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Grad Brownbag: Elliot Spears

Part of the MTI Grad Student Brownbags. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM.

Economics Faculty Meeting

Faculty Meeting Agenda Faculty achievements , Chair announcements and updates , Dean’s Office Announcements , Other Department Announcements , Faculty Announcements , Discussion topics , Committee Updates , Graduate Committee , Undergraduate Committee , Diversity , Other faculty items. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 12:20 PM – 1:20 PM.

Grad Student Brownbag: Wei Li

Part of the Microeconomics Grad Student Brownbags Title: "Targeting Persistence: Optimal Intervention in Opinion Networks" with Philip Solimine.  Abstract: We study optimal intervention in an opinion network when a decision-maker commits ex ante to a fixed exposure rule and adjusts only broadcast intensity over time. This creates an intertemporal friction: the exposure rule shapes not only current opinions but how disagreement propagates, so its value depends on the future disagreement it creates and dampens. Centrality-based targeting is optimal in benchmark cases where disagreement is transient, as in fully connected or uniform opinion-leader networks. This conclusion is knife-edge: arbitrarily small perturbations to the network or initial opinions break centrality optimality. More generally, optimal targeting shifts toward slow-moving disagreement and can place less weight on highly central or extreme agents. We illustrate these implications using Facebook networks and state-level climate-change… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM.

Seminar: Treb Allen (Dartmouth)

Part of the Macroeconomics and International Economics Seminars Series, Hosted by Brian Greaney Title: The Economic Geography of American Slavery Abstract: What would the antebellum American economy have looked like without slavery? Using new micro-data on the U.S. economy in 1860, we document that where free and enslaved workers live and how much they earn correlates strongly—but differently—with geographic proxies for agricultural productivity, disease, and ease of slave escape. To explain these patterns, we build a quantitative spatial model of slavery, where slaveholders coerce enslaved workers into supplying more labor, capture the proceeds of their labor, and assign them to sectors and occupations that maximize owner profits rather than worker welfare. Combining theory and data, we then quantify how dismantling the institution of slavery affected the spatial economy. We find that the economic impacts of emancipation are substantial, generating welfare gains for the enslaved of roughly 1,200%, while… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Brownbag: Yebeen Lee

Part of the Econometrics Brownbag Series. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Seminar: Matt Jackson (Stanford)

Part of the Microeconomics Seminar Series, Hosted by Xu Tan Title: AI Behavioral Science: Using Games to Study AI and AI to Study Human Behavior Abstract: By varying prompts to a large language model, we can elicit the range of human behaviors in a variety of different scenarios in classic economic games. By analyzing which prompts elicit which behaviors, we can categorize and compare different strategic situations, which can also help provide insight into what different economic scenarios induce people to think about, and how complex human behavior is. We discuss how this provides a step towards a non-standard method of inferring (deciphering) the motivations and complexity behind human  behaviors. We also show how this deciphering process can be used to categorize differences in the behavioral tendencies of different populations. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Friday, April 24, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Seminar: Dean Karlan (Northwestern Kellogg)

Part of the Joint Seminars in Development Economics Series, hosted by Jason Kerwin. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Monday, April 27, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.

Grad Student Brownbags: Yuhan Lee

Part of the MTI Grad Student Brownbags. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM.

Faculty Brownbag: Brian Greaney

Title: TBD. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 12:20 PM – 1:20 PM.

Seminar: Ashesh Rambaschan (MIT)

Part of the Econometrics Seminar Series, Hosted by Jackson Bunting Title: From Next-Token Prediction to Automata Induction: Theory and Application. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.

2026 SBIES NSF/CEME Conference

The 2026 SBIES NSF/CEME Conference is co-hosted by the UW Department of Economics and WashU Olin Business School.  The 2026 SBIES will be held from May 1 – 2, 2026, in the Denny Room of Oak Hall, on the University of Washington Seattle campus.  The conference will feature presentations by emerging and established researchers working on the theory and applications of Bayesian methods in econometrics and statistics.  For more information and to register, please visit: https://event.olin.washu.edu/sbies. Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Oak Hall (OAK). Campus room: Denny Room. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Friday, May 1, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

Seminar: Akhil Vohra (University of Exeter)

