Past brown bag seminars

Winter 2010-11
Winter 2009-10
Winter 2008-09

Date	Speaker	Title	Remarks
Winter 2010-11
Sep 8	Merwan Engineer UVic, Economics	“Maximizing Human Development” (pdf paper)
Sep 15	Dan Vo UVic, Economics & Paul Schure UVic, Economics	"Toward endogenizing search costs: why angels are hard to find."
Sep 29		Natural Resources Canada Recruitment Session for Econ Graduate Students only	BEC402
Oct 6	Pascal Courty UVic, Economics	"Sales and Consumer Demand for Storable Goods" (pdf paper)
Oct 13	Knick Harley University of Oxford, Economics	"Globalization and the Frontier: 1870-1930: the Canadian Prairies" (pdf Abstract)
Oct 20	Alok Kumar UVic, Economics	"Inflation, Redistribution, and Real Activities"
Oct 27	Kevin Telmer UVic, SEOS	"Where does gold come from and why the markets are beginning to care: Diversification of the global gold supply chain and potential reforms in the world gold market" (pdf Abstract)
Nov 3	Elisabeth Gugl UVic, Economics	"The Rotten Kid Theorem and Almost Transferable Utility"
Nov 17	Javad Nasiry UST, Hong Kong	"Advance selling when consumers regret" (pdf paper)
Nov 24	Carl Mosk UVic, Economics	"The American System of Manufactures: Factor Biased Technilogical Change or the Democratiztion of Invention?" (pdf paper)
Jan 19	Cecilia Benoit UVic, Sociology	"Health inequities among youth: the long arm of childhood"
Jan 26	Narayana Ranganathan Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore	"Age Structure Transition in India's Population: Select Macro-economic Implications"
Feb 2	Malcolm Rutherford UVic, Economics	"Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930" (pdf paper)
Feb 9	Kathy Baylis University of Illinois	"Bridging versus bonding social capital and the management of the firewood commons"
Feb 16	Clay Holroyd UVic, Psychology	"Neural Mechanisms of Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making"
Mar 2	Patrick Withey UVic, Economics	"Climate Change Impacts on Waterfowl Habitat in Western Canada"
Mar 9	Naomi Pope	"Open Data in Government"
Mar 16	Chris Auld UVic, Economics	"Minimum pricing of alcohol: Theory and evidence."
Mar 23	David Giles UVic, Economics	"Dummies for Dummies"
Apr 6	Ryan Webb Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics Queen’s University	"Towards a Neural Measure of Value and Modelling Stochastic Choice in Strategic Games"	COR A228 3pm
Winter 2009-10
Sep 9	Harry Paarsch Economics, U Melbourne	Using Grid Distributions to Test for Affiliation in Models of First-Price Auctions With Private Values
Sep 16	Elisabeth Gugl Economics, UVic	Share the Gain, Share the Pain? Almost Transferable Utility, Changes in Production Possibilities, and Bargaining Solutions
Sep 23	Malcolm Rutherford Economics, UVic	The USDA Graduate School: Government Training in Statistics and Economics, 1921-1945
Sep 30	David Scoones Economics, UVic	Modeling Insurgents
Oct 7	Herb Schuetze Economics, UVic	The Lifecycle Increase in Self-Employment
Oct 14	Ken Stewart Economics, UVic	Treating Cross-dependence in Event Studies: The Canadian Income Trust Leak
Oct 21	Kees van Kooten Economics, UVic	Climate
Oct 28	Martin Farnham Economics, UVic	Two Perspectives on Multiskilling
Nov 4	Emma Hutchinson Economics, UVic	Clean Energy Subsidies
Nov 18	Judith Clarke Economics, UVic	Statistical Inference for Inequality Measures Using Complex Surveys: Theory and Application - Part I
Nov 25	Nilanjana Roy Economics, UVic	Statistical Inference for Inequality Measures Using Complex Surveys: Theory and Application - Part II
Dec 2	Graham Voss Economics, UVic	Inflation Targeting
Feb 3	Pascal Courty Economics, UVic	Sales, Quantity Surcharges, and Consumer Inattention
Feb 24	Carl Mosk Economics, UVic	Nationalism and Development
Mar 3	Merwan Engineer Economics, UVic	A Positive Analysis of Deposit Insurance Provision: Regulatory Competition Among European Union Countries
Mar 10	Erik Aerts Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven	No Public Exchange Banks in Flanders and Branbant (1400-1800): An Explanation of the Absence of Public Banks in the Southern Low Countries.	Offered jointly as dept seminar/brown bag seminar Co-sponsored by the Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam.
Mar 17	Martin Farnham Economics, UVic	Equilibrium Climate Change Policy: Abatement vs. Adaptation and the Prospects for International Cooperation
Mar 24	Emma Hutchinson Economics, UVic	Equilibrium Dynamics for a Global Pollutant
Mar 31	Jen Baggs Business, UVic	Plant Scale and Exchange-Rate-Induced Productivity Growth
Apr 7	Tim Bogle Geography, UVic	TBA
Apr 14	Amy Sopinka Geography, UVic	Wind Energy Economics
Apr 21	Linda Welling Economics, UVic	How Do parents Share Childcare, and Does It Matter?
Apr 28	Ryan Godwin Economics, UVic	Bias-Adjusted Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Doubly-Truncated Poisson Model
Winter 2008-09
Sep 17	David Giles Economics, UVic	Bias Corrections for Maximum Likelihood Estimators: Illustrations, and New Results
Oct 15 - ECS 125	Martin Barnes BCA Research	The Financial Crisis and the Macroeconomy
Oct 22	Alok Kumar Economics, UVic	Monetary Policy, Production, and Distribution
Nov 19	Enrico Moretti Economics, UC Berkeley	TBA
Feb 6	Tracy Stobbe Economics, UVic	Hobby Farmers and the Protection of Farmland in the Urban Fringe (pdf paper)
Mar 12	David Scoones Economics, UVic	Unconditional Parole
Apr 9	Kirsten Zickfeld Earth & Ocean Sciences, UVic	Emission Pathways Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference With the Climate System (pdf abstract, background paper #1, background paper #2)