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Upcoming Seminars

Today

Emmanouil Chatzikonstanti (Georgetown University in Qatar), "Did Information Technology Increase Foreign Competition Risk?". 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Macroeconomics
Xiaoxi (Joyce) Wang (Rotman School of Management), "AI and Market for Technology in the Biopharmaceutical Industry". 12:45–13:45, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Industrial Organization
Derek Thiele (University of Toronto), "Rebuild, Reinforce, or Reallocate? Railroad Infrastructure Investment Under Flood Risk". 13:55–14:45, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Climate Economics

Friday

Dina O'Brien (University of Toronto (Job Market Candidate)), "Independent media and political engagement in an autocracy: Evidence from Kazakhstan". 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Empirical Microeconomics
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Recent Publications
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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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Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China

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

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Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis

American Economic Review, 2025
Zi Yang Kang and Shoshana Vasserman

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Innovative Ideas and Gender (In)equality

American Economic Review, 2025
Marlène Koffi

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Stationary social learning in a changing environment

Econometrica, 2024
Raphaël Levy, Marcin Pęski, Nicolas Vieille

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Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 years of U.S.-China Trade

Journal of Political Economy, 2025
George Alessandria, Shafaat Khan, Armen Khederlarian, Kim J. Ruhl, Joseph Steinberg

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Malim Harding Lecture - The Limits of Canadian Tolerance

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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Wulandari Wins June Scott Teaching Excellence Award
Build, Baby, Build: Couillard on Housing & Fertility
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