Research seminars

JANUARY

BEE: Wednesday, January 28 at 12.05 in E5 Conference Room
Roxanne Kovacs, Postdoctor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: "Gender-based discrimination in healthcare: Audit-study evidence from Kenya"

FEBRUARY

BEE: Wednesday, February 11 at 12.05-13:00 in E5 Conference Room
Joseph Vecci, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: "Measuring Managerial Effects in Complex Team Production"

EEU: Monday, February 16 at 12.10–13.00 in B44
Veronica Salazar-Restrepo, Assistant Professor, Stockholm University
Tittel: Cattle Supply Chains and Deforestation in Brazil

BEE: Wednesday, February 18 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Urs Fischbacher, Professor, University of Konstanz
Tittel: Rights, Duties, and Taboos: The Social Codex of Peer Punishment

DES: Thursday, February 19 at 12.05-13:00 in E5 Conference Room
Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Researcher at the Development Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg, and at the Institute for Business Research (IFN)
Title: "Internet connectivity and child learning: Preliminary evidence from Tanzania".

EEU: Monday, February 23 at 12.15–13.00 in E43
Thomas Hahn, biträdande professor i miljösamhällsvetenskap vid Stockholm Resilience Centre, och Johannes Morfeldt, forskare inom fysisk resursteori vid Chalmers
Tittel: Estimating countries’ additional carbon accountability for closing the mitigation gap based on past and future emissions

GES: Tuesday, February 24 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Florian Scheuer, UBS Professor of Economics, University of Zurich     
Tittel:  “Dilution vs. Risk Taking: Capital Gains Taxes and Entrepreneurship"

DES: Wednesday, February 25 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Victoire Girard, Researcher at Nova School of Business and Economics
Title: "Artisanal mining and urbanization in Africa, Co-authored with Edouard Pignède"

AML: Thursday, February 26 at 09.00-16:00 E5 Conference Room
Labour workshop

Job Market talk: Monday, March 2 at 12:00-14:00 in B44

Job Market talk: Tuesday, March 3 at 12:00-14:00 in E45

FIN: Thursday, March 5 at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Pedro Bordalo, Professor of Financial Economics, Said Business School, University of Oxford

DES: Thursday, March 5 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Anna Missiaia, University lecturer at the Department of Economic History, University of Gothenburg.

EEU: Monday, March 9 at 12.10–13.00 in B44
Tommy Lundgren, Professor of Resource Economics & Director of Centre for Environmental & Resource Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Title: "Industrial emission dynamics, eco-efficiency, and rebound effects".

Job Market talk: Tuesday, March 10 at 12:00-14:00 in B44

AML: Thursday, March 12 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference Room
Kyra Hanemaaijer, Postdoctor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

EEU: Monday, March 16 at 12.10–13.00 in B44
Lushanya Dayathilake, PhD student, Technische Universität Berlin/ Berlin School of Economics

DES: Tuesday, March 17 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Patrick Agte, Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics

FIN: Thursday, March 19 at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Genaro Sucarrat , Professor, BI Oslo

DES: Thursday, March 19 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Laura Montenbruck, Assistant Professor of Stockholm University 

EEU: Monday, March 23 at 12.10–13.00 in B44
Runar Brännlund, Professor, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics

GES: Tuesday, March 24 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Rasmus Landersø, Professor, Rockwool Foundatin Research Unit 

BEE: Wednesday, March 25 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Yonas Alem, Research Professor, University of Cape Town

AML: Thursday, March 26 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference Room
Elliott Syrén, Phd student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

EEU: Monday, March 30 at 12.10–13.00 in B44
Yonas Alem, Research Professor, University of Cape Town

APRIL

Job Market talk: Wednesday, April 1 at 12:05-13:15 in E45

AML: Thursday, April 9 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference Room
Caterina Gaggini, Nordic PhD exchange, Aarhus University

EEU: Monday, April 13 at 12.10–13.00 in B44
Tommy Lundgren, Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

BEE: Wednesday, April 15 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Ola Andersson, Professor, Uppsala University

DES: Thursday, April 16 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Ola Olsson, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

FIN: Thursday, April 16 at 12.05–13.00 in B44
Petri Jylhä, Associate Professor of Finance, Aalto University

EEU: Monday, April 20 at 12.10–13.00 in B44
Mads Greaker, Professor, University of Oslo

GES: Tuesday, April 21 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Kristiina Huttunen, Professor of Aalto University

BEE: Wednesday, April 22 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room
Jan Luca Henkel, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, University Rotterdam

AML: Thursday, April 23 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference Room
Juanita Serna Velasco, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

EEU: Monday, April 27 at 12.15–13.00 in B44
Samson Mukanjari, Senior Lecturer in environmental economics, University of Lund

DES: Thursday, April 30 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference 
Roxanne Kovacs, Postdoctor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

GES: Tuesday, May 5 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Pat Bayer, Professor, Duke University

Final seminar before PhD defense , Wednesday, May 6 at 13:00
Linh Chi Nguyen, PhD, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

FIN: Thursday, May 7 at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Yenan Wang, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Amsterdam 

AML: Thursday, May 7 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference Room
Yannik Obelöer, Phd student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

EEU: Monday, January 27 at 12:10-13:00 in E45
Martin Mattsson, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Title: Why do Governments Overpromise and Underdeliver? Evidence from India’s National Clean Air Programme

JOB MARKET TALKS 

Date, time and location

2025-01-09, 12:00-13:15 in room E44
2025-01-13, 12:00-13:15 in room B23
2025-01-15, 12:00-13:15 in room E44
2025-01-16, 12:00-13:15 in room E45
2025-01-17, 12:00-13:15 in room B44
2025-01-20, 12:00-13:15 in room B23
2025-01-21, 12:00-13:15 in room B23
2025-01-24, 12:00-13:15 in room E44
2025-01-28, 12:00-13:15 in room B22
2025-01-29, 12:00-13:15 in room E44

EEU: Monday, February 10 at 12:10-13:00 in E45
Knut Einar Rosendahl, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Title: Measures against carbon leakage – combining output-based allocation with consumption tax

Final seminar before PhD defence: Monday, March 3 at 08:30-10:30 in E5 conference room
Jens Ewald, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Julius Andersson, Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Shocking Electricity Prices and Carbon Tax Aversion; Using Revenue to Boost Support for Carbon Pricing

EEU: Monday, March 3 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Toke Panduro, Senior Researcher, Aarhus University
Title: Climate Adaptation and Risk Management

GES: Tuesday, March 4 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Moritz Drupp, Professor, Hamburg University/Guest Professor at Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Fuel taxation, efficacy and the distribution of pollution reductions: Quasi-experimental evidence from the world’s largest environmental tax reform

DES: Thursday, March 6 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Seminar Room
Yun Xiao, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Land security and the misallocation of talent (with Zichen Deng and Yunyi Jin)

EEU: Monday, March 10 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Svante Mandell, Environmental Economics Unit at the National Institute of Economic Research (Konjunkturinstitutet).
Svante Mandell heads a newly formed government committee tasked with proposing climate policies to help Sweden meet its EU greenhouse gas emission obligations in a cost-effective, acceptable, and secure way. He will focus the presentation on the committee’s work while also discussing relevant studies from the National Institute of Economic Research. Rather than diving deep into any single study, the presentation will provide a broad overview, highlighting the complexities involved.

GES: Tuesday, March 11 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Petter Lundborg, Professor, Lund University
Title: Is There Really a Child Penalty in the Long Run? New Evidence from IVF Treatments (Joint with Erik Plug and Astrid Wurtz-Rasmussen)

Finance: Thursday, March 13 at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Tom Zimmermann, Professor, University of Cologne
Titlle: Does peer-reviewed research help predict stock returns?

