Past brown bag seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Winter 2011-12 | ||
| Oct 12 | Dan Vo UVic, Economics |
"Toward Endogenizing Search Cost: Why Angels Are Hard to Find" |
| Oct 26 | Takamitsu Kurita Fukuoka University |
"Impacts of multivariate GARCH innovations on hypothesis testing for cointegrating vectors" More info... (pdf paper) |
| Nov 16 | Pascal Courty UVic, Economics |
"The Pricing of Art and the Art of Pricing: Pricing Styles in the Concert Industry" (pdf paper) |
| Mon Nov 21 | Anke Kessler SFU, Economics |
"Ideologues: explaining partisanship and persistence in politics" |
| Jan 18 | Carl Mosk Uvic, Economics |
"Why the Prince Consort was Right: Nationalism, Economic Development and Violence, 1800-2000." (pdf paper) |
| Feb 22 | John Sim Uvic, BSc Economics Honours |
"The impact of the Canada Research Chair program on faculty compensation: What is the cost of retaining and attracting exceptional talents?" (pdf paper) |
| Mar 14 | David Giles Uvic, Economics |
"Exact Asymptotic Goodness-of-Fit Testing For Discrete Circular Data, With Applications".(pdf paper) |
| Mar 21 | Elisabeth Gugl Uvic, Economics |
"Misconceptions about Transferable Utility" |
| Apr 4 | Martina Lui Uvic, Phd Student |
"Can Trade Sanctions Encourage Compliance with an International Environmental Agreement?" |
| 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 | |
| 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" |
| 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) |
