Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph
"Persistence and Convergence"
December 1, 2014
Korus Seminar Series in Economics and Finance
Upcoming Series
The Korus Seminar series for the 2022-2023 academic year will resume in Spring 2023.
Past Series
October 15, 2021
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.
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
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
April 15, 2019
Shawnda Schroeder, University of North Dakota
“Measuring Stigma around Mental Illness in North Dakota”
November 4, 2019
Dr. Rishikesh V. Behere, Wellcome 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
September 17, 2018
Krous 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
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"