BEE: Wednesday, March 19 at 12:05-13:00 in D6 Conference room
Jonas Frey, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg.
Title: ESG Information Avoidance in Investment Decisions

EEU: Monday, March 24 at 12:10-13:00 in E45
Erik Sterner, Researcher, Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg
Title: Public's Views on Climate Policies: The Role of Economics 
Literacy and Information Sources in the Clobal South

BEE: Wednesday, March 26 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference room
Alexander Coutts, Assistant Professor, York University, Canada
Title: How Robust is Overconfidence

Finance: Thursday, March 27 at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Lingwei Kong, Assistant Professor, Groningen University
Title: Plausible GMM: A Quasi-Bayesian Approach

Final seminar before PhD defence: Friday, March 28 at 13:00-15:30 in room D617/D623
Patrik Reichert, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Associate Prof. Henrik Petri, University of Gothenburg
Title: chapter 1: Contests for Perception, chapter 3: Discouraged by Competition?!

EEU: Monday, March 31 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Filip Johnsson, Professor, Chalmers University of Technology
Title: Two perspectives on the green transition: sector coupling and value chain cost distribution

DES: Thursday, April 3 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Seminar Room
Adrian Poignant, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Land reform and industrial development in Sweden

EEU: Monday, April 7 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Marcella Veronesi, Professor, Technical University of Denmark
Title: Climate change in the classroom

GES: Tuesday, April 8 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Professor, London School of Economics/OECD
Title: Firm Heterogeneity in Carbon Productivity: Evidence from Representative Cross-Country Micro Data

BEE: Wednesday, April 9 at 12.05–13.00 in E6 Conference Room
Jérôme Pivard, PhD student, INRAE
Title: "Reconciling Eco and Ego? The interplay between environmental and image concerns in consumption choices"(with Vincent Martinet)

EEU: Monday, April 14 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Valentin Laprie, Postdoctoral Researcher, OFCE
Title: Moral hazard in the quality of building energy efficiency: 
Evidence from post-retrofit audits

EEU: Monday, May 5 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Jerome Pivard, PhD student, INRAE
Title: The choice of plant-based versus meat dishes in an experimental university restaurant

Tuesday, May 6 at 12:05 in E5
Taylan Alpkaya, PhD student, Mannheim University, Germany
Title: Legacy of Servitude: Long-Run Intergenerational Mobility in the US.

FIN: Thursday 8 at 12:05-13:00 in D617/623
Xiyu Jiao
Title: Interference on Common Trends in a Cointegrated Nonlinear SVAR

Thursday 8 May at 12:05 in E5
Yoko Okuyama, Assistant Professor, Uppsala University, 
Title: Intra-Household Welfare Inequality and Household Public Goods.

HES: Monday, May 12 at 12:05 in E5 - CANCELED
Jakob Molinder, Associate Professor in Economic, History at Uppsala University
Title: TBA

Monday, May 12 at 12:10 – 13:15 in room D623.
Åsa Löfgren, Department of Economics 
Title: Reverse Auctions to Procure Negative Emissions at Industrial Scale.

GES: Tuesday, May 13 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Joseph Altonji, Professor, Yale University
Title: Marriage Dynamics, Earnings Dynamics, and Lifetime Family Income

BEE: Wednesday, May 14 at 12.05–13.00 in E5 Conference Room.
Joe Vecci, Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg.
Title: The Future of Hiring: How Automated Screening Tools Shape Job Applications and Hiring Decisions

DES: Thursday, May 15 at 12:05–13:05 in E5 Conference Room.
DES lunch.

CFF: Thursday, May 15 at 12:05 - 13:05 in D617/623 - CANCELED
Tobin Hanspal, Associate Professor, Vienna Graduate School of Finance
Title: Local Returns and Beliefs about the Stock Market

EEU: Monday, May 19 at 12:10–13:15 in B44 or via Zoom
David Bilén, Postdoctoral Fellow, Norwegian School of Economics.
Title: Climate Doom and Policy Support

CFF: Thursday, May 22 at 15:30-16:30 in D617/623
S. Abraham Ravid, Sy Syms Professor of Finance, Yeshiva University.
Title: Technology Adoption and Career Concerns: Evidence from the Adoption of Digital Technology in Motion Pictures

PhD conference 2025: Thursday, May 22 at 9 to 5 in SEB-hall
Program: TBA

Final seminar before PhD defence: Friday, May 23 at 10:00-12:00 in room D617
Jimmy Karlsson, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Discussant: Lassi Ahlvik, Professor at University of Helsinki
Title: 
Chapter 2:Climate Policy and Labor Market Inequality
Chapter 3: Carbon Taxation and Local Labor Markets

Behavioural/Experimental Group Workshop: 
May 26 (1-5 pm) - May 27 (9-12 am) in room E44
Coordinator: Joseph Vecci, Department of Economics

Tore Browaldh Lecture: May 27 at 14-15:30
Claudia Goldin. Nobel Laureate and Harvard Professor
Title: Why Women Won

Licentiate seminar: Monday June 2, at 9:00 in room C32
Mattias Sundemo
Title: Essays on Business and Economics Education: Evidence on Students’ Value Formation and Sustainability Engagement.
Opponent: Niklas Jakobsson, Professor Karlstad University

GES: Tuesday, June 3 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Ruixue Jia, Professor, UC San Diego
Title: Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China

BEE: Wednesday June 4 at 12:05 in E6
Qinyou Hu, Postdoctoral Reseacher, Aalto University
Title: Sad! I Got Talent but My Mom Doesn’t Know It: Parent-Child Belief Gap and Adolescent Human Capital Formation

PhD Defense: Tuesday 10 June, 2025, at 09:15 in B32
Jens Ewald, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Opposition to Carbon Pricing: Beliefs, Revenues, and Protesters
Opponent: Professor Timo Goeschl, Department of Economics, Heidelberg University, Germany

Thesis defence Friday 29 August, at 10.15 in E44
Patrik Reichert , thesis: Relative Comparisons in Organizations and Society
Opponent: Ola Andersson, Professor, Uppsala Universitet

EEU/BEE: Monday 8 September 2025, at 12:05-13:00 in E43
Tim Cason, Professor, Purdue University, Indiana, US
Title: Innovation and Information Free-Riding: An Experimental Investigation of Collective Experimentation

Seminar: Monday 8 at 14:00-15:00 in E45
Nathan Nunn, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Title: “Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development

Finance seminar: Thursday September, at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Paul Schneider, Professor, USI Lugano
Title: Joint Estimation of Conditional Mean and Covariance for Unbalanced Panels

Thesis defence Friday 12 September, at 10.15 in E45
Vorada Limjaroenrat, Essays of Crime, Corruption, and Institutions
Opponent: Anna Bindler, Professor, University of Potsdam

EEU: Monday, September 22 at 12:10-13:00 in E43
Marianne Zandersen, Professor, Aarhus University
Title: Valuing Green and Blue Infrastructure for Climate Resilience and Well-being

Thesis defence Friday 26 September, at 9.30 in B32
Jimmy Karlsson, The Economic Impacts of Carbon Taxation and Climate Change
Opponent: Peter Nilsson, IIE, Stockholms Universitet

EEU: Monday, September 29 at 12:10-13:00 in E43
William Ogden, Doctoral Researcher, Aalto University
Title: Estimating Transaction Frictions in Car Choice

GES: Tuesday, 30 September 2025, at 12:00 in B44
Marcella Alsan, Professor, Stanford University
Title: Why Doesn’t the United States Have National Health Insurance? The Role of the American Medical Association

DES: Thursday, 2 October 2025 at 12:05-13:00 in E6 
Giulia Salvi, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Couple Decision-Making and Women’s Employment

GES: Tuesday 7 October 2025 at 12:00 in B44
Emily Cuddy. Assistant Professor, Duke University
Title: Teen Suicide and the Outcomes of Surviving Peers

DES: Thursday, 9 October 2025, at 14:30-15:30 in 34
David Yanagizawa-Drott, Visiting Professor at Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg/Professor at Zürich University
Title: Automation with Generative AI? Evidence from a Teacher Hiring Pipeline 

GES: Tuesday, 14 October 2025 at 12:00 in B44
Peter Nilsson, Professor, IIES Stockholm University
Title: Equality for Granted: What Happens When Discrimination in Academia Becomes Salient?

