Seminars
Concordia regularly hosts research seminars showcasing cutting-edge work by economists and scholars from around the world.
These events are open to faculty, graduate students, and researchers from Concordia and universities across Montreal and beyond, fostering a vibrant and collaborative research community.
The information on this page is updated every Monday.
Please verify the information prior to coming on campus for an event, as times or location might change.
Upcoming seminars
Friday, October 23 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Nick Pretnar (University of Austin Texas and LAEF at UC Santa Barbara)
Elder Care in General Equilibrium (with F. Kydland & T. Kydland)
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting host: Heejeong Kim
How does the U.S. economy allocate resources to care for an aging population, what forces lie behind the rise in the relative price of formal nursing care, and how do aging and dependency shape aggregate outcomes along the transition? We answer these questions in a two-sector general-equilibrium overlapping-generations model in which a monopolistically competitive nursing sector supplies formal care, retirees face survival and dependency risk, and working-age households provide informal care. Calibrated to U.S. national accounts and time-use data over 1990--2020, the model attributes the rise in formal-care prices mainly to slow (negative) nursing productivity growth, partially offset by falling markups, with demography playing little direct role. Declining age-specific dependency has largely offset population aging, raising caregivers per dependent and shifting the care mix towards informal care. Looking ahead, the path of relative prices and the reallocation of labor and capital hinge on nursing productivity growth, while long-run output depends primarily on non-nursing productivity and the size of new, entering cohorts.
Friday, October 30 at 9:15 a.m.
Virtual seminar series in information economics and experiments (VIEE)
Junze Sun (Wuhan University)
On competition in linear persuasion games
Location: virtual, please contact one of the meeting hosts for information about meeting details.
Meeting co-hosts: Ming Li and Huan Xie
Friday, October 30 at 10:45 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Bhavook Bhardwaj (Université de Montréal)
Choice via Ownership Rules (joint with M. Licalzi)
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting hosts: Dipjyoti Majumdar and Szilvia Pápai
We consider a model of collective choice where for each menu there is an agent who is accountable for the choice made. Specifically, we assume that two agents (individuals or selves) allocate choice tasks over different menus using an ownership rule: the owner of the decision over a menu picks what maximizes his own preference and is accountable for it. We characterize three distinct ownership rules under different (nested) choice environments.
Friday, November 6 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Minjoon Lee (Carleton University)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting host: Heejeong Kim
Tuesday, November 17 at 10:30 a.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Marek Pycia (University of Zurich)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1154
Meeting host: Szilvia Pápai
Friday, November 27 at 3:30 p.m.
Economics Seminar Series
Yuki Tamura (CREST - École Polytechnique)
Title TBA
Location: 1455 De Maisonneuve W., 11th floor, room H-1145
Meeting host: Szilvia Pápai
Friday, December 11 at 9:15 a.m.
Virtual seminar series in information economics and experiments (VIEE)
Noémie Cabau (Corvinus University)
Title TBA
Location: virtual, please contact one of the meeting co-hosts for information about meeting details.
Meeting co-hosts: Ming Li and Huan Xie