Department of Economics

Seminars

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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 for 2011-12 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 coast_savings_logo

Winter 2011-12 seminars

Winter 2011-12 seminars
Date Speaker Title Remarks
Winter 2011-12, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2012
Fri, Jan 20 Takamitsu Kurita
Fukuoka University
"Modelling time series data of monetary aggregates using I(2) and I(1) cointegration analysis" (paper)

Host: K. Stewart
Fri, Jan 27 Jill Horwitz
University of Michigan, Law
"Just what the market ordered:  Diffusion and Duplication of Invasive Cardiac Services in the U.S." Host: M. Farnham
Fri, Feb 3 Sylvain Dessy
Université Laval
"Foreign Direct Investments in Africa's Farmlands: Threat or Opportunity for Local Populations?" (pdf paper) Host: A. Kumar
Fri, Feb 24 Chloe Tergiman
UBC, Business
TBA Host: P. Schure
Thu, Mar 1 Matthew Jackson
Stanford
"Social Networks and Economics: Lessons from Rural India" Lansdowne Lecture Series
7:00 p.m.,
HHB 105
Fri, Mar 2 Matthew Jackson
Stanford
"Collective Dynamic Choice: The Necessity of Time Inconsistency" (pdf paper) Host: E. Gugl
Lansdowne Speaker
Fri, Mar 9 Radall Akee
Tufts University
TBA Host: D. Scoones
Fri, Mar 16 Kaivan Munshi
Brown University, Economics
TBA Host: M. Engineer
Fri, Mar 23 Tammy Schirle
Wilfrid Laurier University
TBA Host: H. Schuetze
Fri, Mar 30 John D. Wilson
Michigan State University
TBA Host: E. Gugl
Winter 2011-12, First Term, Sep-Dec 2011
Fri, Sep 9 Daniel Riera-Crichton
Bates College, Economics
"Banking Crises, External Turmoil and the Role of Gross Foreign Investment Reversals" (pdf paper) Host: P. Schure
Fri, Sep 16 Chris Bidner
University of New South Wales
"Property Rights over Marital Transfers" (pdf paper) Host: A. Kumar
Fri, Sep 23 Anirban Basu
University of Washington,
Dept. of Health Services
"Exploring comparative effect heterogeneity with instrumental variables: prehospital intubation and mortality" (pdf paper) Host: C. Auld
Fri, Sep 30 John Friedman
Harvard, Economics
“Using DIfferences in Knowledge Across Neighborhoods to Uncover the Impacts of the EITC on Earnings" (pdf slides) Host: P. Courty
Fri, Oct 14 Evren Damar
Bank of Canada
"Consumer Bankruptcy and Information" Host: P. Schure
Fri, Oct 21 Anna Bogomolnaia
Rice University, Economics
"Probabilistic Assignment of Objects: Characterizing the Serial Rule" (pdf paper) Host: E. Gugl
Fri, Oct 28 Fernando Aragon
SFU, Economics
"Candidate Nomination Procedures and Quality of Government" (pdf paper) Host: A. Kumar
Fri, Nov 4 Silvia Gonçalves
Université du Montréal
"Bootstrapping factor-augmented regression models" (pdf paper) Host: D. Giles
Fri, Nov 18 Jean-François Tremblay
University of Ottawa, Economics
"Non-cooperative Pollution Control in an Inter-jurisdictional Setting" (pdf paper) Host: E. Gugl
Fri, Nov 25 Ramo Gençay
SFU, Economics
"Serial Correlation Tests with Wavelets" (pdf paper) Host: J. Clarke

Winter 2012-13 seminars

Winter 2012-13 seminars
Date Speaker Title Remarks
Winter 2012-13, First Term, Sep-Dec 2012
Fri, Sep 14 John Janmaat
UBC, Economics
TBA Host: K. van Kooten
Fri, Sep 21 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Sep 38 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Oct 5 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Oct 12 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Oct 19 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Oct 26 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Nov 2 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Nov 9 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Nov 16 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Nov 23 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, 30 TBA TBA TBA
Winter 2012-13, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2013
Fri, Jan 11 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Jan 18 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Jan 25 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Feb 1 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Jan 8 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Feb 15 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Mar 1 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Mar 8 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Mar 15 TBA TBA TBA
Fri, Mar 22 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 current brown bag coordinator is Pascal Courty.

2011-12 brown bag seminars

2011-12 brown bag seminars
Date Speaker Title Remarks
Winter 2011-12, Second Term, Jan-Apr 2012
Jan 18 Carl Mosk
Uvic, Economics
"Why the Prince Consort was Right: Nationalism, Economic Development and Violence, 1800-2000." (pdf paper)  
Jan 25 TBA TBA  
Feb 1 TBA TBA  
Feb 8 TBA TBA  
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?"  
Feb 29 TBA TBA  
Mar 7 TBA TBA  
Mar 14 TBA TBA  
Mar 21 TBA TBA  
Mar 28 TBA TBA  
Apr 4 TBA TBA  
Winter 2011-12, First Term, Sep-Dec 2011
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" BEC 363
Nov 30 Linda Welling
UVic, Economics
"Efficiency of Family Bargaining Models with Renegotiation: The Role of Transferable Utility across Periods" Cancelled - new date to be confirmed

Past brown bag seminars

Lansdowne lectures

Winter 2011-12 Lansdowne lectures

March 1-2 2012 - Matthew O. Jackson, Stanford University

"Social Networks and Economics: Lessons from Rural India", Thursday, March 1st, 7:00 p.m., Harry Hickman Building (HHB), Room 105

Winter 2012-13 Lansdowne lectures

March 2013 - Fiona Scott Morton, Yale School of Management, Details TBA

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
John Roberts
Stanford Graduate School of Business
January 2011 Video recording of John Roberts Lansdowne 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  

Visitor Info

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Parking at UVic

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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