Fall 2018 – Thursdays, 2:00pm-3:00pm 51 Mumford Hall
August 30th
*Exceptionally from 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Welcome and Introductions
Paulino Montes-Solla (Associate Researcher – University of A Coruna): European Union Regional Policy and Development in Spain 1989-2010: Capital Widening and Productivity Stagnation
September 6th
Stefan Borsky (Assistant Professor – University of Graz): Corruption in space: A closer look at the world’s subnations
Carles Mendez Ortega (PhD Student – Universitat Rovira i Virgili): Do Software and Videogames firms share location patterns across cities? Evidence from Barcelona, Lyon and Hamburg
September 13th
Guilherme Asai (PhD Student – Western Parana State University): Logistics and Cargo Transportation Service for the Brazilian Economy: a vision based in computable general equilibrium
Fei Lan (Associate Professor – Wuhan University of Technology): The Influence of Fictitious Economy on Regional Technological Innovation: Based on Spatial Durbin Model
September 20th
*IPAD/REAL Seminar 12:30pm – 1:30pm @ 426 Mumford Hall
Sandy Dall’Erba (Associate Professor – ACE): Crop Production, Export of Virtual Water and Water-saving Strategies in Arizona
Andre F. T. Avelino (Post-Doctoral Research Associate – ACE): The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters on Supply Chains: An Analysis of the 2007 Chehalis River Flood (WA)
September 27th
*IPAD/REAL Seminar 12:30pm – 1:30pm @ 426 Mumford Hall
Stefan Borsky (Assistant Professor – University of Graz): Trade, Conflicts and Diamonds: A closer look at the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme
Karelys Guzman (PhD Student – ACE): The sensitivity of rice yield to weather variation in Colombia: a panel data approach over 1987-2016
October 4th
NO SEMINAR
October 11th
NO SEMINAR
October 18th
Rafael Campos (PhD Student – Federal University of Minas Gerais): Sustainable Practices Diffusion in Socio-Ecological Systems: The Gorutuba Irrigation Perimeter (Brazil) Analysis
Tarik Tanure (PhD Student – Federal University of Minas Gerais): Climate Change and Family Farming: Impacts on Agricultural Production and Regional Economic Effects in Brazil
October 25th
Divyansh Chug (PhD Student – Atmospheric Sciences) and Zhangliang Chen (PhD Candidate – ACE): Downloading weather data and matching them to state boundaries
November 1st
*Exceptionally from 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Wander Plassa da Silva (PhD Student – University of Sao Paulo): Spatial Spillovers of a Crime Crackdowns Policy in Brazil: The Case of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs)
Carles Mendez-Ortega (PhD Student – Universitat Rovira i Virgili): Place the ‘Candy’ and ‘Crush’ it: Entry Determinants of the Software and Video games firms in Barcelona
November 8th
*IPAD/REAL Seminar 12:30pm – 1:30pm @ 426 Mumford Hall
Lila Cardell (PhD Student – ACE): Spilt Milk: Measuring the Indirect Effects of Livestock Ownership in Rural Zambia
November 15th
*Exceptionally from 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Lilin Yuan (PhD Student – Naikai University): Market Size, Trade Competition and Export Product Mix: Microcosmic Evidence from China’s Export Firms
Germano Carvalho (PhD Student – Federal University of Ceara): The intersectoral and multiregional productive dynamics: a general equilibrium approach
November 22th
NO SEMINAR – Thanksgiving Week
November 29th
Tarik Tanure (PhD Student – Federal University of Minas Gerais): The Impacts of Climate Change on the Generation of Hydroelectric Energy and its Effects on the Brazilian Economy Between 2020 and 2050
Peng Ji (PhD Student – Naikai University): Whether Polycentric Spatial Structure is Conducive to Regional Balanced Development? A study on Urban Agglomerations in China
December 6th
Joao Gabriel Pio (PhD Student – University of Juiz de Fora): Do R&D spillovers reduce CO2 emissions? A reinterpretation of Environmental Kuznets Curve
Xiaoai Jia (Associate Professor – Shandong Technology and Business University): The Comparison and Selection of Reference Rate for FISIM Accounting: Empirical Test Based on Chinese Data
Spring 2018 – Fridays, 3:30pm-4:30pm 323 Mumford Hall
January 19th
*Exceptionally at 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Fernando Rubiera Morollon (Associate Professor – University of Oviedo, Spain): New Approaches to Evaluate the Economic Impact of a Growing Urban Sprawl in Madrid
Fernando Bermejo Paton (Assistant Professor – University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain): An Extended Input-Output Model to Evaluate the Impact of Pension Spending on the Spanish Economy
January 26th
Volodymyr Ryaboshlyk (PhD – Ukraine): Competitive Alternatives to Cobb-Douglas and to The Growth Theory. Revisiting the very basics of economics
February 2nd
Zhangliang Chen (PhD Student – ACE): Drought, Interstate Trade and Agricultural Profit: Theory and Evidence
February 9th
Dusan Paredes Araya (Associate Professor – Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile): Housing Demolition and Property Tax Delinquency: Evidence from Detroit
February 16th
Andre F. T. Avelino (PhD Candidate – ACE): WORKSHOP Introduction to Programming
February 23rd
Andre F. T. Avelino (PhD Candidate – ACE): WORKSHOP Assessing the economic consequences of floods, from stock damages to economic impacts
March 2nd
Alex Stevens (PhD Student – ACE): Who Benefits from the Cleanup of Superfund Landfill Sites? Evidence from New York State
Karelys Guzman (PhD Student – ACE): The impact of climate change on double-rice yield in Colombia
March 9th
*Exceptionally at 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Daniel Halim (PhD Student – ECON): Perverse Impact of Minimum Wage on Schooling
Haozhi Pan (PhD – Postdoc REAL): A Reassessment of urban structure and land-use patterns: CBD or network-based? – Evidence from Chicago
March 16th
*Exceptionally at 10:00am – 11:00am
Nikolaos Kalyviotis (PhD Student – University of Birmingham, UK): The Environmental Value of Sustainable Transport Infrastructure
Lucas Iten Teixeira (PhD Student – Fundacao Getulio Vargas / Central Bank of Brazil, Brazil): Geographic discontinuity of a macroprudencial policy: Evidence from Brazilian municipalities
March 23rd
NO SEMINAR – Spring Break Week
March 30th
Nora Schindler (PhD Student – Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria): Income Inequality, Market Size and Firm Conduct: Product Differentiation in the Restaurant Market
April 6th
NO SEMINAR
April 13th
*Exceptionally at 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Sergio Contreras (PhD Student – DURP): Using Craigslist for Policy making: an exploratory analysis
Chang Cai (PhD Student – ACE): Incorporating Grouping Uncertainty into Climate Change Impact Studies: A Comparative Analysis
April 20th
Orsa Kekezi (PhD Student – Jonkoping University, Sweden): Labor Market Pooling and Mobility of Displaced Workers
April 27th
*Exceptionally at 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Nikoleta Kastania (MSc Student – FIN): Capital Structure and corporate finance. The case of Greek Food Companies
Lucas Iten Teixeira (PhD Student – Fundacao Getulio Vargas / Central Bank of Brazil, Brazil): Regional impact of local credit on consumption
May 4th
Mayra Orrego (Researcher – International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Colombia): The productive future of rice in the face of the effects of climate change: The case of Ecuador
Raissa Carvalho Braganca (PhD Student – Federal University of Parana, Brazil): Elasticity of substitution and disaggregation of labor by age and educational level: an estimation for the Brazilian sectors