Previous events at the department
Seminar guests from all around the world visit the department every term.
Photo: Adam Jacobsson
Here you will find lists of previous seminars and other events at the department. Researchers from other universities around the world visit the department and give a talk. Our own faculty and PhD-students hold presentations on our Brown bag seminars and PhD-students through the ENTER program also give talks.
Spring 2022
| January | |
| Mon Jan 10 | Job Talk: Pauline Corblet (Sciences Po): "Education Expansion, Sorting, and the Decreasing Wage Premium". |
| Tue Jan 11 | Job Talk: Riccardo Cioffi (Princeton): "Heterogeneous Risk Exposure and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality". |
| Wed Jan 12 | Job Talk: Amanda Dahlstrand (LSE): "Defying Distance: The Provision of Services in the Digital Age". |
| Tue Jan 18 | Job Talk: Veda Narasimhan (Zurich): "Decentralization, Rural Development, and Growth: Evidence from India". |
| Wed Jan 19 | Job Talk: Barthelemy Bonadio (Lausanne): "Ports vs. Roads: Infrastructure, Market Access and Regional Outcomes". |
| Thu Jan 20 | Job Talk: Paula Calvo (Yale): "The effects of institutional gaps between cohabitation and marriage". |
| Fri Jan 21 | Job Talk: Ciaran Rogers (Stanford): "Quantitative Easing and Local Banking Systems in the Euro Area". |
| Mon Jan 24 | Job Talk: Marco Stenborg Pettersson (Brown): "Estimation of a Latent Reference Point: Method and Application to NYC Taxi Drivers". |
| Tue Jan 25 | Job Talk: Valeria Zurla (Brown): "How Should We Design Parental Leave Policies? Evidence from Two Reforms in Italy". |
| Thu Jan 27 | Job Talk: Anna Becker (UCL): "Shamed to Death: Social Image Concerns and War Participation". |
| Fri Jan 28 | Job Talk: Iain Bamford (Columbia): "Monopsony Power, Spatial Equilibrium, and Minimum Wages". |
| Mon Jan 31 | Job Talk: Ruben Dominguez Diaz (Brown): "Precautionary Savings and Financial Frictions". |
| February | |
| Wed Feb 2 | Job Talk: Karmini Sharma (Warwick): "Tackling Sexual Harassment: Experimental Evidence from India". |
| Thu Feb 3 | Job Talk: Joonas Tuhkuri (MIT): "New Evidence on the Effect of Technology on Employment and Skill Demand". |
| Tue Feb 22 | Brown bag: Filip Mellgren (SU): "Robust Algorithmic Collusion". |
| March | |
| Tue Mar 8 | Brown bag: Jay Lee (SU): "Group Composition and Group Decision-Making: Evidence from Municipal Council Meetings in South Korea". |
| Thu Mar 10 | Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie): "Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States". |
| Tue Mar 15 | Brown bag: Ash Craig (Michigan): "Spillovers in Crime: Using Network Data to Measure Social Returns and Improve Targeting of Crime Reduction Interventions." |
| Tue Mar 22 | Nina Rousille (LSE/MIT): "Worker Beliefs about Outside options". |
| Thu Mar 24 | Brown bag: Celine Zipfel (SSE): "Defusing a Population Explosion? Jobs and Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa". |
| Tue Mar 29 | Brown bag: Gabriella Massenz (ENTER): "Bunching of closely held corporations: Targeted tax incentives, persistence and firms’ heterogeneity". |
| Thu Mar 31 | Matthias Kehrig (Duke): “Good Dispersion, Bad Dispersion”. |
| April | |
| Tue Apr 5 | Brown bag: Jens Wikström (SU): "Liquidity Frictions in Non-linear Health Insurance". |
| Tue Apr 19 | Brown bag: Anna Vitali (ENTER): "Consumer Search and Firm Location: Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda". |
| Thu Apr 21 | Isabel Martinez (ETH Zurich): "Tracking and Taxing the Super-Rich: Insights from Swiss Rich Lists". |
| Tue Apr 26 | Brown bag: Martina Zanella (LSE): "Stereotypical Selection". |
| Thu Apr 28 | Ro'ee Levy (MIT, Tel Aviv): "The Effects of Social Movements: Evidence from #MeToo". |
