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Department of Economics

College of Business Department 3985

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-3124

Fax: 307-766-4028

Email: economics@uwyo.edu

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Past Seminars

Friday, November 17, 2023
Andrew Bibler PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, November 10, 2023
Jordan Suter PhD, Chair of the Graduate Program and Professor at Colorado State University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, October 13, 2023
Johanna B. Mollerstrom, Associate Professor, George Mason University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, September 8, 2023
Volodymyr Lugovskyy PhD, Assoc Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Indiana University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, September 8, 2023
Daniela Puzzello PhD, Professor of Economics, Indiana University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Monday, September 4, 2023
Olle Häggström, Professor of Mathematical Statistics , Chalmers University of Technology
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, May 5, 2023
Andrew Platinga, Professor of Resource & Land Use Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, February 24, 2023
Katrina Mullan, Environmental Economist at the University of Montana- Missoula
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, January 27, 2023
George Lowenstein, Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, December 2, 2022
Matthew Kotchen, Professor of Economics at Yale University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Jacob Hochard, Knoblock Assistant Professor of Conservation Economics at the University of Wyoming
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, November 11, 2022
Steven Beckman, Professor of Economics (Ret.), University of Colorado Denver
Guest Speaker Seminar

Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Nino Abashidze, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wyoming
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, November 4, 2022
Wai Yan Siu, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Wyoming
Guest Speaker Seminar

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Alessandra Cassar, Professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco 
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, October 28, 2022
Abhi Ramalingama, Professor in the Department of Economics at Appalachian State University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Sinne Smed, University of Copenhagen
Guest Speaker Seminar

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
James Murphy, Professor of Economics at the the University of Alaska Achorage
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, September 23, 2022
Jennifer Raynor, Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Economics at the University of Wisconson- Madison
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 29, 2022
Daniel Houser, Professor and Chairman of the Economics Department at George Mason University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 22, 2022
Leaf Van Boven, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Boulder
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 15, 2022
Alexander James, University of Alaska Anchorage
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, April 8, 2022
Ben Gilbert, Colorado School of Mines
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 25, 2022
Nathan Chan, Associate Professor in the Resource Economics Department at the Uniiversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 4, 2022
Kevin Berry, Environmental Economist at the University of Alaska Anchorage
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, December 3, 2021
Amy Ando, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, November 19, 2021
Jo Albers, University of Wyoming
"Time to Think: Using Sabbatical to Step Back, Develop Insights, and Trust My Process"

Friday, November 5, 2021
Thorsten Janus, Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Wyoming
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, October 22, 2021
Charles Sims, Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, October 8, 2021
Jacqueline Doremus, Assistant Professor of Economics at California Polytechnic University
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, September 24, 2021
Paul Turner, Vice President for Business Development at Hectate Energy
"Kári Energy: Wind Energy from Iceland for the UK"

Friday, April 30, 2021
Janet Currie, Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University 
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, March 12, 2021
Anna Dreber, Johan Bjorkman Professor of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, February 12, 2021
Marta Serra-Garcia, Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy, University of California San Diego
Guest Speaker Seminar

Friday, January 29, 2021

Dorthea Hilhorst, Professor of Humanitarian Studies at the International Institute for Social Studies at Erasmus University in The Hague. 

Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, November 20, 2020

George Loewenstein, Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University


Monday, November 16, 2020

Kip Viscusi, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Economics, and Management, Co-Director, Ph.D. Program in Law and Economics 


Friday, October 30, 2020

Terry Iverson, Associate Professor, Colorado State University 


Friday, October 9

Joel van der Weele, Associate professor at the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision making (CREED) at the University of Amsterdam, and a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute and the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition center

"Curbing Carbon: An Experiment on Uncertainty and Information about CO2 emissions"


Thursday, September 3

Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard 

"Freerolls"


May 18, 2020

Elke Weber

Princeton University


Feb. 18, 2020

István Székely

Director of Economic Studies and Research in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs

"Global Economic Resiliency or Another Great Recession?”