BEE: Wednesday, 15 October 2025 at 12:05-13:00 in E6 Conference room
Stefano Tarroni, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Banking on Biodiversity

DES: Thursday, 16 October 2025 at 12:05-13:00 in E6 Conference room
Michele Valsecchi, Affiliated Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Cultural Constraints on Women’s Productivity: Evidence from World Bank lending

Finance: Thursday, October 23, 12:05-13:05 in B44
Sangeun Ha, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Title: Anticipated Entry, Labor Market Competition, and Toxic Releases

EEU: Monday, 27 October at 12:10 – 13:15 in E43
Fredrik Carlsson, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Do we discount money and the environment differently? Evidence from stated willingness to pay, (co-authoring with Mitesh Kataria and Elina Lampi)

GES: Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 12:05-13:00 in B44
Mitchell Hoffman, Professor, University California Santa Barbara
Title: Empowering Inclusive Work (joint with Yanyou Chen, Huilan Xu, and Zhe Yuan)

GES: Tuesday, 4 November 2025 at 12:00 in B44
Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Professor, CREST, Inst. Polytechnique de Paris
Title: Linear Regressions with Combined Data

EE: Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 12:05-13:00 in E6 Conference room
Kjell Arne Brekke, Professor, University of Oslo
Title: The desire for respect can drive Polarization

Finance: Thursday, 6 November at 12:10-13:00 
Anja Schöttner, Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Title: Performance Pay, Internal Control, and Employee Misconduct

EEU: Monday, 10 November at 12:10 – 13:15 in B44
Anne-Sophie Crepin, Principal researcher, Stockholm resilience centre
Title: Economic management of cascading regime shifts in ecosystems

GES: Tuesday, 11 November 2025 at 12:00 in B44
Philipp Ager, Professor, University of Mannheim
Title: Liberation Technology? The Impact of the Sewing Machine on Women

BEE: Wednesday, 12 November at 12:05-13:00 in E6 Conference room
Paula Scholz, PhD student, University of Cologne
Title: Identity and Employee Turnover – A Field Experiment

DES: Thursday, 13 November at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference room
Joseph Vecci, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: What Drives Farmers to Adopt Climate-Friendly Farming: Evidence from India

EEU:  Monday, 24 November 2025 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Ingela Alger, Senior Researcher från Toulouse School of Economics
Title: Norms and norm change - driven by social Kantian preferences.

GES: Tuesday, 25 November 2025 at 12:00 in B44
Matti Liski, Professor, Aalto University
Title: TBA

DES: Wednesday, 27 November 2025 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Seminar Room
Gina Arnesen Eckhoff, PhD student, Department of Economics, NTNU
Title: The Dawn of Inequality (with Mattia Bertazzini and Leander Heldring).

EEU: Monday, 1 December at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Charlotte Berg, Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Titlle: Economy, Environment and Policy – A Basis for Designing Sweden’s Long-Term Climate Policy

Finance: Thursday, 4 December at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Robert Dur, Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Titlle: Tax Misperceptions and Labor Supply: A Two-Wave Survey Experiment in the Netherlands

GES: Tuesday, 9 December 2025 at 12:00 in B44
Sascha O. Becker, Professor, University of Warwick
Title: TBA

February

EEU: Monday, February 5 at 12:10-13:15 in E44
Anjali Ramakrishnan, Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Designing a virtuous cycle: Quality of governance, effective climate change mitigation, and just outcomes support each other.

EEU: Monday, February 12 at 12:00-13:00 in B44
Thomas Sterner, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Aviation Contrail Cirrus and CO2: Trade-Offs and Social Cost Estimates

Final seminar before PhD Defense: Wednesday, February 14 at 13:00-14:30 in B22
Timm Behler, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Promotions Under Excessive Workplace Surveillance
Discussant: Johan Stennek, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

EEU: Monday, February 19 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Hanna Lindström, Assistant professor, Department of Economics, Umeå University
Title: The effect of environmental protection expenditures on industrial employment in Sweden

Final seminar before PhD Defense: Monday, February 19 at 15:00-16:30 in E44
Timm Behler and Patrick Reichert, PhD students, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Meritocracy in Hierarchical Organizations
Discussant: Eirik Kristiansen, Professor, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen

GES: Tuesday, February 20 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Eirik Gaard Kristiansen, Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics
Title: An efficiency wage model that fits data

DES: Thursday, February 22 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Vorada Limjaroenrat, PhD Student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Autocratic Strategy: Consequences of Lower Judicial Independence

Finance seminar: Thursday, February 22 at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Alvin Chen, Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Encouraging employee engagement: The role of equity pay

EEU: Monday, February 26 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Moritz Drupp, Professor, Universität Hamburg/Guest Professor Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The role of limited substitutability for measuring and managing sustainable development

EEU: Monday, March 4 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Joana Pedroso, Lecturer, Department of Law, University of Gothenburg
Title: Environmental Taxes from the EU State Aid Control System Perspective – A Legal Analysis of the Integration of Environmental Protection

DES: Thursday, March 7 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Joseph Vecci, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Understanding drivers of male backlash in response to female empowerment programs: evidence from India

Finance seminar: Thursday, March 7 at 12.05-13.05 in B44
Pedro Barroso, Associate Professor, Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics
Title: What Explains Price Momentum and 52-Week High Momentum When They Really Work?

GES: Tuesday, March 12 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Enrico Moretti, Professor, UC Berkely
Title: Size Matters: Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets

EEU: Monday, March 18 at 12:10 – 13:15 in B44
Olof Johansson-Stenman, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Inequality and the Environment . Beyond Homo Economicus - A Research Program Proposal by Thomas Aronsson and Olof Johansson-Stenman

GES: Tuesday, March 19 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Mitchell Downey, Assistant Professor, IIES, Stockholm University
Title: Rules vs. Discretion in Allocating Embezzlement Investigations

DES: Thursday, March 21 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Sonia Gabriela Giurumescu, PhD Student, Department of Economics, Stockholm  University
Title: Beyond Connectivity: Unveiling the Health Impact of 3GTBA

Finance seminar: Wednesday, March 27 at 15:15 in E43
Oscar Holm, Litigium Capital

PhD Defense: Tuesday, 2 April 10:15 in room SEB
Timm Behler, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Telling Talent: Essays on Discrimination and Promotion Contents
Opponent: Professor Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt, Department of Economics, University of Münster, Germany

EEU: Monday, April 8 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Mitesh Kataria, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The Dynamics of Trust: Politicization and its Effects on Climate Beliefs and Behavior

GES: Tuesday, April 9 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Loukas Balafoutas, Professor, University of Exeter
Title: Gender-inclusive Language and Economic Decision-making

EEU: Monday, April 15 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Claes Ek, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Household waste, prosociality, and the welfare cost of nudging

DES: Thursday, April 18 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Getenet Atakilt Yitayew, PhD student, University of Verona
Title: The long-term impact of Early-life Exposure to Weather shocks on child health and education attainment

EEU: Monday, April 22 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Mads Greaker, Professor, Department of Economics, Oslo Metropolitan University
Title: International cooperation on the climate: The case for a green innovation club

GES: Tuesday, May 2 at 12:00-13:15
Hanming Fang, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Labor Unions and Social Insurance" (with Naoki Aizawa and Katsuhiro Komatsu).

