Here is a compilation of academic seminars hosted by the Economics department over the years.
| 2024 | ||
| Feb 2 | Anastasiia Suvorova (Western Ontario) | (Mis)perceptions about Children |
| Jan 31 | Siddhant Agarwal (Northwestern University) | Workhour Normality and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Brazilian Exporters |
| Jan 26 | Tsuyoshi Nakano (UNC-Chapel Hill) | International Peers in Higher Education and Domestic Students’ Outcomes |
| Jan 24 | Raghav Rakesh (Michigan State) | Currency Competition as a Discipline Device for the Government |
| Jan 19 | Katsuhiko Nishiyama (UNC-Chapel Hill) | Medical debt, Self-Insurance, and the Value of Health Insurance for the Non-Elderly |
| Jan 17 | Alessandro Sovera (Charles University) | Decoding Local Public Finance: The interplay of the Legislature and the Executive |
| Jan 15 | Nino Buliskeria (Charles University) | Disentangling p-Hacking and Publication Bias |
| Jan 12 | Mehmet T. Demir (Arizona State) | Taxes, Regulations and Business Structure in the US |
| Jan 11 | Ali Elminejad (Charles University) | Macroprudential Intervention and (Un)employed Households |
| 2023 | ||
| Dec 1 | Alessandro Citanna (NYU Abu Dhabi) | Naive stochastic present bias and credit |
| Nov 29 | Andrea Mattozzi (University of Bologna) | Fact-checking Politicians |
| Nov 27 | Jordan Roulleau-Pasdeloup (National University of Singapore) | Endogenous persistence at the lower bound |
| Nov 10 | Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University of London) | The International Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from the Africa Diaspora to Europe |
| Nov 3 | Piero Gottardi (University of Essex) | Sorting versus Screening in Decentralized Markets with Adverse Selection |
| Oct 20 | Giovanni Pica (Università della Svizzera italiana) | A peer like me? Early exposure to high achievers in math and later educational outcomes |
| Sep 8 | Allan Hernandez Chanto (University of Queensland) | Competing Sellers in Security-Bid Auctions under Risk-Averse Bidders |
| Sep 8 | Ahmet Altınok (Nazarbayev) | Designing the Menu of Licenses for Foster Care |
| Aug 24 | Selva Demiralp (Koç) | Do Financial Markets Respond to Populist Rhetoric? |
| Jan 17 | Aleksei Chernulich (NYU Abu Dhabi) | Endogenous Tracking: Sorting and Peer Effects |
| Jan 20 | Nurfatima Jandarova (Minnesota) | Does Intelligence Shield Children from the Effects of Parental Unemployment? |
| Jan 23 | Hanno Kase (EUI) | Estimating Nonlinear Heterogeneous Agents Models with Neural Networks |
| Jan 25 | Anna Pestova (CERGE-EI) | Bank Credit and the Risk of Recession: The Role of Business Cycle Shocks |
| Jan 26 | Morteza Ghomi (Universidad Carlos III) | Monetary policy, Economic Uncertainty, and Firms R&D Expenditure |
| Feb 1 | Siyu Shi (Arizona State) | Technology Usage and Life-cycle Earnings |
| Feb 13 | Alessandro Topetta (UCL) | Skill Formation with Siblings |
| Feb 13 | Mikhail Mamonov (CERGE-EI) | “Crime and Punishment”? How Banks Anticipate and Propagate Global Financial Sanctions |
| 2022 | ||
| Oct 17 | Natalia Kovrijnykh (Arizona State) | Building Credit Histories |
| Sep 21 | Alessandro Citanna (NYU Abu Dhabi) | Do Taxspots Matter? |
| Apr 27 | Nuno Coimbra (Banque de France) | Financial Cycles with Heterogeneous Intermediaries |
| Apr 15 | Hosny Zoabi (NES) | Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Household? |
| Apr 12 | Gerhard Toews (NES) | I’ll pay you later: Relational contracts in the oil industry? |
