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
Spring 2022 Workshop Schedule
All times are Eastern Time
Political Economy Workshops
| Date, Time, Location | Speaker(s) | Title |
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March 8 4:00-5:30pm In Person and online via Zoom Online via Zoom |
Guinn Slobodian, Wellesley College | Zone Fever: A political history. |
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March 22 4:00-5:30pm In Person and online via Zoom Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom |
Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Budgets and the Politics of Austerity in Interwar Europe |
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April 5 4:00-5:30pm Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom Contact lpking@econs.umass.edu the Zoom URL |
Sid Rothstein, Williams College | The tech-finance bloc: political power and national strategies for digital transformation |
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Cancelled April 19 4:00-5:30pm Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom Contact lpking@econs.umass.edu the Zoom URL |
Andrew Schrank, Brown University |
Crowding-in Government Regulation: The Case of the National Consumers League
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April 26 4:00-5:30pm Crotty Hall 209 and Zoom Contact lpking@econs.umass.edu the Zoom URL |
Jacob Bor, Boston University | A canary in the coal mine? Population health and reactionary politics |
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May 10 4:00-5:30pm Online via Zoom (Contact lpking@econs.umass.edu for the location or URL) |
Eleni Tsingou, Copenhagen Business School | Fertile Markets: The making of a cross-border reproductive care market |
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Economic History and Development Workshops
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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February 9 |
Leonce Ndikumana, UMass-Amherst | Inflation in Ethiopia |
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March 2 4:00-5:30pm Recording |
C. P. Chandrasekhar, ex-JNU | Who gains from agricultural “reform”? Understanding the 2020 Indian farm laws and protests |
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March 23 4:00-5:30pm Recording |
Ramaa Vasudevan | The Gold-Exchange Standard in Colonial India: Foreshadowing the Monetary Hierarchy of the State-Credit Standard |
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April 1 (Rescheduled from March 11) 10:00-11:30am Recording |
Mary O’Sullivan | Capitalism and Crisis: The Real Problem of the Great Depression |
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April 20 4:00-5:30pm Recording |
Leonce Ndikumana, Raymond Caraher and Lynda Pickbourn | Does Project-Level Foreign Aid Increase Access to Improved Water Sources? Evidence from Uganda |
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Applied Microeconomics Workshops
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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March 9 4:00-5:15pm Contact Ina Ganguli for link |
Erika Deserranno, Northwestern University | Financial Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: An Experiment in the Public Sector |
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April 13 4:00-5:15pm Contact Ina Ganguli for link |
Ghazala Azmat, Sciences Po | Topic TBA |
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May 4 4:00-5:15pm Contact Ina Ganguli for link |
Raffaele Saggio, University of British Columbia
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Topic TBA |
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May 11 4:00-5:15pm Contact Ina Ganguli for link |
Silvia Vannutelli, Northwestern University | From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance |
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Economic Theory Workshops
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
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March 7 4:00-5:30pm Online via Zoom Contact Don Katzner for link |
Kevin Young, UMass-Amherst | The Color of Power: Race, Gender, and Skin Color Dynamics Among the Global Elite |
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March 28 4:00-5:30pm Online via Zoom Contact Don Katzner for link |
Bob Pollin, UMass-Amherst |
Green New Deal Analytics: A Global Framework and Case Study for South Korea |
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April 11 4:00-5:30pm Online via Zoom Contact Don Katzner for link |
Arslan Razmi, UMass-Amherst With Guilherme Martins |
Sustained Exchange Rate Misalignment and with Economic Development |
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April 25 4:00-5:30pm Online via Zoom Contact Don Katzner for link |
Juan-Camilo Cardenas, UMass-Amherst | Testing Theories of Discrimination in the Field |
