Balancing Flexibility and Interpretability: A Conditional Linear Model Estimation via Random Forest
Marcelo C. Medeiros (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Past Events
Charting the Uncharted: The (Un)Intended Consequences of Oil Sanctions and Dark Shipping
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109
The Heterogeneous Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from U.S. Army Reenlistment Decisions
Stephen P. Ryan (Washington University in St. Louis)
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Inefficiencies in Local Infrastructure: Evidence from Drinking Water in California
Pierre Bodéré (Yale University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Potential Outcome Modeling and Estimation in DiD Designs with Staggered Treatments
Siddhartha Chib (Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Dissertation Defense: Essays on Empirical Search and Matching
Lin, Jiangheng
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Estimation and Inference for Cointegrated Systems of Multi-Factor Production Functions: Modelling the Joint Behavior of GDP and Emissions
Martin Wagner (University of Klagenfurt and Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
A Dynamic Model of Academic Performance: Syllabus Design and Student Achievement
Martin Luccioni (Washington University in St. Louis)
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Dissertation Proposal: "Essays in Applied Microeconomics"
Kiara (Ji Hyun) Kim
Seigle Hall, Room 348
The Benefits from Bundling Demand in K-12 Broadband Procurement
Charles Murry (University of Michigan)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Dissertation Proposal: "Uncertainty and Macroeconomics"
Yingrui (Stefan) Song
ZOOM
Causal Inference under Interference through Designed Markets
Evan Munro (University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Christopher Walters (University of Chicago)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Temptation and Persuasion
Alex Jakobsen (Northwestern University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
POSTPONED to 2/23/26: Balancing Flexibility and Interpretability: A Conditional Linear Model Estimation via Random Forest
Marcelo C. Medeiros (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Semiparametric Learning of Integral Functionals on Submanifolds
Xiaohong Chen (Yale University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Limor Golan - November 24
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Dissertation Proposal: " Essays in Macroeconomics"
Nemoto Hiroyuki
Cognition in Preferences and Choice
Maria Betto (Johns Hopkins University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Testing Exclusion and Shape Restrictions in Potential Outcome Models
Hiroaki Kaido (Boston University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Dissertation Proposal: "Essays on Health Economics"
Chang Elvis
Seigle Hall, Room 301
Practice Job Market : "The Protest Dilemma: The Effect of Threat of War in Sustaining Non-Democratic Regimes"
Mate, Malashkhia
Seigle Hall, Room 348
St. Louis Fed-WashU Macroeconomics Conference
Co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis
Hosts: Francisco Buera, Julian Kozlowski, Hannah Rubinton, and Yongseok Shin
Hosts: Francisco Buera, Julian Kozlowski, Hannah Rubinton, and Yongseok Shin
11/13/25 at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; 2nd Floor Balbach Room | 11/14/25 at Washington University in St. Louis; Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109
Dissertation Proposal - “Topics in Labor Economics”
Matthew Murphy
Seigle Hall, Room 305
Dissertation Defense: Essays in Financial Economics and Banking - Marcos Correa
Marcos Correa will defend his dissertation titled “Essays in Financial Economics and Banking.” Open to the university community.
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Ranking Inference Based on Multiway Comparisons
Mengxin Yu (Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Ismael Mourifie - November 10
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Dissertation Proposal - "Essays in Labor Economics"
Rana Mohie El din
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Practice Job Market : "Self-Presentation"
Stella Papadokonstantaki
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Competitive Sequential Screening
Jan Knoepfle (Queen Mary University of London)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Practice Job Market: "Consumer Choice in Illinois Prison Commissaries."
Luke Brinkman
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Identifying Treatment and Spillover Effects Using Exposure Contrasts
Michael Leung (UCSC)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Practice Job Market: "The Role of Wait Time Disclosures in Public Housing Allocation: Evidence from Seattle".
Lin, Jiangheng
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Attention Holdup
Francesco Fabbri (UC Berkeley)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Inverting Estimating Equations for Causal Inference on Quantiles
Chao Cheng (Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Kevin Lang - October 27th
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Practice Job Market: " When Perception Meets Reality: Ability Gaps, Belief Updating, and Track Choice in High School Transitions"
Huang Hsuan-Hua
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Practice Job Market: ''Worker Learning and Management''
Dain Lee
Seigle Hall, 301
Prison Peer Effects and the Public Safety Tradeoff
Aurelie Ouss (University of Pennsylvania)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
TBA
Julia Salmi (Hanken School of Economics)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Inference for Two-Stage Extremum Estimators
Aristide Houndetoungan (Université Laval)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Practice Job Market: “Bargaining Shocks and the Macroeconomy: A Narrative Approach.”
Gonzalez, Alejandro
Seigle Hall, Room 348
20th Economics Graduate Students’ Conference
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall
Practice Job Market: "Complementarity and the Amplification of Financial Frictions”.
Alacorn Gaspar
Seigle Hall, Room 306
Practice Job Market: "Informality, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereign Default"
Sihyun Kim
Seigle Hall, Room 306
Robust Aggregation of Correlated Information
Xiao Lin (University of Pennsylvania)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar -Basit Zafar - October 13th
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Dissertation Proposal: "Essays on the Economics of Criminal Justice"
Hannah O'Neil
Seigle Hall, Room 348
St. Louis Fed-WashU Human Capital Conference
Co-sponsors: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Washington University in St. Louis
Hosts: Oksana Leukhina and Guillaume Vandenbroucke (St. Louis Fed) and Yongseok Shin (WashU)
Hosts: Oksana Leukhina and Guillaume Vandenbroucke (St. Louis Fed) and Yongseok Shin (WashU)
10/9/25 at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank; Balbach Room | 10/10/25 at Washington University in St. Louis; Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109
Macroeconomics Mini-Conference
Hosts: Paco Buera, Philipp Grübener, and Yongseok Shin
Conference: Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109 | Lunch: Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 106
Connecting Common Ratio and Common Consequence Preferences
Charles Sprenger (Caltech)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
The Past, Present, and Future of the Federal Reserve
Join us for a special event featuring a conversation among three distinguished leaders of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Together, they will explore the evolving role of the Federal Reserve in the U.S. economy, drawing on decades of leadership and experience at the St. Louis Fed. This event is co-sponsored by the Purdue University Mitch Daniels School of Business.