| Apr 8 | Sultan Mehmood (NES) | Training Policymakers in Econometrics |
| Feb 24 | Ozgun Ekici (Ozyegin) | Pair-efficient Reallocation of Indivisible Objects |
| Mar 1 | Adam Blandin (Virginia Commonwealth) | Work from Home Before and After the COVID-19 Outbreak |
| Feb 24 | Juan D. Moreno (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) | Sharing the Revenues from Broadcasting Sport Events |
| Feb 4 | Rajarshi Bhowali (Rice) | Reallocating Bonus Payments Through Competition to Improve Medicare Advantage Plan Quality: A Dynamic Game Approach |
| Feb 2 | Kanat Abdulla (NU) | Productivity gains from reallocation of talent in Brazil and India |
| Jan 31 | Andrea Salvati (Rice) | Tailoring Instruction to Students’ Knowledge: Teacher Rewards, Peer Spillovers, and The Impact of Ability Tracking on Student Achievement |
| Jan 28 | Andrey Tkachenko (Bocconi) | Competitive effects of vertical integration in auctions |
| Jan 26 | Nino Doghonadze (Penn State) | Depth vs. Breadth: Field Specialization in High School |
| Jan 24 | Emrehan Aktug (UT Austin) | Macroeconomic Asymmetries and the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles |
| Jan 20 | Nitin-Kumar Bharti (PSE) | The Early Origins of Judicial Stringency in Bail Decisions: Evidence from early-childhood Exposure to Hindu-Muslim Riots in India |
| Jan 19 | Haikun Zhan (Melbourne) | Central Administration and the Rise of Local Institutions: Evidence from Imperial China |
| 2021 | ||
| Jan 25 | Josef Ruzicka (Carlos III) | Smooth Quantile Projections |
| Jan 27 | Jaeheon Jung (Rutgers) | Estimating a Large Covariance Matrix in Time-varying Factor Models |
| Feb 1 | Gorkem Bostanci (Pennsylvania) | Productivity Gains from Labor Outsourcing: The Role of Trade Secrets |
| Sep 9 | Diana E. Macdonald (Banco de Mexico) | The Effect of Paying Parents to Adopt: Evidence from Minnesota’s Foster-Care |
| Oct 19 | Aigerim Sarsenbayeva (Nazarbayev) | The Effect of the Social Health Insurance Reform: The Karaganda Natural Experiment |
| Nov 12 | Salvatore Nunnari (Southern California) | Cognitive Imprecision and Strategic Behavior |
| 2020 | ||
| Jan 27 | Alexey Gorn (Cambridge-INET) | Assessing the (De) Stabilizing Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions |
| Jan 28 | Alexander Usvitskiy (Florida State) | Strategic Risk-taking in Dynamic Contests |
| Jan 29 | Ahmet Altinok (Arizona State) | Dynamic Many-to-One Matching |
| Feb 3 | Nicolas Aragon (Carlos III) | Capital Controls and Misallocation |
| Feb 4 | Aruni Mitra (UBC) | The Productivity Puzzle and the Decline of Unions |
| Feb 5 | Sounak Thakur (Washington University in St. Louis) | Family Law, Marriage and Household Decisions |
| Feb 7 | Nazim Tamkoç (Arizona State) | Production Complexity, Talent Misallocation and Development |
| Feb 10 | Mehmet Burak Turgut (Bocconi) | Fiscal News, Imperfect Information and Confidence |
| Feb 11 | Duman Bahrami-Rad (Harvard) | Keeping It in the Family: Female Inheritance, Inmarriage, and the Status of Women |
| 2019 | ||
| Oct 23 | Tim Lee (Queen Mary) | Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth: Evidence from East Germany |
| Sep 26 | Pierpaolo Baattigalli (Bocconi) | Learning and Selfconfirming Equilibria in Network Games |
| Sep 20 | Andrea Pozzi (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) | The Cost of Steering in Financial Markets: Evidence from the Mortgage Market |
