State University The Green Books and the Geography of Segregation in Public Accommodations Virtual October 13, 2020
Baylor University Mental Health Court Virtual October 20, 2020
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Effects of school-based programs on children’s health: Evidence from oral health and vision programs in New York City school Virtual November 10, 2020
Prachi Jain Loyola Marymount University Can Feedback and stakes close the gender gap in competition? Virtual December 1, 2020
Anthony Heyes University of Ottawa Traffic Pollution Inhibits Academic Development: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Virtual December 8, 2020
Patrick Baylis University of British Colombia Pollution Masks and The Demand for Clean Air: Experimental Evidence from Delhi” (joint with Michael Greenstone, Kenneth Lee, and Harshil Sahai) Virtual February 3, 2021
Michael Poyker University of Nottingham Conservative News Media and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Exposure to Fox News Channel∗ Virtual February 10, 2021
Erin Giffin Colby College (Hidden) Gender Differences
Virtual February 17, 2021
Victoria Prowse Purdue University Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes Virtual March 10, 2021
Danila Serra Texas A&M University Gender and leadership in organizations: Promotions, demotions and angry workers Virtual March 17, 2021
Jamin Speer University of Memphis Connections, Referrals, and Hiring Outcomes: Evidence from an Egyptian Establishment Survey Virtual April 21, 2021
Kirsten Cornelson University of Notre Dame Ideological Diversity in Social Interactions and Political Polarization Virtual For a listing of seminars from previous years, please see the Economics Seminar Series Archive
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2019-2020 Economic Seminar Series
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 3
Lafayette College Labor Contracts, Gift Exchange and Reference Wages: Your Gift Need Not Be Mine! UNH 4304 October 8
Basit Zafar
Arizona State University Gender Differences in Job Search Behavior and the Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from Business Majors UNH 4304 October 15
Pomona College UNH 4304 October 17
University of Hawaii at Manoa The Labor Market Effects of Eliminating University Tuition in Ecuador UNH 4304 November 5
Dhaval Dave Bentley University & National Bureau of Economic Research Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse and Crime UNH 4304 November 12
Yogi Hale Hendlin Erasmus University Rotterdam The Promises and Perils of Carbon Taxes UNH 4304 December 3
Sarojini Hirshleifer University of California, Riverside UNH 4304 January 21
Johanna Mollerstrom George Mason University Cappelen Mollerstrom Reme Tungodden 2019 UNH 4110 February 4
Matthew Wilson Binghamton University A real business cycle model with money as a sunspot variable UNH 4110 February 11
Eoin McGuirk Tufts University No Kin in the Game: Moral Hazard and War in the US Congress UNH 4110 February 20
Ebehi Iyoha Vanderbilt University Production Function Estimation in the Presence of Spillovers UNH 4110 March 3
Jeffrey Flory Claremont McKenna Signals from On High and the Power of “Growth Mindset”: A Field Experiment in Workplace Diversity
UNH 4110 March 17
***CANCELED***Tim Cason Purdue Krannert School of Management UNH 4110 March 26
***CANCELED***Michael Poyker Columbia University UNH 4110 April 7
***CANCELED***Jasmina Spasojevic Office of School Health, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene UNH 4110 For a listing of seminars from previous years, please see the Economics Seminar Series Archive
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2018-2019 Economic Seminar Series
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 13th
University of California, Los Angeles Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers UNH 4304 September 18th
Lafayette College Light Pollution, Sleep Deprivation, and Infant Health at Birth UNH 4304 October 2nd
Nicolas Duquette University of Southern California Inequality, Social Distance, and Giving UNH 4304 October 9th
Erin Kaplan Loyola Marymount University Capitalization of School Quality in Housing Prices: Evidence from Boundary Changes in Shelby County, Tennessee UNH 4304 October 18th
Pedro Rey Biel ESADE Rationality and Observed Behavior UNH 4304 November 6th
Tim Lohse Berlin School of Economics and Law Gender differences in face-to-face deceptive behavior UNH 4304 November 13th
