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Upcoming Seminars

Today

Benjamin Keys (University of Pennsylvania), "Segmentation and Returns on Rental Housing" (joint with Jessie Handbury and Samuel Hughes). 10:40–12:00, Rotman, room 157.
Urban And Real Estate Economics
Shota Ichihashi (Queen's University), "Mechanism Design for Ad-Supported Platforms" (joint with Doh-Shin Jeon, Byung-Cheol Kim). 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Economic Theory

Wednesday

Danial Lashkari (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), "The Race between AI Costs and Capabilities: Task-Based Automation When Machines Improve". 11:00–12:30, Rotman, room 1065.
International Trade
Sina Kavuncu (University of Toronto), "Self-Sacrifice and Credibility in Cheap Talk". 12:10–13:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Theory Workshop
Eduardo Morales (Princeton University), "Trade and Welfare under Oligopolistic Competition" (joint with Pol Antràs and Daniel Ramos-Menchelli). 13:30–15:00, Rotman, room 1065.
International Trade
Elisabeth Kempf (Harvard Business School), "CEO Ideology and Global Trade" (joint with Mancy Luo, Margarita Tsoutsoura). 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Financial Economics
Milena Almagro Garcia (Chicago Booth School of Business), "Data-Driven Nests" (joint with Kenneth Lai and Elena Manresa). 15:40–17:00, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Special Lecture
All Seminars
Recent Publications
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Exploitation Through Racialization

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2025
Dan McGee

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The Geographic Flow of Bank Funding and Access to Credit: Branch Networks and Local-Market Competition

American Economic Review, 2025
Victor Aguirregabiria, Robert Clark, Hui Wang

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Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry

American Economic Review, 2025
Kory Kroft, Yao Luo, Magne Mogstad, Bradley Setzler

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The Long-Run Labour Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Review of Economic Studies, 2024
Brian Kovak and Peter Morrow

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Land Security and Mobility Frictions

Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2024
Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, Diego Restuccia, Xiaoyun Wei

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Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China

Review of Economic Studies, 2025
Loren Brandt, Gueorgui Kambourov, Kjetil Storesletten

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What:2026 Morley Gunderson Lecture
When:4:30pm, April 16, 2026
Where:Debates Room, Hart House, University of Toronto

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