Department of Economics

 

 Upcoming and past seminars

Upcoming seminars 2025

September 1, 2025
Speaker: Jakob Madsen, The University of Western Australia
Title: TBA 

September 8, 2025
Speaker: Alan Manning, London School of Economics 
Title: TBA 

September 15, 2025
Speaker: Andrew Ellis, London School of Economics
Title: TBA 

October 6, 2025 
Speaker: Simone Moriconi, IESEG
Title: TBA

October 20, 2025
Speaker: Anthony Strittmmatter, Unidistance Suisse
Title: TBA

October 27, 2025 
Speaker: Joel Stiebale, Düsseldorf Institute of Competition Economics 
Title: TBA

November 3, 2025 
Speaker: Basile Grassi, Bocconi University
Title: TBA 

November 10, 2025
Speaker: Elisabet Viladecans Marsal, Universitat de Barcelona
Title: TBA

November 24, 2025
Speaker: Laurent Gobillon, Paris School of Economics
Title: TBA

December 1, 2025
Speaker: Ludo Visschers, Universidad Carlos III De Madrid
Title: TBA

Upcoming seminars 2026  

March 16, 2026
Speaker: Ester Faia, Goethe University Frankfurt
Title: TBA

May 4, 2026
Speaker: Botond Koszegi, Universitaet Bonn
Title: TBA

May 29, 2026
Speaker: Robert D. Metcalfe, Columbia University
Title: TBA

Past seminars

2025 

June 23, 2025 
Speaker: Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia
Title: The Demand and Supply of Paternalism

June 16, 2025
Speaker: Andreas Mueller, Universität Zürich
Title: The Ins and Outs of Vacancies

May 26, 2025 
Speaker: Bert Willems, Tilburg University 
Title: Multi-product supply function equilibria

May 20, 2025 
Speaker: Valentin Zelenyuk, The University of Queensland 
Title: Activity-based funding reform and the preformance of public hospitals: The case of Queensland, Australia

May 19, 2025
Speaker: Christina Felfe, University of Konstanz
Title: Mindful choices- The role of perceived pressure 

May 12, 2025 
Speaker: Jinglun Yao, IIES Stockholm University 
Title: Knowledge is (Market) Power

May 5, 2025 
Speaker: Monica Costa-Dias, University of Bristol
Title: Higher Education Sorting and Social Mobility

April 28, 2025
Speaker: Maarten De Ridder, London School of Economics
Title: Growth through Innovation Bursts

April 14, 2025
Speaker: Susana Campos Martins, Global Priorities Institute and University of Oxford
Title: Novel global and regional risk factors

April 7, 2025
Speaker: Andrea Weber, Central European University 
Title: Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament

March 24, 2025 
Speaker: David Reiner, University of Cambridge
Title: Political economy of industrial decarbonisation

March 17, 2025 
Speaker: Michèle Tertilt, University of Mannheim 
Title: The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws

March 3, 2025
Speaker: Veronica Grembi, University of Rome
Title: Gender Differences in Policy Knowledge: Evidence from the Recovery and Resilience Plan

February 17, 2025
Speaker: Gabriella Conti, University College London 
Title: Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale

2024    

December 9, 2024
Speaker: Lina Aldén, Linnaeus School of Business and Economics
Title: Who Becomes a Father? The Rising Importance of Non-Cognitive Ability

November 25, 2024
Speaker: Roberta Piermartini, WTO
Title: Committing to Grow: The Full Impact of WTO Accession

November 18, 2024
Speaker: Cäcilia Lipowski, ZEW
Title: Expertise at Work: New Technologies, New Skills, and Worker Impacts

November 11, 2024
Speaker: Mishel Ghassibe, CREI Barcelona
Title: Large Shocks, Networks and State-Dependent Pricing

October 28, 2024
Speaker: Alistair J. Wilson, University of Pittsburgh
Title: The Effect of Experimenter Demand on Interference 

October 22, 2024 (EXTRA Seminar)
Speaker: Sung-Ju Wu, Duke University
Title: Foreign Profit Shifting and The Welfare Responses to The US-China Trade War: Evidence from Manufacturers in Vietnam

October 21, 2024
Speaker: Johan Holmberg, Umeå University 
Title: Parental Wealth and Early Labor Market Outcomes