DES: Friday, May 3 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Sarthak Joshi, PhD student, Warwick University, UK
Title: The Geography of Structural Transformation and Women's Work: Evidence from India

DES: Thursday, May 16 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Ola Olsson, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The Political Economy of Bread and Circuses

PhD Defense: Wednesday 22 May, 2023, at 13:15 in E44
Ronja Helénsdotter, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Court-Ordered Care
Opponent: Professor Manudeep Bhuller, Department of Economics, University of Oslo

EEU: Monday, May 27 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Ola Olsson, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel

GES: Tuesday, May 28 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Panle Jia Barwick, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Drive Down the Cost: Learning by Doing and Government Policy in the Global EV Battery Industry (joint work with Hyuksoo Kwon, Shanjun Li, and Nahim Zahur)

EEU: Monday, June 3 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Svenn Jensen, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Oslo Metropolitan University
Title: Structure, Shocks, and Speed: Learning’s Impact on Optimal Climate Policy

GES: Tuesday, June 4 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Pauline Rossi, Associate Professor, Ecole Polytechnique-CREST
Title: Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors: Evidence from Colonial West Africa” (joint work with Pascaline Dupas, Camille Falezan and Marie Christelle Mabeu)

EEU: Monday, June 10 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Jacqueline Adelowo, Doctoral Researcher, IFO Institute, University of Munich
Title: Household adaptation following climate-change induced extreme weather events

GES: Tuesday, June 11 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Yogita Shamdasani, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Title: Habit Formation in Labor Supply” (joint with Luisa Cefala, Supreet Kaur and Heather Schofield).

EEU: Monday, June 17 at 12:10 – 13:15 in B32
Andrius Kažukauskas, Associate Professor, Vilnius University.
Titel: Prosumers, behavioural interventions and energy savings

EEU: Monday, September 9 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Frikk Nesje, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Title: Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality

BEE: Wednesday, September 11 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference room
Joseph Vecci, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The Impact of Automated Screening Tools on Hiring Outcomes

Finance seminar: Thursday, September 12 at 12:00-13:00 in D617/623
Jinhong Wu, PhD student, Copenhagen Business School
Title: Physical risks, transition risks, and bank lending

EEU: Monday, September 16 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Adan Martinez Cruz, Senior Lecturer, Department of Forest Economics, SLU
Title: Using stated preference responses to address endogeneity in the single site travel cost equation

DES: Wednesday, September 18 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 Conference room
Debin Ma, Professor, Oxford University
Title: States and Wars: China´s Long March towards Unity and its Long-Term Consequences, 750 BC – 1911 AD

GES: Tuesday, September 24 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Liyang Sun, Assistant Professor, University College London
Title: Adapting to Misspecification” (joint work with Timothy Armstrong and Patrick M. Kline)

Health Governance seminar: Thursday, October 3 at 15:15 in B44
Anne Sophie Oxholm, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
Title: The role of providers’ intrinsic motivation for quality of care and responses to a non-financial incentive

Licentiate seminar: Friday, October 4 at 10:15-12:00 in E5
Mikael Moutakis PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Empirical studies on reference pricing
Opponent: Anne Sophie Oxholm, Associate Professor, Syddansk Universitet

EEU: Monday, October 14 at 12:10-13:15 in B44 or via Zoom
Hide-Fumi Yokoo, Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Japan/Guest Resercher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Subjective expectations and simulated risks of climate change: Evidence from wineries in Japan

GES: Tuesday, October 15 at 12:00-13:15 in B23
Pascaline Dupas, Professor, Princeton University, NY
Title: Keeping Up Appearances: An Experimental Investigation of Relative Rank Signaling (with Marcel Fafchamps and Laura Hernandez-Nunez).

Finance seminar: Thursday, October 17 at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Richard Priestley, Professor, BI Oslo.
Title: Unconventional Policies, Asset Returns, and Wealth Inequality

DES: Thursday, October 17 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Amelie Allegre, PhD student, University of East Anglia, UK
Title: The Colonial Roots of Gender Disparities in Education: Evidence from the French Protectorate in Morocco

EEU: Monday, October 21 at 12:10-13:15 in B44
Thomas Sterner, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The political and socio-economic impacts of energy price shocks on populism in Germany

Finance seminar: Thursday, October 24 at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Vincent Maurin, Associate Professor, HEC, Paris
Title: Risk Managers in Banks

Historical Economics: Thursday, October 24 at 13:10 in E5
Martin Karlsson, Professor, University of Duisburg Essen/Affiliated Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Martin will give a presentation of the datainfrastructure ATLASS

Finance: Thursday, November 7 at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Weining Wang, Professor, University of Groningen
Title: Beta-Sorted Portfolios” (joint work with Matias D. Cattaneo and Richard K. Crump)

EEU: Monday, November 11 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Julius Andersson, Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Green industrial policy (and nuclear power)

GES: Tuesday, November 12 at 12:00-13:15 in B33
Aline Bütikofer, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics, NHH
Title: The Consequences of Miscarriage on Parental Investments” (with Deirdre Coy, Orla Doyle, and Rita Ginja

DES: Thursday, November 14 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Nicklas Nordfors, Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Rapid population growth and city shape

EEU: Monday, November 18 at 12:10-13:00 in E43
Moritz Drupp. Professor, University of Hamburg/Guest Professor at University of Gothenburg
Title: Structural Change in the Social Cost of Carbon

Finance: Thursday, November 21 at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Michael Ungeheuer, Associate Professor of Finance from Aalto University. 
Title: A Cognitive Foundation for Perceiving Uncertainty

EEU: Monday, November 25 at 12:10-13:00 in E43
Julia Wahtra, PhD student, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Title: Environmental comparative advantage and strategic trade

GES: Tuesday, November 26 at 12:00-13:15 in B44
Alexander Cappelen, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics, NHH
Title: A Competitive World” (joint work with Thomas Buser, Uri Gneezy, and Bertil Tungodden)

Finance: Thursday, November 28 at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Gualtiero Azzalino, Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Preference heterogeneity and portfolio choices over the wealth distribution

DES: Thursday, November 28 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 seminar room
Thomas Daum, Associate Professor, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
Title: Governing Africa's pesticide revolution: a wicked problem?

EEU: Monday, December 2 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Liv Lundberg, Researcher, Rise Research Institutes of Sweden
Title: When incentives vanish: the uneven impact of the bonus removal on EV registrations in Sweden

EEU: Monday, December 9 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Nicole Wägner, Assistant Professor, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Title: he Air Quality and Mortality Effects of Low Emission Zones: Evidence from Madrid Central

GES: Tuesday, December 12 at 12:00-13:15 in C33
Amanda Dahlstrand, Assistant Professor, University of Zürich
Title: Does Division of Labor Increase Productivity? Evidence from Primary Care” (with Shan Huang, Nestor Le Nestour and Guy Michaels)

EEU: Monday, December 16 at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Jens Ewald, PhD, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Shocking Electricity Prices and Carbon Tax Aversion

JANUARY

EEU: Monday, January 16 at 12:05-13:00 in B41
Jens Ewald, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: "Shocking Electricity Prices and Climate Policy Acceptance"

EEU: Thursday, January 19 at 12.05-13.00 Online seminar.
Unai Pascual, BC3, Basque Center for Climate Change
Title: "The Values Assessment of IPBES: A primer"

EEU: Monday, January 23 at 12.05-13.00. Place TBA
Tewodros Tesemma, Associate Researcher at Ethiopian Development Research Institute and a PhD candidate at the Department of Economics.
Title: TBA

EEU: Monday, January 30 at 12:05-13.00 in B44
Andrea Schneider, Assistant Professor, Jönköping International Business School
Title: Policy Diffusion and the Competition for Mobile Resources.

