Brown bag seminars

Second Term, Jan-Apr 2026

Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)

Date	Speaker	Title
07 Jan	Mohammadhussein Lashkaripour	TBD
14 Jan	Maggie O’Shea (Dartmouth Colleague)	TBD
21 Jan	Justin Wiltshire	Labour Market Power and Non-wage Compensation
28 Jan	Jason Hicks	The Occupational Licensing of Uber Drivers
04 Feb	Muthoni Nganga	**Title may change Experimental Assessment of the Collective Action Impacts of Participatory Rangeland Management in Baringo, Kenya
11 Feb	Elisabeth Gugl	TBD
18 Feb	N/A - Reading Break	N/A
25 Feb	Justin Wiltshire	TBD
04 Mar	Amy Hill, (Competition Bureau)	Alumni presenting on work and guidance for undergraduates
11 Mar	Elisabeth Gugl	TBD
18 Mar	N/A Reading Break	N/A
25 Mar	Fengyi Zhang	Economic Conditions and Opioid Mortality
01 Apr	Giuseppe Ippedico (University of Nottingham)	TBD
08 Apr	RIchard Martin (Goverment of BC)	Simulating Occupational Mobility with Optimal Transport Theory
15 Apr	TBD	TBD
22 Apr	TBD	TBD

Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)

Date	Speaker	Title
03 Sep	Michael Whinston	What Prevents Health Insurance Takeup?
10 Sep	Justin Wiltshire	Contemporary Labour Economics Concerns in British Columbia
01 Oct	Pascal Courty with Yupei Ma	Bayesian updating in two-part evaluations: Evidence from figure skating
08 Oct	Sara Wray Enns	Labour markets and participation in traditional Indigenous economic activity, a Shift-Share IV analysis
15 Oct	Mengxia Yu	Sustainable Investing: Towards the SDG Frontier
22 Oct	Mike Janes	The Effects of Public Transit Regionalization on Costs: A Case Study from British Columbia
29 Oct	Yin Shi	Which Policies Reduce Residential Emissions? Evidence From Agnostically-Detected Reductions in the US
05 Nov
12 Nov	N/A Reading Break	Reading Break
26 Nov	Graham Voss / Peter Kennedy	Chemawawin Cree and Grand Rapids: Calculating a Settlement for a Lost Opportunity

Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)

Date	Speaker	Title
30 Apr *11:00-11:50am	Walter Lepore (UVic School of Public Admin)	Framing Effects and Mediating Factors in Complex Sustainability Problems: Insights from Canada and Spain
07 May	Felix Pretis	Solid Carbon: An Overview & Economics of CO2 Storage
14 May	Justin Wiltshire	Health Provider Concentration and Medical Debt
21 May	Donn Feir	Understanding Mental Health Differences Between Cisgender and Gender Minority Youth: Evidence from Within-Family Comparisons
28 May	Merwan Engineer and Ian King	Trumponomics, Unpleasant Accounting, and Phantom Gurus
04 Jun *Zoom	Emma Reinsch	Effects of Confidential Access to Abortion in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings

Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)

Date	Speaker	Title
Jan 08	Andrew Usher, Bank of Canada	Institutional Details and Opportunities at the Bank of Canada
Jan 15	Richard Martin	It's Not the Journey Man...It's the Apprenticeship
Jan 22	Colette Salemi	Desert Locust Invasions and Farmers' Adaptations
Jan 29	Janet Burlacu / Peter Kennedy	The Quality of Market Child Care Part 1: The Full Information Case
Feb 05	Chengyu Si / Pascal Courty	China's Response to Ticket Resale (For Profit)
Feb 12	Chris Kennedy (UVic Civil Engineering)	The Great Depression As An Energy Transition
Feb 19	Reading Break	Reading Break
Feb 26	Donn Feir	Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties
Mar 05	Justin Wiltshire	The Impact of Walmart's Growth on the U.S. Social Safety Net
Mar 12	Pascal Courty	The Changing World of Academic Journals
Mar 19	No speaker	No speaker
Mar 26	Maxine Lee (SF State)	Child Penalty in LGBTQ+ Families: New Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in New Zealand
Apr 02 DSB C108 12:30-2:20pm*	ECON Faculty	Economics Research at UVic: Research Agenda Summaries by ECON Professors
Apr 09	Janet Burlacu	The Quality of Market Child Care Part 2: The Asymmetric Information Case
Apr 16	Colin Chia (UVic PoliSci)	Digital Taxes and the Geopolitics of Economic Territory
Apr 23	Malcolm Rutherford	The First Generation of African American PhDs in Economics: 1921 - 1943

Brown bag seminars are held between 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. on Wednesdays in BEC 363, unless otherwise indicated (in bold)

Date	Speaker	Title
Sep 4	Vasco Gabriel	Estimating the Impact of Monetary Policy Shocks: A Model Averaging Approach
Sep 11	Emma Hutchinson	Who Has a Family Doctor in Canada? 2001-2019.
Sep 18	Justin Wiltshire	Lifting the Cap on Non-Resident University Enrollment: Evidence from Wisconsin
Sep 25	Donn Feir	Nonbinary Gender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census
Oct 2	N/A - Lansdowne Lecture	N/A
Oct 9	Sara Wray Enns	The Effects of a New All Season Road in Canada’s Arctic: The Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway
Oct 16	Pascal Courty	Pollution Avoidance: Heterogenous Attendance Responses Across Movie Theaters
Oct 23	Mengxia Yu	Investing for Impact: Towards the SDG Efficient Frontier
Oct 30	Elisabeth Gugl	Transferable Utility within Households
Nov 6	Governor's Challenge Team	TBD
Nov 13	N/A - Reading Break	N/A
Nov 20	Tao He	The Sufficiency of Statistical Information and the Credibility of Empirical Research
Nov 27	Paul Schure	The Efficiency of Professional Sports Organizations: Clubs in the English Premier League
Dec 4	Mahdi Shariati	Sport and Economic Security