October 7, 2024
Speaker: Gregory Clark, University of Southern Denmark 
Title: Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021

September 30, 2024
Speaker: Christian Bontemps, Toulouse School of Economics
Title: Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry

September 23, 2024
Speaker: Eleni Aristodemu, University of Cyprus
Title: Binary Response Dynamic Panel Data Models with Switching State Dependence

September 16, 2024
Speaker: Xavier Jaravel, London School of Economics
Title: Versatile Qualitative Inquiries: A Simple Open Source Tool for AI-led Interviews

September 9, 2024
Speaker: Fabrizio Mazzonna, Università della Svizzera Italiana
Title: Health and labor market consequences of low-value care: The role of practice style

September 2, 2024
Speaker: Giammario Impullitti, The University of Nottingham
Title: Hetereogeneous Firms, Growth and the Long Shadows of Business Cycles

June 17, 2024
Speaker: Yoto Yotov, Drexel University 
Title: Much Ado about Nothing? The Extraterritorial Effects of the U.S. Embargo against Cuba

June 10, 2024
Speaker: Chandler Lutz, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 
Title: The Impact of Crisis-Period Interest Rate Declines on Distressed Borrowers

June 3, 2024
Speaker: Ignacio Cuesta, Stanford University
Title: Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Health Insurance Markets

May 28, 2024 (Extra Seminar, please note Tuesday @10 am)
Speaker: Andre Hofmeyr, School of Economics, University of Cape Town
Title: Estimating Higher Order Risk Preferences with a Flexible Utility Function: The Bézier Curve

May 27, 2024
Speaker: Christoph Albert, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Title: Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data

May 13, 2024
Speaker: Alexis Toda, University of California, San Diego
Title: Housing Bubbles with Phase Transitions

May 6, 2024
Speaker: Mette Rasmussen, Copenhagen University
Title: Exploring the Role of Social Media in the Diffusion of Economic Research

April 22, 2024
Speaker: Fernando Stipanicic, University of Oslo
Title: The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from the Jet Age

April 15, 2024
Speaker: Jonas Maibom, Aarhus University 
Title: The Effects of Debt Relief on Labor Market Outcomes

April 8, 2024
Speaker: Clara Santamaría, Sciences Po
Title: Delayed childbearing and urban revival

March 25, 2024
Speaker: Saša Pekeč, Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business
Title: Approximate submodularity in market design

March 18, 2024
Speaker: Barbara Petrongolo, Oxford University
Title: Vacancy duration and wages 

March 11, 2024
Speaker: Michele Baggio, University of Connecticut
Title: Racial Diversity and Team Performance: Evidence from the American Offshore Whaling Industry, with Metin Coşgel (University of Connecticut).

March 4, 2024
Speaker: Max Posch, University of Exeter
Title: How Social Structure Drives Innovation: Surname Diversity and Patents in U.S. History

February 12, 2024
Speaker: Ricardo Serrano-Padial, Drexel University 
Title: Competing Narratives in Action: An Empirical Analysis of Model Adoption Dynamics

2023

March 20, 2023
Speaker: Erik Wengström, Lund University 
Title: Behavioral Policy Targeting: Evidence from Payments for Vaccinations

March 27, 2023
Speaker: Andreas Dzemski, University of Gothenburg 
Title: Inheriting inequality

March 28, 2023
Speaker: Vasyl Namoniuk, University of Kyiv
Title: How to Build a Green Economy in Ukraine after the War: A System Dynamics Modelling Approach

April 3, 2023
Speaker: Jasmine Xiao, University of Notre Dame
Title: Expectations and Credit Slumps

April 17, 2023
Speaker: Elin Halvorsen, Statistics Norway
Title: Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation

April 24, 2023
Speaker: Eric Maskin, Harvard University
Title: A Resolution of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

April 24, 2023
Speaker: Jan van Ours, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market

May 1, 2023
Speaker: Maxim Massenkoff, Naval Postgraduate School
Title: Class Segregation in Daily Activities: Evidence from Location Data  

May 8, 2023
Speaker: Daisuke Adachi, Aarhus Universitet
Title: Multinational Production and Corporate Labor Share

May 15, 2023
Speaker: Raphaël Giraud, University Paris VIII
Title: Confidence, Optimism, and Litigation: A Litigation Model under Ambiguity

