Fall 2023 Wednesday Seminar Series

The Seminar Series, now over 35 years old, invites scholars from around the world to share their work in a formal lecture, which is followed by a rigorous question and answer session.

The Fall 2023 seminars will be hosted by Dr. Jonathan Schultz and coordinated by Lisa Hill-Corley and Kashiff A. Thompson. All papers made available will be posted on this site for downloading. For more information, call the Center: (703) 993-2316.

In person seminars will be held from 12 - 1:15pm in Carow Hall, which is on George Mason University's Fairfax campus. A light lunch for seminar participants will be available at 11:45 am. 

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Fall 2023 Schedule of Speakers:

9/6

Juan Felipe Riano, Georgetown University

Presentation: Bureaucratic Nepotism

9/13

Kevin Grier, Texas Tech University

Presentation: Brothers from another mother? The causal effect of German reunification on economic freedom

9/20

Arkadev Ghosh, Duke University

Presentation: Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India

9/27

Tarek Alexander Hassan, Boston University

Presentation: The Diffusion of Disruptive Technologies

10/4

Volha Charnysh, MIT

Presentation: Migration and Social Change: Evidence from post-WWII displacement in Germany

10/11

Martin Fizbein, Boston University

Presentation: America's Frontier Culture: A Particular(istic) Individualism

10/18

Petra Moser, NYU

Presentation: Shell Shock: How Exposure to WWII Affected American Scientists

10/25

Sylvain Catherine, University of Pennsylvania

Presentation: Interest-rate risk and household portfolios

11/1

No seminar. Instead, the James Buchanan and Vernon Smith Seminar featuring Joe Henrich on 11/2. 

11/8

Matt Lowe, University of British Columbia

Presentation: Virtue Signals

11/15

Victor Gay, Toulouse School of Economics

Presentation: Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline

11/22

No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break

11/29

Kerem Coşar, University of Virginia

Presentation: Rise and Fall of Empires in the Industrial Era: A Story of Shifting Comparative Advantages