Part of the Microeconomics Seminar Series, hosted by Xu Tan Title: Matching with Costly Interviews Abstract: In many matching markets, matches are formed after costly interviews. We develop a model of worker-firm matching that incorporates this feature, and examine the trade-offs between a centralized matching system and a decentralized one, where matches can occur at any time. Centralized matching with a common offer date leads to coordination issues in the interview stage. Each firm must incorporate the externality imposed by the interview decisions of the firms ranked above it when deciding on its interview list. As a result, low-ranked firms often fail to interview some candidates that ex-ante have high match quality. In a decentralized setting with exploding offers, the set of candidates who receive interviews differs, but the welfare generated is weakly greater than in the centralized setting. Total welfare is highest with a system that ensures firms interview and match in sequence, clearing the… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Friday, May 1, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

2026 SBIES NSF/CEME Conference

The 2026 SBIES NSF/CEME Conference is co-hosted by the UW Department of Economics and WashU Olin Business School.  The 2026 SBIES will be held from May 1 – 2, 2026, in the Denny Room of Oak Hall, on the University of Washington Seattle campus.  The conference will feature presentations by emerging and established researchers working on the theory and applications of Bayesian methods in econometrics and statistics.  For more information and to register, please visit: https://event.olin.washu.edu/sbies. Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus location: Oak Hall (OAK). Campus room: Denny Room. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Saturday, May 2, 2026, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

Seminar: Craig McIntosh (UC San Diego)

Part of the Joint Seminars in Development Economics Series, hosted by Isabelle Cohen Title: “Structured Payment in Pawnshop Borrowing: Mandates vs.Choice” Authors: Frank Di Traglia, Craig McIntosh, Isaac Meza, Joyce Sadka, and Enrique Serra   Abstract: Pawn loans offer borrowers a substantial degree of repayment flexibility in exchange for a harsh penalty in case of default: forfeit of collateral worth more than the loan amount along with any payments made toward recovery. Using a large RCT conducted in Mexico City, we document key stylized facts about pawn lending and explore the merits of replacing flexibility with structured repayment contracts in this important but understudied form of credit. Our novel experimental design includes a mandatory frequent-payments arm, a (status quo) flexible payments arm, and a choice between the two.  This design point-identifies not only the average treatment effect, but also the effects of treatment on the treated and the untreated along with the average selection on… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Monday, May 4, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.

Grad Student Brownbag: Sangwoo Park

Part of the MTI Grad Student Brownbags. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM.

Faculty Meeting

Faculty Meeting Agenda Faculty achievements , Chair announcements and updates , Dean’s Office Announcements , Other Department Announcements , Faculty Announcements , Discussion topics , Committee Updates , Graduate Committee , Undergraduate Committee , Diversity , Other faculty items. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/6503585586. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 12:20 PM – 1:20 PM.

Seminar: Ezra Oberfield (Cornell)

Part of the Macroeconomics and International Economics Seminars Series, Hosted by Brian Greaney Title: Grafting and Grading in the Market for Plants Abstract: Using the universe of U.S. employer establishments from 1978 to 2022, we study grafting in the market for plants. Grafting occurs when firms buy existing plants in an industry rather than building them de novo. We document several new facts about this market. Grafting is quantitatively important, particularly for large and multi-plant firms. A substantial share of grafting occurs via partial acquisitions in which the buyer selects specific plants. Grafted plants are larger, more likely to survive than de novo plants, and grow faster post-acquisition. We find that grafting exhibits strong positive assortative matching in employment sizes across firms and between plants and acquiring firms. To interpret these patterns, we develop a tractable dynamic equilibrium theory of this market for selected plants, in which firms invest in plant creation and also… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Brownbag: Ruiyuan Shi

Part of the Econometrics Brownbag Series. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Economics Prospective Student Info Session

Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used. In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW. This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783 Meeting ID: 983 4197 3783 --- One tap mobile +12532158782,98341973783# US (Tacoma) +12063379723,98341973783# US (Seattle). Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Thursday, May 7, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. For more info visit washington.zoom.us.

Seminar: Arijit Mukherjee (MSU)

Part of the Microeconomics Seminar Series, hosted by Fahad Khalil. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Friday, May 8, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Grad Student Brownbag: Yufei Liao

Part of the MTI Grad Student Brownbags. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM.

