Spring 2021
Marty Perry, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Title: Zoom Privacy Settlement
Professor Perry will will talk about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) case against Zoom
Maria Gerveni, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Title: Learning Greek Alphabet Isn’t as “Greek” as You May Think
Maria is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural & Applied Economics
Gary Biglaiser, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (seminar)
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Title: Incumbency Advantage and Its Value
Professor Biglaiser will review recently known sources of the advantage and potential mitigating factors and point to a number of open issues.
Jorge Lemus, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time) via Zoom
Title: The Direction of Innovation
Professor Lemus will focus on understanding how competition impacts the allocation of innovative effort across inventions of different value and difficulty.
Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time) via Zoom
Title: COVID-19 and Its Effect on Domestic Violence
Professor Thornton will discuss the way people are estimating the effects of COVID are miss-specified.
Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
8 -9 pm (U.S. Central Time) via Zoom
Title: A Proposal to Reconstruct the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into a Universal Basic Income Program for Food
Professor Gundersen will talk about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) which is the largest federal nutrition assistance program.
Anil Bera, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time) via Zoom
Title: Bera's 20,000-mile Journey from Paschimchak Primary to UIUC, and Finding Jingle Bell (JB) on the Way
Professor Bera will talk about his life journey.
Fall 2020
Orientation (mandatory for incoming fall 2020 students)
August 17 - 22, 2020
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, orientation was conducted online
Adam Osman, University of Illinois (seminar)
Monday, October 5, 2020
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Title: Meet the Faculty Series: Adam Osman, Assistant Professor
Professor Osman will talk about his research and the MSPE course "Development & Growth Policy"
Neil Gandal, Tel Aviv University (seminar)
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
8 - 9 am (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Title: Long-Term Care Facilities as a Risk Factor for Death Due to COVID-19: Evidence from European Countries and U.S. States
Professor Gandal will present his recent research paper on the COVID-19 pandemic
J. Fred Giertz, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Meet the Faculty Series: J. Fred Giertz, Professor Emeritus
Title: Long-Run Fiscal Stability: When and How Can It Be Attained?
Marty Perry, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Meet the Faculty Series: Marty Perry, Professor & Director of MSPE Program
Title: Google Antitrust Suit
Alex Bartik, University of Illinois (seminar)
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Meet the Faculty Series: Alex Bartik, Assistant Professor
Title: Five Myths and Five Facts About the U.S. Labor Market
Thomas Prusa, Rutgers University (seminar)
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
8 - 9 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Title: Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) on the Duration of Antidumping Duties
Ricardo Bebczuk, National University of La Plata (Argentina) (seminar)
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
6 - 7 pm (U.S. Central Time), via Zoom
Title: Argentina: Long-term Decadence and Current Crisis