Forschungsseminar

Die Forschungsseminare finden, wenn nicht anders vermerkt, an Montagen um 16:15 Uhr im Seminarraum A222 Uni-S statt.

Termine 2024

Seminare
Datum	Referent/In	Titel
19.02.2024	Kenneth Gillingham Yale University	Valuing Technology Complementarities: Rooftop Solar and Energy Storage
26.02.2024	Matthew Mitchell University of Toronto	Selling Checkmarks
04.03.2024	Guillaume Pouliot University of Chicago	An Exact t-Test
11.03.2024	Galo Nuno Barrau Bank of Spain	Firm Heterogeneity, Capital Misallocation and Optimal Monetary Policy
25.03.2024	Michael Lechner University of St. Gallen	Comprehensive Causal Machine Learning
29.04.2024	Kevin Bryan University of Toronto	The Paper Trail of Knowledge, Revisited
13.05.2024	Dmitry Mukhin LSE	Optimal Exchange Rate Policy
23.09.2024	Ariell Reshef PSE	Legislation, Regulation and Litigation: Demand for U.S. Legal Services in Historical Perspective
30.09.2024	Paula Onuchic LSE	How do Groups Speak and How are They Understood
07.10.2024	Christopher Roth University of Cologne	AI Customization and the Market for News
14.10.2024	Han Ye University of Mannheim	Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes
21.10.2024	David Andolfatto University of Miami	Was the 2021-22 Inflation Surge Avoidable?
28.10.2024	Jonas von Wangenheim University of Bonn	Organizational Change and Reference-Dependent Preferences
Friday, 01.11.2024 14.00-15.30	Jaromir Nosal Boston College	The macroeconomic implications of the Gen-AI economy
18.11.2024	Christian Ochsner CERGE-EI, Prag	Pandemics’ reprisals: The U-shaped pattern of suffering for effective policy measures
02.12.2024	Fabrizio Mattesini Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Seminare vorheriger Jahre

2023

2023
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
20.03.2023	Andre Kurmann Drexel University's LeBow College of Business	Disincentive Effects of Pandemic Unemployment Benefits
27.03.2023	Dina Pomeranz University of Zurich	Decreasing Emissions by Increasing Energy Access? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Off-Grid Solar Lights
03.04.2023	Ed Nosal FRB Atlanta	Provision of liquidity to stressed financial markets: Resurrecting the classical lender of last resort
17.04.2023	Roger Koenker University College London	Nonparametric Empirical Bayes: An Overview
24.04.2023	Oliver Scaillet University of Geneva	Latent Factor Analysis in Short Panels
08.05.2023	Jorge Lemus University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Product Development with Lurking Patentees
15.05.2023	Anna Salomons Utrecht University	New Frontiers: The Origins and Content of New Work, 1940-2018
22.05.2023	Jorge De La Roca University of Southern California	Skill allocation and urban amenities in the developing world
Friday, 10.15 am 26.05.2023	Joris Müller National University of Singapore	State-Building in a Diverse Society
18.09.2023	Sandro Ambühl University of Zurich	Competing Causal Interpretations: An Experimental Study
25.09.2023	Oliver Pfäuti University of Bern	The Inflation Attention Threshold and Inflation Surge
09.10.2023	Mirco Rubin EDHEC Business Schoool in Nice	New Tests and Estimators for Common Dynamic Factors
16.10.2023	Ryan Kellogg University of Chicago	Environmental Consequences of Hydrocarbon Infrastructure Policy
30.10.2023	Kevin Sheedy LSE	Endogenous Bank Fragility in a Macroeconomic Model
04.12.2023	Temo Anda ETH/NUS Singapore	Generative AI for synthetic data: creating privacy-preserving mobility populations

