Spring 2016 Economics Seminar Series

Seminar Series

The economics seminar generally meets on Fridays from 11:00 a.m. to noon in SSPA room 204, unless otherwise noted. For more information please contact Dr. Chen Ng at chen.ng@csulb.edu.

Seminar Series Archive – click here to see our past topics and speakers.

SPRING 2016

Thursday, January 21, 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Brotman Hall, room 250
Ippei Shibata, University of Chicago
“Labor Market Dynamics: A Hidden Markov Approach”

Monday, January 25, 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Brotman Hall, room 250
Pao-Lin Tien, Washington University
“Do Fed Forecast Errors Matter?”

Wednesday, January 27, 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
Brotman Hall, room 124
Jarrod Hunt, University of Houston
“Debt, Default, and Disaggregation”

Tuesday, March 1, 11:00 a.m.
SPA, room 106
Dr. Eric Fischer, University of California, Santa Cruz
“U.S. Monetary Expectations and Emerging Market Debt Flows”

Friday, March 4, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Dr. Rubina Verma, Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and USC Visiting Scholar
“Export Intensity and Firm Productivity”

Tuesday, March 8, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Brotman Hall, room 124
Dr. Mariya Mileva, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Comparative Advantage and Business Cycle Dynamics”

Friday, March 18, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Fynnwin Prager, CSU Dominguez Hills
“Estimating and Comparing Economic Consequences of Multiple Threats: A Computable General Equilibrium Decomposition Approach”

Friday, April 15, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Saba Mojtahedi, CSU Long Beach Graduate Student
“The Effects of California Solar Initiative Rebates on Solar Energy Adoption”

Friday, April 29, 11:00 a.m. – noon
Jinwon Kim, CSU Long Beach
“The City with Congested Bottlenecks”

Wednesday, May 4, 2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
AS building, room 235
Economics Department Poster Session