Seminars

The seminar series provides a forum for faculty and students to interact with leading scholars in economics and finance. For more information on the seminar series please contact Matt Jaremski at matthew.jaremski@usu.edu.

Spring 2024

February 2 - Elizabeth Bickmore (Virginia Tech)
February 9 - McKay Price (Lehigh University)
February 23 - Mountain West Economic History Conference
March 22 - Justin Cox (Appalachian State University)
April 19 - Gustavo Cortes (University of Florida)

Fall 2023

September 22: Pedro Bento (Texas A&M University)
September 29: Pablo Kurlat (University of Southern California)
October 27: Nicole Simpson (Colgate University)
November 10: Alexander Persaud (University of Richmond)
December 1: Utah Macro Workshop
December 8: William Cockriel (University of Chicago)

Spring 2023

January 13: Andrew Grant (University of Sydney)
January 20: Carlos Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis)
February 3: Barış Kaymak (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
February 17: Latika Chaudhary (Naval Postgraduate School)
March 31: Robert DeYoung (University of Kansas)
April 7: Carola Frydman (Northwestern University)
April 14: Michael O'Doherty (University of Missouri)

Fall 2022

September 30: Jakob Miethe (LMU Munich)
October 7: Rodney Ramcharan (University of Southern California)

Spring 2022

February 11: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology)
February 25-26: Mountain West Economic History Conference
March 4: Naomi Boyd (West Virginia University)
March 14: Charles Calomiris (Columbia University) - Eccles Lecture
March 18: Juliana Londoño-Vélez (University of California, Los Angeles)
March 25: Kenneth Roskelley (Mississippi State University)
April 1: Shi Qi (College of William and Mary)
April 8: Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee)
April 15: Kaiji Chen (Emory University)
April 22: Ayse Imrohoroglu (University of Southern California)

Spring 2020

February 7: Barney Hartman-Glaser (University of California, Los Angeles)
February 14: Kfir Eliaz (Tel-Aviv University)
February 21-22: Mountain West Economic History Conference
March 13: Naomi Boyd (West Virginia University) - Postponed
March 20: Rodney Ramcharan (University of Southern California) - Postponed
March 30: Richard Patterson (United States Military Academy) - Postponed
April 3: Carola Frydman (Northwestern University) - Postponed
April 10: Ping McLemore (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) - Postponed
April 17: Sevgi Yuksel (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Postponed

Fall 2019

September 6: Vincenzo Quadrini (University of Southern California)
September 20: Price Fishback (University of Arizona)
September 27: Eric Ohrn (Grinnell College)
October 4: Matteo Iacoviello (Federal Reserve Board) - Canceled
October 11: Gregory DeAngelo (Claremont Graduate University)
November 1: Rajnish Mehra (Arizona State University)
December 6: Marianne Wanamaker (University of Tennessee)

Spring 2019

January 11: Guillaume Fréchette (New York University)
February 8: Daniela Scur (Cornell University)
February 15: Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)
February 22: Ivalina Kalcheva (University of California, Riverside)
March 26: John Taylor (Stanford University) - Eccles Lecture
March 29: Gregory DeAngelo (Claremont Graduate University)
April 12: Zheng Liu (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
April 19: Price Fishback (University of Arizona)

Fall 2018

September 28: Benjamin Pugsley (University of Notre Dame)
October 26: Charles Calomiris (Columbia University)
November 2: Subhasish Dugar (University of Utah)
November 9: David Dickinson (Appalachian State University)
November 30: James Brown (Iowa State University)
December 7: Joseph Price (BYU)

Spring 2018

January 31: Corbett Grainger (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
February 20: Jernej Copic (Aix-Marseille University)
February 28: Keith Criddle (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
March 12: Cuyler Strong (Washington State University)
March 23: Jon Karpoff (University of Washington)
March 29: Paulina Oliva (University of California, Santa Barbara)
March 30: BYU-USU Macro Workshop
March 30: George Jiang (Washington State University)
April 11: Nicolas Parker (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
April 18: Kailin Kroetz (Resources for the Future)
April 20: Emily Leslie (Brigham Young University)