2022

2021

Forschungsseminar
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
12.04.2021	Dirk Foremny University of Barcelona	Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility
26.04.2021	Yanos Zylberberg University of Bristol	Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China
03.05.2021	Martino Pelli University of Sherbrooke	A Tale of Two Roads: Groundwater Depletion in the North China Plain
10.05.2021	Petyo Bonev University of St Gallen	The effect of local monitoring on nuclear safety and compliance: evidence from France
17.05.2021	Kirill Borusyak University College London (UCL)	Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications
11.06.2021 Friday	Pierre Regibeau Chief Economist, DG Competition	current debates in competition policy
04.10.2021	Daniel Kaufmann University of Neuchatel	Do Sticky Wages Matter? New Evidence from Matched Firm-Survey and Register Data
11.10.2021	Elisa Ossola ISPRA (European Commission)	When do investors go green? Evidence from a time-varying asset-pricing model
15.10.2021 Friday, 16.00 h	Bo Honoré Princeton University	Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects
18.10.2021	Emanuele Tarantino LUISS Rome	Shelving or developing? The acquisition of potential competitors under financial constraints
01.11.2021	Ines Helm Stockholm University	The dynamic response of municipal budgets to revenue shocks
08.11.2021	Simon Dietz LSE	Growth and adaptation to climate change in the long run
15.11.2021	Pierre-Philippe Combes PSE	Measuring land use changes by (machine) learning from historical maps - The emergence, growth, and stagnation of cities: France c. 1760-2020
29.11.2021	Matias Cortes York University	Make Your Own Luck: The Wage Gains from Starting College in a Bad Economy
06.12.201 postponed	Colleen Cunningham LBS	Keeping invention confidential
13.12.2021 postponed	Lorenz Kueng University of Lugano

2020

Forschungsseminar
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
17.02.2020	Mauricio Romero Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)	Factorial Designs, Model Selection, and (Incorrect) Inference in Randomized Experiments
09.03.2020	Raphael Parchet Universita Della svizzera Italiana	Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?
02.11.2020	Sebastian Siegloch University of Mannheim	Direct, Spill-Over and Welfare Effects of Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Investment Subsidies in East Germany via Zoom

2019

Forschungsseminar
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
09.12.2019	Sarah Auster Bocconi University	Sorting versus screening in markets with adverse selection
02.12.2019	Yassine Lefouili Toulouse School of Economics	Privacy Regulation and Quality Investment
11.11.2019	Marek Pycia University of Zurich	Evaluating with Statistics: Which Outcome Measures Differentiate Among Matching Mechanisms?
04.11.2019	Jeremy Laurent-Lucchetti University of Geneva	Ethnic Conflicts and the Informational Dividend of Democracy
21.10.2019	Beatrix Eugster University of St Gallen	Peers with special needs: Effects and Policies
30.09.2019	Cristian P. Traeger University of Oslo	Capturing Instrinsic Risk Attitude
23.09.2019	Matti Liski Aalto University	Do consumers gain when new technologies improve the efficiency of goods trade?
07.06.2019 Friday	Giacomo Calzolari European University Institute	Artifical Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion
27.05.2019	Ulrike Schneider Technische Universität Wien	On the Model Selection Properties and Geometry of the Lasso
13.05.2019	Margaret Meyer Oxford University	Gaming and Strategic Opacity in Incentive Provision: Experimental Evidence
06.05.2019	Yannis Ioannides Tufts University	Endogenous Social Networks and Inequality in an Intergenerational Settings
01.05.2019 Wednesday 12.00 h	Vasiliki Skreta University College London	Mechanism Design with Limited Commitment
15.04.2019	Patrick Premand World Bank	Creating New Positions? Direct and Indirect Effects ofa Subsidized Apprenticeship Program (PDF, 1.2 MB)
08.04.2019	Nadine Riedel Bochum-Ruhr Universität	Spatial Tax Enforcement Spillovers: Evidence from South Africa
01.04.2019	Martin Wagner Technische Universität Dortmund	Testing Linear Cointegration Against Smooth Transition Cointegration: Theory and an Application to Long-Run Money Demand
25.03.2018	Frederic Malherbe UCL	Beyond Pangloss: Financial Sector Origins of Excessive Output
18.03.2019	Marc Muendler UCL	Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy
11.03.2019	Ester Faia Universität Frankfurt	Automation, Globalization and Vanishing Jobs: A Labor Market Sorting View
04.03.2019	Paulina Restrepo Federal Reserve Bank St Louis	Resource Curse or Blessing? Sovereign Risk in Resource-Rich Emerging Economies
25.02.2019	Maarten Janssen University of Vienna	Retail Discrimination in Search Markets
18.02.2019	Mike Burkart London School of Economics	Activism and Takeovers

