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The Tufts University Economics Department sponsors research seminars, lectures, and events throughout the year.

Seminar Series 2009-2010
Sponsored by the Economics Department and the Fletcher School

Date Speaker Title
September 16, 2009 12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 001
Stelios Michalopoulos, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
 
The Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence
October 5, 2009
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 220
Enrico Spolaore, Professor of Economics, Tufts University War and Relatedness
October 26, 2009
1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Braker Hall 001
Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development, Harvard Kennedy School Compared to What? Markets as a Social Solvent, of Caste for Instance
November 2, 2009
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 220
Eric Edmonds, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor
November 11, 2009
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 001
Veronica Guerrieri, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Endogenous Gentrification and Housing Price Dynamics
November 17, 2009
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
Braker Hall 001
Robert Mendelsohn, Edwin Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of Forest Policy & Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management The Impact of Climate Change on Extreme Events
November 23, 2009
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 220
Elias Papaioannou, Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College Entry Regulation and Intersectoral Reallocation
December 7, 2009
12:00 - 1:15 p.m.
Braker Hall 001
Anna Larsson, Post Doc, Stockholm University Democracy as a Middle Ground: A Unified Theory of Development and Political Regimes
March 8, 2010
12:00 - 1:20 p.m.
Braker Hall, 001
Andrei Levchenko, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan Firm Entry, Trade, and Welfare in Zipf's World
April 5, 2010
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Dowling Hall 745 A
Sara Fisher-Ellison, Senior Lecturer in Economics, MIT TBA
April 13, 2010
Barnum, Rm. 008
Jeremy Stein, Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics, Harvard University TBA (Birger Lecture)
April 21, 2010
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Tisch, Rm. 314
Alberto Alesina, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economics, Harvard University Family Ties and the Regulation of Labor
April 26, 2010
1:30 - 2:45 p.m.
Braker Hall, 001
Marco Caliendo, Director of Research, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) A New Method to Identify Ex-ante Treatment Effects
April 29, 2010
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
51 Winthrop Street
Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management, MIT TBA (Wellington-Burnham Lecture)

Not sure where to go?
For directions to Tufts and to Braker Hall, the home of the Economics Department, click here.

Any questions about a seminar?
Drop a note to Assistant Professor Chih Ming Tan or Professor Michael Klein.

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