Department of Economics
Department Seminar
DEPARTMENT SEMINARS 2019
Upcoming seminars 2019
Speaker: Anett John, CREST Paris
Title: Can Simply Psychological Interventions Increase Preventive Health Invesment?
Speaker: Alireza Sapahsalari, University of Bristol
Title: Firm-Level Debt and Employment
Previous Seminars 2019
January 11, 2019
Speaker: Jurre Thiel, Vrije University Amsterdam
Title: Price discrimination, switching costs and welfare: Evidence from the Dutch mortgage market
January 14, 2019
Speaker: Josef Sigurdsson, Stockholm University
Title: Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland
January 15, 2019
Speaker: Aljoscha Janssen, Stockholm school of Economics
Title: Switching Costs, Quality Misconceptions and Behavioral Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Market
January 22, 2019
Speaker: Jakob Miethe, DIW Berlin
Title: The elusive banker: Using hurricanes to uncover (non-) activity in offshore financial centers
January 23, 2019
Speaker: Simon Reese, USC Dornsife
Title: The Incidental Parameters Problem in Testing for Remaining Cross-section Correlation
January 24, 2019
Speaker: Federica Coelli, University of Oslo
Title: Trade policy Uncertainty and innovation: Evidence from China
January 29, 2019
Speaker: Simon Martin, University of Vienna
Title: Market Transparency and Consumer Search - Evidence from the German Retail Gasoline Market
Speaker: Germain Gaudin, European Commission
Title: Vertical Agreements and User Access
February 12, 2019
Speaker: Maria Balgova, University of Oxford
Title: Why don't less educated workers move? The role of job search in migration decisions
Speaker:Annette Bergemann, University of Bristol
Title: Maternal Employment Effects of Paid Parental
Speaker:Joseph-Simon Görlach, Bocconi University
Title: The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation.
Speaker: Roberto Weber, University of Zurich
Title: Cognitive dissonance and investor beliefs: An experiment
Speaker:Teodora Boneva, Oxford University
Title:Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns
Speaker: Valarie Smeets, Århus University
Title: Heterogeneous Globalization:Offshoring and Reorganization
Speaker: Cloe' Garnache, Michigan State University
Title: The Effect of Risk Salience on Asset Prices
Speaker: Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University
Title: Do Immigrants assimilate more slowly today than in the past?
Speaker: Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo
Title: Business Cycle during Structural Change: Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective.
Speaker: Andras Niedermayer, Universite Paris-Dauphine
Title: Competitive Non-linear Pricing: Evidence from the French Automobile market
Speaker: Ismir Mulalic, DTU
Title: Does Improving Public Transport Decrease Car Ownership?
Speaker: Michael Sigenthaler, ETH Zurich
Title: Monitoring recruiters at work: determinants of ethnic discrimination on an online recruitment platform
Speaker: Alberto Alesina, Harvard University
Title: Nation Building and Education
Speaker: Morten Bennedsen, Copenhagen University
Title: Do Firms Respond to Gender Pay Gap Transparency?
Speaker: Jochen Guenther, University of Linz
Title: Noise-ridden lending cycles
September 02, 2019
Speaker: Alvaro Mezza, Federal Reserve
Title: Student Loans, Access to Credit and Consumer Financial Behavior
September 09, 2019
Speaker: David Chilosi, University of Groningen
Title: Terms of trade and the Great Divergence. An empirical debate.
September 13, 2019
Speaker: John Gibson, The University of Waikato
Title: Quality, Quantity and Price: Experimental vidence on Taxing Soft Drinks
September 16, 2019
Speaker: Stefan Pichler, KOF Zuerich
Title: Mandated Sick Pay: Coverage, Utilization and Welfare Effects
September 23, 2019
Speaker: Daniele Nosenzo, Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research
Title: Law and Norms: Empirical Evidence
September 30, 2019
Speaker: Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University
Title: Systemic Risk and the Great Depression
October 07, 2019
Speaker: Enno Mammen, Heidelberg University
Title: Statistical Inference on Party Positions from Texts: Statistical Modeling, Bootstrap and Adjusting for Time Effects
Speaker: Juan Dolado, Carlos III Madrid
Title: Monetary Policy and Inequality under Labor Market Frictions and Capital-Skill Complementarity
March 02, 2020
Speaker: Keith Head, UBC Sauder School of Business
Title: TBA
March 09, 2020
Speaker: Michael E. Waugh, University Of New York, Stern
Title: TBA
March 11, 2020
Speaker: Pieter Gautier, VU Amsterdam
Title: TBA
April 27, 2020
Speaker: Antonio D'Agata, University of Catania
Title: TBA
May 25, 2020
Speaker: Joshua Goodman, Brandeis University
Title: TBA