2018

Forschungsseminar
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
19.12.2018	Simon Alder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Political Distortions and Infrastructure Networks in China: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Analysis
19.11.2018	Hans Gersbach ETH Zürich	On the (Dynamic) Money Creation Approach
12.11.2018	Jakub Steiner Uni Zurich and CERGE-EI	Attention Please!
29.10.2018	Simon Loertscher University of Melbourne	Equilibrium adjustment dynamics
22.10.2018	Francisco Ruge-Murcia McGill University	Indirect Inference Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamic General Equilibrium Models: With an Application to Asset Pricing under Skewness Risk
15.10.2018	Simon Broda University of Amsterdam	Backtesting CoVaR
01.10.2018	Luis Santos-Pinto HEC Lausanne	Subjective Performance Evaluation of Employees with Biased Beliefs
24.09.2018	Per Krusell IIES, Stockholm University	The Historical Evolution of the Wealth Distribution: A Quantitative-theoretic Investigation
17.09.2018	Laurent Gobillon Paris School of Economics	The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
23.05.2018	Beata Javorcik University of Oxford	Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks
22.05.2018 12.15 h	Stephan Heblich University of Bristol	East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting
14.05.2018	Timo Boppart IIES	Missing Growth from Creative Destruction
30.04.2018	Lea Cassar University of Cologne	Intentions for Doing Good Matter for Doing Well: The (Negative) Signaling Value of Prosocial Incentives
16.04.2018	Dana Sisak Erasmus University Rotterdam	Showing Off or Laying Low?
09.04.2018	Giacomo Ponzetto CREI/Pombeu Fabra	Securing Property Rights
19.03.2018	Daniel Kraehmer Universität Bonn	Full Surplus Extraction in Mechanism Design with Information Disclosure
13.03.2018	Francesco Zanetti University of Oxford	State Dependence in Labor Market Fluctuations: Evidence, Theory and Policy Implications
12.03.2018	Lorenz Kueng Northwestern University	Excess Sensitivity of High-Income Consumers
05.03.2018	Todd Keister University of Rutgers	Managing Aggregate Liquidity: The Role of a Central Bank Digital Currency
26.02.2018	Tai-Wei Hu University of Bristol	Optimal Banking Regulation with Endogenous Liquidity Provision
19.02.2018	Konrad Mierendorff UCL	Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention

2017

Forschungsseminar
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
18.12.2017	Guillaume Vuillemey HEC	The Failure of a Clearinghouse: Empirical Evidence
12.12.2017	Susanna Esteban CEMFI	International Integration of Used Markets with a Monopoly Producer
01.12.2017 (Friday)	John Moore LSE	Leverage Stacks and the Financial System
20.11.2017	Florian Scheuer University of Zurich	Signaling to Experts
06.11.2017	Luca Fornaro CREI	The Paradox of Global Thrift
30.10.2017	Toomas Hinnosaar Collegio Carlo Alberto	Dynamic common-value contests
23.10.2017	Alessandro Mennuni University of Southampton	Liquid Accounts as a Store of Value and Excess Capacity
09.10.2017	Fernando Martin St. Louis Fed.	The Value of Constraints on Discretionary Government Policy
02.10.2017	Ralph Ossa University of Zurich	Accounting for the New Gains from Trade Liberalization
25.09.2017	Justin Johnson Cornell University	Anticompetitive Exclusive Dealing without Exclusion
20.09.2017	Sascha Becker University of Warwick	The Economic Effects of Catholic Censorship During the Counter-Reformation
29.05.2017	Giacomo Calzolari University of Bologna	Exclusive contracts with costly rent extraction
15.05.2017	Francois Geerolf University of California	A Theory of Discount Rates
08.05.2017	Jose L. Moraga Gonzales Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	A Model of Directed Consumer Search
28.04.2017	Yongmin Chen University of Colorado at Boulder	Experience Goods, Consumer Search, and Intermediaries
10.04.2017	Xavier Ragot Paris School of Economics	Inequality, Liquidity, and Optimal Monetary Policy
27.03.2017	José V. Rodriguez Mora University of Edinburgh	Correlating Social Mobility and Economic Outcomes
20.03.2017	Jean-Paul L'Huillier Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) Zwischenspeicher entfernen	Technological Revolutions and the Three Great Slumps: A Medium-Run Analysis
13.03.2017	Simone Manganelli European Central Bank	Deciding with Judgment
27.02.2017	David de la Croix Université catholique de Louvain	French Fertility and Education Transition: Rational Choice vs. Cultural Diffusion
20.02.2017	Frank Kleibergen University of Amsterdam	Efficient size correct subset inference in linear instrumental variables regression

