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Upcoming Seminars

Today

Xiaoya Gao (University of Toronto), "Incomparability and Status Quo" (joint with Yoram Halevy). 11:10–12:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Theory Workshop
Shanshan Liu (University of Toronto), "Sequential Job Search under Ego-relevant versus Ego-irrelevant Uncertainty". 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Behavioural Economics
Jason Sockin (Cornell University), "Interviews". 13:00–14:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Empirical Microeconomics

Thursday

Kjetil Storesletten (University of Minnesota), "TBA". 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Macroeconomics
Weiyue (Vivian) Zhang (University of Toronto), "What are the Economic Values of Influencers? A Hedonic Regression approach". 12:45–13:15, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Industrial Organization
Ziwei Wang (Rotman School of Management), "Volume-Based Procurement and Drug Quality Decrease". 13:15–13:45, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Industrial Organization
Ishan Nath (Harvard Kennedy School), "Trade Policy and Food Security with Climate and Geopolitical Risk" (joint with Levi Crews, Alice Schmitz, and Stephanie Stewart). 13:55–15:10, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Climate Economics
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Recent Publications
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Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection

Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
Sarah Auster, Piero Gottardi, Ronald Wolthoff

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Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis

American Economic Review, 2025
Zi Yang Kang and Shoshana Vasserman

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Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry

American Economic Review, 2025
Kory Kroft, Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler

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Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China

Review of Economic Studies, 2025
Loren Brandt, Gueorgui Kambourov, Kjetil Storesletten

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The Long-Run Labour Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Review of Economic Studies, 2024
Brian Kovak and Peter Morrow

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Rural Pensions, Labor Reallocation, and Aggregate Income: An Empirical and Quantitative Analysis of China

Econometrica, forthcoming
Qingen Gai, Naijia Guo, Bingjing Li, Qinghua Shi, Xiaodong Zhu

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8th Annual Conference on the Chinese Economy

Events

What: Toronto Meeting on the Economics of Climate Change (TMEC)
When: June 20-22, 2025
Where:June 20 @ UTM, Room 3140, William G. Davis Building, 1867 Inner Circle Rd., Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
June 21 & 22 @ Department of Economics, University of Toronto.

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