Korus Seminar Series

November 3, 2023

Dr. Rui Du, Spears School of Business at Oklahama State University

Title: Rent-Seeking and the Spatial Allocation of Economic Activity: Evidence from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign

September 29, 2023

Elena Falcettoni, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Title: The Determinants of Physicians' Location Choice: Understanding the Rural Shortage

April 28, 2023

Ömer Özak, Southern Methodist University 

Title: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

January 13, 2023

Hyuksoon Lim

Title: Labor Market Frictions for Female Workers and Corporate Innovation

February 11, 2022

Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University

Title: Effects of Chinese Import Competition on U.S. Self-employment

March 4, 2022

Matthew Serfling, University of Tennessee

Title: Classified boards: Endangered Species or Hidden in Plain Sight?

April 22, 2022

Shawn Tan, Asian Development Bank

Title: The Iron Curtain’s Negative Legacy on European Trade

November 14, 2022

Ruiyao Zhu

Title: Academic Directors and Corproate Innovation

October 15, 2021

Kozo Kiyota, Keio University

Title: Political Conflict and Angry Consumers: Evaluating the Regional Impacts of a Consumer Boycott on Trade in Services

November 4, 2021

(joint event with Korus Distinguished Lectureship Series)

Janet Currie, Princeton University

Title: Child Health as Human Capital

December 10, 2021

Sanjay Goel, University of North Dakota

Title: Exit as Trade Sale or IPO in cross-border investments? The influence of Portfolio Company's time to exit and the strength of US VC Funds in the investors' syndicate.

Friday, March 6

Prof. Matthew Cole in the Dept. of Economics at California Polytechnic State University

Title: “Contesting an International Trade Agreement”

April 5, 2019

YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

“Don’t Tax Capital – Optimal Ramsey Taxation in Heterogeneous Agent Economies with Quasi-Linear Preferences”

April 15, 2019

Shawnda Schroeder, University of North Dakota
“Measuring Stigma around Mental Illness in North Dakota”

November 4, 2019

Dr. Rishikesh V. Behere, Welcome trust/ DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellow

November 18, 2019

Mariya Brussevich, International Monetary Fund
"Learning from foreign firms: does FDI increase exporter competitiveness?"

November 25, 2019

Leah Bevis , Ohio State University
“Soils and South Asian Stunting: Low soil zinc availability drives child stunting in Nepal"

December 6, 2019

Zadia M. Feliciano, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) “Intangible Assets, Corporate Taxes and the Relocation of Multinational Firms:The case of Puerto Rico"

February 16, 2018

Prodosh Simlai, University of North Dakota

March 19, 2018

Stephen Lawrence Parente, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: the Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence

March 26, 2018

Wei Yang, University of North Dakota

"The Demand for Grandsons? The Effect of Parental Siblings on Fertility and Sex Selection in China"

April 20, 2018

Kanda Naknoi, University of Connecticut 

Why Are Exchange Rates So Smooth? A Household Finance Explanation

April 20, 2018

Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania

"Is the Focus on Food Deserts Fruitless? Retail Access and Food Purchase Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum"

May 4, 2018

Michael Rauh, Indiana University

"When Should The Principal Work? Managerial Interference and Motivational Monitoring"

November 30, 2018

David Cuberes, Clark University

"Urban Growth Shadows" (with Klaus Desmet and Jordan Rappaport)

October 19, 2018

Tibor Besedes, Georgia Institute of Technology

Phase Out Tariffs, Phase in Trade

October 8, 2018

Anant Nyshadham, Boston College

September 17, 2018

Professor Robert Hall, Stanford University 

The Macroeconomics of the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath: The Role of the Collapse and Restoration of Confidence

September 17, 2018

Korus Distinguished Lectureship Series

"The Bad News about Stagnant Wages, and How to Improve Wage Growth"

March 3, 2017 

Joshua Wilde,  University of South Florida

"The Effect of Antimalarial Campaigns on Child Mortality and Fertility in Sub-Suharan Africa"

March 27, 2017 

Sudipta Sarangi,  Virginia Tech

"Electoral College: A Multibattle Contest with Complementarities"

April 10, 2017 

Alexandre (Sasha) Skiba,  University of Wyoming

"Internal Geography and the Effect of Imports on Nonhomothetic Consumption Patterns within the US"

October 16, 2017

Daniel Biederman,  University of North Dakota

"Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Normality of Consumer Goods"

November 17, 2017 

Junfu Zhang,  Clark University

"Land Conversion and Misallocation across Cities in China"

November 20, 2017 

David Cesarini,  New York University

"Genome-wide Association Study Identifies 74 Loci Associated with Education Attainment"

February 5, 2016 

Yannis Ioannides, Tufts University

"Endogenous Social Networks and Inequality in an Inter-generational Setting"

April 1, 2016 

Haochi Zheng, University of North Dakota

"The Impact of Land-use Chance and Land Management on Carbon Storage: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota"

April 11, 2016 

Erik Gilje, University of Pennsylvania

"Voter Preferences and Political Change: Evidence from the Political Economy of Shale Booms"