| May | |
| Thu May 5 | Brown bag: Tiago Bernardino (SU): "Aging, Public finances and Generational Inequalities in Portugal: Can Immigration save the day?" |
| Tue May 10 | Peter Hull (Brown): "Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks". |
| Thu May 12 | Julia Cagé (Sciences Po): "Is Charitable Giving Political? Evidence from Wealth and Income Tax Returns". |
| Tue May 17 | Brown bag: Petteri Juvonen (SU/Helsinki): "Understanding the Gains from Wage Flexibility: The Exchange Rate Connection Revisited". |
Autumn 2021
| September | |
| Tue Sept 14 | Brown Bag: Jay Lee & Horng Chern Wong SU):"International Trade and Structural Change across Cities/Gender Ratio and Group Dynamics." |
| Thu Sept 16 | Natalia Rigol, Harvard Business School: “Strategic Disclosure of Loan Officers and Graduation From Microfinance: Evidence from Chile”. |
| Tue Sept 21 | Brown Bag: Anna Linderoth (SU): "Gender Segregation Across Workplaces: Tipping and The Importance of Social Skill". |
| Mon Sept 27 | PhD Defense: Nanna Fukushima (SU): "Essays on the Economics of the 1956 Clean Air Act". |
| Tue Sept 28 | Brown Bag: Moritz Goldbeck (Munich): "Digital Infrastructure and Local Economic Growth: Early Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa". |
| Tue Sept 28 | Wolfram Schlenker (Columbia): "Pushed to Cross the Line: Multiperiod Pollution Standards and the Cost of Environmental Regulation". |
| October | |
| Tue Oct 5 | Brown Bag: Ulrika Ahrsjö (SU): "Youth crime, community service and labor market outcomes". |
| Tue Oct 12 | Brown Bag: Pedro Guimaraes Naso (Geneva): "Delegation of Environmental Regulation and Perceived Corruption in South Africa". |
| Thu Oct 14 | Magne Mogstad (Chicago): "How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income" |
| Fri Oct 15 | PhD Defense: Roza Khoban (SU): "Globalization and Development: The Impact of International Trade on Political and Social Institutions". |
| Tue Oct 19 | Brown Bag: José-Elias Gallegos (SU): "Inflation Persistence, Noisy Information and the Phillips Curve". |
| Thu Oct 21 | Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth): "FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms: Adjustment to New Exporting Opportunities". |
| Tue Oct 26 | Brown Bag: Marie-Pascale Grimon (SU): "Effects of the Child Protection System on Parents". |
| Thu Oct 28 | Jan De Loecker (KU, Leuven): "The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel". |
| November | |
| Tue Nov 2 | Brown Bag: Alvaro Delgado Vega (UC3M & ENTER): "Which Side are You On? Political Relational Contracts". |
| Tue Nov 9 | Brown Bag: Xueping Sun (SU): "The Innovation Cost of Short Political Horizons: Evidence from Local Leaders’ Promotion in China". |
| Thu Nov 11 | Sebastian Siegloch (Mannheim): "Direct, Spillover, and Welfare Effects of Regional Firm Subsidies". |
| Tue Nov 16 | Brown Bag: Lidia Cruces de Souca (UC3 & ENTER): "Gender gaps in the labour market and pension sustainability". |
| Thu Nov 18 | Giancarlo Spagnolo (SSE): “Theory and Evidence on Asymmetric Sanctions and Corruption: A Chinese Tale of Tigers and Flies”. |
| Tue Nov 23 | Brown bag: John Kramer (SU): "The Cyclicality of Earnings Growth along the Distribution - Causes and Consequences". |
| Thu Nov 25 | Balazs Murakozy (Liverpool): "Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets". |
| Tue Nov 30 | Brown Bag: Rene Karadakic (NHH): "Health Effects of Information Diffusion". |
| December | |
| Thu Dec 2 | Basile Grassi (Bocconi): "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Markup Estimation". |
| Tue Dec 7 | Brown Bag: Johannes Haushofer (SU): "Cash Transfers for Migration". |
| Thu Dec 9 | Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po): "Growth and the Fragmentation of Production". |
