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.
In addition to these workshops, there are a number of working groups in the department. The seminars for these groups can be found in the Graduate Academics section.
- Political Economy Workshops
- Economic History and Development Workshops
- Applied Microeconomics Workshops
- Economic Theory Workshops
Fall 2023 Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Political Economy Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker (s) | Title |
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Tuesday, October 3 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall |
Jamee Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College |
Constitutional Vulnerability, the Struggle for Human Dignity, And Monetary Sovereignty |
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Wednesday, October 18 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall |
Carlo Panico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Keynes and Sraffa on Finance
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Tuesday, October 31 4:00pm ET Online: Meeting ID: 998 6171 4302. https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99861714302 |
Mark Schwartz, University of Virginia |
From Fordism to Franchise: Intellectual. Property Rights and Growth in the Knowledge Economy
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Tuesday, Novenber 14 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall |
Bob Pollin, UMass | Topic: TBD |
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Tuesday, December 5 2:00pm ET Online: Meeting ID: 998 6171 4302. https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99861714302 |
Brett Christophers, Uppsala University | The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet |
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Economic History and Development Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Wednesday, September 13 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall and online https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99023447424 |
Tim Sahay | Bidenomics and the clean energy race in US, Europe and China |
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Thursday, October 12 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall and online https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99023447424 |
Lucas Chancel | Global carbon inequality |
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Monday, October 16 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall and online https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99023447424 |
Branko Milanovic | Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War (in collaboration with Applied Microeconomics Workshop) |
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Wednesday, October 25 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall and online https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99023447424 |
Christine Strong | The effect of finance ministers' personal characteristics on government debt |
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Wednesday,November 8 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall and online https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99023447424 |
Daniela Gabor | Greening finance for the low-carbon transition |
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Wednesday, November 29 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall and online https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99023447424 |
Kevin Gallagher | Debt distress, climate change and development |
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Applied Microeconomics Workshops
Please contact Chris Boone (cboone@umass.edu), Arin Dube (adube@umass.edu), or Ina Ganguli (iganguli@umass.edu) if you have any questions.
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Monday, October 16 4:00pm ET |
Branko Milanovic, CUNY Graduate Center Joint with History & Development Workshop Hybrid Event: 209 Crotty Hall & Zoom Meeting ID 990 2344 7424 |
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War |
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Wednesday, November 1 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall |
Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | Expecting an Expressway |
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Wednesday, November 15 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall |
Zoë Cullen, Harvard Business School | Negotiations’ Effect on Job Outcomes |
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Wednesday, December 6 4:00pm ET 209 Crotty Hall |
Anna Stansbury, MIT Sloan School of Management | The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from Academia |
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Economic Theory Workshops
All session will be on Zoom. Invitations to join each session will be sent the morning of the session. Contact Donald Katzner (dkatzner@econs.umass.edu) to register or with questions. When and if available, papers will be posted here.
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
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Monday, October 2 4:00pm ET |
Isabella Weber, UMass | Inflation in Times of Overlapping Emergencies: Systematically Significant Prices from an Input-Output Perspective |
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Monday, October 23 4:00pm ET |
Alex Coram, U. of W. Australia | Storage and Cumulative Risk in Wind. Generation: It' s Worse than You Think |
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Monday, October 30 Rescheduled from 9/25) 4:00pm ET |
Sam Bowles, UMass | Moral Economics |
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Monday November 20 4:00pm ET |
Mark Setterfield, New School | Macroeconomic Theory and the Social Reproduction of Labor |
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Monday November 27 4:00pm ET |
Itai Sher, UMass | Welfare Weights and Deontological Penalties |
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Monday, December 4 4:00pm ET |
Ina Ganguli, UMass | War and Science: Evidence from the 2014 Armed Conflict in Ukraine |