Fall 2017

September 7: Robert Lawson (Southern Methodist University)
September 29: Ashleigh Poindexter (University of Tennessee)
October 6: Xueli Tang (Deakin University)
October 27: Jim Feigenbaum (Utah State University)
October 30: Alvaro La Parra-Perez (Weber State University)
November 10: Grace Arnold (Louisiana State University)
November 29: Sebastian Tello-Trillo (University of Virginia)
December 1: Jim Kearl (Brigham Young University)

Spring 2017

January 24: Margaret McKeehan (Rice University)
January 25: Katarzyna Habu (University of Oxford)
January 26: Abhijit Ramalingam (University of East Anglia)
January 27: Lucas Rentschler (Universal Francisco Marroquin)
February 21: Carlos Garriga (St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank)
March 10: John Pokorny (University of Minnesota)
March 29: Pawel Krolikowski (Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank)
March 31: Jason Kotter (Pennsylvania State University)
April 10: Kfir Eliaz (Tel-Aviv University)
April 14: Ian McDonough (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
April 28: Jan Auerbach (University of Exeter)

Fall 2016

September 9: Danila Serra (SMU)
September 30: Olga Stoddard (BYU)
October 14, Scott Cederburg (Arizona)
October 28: Daniel Moncayo (BYU)
October 31: Binay Adhikari (Miami University Ohio)
November 3: Todd Griffith (University of Mississippi)
November 7: Ke Shan (University of Iowa)
December 5: Ryan Israelsen (Indiana University)

Spring 2016

January 14: Quyen Nguyen (University of Arizona)
January 20: Jonathan Peterson (Nazarbayev University)
January 22: Andrew Johnston (Wharton)
January 25: Bree Lang (Xavier University)
January 26: Matt Lang (Xavier University)
February 29: Benjamin Pugsley (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
March 14: Tom Winberry (University of Chicago)
April 14: Nicholas Trachter (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)

Fall 2015

August 12: Jonathan Peterson (Nazarbayev University)
September 18: Jim Feigenbaum (Utah State University)
October 2: Xiaohan Zhang (Cal State Los Angeles)
October 9: James Alm (Tulane)
October 12: Christiana Stoddard (Montana State University)
October 21: Daniel Bergstresser (Brandeis University)
November 2: Philippe D'Astous (Georgia State University)
November 4: Jack Cooney (Texas Tech University)
November 5: Charlie Clarke (University of Connecticut)
November 9: Adam Usman (James Madison University)
November 16: Raluca Roman (Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank)
December 8: Danjue Shang (University of Arizona)
December 9: Stephan Shipe (Florida State University)

Spring 2015

January 13: Stefanie Fischer (UC Santa Barbara)
January 21: Marie Hull (Duke)
January 26: Jillian Carr (Texas A&M)
January 30: Tyler Brough: (Utah State University)
February 20: Suman Banerjee (University of Wyoming)
February 23: Jacopo Magnani (WISE)
February 24: Jeffrey Denning (UT Austin)
February 25: Jason Pearcy (Montana State University)
March 2: Justin Marion (UC Santa Cruz) - EBB 9th Fl 11:30 am
March 3: Chris Coyne (GMU) - ENGR 238 10:30 am
March 20: Sita Slavov (GMU) - EBB 9th Fl 11:30 am
March 27: BYU-USU Macro Workshop
April 3: Scott Condie (BYU) - EBB 9th Fl 11:30 am
April 15: Eric Zwick (U of Chicago) - EBB 9th Fl 11:30 am
April 24: Robert Turley (Dodge & Cox)

FALL 2014

September 10: Frank Caliendo (USU)
September 15: David Rose (U of Missouri)
September 25: Michael Munger (Duke)
October 1: Peter Bossaerts (Utah)
October 8: Frank McIntyre (Rutgers)
October 13: Jack Cooney (Texas Tech)
October 29: Feng Zhang (Utah)
October 31: Ian Wright (Stanford)
November 5: Eric Fisher (Cal Poly)
November 12: Jim Feigenbaum (USU)
November 14: Rick Evans and Kerk Phillips (BYU)
November 21: Christian vom Lehn (BYU)