2016

Forschungsseminar
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
22.02.2016	Fabian Herweg University of Bayreuth	Optimal Cost Overruns: Procurement Auctions with Renegotiation
29.02.2016	Gregory Crawford University of Zurich	Bounding Demand Elasticities with Unobserved Choice Set Heterogeneity
07.03.2016	Shengxing Zhang London School of Economics	Turnover Liquidity and the Transmission of Monetary Policy
21.03.2016	Francesca Carapella Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.	Clearing, transparency, and collateral
04.04.2016	Martin Gonzales-Eiras University of Copenhagen	Why Might the Old Want to Honor Sovereign Debt?
11.04.2016	David Dorn University of Zurich	Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents
18.04.2016	Marlene Isoré University of Helsinki	Disaster risk and preference shifts in a New Keynesian model
25.04.2016	Gabriel Ahlfeldt London School of Economics and Political Science	Après Nous le Déluge? Direct Democracy and Intergenerational Conflicts in Ageing Societies
02.05.2016	Marie Hoerova European Central Bank	Optimal margins and equilibrium prices
09.05.2016	Ferdinand Rauch Oxford University	The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network
17.05.2016	Jaime Luque University of Wisconsin-Madison	The credit scoring channel in the subprime conduit mortgage market
23.05.2016	Toru Kitagawa University College London	Who should be treated? Empirical welfare maximization methods for treatment choice.
19.09.2016	Benoit Mojon Banque de France	Forward guidance and heterogenous beliefs
05.10.2016	Patrick Fève Toulouse School of Economics	When is Nonfundamentalness in VARs A Real Problem? An Application to News Shocks
17.10.2016	Roman Sustek University of London
07.11.2016	Regis Breton Banque de France
14.11.2016	Alexey Kushnir Carnegie Mellon University
29.11.2016	Joao Montez HEC Lausanne
12.12.2016	Alex Whalley University California
19.12.2016	Patrick Gagliardini University of Lugano

2015

Frédéric Robert-Nicoud, Université de Genève
"Trade and long term unemployment: A quantitative assesment"
Kevin Sheedy, London School of Economics
"Morning Horse"
Martin Wagner, TU Dortmund
Ben Lester, Philadelphia FED
Marek Jarocinski, European Central Bank
Regis Barnichon, CREI/Pompeu Fabra
"Measuring the Non-linear Effects of Monetary Policy"
Francesco Zanetti, Oxford University
Christiane Baumeister, Bank of Canada
"Sign Restrictions, Structural Vector Autoregressions, and Useful Prior Information"
Shengxing Zhang, London School of Economics
Leonardo Melosi, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Thierry Magnac, Toulouse School of Economics
Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the future
"Strategic subsidies for green goods
Davide Debortoli, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Optimal Time-Consistent Government Debt Maturity
Angel Hernando Veciana, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
"Rounding in Libor Fixing"
David Albouy, University of Illinois
"Housing Demand and Expenditures: How Rising Rent Levels Affect Behavior andCosts-of-Living over Space and Time"
Keith Kuester, University of Bonn
"Doves for the Rich, Hawks for the poor? Distributional consequences of monetary policy"
Dino Gerardi, Collegio Carlo Alberto
"Dynamic Contracting with Limited Commitment and the Ratchet Effect"
Mario Forni, University di Modena
"Measuring Fundamentalness and Partial Fundamentalness in Structural VARs"
Ed Nosal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
"Segregated Balance Accounts"
Helmut Lütkepohl, Freie Unviersität Berlin
"Structural Vector Autoregressions with Heteroskedasticity - A Comparison of Different Volatility Models"
Dennis Kristensen, University College London
"Modeling Corporate Defaults: Poisson Autoregressions with Exogeneous Covariates (PARX)
Tomohiro Hirano, University of Tokyo
"Macroprudential Policy versus Bailouts in a Rational-Bubble Model: Lean or Clean?"
Christian Keuschnigg, Universität St. Gallen
"Flexicurity, Taxes and Job Reallocation"
Tim Friehe, University of Bonn
"The Influence of Product Liability on Vertical Product Dierentiation"
Aleksander Berentsen, University of Basel
"Financial Fragility in Monetary Economies"
Stefan Hoderlein, Boston University
"The Triangular Model with Random Coefficients"
Piepaolo Benigno, LUISS
"Non-Neutrality of Open-Market Operations"