Spring 2021
| January | |
| Mon Jan 11 | Job Talk: Augustin Bergeron (Harvard): "The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates: Evidence from Randomized Tax Abatements in the DRC". |
| Tue Jan 12 | Job Talk: Martin Mattsson (Yale): "Service Delivery, Corruption, and Information Flows in Bureaucracies: Evidence from the Bangladesh Civil Service". |
| Thu Jan 14 | Job Talk: Elisa Macchi (Zurich): "Worth your weight: experimental evidence on the benefits of obesity in low-income countries". |
| Tue Jan 19 | Job Talk: Michele Fornino (MIT): "Automation and the Future of Work: Assessing the Role of Labor Flexibility". |
| Thu Jan 21 | Job Talk: Sebastian Ellingsen (UPF): "Free and Protected: Trade and Breaks in Long-Term Persistence". |
| Fri Jan 22 | Job Talk: Francesca Salvati (UCL): "Health Inequality, Labor Supply and Retirement Policies". |
| Mon Jan 25 | Job Talk: Emma Riley (Oxford): "Resisting Social Pressure in the Household Using Mobile Money: Experimental Evidence on Microenterprise Investment in Uganda". |
| Thu Jan 28 | Job Talk: Martina Fazio (LSE): "Financial Stabilisation Policies in a Credit Crunch: Zombie Firms and the Effective Lower Bound". |
| February | |
| Mon Feb 1 | Job Talk: Silvia Vannutelli (Boston): "From Lapdogs to Watchdogs: Random Auditor Assignment and Municipal Fiscal Performance in Italy". |
| Wed Feb 3 | Job Talk: Michele Giannola (UCL): "Parental Investments and Intra-household Inequality in Child Development: Theory, Measurement and Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment". |
| Fri Feb 5 | Job Talk: Josef Sigurdsson (NHH): "Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland”. |
| Tue Feb 16 | Brown Bag: Sébastien Lamproye (ECARES, ULB): "Did Technology trigger the American Dream? Innovation and Intergenerational Income Rank Mobility". |
| Thu Feb 18 | Alexandra Roulet (INSEAD): "Revisiting the Contribution of Firm Pay Policies to the Gender Wage Gap". |
| Thu Feb 25 | Florian Scheuer (Zürich): “Taxing High-Powered Entrepreneurship” |
| March | |
| Tue Mar 16 | Brown Bag: Ossian Prane (SU): "Imports and the Carbon Emission Intensity of Firms". |
| Thu Mar 18 | Emily Breza (Harvard): “Does Affirmative Action Rewire the Social Network? Evidence from India” |
| Thu Mar 25 | Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia): "Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway". |
| April | |
| Thu Apr 8 | Guilherme Lichand (Zurich): "Harming to Signal: Child Marriage vs. Public Donations in Malawi". |
| Tue Apr 13 | Brown Bag: Anders Åkerman (SU): "Chasing an Elusive Target: Measuring Productivity Effects under Factor-Biased Technological Change”. |
| Tue Apr 20 | Brown Bag: David Jackson (SU): "Reputation in networks". |
| Thu Apr 29 | Gianmarco Leon (UPF): "Financial Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: An Experiment in the Public Sector". |
| May | |
| Tue May 4 | Brown Bag: Ines Helm (SU): "Firm Expansion in Imperfect Labor Markets". |
| Tue May 11 | Brown Bag: Miika Päällysaho (SU): "Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence". |
| Tue May 18 | Brown Bag: Monir Bounadi (SU): "Religion and Mobilization: Evidence From Europe's Involvement With the Hajj". |
| Thu May 20 | Kalina Manova (UCL): "Firm Heterogeneity and Imperfect Competition in Global Production Networks”. |
| Tue May 25 | Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale): "Normalizing Community Mask-Wearing: A Cluster Randomized Trial in Bangladesh". |
| Wed May 26 | Final seminar: Nanna Fukushima (SU) |
| June | |
| Thu Jun 3 | David Weil (Brown): ”Quality-adjusted Population Density”. |
| Mon Jun 14 | Final Seminar: Roza Khoban (SU) |
Last updated: May 18, 2022
Source: Department of economics