Friday 13 January at 10.00

Pauline Carry, CREST
Title: The Effects of the Legal Minimum Working Time on Workers, Firms and the
Labor Market

Monday 16 January at 10.00

Eleanor Wiseman, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Border Trade and Information Frictions: Evidence from Informal Traders
in Kenya

Wednesday 18 January at 09.30

Sara Casella, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Women's Labor Force Participation and the Business Cycle

Thursday 19 January at 10.00

Kai-Jie Wu, University of Rochester
Title: The Rise of Specialized Firms

Monday 25 January at 13.30

Mikko Silliman, Harvard University
Title: Childcare, social skills, and the labor market

Thursday 26 January at 10.00

Marta Morazzoni, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Title: Student Debt and Entrepreneurship in the US

Friday 27 January at 10.00

Suzanna Khalifa, Aix-Marseille Université
Title: Female Genital Cutting and Bride Price

Wednesday 1 February at 09.30

Filip Babalievsky, University of Minnesota
Title: Misallocation in the Market for Inventors

Monday 6 February at 10.00

Xincheng Qiu, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Vacant Jobs

Thursday 9 March at 10.00

Christian Wolf, MIT
Title: Can Deficits Finance Themselves? with George-Marios Angeletos and Chen Lian.

Thursday 16 March at 10.00

David Argente, Penn State University
Title: Strategic Complementarities in a Dynamic Model of Technology Adoption: P2P Digital Payments, with Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi, Esteban Mendez and Diana Van Patten

Tuesday 21 March at 13.00

Thomas Drechsel, UMD
Title: Income Inequality and Job Creation with Sebastian Doerr and Donggyu Lee

Thursday 23 March at 10.00

Dean Karlan, Northwestern University
Title: Psychosocial Constraints and Social Protection: Evidence from Studies
New, Old, Borrowed, and Blue (but Some Happy Too) 

Tuesday 28 March at 13.00

Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University
Title: Mobile Money, Interoperability and Financial Inclusion

Thursday  30 March at 10.00

Anna Vitali, UCL
Title: Consumer search and firm location: Theory and Evidence from the garment sector in Uganda. 

Tuesday 4 April at 13.00

Tommy Andersson, Lund University
Title: A General Non-Manipulable Matching Mechanism for Markets with One-sided Preferences

Tuesday 18 April at 13.00

Corina Boar, NYU
Title: Nonlinear Inflation Dynamics in Menu Cost Economies with Andres Blanco, Callum Jones, Virgiliu Midrigan.

Tuesday 25 April at 13.00

Gordon Dahl, UCSD
Title: On the Formation of In-group Bias: The Role of Peer Group Diversity and Cultural Distance with Dan Anderberg, Christina Felfe, Helmut Rainer and Thomas Siedler.

Thursday 27 April at 10.00

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Chicago Booth School of Business
Title: Mechanism design for personalized policy:A field experiment incentivizing behavior change
with Ariel Zucker

Tuesday 2 May at 13.00

Ludwig Straub, Harvard University
Title: Disaggregated Economic Accounts with Asger Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, Kilian Huber
and Niels Johannesen.

Thursday 4 May at 10.00

Edwin Leuven, University of Oslo
Title: College admission as a screening and sorting device, with Mikkel Gandil

Tuesday 9 May at 13.00

Doug Gollin, University of Oxford
Title: The Long-Run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India,” with Sam Asher, Ali Campion, and Paul Novosad.

Thursday 11 May at 10.00

Alison Andrew, University of Oxford
Title: Gender Norms, Violence and Adolescent Girls' Trajectories:  Evidence from a Field Experiment in India

Tuesday 16 May at 13.00

Luca Fornaro, CREI
Title: Monetary Policy during Unbalanced Global Recoveries, with Federica Romei

Tuesday 23 May at N.B!! 10.15 N.B!!

Adrien Bilal, Harvard University
Title: Anticipating Climate Change Across the United States, with Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Thursday 25 May at 10.00

Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
Title: The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India.

Tuesday 30 May at 13.00

Mitchell Hoffman, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management
Title: Is This Really Kneaded? Identifying and Eliminating Potentially Harmful Monitoring Practices, with Guido Friebel, Matthias Heinz, Tobias Kretschmer and Nick Zubanov.

Wednesday May 17th at 11.30-12.30

Luca Fornaro, CREI
Title: Why did global inflation rise? How is inflation transmitted across countries? Do we need international monetary policy cooperation?

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Wednesday 24 May at 13.00, Hörsal 4, Södra Husen, Stockholm University.

