American University of Beirut

Past Events and Seminars

​​SEMINARS 2023-2024

Speaker: ​Zeina Hasna, International Monetary Fund
Seminar Title: The Grass Is Actually Greener On The Other Side: Evidence on Green Multipliers From The United States

Speaker:Theocharis Grigoriadis, Freie Universitat Berlin
Seminar Title: ​Industrialization and Conflict in the Russian Empire

Speaker: ​Mohamad Adhami, Stanford University
Seminar Title: ​Population and Welfare: the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number

Speaker:El Hadi Caoui, University of Toronto (virtual)
Seminar Title: ​Network Diversity, Market Entry and the Global Internet Backbone

Speaker: Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich (virtual)
Seminar Title: The Race Between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile


Speaker: Mahrad Sharifvaghefi, University of Pittsburgh (virtual)
Seminar Title: Optimal Invariant Tests in an Instrumental Variables Regression with Heteroskedastic and Autocorrelated Errors

Speaker: ​Mohamed Saleh, London School of Economics​
Seminar Title: The Glorious Revolution that Wasn't: Rural Elite Conflict and Demand for Democratization

​​SEMINARS 2018-2019

Speaker: Daniel Fernandez Kranz​ ​, IE Business School
Seminar Title: The Impact of Equal Parenting Time Laws on Family and Child Outcomes

Speaker: Dr.Peter Kuhn​ ​, University of California, Santa Barbara
Seminar Title: Gender Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process: Evidence from China

Speaker: Dr.Sebastian Calonico​ ​, University of Miami
Seminar Title: Optimal Bandwidth Choice for Robust Bias Corrected Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs

Speaker: Dr.Mehmet Soytas​ ​, Ozyegin University 
Seminar Title: What is the Source of the Inter-generational Correlation in Earnings?

Speaker: Dr.Lynda Khalaf ​, Carleton University
Seminar Title: Alpha and Risk Analysis of Catastrophe Bond Mutual Funds using Exact, Simultaneous Inference Methods

Speaker: Dr.Zeina Hasna ​, University of Cambridge 
Seminar Title: Climate change mitigation policies: Distributional and allocative effects

Speaker: Dr.Ugo Panizza ​, Graduate Institute of Geneva and CEPR​
Seminar Title: Local Crowding Out in China

Speaker: Dr.Sevcan Yesiltas​​​ ​, Koc University
Seminar Title: The Collateral Channel: Real Estate Prices and Firm Leverage

Speaker: Dr.Richard Dunn​​ ​, Associate Professor at University of Connecticut
Seminar Title: How dangerous are drinking drivers now? Replicating and updating Levitt and Porter

Speaker: Dr.Arabinda Basistha​​ ​, Assistant Professor at West Virginia University
Seminar Title: Monetary Shock Measurement and Stock Markets

Speaker: Dr.Jamal Haidar​​ ​, Post-Doc at Harvard University​​
Seminar Title: Do Political Connections Reduce Job Creation? Evidence from Lebanon

Speaker: Dr.Julian Reiss​ ​, Durham University
Seminar Title: The Perennial Methodenstreit: Observation, First Principles, and Economics

Speaker: Dr.Mohammed Alloush ​, University of California, Santa Barbara
Seminar Title: Income, Psychological Well-being, and the Dynamics of Poverty: Evidence from South Africa

Speaker: Dr.Anastasia Girshina ​, Swedish House of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics
Seminar Title: Peer effects in stock market participation: Evidence from immigration

​​​​SEMINARS 2016-2017

Speaker: Dr.Faisal Ahmad ​, Princeton University
Seminar Title: Remitting the Democratic Deficit

Speaker: Dr.Nizar Hariri ​, Saint Joseph University
Seminar Title: Soft dualism in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments: The body the person and the non-egoistic personal body

Speaker: Dr.Lydia Assouad ​, Paris School of Economics (PSE)
Seminar Title: Income inequality in Lebanon

Speaker: Dr.Ayhab Saad ​, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Seminar Title: Schooling choice responses to labor market shocks: Evidence from a natural experiment

Speaker: Dr.Marcella Nicolini ​, University of Pavia
Seminar Title: Understanding dynamic conditional correlations between oil and non-energy commodity markets

Speaker: Dr.Mark Hoekstra ​, Texas A&M University
Seminar Title: Workshop: Illegal immigration, State Law and Deterrence

Speaker: Dr.Julien Grenet ​, Paris School of Economics (PSE)
Seminar Title: Workshop: Incidence of Social Security Contributions: Evidence from France

Speaker: Dr.Valentina Calderon Mejia ​, First Economics Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic and So¬cial Commission for Western Asia  (ESCWA)
Seminar Title: Labor Market Effects of Migration-Related Supply Shocks: Evidence from Internal Refugees in Colombia

Speaker: Dr.Patrick Mardini ​, Balamand University
Seminar Title: Workshop: Free Banking in Belgium, 1835-1850

Speaker: Dr.Erik Angner ​, George Mason University 
Seminar Title: Workshop: Welfare economics after behavioral economics

Speaker: Dr.Erik Angner ​, George Mason University 
Seminar Title: The comparability of utility across two individuals

Speaker: Dr.Javier Birchenall ​, University of California Santa Barbara
Seminar Title: A Theory of Disease and Development

Speaker: Dr.Mark Hoekstra ​, Texas A&M University
Seminar Title: Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending

Speaker: Dr. Julien Grenet, Paris School of Economics and CNRS
Seminar Title: Incidence of Social Security Contributions: Evidence from France

Speaker: Dr. Mark Hoekstra, Texas A&M
Seminar Title: Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence

Speaker: Dr. Nasreen Nawaz, Michigan State University.
Job Talk: A Dynamic Market Model in Continuous Time Framework: Micro Level Foundation Stone to Explain Macroeconomic Fluctuations.

Speaker: Dr. Sara El Joueidi, University of L uxembourg.
Job Talk: Regulation and Rational Banking Bubbles
in Infinite Horizon.

Speaker: Dr. Travers Child, Vrije Universiteit.
Job Talk: We Don’t Need No Education:Reconstruction and Conflict across Afghanistan.

Speaker:Dr. Marcella Nicolini, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pavia
Seminar Title: Understanding dynamic conditional correlations between oil and non-energy commodity markets.

Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Aragon, European University Institute.
Job Talk: Banks versus Zombies.

Speaker: Dr. Yasin Onder, Central Bank of Turkey.
Job Talk: Sovereign Default Risk, Firm Investment and Debt Overhang.

Speaker: Dr. Zouheir El Sahli, University of Nottingham
Job Talk: The impact of technological change on new trade: evidence from the container revolution

Speaker: Dr. Halit Akturk, Assistant Professor of Economics at Meliksah University.
Job Talk: Measuring Inflation Pressure for Turkey During a Transition to Inflation Targeting. 

SEMINARS 2014-2015

Speaker: Walid Maroush (LAU)
Seminar Title: Adaptation to climate change: how does heterogeneity in adaptation costs affect climate coallitions? 

Speaker: Pierre Mouganie (Texas A&M).
Seminar Title: Conscription & the return to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity.

Speaker: Bilal Malaeb (Manchester).
Seminar Title: Consumption smoothing and risk coping mechanisms in India.

Speaker: Marcin Piatowski (World Bank).
Seminar Title: Poland's new golden age.

Speaker: Steven McNamara (AUB).
Seminar Title: Are stock markets "Rigged"? High frequency trading and the question of financial market fairness.

Speaker: 1/Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
Speaker: 2/ Adam Pellillo, International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University.
Seminar Title: Tutorial presentation by Economena Analytics.

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