Events

Our department hosts a variety of seminars, lectures, conferences, and workshops throughout the academic year. 

Upcoming Events

U.S. Monetary Policy: Still Appropriate

Thursday, Sep. 20, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Location: Washington Hall
James B. Bullard, president and chief executive officer, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
This is part of the Theodore and Rita Combs Distinguished Lecture Series. This event is free and open to the public.
 

Roundtable Discussion: The Economy Now

Friday, Oct. 5, 2012
10:00AM - 11:30AM
Location: JW Marriott, Lincoln Room, 151 W. Adams Street, Chicago
 
Featuring expert economists from the Notre Dame faculty
 
Panelists include:
  • Timothy Fuerst, William and Dorothy O’Neill Professor of Economics
  • Nelson Mark, Alfred C. DeCrane Jr. Professor of International Economics
  • Michael Pries, associate professor of economics and director of graduate studies for the Department of Economics
  • Eric Sims, Michael P. Grace II Assistant Professor
Introduced by John T. McGreevy, I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters
 
Moderated by Chris Waller; professor of economics, University of Notre Dame; senior vice president and director of research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
 
A Q&A will follow the panel.
 
This event is free and open to the public.
 
For more information, contact the economics department at econ@nd.edu or 574.631.7698.
 
Sponsored by the Department of Economics
 
 

The Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame hosted the 2012 Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings from May 11 to May 13.

 

Seminars

Below is a list of seminars for the current semester and listings from past sememsters. 

Fall 2012

We gratefully acknowledge the Seng Foundation Program for Market-Based Programs and Catholic Values and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts for their support of this seminar series.

(all seminars are 3:30-5:00 unless otherwise stated, location 306 Hammes-Mowray)

Friday, 9/7                   Dean Corbae, Wisconsin

Friday, 9/14                 Lars Lefgren, BYU                 

Friday, 9/21                 Jim Bullard, St Louis Fed

Wednesday, 9/26         Guillermo Ordonez, Yale (lunchtime seminar)

Friday, 9/28                 Yaniv Yedid-Levi, UBC

Friday, 10/12               J. Bradford Jensen, Georgetown  

Thursday, 10/25          Lori Beaman, Northwestern (seminar at Kellogg Inst.)

Friday, 10/26               Ana Fostel, GWU

Friday, 11/2                 Jason Long, Wheaton College

Friday, 11/9                 Mark Wohar, Nebraska

Friday, 11/16               Brent Neiman, Chicago Booth

Friday, 11/30               Chris Taber, Wisconsin

Thursday, 12/06          Marc Melitz, Harvard (seminar at Kellogg Inst.)

Friday, 12/7                 John Jones, SUNY-Albany

 

Spring 2012 Seminars

(all seminars are 3:30-5:00 unless otherwise stated, location TBA)

Friday, 3/2                        Eric Verhoogen, Columbia,  114 Flanner

Friday, 3/9                        Phil Levine, Wellesley College, 424 Flanner

Thursday, 3/22                  Stephen Redding, Princeton (seminar at Kellogg Institute)

Friday, 3/23                      Gordon Dahl, UC-San Diego

Thursday, 3/29                  Ray Fisman, Columbia GSB

Friday, 3/30                      Brian Jacob, Michigan

Friday, 4/13                      Paula Stephan, Georgia State

Friday, 4/20                      2:00 Roberta Romano, Yale

                                          3:30 Judge Posner, Chicago

                                          (Law and Econ seminar at Law School)

Friday, 4/27                       Dave Kelly, University of Miami

Thursday, 5/3                    Iourii Manovskii, Penn

 

Junior Recruiting Seminars

Spring 2012

Thursday, January 12, 11:00 AM, Flanner 424

    Andreas Hagemann (University of Illinois)

Friday, January 13, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Sarah Miller (University of Illinois)

Monday, January 16, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Collin Raymond (University of Michigan)

Tuesday, January 17, 11:00 AM, Flanner 424

    Joseph Vavra (Yale University)

Wednesday, January 18, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Katherine Baldiga (Harvard University)

Thursday, January 19, 11:00 AM, Flanner 424

    Lesley Turner (Columbia University)

Friday, January 20, 9:30 AM, Flanner 725

    Anant Nyshadham (Yale University)

Monday, January 23, 9:30 AM, Flanner 725

    Matt Gentry (Vanderbilt University)

Tuesday, January 24, 11:00 AM, Flanner 725

    Sukjin Han (Yale University)

Wednesday, January 25, 9:30 AM, Flanner 725

    Adam Storeygard (Brown University)

Thursday, January 26, 11:00 AM, Flanner 725

    Tristan Zajonc (Harvard University)

Friday, January 27, 9:30 AM, Flanner 725

    Emily Breza (MIT)

Monday, January 30, 9:30 AM, Flanner 725

    Mauricio Larrain (University of California, Berkeley)

