Fall 2016 – Tuesdays, 3:00-4:30pm 428 Mumford Hall
August 30th
Sandy Dall’Erba (Associate Professor – ACE): Welcome and Introduction
Zhangliang Chen (PhD Student – ACE): Do crop insurance programs preclude their recipients from adapting to new climate conditions? (with Sandy Dall’Erba)
Xinyue He (PhD Student – ACE): Credit constraints, Export participation and Innovation of heterogeneous firms
September 6th
Dan McMillen (Professor – ECON): Fair market rent and the distribution of rents in Los Angeles (with Ruchi Singh)
Vicente Royuela Mora (Associate Professor – University of Barcelona, Spain): The short-run relationship between inequality and growth: evidence from OECD regions during the great recession
September 13th
Akiko Sakanishi (Professor – Nara Prefectural University, Japan): Regional Differences in Married Women’s Labor Force Participation Rates: Evidence from Japan
Xiaolei Wang (Assistant Professor – Shanghai University, China): What affects foreign countries initiating antidumping investigation against China?
Bev Wilson (Associate Professor – DURP): Rural prosperity and federal expenditures, 2000-2010 (with Mallory L. Rahe)
September 20th
Megan Konar (Assistant Professor – CEE): Drought impacts to water footprints and virtual water transfers of the Central Valley of California
Luciano Nakabashi (Professor – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil): Poverty and Development: Evidences for Brazil
Karelys Katina Guzman Finol (PhD Student – ACE): Departmental governments and the investment of royalties in Colombia
September 27th
Jinwon Bae (PhD Student – University of Arizona): Crop production, export of virtual water and water-saving strategies in Arizona (with Sandy Dall’Erba)
Vicente Royuela Mora (Associate Professor – University of Barcelona, Spain): What drives migration moves across urban areas in Spain? Evidence from the Great Recession
October 4th
Lisa Graff (ISWS): CHAMP and Assessing Flood Risk Using GIS Tools
WORKSHOP – Andre F. T. Avelino (PhD Student – ACE) : Assessing the economic consequences of floods: from stock damages to economic impacts
October 11th
Maria L. Chu (Assistant Professor – ABE): Watershed-Ecosystem Dynamics
Yizhou Zhang (PhD Student – ACE): The Impact of the 2011 Illinois Tax Increase on Migration: A General Equilibrium Approach
Sergio Contreras (PhD Student – DURP): The Effectiveness of Microenterprise Policies in Chile: The Case of Centro de Emprendimientos Chile Compra
October 18th
Ryan Sriver (Assistant Professor – ATMO): How is Earth’s climate changing and what are the impacts?
Xian Fang Bak (PhD Student – ACE): The Persistence of Foreclosure Shocks on the Housing Price
Chitra Jogani (PhD Student – ECON): Effect of Political Reservations
October 25th
Hope C. Michelson (Assistant Professor – ACE): Agricultural Productivity and Child Nutrition (with Gillian Galford)
Andre F. T. Avelino (PhD Student – ACE): Revisiting the Temporal Leontief Inverse: New insights on regional structural change (with Andre Carrascal and Alberto Solis)
Yulong Zhou (PhD Student – Renmin University of China): Social Capital, Resource Capture and Rural Poverty Reduction: Evidence from China
Ana Medina Lopez (Associate Professor – University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain): Measuring socio-economic impacts through Input-Output and dynamic CGE modelling approaches
November 1st
Vinicius de Almeida Vale (PhD Student – Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil): Agricultural linkages in the European Union and its spatial pattern (with Fernando Perobelli and Alexandre Gomes)
Kun Peng (PhD Student – ACE): The role of interregional and inter-sectoral knowledge spillovers on regional knowledge creation across US metropolitan counties
Na Li (Assistant Professor – University of Chinese Academy of Sciences): Assessing the impacts of China’s air pollution abatement policies in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area
November 8th
NO SEMINAR – NARSC Conference
November 15th
November 22th
NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Week
November 29th
Todd H. Kuethe (Clinical Assistant Professor – ACE): Information Rigidities in USDA’s Net Farm Income Forecast
Carlos Goncalves (PhD Student – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil): Regional Interdependence in South America: Brazil in the context of Mercosur
Alfredo Cartone (PhD Student – University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy): Spatial Approach to PCA for the Definition of Local Composite Indicators (with Paolo Postiglione)
December 6th
Frederick Alves (PhD Student – Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil): Investment and Human Capital Externalities: Knowledge Spillovers
Alfredo Cartone (PhD Student – University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy): Spatial Quantile Regressions for the Analysis of Regional Economic Convergence
Thiago Nascimento (MSc Student – University of Sao Paulo, Brazil): Analysis of the Northeastern Constitutional Financing Fund (FNE)