Conferences and seminars

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
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Monday October 13 at 12.00

"How vulnerable are voters to misinformation?"
Andrea Prat, Columbia Business School
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