Seminars
The Department has a full program of weekly seminars by visiting speakers, normally held on Fridays from 3:00-4:30pm, and internal lunchtime (brown bag) workshops in which visiting professors, UVic faculty, and graduate students present results of their research work, held on Wednesdays from 12:30-1:20pm.
On occasion, the Department also invites pre-eminent scholars to present lectures under the Lansdowne Lecture Series.
Dept seminar series
The seminar coordinators are: Paul Schure & Elisabeth Gugl
Seminars are on Fridays from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in BEC 363, unless otherwise stated.
Department seminars are sponsored by 
Winter 2012-13 seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2012-13, First Term, Sep-Dec 2012 | |||
| Fri, Sep 14 | John Janmaat UBC, Economics |
"Residential Water Use and Persuasion in Kelowna: Persistence Pays" (pdf paper) | Host: K. van Kooten |
| Fri, Sep 21 | Mahmoud El-Gamal Rice University - (Seminar cancelled) |
"Bank-Insured RoSCA for Microfinance: Experimental Evidence in Poor Egyptian Villages" (pdf paper) | Host: E. Gugl &
Daromir Rudnyckyj (Pacific & Asian Studies) |
| Fri, Sep 28 | No Seminar | Home coming weekend -- UVic’s 50th anniversary | |
| Fri, Oct. 5 | No Seminar | ||
| Fri, Oct 12 | Vihang Errunza McGill University |
"The Impact of Investability on Asset Valuation" (pdf paper) | Hosts: M. Engineer & Basma Majerbi (Peter B. Gustavson School of Business) |
| Fri, Oct 19 | Zhiqi Chen Carleton University, Economics |
“Supplier Incentives in the Presence of Buyer Power: A General Theory with Applications” | Host: P. Courty & D. Rondeau |
| Fri, Oct 26 | April Cai University of New South Wales, Australia |
"Growth Through Inter-sectoral Knowledge Linkages" (pdf paper) | Host: G. Voss |
| Fri, Nov 2 | Sorin Rizeanu UVic, Business |
"Auditor Quality and Firm Debt Maturity: International Evidence" (pdf paper) |
Host: P. Schure |
| Fri, Nov 9 | Ross Hickey UBC Okanagan, Economics |
"Immigrant Labour Market Participation and Earnings: The Effect of Regulation" | Host: E. Gugl |
| Fri, Nov 23 | Thomas F. Hellmann UBC Strategy |
"Angels and Venture Capitalists: Complements or Substitutes?" | Host: P. Schure |
| Wed. Nov. 21 7:00 pm - SSM Bldg. Room A120 |
Faculty of Social Sciences Panel Series | "Five Years Into The Crisis: What Lies Ahead?" (pdf poster) | Hosts: Faculty of Social Sciences/(Dept. of Economics) |
| Fri, Nov 30 | Matilde Bombardini UBC, Economics |
"How Robust is the Skill-Dispersion-Complementarity Hypothesis?" | Host: E. Gugl |
| Mon, Dec 3 | Donna Feir UBC, Economics |
"The Long Term Effects of Indian Residential Schools on Human and Cultural Capital" | Host: C. Auld | Winter 2012-13, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2013 |
| Fri, Jan 11 | Chris Muris SFU, Economics |
"Efficient GMM Estimation with a General Missing Data Pattern" (pdf paper) |
Host: D. Giles |
| Fri, Jan 18 | Kirill Chernomaz San Francisco State University Economics |
"On the Effects of Joint Bidding in Independent Private Value Auctions: An Experimental Study" (pdf paper) | Host: P. Courty |
| Thur, Jan 24 | Deirdre McCloskey University of Iliinois at Chicago |
"The Bankruptcy of Tests of Statistical Significance" (pdf poster) | Co-Hosts: Peter B Gustavson School of Business, Department of Economics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics |
| Fri, Jan 25 | Rachel Heath University of Washington, Economics |
"Why do firms hire using referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi garment factories" (pdf paper) | Host: N. Roy |
| Fri, Feb 1 | Joshua K. Ault Peter B. Gustavson School of Business |
"The Institutional Context of Poverty: State Fragility as a Predictor of Cross-National Variation in Commercial Microfinance Lending" (pdf paper) | Host: M. Engineer |
| Fri, Feb 8 | Mike Hoy University of Guelph, Economics |
"Managing Genetic Tests, Surveillance, and Preventive Medicine Under a Public Health Insurance System" (pdf paper) | Host: M. Engineer |
| Fri, Mar 1 | Andrew McGee SFU, Economics |
"Employer Learning and the 'Importance' of Skills" | Host: H. Schuetz |
| Fri, Mar 8 | Don Drummond Queen's University |
"How Did the World Economy Get So Messed Up? Some Old and New Lessons" |
Host: P. Schure
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| Fri, Mar 15 | Florian Hoffmann UBC |
"A Community Instructor like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom?" (pdf paper) |
Host: P. Courty |
| Fri, Mar 22 | Marianne Page UC Davis, Economics |
"The Kids Will Be Alright: Long Term Effects of Growing Up During a Recession" | Host: E. Gugl |
