Previous Seminars
Fall 2022
October 21
Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt University
October 28
Jonathan Williams, University of North Carolina
November 4
Aaron Hedlund, Purdue University
November 11
Jason Choi, University of Wisconsin
December 2
Lawrence Ogbeifun, University of Mississippi
Spring 2023
March 24
Tim Hubbard, Colby College
March 31
Jane Ryngaert, University of Notre Dame
April 14
Kevin Williams, Yale University
April 21
Jason Imbrogno, University of North Alabama
Fall 2021
September 24
Ennio Piano, Middle Tennessee State University
October 22
Bright Osei, University of Mississippi
October 29
Andreas Vortisch, University of Mississippi
December 3
Harry Anthony Patrinos, World Bank
Spring 2022
March 4
Todd Jones, Mississippi State University
April 1
Rob Reed, University of Alabama
Fall 2019
October 17 (*Thursday*)
“The Effect of Police Officer Race on Use of Force”
Mark Hoekstra, Texas A&M University
October 25
“Investment Without Coordination Failures”
Brian Albrecht, University of Minnesota
November 1
“Pretextual Traffic Stops and Racial Disparities in their Use”
Matthew Makofske, Murray State University
November 15
“Should Central Banks Issue Digital Currency?”
Todd Keister, Rutgers University
Spring 2020
February 21
“Nonparametric multi-dimensional fixed effects panel data models”
Daniel Henderson, University of Alabama
Remaining seminars cancelled due to Covid-19…
Fall 2018
October 12
“Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do: Interest on Reserves and Monetary Policy”
David VanHoose, Baylor University
October 19
“A Three-State Rational Greater-Fool Bubble with Intertemporal Consumption Smoothing”
Joey White, University of Mississippi
October 26
John Gibson, Georgia State University
November 9
Howard Bodenhorn, Clemson University
Spring 2019
January/February/March
Job Market Candidates
April 26
Jamein Cunningham, University of Memphis
Fall 2017
October 6
“Diffusion of New Technology in European and American Coal Mines, 1850 – 1914”
John Murray, Rhodes College
October 13, 20, 27
“Real Analysis for Economists”
John Conlon, University of Mississippi
November 3
“Should Central Banks Burst Asset Bubbles? The Welfare Effects of Anti-Bubble Policy”
Harlan Holt, Union College
November 10
“The Effects of Highly-Publicized Police Use-of-Force on Policing, Trust, and Crime: Evidence from Ferguson”
Cheng Cheng, University of Mississippi
December 1
Stephen Williamson, University of Western Ontario
Spring 2018
February 2
“Central Bank Purchases of Private Assets: An Evaluation”
Kee-youn Kang, Yonsei University
February 9
“Improving the Power of Predictive Accuracy Tests”
Feng Liu, University of Mississippi
March 2
“A Model of Monetary Policy Shocks for Financial Crises and Normal Conditions”
A. Lee Smith, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
March 23
“In-State College Enrollment and Later Life Location Decisions”
John Winters, Oklahoma State University
April 6
“Community Development by Public Wealth Accumulation”
Stephen Coate, Cornell University
April 20
“Breaking the Curse of Cash”
Jaevin Park, University of Mississippi
April 27
“Perfectly Rational Fool’s Bubbles”
Anthony Doblas-Madrid, Michigan State
Fall 2016
October 7
“Are Supply Shocks Contractionary at the ZLB? Evidence from Utilization-Adjusted TFP Data”
Robert Lester, Colby College
October 21
“Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China”
Mark Koyama, George Mason University
November 11
“The Simplest Rational Greater-Fool Bubble Model”
Feng Liu, University of Mississippi
Spring 2017
February 17
“A Simple Dynastic Economy with Parental Time Investment in Children’s Patience”
Hyun Park, Kyung Hee University
February 24
Alexandros Vasios-Sivvopoulos, University of Mississippi
March 31
Jeremiah Wills, University of Mississippi
April 7
“Uncertain Taxes and the Effects of Repatriation Tax Proposals”
Julio Garin, University of Georgia
April 21
Lewis Warren, Census Bureau
May 5
Joey White, University of Mississippi
Fall 2015
September 25
“Roy-Model Bounds on Differential Treatment Effects”
John Gardner, University of Mississippi
October 2
“The Output and Welfare Effects of Government Spending Shocks over the Business Cycle”
Eric Sims, University of Notre Dame
October 16
“Determinants of Trade Margins: Insights Using State Export Data”
Cletus Coughlin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
October 30
“Do the Federal Reserve Announcements Actually Reveal New Information? A Short Sales Perspective Before and After the Great Recession”
Guo Kai, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
November 20
Gary Madden, Curtin University
Spring 2016
January/February
Job candidates
March 4
“The Long-run Effect of Teacher Collective Bargaining on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes”
Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University
March 11
“Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion”
Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
April 8
“Banker Preferences, Interbank Connections, and the Enduring Structure of the Federal Reserve System”
David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
May 6
“What’s In Your Portfolio? How Parents Rank Traditional Public, Private, and Charter Schools in Post-Katrina New Orleans’ Citywide System of School Choice”
Jason Imbrogno, University of North Alabama
FALL 2014
September 12
“The effect of homeownership on unemployment: Outcomes and implications”
George Mawuli Akpandjar, University of Mississippi
September 19
“Are You Hiring Johnny Football or Johnny Doe? The Effects of Uncertain Labor Quality on Employer Monopsony in College Football”
Matthew Makofske, University of Mississippi
September 26
“Does Religiosity Matter to People’s Generosity and Their Responsiveness to Charitable Solicitation?”