Faculty Brownbag: Ali Karimirad

Title: TBD. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 12:20 PM – 1:20 PM.

Seminar: Felix Tintelnot (Duke)

Part of the Macroeconomics and International Economics Seminars Series, Hosted by Brian Greaney. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Brownbag: Will Zhang

Part of the Econometrics Brownbag Series. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Seminar: Seollee Park (WSU)

Part of the Joint Seminars in Development Economics Series, hosted by Rachel Heath. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Monday, May 18, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.

CANCELLED - Grad Student Brownbag: Alfredo Effendy

Part of the MTI Grad Student Brownbags. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Academics. Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM.

Dept of ECON Mentorship Program End of Year Celebration

Department of Economics Mentorship Program End of Year Celebration. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Kane Hall (KNE). Campus room: KNE 225. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM.

Seminar: Joshua Chan (Purdue)

Part of the Econometrics Seminar Series, Hosted by Jackson Bunting Title: Measuring US State Business Cycles with Mixed-Frequency Matrix Models Abstract: Large matrix-valued time-series datasets are increasingly common in economics and finance, but they are often subject to complex missing-data patterns, including unbalanced panels and mixed-frequency observations. We develop an exact Bayesian framework for mixed-frequency matrix autoregressions that addresses these challenges in a coherent and computationally tractable way. The framework treats missing values as latent variables, accommodates temporal aggregation constraints, and exploits matrix structure to scale to high-dimensional settings. We illustrate the methodology using US state-level macroeconomic data and produce model-based estimates of state GDP from 1988 onward based on a dataset of more than 400 time series. These data include quarterly state GDP from 2005, annual state GDP from 1997, and a wide range of state-level macroeconomic indicators… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.

Economics Prospective Student Info Session

Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used. In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW. This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting https://washington.zoom.us/j/92985892517 Meeting ID: 929 8589 2517 --- One tap mobile +12532158782,92985892517# US (Tacoma) +12063379723,92985892517# US (Seattle). Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92985892517. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Thursday, May 21, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. For more info visit washington.zoom.us.

Grad Student Brownbag: Yizhan Huang

Part of the MTI Grad Student Brownbags. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM.

Seminar: Manisha Shah (UC Berkeley)

Part of the Joint Seminars in Development Economics Series, hosted by Jason Kerwin. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Monday, June 1, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.

Grad Student Brownbag: Saya Ikegawa

Part of the MTI Grad Student Brownbags. Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online via zoom. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 11:10 AM – 12:10 PM. Zoom.

Faculty Meeting

Faculty Meeting Agenda Faculty achievements , Chair announcements and updates , Dean’s Office Announcements , Other Department Announcements , Faculty Announcements , Discussion topics , Committee Updates , Graduate Committee , Undergraduate Committee , Diversity , Other faculty items. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/6503585586. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 12:20 PM – 1:20 PM.

Seminar: Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale)

Part of the Macroeconomics and International Economics Seminars Series, Hosted by Brian Greaney. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM.

Seminar: Junnan He (Sciences Po)

Part of the Econometrics Seminar Series, Hosted by Jackson Bunting. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM.

Economics Prospective Student Info Session

Students who study economics learn to decode the systems that are a part of our everyday lives using models and a variety of social and economic data to analyze how decisions are made, and how limited resources are made, traded, and used. In this session, students will learn helpful information about the Department of Economics Undergraduate Program and its Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science majors. Students will also have an opportunity to meet with Department of Economics advisers, and get helpful tips on pursuing Economics as a major at the UW. This session will be offered online, via Zoom, at the following link:Join Zoom Meeting https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783 Meeting ID: 983 4197 3783 --- One tap mobile +12532158782,98341973783# US (Tacoma) +12063379723,98341973783# US (Seattle). Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98341973783. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Thursday, June 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM. For more info visit washington.zoom.us.

Seminar: Joel Watson (UC San Diego)

Part of the Microeconomics Seminar Series, Hosted by Xu Tan and Fahad Khalil. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM.

2026 Department of Economics Graduation Celebration

Please see the 2026 Department of Economics Graduation Celebration webpage for up-to-date information on the ceremony. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Campus room: HUB 211, Husky Union Building Ballroom. Accessibility Contact: econadv@uw.edu. Event Types: Ceremonies. Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.