Workshops

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.

 

Fall 2023 Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time 

Political Economy Workshops

Date, Time, Location Speaker (s) Title
Tuesday, October 3
4:00pm ET
209 Crotty Hall
Jamee Moudud, Sarah Lawrence College

Constitutional Vulnerability, the Struggle for Human Dignity, And Monetary Sovereignty

Wednesday, October 18
4:00pm ET
209 Crotty Hall
Carlo Panico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Keynes and Sraffa on Finance

 

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

 

Tuesday, Novenber 14
4:00pm ET
209 Crotty Hall
Bob Pollin, UMass Topic: TBD
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
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
Thursday, October 12
4:00pm ET
209 Crotty Hall and online
https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99023447424
Lucas Chancel Global carbon inequality
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)
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
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
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
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
Wednesday, November 1
4:00pm ET
209 Crotty Hall
Jeffrey Lin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Expecting an Expressway
Wednesday, November 15
4:00pm ET
209 Crotty Hall
Zoë Cullen, Harvard Business School Negotiations’ Effect on Job Outcomes
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
Monday, October 2
4:00pm ET
Isabella Weber, UMass Inflation in Times of Overlapping Emergencies: Systematically Significant Prices from an Input-Output Perspective
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
Monday, October 30
Rescheduled from 9/25)
4:00pm ET
Sam Bowles, UMass Moral Economics
Monday November 20
4:00pm ET
Mark Setterfield, New School Macroeconomic Theory and the Social  Reproduction of Labor
Monday November 27
4:00pm ET
Itai Sher, UMass Welfare Weights and Deontological Penalties
Monday, December 4
4:00pm ET
Ina Ganguli, UMass War and Science: Evidence from the 2014 Armed Conflict in Ukraine