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: Fall 2025

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

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)

Thesis Defenses

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

IIES/SNS International Policy Talks

Monday October 13 at 12.00

Andrea Prat, Columbia Business School
"How vulnerable are voters to misinformation?"
More information and to register

Past Seminars: Spring 2025

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