Mattias Almgren
Title: Essays on Home Production, Mobility, and Monetary Policy
Opponent: Almut Balleer, RWTH University Aachen

Wednesday 31 May at 9.00, G-salen, Arrhenius hus F, Våning 3

Claire Thürwächter
Title: Essays on Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Firm Heterogeneity
Opponent: Mathias Klein, Sveriges Riksbank

Thursday 1 June at 10.00, Hörsal 11, Hus F, Södra Husen

Tillmann von Carnap
Title: Markets and marketplaces: Essays on access and transformation in remote rural economies
Opponent: Samuel Asher, Imperial College London

Friday 2 June at 9.00, Hörsal 12, Hus F, Södra Husen

Markus Peters
Title: Essays on Savings Behavior, Inflation Measurement, and Growth

Opponent: Tobias Laun, Konjunktursinstitutet (Macroeconomic Research and Simulations Division, National Institute of Economic Research)

Thursday 8 June at 10.00, Hörsal 11, Hus F, Södra Husen

Francesco Loiacono
Title: Firms and Labor Markets: Essays in Development Economics

Opponent: Simon Quinn, University of Oxford

Tuesday 13 June at 13.00, Hörsal 11, Hus F, Södra Husen

Sebastian Tebbe

Title: Externalities and Coordination Failures

Opponent: Ulrich Wagner, University of Mannheim

Wednesday 14 June at 13.00, Hörsal 11, Hus F, Södra Husen

Gualtiero Azzalini

Title:Essays on Income Risk, Portfolio Choices and the Macroeconomy

Opponent: Alexander Michaelides, Imperial College London

Thursday 15 June at 13.00, Hörsal 11, Hus F, Södra Husen

Markus Kondziella

 Title: Essays on Economic Growth, Inflation and Inequality,

Opponent: Caroline Villegas Sanchez, ESADE Business School

Monday 24 January at 10.00

Ciaran Rogers, Stanford University
Title: Quantitative Easing and Local Banking Systems in the Euro Area

Thursday 27 January at 10.00

Amanda Dahlstrand, London School of Economics
Title: Defying Distance? The Provision of Services in the Digital Age

Wednesday 16 February at 10.00

Diego Känzig, London Business School
Title: The unequal economic consequences of carbon pricing

Spring 2022

Thursday 3 March at 13.00

Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labor Shares, and Capital-Labor Substitution

Tuesday 8 March at 13.00

Peter André, Briq Institute
Title: Shallow Meritocracy 

Thursday 10 March at 13.00

Davide Cantoni, LMU Munich
Title: The Rise of Fiscal Capacity, with Cathrin Mohr, Matthias Weigand

Tuesday 15 March at 13.00

Niklas Engbom, New York University (NYU)
Title: Misallocative growth

Thursday 17 March at 13.00

Jonathan Lehne, SITE at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
Title: Incumbents, Minorities, and Voter purges: Evidence from 120 million voters’ registrations in India

Tuesday 22 March at 13.00

Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren, SOFI at Stockholm University
Title: The impact of PhD studies on Mental Health Care uptake, with S. Bergvall, C. Fernström & E. Ranehill

Thursday 31 March at 13.00

Florin Bilbiie, University of Lausanne
Title: Inequality and Business Cycles, with Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

Tuesday 5 April at 14.00

Vincent Sterk, University College London (UCL)
Title: Startup Types and Macroeconomic Performance in Europe, with Ralph de Haas and Neeltje van Horen

Thursday 7 April at 13.00

Thomas Le Barbanchon, Bocconi University
Title: How do Women and Men Search for Jobs over the Unemployment Spell? with Lena Hensvik, and Roland Rathelot

Thursday 21 April at 13.00

Carolyn Stein, Stanford University / (From July 2022) UC Berkeley
Title: Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science, with Ryan Hill

Tuesday 26 April at 13.00

Paolo Sodini, Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
Title: From Saving Comes Having? Disentangling the Impact of Saving on Wealth Inequality, with Laurent Bach & Laurent E. Calvet

Thursday 28 April at 13.00

Christopher Roth, University of Cologne
Title: Narratives about the Macroeconomy

Tuesday 3 May at 13.00

Imran Rasul, University College London (UCL)
Title: The Search for Good Jobs: Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda, with Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitaliy

Thursday 5 May at 13.00

Claudia Allende Santa Cruz, Stanford GSB
Title: Search Costs, Biased Beliefs and School Choice under Endogenous Consideration Sets

Tuesday 10 May at 13.00

Tommaso Porzio, Columbia Business School
Title: Self-Employment within the Firm, with Vittorio Bassi, Jay Lee, Alessandra Peter, Ritwika Sen, and Esau Tugume

Thursday 12 May at 13.00

Cynthia Kinnan, Tufts University
Title: Propagation and Insurance in Village Networks  

Tuesday 17 May at 13.00

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University
Title: The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight:A Neo-Kindlebergerian View, with Adam M. Guren

Wednesday 18 May at 10.00

Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan
Title: Cleansing by Tight Credit: Rational Cycles and Endogenous Lending Standards, with Peter Kondor

Tuesday 24 May at 13.00

Lena Edlund, Columbia University
Title: The State and The Family

Tuesday 31 May at 10.00

Michael Peters, Yale University
Title: Growing Like India: The Unequal Effects of Service-Led Growth, with Tianyu Fan and Fabrizio Zilibotti

