Brown bag seminars
First Term, Sept-Dec 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 09 Sept | Colette Salemi |
The forest cover impacts of improved cookstoves |
| 16 Sept |
Mengxia Yu |
Sustainability by Contract: The Effectiveness of Sustainability-Linked Bonds |
| 23 Sept | Mike Janes | The Capitalization of Heat Pumps: Energy Prices, Rebates, and Financing in Greater Victoria. |
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07 Oct |
Pascal Courty | Writing an AI assisted theory: “Tickets as gifts” |
| 14 Oct | Allie Siebel-McKenna (BC Ministry of Finance) |
Modeling tax policy in a macroeconomic agent-based model |
| 21 Oct | Frank Kleibergen (University of Amsterdam) | |
| 04 Nov | Donn Feir | Indigenous Wealth and Health in the Early 20th Century |
| 18 Nov | Jason Hicks |
Occupational Regulation and Labour Market Outcomes in the U.S. Progressive Era |
| 25 Nov | Donn Feir |
Factors Associated with Indigenous Over-representation in Foster Care: The Case of British Columbia. |
| 02 Dec | Yin Shi |
TBD |
Second Term, Jan-Apr 2027
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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20 Jan |
Justin Wiltshire | TBD |
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27 Jan |
Tanjim Ahmed | The Crime Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria: A stacked synthetic control approach |
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03 Feb |
Harini Kapali | Model Misspecification in Semi-Competing Risks: Dementia and Death under a Shared Frailty Illness-Death Model |
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10 Feb |
Muthoni Nganga | Midline Report (RCT): Overcoming Gender-Specific Constraints to Agricultural Technology Adoption: New approaches to Extension and Seed Delivery for Female Kenyan Farmers |
| 17 Feb | N/A - Reading Break | N/A |
| 24 Mar | Gary Hoover (Tulane University) | TBD |
| 31 Mar | Suyong Song (University of Iowa) | TBD |