2014

Herman van Dijk, University of Amsterdam -
"Posterior-Predictive Evidence on US Inflation using Extended new Keynesian philips Curve Models with non-filtered Data
Philippe Bacchetta, HEC Lausanne
"Corporate Cash and Employment"
Ricardo Reis, Columbia University
"Maintaining Central-Bank Solvency under New-Style Central Banking"
Berno Büchel, University of Hamburg
"Opinion Dynamics and Wisdom under Conformity"
Kathy Spier, Harvard University
" Trial and Settlement: A Study of High-Low Agreements"
Luca Sala, Bocconi University
"Noisy News in Business Cycles"
David Martimort, Paris School of Economics
" Double-edged asymmetric information as a motive for trade, trade policies, and inefficient trade agreements"
Luis Santos Pinto, University of Lausanne
" Entrepreneurial Optimism and Equity Market Signaling"
Francois Gourio, Boston University and FED
"Financial Distress and Endogenous Uncertainty"
Daniel Chen, ETH Zurich
"Growth Under the Shadow of Expropriation? The Economic Impacts of Eminent Domain"
Carlo Favero, Bocconi University
"The Output Effect of Fiscal Adjustments"
Sylvia Kaufmann, Studycenter Gerzensee
"The Cyclical Component of Labor Market Polarization and Jobless Recoveries in the US"
Luca Gambetti, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona
"The Effects of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices Bubbles: Some Evidence"
Sophocles Mavroeidis, Oxford University
"Learning can generate Long Memory"
Katja Kaufmann, Bocconi University
"The intergenerational Effects of Elite higher Education: Evidence from Chile"
John Moore, London School of Economics
Conny Wunsch, Universität Basel
"Unemployment insurance and departures from employment"
Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University
"Inference Based on SVARs Identified with Sign and Zero Restrictions: Theory and Application"
Diego Puga, CEMFI Madrid
"City of Dreams"
Andrea Weber, Univeristät Mannheim
"Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes"
Jordi Gali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"The Effects of a Money-Financed Fiscal Stimulus"
Guido Ascari, University of Pavia
"Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions: Leeper (91) Redux"
Jorgen Weibull, Stockholm School of Economics
"Evolutionarily stable strategies, preferences and moral values, in n-player interactions"
Ulrich J. Wagner, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
"Can taxes tame the banks? Evidence from European bank levies"
Heiko Karle, ETH Zurich
"The Structure of Negotiations: Incomplete Agreements and the Focusing Effect"
Stefan Sperlich, Universität Genf
"Fancy Non-(non-)linearities in Applied Econometrics"

Forschungsseminar
Datum	Referent/in	Titel
21.02.2022	Dominic Rohner University of Lausanne	Hidden Hostility: Donor Attention and Political Violence
28.02.2022	Aleksey Tetenov University of Geneva	An Economic Theory of Statistical Testing
11.03.2022 Friday	Mark Watson Princeton University	Spatial Correlation Robust Inference
14.03.2022	Lorenz Kueng University of Lugano	The Riskiness of Owning Versus Renting Housing
21.03.2022	Harald Fadinger University of Mannheim	Robot Imports and Firm-level Outcomes
28.03.2022	Ferdinand Rauch University of Oxford	Asymmetric Trading Costs and Ancient Greek Cities
04.04.2022	Miguel-Àngel Garcia-López Uni autonoma Barcelona	The role of amenities in shaping cities
11.04.2022	Alexandra Spitz-Oener Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Does the Gender Composition of An Occupation Affect its Compensation?
25.04.2022	Axel Dreher University of Heidelberg	The role of amenities in shaping cities
09.05.2022	Colleen Cunningham LBS	Keeping Invention Confidential
13.05.2022 Friday	Sun Kyoung Lee Yale University	European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier
16.05.2022	Zvika Neeman Tel Aviv University	Privacy, Prices, and Market Structure in Competitive Search Markets
30.05.2022	Thierry Kamionka ENSAE	Modeling the impact of cigarette taxation and smoking ban on smoking practices and general physician visits in the UK
04.07.2022	Denis Shishkin UC San Diego	Ambiguous Information and Dilation: An Experiment
19.09.2022	Johannes Johnen Université Louvain la Neuve	Deceptive Features on Platforms
26.09.2022	Özlem Bedre-Defolie ESMT Berlin	Competition for exclusivity of a superior input
03.10.2022	Manuel Arellano CEMFI	Nonlinear Income and Consumption Dynamics: Heterogeneity and Aggregate Effects
10.10.2022	Sebastian Merkel Princeton University	Debt as Safe Asset
17.10.2022	Koen Jochmans Toulouse School of Economics	Bootstrap inference for fixed-effect models
24.10.2022	Jörg Oechssler University of Heidelberg	An experiment on robo-advising
31.10.2022	Susanne Goldlücke University of Konstanz	Hidden Overtime: Optimal Contracts with (Self-)Deceptive Effort Reports
07.11.2022	Laura Grigolon University of Mannheim	Stigma as a Barrier to Treatment and Adoption of Innovation
28.11.2022	Mark Schelker University of Fribourg	Determinants and Consequences of Regulatory Activity: A century of regulation in the Swiss cantons
05.12.2022	Eyal Winter Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Lancaster University	Winners and Losers in Priority Services
12.12.2022	Wolfram Schlenker Columbia University	Property Rights and Global Crop Yields

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