Department Seminar Schedule

Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

Upcoming Seminars

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are 3:30 to 5:00 PM in 75 Agriculture Hall.

Past Seminars

Thursday, April 8. Greg Traxler, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. African Development and Capacity Building through the Lens of a Donor. [vitae]

CANCELED Thursday, April 1. Richard Hornbeck, MIT. Joint seminar with MSU Economics Empirical Micro Economics. "The Enduring Impact of the American Dust Bowl: Short and Long-run Adjustments to Environmental Catastrophe". [paper]

Friday, March 19. Grad Student Symposium. All day in 75 Agriculture Hall.

Thursday, March 4. Bob Myers, Michigan State University. “Maize Price Transmission in Southern Africa under Multiple Regimes and Thresholds”. [abstract]

Thursday, February 25. Randall Eberts, Upjohn Institute.

Thursday, February 4. Stephen Gasteyer, Michigan State University, Sociology. "Assessing Capacity: Community Capitals and Local Interaction with Natural Resources".

Why do some communities successfully site biofuel/bioenergy facilities and others don't? What determines the capacity of communities to deliver and manage water infrastructure? How does changing urban space impact communities? This presentation will describe the use of the community capitals framework as a methodological framework for assessing the dynamics of community interactions with natural resources. Insights will be provided from case studies.

Thursday, October 15. Mark Partridge, Ohio State University. “Spatial Growth Dynamics in Wages and Housing Costs: The Role of Distances from Urban Production Externalities and Consumer Amenities”. [paper]

Friday, October 16. David Zilberman, University of California-Berkeley. Noon-1:00 pm, 75 Ag Hall. “Biofuels and OPEC”. [paper]

Thursday, October 29. Sharon O'Donnell , U.S. Census Bureau.

Friday, November 6. Stephen Salant, University of Michigan. "The Partnership Solution to the Common-Property Problem: An Experimental Test of the Theory". 3:30 pm, Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall (joint with economics theory seminar). [paper] [slideshow]

Wednesday, November 18. Aklesso Egbendewe-Mondzozo, Texas A&M University (candidate for position of Research Associate in Bioenergy and Agricultural Economics with Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center). "Integrated Economic-Epidemic Modeling of Avian Influenze Mitigation Options: A Case Study of an Outbreak in Texas." 1:45 pm, 75 Agriculture Hall.

Friday, November 20. Ryan Kellogg, University of Michigan. 1:30 pm, Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall (joint with economics empirical micro seminar).

Tuesday, November 24. Juan Pablo Sesmero, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (candidate for position of Research Associate in Bioenergy and Agricultural Economics with Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center). "Environmental Efficiency among Corn Ethanol Plants." 2:00 pm, 75 Agriculture Hall. [CV] [paper]

Thursday, December 3. Madhu Khanna, University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign. "Meeting the Demand for Biofuels: Implications for Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions". [abstract] [presentation]

Thursday, January 21. Jay Shogren, University of Wyoming. [paper]