Spring 2014

March 5: Brennan Platt (BYU)
March 17: Adam Grant (Wharton)
March 20: Ezra Oberfield (Princeton)
March 31: Nathan Seegert (U. of Utah)
April 2: Kerry Back (Rice)
April 11: Juan Pantano (Wash. U. St. Louis)
April 18: Michael Faulkender (Maryland)
April 24: Mike Bailey (Facebook)

FALL 2013

September 4: Bob Malko (USU)
September 25: Aspen Gorry (USU)
October 2: Jim Turner (Weber State)
October 8: Edward Lopez (Western Carolina)
October 9: Ryan Whitby (USU)
October 25: BYU-USU Macro Workshop (Rick Evans and Frank Caliendo)
October 30: Abby Kim (U. of Utah)
November 1: Kerry Back (Rice)
November 4: Felipe Cortes (Wash. U. St. Louis)
November 6: Brad Goldie (Kansas)
November 8: John Bizjak (TCU)
November 12: Jared Delisle (Washington State)
November 13: Eccles Lecture: Vernon Smith (Chapman University)
November 20: Jared Egginton (Louisiana Tech)
November 22: Eric Fisher (Cal Polytech)
December 4: Chris Palmer (MIT)

SPRING 2013

January 9: Cagri Kumru (Australian National University)
January 14-15: Alexi Marcoux (Loyola-Chicago)
January 30: George Chang (Grand Valley State)
February 6: Yan Sun (USU Math)
March 20: Zheng Liu (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
March 27: Information Seminar for Prospective Economics Majors
April 3: Census Workshop
April 19: Stewart Mayhew (Cornerstone Research)

FALL 2012

September 12: James Feigenbaum (USU)
September 26: Ben Blau (USU)
September 28: David C. Rose (Missouri-St. Louis)
October 3: Nick Guo (USU)
October 24: Scott Findley (USU)
November 2: BYU-USU Macro Workshop
November 14: Scott Schaefer (U. of Utah)
November 16: Dan Silverman (Arizona State)
December 5: Ryan Whitby (USU)

SPRING 2012

January 23: Devon Gorry (Chicago)
January 24: Karen Mulligan (UT Austin)
January 31: Olga Timoshenko (Yale)
February 2: Iryna Topolyan (Purdue)
February 14: Nick Guo (USU)
March 20: Geng Li (Federal Reserve Board)
March 23: Ryan Israelsen (Indiana)
March 27: Hengjie Ai (Duke)
April 6: Mike Pinegar (BYU)
April 13: Ayse Imrohoroglu (USC)
April 16: Eccles Lecture, James Bullard (St. Louis Fed)
April 20: Yuzhe Zhang (Texas A&M)
April 24: Tim Halliday (Hawai'i)

FALL 2011

September 12: Diana Thomas, Ben Blau, and Tyler Brough (USU)
September 19: James Feigenbaum (USU)
September 27: Olivier Ledoit (University of Zurich)
October 17: John Duffy (University of Pittsburgh)
October 26: Visiting Huntsman Presidential Scholar Hank Bessembinder (U of Utah)
October 27: Ryan Whitby (Texas Tech)
November 2: Jason Smith (Kentucky)
November 7: Hui He (University of Hawaii)
November 9: Laura Cardella (Arizona)
November 11: BYU-USU Macro Workshop
November 21: Rashan Inget (Purdue)
November 28: Robert MacKay (UC San Diego, USU)
November 30: Visiting Huntsman Presidential Scholar Hank Bessembinder (U of Utah)
December 5: Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale)

Past Visiting Speakers (Fall 2007-Spring 2011)

