January  
Thu Jan 17 Philippe Martin (Sciences Po): "The Economics of Sovereign Debt, Bailouts and the Eurozone".
Tue Jan 22 Stefano Lombardi (UU): "Threat Effects of Monitoring and Unemployment Insurance Sanctions: Evidence from Two Reforms".
Thu Jan 24 Mathias von Buxhoeveden (UU): "Unemployment Insurance and Wage Formation".
Tue Jan 29 Maksym Khomenko (GU): "Private Information and Design of Unemployment Insurance".
Thu Jan 31 Paula Roth (UU): "The Relationship Between Inequality and Financial Distress - Evidence from Swedish Register Data"
   
February  
Thu Feb 14 Heather Sarsons (Harvard): "Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals". 
Wed Feb 20 Final Seminar: Vanessa Sternbeck-Fryxell (SU)
Thu Feb 21 Diego Battiston (SU): “Productivity in the Open Plan Workplace”.
Tue Feb 26 Brown Bag: Mårten Palme (SU): "Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility".
   
March  
Tue Mar 5 Brown Bag: Ines Helm (SU): “Do Car Scrappage Schemes Improve Local Air Quality? Evidence from Germany”.
Thu Mar 7 Andrea Weber (CEU): "Job Displacement, Family Dynamics and Spousal Labor Supply".
Fri Mar 8 Final seminar: Elisabet Olme (SU)
Tue Mar 12 Brown Bag: Sebastian Hohmann (SITE): "Intergenerational Mobility in Africa".
Thu Mar 14 Ruben Enikolopov (UPF): "Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia."
Tue Mar 19 Brown Bag: Ursula Mattioli Mello (ENTER/UC3M): "Affirmative Action, Centralized Admissions and Inequality in Acces to Higher Education: Evidence from Brazil".
Tue Mar 26 Ben Lockwood (Wharton): “Regressive Sin Taxes, with an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax”.
Thu Mar 28 Costas Arkolakis (Yale): "The Welfare Effects of Transportation Infrastructure Improvements" .
   
April  
Tue Apr 2 Brown Bag: Karl Walentin (Riksbank): ”Skill Loss, Job Mismatch and the Slow Recovery from the Great Recession”.
Thu Apr 4 Claudio Michelacci (EIEF): "The Extensive Margin of Aggregate Consumption Demand".
Tue Apr 9 Brown Bag: Luca Repetto (UU): "Divided they fall. Fragmented Parliaments and Government Stability".
Thu Apr 11 Juan Carlos Suarez- Serrato (Duke): "Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior: Evidence from China's VAT Reform ".
Tue Apr 16 Brown Bag: Sergio de Ferra (SU): "Sudden Stops and Export Growth: The Case of Greece".
Tue Apr 23 Brown Bag: Erika Färnstrand Damsgaard (Konj): "SELMA – A Business Cycle Model".
Tue Apr 30 Brown Bag: Anna Tompsett (SU): "Group Size and Collective Action: Evidence from Bangladesh".
   
May  
Thu May 2 Roman Sustek (Queen Mary): “MoNK: Mortgages in New-Keynesian Models”.
Tue May 7 Brown Bag: Valentine Gavazza (SU): "Fear of Secular Stagnation and the Natural Interest Rate".
Thu May 9 Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth): "Labor migration, capital accumulation, and the structure of rural labor markets".
Tue May 14 Brown Bag: Fabian Greimel (ENTER/Mannheim): "Falling behind: Has rising inequality fueled the American debt boom 1980--2007?"
Thu May 16 Petra Todd (U Penn): "Personality Traits, Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap”.
Tue May 21 Brown Bag: Benedetta Lerva (SU): "Strategic Behavior and Learning".
Thu May 23 David Atkin (MIT): "A New Engel on Price Index and Welfare Estimation”.
Tue May 28 Robert McMillan (Toronto): "Teacher Value-Added and Economic Agency".
Wed May 29 PhD Defense: Elisabet Olme (SU)
   
June  
Tue Jun 4 Brown Bag: Frederik Plum Hauschultz (CPH): “Linking patient beliefs and adherence: A structural learning model on antidepressant, antispychotics and ulcer”.
Fri Jun 7 Final seminar: Mathias Pronin (SU)
Tue Jun 11 Brown Bag: Markus Kondziella & Sebastian Tebbe (SU): "Estimating MPCs in a Bewley Model with Heterogeneous Income and Returns" & "In the Long Run We All Coordinate“.

Fri June 12

PhD Defense: Vanessa Sternbeck Fryxell (SU)

Thu Jun 13 Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Carlo Alberto): "Police Patrols and Crime".