May 22, 2023
Speaker: Georg Kirchsteiger, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles
Title: Does voluntary information disclosure lead to less cooperation than mandatory disclosure ? Evidence from a sequential prisoner’s dilemma experiment

May 24, 2023
Speaker: Hongsong Zhang, HKU Business School 
Title: Tax Policy, Selling Expenses, and the Growth of Young Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Tax Incentive Policy

June 6, 2023
Speaker: Mattia Nardotto, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles
Title: Transparency and competition for influence

June 9, 2023
Speaker: Raquel Fernández, New York University
Title: Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment

June 12, 2023
Speaker: Simon Reif, ZEW
Title: Default rules, ethical reminders, and registration costs: An experiment on stem-cell donor registration

June 19, 2023
Speaker: Justin Bloesch, Columbia Business School
Title: When do Firms Profit from Wage Setting Power? Dynamic Monopsony vs. Concentration

September 4, 2023
Speaker: Pengpeng Xiao, Duke University 
Title: Equilibrium Sorting and the Gender Wage Gap

September 11, 2023
Speaker: Natalie Kessler, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 
Title: Exclusive Portfolio Dealing and Market Inefficiency

September 18, 2023
Speaker: Jo Van Biesebroeck, KU Leuven  
Title: Imperfect (Re)allocation in Imperfect Markets: Evidence from China’s Pilot Carbon ETS

October 3, 2023
Speaker: Paola Manzini, University of Bristol
Title: A model of approval with an application to list design

October 9, 2023
Speaker: Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University 
Title: How Oil Shocks Propagate: Evidence on the Monetary Policy Channel

October 16, 2023
Speaker: Kelly Foley, University of Saskatchewan 
Title: The Occupational Ladder: Implications for Wage Growth and Wage Gaps over the Life Cycle

October 23, 2023
Speaker: Sebastian Fleitas, University of Leuven
Title: Markups and Mergers in the US Hospital Industry

October 30, 2023
Speaker: Marco Leonardi, University of Milan
Title: The real effects of land use regulation: quasi-experimental evidence from a discontinuous policy variation

November 6, 2023
Speaker: Kjell Gunnar Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics 
Title: Childhood Shocks Across Ages and Human Capital Formation

November 13, 2023
Speaker: Lukasz Rachel, University College London 
Title: A Theory of Price Caps on Non-Renewable Resources

November 20, 2023
Speaker: Espen Moen, BI Norwegian Business School 
Title: Transaction Sequencing and House Price Pressures

November 27, 2023
Speaker: Prottoy Aman Akbar, Aalto University 
Title: Who benefits from faster public transit?

December 11, 2023
Speaker: Gudrun Johnsen, Danmarks Nationalbank
Title: Logic of Business Groups: A moral hazard perspective

December 18, 2023
Speaker: Jonas Hjort, University College London 
Title: Ethnic Discrimination in States: Experimental Evidence from Peru

 

2022

March 7, 2022
Speaker: Andreas Ek, Lund University
Title: Cultural Values and Productivity

March 11, 2022
Speaker: Karl Harmenberg, BI Norwegian Business School
Title: Macroeconomic dynamics with rigid wage contracts

March 14, 2022
Speaker: Anna Piil Damm, Aarhus University
Title: Co-Ethnic Neighbors and Investment in Host-Country Language Skills

March 21, 2022
Speaker: Yoko Okuyama, Uppsala University
Title: Electoral institutions, women's representation, and policy outcomes

March 28, 2022
Speaker: Richard Audoly, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Title: Job Ladder, Human Capital, and the Cost of Job Loss

April 4, 2022
Speaker: Sara Signorelli, Amsterdam School of Economics  
Title: Human Mobility and the Globalization of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Enterprises

April 25, 2022
Speaker: Peter Normann Sørensen, University of Copenhagen
Title: Competitive Selection and Information Aggregation in Auctions

May 2, 2022
Speaker: Romain Ranciere, University of Southern California  
Title: International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share

May 6, 2022
Speaker: David Hémous, University of Zürich
Title: Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition: The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution

May 9, 2022
Speaker: Takashi Hayashi, University of Glasgow
Title: Recursive median-voter equilibrium in public capital accumulation

May 16, 2022
Speaker: Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, University of Bonn
Title: The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes

May 23, 2022
Speaker: Robert Miller, Carnegie Mellon University 
Title: Job Search and Matching by Race and Gender

June 13, 2022
Speaker: Johanna Wallenius, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Can Wealth Buy Health? A Model of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Investments in Health

June 20, 2022
Speaker: Enrico Spolaore, Tufts University
Title: Barriers to Global Capital Allocation

August 29, 2022
Speaker: Simone Moriconi, IÉSEG School of Management 
Title: Are Immigrants More Left-Leaning than Natives?

