Past Seminars

Friday, April 25, 2025
Eyal Frank, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, April 11, 2025
Cary Deck, PhD, Bidgood Chair of Economics and Finance, Director of TIDE Lab, Professor of Economics, University of Alabama
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, February 21, 2025
Jonathan Weigel, PhD, Assistant Professor Business and Public Policy Group, University of California Berkeley
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, January 24, 2025
Kevin Berry, PhD, Professor of Economics, University of Alaska Anchorage
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, October 25, 2024
John Whitehead, PhD, Department of Economics Professor, Appalachian State University
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, October 11, 2024
Dominic Parker, PhD, Olav F. and Else de Noyer Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics, UW-Madison
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, September 27, 2024
Paul Novosad, PhD, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College
Guest Speaker Seminar


Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Christian Vossler, PhD, J. Fred Holly Chair of Excellence in the Department of Economics, Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee
Guest Speaker Seminar


Monday, September 16, 2024
Sherril Shaffer, PhD, Guthrie Distinguished Professor of Banking and Financial Services Emeritus, University of Wyoming
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, September 13, 2024
Nina Fefferman, PhD, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Mathematics, University of Tennessee
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, April 12, 2024
Jared Rubin, PhD, Professor/Co-Director, Institute for the Study of Religion, Economics and Society, Chapman University
Guest Speaker Seminar


Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Eli Fenichel, PhD, Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics, School of the Environment Yale University
Guest Speaker Seminar


Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Greg Howard, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, East Carolina University
Guest Speaker Seminar


Friday, February 9, 2024
Eric Lewis, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Texas A&M University
Guest Speaker Seminar


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”