FEBRUARY

EEU: Monday, February 6 at 12:05-13.00 in E43
Christian Gollier, Professor, Toulouse School of Economics
Title: The Discounting Premium Puzzle: Survey Evidence from Professional Economists

EEU: Monday, February 20 at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Anjali Ramakrishnan, EfD, University of Gothenburg
Title: TBA

DES: Thursday, February 23 at 12:05-13:00 in Seminar room C32
Linn Mattisson, Doctoral student, Lund University
Title: Waterborne diseases and children’s learning

Final Seminar before PhD Defence: Monday, February 27 at 09:00-11:30 in E5
Ville Inkinen, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Using Markets for Environmental Offsetting: Evaluation of Wetland Area Gains and Losses under the US Clean Water Act
Discussant: Mathias Reynaert, Professor, Toulouse School of Economics

EEU: Monday February 27 at 12:05-13:00 in SEB room
Mathias Reynaert, Professor, Toulouse School of Economics
Title: An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union

GES: Tuesday, February 28 at 12:00-13:15 in C34
Rosemarie Nagel, Professor, Pompeau Fabra University, Barcelona School of Economics.
Title: Behavioral and Experimental Game theory for Predictive Algorithm” (joint with Amil Camillo and Fabrizio Germano

MARCH

GES: Monday, March 6 at 12:00-13:15 in room Volvo
Basit Zafar, Professor, University of Michigan
Title: Understanding Gaps in College Outcomes by First-Generation Status (joint with E. Aucejo & J. French)

EEU: Tuesday, March 7 at 12:05-13:00 in room Volvo
Shaofang Xue, Guest PhD student, University of Gothenburg.
Title: A compositional approach for analyzing the national energy mix and its influencing factors.

DES: Thursday, March 9 at 12:05-13:00 in seminar room D5
Ola Olsson, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Historical Pathogen Prevalence and Government Responses to COVID-19 (w Annika Lindskog).

GES: Tuesday, March 14 at 12:00-13:15 in room SEB
Alexander Willén, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics
Title: Who pays for the union wage premium? (joint with Anna Stansbury at MIT and Samuel Dodini at NHH).

EEU: Monday, March 20 at 12:05-13:00 in room Volvo
Thomas Sterner, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The Social Cost of Methane.

DES: Thursday, March 23 at 12:05-13:00 in seminar room E5
Roxanne Kovacs, Postdoctor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Does free maternity care improve access and save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya

APRIL

GES: Tuesday, April 4 at 12:00-13:15 in C32
Martin Karlsson, Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen
Title: Alive and Kicking? Short-Term Health Effects of a Physician Strike in Germany

Final seminar before PhD Defense: Wednesday, April 5 at 11:00-12:00 in D617/D623
Tewodros Tesemma, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Greening the Transport Sector – A policy reform evaluation from Ethiopia
Discussant: Fredrik Carlsson, Professor, School of Economics, GU

Final seminar before PhD Defense: Wednesday, April 5 at 13:00-14:00 in D617/D623
Tewodros Tesemma, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Positional Concerns across Generations
Discussant: Olof Johansson-Stenman, Professor, School of Economics, GU

EEU: Monday, April 24 at 12:05-13:00 in E43
Pamela Campa, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics
Titel: Facing the hard truth: Evidence from climate change ignorance (with Ferenc Szucs)

GES: Tuesday, May 2 at 12:00-13:15 in B32
Andreas Kotsadam, Senior Research Fellow/Professor, Frisch Centre/Oslo University
Title: Peer effects on authoritarianism – Evidence from the Norwegian Armed Forces

Final seminar before PhD Defense: Friday, May 5 at 15:30
Ronja Helénsdotter, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: TBA
Discussant: Emily Leslie, Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, Utah
The final seminar will be on Zoom. To participate please contact Randi Hjalmarsson, randi.hjalmarsson@economics.gu.se

EEU: Monday, May 8 at 12:05-13:00 in SEB-room
Martin Quaas, Professor, Leipzig University
Title: Love of variety and the long-term welfare effects of trade in open-access renewable resources

Final seminar before PhD Defense: Wednesday, May 8 at 15:30-16:30 in E5
Ville Inkinen, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The Choice of Mechanism for Offsetting Biodiversity Losses
Discussant: Martin Quaas, Professor, Leipzig University

GES: Tuesday, May 9 at 12:00-13:15 in E44
Ottmar Edenhofer, Professor/Director, TU Berlin/MCC
Title: Managing the carbon cycle in the 21st century: A Public Economics Perspective on Negative Emission Technologies in Europe.”

Thursday, May 11 at 12:05-13:00 in room E5
Elien Dalman, Lund University
Title: Intergenerational Status Persistence in Sweden 1865-2015. The Impact of Occupational and Surname Status

EEU: Monday, May 15 at 12:05 -13:00 in B44
Tommy Lundgren, Professor, SLU
Title: Efficient and sustainable production in Swedish forests

EEU: Monday, May 22 May, 2023, at 12:05-13:00 in E44
Gustav Agneman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lund University
Title: Climate Policy Polarization and Private Costs

Erik Malmsten lecture: Thursday, May 25 at 16:00-17:00 in B22
Martin Dufwenberg, Professor, University of Arizona/Erik Malmsten Guest Professor at School of Economics, Gothenburg University
Title; Threats+

PhD Defense: Friday 26 May, 2023, at 10:15 in room SEB-salen 
Andrea Berggren, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: "Choices among Doctors, Students and Primary Care Providers: Empirical Evidence from Sweden"
Opponent: Professor Niklas Jakobsson, Handelshögskolan, Karlstads universitet

Finance seminar: Thursday June 1 at 12:05-13:00 in room D617/623
Hans K. Hvide, Professor, University of Bergen
Title: New technology and business dynamics

DES: Thursday, June 1 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 seminar room
Annika Lindskog, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Cash incentives to change norm-driven behaviour (w/ Heather Congdon Fors, Divya Gupta and Rohini Somanathan)

Final Seminar before PhD Defence: Monday, June 5 at 10:00 in E5 conference room
Timm Behler, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Salience-based stereotyping
Discussant: Louis-Pierre Lepage, Assistant Professor, SOFI, Stockholm University

Monday, June 5 at 12:05-13:00 in E5 conference room
Louis-Pierre Lepage, SOFI, Stockholm University
Title: Do Optional Information Policies Increase Equity? Evidence From Two Large-Scale Grading Experiments

GES: Monday, June 12 at 12:00-13:15 in room Volvo-room
Heather Sarsons, Assistant Professor, Vancover School of Economics, The University of British Columbia
Title: Transactional Preferences and the Minimum Wage” (joint with Anna Becker, Attila Lindner, and Kristof Madarasz)

PhD Defense: Thursday 15 June at 10:15 in SEB-room
Magnus Hansson, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Decentralized Finance and Central Bank Communication
Opponent: Professor Dagfinn Rime, Handelshøyskolen BI, Oslo

PhD Defense: Thursday, 17 August at 13:15 in room E44
David Bilén, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Sustainable Consumption and Prosocial Actions
Opponent: Professor Conny Wollbrant, School of Economics & Finance, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

Finance seminar: Thursday, 24 August at 12:05-13:15 in room E44
Russel Wermers, Professor, University of Maryland, USA and Erik Malmsten Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg.

