Spring 2021 – Fridays
January 22, 9:00-10:00am
Ron Boschma, Professor at Utrecht University, The Netherlands: Complementary Inter-Regional Linkages and Smart Specialization: an Empirical Study on European Regions
Ariaster Chimeli, Professor at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil: Protecting the Rainforest? The Case of Mahogany Prohibition and Deforestation
January 29, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Klaus Hubacek, PhD. Professor at University of Groningen, The Netherlands Yuli Shan, Ph D. Researcher at University of Groningen, The Netherlands: The impacts of COVID-19 and fiscal stimuli on global emissions and the Paris Agreement
Kieran P.Donaghy PhD. Professor at Cornell University, USA: Implications for Regional Science of the ‘Rebuilding Macroeconomic Theory Project’
February 5, 12:00-1:00pm
Christa D. Court, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, USA: Estimating the Impacts of Natural Disasters on Production Agriculture
February 12, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Philip McCann, PhD. Professor at Sheffield University Management School, United Kingdom: Capital Shocks, Real Estate Risks and the Effects of the Global Financial Crisis in US Cities
Coro Chasco, PhD. Professor at Applied Economics Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain: Probit models for grouped-data migration flows: A theoretical note
February 19, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Norihiko Yamano, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), France: CO2 Emissions Embodied in International Trade and Domestic Final Demand using the Inter-Country Input-Output Database: Methodology, results and possible extensions
Willian Adamczyk, PhD student at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: Automation in the future of private and public sector employment in Brazil
March 5, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Joaquim Guilhoto, OECD and University of São Paulo: OECD Inter-Country Input-Output(ICIO) Tables and Associated Indicators: TiVA, TECO2, Tim.
Pedro Sayon, University of São Paulo: Boiling Hot! Economy-wide Impacts of Climate Change on Colombian Coffee Yields
March 19, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Cristina Sarasa, Unizar, Spain: Sectoral employment structure and gender inequaility: a global perspective
Andrea Caragliu, Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Who’s right, Weber of Glaeser?
March 26, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Stephan J. Goetz, PhD. Professor and Director, AESE Penn State and NERCRD: Modeling Spatial Supply Chains
April 9, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Vinicius Vale, PhD. Professor, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil: Brazilian exports and income distribution: an input-output analysis for 2002-2014
Karina Acosta Ordonez, PhD student at Cornell University. Visiting student at the Center for Spatial Data Science at Uchicago, USA: Small area estimation of multidimensional poverty: the case of Cambodia
April 16, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Fernando Perobelli, PhD. Professor, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil: Revisiting the structural interdependence: a comparative analysis for Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico
Mario Vale, PhD. University of Lisbon, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, and researcher at Centre of Geographical Studies: Institutions and new path development in peripheral regions
April 23, 12:00-1:00pm
Mark Brown, Chief Economist – Statistics Canada: Firm Networks, Borders, and Regional Economic Integration
April 30, 9:00-10:00am
Trina Hamilton, PhD. Associate Professor, Geography. Co-director, Center for Trade, Environment and Development (CTED). State University of New York at Buffalo (UB): Ethical product havens in the global diamond trade: Using the Wayback Machine to evaluate ethical market outcomes
Michael Fritsch, PhD. Professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany; Associate Professor at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands: Is innovation (increasingly) concentrated in large cities? An international comparison
May 7, 9:00-10:00am (Video links)
Roberta Capello, PhD. Professor at Politencnico di Milano, Italy: Regional patterns of 4.0 technological transformations: conceptual reflections and empirical evidence from European regions
Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, PhD. Professor at Universidade de Açores, Portugal: Conceptual and operational models of complex spatial interaction