Feb. 10, 2020

Bill Barron

Regional Coordinator for Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL)

"Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act"


Feb. 5, 2020

Mark Agerton

UC Davis

"Learning Where to Drill: Drilling Decisions and Geological Quality in the Haynesville Shale"


Dec. 6, 2019  

Linda Thunstrom

University of Wyoming

"Thoughts & Prayers"

Crocker-Powell Seminar


Nov. 15, 2019

Alexander James

University of Alaska, Anchorage

Guest Speaker Seminar


Nov. 1, 2019

Adele Morris

Brookings Institution

"Design and Analysis of a U.S. Carbon Tax"

Guest Speaker Seminar


Oct. 22-24, 2019

Johanna Mollerstrom

George Mason University

"Demand for National Redistribution - Evidence from Survey Experiments in Sweden"

"Demand for Global Redistribution - Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Germany"

"Social Preferences in the Laboratory: A Meritocratic Orgin of Egalitarian Preferences"

The Bugas Lectures


Oct. 18, 2019

John List

University of Chicago

"What Can We Learn From Uber?"


Sept. 23-25, 2019

Hunt Allcott

New york University

"Behavioral Public Economics: Introduction Sin Taxes Non-Standard Policy Instruments"

The Bugas Lectures


Sept. 13, 2019

Daniela Puzzello & Volodymyr Lugovskyy

Indiana University

"The Friedman Rule in the Laboratory Human Capital and Quality Choice"

Guest Speaker Seminar


Sept. 6, 2019

Ricardo Pérez-Truglia

UCLA

"Choosing Your Pond: Location Choices add Relative Income"

Guest Speaker Seminar


May 22, 2019

Eric Johnson

Columbia University

"(Re)visiting the Decision Factory: Observing Cognition and Decisions with Information Acquisition"

Guest Speaker Seminar


May 7-9, 2019

Rohini Somanathan

Delhi School of Economics

"The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing"

"Meritocracy in the Face of Group Inequality"

"Gender Bias and Gendered Outcomes: Some Pitfalls of Inference"

The Bugas Lectures


May 3, 2019

Jesper Stage

Luleå University of Technology

"Green Accounting - with examples from Sweden"

Guest Speaker Seminar


Apr. 26, 2019

UW/CSU Graduate Student Symposium

University of Wyoming & Colorado State University

Graduate Student Seminars


Apr. 19, 2019

Scott Holladay

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

"The Barking Smog? Power Plants, Air Quality and Student Cognition"

Guest Speaker Seminar 


Apr. 9-11, 2019

Catherine Eckel

Texas A&M University

"Why experiment?"

"Gender differences"

"Experimental models"

The Bugas Lectures


Apr. 5, 2019

Olivier Deschenes

US- Santa Barbara

"The Private and External Costs of Nuclear Phase-Outs: Evidence from Germany"

Guest Speaker Seminar


Mar. 29, 2019

Jonathan Coppess

llinois at Urbana-Champaign

"US agricultural and rural conservation policies: federal perspectives"

 Guest Speaker Seminar


Mar. 12-14, 2019

Scott Cunningham

Baylor University

"Causal inference: the Mixtape"

The Bugas Lectures


Mar. 1, 2019

Marco Palma

Texas A&M University

"Happy to Take Some Risk: Investigating the Dependence of Risk Preferences on Mood Using Biometric Data"

Guest Speaker Seminar


Feb. 19-21, 2019

Erin Sills

North Carolina State University

"Local Responses to Federal Forest Policy"

The Bugas Lectures


Dec. 7, 2018

Linda Thunström

University of Wyoming

"Distributional Effects of an Emotional Tax: The Case of a Calorie Salience Nudge"

Crocker-Powell Seminar


Nov. 30, 2018

Nicholas Gorman

University of Wyoming

"Skill Heterogeneity and Resource Abundance: A New Look at the Resource Curse."