Miles Kimball (University of Michigan). May 2011.
Kenneth Roskelley (University of Mississippi). April 2011.
Frank McIntyre (Brigham Young University). March 2011.
Eytan Sheshinski (Hebrew University). February 2011.
Ayelen Banegas (University of California, San Diego). January 2011.
Natalia Khorunzhina (University of Pittsburgh). January 2011.
Florin Bidian (University of Minnesota). January 2011.
Jared Stanfield (University of Washington). December 2010.
Jeremy Tobacman (Wharton). December 2010.
Heather Knewtson (Washington State University). December 2010.
James Cicon (University of Missouri, Columbia). November 2010.
McKay Price (Lehigh University). November 2010.
Ed Tower (Duke). November 2010.
Rick Evans (Brigham Young University). November 2010.
Jim Brau (Brigham Young University). November 2010.
Hui He (University of Hawaii). October 2010.
Franck Weibe (Millennium Challenge Corporation). October 2010.
Edward C. Prescott (Arizona State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis). October 2010.
Karel Janda (Charles University). October 2010.
Hendrik Bessembinder (University of Utah). September 2010.
Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh (University of Vermont). May 2010.
Gaobo Pang (Towers Watson). May 2010.
Jorge Alonso Ortiz (Arizona State University). May 2010.
Kerk Phillips (Brigham Young University). May 2010.
Natalia Khorunzhina (University of Pittsburgh). May 2010.
Kai Liu (Johns Hopkins University). May 2010.
Hyeon Sook Park (University of Pittsburgh). May 2010.
Kartik Athreya (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond). May 2010.
Richard Evans (Brigham Young University). May 2010.
Bill Shughart (University of Mississippi). April 2010.
Claudia Williamson (NYU). April 2010.
Lili Cai (Shanghai Jiaotong University). April 2010.
Franklin Allen (Wharton). April 2010.
Lei (Nick) Guo (University of Minnesota). March 2010.
Don Schlagenhauf (Florida State University). March 2010.
Jie Lu (Rutgers University). March 2010.
Kevin Huang (Vanderbilt). January 2010.
Bart Taub (University of Illinois). January 2010.
Daniel Henderson (SUNY Binghampton). December 2009.
Scott Condie (Brigham Young University). December 2009.
Mark Jensen (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta). November 2009.
Matthew White (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission). November 2009.
Travis Lybbert (University of California, Davis). October 2009.
Chetan Dave (University of Texas at Dallas). September 2009.
Fang (Annie) Yang (SUNY Albany). May 2009.
Richard Evans (Brigham Young University). May 2009.
Hui He (University of Hawaii). May 2009.
Daniel Cooper (University of Michigan). May 2009.
Hyeon Sook Park (University of Pittsburgh). May 2009.
Sang-Wook (Stanley) Cho (University of New South Wales). May 2009.
Lei (Nick) Guo (University of Minnesota). May 2009.
James Feigenbaum (University of Pittsburgh). May 2009.
Scott Findley (University of New Mexico). May 2009.
Elena Asparouhova (University of Utah). April 2009.
Matthew Cole (University of Oregon). March 2009.
Mostafa Beshkar (Purdue). March 2009.
Scott Findley (University of New Mexico). March 2009.
James Feigenbaum (University of Pittsburgh). February 2009.
Dajing Shang (University of Wisconsin, Madison). January 2009.
Diana Weinert (George Mason University). January 2009.
Hakan Yilmazkuday (Vanderbilt University). January 2009.
Valentina Michelangeli (Boston University). January 2009.
Aspen Gorry (University of Chicago). January 2009.
Lars Peter Hansen (University of Chicago). January 2009.
Carlos Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). January 2009.
Gratton Gathright (UC San Diego). December 2008.
Ryan Israelsen (University of Michigan). December 2008.
Geng Li (Federal Reserve Board). November 2008.
Ed Tower (Duke). October 2008.
Morton Kamien (Northwestern). October 2008.
James Feigenbaum (University of Pittsburgh). September 2008.
Allen Atkins (Northern Arizona University). September 2008.
Jernej Copic (UCLA). April 2008.
James Payne (Illinois State University). April 2008.
James Feigenbaum (University of Pittsburgh). February 2008.
Carlos Garriga (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis). November 2007

Eytan Sheshinski

Edward C. Prescott

Lars Peter Hansen