| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
| Jan 23th | “A Prospective Analysis of Brazil and the U.S. Biofuel Trade” | Hector Nunez |
| Jan 30st | “The Development of the Brazilian Amazon Region and Greenhouse Gases Emission: a Dilemma to be Faced!” | Joaquim Guilhoto |
| Feb 6th | “Quantile regression with summary statistics: some application to housing affordability” | Jiaying Gu |
| Feb 13th | “Land Use Modeling and Evaluation of the Economic Effects of Climate Change, Agricultural Productivity and Biofuels in Brazil” | Weslem Rodrigues Faria |
| Feb 20th | “Collective Action Cost – The case of Japanese condominium Law” | Taisuke Sadayuki |
| Feb 27th | “Personal Charisma or the Economy? Macroeconomic Indicators of Presidential Approval Ratings in Brazil” | Sergio Sakurai |
| Feb 27th | “Physical transportation investment, Where?” | Carolina Cosculluela |
| Mar 5th | “Urban Structure and Agglomeration Economies in US Metropolitan Areas” | Sung-won Lee |
| Mar 12th | “Economic Impacts of Critical Access Hospitals on Rural Illinois” | Cristina Miller |
| Mar 14th | “Social networks and trade of services: modeling interregional tourism flows with spatial and network autocorrelation effects” | Tamara de la Mata |
| Mar 14th | “Geographical interregional trade frictions: An approach based on municipal data” | Jorge Díaz Lanchas |
| Mar 26th | “A Study of Housing Market in Champaign-Urbana: The choice of residence under uncertainty in campus town” | Taisuke Sadayuki and Esteban Lopez |
| Mar 26th | “The Macroeconomic Impact of Housing Investment” | Carolina Cosculluela |
| Apr 2nd | “Emergence of Global Production Networks and Disruptions of Supply Chains by Disasters” | Norihiko Yamano |
| Apr 9th | “Defence Spending in Developed Countries: A Causality Analysis Using Panel Data “ | Metehan Yılgör |
| Apr 9th | “The World Financial Crisis in Brazil: Industry and Regional Economic Impacts” | Admir Betarelli |
| Apr 16th | “Large data sets and the challenge to estimate spatial models. An application for land use in Chicago “ | María Edisa Soppelsa |
| Apr 23rd | “Revisiting the border effect in Europe and Spain: New results using region-to-region intra-national and inter-national flows” | Nuria Gallego |
| Apr 30th | “Ports and Regional Economic Performance Across US Counties” | Andi Irawan |
| Apr 30th | “High-Skilled Foreign Labor in US” | Xiaoying Xie |
| May 2nd | “Regional Economic Analysis of Internal Migration in Mexico” | Rafael Garduno |
| May 7th | “Estimating Housing Price Indices in Space and Time for 10 Illinois Metropolitan Statistics Areas” | Minshu Du and Esteban López |
| May 14th | “The intersectoral redirecting of the foreign direct investment in the Brazilian Industry: impacts on the national economy” | Breno Augusto da Silva e Silva |
| May 15th | “Ex Ante Real Returns in the Brazilian Treasury Market” | Dr. Alex Luiz Ferreira |
| May 15th | “The Role of Remoteness in explaining Human capital and Economic Development levels: The case of Romania” | Jesús López-Rodríguez |
| May 21th | “Land Use Policy Reform in China from 1978” | Xingxin Ren |
| May 21th | “Stigmatized Property!!” | Taisuke Sadayuki |