Thursday 2 June at 13.00

Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich
Title: New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism during WW II, with Bruno Caprettini

Tuesday 7 June at 13.00

Attila Lindner, University College London (UCL)
Title: Quality Complementarity in Supplier-Client Networks

Wednesday 8 June at 9.30

Elisa Rubbo, Chicago Booth School of Business
Title: Monetary non-neutrality in the cross-section

Thursday 9 June at 13.00

Gaetano Gaballo, HEC Paris
Title: Spending Allocation under Nominal Uncertainty: A Model of Effective Price Rigidity

Thursday 16 June at 13.00

Moritz Kuhn, University of Bonn
Title: Worker Careers and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

Fall 2022

Tuesday 30 August at 13.00

Xavier Gabaix, Harvard University
Title: In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis

Thursday 1 September at 10.00

Marcella Alsan, Harvard Kennedy School
Title: Representation and Legitimacy: Evidence from Clinical Trials

Tuesday 6 September at 13.00

Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Title: Predicting Long-term Unemployment Risk, with Andreas Mueller.

Thursday 8 September at 10.00

Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago
Title: Who becomes a militia combatant? Inside the Nduma Defense of Congo-Renove

Tuesday 13 September at 13.00

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Title: The Impact of Regulation on Innovation (3372 Kb)

Thursday 15 September at 10.00

Sara Lowes, UC San Diego
Title: The Origins and Consequences of Communal Property Rights  

Tuesday 20 September at 13.00

Francis Kramarz, CREST
Title: Matching Workers’ Skills and Firms’ Technologies: From Bundling to Unbundling, with Philippe Choné.

Thursday 22 September at 10.00

Paula Onuchic, University of Oxford
Title: Signaling and Discrimination in Collaborative Projects

Tuesday 27 September at 13.00

Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Barcelona School of Economics
Title: Excess of Transfer Progressivity in the Village, with Francesco Carli and Albert Rodriguez-Sala.

Thursday 29 September at 10.00

Daniel Chen, Toulouse School of Economics
Title: Data Science for Justice: Evidence from a Randomized Judicial Reform in Kenya

Tuesday 4 October at 13.00

Amma Panin, UC Louvain
Title: Using religious participation to insure mental health in Ghana.

Thursday 6 October at 10.00

Cezar Santos, Inter-American Development Bank
Title: Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development, with Tiago Cavalcanti, Joseph P. Kaboski and Bruno Martins

Tuesday 11 October at 13.00

Karthik Sastry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title: Attention Cycles, with Joel Flynn 

Thursday 13 October at 10.00

Jacob Moscona, Harvard University
Title: Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture, with Karthik A. Sastry

Tuesday 18 October at 13.00

Dajana Xhani, Tilburg University
Title: Correcting Market Power with Taxation: A Sufficient Statistic Approach

Wednesday 19 October at 10.00 (NB Day!!)

Janet Currie, Princeton University
Title: Medication of Postpartum Depression and Maternal Outcomes: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Dutch Prescribing.

Thursday 27 October at 10.00

Joseba Martinez, London Business School
Title: Short-Term Tax Cuts, Long-Term Stimulus

Tuesday 8 November at 13.30 N.B Time!

Gharad Bryan, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Title: Big Loans to Small Businesses: Predicting Winners and Losers in an Entrepreneurial Lending Experiment
with Dean Karlan and Adam Osman

Thursday 10 November at 10.00

Jonas Hjort, University College London (UCL)
Title: Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies, with Alan Griffith and Yue Yue

Tuesday 22 November at 13.00

Thomas Lemieux, Vancouver School of Economics
Title: Who Benefits from Place-Based Policies? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Thursday 24 November at 10.00

Isaac Baley Gaytan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Title: The Macroeconomics of Partial Irreversibility, with Andres Blanco.

Tuesday 29 November at 13.00

Edoardo Teso, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Title: State Capacity as an Organizational Problem. Evidence from the Growth of the U.S. State over 100 Years

Spring 2022

Tuesday 15 February at 9.00 am

Sascha Becker, Monash University
Title: Consequences of Refugee Immigration

Tuesday 17 May at 4.00 pm

Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan
Title: After Work Seminar on the Value of Big Data

Fall 2022

Wednesday 14 September at 4.00 pm

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Title: The Case for Growth

Friday 10 June at 9.00

José-Elías Gallegos Dago
Title: Essays in Macroeconomics
Opponent: Gaetano Gaballo, HEC Paris

Monday 13 June at 13.00

Xueping Sun
Title: Essays on China’s Economic Development: Innovation, Public Debt and Social Connections
Opponent: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Paris School of Economics

Wednesday 15 June at 9.00

John Vincent Kramer
Title: Essays on Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy and Mobility
Opponent: Moritz Kuhn, University of Bonn