Daniel Bennett University of Southern California Stigma and the Provision of Mental Health Care in India UNH 4304 -
Date
September 12
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
USC
Talk
Testing the level of consistency between choices and beliefs in games using eye-tracking
Location
UNH 4304
September 19
Ricardo Perez-Truglia UCLA Choosing Your Pond: Revealed-Preference Estimates of Relative Income Concerns UNH 4304 October 5
Juan Juan Meng Peking University Horizon Effect, Ambiguity Aversion and Intertemporal Choices UNH 4304 October 11
Simone Schaner USC Patients, Providers, and the Overuse of Prescription Drugs UNH 4304 October 17
Anya Samek USC The Effect of Recipient Contribution Requirements on Support for Social Programs UNH 4304 November 7
Michelle Miller LMU Does Money Matter for the Intergenerational Income Transmission? UNH 4304 November 16
Thomas Herndon LMU Punishment or Forgiveness? Loan Modifications in Private Label Residential Mortgage Backed Securities from 2008-2014 UNH 4304 -
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 6th
WZB Berlin Social Science Center Self-confidence and unraveling in matching markets UNH 4110 October 11th
Raveig Falch Norwegian School of Economics The boys crisis: Do we hold men more responsible than women? UNH 4110 November 15th
Jens Suedekum Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet DuesseldorfSpatial wage disparities. Wages, Firms and Assortative Matching UNH 4110 January 24th
University California San Diego Differences in Motivation and Effort Across Students UNH 4110 February 7th
Charles Sprenger
University California San Diego Rady School of Management
Procrastination in the Field: Evidence from Tax Filing UNH 4110 February 14th
University of Vienna UNH 4110 March 2nd
Charles River Associates The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession
UNH 4110 March 13th
University of Cologne, Germany Equity versus Equality UNH 4110 March 14th Michael Mandelbaum
The Business of Sports Political Science Village March 21st LMU How does Stress Affect Preferences? UNH 4110 -
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 1st
University of Arkansas Contests with Complementaries UNH 4110 September 17
University San Diego Intertemporal Altruism UNH 4304 (Sociology Conference Room)
October 1
Claremont Graduate University
Anomalous time preferences? The role of subjective time Perception
UNH 4304 (Sociology Conference Room)
October 20
Jevay Grooms
Pomona College Has a country's access to pharmaceuticals been limited by TRIPS? UNH 4110 November 3
Ivey School of Business at Western Ontario University
TBA UNH 4110 November 10
USC “Labor Market Policy and Subjective Well-being during the Great Recession” (job market paper)
UNH 4110 December 1
Vanderbilt Law School
The Consequences of Online Payday Lending
UNH 4110 December 8
Crystal Yang Harvard Law School TBA UNH 4110 March 15
Petra Thiemann USC An Empirical Analysis of Teacher Assignment Problems UNH 4110 March 22
ITAM UNH 4110 April 19
Michael Wither
University San Diego TBA UNH 4110 -
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 23
John Weymark
Vanderbilt University Citizen Candidates and Voting Over Incentive-Compatible Nonlinear Income Tax Sch UNH 4110 October 13
Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik As Innovativeness Drives Economic Growth, Does It Also Raise Well-Being?
UNH 4110 October 27
Loyola Marymount University Social Networks and Personal Bankruptcy
McIntosh Center November 17
University of Capetown Considerations in Favor of Structural Modeling of Economic Behavior UNH 4110 December 4
Sean D'Evelyn
Loyola Marymount University Dump, Date, or Marry: Endogenous Group Formation with Varied Contract Lengths
UNH 4110 January 26
California Institute of Technology Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: A Laboratory Study UNH 4110 February 6
Andreas Leibbrandt
Monash University If One Price is Good, Are Two Better? Experimental Evidence On Pricing and Customer UNH 4110 February 9
Dartmouth College The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security UNH 4110 February 23
Rutgers University Long Term Income Stagnation Among the Bankrupt UNH 4110 March 2
Andreas Blume
University of Arizona "Eliciting Private Information with Noise: The Case of Randomized Response” (joi UNH 4110 March 9
University of Calgary Fishy Behavior: The Nature and Extent of Dishonesty in the Marketplace UNH 4110 March 16
