This seminar meets 6 to 10 times a semester in which graduate students and faculty report on research in progress on topics in economic theory and related areas. Faculty from other UMass departments as well as faculty from other universities and colleges are frequently invited to both attend and present papers.
Spring 2019 Schedule
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Monday March 18 4:00 pm |
Robert Pollin UMass Amherst |
Economic Analysis of Medicare for All |
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Monday March 25** 4:00 pm |
Tom Michl Colgate University |
Growth and Distribution: What Have We Learned? |
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Monday April 1 4:00 pm |
Deepankar Basu UMass Amherst |
Bias of OLS Estimators Due to Exclusion of Relevant and Inclusion of Irrelevant Variables |
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Monday April 8 4:00 pm |
Larry King PERI UMass Amherst |
The Political Economy of Health Inequalities and the Opioid Epidemic |
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Wednesday April 17* 4:00 pm |
Marta Murray-Close |
How Husbands and Wives Report Their Earnings When She Earns More |
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Monday April 22 4:00 pm |
Mark Budolfson University of Vermont Harvard University |
Integrating Population Ethics, Subgroup Health Disparities, and Animal Welfare into Environmental Economics Policy Analysis |
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Monday April 29 4:00 pm |
Naoki Yoshihara UMass Amherst |
Sraffian Indeterminacy in General Equilibrium Revisited |
*This Wednesday has a Monday schedule.
**co-sponsored by the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
Workshop Location: 209 Crotty Hall (unless otherwise indicated)
412 N. Pleasant St., Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Papers will be posted at least one week prior to presentation.
For more details, contact Professor Katzner at dkatzner@econs.umass.edu