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Upcoming Seminars

Today

Kirby Nielsen (California Institute of Technology), "When Are Decisions Improvable? An Evaluation of Diagnostic Methods" (joint with Douglas Bernheim, Aldo Lucia, Charles Sprenger). 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Behavioural Economics

Thursday

Alexander Bick (St Louis Fed), "Generative AI in the Labor Market: Evidence and Some Theory " (joint with Adam Blandin, David Deming, and Tyler Schumacher). 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Macroeconomics
Derek Thiele (University of Toronto), "React, Reinforce or Reallocate? Railroad Infrastructure Investment Under Climate Risk". 14:10–15:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Climate Economics
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Recent Publications
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Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2026
Carolina Arteaga and Victoria Barone

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Counterfactual Analysis for Structural Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming
Myrto Kalouptsidi, Yuichi Kitamura, Lucas Lima, Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues

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Innovative Ideas and Gender (In)equality

American Economic Review, 2025
Marlène Koffi

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Simultaneous Search and Adverse Selection

Review of Economic Studies, 2025
Sarah Auster, Piero Gottardi, Ronald Wolthoff

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Trade-Policy Dynamics: Evidence from 60 years of U.S.-China Trade

Journal of Political Economy, 2025
George Alessandria, Shafaat Khan, Armen Khederlarian, Kim J. Ruhl, Joseph Steinberg

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Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: Empirical Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market

Journal of Political Economy, 2024
Stephanie Assad, Robert Clark, Daniel Ershov, Lei Xu

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Events

What: Toronto Meeting on the Economics of Climate Change (TMEC)
When: June 20-22, 2025
Where:June 20 @ UTM, Room 3140, William G. Davis Building, 1867 Inner Circle Rd., Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
June 21 & 22 @ Department of Economics, University of Toronto.

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