Business, Economics, and Public Policy Seminars
The Business, Economics, and Public Policy seminar series showcases the scholarship of leading faculty from prominent schools of business across the nation and around the world.
The BEPP series is presented jointly with the Strategy, Economics, Ethics and Public Policy faculty of the McDonough School of Business, a multi-disciplinary group whose primary research and teaching interests lie in Economics, International Business, International Political Economy, and Strategy.
The research presentations attract faculty, students, and industry and policy professionals. The seminars are held in the McDonough School of Business on the main campus of Georgetown University.
BEPP Seminars
Fall 2023
September 14, 2023: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 155
Benjamin Jones
Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University
September 28, 2023: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 155
Leah Brooks
Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Affairs – George Washington University
October 12, 2023: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 155
Jing Deng
McDonough School of Business – Georgetown University
October 26, 2023: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 155
Mark Shepard
John F. Kennedy School of Government – Harvard University
November 1, 2023: 11:00am to 12:15pm
ICC 550
David Byrne
University of Melbourne
November 9, 2023: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 155
Marika Cabral
University of Texas at Austin
Spring 2024
March 14, 2024: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 240
Lamar Pierce
Olin Business School – Washington University
March 21, 2024: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 415
Ben Handel
University of California – Berkeley
April 18, 2024: 2:00pm to 3:20pm (to be confirmed)
Tim Layton
Harvard Medical School
May 2, 2024: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 415
Jetson Leder-Luis
Questrom School of Business – Boston University
May 23, 2024: 2:00pm to 3:20pm
Hariri Room 415
Beat Hintermann
University of Basel
2022-2023 Seminars
September 29, 2022: 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Scott Gehlbach
Harris School of Public Policy– University of Chicago
Contact, Threat, and Violence During Political Upheaval: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
October 6, 2022: 1:30 – 3 pm
Diane Alexander
The Wharton School– University of Pennsylvania
Provider Payments and the Direction of Innovation: the Case of End Stage Renal Disease
October 13, 2022: 1:30 – 3 pm
Lori Yue
Columbia Business School– Columbia University
Firms’ Concession to Activism under the Competing Stakeholder Pressure: A Natural Experiment on Fortune Global 500 Firms
October 20, 2022: 1:30 – 3 pm
Ashley Swanson
Department of Economics– University of Wisconsin-Madison
Are Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices Anticompetitive?
October 27, 2022: 1:30 – 3 pm
Joseph Doyle
MIT Sloan School of Management– Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado
November 3, 2022: 1:30 – 3 pm
Luca Maini
Department of Economics– University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mergers that Matter: The Impact of M&A Activity in Prescription Drug Markets
November 17, 2022: 12:30 – 2 pm
Lin Tian
INSEAD
Geographic Spillovers and Firm Exports: Evidence from China
December 8, 2022: 1:30 – 3 pm
Christopher Marquis
Saïd Business School– University of Oxford
January 17, 2023: 2-3:30pm
Heather Berry
George Washington University School of Business – George Washington University
January 19, 2023: 2-3:30pm
Mahka Moeen
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Entrepreneurial Origins and Paths: A Comparative Analysis of Academic, Employee, and User Founders
February 9, 2023: 1:30 – 3pm
Nirupama Rao
Stephen M. Ross School of Business – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 16, 2023: 1:30 – 3 pm
Evan Starr
Robert H. Smith School of Business – University of Maryland
April, 20, 2023: 1:30 – 3pm
Kristina McElheran
Scarborough & Rotman School of Management – University of Toronto
April, 27, 2023: 1:30 – 3pm
Robert Seamans
Stern School of Business- New York University
May, 4, 2023: 1:30 – 3pm
Zoe Cullen
Harvard Business School – Harvard University