Graham Chapel, Danforth University Campus | Washington University in St. Louis
Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Brent Hickman - September 29
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Mixology: Order Flow Segmentation Design
Josh Mollner (Northwestern University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Economics Department Showcase - Arts & Sciences WOWS Fall Series
Virtual | Zoom
An Axiomatic Model of Cognitive Dissonance
Yuzhao Yang (Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Work, Families, and Public Policy Seminar - Yana Gallen - September 15
Seigle Hall, Room 348
The Future of Civic Education and Universities
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Robert Doar will offer brief opening remarks and then join a conversation with AEI Senior Fellow Benjamin Storey and Weidenbaum Center Director Andrew Reeves. Together, they will explore how universities can cultivate civic knowledge in ways that foster viewpoint diversity, protect free speech, and prepare students to engage across profound political and social differences. A reception will follow the event.
Emerson Auditorium, Room 110, Knight Hall, Danforth University Campus | Washington University in St. Louis
TBA
Barbara Biasi (Yale University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 348
Dissertation Proposal: Essays in Financial Economics and Banking
Dissertation proposal presentation by Marcos Correa Maldonado
Seigle Hall, Room 348
Dissertation Defense: Essays on Macroeconomics - Masaki Tanaka
Masaki Tanaka will defend his dissertation titled “Essays on Macroeconomics.” Open to the university community.
Seigle Hall, Room 306
From Anchors to Hierarchies: Identifying Orders of Reasoning in Games
Amanda Friedenberg (University of Michigan)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models
Shakeeb Khan (Boston College)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
The Source of Athlete Admission Preferences: A Structural Analysis of University Athletic Offerings
Tyler Ransom (University of Oklahoma)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Distributional welfare analysis for latent utility models
Emerson Melo (Indiana University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Dissertation Defense: "Essays in Matching Markets"
Laura Hurtado Moreno
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
CANCELLED: Dynamic Evidence Disclosure: Delay the Good to Accelerate the Bad
Jan Knoepfle (Queen Mary University of London)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Dissertation Defense: "Essays on Experimental Economics and Microeconomic Theory"
Shih-Wen Liu
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 109 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Physician Location and Training after Dobbs
Cecilia Diaz Campo (Washington University in St. Louis)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Dissertation Defense: "Essays in International Macroeconomics and Sovereign Default"
Joao Hernandez Calderon
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Dissertation Defense: "Essays on Financial Economics and Macroeconomics"
Leifei Lyu
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 306 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Identifying Restrictions on the Random Utility Model
Christopher Turansick (Bocconi University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Dissertation Defense: "Topics in Macroeconomics"
Manuel Garcia
Zoom | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Dissertation Defense: "Essays in Monetary Economics and Financial Frictions"
Martin Arazi
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 306 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Dissertation Defense: "Essays on Monetary Economics"
Joseph Kachovec
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 306 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Dissertation Defense: "Essays on Macroeconomic Policy and Frictions: Optimal Taxation, Liquidity Traps, and Structural Change"
Siyu Chen
Harry and Susan Hall 301 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Property rights inmulti-centered organ exchanged
Özgün Ekici (Ozyegin University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Dissertation Defense: "Essays on Macroeconomic Growth in an Open Economy’"
Minyoung Song
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Dissertation Defense: "Industry Structure and the Macroeconomy"
Filip Milosavljevic
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)
Optimal Long-Term Executive Contracts
Robert A. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Job Search and Mobility Over the Life-Cycle: Implications for the Child Penalty
Hanna Wang (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
St. Louis Fed-WashU-LAEF Macro-Labor Conference
Co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Washington University in St. Louis, and LAEF
Organizers: Alexander Bick, Serdar Birinci, Victoria Gregory, and Serdar Ozkan, and Yongseok Shin
Organizers: Alexander Bick, Serdar Birinci, Victoria Gregory, and Serdar Ozkan, and Yongseok Shin
Thursday, March 27, 2025: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, 6th floor River Room | Friday, March 28, 2025: WashU - Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 301
CANCELLED
Julia Salmi (Hanken School of Economics)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Robust Identification in Repeated Games: An Empirical Approach to Algorithmic Competition
Cristina Gualdani (Queen Mary University of London)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
The Effects of Cousin Marriage on Gender Attitudes
Seema Kayachandran (Princeton University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Dissertation Proposal: "Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization"
Gengbin Piao
HARRY AND SUSAN SEIGLE HALL 303
Macro-Development Mini Conference
Hosts: Paco Buera (WashU), Yongseok Shin (WashU), and Jeremy Majerovitz (University of Notre Dame)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 301
Business Organization Forms and Taxation of High Income Professionals
Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
CANCELLED
David Deming (Harvard University)
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 348
Undergraduate Major Welcome and Pasta Dinner
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 303
Dissertation Defense: "Essays on International and Development Economics"
Yu-Chen Liu
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall 306 | Zoom Virtual Meeting Room (See Description)