Yan Li, University of Mississippi
October 10
“Collateral Damage: Housing, Entrepreneurship, and Job Creation”
Ryan Decker, University of Maryland
October 17
“Insider Trading and the 2008 Stock Market Crash”
Harlan Holt, University of Mississippi
October 24
“War, Money, and Economy: Economic Performance in the Fed and pre-Fed Periods”
Thomas Hogan, Troy University
November 14
“The Impact of Contracting-out Student Transportation on Costs”
Conrad Puozaa, University of Mississippi
December 5
“Analysis of Excess Zeros, Sample Selection, and Endogenous Binary Indicator in an Ordinal Response Outcome Model, with an Application to First Marriage, Smoking and Drinking”
Lateef Subair, University of Mississippi
SPRING 2015
February 20
“Treatment Choice Dynamics with Insurance Mandates: The Case of In Vitro Fertilization”
Juan Pantano, Washington University in St. Louis
February 27
Roger Farmer, UCLA
April 24
Matej Drev, Georgia Tech
May 1
“Decentralization and Growth: Do Informal Institutions and Rule of Law Matter?”
Luciano Mauro, Universita di Trieste
FALL 2013
September 13
Carl Kitchens, University of Mississippi
September 20
“Payment Generosity and Physician Acceptance of Medicare and Medicaid Patients”
Christopher Brunt, Georgia Southern University
September 27
“Interest on Reserves, Settlement, and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy”
Josh Hendrickson, University of Mississippi
October 4
“Immigration Policy and Counterterrorism”
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
November 1
“An Alternative to CAPM”
John Conlon, University of Mississippi
November 8
“A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement in the Post-Reconstruction South”
Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh
November 15
“Implementing Stochastic Semi-Nonparametric Tests for Weak Separability to Define Money: An Empirical Study on U.S. Data”
Ryan Mattson, Rhodes College
December 6
“Cryptocurrencies, Network Effects, and Switching Costs”
William Luther, Kenyon College
SPRING 2014
March 19
Nicolas Ziebarth, University of Iowa
March 28
“Alternative Tests for Correct Specification of Conditional Predictive Densities”
Tatevik Sekhposyan, Bank of Canada
April 4
“Culture and the Cost of Contract Enforcement”
Claudia Williamson, Mississippi State University
April 11
“It’s Getting Hot in Here: The Effects of Ambient Temperature on Seasonal Birth Rates”
Alan Barreca, Tulane University
April 25
“Scarce Collateral, the Term Premium, and Quantitative Easing”
Stephen Williamson, Washington University in St. Louis
May 2
“The Effects of Minimum Salaries on Career Length: Evidence from the National Football League”
Johnny Ducking, North Carolina A&T
FALL 2012
September 7
“Buyer Heterogeneity Reduces the Gain from Quantity Discounts”
John R. Conlon, University of Mississippi
September 14
“Selection Bias Reversal in Maternity Insurance Coverage”
John E. Murray, Rhodes College
September 21
“ Sparking Fertility: The Rural Electrification Administration and Fertility in the United States 1930-1940”
Carl Kitchens, University of Mississippi
September 28
“Transaction Asset Shortages” (co-authored with David Beckworth)
Joshua R. Hendrickson, University of Mississippi
October 5
“Possible Experiments in Money as Memory”
Joshua Hendrickson, University of Mississippi and Mark Van Boening, University of Mississippi
October 12
No seminar
October 19
“Are Children Normal?”
Natalia Kolesnikova, University of Mississippi
October 26
“An Alternating-Offers Model of Multilateral Negotiations”
Charles Thomas, Economic Science Institute, Chapman University
November 2
No seminar
November 9
“Measuring the Capitalization of School Quality into Housing Prices: a Spatial Approach”
Jonathan Taylor Smith, University of Mississippi
“Corruption and Re-election Chances of incumbent Parties in Developing Countries”
Mavuto Kalulu, University of Mississippi
November 16
Southern Economic Association meetings, New Orleans LA
November 30
“The impact of price fairness on buyer behavior in bi-lateral negotiations”
Eric Cardella, Rochester Institute of Technology
SPRING 2013
January 29
“In Search of the Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States During the New Deal”
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
February 8
“Bartering Games in a Kolm Triangle”
Matt Van Essen, University of Alabama
February 22
Laurence Ball, Johns Hopkins University
March 8
“Information Disclosure and Exchange Media”
David Andolfatto, St. Louis Federal Reserve
April 5
Jonathan Fox, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
April 19
“Costly Voluntary Disclosure in a Screening Game”
Mark Van Boening, University of Mississippi
April 26
“Unemployment, Financial Frictions, and the Housing Market”
Guillaume Rocheteau, University of California-Irvine
May 3
“Are Pink Slips Better than Flu Shots? The Effects of Employment Rates on Influenza”
Joshua Robinson, University of Alabama Birmingham