April 18, 2016

Dan LaFave,  Colby College

"Mitigating the Consequences of a Health Condition: The Role of Intra- and Inter-household Assistance"

April 25, 2016 

Wei Yang, University of North Dakota

"Population structure, relative gender scarcity, and marriage outcomes in China: Evidence from Mao’s mass send-down movement"

April 29, 2016

Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University

"Christianity and Infant Health in India"

May 2, 2016 

Volodymyr Lugovskyy,  Indiana University 

Technology, Trade, and Quality Slopes

May 6, 2016 

Chittaranjan S. Yajnik,  King Edward Memorial Hospital and Research Centre Pune, India

"Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) Research in Pune, India"

September 23, 2016 

Jun Nie,  Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
"The Negative Growth-Volatility Relationship and the Gains from Diversification" 

October 14, 2016 

Steven Durlauf,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Some Microfoundations for the Great Gatsby Curve"

October 17, 2016 

Andros Kourtellos,  University of Cyprus

"Barries to Price Convergence"

October 28, 2016 

Emilia Tjernstrom,  University of Wisconsin-Madison

Natural Disasters, Social Protection, and Risk Perceptions 

November 18, 2016 

Alan Spearot,  University of California, Santa Cruz "Optimal Tariff Discrimination:  Theory and Evidence from the Generalized System of Preferences"

 

February 27, 2015 
Marc Rockmore, Clark University
Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India

March 13, 2015 
Randy Akee, University of California, Los Angeles
"How Does Household Income Affect Child Personality Traits and Behaviors?"

March 27, 2015 
Karen Eggleston, Stanford University
"An Exploration of China's Mortality Decline under Mao: A Provincial Analysis, 1950–80"

April 10, 2015 
Rui Li, University of Massachusetts Boston
"A Mechanism Design Model of Firm Dynamics: The Case of Limited Commitment"

April 17, 2015 
Jay Shimshack, University of Virginia
"Disaster Preparedness and Disaster Response: Evidence from Bottled Water Sales before and after Tropical Cyclones"

May 1, 2015 
Charalambos Tsangarides, International Monetary Fund
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth: New Evidence

May 4, 2015 
Melissa McInerney, Tufts University
"The Effects of State Medicaid Expansions for Working-Age Adults on Senior Medicare Beneficiaries’ Healthcare Spending"

September 4, 2015 
Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington & Lee University
"Social Networks and Health Knowledge in India: Who You Know or Who You Are?"

September 11, 2015 
Yu-chin Chen, University of Washington

Understanding exchange rate dynamics: information from term structure of FX options

September 28, 2015 
Jessica Leight, Williams College
"Maternal bargaining power, parental compensation and non-cognitive skills in rural China"

October 16, 2015
Andros Kourtellos, University of Cyprus 

October 23, 2015 
Adam Storeygard, Tufts University

"The Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010"

November 13, 2015 
Jinhui Bai, Washington State University 

The Welfare and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Uncertainty: A Quantitative Evaluation

November 16, 2015 
Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota 

"Do Schools Reinforce or Reduce Learning Gaps between Advantaged and Disadvantaged Students? Evidence from Vietnam and Peru"

January 22, 2014

Lihan Liu, University of Wisconsin
"The Effects of Education Restrictions on Rural-Urban Migration in China" 

January 29, 2014

Wei Yang, McMaster University
"An Endogenous Sex Selection Model with a Test Using Chinese Census" 

January 31, 2014

Andre Barbe, Rice University
"A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Energy Taxation with Endogenous Resource Supply and Flexible Substitution" 

March 12, 2014

Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University
"Education, Cognition and Health: Evidence from a Social Experiment"  

March 28, 2014

Marcelo Bianconi, Tufts University
"Determinants of Systemic Risk and Information Dissemination" 

April 4, 2014

David Seim, University of Toronto
"Real or Evasion Responses to the Wealth Tax? Theory and Evidence from Sweden" 

April 11, 2014

Dan Lu, University of Rochester
"Import Switching and the Impact of a Large Devaluation" 

April 25, 2014

Margaret Triyana, Stanford University
"Do Health Care Providers Respond to Demand Side Incentives? Evidence from Indonesia"

September 12, 2014 

Jorge Aguero, University of Connecticut
"Did the Swine Flu Save Lives? Evidence from Mexico" 

October 3, 2014

David Hummels, Purdue University
"Estimating the Gains from Liberalizing Services Trade: The Case of Passenger Aviation"

October 10, 2014

Chris Parmeter, University of Miami
"Non-Parametric Threshold Regression: Estimation and Inference"

November 21, 2014

Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph
"Persistence and Convergence" 

December 1, 2014

Andros Kourtellos, University of Cyprus
"Local Measures of Inter-generational Mobility of Income Cognitive, and Non-cognitive Skills"

October 9, 2013

Andros Kourtellos, University of Cyprus

"Structural Threshold Regression"

October 11, 2013

Chad Syverson, University of Chicago

"Healthcare Exceptionalism? Productivity and Allocation in the U.S. Healthcare Sector"

December 6, 2013

Wenbiao Cai, University of Winnipeg

"The Agriculture Productivity Gap in Europe"