Economics Seminar Series


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Presented by the PNC Practicum Program and the Department of Economics at the WVU College of Business and Economics

All seminars are 3:30 - 5 p.m. in room 441 at the College of Business and Economics, unless otherwise noted.
Seminar Series Coordinator: Bill Trumbull

Fall 2012:

  • Sept 7: Nate Baum-Snow, Brown University, "Urban Transport Expansions, Employment Decentralization, and the Spatial Scope of Agglomeration Economies."
  • Sept 14: Chris Parmeter, University of Miami
  • Sept 21: Frank Giarratani, University of Pittsburgh, "Steel in the Steel City: Restructuring and resilience in a region and an industry."
  • Sept 28: Art Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University, "Revisiting the Long-Term Unemployment and Mental Health Causality Quandary: A Resilient Population Approach"
  • Oct 5: Tim Brennan, Resources for the Future, "Is 'Behavioral Economics' Economics?"
  • Oct 12: F. Andrew Hanssen, Clemson University, "How Tyranny Paved the Way to Wealth and Democracy: The Democratic Transition in Ancient Greece."
  • Oct 19: Christopher Herrington, Arizona State University, "Public Education Financing Systems, Earnings Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility."
  • Oct 26: Susan Zhu, Michigan State University
  • Nov 2: Hubert Janicki, U.S. Census Bureau, "Employer-Provided Health Insurance in a Model with Labor Market Frictions."
  • Nov 9: Loris Rubini, Universidad Carlos III de Madri, "Deconstructing Firm Size Distributions: The Importance of International Trade."
  • Nov 30: Kevin Donovan, Arizona State University, "Agricultural Risk, Intermediate Inputs, and Cross-Country Productivity Differences."
  • Dec 7: Chris Cunningham, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, "Negative Equity and Wage Bargaining."

Spring 2013:

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