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 Departments, other Colleges, and other Universities are frequently invited to both attend and present papers.
Spring 2017 Schedule
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Monday February 27 4:00 pm |
Gilberto Lima Univ. of Sao Paulo |
Equilibrium Wage Inequality as Another Worker Discipline Device |
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Monday March 20 4:00 pm |
Christopher House Univ. of Michigan |
Austerity in the Aftermath of the Great Recession |
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Monday March 27 4:00 pm |
Peter Matthews Middlebury College |
Expressive Voting and Partisan Bias |
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Monday April 3 4:00 pm |
Sam Bowles | Linguistic Inequality: Persistence and Change in Pronouns of Power and Solidarity |
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Monday April 10* 4:00 pm |
Zhun Xu Howard Univ. |
The Global Food Regime: Crisis and Restructuring |
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Monday April 24 4:00 pm |
Ceren Soylu | Collective Action and Heterogeneity |
* Jointly sponsored with the Political Economy Workshop
Room 209
Crotty Hall
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Economic Theory Workshop is being organized in Spring 2017 by Donald Katzner, 303 Crotty Hall. For more details contact Professor Katzner at dkatzner@econs.umass.edu