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.
Spring 2026 Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Applied Microeconomics Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| March 26, 4 p.m. Crotty 209 | Jason Sockin (Cornell University) | What’s in a Job Ad? Evidence From Worker Beliefs and Job Choice with a Priced Amenity |
| May 7, 4 p.m.Crotty 209 | Heather Sarsons (Chicago Booth) | Topic: TBA |
History and Political Economy Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| February 10, 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | James Heintz (UMass) and Will Milberg (New School for Social Research) | Investing in Power: Unequal Exchange in Global Value Chains |
| March 10, 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Gastón Nievas (Paris School of Economics and Harvard University) coauthor: Thomas Piketty | Unequal Exchange and North-South Relations: Evidence from Global Trade Flows and the World Balance of Payments 1800–2025 |
| March 24, 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Anne McCants (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) coauthor: Cal Links | Slow to Register: The Long-Run Productivity Effects of the 1807 Slave Import Ban in the Cape Colony |
| April 7, 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Naomi Lamoreaux (University of Michigan Law School and Yale University) coauthor: Rebecca Eisenberg | Separation of Powers or Division of Labor: What Patent Interference Disputes Show Us about the History of the Administrative State, 1836-1940 |
| April 14, 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Leila Davis, UMass-Boston coauthor: Harry Konstantinidis (UMass–Boston) | Indebtedness and the Cost of Borrowing in the U.S. Working and Non-Working Classes Cosponsored by ISSR |
| April 21, 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Aaron Benanav (Cornell) and Ryan Lee (UW Madison) Coordinated with Economic Theory workshop | Groundwork for a Multidimensional Economics |
| April 28, 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Patrick Mason and Mwangi wa Gĩthĩnji (UMass) | Black like Us? The Occupational Integration of Black Immigrants |
| May 5, 4 p.m., Gordon 3rd Floor Conference Room | J. W. Mason (CUNY) and Arjun Jayadev (Azim Premji University and INET) other panelists Perry G. Mehrling (Boston University) co-organized with PERI | Book Roundtable on Against Money |
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.
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| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
| March 9 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Luis Monroy-Gómez-Franco | Intergenerational Poverty in Mexico: A First Approximation |
| March 23 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | Arin Dube | Are We There Yet? The Search for a Turning Point in the Effect of Minimum Wage on Jobs |
April 21
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Aaron Benanav (Cornell) Ryan Lee |
Groundwork for a Multidimensional Economics |
| April 27 4 p.m., Crotty 209 | John Clegg Shih-Yen Pan | High Water Everywhere: Social Effects of the 1927 Mississippi Flood |