| Thu, Apr 4 | Fiona Scott Morton
Yale School of Management |
"The Role of Economics - and the Economist - in Competition Policy" | Lansdowne Lecture Series
7:00pm, SSM A104 |
| Fri, Apr 5 | Fiona Scott Morton Yale School of Management |
"Biosimilar Medications: Competition and Policy Issues"(pdf slides) | Host: P. Courty |
| Thurs, May 16 | Iftekhar Hasan Finance and Business Economics, Fordham University |
"More than Connectedness - Heterogeneity of CEO Social network and Firm Value"(pdf paper) |
Co-Hosts: Peter B Gustavson School of Business and the Department of Economics Note non-standard time: 2:00 - 3:30 pm Location: BEC 363 |
| Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2013-14, First Term, Sep-Dec 2013 | |||
| Fri, Sep 13 | TBA |
TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Sep 20 | Mike Ostrovsky Stanford University |
TBA | Hosts: P. Courty & D. Rondeau |
| Fri, Sep 27 | Ali Hortacsu University of Chicago, Economics |
TBA | Hosts: P. Courty & D. Rondeau |
| Fri, Oct 4 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Oct 11 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Oct 18 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Oct 25 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Nov 1 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Nov 8 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Nov 15 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Nov 29 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Winter 2013-14, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2014 | |||
| Fri, Jan 10 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Jan 17 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Jan 24 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Jan 31 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Feb 7 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Feb 14 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Feb 21 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Mar 7 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Mar 14 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Mar 21 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Fri, Mar 28 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Past seminars
Brown bag seminars
Brown bag seminars are held betweeen 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays, in BEC 363, unless otherwise stated.
The brown bag coordinator is David Giles.
2012-13 brown bag seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks | Winter 2012-13 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 12 |
UVic, Economics |
"On the inconsistency of instrumental variables estimators for the coefficients of certain dummy variables" |
Background paper |
| Sep 19 |
PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
“A novel approach to estimating forest carbon pool dynamics under carbon sequestration” |
Background paper |
| Sep 26 | University of New South Wales |
"Trade compositions, knowledge input–output linkages and long-run growth" |
Background paper |
| Oct 3 |
PhD Student, UVic Economics |
“The history and operation of Alberta’s deregulated electric system” |
Background paper |
| Oct 10 |
UVic, Economics |
“Efficiency of family bargaining models with |
Background paper |
| Oct 17 |
PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
“Wind versus nuclear options for generating electricity in a carbon constrained world” |
Background paper |
| Oct 24 |
PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
“Straightforward variance estimation for the Gini coefficient with stratified and cluster survey data" |
Background paper |
| Oct 31 |
PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
“Speculative investment in farmland” | Background paper |
| Nov 7 |
B.C. Ministry of Finance |
"Economic forecasting and analysis at the BC Ministry of Finance" | Background paper |
| Nov 21 |
UVic, Economics |
“National and provincial inflation in Canada: |
Background paper |
| Nov 28 |
PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
"Determinants of winter wheat planting" | |
| Jan 9 |
UVic, Economics |
“The intrafamily distributional impact of joint vs. individual taxation when spouses use separate accounts" |
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| Jan 16 |
UVic, Business |
"Exchange rate movements and firm dynamics in Canadian retail industries" | |
| Jan 23 | Noha Abdelfattah
PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
"The causal impact of domestic work on human capital investment: the Egyptian case" | |
| Jan 30 | Rich Martin | "Rent seeking consumption" | |
| Feb 6 | Richard Wolfe
UVic, Business |
