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 at 13.00 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: Spring 2026

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

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
Title: TBA

Tuesday April 14 at 13.00

Ludvig Sinander, University of Oxford
Title: TBA

Tuesday April 21 at 13.00

Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University
Title: TBA

Thursday April 30 at 9.30 NB! Day and Time!

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Title: TBA

Thursday May 7 at 10.00 NB! Day and Time!

Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University
Title: TBA

Tuesday May 12 at 13.00

Achyuta Adhvaryu, UC San Diego
Title: TBA

Wednesday May 20 at 10.00 NB! Day and Time!

Christian Moser, Columbia Business School
Title: TBA

Tuesday May 26 at 13.00

Jon Steinsson, UC Berkeley
Title: TBA

Tuesday June 2 at 13.00

Florian Scheuer, University of Zurich
Title: TBA

Friday June 5 at 9.00

Tiago Bernardino
Title: TBA
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: TBA

Monday June 8 at 13.00

Jinci Liu
Title: TBA
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: TBA

Tuesday June 9 at 13.00

Thore Petersen
Title: TBA
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: TBA

Wednesday June 10 at 9.00

Mattias Folkestad
Title: TBA
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: TBA

Thursday June 11 at 9.00

Jonatan Riberth
Title: TBA
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: TBA

Friday June 12 at 9.00

Juan Llavador Peralt
Title: TBA
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: TBA

Monday June 15 at 9.00

Chek Yin Choi
Title: TBA
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: TBA

Job Talks

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

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

Friday January 10 at 9.30

Canishk Naik, London School of Economics
Mental Health and the Targeting of Social Assistance

Monday January 13 at 10.00

Natalie Rickard, London Business School
Sheltering from Climate Risks

Tuesday January 14 at 10.00

Guohui Jiang, University of Zurich
No Fairness, No Cooperation: Draft Dodging by the Rich and Voluntary Enlistment in World War II

Wednesday January 15 at 10.00

Sara Holttinen, University of Oxford
Financial Constraints and Misallocation in the Intangible Economy

Thursday January 16 at 10.00

Karl Aspelund, MIT
Redistribution in Environmental Permit Markets: Transfers and Efficiency Costs with Trade Restrictions

Friday January 17 at 9.30

Martin Koenen, Harvard University
Social Ties and Residential Choice: Micro Evidence and Equilibrium Implications

Monday January 20 at 14.00 NB! Time!

Gerard Maideu-Morera, Toulouse School of Economics
Amenity-Biased Technical Change

Tuesday January 21 at 9.00 NB! Time!

Amalia Repele, Bocconi University
Wealth Sorting and Cyclical Employment Risk

Wednesday January 22 at 10.00

Federica Meluzzi, CREST
"The College Melting Pot: Peers, Culture and Women's Job Search"

Thursday January 23 at 10.00

Jonathan Becker, New York University
Do Poor Households Pay Higher Markups in Recessions?

Friday January 24 at 9.30

Marion Brouard, CREST
Welfare Effects of Increasing Transfers to Young Adults: Theory and Evidence

Tuesday January 28 at 10.00

Linda Wu, University College London
Behavioral Responses to Estate Taxation: Evidence from Taiwan (with Tzu-Ting Yang)

Friday January 31 at 9.30

Anna Papp, Columbia University
Who bears climate change damages? Evidence from the gig economy

Monday February 3 at 10.00

Ahmet Gulek, MIT
Effects of Immigrants on Non-host Regions: Evidence from the Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Wednesday February 5 at 10.00

Gabriela Deschamps, LSE
Motherhood and Violence

Friday February 7 at 9.30

Thomas Hierons, University of Chicago
Spreading the Jam: Optimal Congestion Pricing in General Equilibrium

Tuesday March 18 at 13.00

Peter Ganong, University of Chicago
"Liquid Wealth and Consumption Smoothing of Typical Labor Income Shocks"

Tuesday April 1 at 13.00

Louis-Pierre LePage, SOFI, Stockholm University
"Job Sorting and the Labor Market Effects of a Criminal Record"

Thursday April 3 at 13.00

IIES/NEK Seminar in the Cassel room, A703
Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
"Learning to See the World's Opportunities"

Tuesday April 8 at 13.00

Arash Nekoei, IIES
"Who Can Have It All? The Unequal Cost of Career, Inter-generational Mobility, and Equality of Opportunity" (with Patrizia Massner)

Tuesday April 22 at 13.00

Anna Dreber Almenberg, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
"Replications and Uncertainty"

Thursday April 24 at 10.00

Noam Yuchtman, University of Oxford
"Beliefs about Institutions"

Tuesday April 29 at 13.00

Jay Lee, NEK, Stockholm University
"Personnel is Policy (Implementation): Bureaucrats and the Korean Export Miracle"

Tuesday May 6 at 13.00

Nancy Qian, Northwestern University
""Fueling" Nuclear Energy Regulations: Evidence from the Chernobyl Accident"

Wednesday May 14 at 10.00 NB! Time!

Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University
"Malleable Minds: The effects of STEM- vs. humanities-focused curricula"

Tuesday May 20 at 13.00

IIES/NEK Seminar in the Cassel room, A703
Dave Donaldson, MIT
"Misallocation in firm production: A nonparametric analysis using procurement lotteries"

Tuesday May 27 at 10.00 NB! Time!

Raquel Fernández, New York University
"Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change"

Tuesday June 3 at 13.00

Chris Tonetti, Stanford GSB
"Risk Markups" (with Sebastian Di Tella and Cedomir Malgieri)

Seminars in the IIES Seminar Series

Wednesday September 3 at 10.30 NB! Day and Time!

Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School
"Training Within Firms"

Tuesday September 9 at 13.00

Nicola Gennaioli, Bocconi University
"Ads as Cues" (with Bordalo, Burro, Nacamulli and Shleifer)

Tuesday September 16 at 13.00

Suresh Naidu, Columbia University
"The Cold War and the U.S. Labor Market"

Tuesday September 23 at 13.00

Nina Buchmann, Princeton University
"Paternalistic Discrimination"

Monday September 29 at 13.00 NB! Day!

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia Business School
"The Austerity Threshold"

Tuesday September 30 at 13.00

Rob Garlick, Duke University
"Flexibility versus Performance: The Determinants of Labor Market Contracts"

Wednesday October 8 at 10.00 NB! Day and Time!

Morten Ravn, University College London
"Antitrust, Market Power, and US Macroeconomic Outcomes" (with Brian Amorim Cabaco)

Tuesday October 14 at 13.00

Andrea Prat, Columbia University
"Competing Ideologies: Fit, Simplicity, and Fear" (with José Luis Montiel Olea)

Tuesday October 21 at 13.00

Mara Squicciarini, Bocconi University
"De-Polarizing Politics: Faith Meets Science in the French Third Republic" (with G. Lanzara and N. Voigtlaender)

Tuesday November 4 at 13.00

Miguel Ortiz, Vancouver School of Economics, U. of British Columbia
"Hate, Fear and Intergroup Conflict: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria"

Tuesday November 11 at 13.00

Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
"On the Investment Network and Development" (with Lucia Casal)

Tuesday November 25 at 13.00

Alexander Willén, Norwegian School of Economics
"Beyond Training"

Thursday November 27 at 10.00

Job Talk:
Ronja Helénsdotter, MIT Sloan School of Management, and University of Gothenburg
Treated Together: Spillovers Among Youths Admitted to Residential Treatment

Tuesday December 2 at 13.00

Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto
"Computer-Assisted Learning in the Real World: How Khan Academy Influences Student Math Learning"

Thursday December 4 at 10.00 NB! Day and Time!

Andreas Mueller, University of Zurich
"Macroeconomic Effects of UI Extensions at Short and Long Durations" (with Acosta, Nakamura and Steinsson)

Friday March 14 at 9.00

Dominik Biesalski
"Essays on Working Conditions, Occupational Choices, and Discrimination"
Hörsal 4, hus B
Opponent: Kjetil Bjorvatn, Department of Economics, NHH-Norwegian School of Economics

Wednesday June 11 at 13.00

Agneta Berge
"On the formation of wages and wealth"
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: Axel Gottfries, University of Edinburgh

Friday June 13 at 13.00

Patrizia Massner
"Essays on Elder Care, Intergenerational Mobility, and Firms in the Labor Market"
Hörsal 3, hus B
Opponent: Håkan Sellin, Uppsala University

Thursday October 23 at 9.00 

Iacopo Bianchi
"Productivity, Career Choice, and Colonial Legacies: Essays in Development Economics"
Hörsal 9, Södra huset D
Opponent: Vincent Somville, NHH - Norwegian School of Economics

Monday May 19 at 10.30

"Changed trade policy – Insights from research, politics and business"
Dave Donaldson, MIT
Pre-registration required.
Click here for more information and to register.

Monday October 13 at 12.00

"How vulnerable are voters to misinformation?"
Andrea Prat, Columbia Business School
Pre-registration required.
More information and to register

Contact

Seminar Series Administrator:

Tobias Kjellberg
tobias.kjellberg@iies.su.se



  


 

Last updated: 2026-03-11

Source: Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)

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