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Upcoming Seminars

Today

Danielle Li (MIT), "Labor as Capital: AI and the Ownership of Expertise" (joint with Zoe Cullen and Shengwu Li). 11:10–12:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Public Economics / Empirical Microeconomics
Filip Obradovic (University of California Los Angeles), "Knowing Less After a Diagnostic Test: Dilation in Clinical Decision-Making" (joint with Gabriel Ziegler). 14:10–15:30, Max Gluskin House, room 106.
Econometrics

Monday

Rebekah Dix (Stanford University), "How On-Demand Inputs Change Firm Production and Business Dynamism: The Case of Cloud Computing". 15:10–16:30, Rotman, room 147.
Industrial Organization
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Recent Publications
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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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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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Robustness Measures for Welfare Analysis

American Economic Review, 2025
Zi Yang Kang and Shoshana Vasserman

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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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Rural Pensions, Labor Reallocation, and Aggregate Income: An Empirical and Quantitative Analysis of China

Econometrica, 2025
Qingen Gai, Naijia Guo, Bingjing Li, Qinghua Shi, Xiaodong Zhu

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

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