The Economics Department has a wide variety of workshops offered throughout the Spring and Fall semesters that are open to the public. The workshop schedules are posted each semester. Announcements are made on the home page during the week the presentation will be held.
Fall 2025 Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Labor & Applied Microeconomics Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| October 22, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Justin Bloesch Cornell University | Monopsony with Recruiting |
| November 5, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Ashley Craig Australian National University | Should Environmental Taxes Be Adjusted Because They Are Regressive? |
| November 12, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | John Clegg UMass | TBA |
| November 19, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Ioana Marinescu School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania | TBA |
History and Political Economy Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| September 9, 4pm Gordon Hall, 3rd Floor Conference Room | Lenore Palladino (UMass) | Rapid Changes in Corporate Governance and Finance co-organized with PERI |
| September 30, 4pm Gordon Hall, 3rd Floor Conference Room | Vamsicharan Vakulabharanam (UMass) | Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950-2010 co-organized with PERI |
October 14, 4pm CANCELLED | Katherine Moos and Noé Wiener (UMass) CANCELLED | U.S. Teachers, Overwork, and Perceptions of Work-Time Reductions: Evidence from Massachusetts |
| October 21, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Narayani Sritharan (William & Mary) | The Impact of Terrorist Designations on Foreign Aid |
| October 28, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Sandrine Kablan (Université Paris-Est Créteil) | Digital Wage Payments and Financial Inclusion in Developing and Emerging Economies |
| November 4, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | A. J. Julius (UCLA) | [Title TBA] |
| November 18, 4pm Crotty 209 | Duncan Foley (New School for Social Research) and Jonathan Cogliano (UMass-Boston) | New Perspectives on the Marxian Transformation Problem |
| December 2, 4pm Crotty 209 | Patrick Mason (UMass) | [Title TBA] |
| December 12, 11am Online via Zoom | Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Sapienza University of Rome) | [Title TBA] |
Economic Theory Workshops
All session will be in Crotty Hall except where noted. Contact Donald Katzner ([email protected]) with questions. When and if available, papers will be posted here.
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| September 29, 4pm Crotty 209 | Bartosz Mika University of Gdansk | At the Wheel of Algorithms: Drivers and Couriers in On-Demand Platform Work |
| October 20, 4pm Gordon Hall Conference Room | Julie Schor Boston College | Does the Future of Work Mean Less Work? The Movement for a Four Day Week Joint with the Political Economy Workshop |
| October 27, 4pm Crotty 209 | Sam Bowles UMass | Fair Inequality |
| November 3, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Peter Skott Umass | Cyclical Patterns of Wage Inequality and the Recent Wage Compression in the US |
| November 10, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Alex Coram | Splitting Resources between Technologies along the Optimal Path to Zero Emissions in Electricity Generation: a Theoretical Note |
| November 24, 4pm Crotty Hall 209 | Mark Setterfield New School | Wage Stagnation and Secular Stagnation |