Colgate and Hamilton College are located close to one another, and we leverage this proximity to provide you and your peers at both schools with exposure to engaging and challenging speakers as a part of a joint economics lecture series.
- Friday, September 14: Wenli Li, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, "Real Estate Investors and the Boom and Bust of the US Housing Market," 2:00 p.m., 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (contact: Felicia Ionescu)
- Friday, September 21: Andrew McGee, Simon Fraser, "Employer Learning and the "Importance" of Skills", 2:00 p.m., 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (contact: Carolina Castilla and Takao Kato)
- Friday, September 28: Kartik Athreya, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, "College Enrollment Decisions: The Roles of Risk, Skill Premia, and Policy," 2:00 p.m., 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (contact: Nicole Simpson)
- Friday, October 5: Emily Conover, Hamilton College, "Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior", 2:00 p.m. in Kirner-Johnson 102, Hamilton College
- Friday, November 2: Ergys Islamaj, "Financial Integration and Consumption Smoothing: Bridging Theory and Empirics", Vassar College, 2:00 p.m., KJ 203, Hamilton College
- Friday, November 9: Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard, "Incentivizing schooling for learning: Evidence on the impact of alternative targeting approaches", 2:00 p.m., 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (contact: Chad Sparber)
- Friday, November 30: Pao-Lin Tien, Colgate University, "Monetary Shocks and Real Exchange Rates: Evidence from Two Centuries", 2:00 p.m., KJ 203, Hamilton College
- Friday, December 7:Judit Temesvary, Hamilton College, 2:00 p.m. at Hamilton College (POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING, DATE TBA)
- Friday, February 1: Melanie Khamis, Wesleyan University, "Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes" (joint work with Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel and Mutlu Yuksel), 2:00 p.m.,Room KJ 203, Hamilton College
- Friday, February 15: Piyusha Mutreja, Syracuse University, "International Trade and Composition of Capital across Countries", 2:00 p.m. at Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall (Contact: Nicole Simpson)
- Friday, March 1: Sarah Pearlman, Vassar College, "Homicide and Work: The Impact of Mexico's Drug War on Labor Market Participation" (Joint with Ariel BenYishay), 2 pm, Room KJ 203 at Hamilton College
- Tuesday, April 2: Susan Averett, Lafayette College, "Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt", 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall (Contact: Carolina Castilla)
- Friday, April 19: Judit Temesvary, Hamilton College 2:00 p.m. at Hamilton College
- Friday, April 26: Talia Bar, Cornell and Binghamton, "Patent Quality and a Two-Tiered Patent System", 2:00 pm at Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall (Contact: Carolina Castilla)
- Friday, May 3rd: Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut, 2:00 p.m. at Colgate University, 226 Persson Hall (Contact: Piyush Chandra)
2011-2012
- Lewis Davis, Union College, "Individualism and Economic Development: Evidence from Rainfall Data", 2 pm, Hamilton College
- Jim Berry, Cornell, "Eliciting and Utilizing Willingness to Pay: Evidence from Field Trials in Northern Ghana", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Satyajit Chatterjee, FRB Philadelphia, "A Theory of Credit Scoring and the Competitive Pricing of Default Risk (joint with Dean Corbae and J. Victor Rios-Rull), 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Judit Temesvary, Hamilton College, "The Determinants of U.S. Banks' International Activities", 2 pm, Hamilton College
- Emily Conover, Hamilton College, 2 pm, Hamilton College
- Amit Batabyal, Rochester, "Human Capital Use, Innovative Activity, and Patent Protection in a Model of Regional Economic Growth" 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
- Antti Kauhanen, Finland, "Performance measurement and incentive plans", 10:30 am, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
- Kaye Husbands Fealing, "The Science of Science Policy", UMN, 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- David Simon '07, "Facebook Finance: Social Interactions Propagate Active Investing, with Rawley Heimer", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
- Will Olney, Williams College, "Remittances and the Wage Impact of Immigration", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
- Greg Niemesh, Vanderbilt, "Ironing Out Deficiencies: Evidence from the United States on the Economic Effects of Iron Deficiency", 2 pm, 208 Persson Hall (Note: different location than usual), Colgate University
- Dora Gicheva, UNC, "Tax Benefits for Graduate Education: Incentives for Whom?", 2pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Larry Blume, Cornell, "Identifying Social Networks", 2 pm, KJ 201, Hamilton College, Paper 1, Paper 2
- Wenli Li, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Rescheduled for Fall 2012
2010-2011
- Friday, September 10: Maria Carolina Caetano, "A Discontinuity Test of Endogeneity", Rochester University, 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University
- Tuesday, September 21: Matt Kahn, "Energy Conservation 'Nudges' and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment", UCLA, 4 pm, Kirner Johnson 201, Hamilton College (website);note the change of date and time
- Friday, October 1: NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Viktor Tsyrennikov, "International Portfolios: An Incomplete Markets General Equilibrium Approach", Cornell University, 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Friday, October 22: Wayne Grove, "Returns to MBA Quality: Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Peers, Faculty, and Institution Quality", LeMoyne College, 2 pm, Hamilton College (website)
- Friday, November 12: CANCELLED- Satyajit Chatterjee, "Dealing with Consumer Default: Bankruptcy vs Garnishment", FRB Philadelphia, 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Friday, November 19: Colin Xu, "Labor regulation, Economic Complexity, and the China-India Gap", The World Bank, 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Friday, December 3: Note: Change of Speaker-Steven Wu, "Are Pregnant Women Happier? Racial Differences in the Relationship Between Pregnancy and Life Satisfaction", Hamilton College, 2 pm, Hamilton College (website)
- Friday, March 25: Delia Furtado-UConn and Yale University, "Female Work and Fertility in the United States: Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrant Labor", 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Friday, April 1: NOTE: CHANGE OF SPEAKER-Dirk Krueger, "Inter-generational Redistribution in the Great Recession", UPenn, 2pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Friday, April 22: Pian Shu '07,"The "Hidden" Assets of Disability Insurance Applicants: An Empirical Analysis", MIT, 2 pm, 226 Persson Hall, Colgate University (website)
- Friday, April 29: Raul Razo-Garcia, Carleton University in Ottawa,"How Reliable are De Facto Exchange Rate Regime Classifications? (with Barry Eichengreen)". 2 pm, Room KJ 101, Hamilton College (website)