September 5, 2022
Speaker: Harim Kim, NHH Norwegian School of Economics 
Title: Cleaner but Volatile Energy? The Effect of Coal Plant Retirement on Market Competition in the Wholesale Electricity Market

September 12, 2022
Speaker: Bernhard Ganglmair, University of Mannheim  and ZEW 
Title: Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws

September 20, 2022
Speaker: Suzanna Khalifa, Aix-Marseille School of Economics 
Title: Female Genital Cutting and Bride-Price

September 26, 2022
Speaker: Parantap Basu, Durham University
Title: Sustainable Growth with Renewable Resource

October 3, 2022
Speaker: Juan S. Muñoz-Morales, IÉSEG School of Management
Title: Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates

October 10, 2022
Speaker: Keith M. Marzilli Ericson, Boston University
Title: Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance

October 24, 2022
Speaker: Katrine Jakobsen, Oxford University
Title: Do the Rich Flee Wealth Taxes? Evidence from Scandinavia

October 31, 2022
Speaker: Otto Toivanen, Aalto School of Business 
Title: The Effects of Price Regulation on Pharmaceutical Expenditure and Availability

November 7, 2022
Speaker: Mikkel Høst Gandil, University of Oslo
Title: College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device

November 14, 2022
Speaker: Peter Sandholt Jensen, Linnaeus University
Title: Institutions and industrialization: Evidence from the Free City of Eskilstuna

November 21, 2022
Speaker: Marcel Henkel, University of Bern
Title: The Role of Local Public Goods for Fiscal Policy in the Spatial Economy

November 28, 2022
Speaker: Michael Burda, Humboldt University Berlin
Title: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Price-driven Growth in a Baumol-Solow-Swan Economy

December 5, 2022
Speaker: Chen Huang, Aarhus University
Title: Arellano-Bond LASSO Estimator for Long Panel Dynamic Linear Models

 

2021

March 3, 2021 (Zoom Seminar)
Speaker: Amit Khandelwal, Columbia Business School 
Title: Language Barriers in MNCs and Knowledge Transfers

March 22, 2021
Speaker: Michael Böhm, University of Bonn
Title: “Since You’re So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart:” Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium

May 10, 2021
Speaker: Alexandre N. Kohlhas, IIES Stockholm University
Title: A Rational Theory of Limited Attention

August 30, 2021
Speaker: Justin Bloesch, Harvard University
Title: Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Worker Hold-up Power

September 6, 2021 (Online Seminar)
Speaker: Jonna Olsson, University of Edinburgh 
Title: Subjective life expectancies, time preference heterogeneity and wealth inequality

September 13, 2021
Speaker: Valerie Smeets, Aarhus University 
Title: High-Skill Immigration, Offshoring R&D, and Firm Dynamics

September 20, 2021
Speaker: David de la Croix, UCLouvain
Title: Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088–1800)

September 29, 2021
Speaker: Klaus Prettner, Vienna University
Title: Do you know your biases? A Monte Carlo analysis of dynamic panel data estimators Premiums

October 11, 2021
Speaker: Anne Ardila Brenøe, University of Zürich
Title: Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?

October 25, 2021
Speaker: Johannes Wohlfart, University of Copenhagen
Title: The Dynamics of Information Acquisition:  Evidence From Firms and Households

November 11, 2021
Speaker: Luis Bauluz, University of Bonn
Title: The Wealth of Generations

November 22, 2021
Speaker: Jonathan Hall, University of Toronto
Title: Inframarginal Travelers and Transportation Policy

November 29, 2021
Speaker: Natalie Kessler, European University Institute
Title: Optimal Lending by Stress-Tested Banks

December 6, 2021
Speaker: Ria Ivandic, University of Oxford
Title: Jihadi Terror Attacks and Local Hate Crime

December 13, 2021
Speaker: Hans Sieversten, University of Bristol
Title: The greater game in school choice: Manipulating school priorities through address changes