Brown bag seminars
Summer Session, Apr-Jun 2025
Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
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30 Apr *11:00-11:50am |
Walter Lepore (UVic School of Public Admin) | Framing Effects and Mediating Factors in Complex Sustainability Problems: Insights from Canada and Spain |
| 07 May | Felix Pretis | |
| 14 May | Justin Wiltshire | |
| 21 May | Donn Feir | |
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28 May |
TBA | |
| 04 Jun | TBA | |
| 11 Jun | Mike Janes | |
| 18 Jun |
Paulo Rodrigues (Nova School of Business and Economics & Bank of Portugal) |
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| 25 Jun | TBA |
Second Term, Jan-Apr 2025
Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 08 | Andrew Usher, Bank of Canada | Institutional Details and Opportunities at the Bank of Canada |
| Jan 15 | Richard Martin | It's Not the Journey Man...It's the Apprenticeship |
| Jan 22 | Colette Salemi | Desert Locust Invasions and Farmers' Adaptations |
| Jan 29 | Janet Burlacu / Peter Kennedy | The Quality of Market Child Care Part 1: The Full Information Case |
| Feb 05 | Chengyu Si / Pascal Courty | China's Response to Ticket Resale (For Profit) |
| Feb 12 | Chris Kennedy (UVic Civil Engineering) | The Great Depression As An Energy Transition |
| Feb 19 | Reading Break | Reading Break |
| Feb 26 | Donn Feir | Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties |
| Mar 05 | Justin Wiltshire | The Impact of Walmart's Growth on the U.S. Social Safety Net |
| Mar 12 | Pascal Courty | The Changing World of Academic Journals |
| Mar 19 | No speaker | No speaker |
| Mar 26 | Maxine Lee (SF State) | Child Penalty in LGBTQ+ Families: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in New Zealand |
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Apr 02 *DSB C108 12:30-2:20pm |
ECON Faculty | Economics Research at UVic: Research Agenda Summaries by ECON Professors |
| Apr 09 | Janet Burlacu | The Quality of Market Child Care Part 2: The Asymmetric Information Case |
| Apr 16 | Colin Chia (UVic PoliSci) | Digital Taxes and the Geopolitics of Economic Territory |
| Apr 23 | Malcolm Rutherford | The First Generation of African American PhDs in Economics: 1921 - 1943 |
First Term, Sep-Dec 2024
Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 4 | Vasco Gabriel | Estimating the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks: A Model Averaging Approach |
| Sep 11 | Emma Hutchinson | Who Has a Family Doctor in Canada? 2001-2019. |
| Sep 18 | Justin Wiltshire | Lifting the Cap on Non-Resident University Enrollment: Evidence from Wisconsin |
| Sep 25 | Donn Feir | Nonbinary Gender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census |
| Oct 2 | N/A - Lansdowne Lecture | N/A |
| Oct 9 | Sara Wray Enns |
The Effects of a New All Season Road in Canada’s Arctic: The Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway |
| Oct 16 | Pascal Courty | Pollution Avoidance: Heterogenous Attendance Responses Across Movie Theaters |
| Oct 23 | Mengxia Yu | Investing for Impact: Towards the SDG Efficient Frontier |
| Oct 30 | Elisabeth Gugl | Transferable Utility within Households |
| Nov 6 | Governor's Challenge Team | TBD |
| Nov 13 | N/A - Reading Break | N/A |
| Nov 20 | Tao He | The Sufficiency of Statistical Information and the Credibility of Empirical Research |
| Nov 27 | Paul Schure | The Efficiency of Professional Sports Organizations: Clubs in the English Premier League |
| Dec 4 | Mahdi Shariati | Sport and Economic Security |