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 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.

For more information contact IIES Seminar Series Administrator Ulrika Gålnander: ulrika.galnander@iies.su.se

For a list of the current semester's seminars and events at the IIES click on Seminars Fall 2022. A list of the previous semester's events can be accessed via Past Events.

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.

You can also subscribe to seminars using Google Calendar.

Seminars Fall 2022

The IIES Seminars are hybrid, meaning the speaker is presenting in the IIES Seminar room where you can either join in person or via Zoom. Seminars are 90 minutes including questions.

IIES/SNS International Policy Talks is a collaboration with 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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If you have any questions regarding the seminars, please contact IIES Seminar Series Administrator, Ulrika Gålnander: ulrika.galnander@iies.su.se

For Zoom links for each IIES seminar we refer you to our Events Calendar.

Seminars in the IIES Seminar Series

The IIES Seminars are on Tuesdays at 13.00 and Thursdays at 10.00 if nothing else is stated.

The seminars are hybrid, meaning the speaker is presenting in the IIES Seminar room where you can join in person, but one can also follow via Zoom.

Seminars run for 90 min including questions.

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: TBA

Thursday 6 September at 10.00

Raul Sanchez de la Sierra, University of Chicago
Title: TBA

Tuesday 13 September at 13.00

John Van Reenen, London School of Economics (LSE)
Title: TBA

Thursday 15 September at 10.00

Sara Lowes, UC San Diego
Title: TBA

Tuesday 20 September at 13.00

Frances Kramarz, CREST
Title: TBA

Thursday 22 September at 10.00

Paula Onuchic, Oxford University
Title: TBA

Tuesday 27 September at 13.00

Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Barcelona School of Economics
Title: TBA

Thursday 29 September at 10.00

Daniel Chen, Toulouse School of Economics
Title: TBA

Tuesday 4 October at 13.00

Amma Panin, UC Louvain
Title: TBA

Thursday 6 October at 10.00

Cezar Santos, Bank of Portugal
Title: TBA

Tuesday 11 October at 13.00

Karthik Sastry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title: TBA

Thursday 13 October at 10.00

Jacob Moscona, Harvard University
Title: TBA

Tuesday 18 October at 13.00 - CANCELED!

Ryan Oprea, UC Santa Barbara
Title: TBA

Wednesday 19 October at 10.00 (NB Day!!)

Janet Currie, Princeton University
Title: TBA

Thursday 27 October at 10.00

Joseba Martinez, London Business School
Title: TBA

Tuesday 8 November at 13.00

Gharad Bryan, London School of Economics (LSE)
Title: TBA

Thursday 10 November at 10.00

Jonas Hjort, University College London (UCL)
Title: TBA

Tuesday 15 November at 13.00

Ana Reynoso, University of Michigan
Title: TBA

Thursday 17 November at 10.00

Christian Wolf, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Title: TBA

Tuesday 22 November at 13.00

Thomas Lemieux, Vancouver School of Economics
Title: TBA

Thursday 24 November at 10.00

Isaac Baley Gaytan, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Title: TBA

Tuesday 28 November at 13.00

Edoardo Teso, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Title: TBA

Thursday 1 December at 10.00

Giacomo De Giorgio, GSEM-University of Geneva
Title: TBA

Past Events - Spring 2022

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

For lists of older events, please contact Hanna Weitz: hanna.weitz@iies.su.se

Post-doc Job Talks

Ciaran Rogers, Stanford University

Title: Quantitative Easing and Local Banking Systems in the Euro Area

Amanda Dahlstrand, London School of Economics

Title: Defying Distance? The Provision of Services in the Digital Age

Diego Känzig, London Business School

Title: The unequal economic consequences of carbon pricing

Seminars in the IIES Seminar Series

Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania

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

Peter André, Briq Institute

Title: Shallow Meritocracy

Davide Cantoni, LMU Munich

Title: The Rise of Fiscal Capacity, with Cathrin Mohr, Matthias Weigand

Niklas Engbom, NYU

Title: Misallocative growth

Jonathan Lehne, SITE SSE

Title: Incumbents, Minorities, and Voter purges: Evidence from 120 million voters’ registrations in India

Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren, SOFI SU

Title: The impact of PhD studies on Mental Health Care uptake, with S. Bergvall, C. Fernström & E. Ranehill

Florin Bilbiie, University of Lausanne

Title: Inequality and Business Cycles, with Giorgio Primiceri and Andrea Tambalotti

Vincent Sterk, UCL

Title: Startup Types and Macroeconomic Performance in Europe, with Ralph de Haas and Neeltje van Horen

Thomas Le Barbanchon, Bocconi University

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

Carolyn Stein, Stanford University / (From July 2022) UC Berkeley

Title: Race to the Bottom: Competition and Quality in Science, with Ryan Hill

Paolo Sodini, SSE

Title: From Saving Comes Having? Disentangling the Impact of Saving on Wealth Inequality, with Laurent Bach & Laurent E. Calvet

Christopher Roth, University of Cologne

Title: Narratives about the Macroeconomy

Imran Rasul, 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

Claudia Allende Santa Cruz, Stanford GSB

Title: Search Costs, Biased Beliefs and School Choice under Endogenous Consideration Sets

Tommaso Porzio, Columbia Business School

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

Cynthia Kinnan, Tufts University

Title: Propagation and Insurance in Village Networks

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University

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

Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan

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

Lena Edlund, Columbia University

Title: The State and The Family

Michael Peters, Yale University

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

Hans-Joachim Voth, University of Zurich

Title: New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism during WW II, with Bruno Caprettini

Attila Lindner, UCL

Title: Quality Complementarity in Supplier-Client Networks

Elisa Rubbo, Chicago Booth School of Business

Title: Monetary non-neutrality in the cross-section

Gaetano Gaballo, HEC Paris

Title: Spending Allocation under Nominal Uncertainty: A Model of Effective Price Rigidity

Moritz Kuhn, University of Bonn

Title: Worker Careers and Life-Cycle Wage Dynamics

IIES/SNS International Policy Talks

Maryam Farboodi, MIT Sloan

Title: After Work Seminar on the Value of Big Data

Thesis Defenses

José Elias Gallegos Dago

Title: Essays in Macroeconomics
Opponent: Gaetano Gaballo, HEC Paris

Xueping Sun

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