Visiting Speaker Seminars 2022-2023

Contact: Prof. Ross McKitrick

All seminars are on Friday at 3:30 p.m. 

Date Speaker Institution Title Host
September 16 Burak Saltoglu Bogazici University

Analyzing Individual  Risk Taking Behaviour  with Machine Learning Techniques: Evidence from a pension fund

Location: Mackinnon 720

Thanasis Stengos
September 23 N/A   DEF Meeting  
September 30 Nicholas Li Ryerson University

Pass-through of subsidies to prices under limited competition: Evidence from Canada's Nutrition North Program

Location: Mackinnon 720

Kris Inwood
October 07     No Speaker Scheduled   
October 14 John Maheu DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Identification and Forecasting of Bull and Bear Markets using Multivariate Returns

Location: Mackinnon 224

Alex Maynard
October 21 Pau Pujolas McMaster University

Improving Applied General Equilibrium Models of Trade Liberalization with Better Elasticity Estimates

Location: Mackinnon 224

Stephen Kosempel
October 28 Margaret Insley University of Waterloo

Environmental bonds, bankruptcy, and waste cleanup

Location: Mackinnon 224

Ross McKitrick
November 04 Tim Vogelsang Michigan State University

Testing for Equal Linear Trend Slope Ratios with an Application to Climate Model and Observed Temperature Data Sets

Location: Mackinnon 224

Ross McKitrick  
November 11 N/A   Graduate Student Research Orientation Event  
November 18 Nicholas Lawson

Université du Québec à Montréal

Firms' Organizations and Minimum Wages

Location: Mackinnon 224

Ross McKitrick
January 06     Recruitment: Mackinnon 304  
January 09     Recruitment: Mackinnon 318  
January 11     Recruitment: Virtual  
January 13     Recruitment: Mackinnon 318  
January 20     Mackinnon 224  
January 27     Mackinnon 224  
February 03   Department Event

Location: Macdonald Hall 218

Time: 3:00 - 5:00

Johanna Goertz
February 10     Mackinnon 224  
February 17     Mackinnon 224  
February 24     No Seminar Room (reading week)  
March 01 Richard Peter Iowa University 

Overreaction to Risks

Location: Mackinnon 234

Time: 1:00 - 2:20

Mike Hoy
March 03 Bettina Brueggemann McMaster University

Entrepreneurial Rates of Return and Wealth Inequality

Location: Mackinnon 224

Xiaowen Lei
March 10   Recruiting Seminar  Mackinnon 224  
March 17 Peter Cziraki University of Toronto

The Market for CEOs

Location: Mackinnon 224

Ilias Tsiakas
March 24 Ruodu Wang University of Waterloo

Risk aversion, choice of dependence, and risk measures 

Mackinnon 224

Hong Li
March 31 Yahong Zhang University of Windsor

Bank Runs and Private Deposit Insurance

Mackinnon 224

Miana Plesca
April 07     No seminar due to Good Friday  
April 14     No seminar due to exam period  
April 21     No seminar due to exam period  
April 28        
May 05        
May 12 Julia Holzapfel LMU, Munich

Mitigating moral hazard with usage-based insurnace

Mackinnon 720

Mike Hoy