The economics department organizes and sponsors a seminar series where scholars present and discuss their research with the LSB community.
Direct any questions to Marianne Farag - mfarag@scu.edu.
Spring 2022
| Date | Speaker / Affiliation | Paper Title | Time / Place |
| Wednesday, March 30 |
Eric Zou University of Oregon |
What’s Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring: Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, April 6 |
Katherine Wagner UC Berkeley |
Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, April 13 |
Dong Wei UC Santa Cruz |
Learning from Manipulable Signals | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, April 20 |
Victoira Xie Santa Clara University |
Expecting Floods: Firm Entry, Employment, and Aggregate Implications | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, April 27 |
John Ifcher Santa Clara University |
A “Serendipitous Replication” of Choosing Competition on Behalf of Someone Else | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, May 4 |
Christian Helmers Santa Clara University |
Can One Judge Affect Innovation? Evidence from Patent Litigation in the Western District of Texas
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11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, May 11 |
Gustavo Schwenkler Santa Clara University |
Why does news coverage predict returns? Evidence from the underlying editor preferences for risky stocks |
11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, May 18 |
Audrey Guo Santa Clara University |
Payroll Tax Incidence: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, May 25 |
Shanjun Li Cornell University |
Attribute-based Subsidies and Market Power: an Application to Electric Vehicles | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, June 1 |
Maximilian Auffhammer UC Berkeley |
11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
Winter 2022
| Date | Speaker / Affiliation | Paper Title | Time / Place |
| Wednesday, January 12 |
Alex Field Santa Clara University |
The Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Productivity, 1941-1948 | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, January 19 |
Judd Boomhower UC San Diego |
Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, January 26 |
Jin-Yeub Kim Yonsei University |
Games with Strong Solutions | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, February 9 |
Asaf Manela Washington U in St. Louis |
Does Finance Benefit Society? A Language Embedding Approach | 11:45 am / Zoom |
| Wednesday, February 23 |
Brigitte Roth Tran Fed Board/SF Fed |
The Local Economic Impact of Natural Disasters | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, March 2 |
Nicolas Caramp UC Davis |
1:45 am / Zoom | |
| Wednesday, March 9 |
Justin Marion UC Santa Cruz |
Dirty Business: Principal-Agent Problems in Hazardous Waste Remediation |
Fall 2021
| Date | Speaker / Affiliation | Paper Title | Time / Place |
| Wednesday, September 22 |
Stephie Fried SF Fed/Arizona State University |
Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, September 29 |
Asma Benhenda University College London |
Stay a Little Longer ? The Impact of Non-Financial Incentives on Teacher Retention in Disadvantaged Schools | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, October 6 |
Marc Muendler University of California, San Diego |
Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Brazil | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, October 13 |
David Rhys Bernard Paris School of Economics (visiting UC Berkeley |
Estimating long-term treatment effects without long-term outcome data | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, October 20 |
Bill Sundstrom Santa Clara University |
Unintended Consequences of Ban the Box? Replications and Extensions | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, October 27 |
Ben Hyman NY Fed |
Wage Insurance for Displaced Workers | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, November 3 |
Youssef Benzarti University of California, Santa Barbara |
Mandating Tax Incidence: Using Price Controls to Better Target Tax Cuts | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, November 10 |
Tong Liu Stanford University SIEPR/NUS |
Protecting the Center: Environmental Regulation and Regional Inequality in China | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
Michael Kevane Santa Clara University |
Effects of education on political engagement in rural Burkina Faso | 11:45 am / Lucas 201 |
| Wednesday, December 2 |
Steve Wu University of California, San Diego |
Foreign Reserves Management and Original Sin | 11:45 am / Via Zoom |