Fri., October 2, 2026, 3:00 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Albert Ma, Boston University Title: Bargaining over Health Treatments
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The University of Alberta Economists (UAE) Group is an umbrella organization for economists on campus, providing a structure to stimulate collaborative research and promote the work of economists at the University of Alberta.
Wed., September 23, 2026, 3:30 pm ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Jiatong Zhong, University of Alberta Title: Superstar Spillovers on an Online Platform
Fri., March 27, 2026, 3:00 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) David Green, UBC Title: Immigrant Impact on Local Labour Markets: Evidence from the Canadian International Student
Fri., March 27, 2026, 10:30 am Business Economics Speaker Series (BUS 5-06) Tasso Adamopoulos, York University Title: Trade Risk and Food Security
Thurs., March 26, 2026 ECON IPE Hanson lecture David Green, UBC Title: Distributive Justice and Empirical Policy Analysis
Fri., March 20, 2026, 3:00 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Marie Connolly, UQAM Title: The Great Mobility Puzzle Resolved
Fri., March 13, 2026, 3:00 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Fariha Kamal, Fed Board Title: An Anatomy of U.S. Establishments' Trade Linkages in Global Value Chains
Fri., March 13, 2026, 10:30 am Business Economics Speaker Series (BUS 5-06) Nouri Najjar, Western University Title: Sample Bias in Decompositions of Economic Dynamics
List of ECON events at UofA For a list of events, please see sites.ualberta.ca/~uae/UAEWeb/...
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Fri., March 6, 2026, 10:30 am Business Economics Speaker Series (BUS 5-06) Lala Ma, University of Kentucky Title: Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas
Fri., March. 6, 2026, 3:00 pm ECON Macro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Sarah Zubairy, Texas A&M Title: Treasury Supply Shocks: Propagation through Debt Expansion and Maturity Adjustment
Wed., March 4, 2026, 3:30 pm ECONSeminar (8-22 Tory Building) Brian Soebbing, University of Alberta Title: Does crime pay? The effect of off-field behavior on player salaries in the National Football League
Fri., Jan. 23, 2026, 3:00 pm ECON Macro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Serguei Maliar, Santa Clara University Title: Deep learning for analyzing high-dimensional dynamic economic models
Fri., Jan. 16, 2026, 3:00 pm ECON Econometrics Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Matt Webb, Carleton University Title: Good Controls Gone Bad: Difference-in-Differences with Covariates
Wed., Jan. 14, 2026, 3:30 pm ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Yuhan Wang, Department of Economics, University of Alberta Title: Voting Without Work: Estimating the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Voting Participation in Canada
Wed., Jan. 7, 2026, 3:30 pm ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Brendon Andrews, University of Alberta Title: Public Reactions to Disease Shocks
Saturday, Nov 29, 2025 Business School (BUS 5-13) Business Economics (BUEC) Workshop on Economics and Finance
Fri., Nov. 28, 2025, 3:30 pm ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Valentina Galvani and Noha Razek Title: The Russia-Ukraine War Indirectly Benefited U.S. Shale Energy Producers
Academic links to the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics at U of A --- Rick Szostak and Brendon Andrews were students of Joel Mokyr; Philippe Marcoul's PhD committee included Philippe Aghion.
Fri., Nov. 21, 2025, 3:00 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Kourtney Koebel, University of Toronto Title: Subsidized Childcare and the Labour Market for Providers
Wed., Nov. 19, 2025, 3:30 pm ECON Brown Bag Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Xiao Lu, University of Alberta Title: Exchange Rate Predictability and Financial Conditions
Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, 3:00 pm ECON Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare, UC Santa Barbara Title: Difference-in-Differences Estimators with Continuous Treatments
Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, 3:00 pm ECON Macro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Gorkem Bostanci, UBC Title: Changing Jobs to Fight Inflation: Labor Market Reactions to Inflationary Shocks
Wedn., Oct. 15, 2025, 3:30 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Marten Ovaere, Ghent University Title: Mind the Peak: The Role of Peak Demand Charges and Real-Time Pricing in Residential Electricity Flexibility
Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, 3:00 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Emilie Jackson, Michigan State Title: Effects of Unemployment Insurance for Self-Employed and Marginally-Attached Workers
Wedn., Oct. 8, 2025, 3:30 pm ECON Micro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Ashani Amarasinghe, School of Economics, University of Sydney Title: Getting Along or Getting Ahead? The Domestic Roots of Status-Seeking in International Relations
Friday, Oct. 3, 2025, 3:00 pm ECON Macro Seminar (8-22 Tory Building) Alan Finkelstein Shapiro Title: Climate Policies, Labor Markets, and Macroeconomic Outcomes in Emerging Economies
Thursd., Sept. 25, 2025, 1:30 pm REES Seminar (550 General Services Building) Ghanashyam Khanal - USDA Title: Economic incentives and policy design for a sustainable climate future
Tuesd., Sept. 23, 2025, 1:30 pm REES Seminar (550 General Services Building) Kodjo Barnor - Texas A&M Title: Impacts of Land Restoration on Livelihoods: Evidence from Ethiopia