Brown Bag Student Seminar
Economics Department, Western University
Introduction
Hans Martinez, Evan Sauve, and Tyler Skura started the Brown Bag Student Seminar in the Department of Economics at Western University during the 2023 winter term. The seminar provides a forum for Ph.D. students of any year to present research in progress or research ideas in an informal and casual environment. Students receive feedback and suggestions to improve their work.
Format and objectives
The seminar consists of short presentations lasting 20–30 minutes, followed by 10–15 minutes of questions and feedback. The meetings take place every Thursday from 12–1 p.m.
The seminar prioritizes providing content feedback on original work in progress or early research ideas and a safe environment to present new ideas and ask naïve questions.
Additional info
Currently, the seminar is open only to Western students, but it is likely to be open to any Economics Ph.D. student shortly. To participate contact me. The current schedule is listed below.
| Date | Name | (Tentative) Title | Field |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-02 | Wilfried Youmbi Fotso | Detecting and Measuring Violation of WGARSP | Decision theory |
| 2023-03-09 | Hans Martinez | Identification of Latent Cost Functions | Applied IO |
| 2023-03-23 | Yoshiki Nakajima | Delegation Rules with Indecisive Individuals | Theory |
| 2023-04-06 | Emmanuel Murray Leclair | TBD/A | Applied IO |
| 2023-04-13 | Chong Wang | Observable and Hidden Debt | Macro |
| 2023-04-20 | Martin Bustos | Nonparametric Analysis of Models with Heterogeneous Posterior-Separable Attention Costs | Decision science |
| 2023-04-27 | Xun Chen | TBA | Theory |
| 2023-05-04 | Javier Martinez Hernandez | NA | NA |