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 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 
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
| 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
| 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) |
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| 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 |
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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.
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