Tuesday, January 31, 11:00 AM, Flanner 725

    Jessie Handbury (Columbia University)

Wednesday, February 1, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Nick Papageorge (Washington University, St. Louis)

Thursday, February 2, 11:00 AM, Flanner 424

    Wyatt Brooks (University of Minnesota)

Friday, February 3, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Jennifer Doleac (Stanford University)

Monday, February 6, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Mitsuru Igami (UCLA Anderson)

Wednesday, February 8, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Lucas Coffman (Ohio State University)

Friday, February 10, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    Jan Grobovsek (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Monday, February 13, 9:30 AM, Flanner 424

    David Berger (Yale University)

Fall 2011 Seminars 

(All seminars are in 306 Mowbray unless otherwise stated)

Friday, 8/26                          Olivier Coibion, William and Mary

Friday, 9/2                            Ali Hortacsu, U. Chicago

Thursday, 9/8                       Preston McAfee, Yahoo! 

Friday, 9/16                          Andrei Levchenko, Michigan

Friday, 9/23                          Kevin Milligan, UBC

Friday, 9/30                          Seema Jayachandra, Northwestern

Thursday, 10/6                     Charles Clotfelter, Duke

Friday, 10/7                          Marco Grazzi

Friday, 10/14                        Mark Wright, UCLA & Chicago Fed

Friday, 10/21                        Fall Break

Friday, 10/28                        Pedro Carneiro, UCL

Friday, 11/4                          TBA

Friday, 11/11                        Robert Tamura, Clemson

Thursday, 11/17                   Tim Kehoe, Minnesota               

Friday, 11/18                        Giussepe Moscarini, Yale

Tuesday, 11/22                     Pol Antras, Harvard

Friday, 11/25                        Thanksgiving break

Friday, 12/2                          Eugenio Miravete, Texas

Friday, 12/9                          Marzena Rostek, Wisconsin

 

Fall 2010 Seminars

Friday, 8/27         xxx

Friday, 9/3          xxx

Friday, 9/10          Daniel Cooper, Boston Fed (noon in 424 Flanner)

                             Jeff Smith, Michigan “Are Participants Good Evaluators?”

                                        (3:30 in 306 Hammes-Mowbray)

Friday, 9/17          Ed Glaeser (Harvard), (seminar at ND Law School)

Friday, 9/24          Yongs Shin, Wash. Univ., St. Louis

Friday, 10/1          Fabrizio Perri, Univ. of Minnesota

Friday, 10/8          Heidi Williams, MIT

Friday, 10/15        Caroline Hoxby, Stanford

Friday, 10/22        Fall Break

Friday, 10/29        Chris Ahlin, MSU

Thursday, 11/4     Chang Tai Hseih, Chicago Booth (seminar at Kellogg Institute)

Friday, 11/5          Nuno Limao, University of Maryland

Monday, 11/8       Masao, Ogaki (Keio University, Japan) 

Friday, 11/12        John Hamman, Florida State

Friday, 11/19        Akito Matsumuto, IMF

Friday, 11/26        Thanksgiving

Friday, 12/3          Chris Phelan, Univ. of Minnesota and Minneapolis Fed

Friday, 12/10        Janet Currie, Columbia University

 

Spring 2010 Seminars

Tuesday, Jan. 12             Shanthi Nataraj, Univ. Calif. Berkeley Ag Eco

Monday Jan. 18th            Lorenzo Caliendo, Univ. Chicago

Tuesday, Jan 19th           Evan Borkum, Columbia University

Wednesday, Jan 20th      Alfredo Burlando, Boston University

Thursday, Jan. 21st         Paulina Restrepo-Echevarria, UCLA

Monday, Jan 25th            Kevin Wiseman, Univ. Minnesota

Wednesday, Jan 27th      Jeff Thurk, Univ. Texas Austin

Thursday, Jan. 28th         Roland Pongou, Brown Univ.

Monday Feb 1st               Brian Kovak, Univ. Michigan

Tuesday, Feb. 2nd           Fernando Aragon, LSE

Friday, Feb 5th                Antoine Gervais, Univ. Maryland

Monday, Feb 8th             Swati Dhingra, Univ. Wisconsin

Friday, Feb 26th              Dan Bennett, Univ. Chicago, Harris School

Friday, Feb 5th                 Drew Beauchamp, Boston College

Tuesday, Mar. 30th         Richard Rogerson, Arizona State

Friday, Apr. 9th                Kerwin Charles, Univ. Chicago, Harris School

Friday, Apr. 16th              David Lagakos, Arizona State

Monday, Apr. 19th            Natalia Ramondo, Univ. Texas-Austin

Friday, Apr. 23rd               Marianne Page, Univ. Calif.-Davis

Friday, Apr. 30th               Costas Arkolakis, Yale

 

For a list of seminars from previous semesters, browse or download our Seminar Archive - fall 2006 to spring 09.