Brown bag seminars
First Term, Sep-Dec 2025
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 |
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| 03 Sep | Michael Whinston |
What Prevents Health Insurance Takeup? |
| 10 Sep | Justin Wiltshire | Contemporary Labour Economics Concerns in British Columbia |
| 17 Sep | Departmental Seminar | |
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24 Sep
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Lansdowne -Departmental Seminar
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| 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 |
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| 12 Nov | N/A Reading Break |
Reading Break |
| 19 Nov | Jason Hicks |
The Occupational Licensing of Uber Drivers |
| 26 Nov | Justin Wiltshire |
Labor Market Power and Non-wage Compensation |
| 03 Dec | TBD |
TBD |
Summer Session, Apr-Jun 2025
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 |
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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 |
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28 May |
Merwan Engineer and Ian King | Trumponomics, Unpleasant Accounting, and Phantom Gurus |
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04 Jun *Zoom |
Emma Reinsch |
Effects of Confidential Access to Abortion in Late Adolescence on Work and Earnings |
Second Term, Jan-Apr 2025
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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
First Term, Sep-Dec 2024
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 |
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| 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 |