Finance seminar: Thursday, 7 September at 12:05-13:05 in E43
Michael Weber, Associate Professor, Both School of Business, University of Chicago
Title; Missing data in asset pricing panels

PhD Defense: Friday, 15 September at 10:15 in room E44
Ville Inkinen, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Wetland Mitigation Banking in the United States
Opponent: Professor Amy Ando, Department of Agricultural Environmental and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, Colombus, USA

GES: Tuesday, 19 September at 12:00-13:15 in room B44
Kai Barron, Assistant Professor, Berlin Social Science Center
Title: Narrative Persuasion

DES: Thursday, 21 September at 12:05-13:00 in room E5
Laia Navarro-Sola, Assistant Professor, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University 
Title: Broadcasting Education at Scale: The Long-Term Effects of Television-Based Schools

Finance Seminar: Thursday, 21 September at 12:05-13:05 in B44
Per Östberg, Associate Professor, University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute
Title: Difference-in-differences with economic factors and the case of housing returns

EEU: Monday, 25 September at 12:10-13:00 in E44
Carolina Castro Osorio, PhD student, Economics Department at Universidad de los Andes
Title: Collective institutions, private property, equity, and forest protection: the case of peasant reserve zones 

Finance seminar: Thursday, 28 September at 12.05-13.05 in B44
Ola Kvaløy, Professor, University of Stavanger Business School
Title: Gender, inequality and risk taking 

EEU: Monday, 2 October at 12:10-13:00 in C34
Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: How are Economists responding to the climate emergency?

DES: Thursday, 5 October at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Andrew Dickens, Associate Professor, Brock University, Canada
Title: From Couch to Poll: Media Content and the Value of Local Information

Finance seminar: Thursday, 5 October at 12:05-13:05 in E45
Tove Forsbacka, PhD student, Stockholm School of Economics
Titel: How do common owners coordinate - is it the proxy advise industry?

GES: Tuesday, 10 October at 12:00-13:15 in room B44
Nuria Rodriques-Planas, Professor, City University of New York, Queens College
Title: Gender Norms and the Motherhood Employment Gap (joint work with Simone Moriconi).

BEE: Wednesday 11 October at 12:05-13:00 in E642
Roel van Veldhuizen, Associate Professor, Lund University
Title: Does Unfairness Hurt Women? The Effects of Losing Unfair Competitions

Finance seminar: Thursday, 12 October at 12:05-13:05 in E43
Zhi Da, Professor, University of Notre Dame
Title: Pension Fund Flows, Exchange Rates, and Covered Interest Rate Parity

DES: Thursday, 19 October at 12:05-13:00 in B32
Celine Zipfel, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Stockholm
Title: Female Wage Labor and Fertility: Evidence from the Cut-flower Industry in Kenya

EEU: Monday 23 October at 12:10-13:00 in B44
Juliane Koch, PhD student, University of Hamburg
Title: Expanding Community-Based Adaptation – Experimental Evidence from Papa New Guinea

GES: Tuesday, 24 October at 12:05-13:00 in B44
Elaine Liu, Professor, University of Houston
Title: Externalities of Marijuana Legalization: Marijuana Use in Non-Legalizing States (joint with Marit Hinnosaar and Eva Loaeza-Albino)

PhD Defense: Wednesday, 25 October at 10:15 in room SEB 
Tewodros Tesemma, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics
Opponent: Jörg Peters, Professor, School of Business, Economics and Information Systems, University of Passau, Germany

BEE: Wednesday, 25 October at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Stefan Ambec, Professor, Toulouse School of Economics.
Title: Taxing and nudging to reduce carbon footprint: Results from an online shopping experiment

EEU: Monday, 30 October at 12:10-13:00 in E44
Carlos Chavéz Rebollo, Guest Professor from Universidad de Talca, Chile
Title: Social context, framing, and compliance with the law: experimental evidence (joint work with James Murphy and John Stranlund)

DES: Thursday, 2 November at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Joseph Vecci, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Understanding Measurement Error in Income. A Large Scale Experiment in India

EEU: Monday, 6 November at 12:10 – 13:00 in E44
Shaofang Xue, Guest PhD student, University of Gothenburg.
Title: Country level energy mixes and their drivers

GES: Tuesday, 7 November at 12:00-13:15 in room D44
Johanna Rickne, Professor, SOFI, Stockholm University
Title: The Class Ceiling in Politics

BEE: Wednesday, 8 November at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Miguel Fonseca, Associate Professor, Exeter University
Title: Mutual Promises, Commitment, and Authority: Experimental Evidence

BEE: Wednesday, 15 November at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Hanna Schildberg-Hörish, Professor, University of Düsseldorf
Title: Who is in favor of affirmative action? Representative evidence from an experiment and a survey (with Sabrina Herzog, Chi Trieu and Jana Willrodt)

Final seminar before PhD Defense: Wednesday, November 15 at 15:30 via Zoom
Ronja Helénsdotter, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Treated Together: Spillovers Among Youths Admitted to Residential Treatment
Discussant: Kevin Schnepel, Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada

DES: Thursday, 16 November at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Annika Lindskog, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Intergenerational norm transmission: The case of female genital cutting

Finance seminar: Thursday 16 November at 12:05-13:05 in E43
Yingjie Qi, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Title: Financing trade credit

GES: Tuesday, 21 November at 12:00-13:15 in room B44
Zichen Deng, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, University of Amsterdam
Title: Long-Term Consequences of Air Pollution: Does Age or Years of Exposure Matter?

GES: Wednesday, 29 November at 12:00-13:15 in room B23
Jonas Hjort, Professor, Department of Economics, University College of London
Title: Ethnic Discrimination in the State: Evidence from Peruvian Corruption Indictments

EEU: Monday, 4 December at 12:10 – 13:10 in room B44
Nina Ekelund, Executive Director at Hagainitiativet.
Titel: The Business Sector - A Key Driver for Climate Transition

Finance seminar: Thursday, 7 December at 12:05-13:05 in E43
Henrik Ibert, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Title: Equity Return Expectations and Portfolios: Evidence from Large Asset Managers

EEU: Monday, 11 December at 12:10 – 13:00 in room E44
Jimmy Karlsson, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg.
Title: Climate Policy and the Returns to Skills

GES: Tuesday, 12 December at 12:00-13:15 in room D44
David Schönholzer, Assistant Professor, Institute for Economical Economic Studies, Stockholm University
Title: Supermajority Requirements and Voter Preferences in U.S. School Capital Investments” (joint work with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune)

DES: Thursday, 14 December at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Internet and political efficacy: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

GES: Tuesday, May 2 at 12:00-13:15
Hanming Fang, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Labor Unions and Social Insurance" (with Naoki Aizawa and Katsuhiro Komatsu).

