TiSEM's seminars: Economics

Past seminars

Past seminars Fall 2022

• Sept 6, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Ralph Ossa
  University of Zurich
  Title: Growth, Trade and Patents: A Quantitative Evaluation of TRIPS
  Host: Guzman Ourens
• Sept 20, 16:00 hrs, location: via Zoom
  Lu Han
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Title: To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets
  Host: Florian Sniekers
• Sept 27, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Felipe Valencia
  University of British Columbia
  Title: Tordesillas, Slavery and the Origins of Brazilian Inequality
  Host: David Schindler
• Oct 4, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Bard Harstad
  University of Oslo
  Title: TRADE AND TREES
  Host: Reyer Gerlagh
• Oct 11, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Fabian Greimel
  University of Amsterdam
  Title: Falling Behind: Has Rising Inequality Fueled the American Debt Boom?
  Host: Has van Vlokhoven
• Oct 18, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Vincent Sterk
  University College London
  Title: Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis
  Host: Burak Uras
• Nov 1 Department meeting K7 Paviljoen
• Nov 8, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Christina Felfe de Ormeno
  Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
  Title: The formation of ingroup favoritism: The role of ethnic peer composition and cultural distance
  Host: Sigrid Suetens
• Nov 16, 13:00 hrs, location: K7 Paviljoen (Wednesday)
  Juanna S Joensen
  University of Chicago
  Title: Complementarities in College and High School Investments
  Host: Mery Ferrando
• Nov 22, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Andreas Steinmayr
  University of Innsbruck
  Title: The economics of family-based immigration
  Host: Teodora Tsankova
• Nov 29, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Thierry Mayer
  SciencePo
  Title: Poor Substitutes? Counterfactual methods in IO and Trade compared

  Host: Guzman Ourens

• Dec 6, 13:00 hrs, location: K1206
  Daniele Condorelli
  University of Warwick
  Title: Buyer-Optimal Platform Design
  Host: Melika Liporace
• Dec 13, 13:00 hrs, location: K7 Paviljoen (canceled)
  Thiemo Fetzer
  University of Warwick
  Title: Tba
  Host: Burak Uras

Spring 2022

• March 29
  Michal Kobielarz
  KU Leuven
  Title: A Theory of International Unions with Exits
  Host: Burak Uras
• April 5
  Do-Shin Jeon
  Toulouse School of Economics
  Title: Platform Competition, Ad-valorem Commissions and App Development
  Host: Jens Prufer
• April 12  (Internal workshop Seminar)
  Emel Ozturk
  Title: tba
• April 13
  Basile Grassi
  Bocconi University
  Title: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Markup Estimation*
  Host: Has van Vlokhoven
• April 19
  Marcel Fafchamps
  Stanford University
  Title: Female Empowerment and the Intrinsic Demand for Agency: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
  Host: Elena Cettolin
• April 20
  Mushfiq Mobarak
  Yale University
  Title: Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation Evidence from Brazil
  Host: Patricio Dalton
• April 26, Dept Meeting 
• May 10
  Chang-Tai Hsieh
  Chicago Booth
  Title: Romer or Ricardo
  Host: Burak Uras
• May 17 (cancelled)
  Uta Schoenberg
  University College London
  Title: tba
  Host: Mery Ferrando
• May 24
  Franck Portier
  Toulouse School of Economics
  Title: Does it Matter to Assume that U.S. Monetary Authorities Follow a Taylor Rule?
  Host: Florian Sniekers
• May 31
  Frank Schilbach
  MIT Economics
  Title: The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression and Beliefs
  Host: Patricio Dalton
• June 7,
  Zeina Hasna
  University of Cambridge
  Title: The Grass Is Actually Greener on the Other Side: Evidence on Green Multipliers from the United States
  Host: Burak Uras
• June 14
  Paola Giuliano
  UCLA
  Title: The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
  Host: David Schindler
• June 21
  Volker Nocke
  University of Mannheim
  Title: tba
  Host: Guzman Ourens
• June 22
  Chang-Tai Hsieh
  Chicago Booth
  Title: Romer or Ricardo
  Host: Burak Uras
• June 28
  Warn N. Lekfuangfu
  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  Title: tba
  Host: Patricio Dalton

• Jonathan Klick 
  University of Pennsylvania Law School 
  Title: The Ineffectiveness of ‘Observe and Report’ Patrols on Crime (joint with Marco Fabbri)
• Nadine Ketel     
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Titel: Scaring or scarring? Labour market effects of criminal victimization (Joint with Anna Bindler)
• Sascha Becker  
  University of Warwick
  Titel: Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
• Timo Boppart    
  Stockholm University
  Titel: A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents
• Makoto Watanabe         
  VU Amsterdam
  Titel: Rational bubbles and middlemen
• Kalina Manova 
  University College London
  Titel: Productivity, (Mis)allocation and Trade
• Josh Dean           
  University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  Titel: Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity
• Selma Walther 
  University of Sussex
  Titel: Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
• Lint Barrage       
  Brown University
  Titel: Flood Risk Belief Heterogeneity and Coastal Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?
• Russell Golman
  Carnegie Mellon University
  Title: The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information.
• Katrine Loken   
  Norwegian School of Economics
  Titel: School Environment, Field of Study and Health
• Tanya Rosenblat       
  University of Michigan
  Titel: The Role of Memory in Belief Formation
•  Amedeo Piolatto    
  Autonomous University of Barcelona
  Titel: Who Sent You? Extreme Voting, Transfers and Bailouts in a Federation
• Matt Lowe         
  Briq Institute
  Titel: Now You See Me: The Returns to Visibility for Politicians
• Rachel Kranton
  Duke University
  Titel: Deconstructing Group Bias 
• Emanuel Vespa
  University of California
  Titel: Failures in Contingent Reasoning: The Role of Uncertainty
• Leah Boustan
  Princeton University
  Titel: Paving the Streets of Gold: Immigration and the American Dream Over Two Centuries
• Davide Dragone
  University of Bologna
  Title: Testing Rational Addiction: When Lifetime is Uncertain, One Lag is Enough (with Davide Raggi)
• Manuel Garcia Santana
  University Pompeu Fabra
  Title: Investment Demand and Structural Change
• Karen Macours
  Paris School of Economics
  Title: Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years
• Stefano Colonnello
  Halle Institute for Economic Research
  Title: Effectiveness and (In)Efficiencies of Compensation Regulation: Evidence from the EU Banker Bonus Cap
• Emircan Yurdagul
  University Carlos III of Madrid
  Title: Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs
• Jon de Quidt
  Stockholm University
  Title: Can Market Design Help the World’s Poor? Evidence from a Lab Experiment on Land Trade*