Events

Sep 16

Labor Lunch, Corey White, UC Santa Barbara

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM North Hall 2212

Sep 20

Transfer Student Welcome Reception

The Department of Economics invites all new transfer students to attend a welcome reception on September 20th from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the North Hall Courtyard. This is a great opportunity to meet other transfer students as well as interact with department faculty, staff and students groups!

This event is invite only.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM North Hall Courtyard

Sep 23

Labor Lunch, Lester Lusher, UC Davis

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM North Hall 2212

Sep 23

Seminar, Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago

Title:
"Gasoline Price Uncertainty and the Design of Fuel Economy Standards"

Time:
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM North Hall 2111

Sep 26

Broom Seminar, Woutzer Botzen, VU Amsterdam

"Protecting Against Flood Disasters: Why Insurance and Risk Mitigation Are Complements"

Time: 1:00 - 2:30pm

For a complete list of Broom Center Seminar speakers please visit the Broom Center's website.

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM North Hall 2111

Sep 26

Seminar, Matan Tsur, University of Vienna

Title:
"Financial Contracts, Bargaining & Security Design"

Time:
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM North Hall 2111

Sep 28

Job Market Talk, Alex Wood-Doughty, UC Santa Barbara

Title:
"Do Employers Learn from Public, Subjective, Performance Reviews?"

Time:
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM North Hall 2111

Sep 30

Labor Lunch, Lucie Gadenne, Warwick

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM North Hall 2212

Oct 03

Job Market Talk, Brian Thomas, UC Santa Barbara

Time:
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM North Hall 2111

Oct 05

Job Market Talk, Conor Carney, UC Santa Barbara

Title:
"Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation: Evidence from Input Subsidies and Ethnic Favoritism In Malawi"

Time:
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM 2111 North Hall

Oct 07

Labor Lunch, Chris Severen, UC Santa Barbara

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM North Hall 2212

Oct 07

Seminar, Jonathan Kolstad, UC Berkeley

Title:
"Compensation or Information: Understanding the Role of Information Technology in Physician Response to Financial Incentives"
Time:
3:30 - 4:45 PM

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM North Hall 2111

Oct 07

Meet the Firms

This career fair-style, networking and recruiting event connects students with professionals and recruiters in the accounting profession. We host representatives from the Big Four, mid-size and regional firms. MTF brings approximately 500 students and over 35 firms under one roof. Firms in attendance are generally seeking to fill internship and full-time positions for third and fourth-year students, though all students are welcome to attend. The event will take place on October 7th, from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, at the Bacara Resort and Spa.

The Undergraduate Accounting Society has decided to make all student registration for Meet the Firms digital. Students can register and buy their tickets for Meet the Firm online at this link here.

For more information on Meet the Firms and other details, please visit our website.
or send an email to ucsbmtf@gmail.com.

5:00 PM - 8:00 PM The Bacara Resort & Spa

Oct 10

Broom Seminar, Siwei Cheng, NYU - Sociology

"Cohort Shifts in the Structure of Life-cycle Inequality: Methods, Findings, and Perspectives."

Time: 1:00 - 2:30pm

For a complete list of Broom Center Seminar speakers please visit the Broom Center's website.

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM North Hall 2111

Oct 10

Job Market Talk, Monica Harber Carney, UC Santa Barbara

Title:
"Mental Health Care and Birth Outcomes"

Time:
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM 2111 North Hall

Oct 12

Job Market Talk, Jenna Stearns, UC Santa Barbara

Title:
The Long-Run Effects of Wage Replacement and Job Protection: Evidence from Two Maternity Leave Reforms in Great Britain
Time:
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM 2111 North Hall

Oct 13

Fourth Annual Philip Babcock Memorial Undergraduate Lecture

The Philip Babcock Memorial Undergraduate Lecture was established at the University of California, Santa Barbara to honor the vibrant legacy of UCSB Professor Philip Babcock. The lecture seeks to expose our students and the community at large to the most intriguing applications of economics. Our speakers have been chosen to convey some of the joy Professor Babcock found in applying economics to the world.

Professor Babcock lived an extraordinary life. He joined our faculty in 2006 after obtaining his Ph.D. in Economics from UC San Diego in 2005. His areas of expertise included labor economics, time use, human capital, social dynamics, and networks. His recent scholarly publications have been cited and debated in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN - Anderson Cooper 360, The Economist, The Boston Globe, Mother Jones, Voice of America, and other media outlets. His interests and talents were wide-ranging; in addition to his important contributions as an economist, he also founded an engineering software company, worked as a freelance writer of film and episodic television, and in 2011 published a novel, Eyes of God, which was hailed as "both a tale of suspense that chronicles the fall of a dictatorship, and an exploration of suffering, loss, love, and raw human resilience." Professor Babcock’s exuberance for life, incredible courage in the face of illness and unwavering dedication to our campus and our students was an inspiration to all who knew him.

For our fourth annual lecture, Professor Dan Friedman from UC Santa Cruz will be the keynote speaker. Daniel Friedman joined the UCSC Economics faculty in 1985 after teaching at UCLA and UC Berkeley. He has broad research interests in applied economic theory, with emphasis on learning and evolution, laboratory experiments, and financial markets. The coauthor of five academic books, fourteen NSF grants, and roughly 100 research articles, he currently is studying a) strategic behavior in real time, and b) evolutionary dynamics of continuous strategies or traits.

This event is open to the public and free of charge. Reception immediately following.

The Loma Pelona Center is a multipurpose facility located on the west side of the main campus near Manzanita Village.

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Loma Pelona Center

Oct 14