| Sep 5 | Raushan Bokusheva (ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management Institute of Natural Resource Sciences) | Weather-based index insurance: An effective instrument for risk reduction in arid and semi-arid agriculture? (Lessons from empirical research for Kazakhstan) |
| Aug 23 | Karlygash Kuralbayeva (King’s College London) | To build or not to build? Capital stocks and climate policy |
| Apr 24 | Hailey Hayeon Joo (Sogang U) | Diffusion of E-Commerce and Retail Job Apocalypse: Evidence from Credit Card Data on Online Spending |
| Apr 19 | Minsoo Park (SKKU) | Zero-Pricing in Bundle Offers: Does It Reinforce or Weaken Anti-Competitive Effects? |
| Apr 16 | Sophie Bade (Royal Holloway College) | Cooperative Implementation |
| Mar 5 | Eyal Winter (Hebrew) | Raising Capital from Heterogeneous Investors |
| Feb 22 | Lara Cockx (KU Leuven) | Migration and children’s health and education |
| Feb 18 | Alejandro Melo Ponce (Stony Brook) | The Secret Behind the Tortoise and the Hare |
| Feb 14 | Mikhail Freer (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) | Revealed Social Preferences |
| Feb 2 | Kirill Shakhnov (The Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) | Limited Participation and Local Currency Sovereign Debt |
| Feb 1 | Yaser Sattari (Simon Fraser) | Misallocation, Selection, and Aggregate Productivity: The Role of Endogenous Exit |
| Jan 25 | Safoura Moeeni (Calgary) | Family Income and Children’s Education: Evidence from Targeted Economic Sanctions |
| Jan 22 | Oleg Rubanov (Bonn) | Profit Sharing and Incentives |
| 2018 | ||
| Dec 5 | Dariya Ainekova (Memphis) | Do Labor Market Payoffs Motivate Employees To Work harder? |
| Dec 7 | Kohei Kawaguchi (Hong Kong U of Science and Technology) | When Will Workers Follow an Algorithm? A Field Experiment with a Retail Business |
| Nov 16 | Sergey Kokovin (HSE) | Big and Small Firms Together in Monopolistic Competition |
| Nov 5 | Alexey Kushnir (Carnegie Mellon) | Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Prices |
| Sep 14 | Bjarne S. Jensen (Southern Denmark) | Optimal Growth – Optimal Control – Ramsey Saving |
| Sep 7 | Shintaro Yamaguchi (Tokyo) | Effects of Early Childhood Education on Adolescent Behavioral Outcomes |
| Sep 4 | Konstantin Kucheryavyy (Tokyo) | A Unified Model of International Business Cycles and Trade |
| Aug 31 | Alp Atakan (Queen Mary) | Price Discovery with Costly Competitive Bidding |
| Aug 24 | Chris Ahlin (Michigan State) | Making Gini Conditional: A Regression-Based Tool for Understanding Inequality |
| Aug 22 | Jihong Lee (Seoul National) | Tax and Welfare in Dynamic Monopoly |
| May 11 | Alexander Matros (South Carolina) | Competition for Local Public Good Provision |
| Apr 27 | Evgeny Yakovlev (New Economic School) | Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Sizable Conditional Child Subsidy |
| Apr 20 | Xavier Mateos Planas (Queen Mary) | Partial Default |
| Feb 1 | Sie Won Kim (Washington U in St. Louis) | The Effect of Promoting Access to Community Colleges on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes |
| Jan 26 | Maxim Goryunov (EUI) | Sorting with Random Search When Firms Have Size |
| Jan 22 | Pavel Krivenko (Stanford) | Unemployment and the U.S. Housing Market during the Great Recession |
| 2017 | ||
| Nov 10 | Levent Kockesen (Koc) | Optimal Delegation of Sequential Decisions: The Role of Communication and Reputation |
| Nov 2 | Fernando Vega Redondo (Bocconi) | Contagious unreliability and complexity traps in economic development |
