Economics

Research Seminars 2020-2021

Wednesday 7 October 2020
Bringing back the jobs lost to Covid-19: The role of fiscal policy, joint with C. Bredemeier (Wuppertal) and Falko Juessen (Wuppertal)
Wednesday 14 October 2020
​Tie-breaking power in committee decision-making
Wednesday 28 October 2020
​Togetherness in the Household, joint with A. Theloudis (LISER) and B. Verheyden (LISER)
Wednesday 4 November 2020
On the Evolution of Norms in Strategic Environments, joint with P. Dindo (Venice) 
Wednesday 18 November 2020
Discrimination in Promotion, joint with F. Nava (LSE) 
Wednesday 25 November 2020
​Self-Ratings and Peer Review
Wednesday 2 December 2020
​Expectations-driven liquidity traps: Implications for monetary and fiscal policy, joint with T. Nakata (Tokyo) 
Wednesday 9 December 2020
​Marriage with frictions: a revealed preference analysis, joint with L. Cherchye (KUL), T. Demuynck (ULB), B. De Rock (KUL & ULB) and L. Merlino (UA)
Wednesday 17 February 2021
Short-term and long-term measures of peer behavior (with D. Steinbach)
Wednesday 24 February 2021
Reciprocity and the Interaction Between the Unemployed and the Caseworker (with G.J. van den Berg, G. Müller, B.M. Siflinge)
Wednesday 3 March 2021
Unstructured Bargaining with Private Information: Experimental Evidence on Efficiency and Bidding Behavior (with M. Fafchamps- Stanford)
Friday 5 March 2021
Internal PhD Workshop​
  • Xuan Hua Thanh: "Impact of remittances on saving behaviours and consumption patterns in Vietnam by applying the Propensity Score Matching Approach"
  • Patrick Allmis: “Collective action, political change, and economic development: Evidence from Bolivia”
  • Vinh Xuan Nguyen: "Performance effect of vertical specialisation"
  • Patrick Ndlovu: "Job Satisfaction and the Household Roles"
Wednesday 10 March 2021
​How Economists Ignored the Spanish Flu Pandemic in 1918-20 (with M. Boianovsky- U. de Brasilia)
Wednesday 17 March 2021
​Corruption Corrupts: Scandals and Supermarket Thefts (with F. Masera).
Wednesday 24 March 2021
Network Topology and Market Structure (with Y. Chen and Y. Zenou)
Wednesday 28 April 2021
​Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood (with V. Boucher, S. Tumen, M. Vlassopoulos and J. Wahba)
Wednesday 05 May 2021
​Stress and Food Preferences: A Lab Experiment with Low-Ses Mothers (with J. James, M. Vecchi and N. Vitt) 
Tuesday 11 May 2021 (at 4PM)
​The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets (with L. Bolte and N. Immorlica)
Wednesday 12 May 2021
An economic model of the Covid-19 pandemic with young and old agents: Behavior, testing and policies  (with L. Brotherhood, C. Santos and M. Tertilt)
Wednesday 19 May 2021
Organised Labour, Labour Market Imperfections, and Employer Wage Premia (with B. Hirsch, S. Mueller and G. Neuschaeffer)
Wednesday 26 May 2021 
Operation Allied Force: Unintended Consequences of the NATO Bombing on Children’s Outcomes

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2021 Job Market Seminars

Monday 4 January, 2021, 2PM
​Vesall Nourani - MIT
“Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn”
Tuesday 5 January, 2021, 9:30AM
​Christian Pröbsting - Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne 
“Market Segmentation and Spending Multipliers”
Wednesday 6 Janaury, 2021, 2PM
​Sam Cosaert - LISER
“Intertemporal consumption with anticipating, remembering, and experiencing selves,” joint with T. Potoms.
Monday 11 January, 2021, 9:30AM
​Arnaud Chevalier - Royal Holloway
 “Asian Gold: Expected Returns to Crime and Thieves’ Behaviour,” joint with T. Wilson and N. Braakmann.
Monday 11 January, 2021, 2PM
​Francesca Monti  - King’s Business School
“Nowcasting with large Bayesian vector autoregressions,” joint with J. Cimadomo, D. Giannone, M. Lenza and A. Sokol.
Tuesday 12 January, 2021, 9:30AM
“When distance drives destination, towns can stimulate development,” joint with L. Christiaensen and R. Kanbur.