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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 2025

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

Job Talks

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

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.

Seminars in the IIES Seminar Series

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 13.00

Raquel Fernández, New York University
Title: TBA

Tuesday June 3 at 13.00

Chris Tonetti, Stanford GSB
Title: TBA

Thesis Defenses

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: TBA

 

Past Seminars: 2024

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

Seminars in the IIES Seminar Series

Spring

Tuesday March 5

13.00
Sule Alan, EUI
"Empowering Adolescents to Transform Schools: Lessons from a Behavioral Targeting"

Friday March 8 N.b DAY and Time!

10.00
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
"Machine Learning as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation" (with Sendhil Mullainathan)

Tuesday March 12

13.00
Ulf Zölitz, University of Zurich

"Same-Sex Teacher Effects in Education"

Thursday March 14

10.00
Enrico Moretti, Berkeley

Size Matters - Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets (with Moises Yi)

Tuesday March 19

13.00
Victoria Gregory, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Subjective Earnings Risk 

Thursday March 21

10.00
Anmol Bhandari, University of Minnesota

A Perturbational Approach for Approximating Heterogeneous-Agent Models (with Thomas Bourany, David Evans, and Mikhail Golosov)

Tuesday March 26

13.00
Lorenzo Casaburi, University of Zurich

" Land markets and land allocation: evidence from Kenya and Uganda"

Thursday March 28

10.00
Benny Kleinman, University of Chicago

"Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms"

Tuesday April 9

13.00
Abigail Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford

"The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships"

Thursday April 11

10.00
Alessandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania

"Long-Term Contracts, Commitment, and Optimal Information Disclosure" (with Paolo Martellini)

Tuesday April 23

13.00
Sam Norris, University of British Columbia

Conviction, Incarceration, and Policy Effects in the Criminal Justice System (with Vishal Kamat and Matthew Pecenco)

Thursday April 25

10.00
Thomas Winberry, University of Pennsylvania

Capital, Ideas, and the Costs of Financial Frictions (with Pablo Ottonello)

Thursday May 2

10.00
Annika Bacher, BI Oslo

"Spousal Insurance Around the World" (with Kevin Donovan, Philipp Grübener, Lukas Nord and Todd Schoellman)

Tuesday May 7

13.00
Camille Landais, LSE

"Gender Without Children"

Tuesday May 14

13.00
Gabriel Ulyssea, UCL

"Rural Migrants and Urban Informality: Evidence from Brazil" (with Clement Imbert)

Thursday May 16 N.B Time!!

09.30
Livia Alfonsi, Harvard Business School

"Meet Your Future: Experimental Evidence on the Labor Market Effects of Mentors" (with Mary Namubiru and Sara Spaziani)

Tuesday May 21

13.00
Michela Carlana, Harvard Kennedy School

"How Far Can Inclusion Go? The Long-term Impacts of Preferential College Admissions" (with M. Tincani and E. Miglino)

Thursday May 23

10.00
Gianluca Violante, Princeton University

"Job Amenity Shocks and Labor Reallocation" (with Sadhika Bagga, Lukas Mann and Aysegül Sahin)

Tuesday June 18

13.00
Barbara Biasi, Yale School of Management

"What makes good applied economics?"

Fall

Tuesday August 27

13.00
Pete Klenow, Stanford University
"How Much Will Global Warming Cool Global Growth?"

Thursday August 29

10.00
Awa Ambra Seck, Harvard Business School
"En Route: The French Colonial Army, Emigration, and Development in Morocco"

Thursday September 5

10.00
Guy Michaels, LSE
"Evaluating Urban Planning: Evidence from Dar es Salaam" 

Tuesday September 10

13.00
Alexey Makarin, MIT Sloan School of Management
"Trade Sanctions" (with Konstantin Egorov, Vasily Korovkin, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina)

Tuesday September 17

13.00
Andrew Atkeson, UCLA
"Reconciling Macroeconomics and Finance for the U.S. Corporate Sector: 1929 - Present" (with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri)

Tuesday September 24

13.00
Marta Prato, Bocconi University
"Career Choice of Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Economic Growth" (with Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, and Jeremy Pearce)

Tuesday October 8

13.00
Joonas Tuhkuri, Stockholm University
"Winners and Losers of Technology Grants: Evidence on Jobs and Skills"

Tuesday October 15

10.00
Hugo Reichardt, CREI
Title: Scale-Biased Technical Change and Inequality

Tuesday October 22

13.00
Eva Vivalt, University of Toronto
"The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States"

Tuesday November 12

13.00
Heather Sarsons, University of British Columbia
"Measuring Gender Attitudes" (with Josh Dean, Christine Exley, and Muriel Niederle)

Tuesday November 19

13.00
Basile Grassi, Bocconi University
"The EU Miracle: When 75 Million Reach High Income"

Tuesday November 26

13.00
Lena Hensvik, Uppsala University
"Outside opportunities and the gender gap in pay"

Thursday November 28

13.00
Philippe Aghion, Collège de France
"Transition to green technology along the supply chain"

Thursday December 5

10.00
Ana Costa-Ramon, University of Zurich
"(Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Maternal Labor Supply"

Job Talks

All Job Talks are held at 10.00 in the IIES Seminar Room (A822).