| Oct 13 | Francis Bloch (PSE) | Farsighted Stability with Heterogeneous Expectations |
| Oct 6 | Ronald Oaxaca (Arizona) | Gender Wage Gaps and Risky vs. Secure Employment: An Experimental Analysis |
| Oct 4 | Ricard Gil (JHU) | Preemptive Entry and Technology Diffusion in the Market for Drive-in Theaters |
| Sep 22 | Hiroshi Uno (Osaka) | Hierarchical adaptations |
| Sep 1 | Julio Davila (CORE) | The Effects of Private Capital Falling into the Public Domain |
| Aug 30 | Glenn Magerman (ECARES) | The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity: A Production Network Approach |
| Jul 7 | Masaru Inaba (Kansai) | Regional Business Cycle and Growth Features of Japan |
| May 15 | Antonio Guarino (UCL) | Updating Ambiguous Beliefs in a Social Learning Experiment |
| May 12 | Mario Forni (Modena) | News, Uncertainty and Economic Fluctuations |
| Apr 28 | Gianluca Benigno (LSE) | Stagnation Traps |
| Apr 24 | Davide La Torre (Nazarbayev) | Self-similar measures in multi-sector stochastic endogenous growth models |
| Apr 21 | Xavier Mateos Planas (Queen Mary) | The Role of Trade Credit Default in Business Fluctuations |
| Mar 7 | James R Walker (UW Madison) | The Role of Slavery in the Economic Development of the United States |
| Feb 20 | Kazuhiro Hara (NYU) | Coalitional Strategic Games |
| Feb 15 | Alexander Rodivilov (Washington) | Experimentation, Private Observability of Success, and the Timing of Monitoring |
| Feb 8 | Ivan Guillermo Lopez Cruz (Indiana) | Criminal Recruitment or Victimization: The Effects of the Mexican Drug War on Education |
| Feb 3 | Bulat Gafarov (Penn State) | Inference on Scalar Parameters in Set-Identified Affine Moments |
| Feb 2 | Luca Sala (Bocconi) | Reassessing Structural VARs: Beyond the ABC’s (and D’s) |
| Feb 1 | Jan Klingelhoefer (Aachen) | Relations between China and the US – a Game Theoretic Approach |
| 2016 | ||
| Sep 14 | John Kennan (UWM) | Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond: Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications |
| May 18 | Jan Eeckhout (Pompeu Fabra, UCL) | Stochastic search |
| May 17 | Shlomo Weber (NES) | Measurement of diversity |
| May 13 | Andriy Zapechelnyuk (Glasgow) | Robust Sequential Search |
| Mar 31 | Joep Konings (KUL) | International Shocks and Domestic Prices: How Large Are Strategic Complementarities? |
| Feb 29 | Murat Mankin (South Florida) | Bayesian Analysis of the Roy Model with Count Outcomes: Finite Mixture Approach |
| Feb 25 | Pedro Pereira (CEFAGE-UE) | Evaluating Partial Divestitures when Vertical Relations are Important |
| Feb 19 | Yuanyuan Deng (Stony Brook) | How Labor Force Participation and Health Insurance Coverage Affect Medicare Costs |
| Feb 15 | Qiaoxi Zhang (Caltech) | Vagueness in Multi-Issue Proposals |
| Feb 12 | Alexander Nesterov (Humboldt) | School Choice With Advice: The Adaptive Acceptance Rule |
| Feb 08 | Wiroy Shin (Penn State) | Discrimination in Organizations: Optimal Contracts and Regulation |
| Feb 05 | Mario Alloza (UCL) | The Impact of Taxes on Income Mobility |
| Jan 24 | Oleg Rubanov (LBS) | Asymptotic Full Revelation in Cheap Talk with a Large Number of Senders |
| 2015 | ||
| Dec 7 | Okan Yilankava (Koc) | Resale in Second-Price Auctions with Costly Participation |
| Nov 30 | Pavlo Prokopovych (KSE) | On Strategic Complementarities in Discontinuous Games |
| Nov 2 | Árpád Ábrahám (EUI) | The Effects of Moral Hazard on Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market |
