Economics Department-Wide Seminars

Occasionally, the Economics Department hosts a seminar that is of interest to scholars across disciplines.  Seminars sponsored by the Hightower Fund are considered interdisciplinary and all are invited to attend.

If a department-wide seminar is being held via Zoom, please contact Marie Browne if you would like to attend: mpbrown@emory.edu

Please note: Seminars are added throughout the academic year.

Friday, October 13
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Edward Norton, UnitedHealthcare Professor of Health Care Management, University of Michigan
Location: Rich 104
Title:  "Why Transform Y? The Pitfalls of Transformed Regressions with a Mass Point at Zero"
Host: Sara Markowitz

Note: This seminar is sponsored by the Hightower Fund. All are invited to attend.

Friday, October 27
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Robert (Bob) Chirinko, University of Illinois at Chicago
Location: Rich 104
Title: "The Return on Private Capital Across Countries:  Rising and Diverging"
Host: Hashem Dezhbakhsh 

Please note: Seminars are added throughout the academic year.

Friday, February 16
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
M. Hashem Pesaran, USC and Cambridge University
Location: TBA
Title: TBA
Host: Essie Maasoumi