Wednesday January 10

Nicholas Swanson, University of California, Berkeley
"Under-training by Employers in Spot Labor Markets: Evidence from Burundi" (with Luisa Cefala, Pedro Naso and Michel Ndayikeza)

Friday January 12

Lorenzo Incoronato, University College London
"Place-based Industrial Policies and Local Agglomeration in the Long run" (with Salvatore Lattanzio)

Monday January 15

Lukas Freund, University of Cambridge
"Superstar Teams: The Micro Origins and Macro Implications of Coworker Complementarities"

Monday January 22

Jinglun Yao, London Business School
"Knowledge is (Market) Power"

Friday January 26

Veronica Salazar-Restrepo, London School of Economics
"Does Conservation Work in General Equilibrium?" (with Gabriel Leite-Mariante)

Monday January 29

Chang Liu, University of Rochester
"Foreign Currency Borrowing and Exporter Dynamics in Emerging Markets"

Tuesday January 30

Sara Spaziani, Brown University
"Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two US States"

Wednesday January 31

Morgane Richard, University College London
"The Spatial and Distributive Implications of Working-from-home: A General Equilibrium Model"

Friday February 2

Jonas Gathen, Toulouse School of Economics
"Making a Growth Miracle – Historical Persistence and the Dynamics of Development"

Monday February 5

Guangbin Hong, University of Toronto
"Two-Sided Sorting of Workers and Firms: Implications for Spatial Inequality and Welfare"

Wednesday February 7

Lisa Ho, MIT 
"Bringing Work Home: Flexible Arrangements as Gateway Jobs for Women in West Bengal"

IIES/SNS International Policy Talks

March 7 at 13.00-14.15

IIES/SNS International Policy talk - Jens Ludwig

At SNS, Jakobsbergsgatan 18, Stockholm

Early interventions are important to prevent the onset of criminal behavior. But how much is it possible to affect the choices an individual makes in life? What is the impact of behavioral programs that focus on young people's decision making?

Participants

Gunilla Dobrin, Founder and Method Developer, rePULSE
Jenny Kärrholm, Director of Research and Development, The Swedish National Board of Institutional Care (SiS)
Jens Ludwig, the Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, director of the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab, codirector of the Education Lab, and co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s working group on the economics of crime
Camilla Waltersson Grönvall, Minister for Social Services

The seminar is chaired by Mitchell Downey, Assistant Professor at the IIES

 

Thesis Defenses

Spring

Monday June 10th

10.00
Hörsal 9, Hus D
Fredrik Paues
"Essays on Housing Deregulation and Investment Behavior"
Opponent: David Domeij, HHS

Tuesday June 11th

10.00
Hörsal 9, Hus D
Philipp Hochmuth
"Essays on Hours Worked and Cost-of-Living Inequality"
Opponent: Andres Erosa, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Wednesday June 12th

10.00
Hörsal 9, Hus D
Stefan Hinkelmann
"On the Macroeconomics of the Energy Transition"
Opponent: Robert Hart, SLU

Thursday June 13th

13.00
Hörsal 8, Hus D
Sreyashi Sen
"Essays on Markets and Institutions in Developing Countries"
Opponent: Niklas Bengtsson, Uppsala University

Friday June 14th

9.00
Hörsal 9, Hus D
Evelina Linnros
"Essays on Fertility and Health"
Opponent: Maarten Lindeboom, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Fall

Thursday September 12

13.00
Hörsal 6, Södra husen C
Fabian Sinn
"Essays on Labor Economics and Social Dynamics"
Opponent: Peter Fredriksson, Uppsala University

Friday September 20

13.00
Hörsal 6, Södra husen C
Mohammadreza Farajpour
"On the Economics of Energy and Climate Change"
Opponent: Daniel Spiro, Uppsala University

 

 

 

 

Contact

Tobias Kjellberg

Administrator

tobias.kjellberg@iies.su.se
08-16 43 79
072-146 47 94

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Kieran Larkin

Assistant Professor

kieran.larkin@iies.su.se
08-674 77 15

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Laia Navarro-Sola

Assistant Professor

laia.navarrosola@iies.su.se
08-674 77 11

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