IO, Public, Labor, Urban, and Sustainability seminar at Stanford features invited lectures by visiting faculty across applied microeconomic fields. Seminars are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.
Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.
Winter 2026
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Feb 11 3:30-4:45 pm B400 |
Noam Yuchtman University of Oxford Joint Applied Micro Seminar |
Legal Therapy: Coercion, the Courts, and Structural Transformation in China Abstract |
| Feb 17 12:00-1:15 pm BC130 |
Oscar Volpe Harvard University |
Job Preferences, Labor Market Power, and Inequality |
| Feb 24 12:00-1:15 pm C105 |
Lorenzo Magnolfi University of Wisconsin |
Market Counterfactuals with Nonparametric Supply: An ML/AI Approach joint paper with Harold D. Chiang, Jack Collison and Christopher Sullivan |
| Mar 3 12:00-1:15 pm C105 |
Catherine Ishitani Columbia University |
In Defense of the Middleman: Quality Failures in the Generic Pharmaceutical Market |
| Mar 11 3:30-4:45 pm G102 |
Simon Jäger Princeton University Joint Applied Micro Seminar |
Spring 2026
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Mar 31 12:00-1:15 pm TBD |
Marlene Marra SciencesPo |
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| Apr 7 12:00-1:15 pm TBA |
Jetson Leder-Luis Boston University |
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| Apr 15 3:30-4:45 pm TBA |
Janet Currie Yale University Joint Applied Micro Seminar |
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| Apr 21 12:00-1:15 pm TBA |
Sam Altmann Queen Mary University |
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| Apr 28 12:00-1:15 pm TBA |
Marguerite Obolensky Columbia, School of International and Public Affairs |
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| May 13 3:30-4:45 pm TBA |
Melissa Dell Harvard University Joint Applied Micro Seminar |
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| May 19 12:00-1:15 pm TBA |
Lauren Falcao Bergquist Yale University |
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| May 26 12:00-1:15 pm TBA |
Nicholas Ryan Yale University |
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| Jun 2 12:00-1:15 pm TBA |
Charles Hodgson Yale University |
Fall 2025
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 23 12:00-1:15 pm P107 |
Jeff Gortmaker New York University |
Open Source Software Policy in Industry Equilibrium |
| Sep 30 12:00-1:15 pm P107 |
Cailin Ryan Slattery University of California, Berkeley |
joint paper with Zachary Liscow and Will Nober |
| Oct 8 3:30-4:45 pm G102 |
Dmitry Taubinsky University of California, Berkeley Joint Applied Micro Seminar |
Belief About the Economy are Excessively Sensitive to Household-Level Shocks: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data Co-authors: Luigi Batera, Matteo Saccarola, and Chen Lian |
| Oct 14 12:00-1:15 pm P107 |
Zoe B. Cullen Harvard Business School |
joint paper with Bobak Pakzad-Hurson and Ricardo Perez-Truglia |
| Oct 21 12:00-1:15 pm P107 |
Allan Collard-Wexler Duke University |
joint paper with Tirza J. Angerhofer and Mathew C. Weinberg |
| Oct 28 12:00-1:15 pm P107 |
Alejandro Sabal Yale University |
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| Nov 12 3:30-4:45 pm G102 |
Christopher Neilson Yale University Joint Applied Micro Seminar |
A Decade of Centralized School Choice Admission in Chile: Achievements & Challenges |
| Dec 3 3:30-4:45 pm C106 |
Patrick Bayer Duke University Joint Applied Micro Seminar |
Seminar Organizers
Shoshana Vasserman
Associate Professor of Economics
Claudia Allende Santa Cruz
Assistant Professor of Economics
José Ignacio Cuesta
Charles Jones
The STANCO 25 Professor of Economics