DES: Friday, May 3 at 12:05-13:00 in E5
Sarthak Joshi, PhD student, Warwick University, UK
Title: The Geography of Structural Transformation and Women's Work: Evidence from India

JANUARY

Tuesday 25 January, 2022, 10:15 in room B44 or zoom-link, PhD Defense
Sebastian Larsson, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Providers and Profiteers: Essays on Profits and Competition in the Provision of Public Services
Opponent: Professor Mats Bergman, Södertörns Högskola
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/s/66634067432

FEBRUARY

Friday 11 February, 2022, at 10:15 in room SEB-salen in person/hybrid, PhD Defense
Lisa Norrgren, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Carpe Diem or Seize your Health? The Economics of Time Preferences, Health and Education
Opponent: Professor Marjon van der Pol, University of Aberdeen
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/64451129934 

Monday 14 February, 2022, at 12:05-13:00, Zoom, EEU
Jurate Jaraite, Researcher, Vilnius University
Title: Take a ride on the (not so) green side: How do CDM projects affect Indian manufacturing firms’ environmental performance?
For zoomlink pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 15 February, 2022, at 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, room SEB GES
David Slusky, Associate Professor, University of Kansas
Title: The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Abortions Clinic Visits
For zoomlink contact Sanna Bergvall,  sanna.bergvall@economics.gu.se

Monday 21 February, 2022, at 15:00-16:00, Zoom, EEU
Raphael Calel, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
Title: Do carbon offsets offset carbon?
For zoomlink pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Monday 28 February, 2022, at 14:00-15:30, Zoom, EEU
David G Victor, Professor, UC San Diego
Title: Making Climate Policy Work
For zoomlink pls contat ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

MARCH

Tuesday 1 March, 2022, time 15:05-16:00, on zoom, GES
Katie Coffman, Piramal Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Title: Tba
For zoomlink contact Yuejun Zhao,  yuejun.zhao@economics.gu.se

Monday 7 March, 2022, time 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, room Mastsalen, Malmstensvåningen, EEU
Stefan Ambec, INRAE Research Professor, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Title: Carbon border adjustment mechanism and free allowances
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Thursday 10 March, 2022, time 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, E44, DEV
Viktor Malein, PhD student, University of Southern Denmark
Title: tba
For zoom link pls contact Joseph.vecci@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 15 March, 2022, time 10:05-11:00, on zoom, GES
Jingfeng Lu, Professor, National University of Singapore
Title: Optimal Orchestration of Rewards and Punishments in Rank-Order Contests
For zoom link contact Yuejun Zhao,  yuejun.zhao@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 15 March, 2022, at 12:05 in the conference room E5: Final seminar before PhD Defense
Lina Andersson, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Information Sharing between Buyers
Discussant: Johan Stennek, University of Gothenburg

Thursday 17 March, 2022, at 10:15 on zoom, Final seminar before PhD Defense
Jakob Enlund, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Individual Carbon Footprint Reduction; Evidence from Users of a Carbon Calculator
Diskussant: Christina Gravert, University of Copenhagen
For zoom link pls contact Fredrik.carlsson@economics.gu.se

Monday 21 March, 2022, time: 10:00, on Zoom, Final Seminar before PhD Defense
Andrea Berggren, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Paper I: The Impact of Upper Secondary School Flexibility on Sorting and Educational Outcomes
Paper II: Antibiotics consumption in children and health care utilization
Discussant: Ylenia Brilli,  Ca 'Foscari University of Venice
For zoom link pls contact gustav.kjellsson@economics.gu.se

Monday 28 March, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, room: Matsalen i Malmstensvåningen, EEU
Daniel Spiro, Assistant Professor, Uppsala University
Title: Integrated assessment of biodiversity policy
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 29 March, 2022, time 15:05-16:00, on zoom, GES
Kelsey Jack, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning
For zoom link contact Sanna Bergvall,  sanna.bergvall@economics.gu.se

APRIL

Monday 4 April, 2022, time 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, room Matsalen i Malmstensvåningen, EEU
Chandra Krishnamurthy, Asociate Professor, Dept of Forest Economics, SLU
Title: Do ride-hailing services worsen freeway congestion and air quality? Evidence from Uber in California
For zoom link pls contat ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 5 April, 2022, time 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, room SEB-salen, GES
Luigi Butera, Assistant Professor, Copenhagen Business School
Title: A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game" (with Philip Grossman, Daniel Houser, John List, and Marie Claire Villeval)
For zoom link contact Sanna Bergvall,  sanna.bergvall@economics.gu.se

Monday 11 April, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, Matsalen, Malmstensvåningen, EEU
Ellen Palm, Doctoral Student, Lund University
Title: Narrating plastics governance: policy narratives in the European plastics strategy
For zoom link, pls contact Ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Thursday 21 April 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, SEB-salen, DEV
Anh Vu Tran, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Tba
For zoom link pls contact Joseph.vecci@economics.gu.se

Monday 25 April, 2022, time 12:05-13:00, on Zoom, EEU
Martine Visser, Professor, University of Cape Town together with Jorge Garcia, Associate Professor, School of Management, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Title: Image motivation for pro-social behavior: Evidence from South Africa
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 26 April, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, SEB-salen, GES
Rustamdjan Hakimov, Assistant Professor, University of Lausanne
Title: Breaking bad: Malfunctioning institutions erode good behavior
For zoom link contact Sanna Bergvall,  sanna.bergvall@economics.gu.se

Wednesday 27 April 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, In person, E5 conference room, DES
Christopher Paik, Associate Professor NYU Abu Dhabi
Topic: Up in the Higlands: Ancient Nomadic Corridors and Long-run Economic Development (co-authored with Keshar Shahi at NYUAD)

MAY

Monday 2 May, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, on Zoom, EEU
Peter Howard, Economics Director, Institute for Policy Integrity, New York University, School of Law
Title: Between Two Worlds: Methodological and Subjective Differences in Climate Impact Meta-Analyses
For zoomlink pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Monday 9 May, 2022, 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, B44, EEU
Fredrik Carlsson, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 10 May, 2022, time: 15:05-16:00, on zoom, GES
Margaux Luflade, Assistant Profesor, University of Pennsylvania
Title: On the spatial determinants of educational access
For zoom link contact Yuejun Zhao,  yuejun.zhao@economics.gu.se

Tuesday 17 May, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00,  in person/hybrid, SEB-salen, GES
Conrad Miller, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Racial Inequality and the Dynamic Role of Referral Hiring: Evidence from Brazil

Thursday 19 May, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, E5, Dev
Magnus Tolum Buus, Post-Doc, Universoity of Copenhagen
Title: Network Effects and Dynamic Pricing in Export Markets
For zoom link pls contact Joseph.Vecci@economics.gu.se

Friday 20 May, 2022, time: 10:15 in B22, PhD Defense
Lina Andersson, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Emotions in Game Theory: Fear, friendliness and hostility
Opponent: Pierpaolo Battigalli, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Milano
For zoom link: Pls contact ann-christin.raatari.nystrom@gu.se

Monday 23 May, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, Matsalen i Malmstensvåningen, EEU
Jessica Coria, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: The Political Economy of the European Regulation of Chemicals of Very High Concern
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Friday 27 May, 2022, time 13:00-15:00, on Zoom, EEU
Meseret Berhane Abebe, AAU-GU Collaborative PhD program
Discussant: Professor Salvatore di Falco, University of Geneva
Paper 1: Rainfall Shocks and Household Food Consumption: Substitution as a Coping Mechanism?
Paper 2: The Impact of the El-Nino-Induced Drought on Technology Adoption
Paper 3: Does Improved Seed Adoption Improve Nutrition Outcome? Panel Data Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Paper 4: Weather Shock, Livestock Holding and Milk Production: A Difference-in-Difference Analysis
For zoom link, pls contact Yonas.alem@gu.se

Monday 30 May, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, on Zoom, EEU
Claudia Aravena, Assistant Professor, Heriot-Watt University
Title: Monetary and Non-monetary valuation of elements of biodiversity in rural and urban communities in the Titicaca National Reserve
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