Job Market Seminar


Nov. 28, 2018

Connor Magnuson & Joao Vaz

University of Wyoming

"Eliciting Truth: An Experimental Approach & Pacific Salmon and Ocean Acidification"

Graduate Student Seminars


Nov. 16, 2018

Stephanie Brockmann

University of Wyoming

"Consequences of Space and Species Aggregation in Welfare Estimates of Invasive Species"

Job Market Seminar


Nov. 12, 2018

Olof Johansson-Stenman

Gothenburg University

"Inequality Aversion and Optimal Taxes"

Guest Speaker Seminar


Nov. 9, 2018

Brittany Tarufelli

University of Wyoming

"Leakage in Regional Climate Policy? Implications of Market Design from the Western Energy Imbalance Market"

Job Market Seminar


Nov. 7, 2018

Jennifer Rushlow 

University of Wyoming

"Research on water demand in Guatemala"

Graduate Student Seminars


Nov. 7, 2018

Byeong-Hak Choe

University of Wyoming

"Climate Finance under Conflicts and Renegotiations: A Dynamic Contract Approach"

Graduate Student Seminars


Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2018

Felix Munoz-Garcia

Washington State University

The Bugas Lectures


Oct. 16-18, 2018

Jim Wilen

UC Davis

The Bugas Lectures


Oct. 12, 2018

Alfredo Cisneros Pineda

University of Wyoming

“Spatial General Equilibrium Ecosystem Model”

Job Market Seminar

The Bugas Lectures


Oct. 10, 2018

Benjamin White

"Micro-Foundations of Open Access Resource Exploitation and Optimal Spatial Positioning of Incompletely Enforced Protected Areas"

University of Wyoming 

Graduate Student Seminars 


Oct. 10, 2018

Tabaré Capitán

Results from Spring 2018 lab experiment Impact and welfare implications of complementing calorie information with nudges

University of Wyoming 

Graduate Student Seminars 


Sept. 26, 2018

Dave Pannell

University of Western Australia

"The Design of Effective Agri-Environment Schemes"

Sponsored by Ag Econ Dept


Sept. 19, 2018

Jon M. Conrad

Cornell University

"On the Optimal Moratorium in an Overfished Fishery: The Case of Canadian Cod"

Graduate Students' Invite


Sept. 7, 2018

David Albouy

University of Illinois

“Unlocking Amenities: Estimating Public Good Complementarity”

Guest Speaker Seminar


Apr. 21, 2017

Ian Sheldon

Ohio State University

Sponsored by Ag Econ Dept


Apr. 14, 2017

Kenneth Lay

Rock Creek Group

Sandberg Speaker Series


Apr. 7, 2017

Dr. Corrado di Maria

University of East Anglia


Mar. 31, 2017

Jared Carbone

Colorado School of Mines

"Comparing applied general equilibrium and econometric estimates of the effect of an environmental policy shock"


Feb. 24, 2017

Carol McAusland

University of British Columbia

"Tax Incidence with Endogenous Quality and Costly Bargaining: Theory and Evidence from Hybrid Vehicle Subsidies" 


Oct 18, 2016

Lindon Robison 

Michigan State University  

“Explaining Farmland Exchange Anomalies by Including Relational Goods”


Oct 7, 2016

Michael J. Stutzer

UC-Boulder

"What the Hell is Entropy, and Why are B-School Faculty So Interested Lately?"


Sept. 29, 2016

Eli Fenichel

Yale University

"The Wealth of Ecosystems"  


June 8, 2016

Shaikh Eskander

London School of Economics & Political Science

“Adaptation to Natural Disasters Through The Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh”


Apr. 25, 2016

Jesper Stage

Luleå University of Technology

“Connectivity at a cost: The economic dynamics of restoring habitat connectivity”


Apr. 25, 2016

Ian Lange

Colorado School of Mines

"Interfirm Learning Economies in Drilling and Environmental Safety"

 

 
Contact Us

Department of Economics

College of Business Department 3985

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307-766-3124

Fax: 307-766-4028

Email: economics@uwyo.edu

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