Peter Winzer
Hochschule RheinMain University of Applied Sciences The Economics of Usage Fees of Television Distribution Networks UNH 4110 March 20
University of Vienna Social Learning Between Groups: Imitation and the Role of Experience UNH 4110 March 23
Loyola Marymount University Harrod’s Dynamics vs. Neoclassical Growth Theory UNH 4110 -
Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 23
Joshua Tasoff
Claremont Graduate University
McIntosh Center
September 30
Sean D'Evelyn
Loyola Marymount University
UNH 4110
October 21
University of Birmingham
McIntosh Center
October 28
University of Oslo
McIntosh Center
November 12
Franziska Tausch
Maastricht University
McIntosh Center
November 15
Vanderbilt University
"Why Do Asian Americans Identify as Democrats? Testing Theories of Social Exclusion and Group Solidarity"
UNH 4110
November 25
Occidental College
UNH 4110
December 2
Santa Clara University
in the Willingness to Compete. UNH 4110
February 3
Mary Rigdon TALK CANCELED
Rutgers University
TBA UNH 4110
February 17
USC LABEL
UNH 4110
March 10
George Mason University
UNH 4110
March 24th
Mikael Persson
University of Gothenburg
How Does a Lifetime of Economic Experiences Influence Public Opinion? Evidence from Individual-level Income Registry Data Matched to a Voter Survey UNH 4110
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Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 6
Wharton
University of Pennsylvania
Rank Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Workplace Experiment UNH 4110
September 20
University of Missouri
Behavioral Efficiency: Definition, Methodology, Demonstrations McIntosh Center
September 27
Saint Louis University
Normative Foundations for Well-Being Policy
McIntosh Center
October 23
Peking University HSBC Business School
Tiger Women: An All-Pay Auction Experiment on Gender Signaling of Desire to Win
ECC 1857
October 30
USC
Shirking, Pivotality, and Representation: A Field Experiment of Legislator Voting
ECC 1857
November 6
CGU/LMU
Intangible Human Capital Impact Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries
ECC 1857
December 4
USC
A Neuroeconomic Theory of Self Control
ECC 1857
February 12
University of California, Berkeley
TBA
UNH 4110
February 19
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
UNH 4110
February 25th
The Bush School, Texas A&M
Can Public Goods Reduce Conflict: MGNREGS
and the Maoist Insurgency in IndiaUNH 4110
March 19
UCLA
Are Survey, Field, and Natural Experiments Really Experiments, and Should We Trust Their Results?
ECC 1857
April 16th
California Institute of Technology
TBA
UNH 4110
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Date
Speaker(s)
Affiliation
Talk
Location
September 13
Sean D'Evelyn
Loyola Marymount University
Using Economics to Predict Species Movements From 1850
McIntosh Center
September 20
Loyola Marymount University
Political Socialization Within the Household: The Effect of Having a Sister on Male Political Attitudes
McIntosh Center
October 11
David Miller
University of California, San Diego
Enforcing Cooperation in Networked Societies
UNH 4110
October 18
Matthias Blonski
Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main,
Stanford
Moral Hazard with Excess Returns
UNH 4110
October 25th
Junyi Liu
Indiana University Bloomington
Lobbying, Public Capital and Endogenous Growth
UNH 4110
November 1
Yoshi Saijo
UCLA, Osaka University
The Approval Mechanism Experiment:A Solutionto Prisoner's Dilemma
UNH 4110
November 8
University of Pittsburgh
UNH 4110
December 6
Alexander Cappelen
UC Berkeley, NHH
"Immoral criminals? An experimental study of social preferences among prisoners"
UNH 4110
January 24
Ingvild Almas
NHH, University of Oslo
Explaining Gender Differences in Competitiveness
UNH 4110
February 7
Santa Clara University
UNH 4110
February 14
UC Merced
The Information Dynamics of Vertical Stare Decisis
UNH 4110
March 6
Loyola Marymount University
IMF Surveillance and the 2008 Financial Crisis
UNH 4110
March 20
David Gill
University of Oxford
Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams
UNH 4110
March 27
Naomi Feldman
Ben-Gurion University, Federal Reserve
UNH 4110
Ulrich Schmidt
University of Kiel
Overconfidence and Risk Management of Ethiopian Farmers
UNH 4110
April 10
UCLA
New Support for Older Students: The Effect of School Age Entry on Non-Cognitive Outcomes.
UNH 4110
April 17
Caltech
"Confidence and Overconfidence in Political Economy" (with Pietro Ortoleva).
UNH 4110