"Sport and economics: Exploring research synergy" | |
| Feb 13 | Sheila Dow Adjunct Professor, UVic Economics |
"Uncertainty denial" | |
| Feb 27 | Alistair Dow Adjunct Professor, UVic Economics |
"Economic history and economic theory: The staples approach to economic development" | |
| Mar 6 | Cancelled
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| Mar 13 | Cancelled
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| Mar 20 | TBA
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TBA | |
| Mar 27 | Victor Huang PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
"A new type of non-global regression modelling: The partially linear threshold regression model" | |
| Apr 3 | Lydia Li
PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
"Is East Asia suitable to form a currency union?" | |
| Apr 10 | David Scoones UVic, Economics |
"Free Seminar. What have you got to lose?" | |
| Apr 17 | Cancelled | ||
| Apr 24 | G. Cornelis van Kooten UVic, Economics |
"Climate Change Economics" | |
| May 1 | Dan Vo PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
“Angels and venture capitalists: Complements or substitutes?” |
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| May 8 | Judith Clarke UVic, Economics |
"Inequality in BMI of Bangladeshi women: An application of variance estimation for the Gini coefficient with complex surveys" | |
| May 15 | Paul Schure UVic, Economics |
“When the powerful drag their feet" | |
| May 22 | Dan Vo PhD Student, UVic, Economics |
"The Return to Angel Capital in British Columbia” |
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| May 29 | Daniel Rondeau UVic, Economics |
"Experimental Evaluation of Alternative First Price Auction Rules for the Simultaneous Allocation of Bundled Timber Rights when Competitors Can Bid Jointly" | |
| June 12 | Carl Mosk UVic, Economics |
"Contested Identities: Secularism and Economic Development in the Contemporary World" | Note:Time will be 1:00-2:00pm |
| June 19 | TBA | TBA | |
| June 26 | Yanan Li
MA Student, UVic, Economics |
"Modelling volatility spillover effects between emerging Asian stock markets and developed stock markets " |
Lansdowne lectures
Winter 2012-13 Lansdowne lectures
April 4-5, 2013 - Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management
- Public lecture: Thursday, 4 April, 7:00pm, SSM A104, "The Role of Economics and the Economist in Competition Policy" (video recording)
- Department seminar: Friday, 5 April, 3:00pm, BEC 363, "Biosimilar medications: competition and policy issues"
About Lansdowne lectures
In 1978, the University of Victoria received funds from the provincial government for the sale of the University's former campus on Lansdowne Road, which was then to be further developed as the site of Camosun College. These funds were invested in trust, with the revenue dedicated to a special program of distinguished academic appointments. The criteria used in the selection of Lansdowne visitors are that they must be leading scholars with a national or international reputation and must be capable of interacting positively with students and faculty.
Pre-eminent academics invited to visit the Department of Economics as Lansdowne scholars typically stay from two to five days and deliver one public lecture of broad interest and one or two seminars of a more specialized nature. They are also expected to be available to meet with individual, or small groups of, faculty and students.
Past Lansdowne lectures (previous 10 years)
| Name | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew O. Jackson
Stanford University |
March 2012 | Video recording of lecture |
| John Roberts
Stanford Graduate School of Business |
January 2011 | Video recording of lecture |
| John F. Helliwell
UBC |
October 2008 | |
| Simon Parker
Durham University, England |
March 2008 | |
| Ronald D. Lee
University of California, Berkeley |
September 2006 | |
| Pierre A. Chiappori
Columbia University |
May 2005 | |
| Dale T. Mortenson
Northwestern University |
March 2005 | |
| Randall Wright
University of Pennsylvania |
February 2004 | |
| Anil Bera
University of Illinois |
March 2000 |
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UVic has reciprocal parking agreements with UBC, BCIT, SFU and Royal Roads University. Seminar visitors from those institutions, with valid faculty and staff permits, are authorized to park in any General (blue-coded) or Reserved (red-coded) area on campus, but not in the University Centre Parkade or at parking meters.
All other visitors to campus must park at a meter or display a valid daily/hourly parking permit.
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