Conferences and seminars

Each year, the IIES invites prominent researchers from all over the world to hold seminars in our Seminar Series.

IIES Seminars usually take place on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays at 10.00 in room A822 (the IIES Seminar Room), unless otherwise stated. The seminars are in person with an option to join via Zoom and run for 75 minutes including questions. For more information contact IIES Seminar Series Administrator Tobias Kjellberg: tobias.kjellberg@iies.su.se

IIES/SNS International Policy Talks is a collaboration with the Centre for Business and Policy Studies (SNS) where the mission is to bring insights from leading international economists to the Swedish policy debate. These talks are hosted by the SNS and require prior registration via their website. 

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Seminar Schedule: Fall 2026

Below you will find lists of the fall seminars and events at the IIES.

Tuesday September 8 at 10.00

Joel Flynn, Yale University
Title: TBA

Thursday September 10 at 10.00 NB! Day!

Sergio Salgado, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBA

Tuesday September 15 at 10.00

Fabian Waldinger, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Title: TBA

Tuesday September 22 at 10.00

Maria Petrova, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Title: TBA

Tuesday September 29 at 10.00

Laura Pilossoph, Duke University
Title: TBA

Tuesday October 6 at 10.00

Pedro Carneiro, University College London
Title: TBA

Tuesday October 13 at 10.00

Minseon Park, University of Michigan
Title: TBA

Tuesday October 20 at 10.00

Xavier Jaravel, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: TBA

Tuesday November 3 at 10.00

Jonathon Hazell, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: TBA

Tuesday November 10 at 10.00

Amen Jalal, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Title: TBA

Tuesday November 17 at 10.00

Randi Hjalmarsson, University of Gothenburg
Title: TBA

Tuesday November 24 at 10.00

Ishan Nath, Harvard University
Title: TBA

Thursday December 3 at 10.00 NB! Day!

Masao Fukui, Boston University
Title: TBA

Monday September 21 at 13.00

Chek Yin Choi
Title: TBA
Venue: TBA
Opponent: TBA

Here you can find the previous semester's Job Talks, Seminars in the IIES Seminar Series, IIES/SNS International Policy Talks and Defenses.

Friday January 9 at 10.00

Mohamad Adhami, Stanford University
Quantifying Knowledge Spillovers Using Firm and Product Dynamics

Friday January 16 at 9.00 NB! Time!

David Van Dijcke, University of Michigan
Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes

Tuesday January 20 at 10.00

Paula Donaldson, UC San Diego
Cross-sectional Identification with Heterogeneous Exposure to General Equilibrium Effects

Wednesday January 21 at 13.00 NB! Time!

Christine Blandhol, Princeton University
Curbing Tax Flight? Aggregate Effects of Taxing Entrepreneur Migration

Thursday January 22 at 10.00

Tilman Graff, Harvard University
Depreciation and Growth: Evidence from Machine Repair in Uganda

Friday January 23 at 9.00 NB! Time!

Shreya Tandon, Harvard University
Job Exploration Risk and Spousal Co-working: Evidence from India

Monday January 26 at 10.00

Florencia Hnilo, Stanford University
RCTs, Awareness, and Assignment Effects

Tuesday January 27 at 10.00

Petter Berg, Stockholm School of Economics
Schooling for Profit: Long-run Effects of Private Providers in Public Education

Monday, February 2 at 10.00

Brian Amorim Cabaco, University College London
The Macroeconomic Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States

Friday, February 6 at 9.00 NB! Time!

Adrien Couturier, London School of Economics
The Sentiment Channel of Fiscal Policy

Wednesday, February 18 at 10.00

Caterina Soto Vieira, London School of Economics
Home Production in the City

Thursday, February 19 at 10.00

Hugo Reichardt, CREI
Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage

Tuesday March 3 at 13.00

Justine Knebelmann, Sciences Po Paris
"Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats, Tax Equity and Acceptability"

Thursday March 19 at 13.30 NB! Time!

Elena Pastorino, Stanford University
"Taxing the Rich? A Theory of Income and Wealth Inequality" (with V.V. Chari, Patrick J. Kehoe, Pierlauro Lopez and Sergio Salgado)

Thursday March 26 at 10.00

Claire Montialoux, Sciences Po Paris
"Minimum Wages and Informality" (with Ellora Derenoncourt, François Gérard and Lorenzo Lagos)

Tuesday April 14 at 13.00

Ludvig Sinander, University of Oxford
"Outside options and risk attitude" (with Gregorio Curello and Mark Whitmeyer)

Tuesday April 21 at 10.00

Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University
"Escaping Patriarchy: Women's Insularity and Gender Attitudes in Oman"

Thursday April 30 at 9.30 NB! Day and Time!

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
"Mind the Gap: Diverging AI Adoption in Europe and the US"

Thursday May 7 at 10.00 NB! Day and Time!

Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University
"Universal Pre-K as Economic Stimulus: Evidence from Nine States and Large Cities in the U.S."

Tuesday May 12 at 10.00

Achyuta Adhvaryu, UC San Diego
"Economic impacts of earned wage access for low-income workers"

Wednesday May 20 at 10.00 NB! Day and Time!

Christian Moser, Columbia Business School
"The Macroeconomics of Wage Rigidity and Job Separations"

Tuesday May 26 at 10.00

Jon Steinsson, UC Berkeley
"The Commoditization of Labor"

Tuesday June 2 at 10.00

Florian Scheuer, University of Zurich
"Dilution vs. Risk Taking: Capital Gains Taxes and Entrepreneurship" (with Eduardo M. Azevedo, Kent Smetters and Min Yang)

Thursday June 4 at 10.00

Erik Hurst, Chicago Booth School of Business
"Automation, Learning and Career Dynamics"

Friday June 5 at 9.00

Tiago Bernardino
Consumption, Prices, and Policy: Essays in Macroeconomics and Public Economics
Hörsal 3, Södra huset B
Opponent: Erik Hurst, Chicago Booth School of Business

Monday June 8 at 13.00

Jinci Liu
Managers, Workers, and Teams: Essays in Organizational and Labor Economics
Hörsal 3, Södra huset B
Opponent: Ricardo Perez-Truglia, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Tuesday June 9 at 13.00

Thore Petersen
Frictions and Flexibility in Production: Essays in Energy Economics
Hörsal 3, Södra huset B
Opponent: Conny Olovsson, Sveriges Riksbank

Wednesday June 10 at 9.00

Mattias Folkestad
Power and Politics: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Hörsal 3, Södra huset B
Opponent: Olle Folke, Uppsala University

Thursday June 11 at 9.00

Jonatan Riberth
Essays on Healthcare Demand and Long-run Inequality
Hörsal 3, Södra huset B
Opponent: Martin Nybom, Uppsala University

Friday June 12 at 9.00

Juan Llavador Peralt
Firm Granularity, Growth, and Inflation Persistence: Essays in Macroeconomics
Hörsal 3, Södra huset B
Opponent: Miguel Leon-Ledesma, University of Exeter Business School

Contact

Seminar Series Administrator:

Tobias Kjellberg
tobias.kjellberg@iies.su.se 

Last updated: 2026-06-29

Source: Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)