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Departmental Seminar Series
Each semester, the Department of Economics welcomes economists, researchers, and scholars
from around the world to present their research as part of our Departmental Seminar
Series. Seminars are free and open to the public.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Mondays from 12:30–1:50 PM in Room N-603 of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Building at Stony Brook University.
Seminar Organizers: Professors Jonathan Becker and Lorenz Ekerdt
The schedule of speakers and seminar dates is listed below.
For information about previous speakers and seminars, visit the Departmental Seminar Archive.
Fall 2026
DATE |
SPEAKER |
AFFILIATION |
TOPIC |
| 8/31/2026 | Benjamin Friedrich |
Northwestern University |
Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical Programs in Denmark |
| 9/14/2026 | Rebecca Lessem | Carnegie Mellon University | Matching Applicants to Vacancies: An Empirical Model of Multistage Hiring (joint with Robert Miller) |
| 9/21/2026 | Ina Simonovska | University of California, Davis | Optimal Tariffs under Strategic Risk: A Theory of De-risking |
| 9/28/2026 | Arvind Magesan | University of Calgary | Solving Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Models Using Euler Equations |
| 10/5/2026 | Francesco Ruggieri | University of Virginia | Overlapping Jurisdictions and the Provision of Local Public Goods in U.S. Metropolitan Areas |
|
10/7/2026 (Wednesday) |
Eleonora Patacchini | Cornell University | Connections, Job Search, and Worker Selection |
| 10/19/2026 | Haiqing Xu | University of Texas at Austin | A Nonparametric Imputation Approach for Missing Data on Regressors |
| 10/26/2026 | Paulo Lins | Clemson University | The Early Career and the Sources of Lifetime Inequality |
| 10/28/2026 (Wednesday) | Pasquale Schiraldi | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | TBD |
| 11/2/2026 | Chang He |
University of Virginia (UVA) |
TBD |
| 11/9/2026 | Wioletta Dziuda | University of Chicago | TBD |
| 11/16/2026 | Luming Chen |
University of Michigan |
Bid Timing and Market Efficiency in the Energy Transition |
| 11/23/2026 | Théo Durandard |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
TBD |
| 11/30/2026 | German Cubas | University of Houston | TBD |
| 12/2/2026 (Wednesday) | Margherita Borella | University of Turin | TBD |