JUNE

Thursday 2 June, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, room E44, Dev
Heather Congdon-Fors, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Changing social conventions – long-run impacts of the earliest campaigns against female genital cutting.
For zoom link pls contact Joseph.Vecci@economics.gu.se

Tuesday  7 June, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, on Zoom, GES
Etienne Lehmann
Title: How to Tax Different Incomes?
For zoom link pls contact  yuejun.zhao@economics.gu.se

Thursday 9 June, 2022, time: 08:15 , on Zoom
Andrea Mitrut, Universitetslektor
Title: The Introduction of Electronic Public Procurement in Vietnam
Zoom Link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/5829359583

Monday 13 June, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, B44 EEU
Theo Konc, Guest Researcher, PIK-Potsdam Institue for Climate Impact Research
Title: A longitudinal analysis of the support for carbon pricing
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

Monday 20 June, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in person/hybrid, B44 EEU
Carolyn Fischer, Researge Manager, Development Research Group, World Bank
Title: Tba
For zoom link pls contact ville.inkinen@economics.gu.se

AUGUST

Wednesday 24 August, 2022, at 12:05 in room E642
Felix Holzmeister, Assistant Professor
"Competition and moral behavior: A meta-analysis of 45 crowd-sourced experimental designs". 

SEPTEMBER

GES: Tuesday 20 September, 2022, at 12:00-13:05 in room E44
Eliza Jácome, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
"Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates over the 20th Century"

DES: Thursday 22 September, 2022, at 12:05-13:00 in room E5
Måns Söderbom, Professor, University of Gothenburg
"Why Do the Returns on Physical Capital Vary So Much Across Firms in Africa?"

GES: Tuesday 27 September, 2022, time: 12:00-13:15, in room E44
Torsten Persson, Professor, IIES
"The Political Economics of Green Transitions"

OCTOBER

GES: Tuesday 4 October, 2022, time: 12:05-13:00, in room E44
Caitlin Brown, Assistant professor, University of Manchester
Title: Street food safety in urban markets

GES: Wednesday 19 October, 2022, time: 12:00-13:15, in room E642
Louis-Pierre Lepage Assistant Professor at SOFI, Stockholm University
Title: Experience-based Discrimination

GES: Tuesday 25 October, 2022, time: 12:00-13:15 in the Volvo hall
Simen Markussen, Senior Research, The Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Title: The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance

GES: Tuesday 8 November, 2022, time: tba, in room tba
Jessica Pan, Associate professor, National University of Singapore
Title: tba

NOVEMBER

GES: Tuesday 8 November, 2022, time: tba, in room tba
Jessica Pan, Associate professor, National University of Singapore
Title: tba

DES: Wednesday 17 November, 2022, time: 10:00-12:00, in B44
Gidisa Lechisa Tato:  AAU-GU Collaborative PhD Program
Discussant: Dr. Annika Lindskog, University of Gothenburg
Title: Essays on Shocks, Wellbeing and Child Labor in Africa
Paper 2: Early Life Shock and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
Paper 3: Parental Death and Child Labor Dynamics: Evidence from Longitudinal Survey of Ethiopian Children
Paper 4: The Scars of Child Labor: The Impact on Youth Employment and Earnings

EEU: Monday 21 November, 2022, time: 12:05, in room B44
Olof Johansson Stenman, Professor, University of Gothenburg
Title: How Much Liberty Do You Want? Citizens and Experts on Regulating Externalities and Internalities

GES: Tuesday 22 November, 2022, time: 12:00, in room E44
Per Strömberg, Professor, SSE
Title: Carbon Pricing and Firm-Level CO2 Abatement: Evidence from a Quarter of a Century-Long Panel

EEU: Monday 28 November, 2022, time: 12:05, in room B44
Claes Ek, Senior Lecturer, University of Gothenburg
Title: tba

DECEMBER

EEU: Monday 5 December, 2022, time: 12:05, in room B41
Håkan Eggert, Senior Lecturer, University of Gothenburg
Title: Positional Externality, Ethnicity, and Punishment in a Public Good Game.

GES: Tuesday 6 December, 2022, time: tba, in room tba
Etienne Lehmann, Professor, Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University
Title: How to Tax Different Incomes?

EEU: Monday 12 December, 2022, time: 12:05, in room tba
Claudia Persico, Assistant Professor, American University
Title: Can pollution cause poverty? The effects of pollution on educational, health and economic outcomes

EEU: Monday 19 December, 2022, time: 12:05, in room B44
Andreas Chmielowski, PhD student, University of Gothenburg
Title: tba

JANUARY

Tuesday 12 January, 2021, time: 16:05-17:00

Geoffrey Heal, Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School
Title: Economic Aspects of the Energy Transition
 

Tuesday 19 January, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, GES

Paul Heidhues, Professor of Behavioral and Competition Economics, University of Düsseldorf
Title: Procrastination Markets
 

Wednesday 20 January, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, Job Talk, Finance

Kerstin Westergren, Uppsala University
Title: Inflation expectations of rationally inattentive consumers
 

Thursday 21 January, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, Job Talk, Health Economics

Sandra Baquié, Columbia University
Title: A Tragedy of Antibiotics? The Negative Externality of Prescriptions on Antibiotic Effectiveness Paper
 

Monday 25 January, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Sonia Yeh, Professor in Transport, Chalmers University of Technology
Title: Tradable Performance Standards in the Transportation Sector
 

Tuesday 26 January, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, GES

Pol Campos-Mercade, University of Copenhagen
Title: Irrational Statistical Discrimination
 

Wednesday 27 January, 2021, time: 14:05-15:15, Job Talk, Health Economics

Fabrice Kämpfen, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Health Screening for Emergency Non-Communicable Disease Burdens Among the Global Poor: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
 

Thursday 28 January, 2021, time: 12:05-13:15, Job Talk, Health Economics

Sara Abrahamsson, NHH Bergen
Title: Distraction of Teaching Tool: Do Smartphone Bans in Schools Help Students?
 

FEBRUARY

Tuesday 2 February, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00

Nagore Iriberri, Ikerbasque Research Professor, University of the Basque Country
Title: Gender Differences in Peer Recognition by Economists
 

Wednesday 3 February, 2021, time: 12:05-13:15, Job talk, Health

Juan Piedra, Autónoma de Barcelona
Title: On the dynamics of patient migration flows; Is efficiency performance explaining inflows for neighboring hospitals?
 

Thursday 4 February, 2021, time: 12:05-13:15, Job talk, Health

Eduardo Costa, Nova School of Business and Economics
Title: License ti Kill? The impact of Hospital Strikes
 

Monday 8 February, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Niklas Scmelmer, PhD Student, Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg
Title: The Impact of Greedfield FDI and Cross-Border M&A on Energy Intensity
 

Tuesday 9 February, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00

Christian Waibel, Senior Researcher, ETH Zürich
Title: : Cost-sharing or rebate: The impact of health insurance design on reducing inefficient care
 

Monday 22 February, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Gunnar Köhlin, Director of EfD &Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: How EEU members can utilize the EfD network for collaborative research
 

Monday 22 February, 2021, time: 17:05-18:00, GES

Sara Lowes, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
Title: Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior
 

Friday 26 February, 2021, time: 13:05-14:15, Job Talk, Health

Deepmala Pokhriyal, Georgia State University
Title: Do Financial Incentives for Maternal Healthcare Matter? Evidence from Programs in India
 

Friday 26 February, 2021, time: 16:00, Final Seminar

Lina Andersson, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Opponent: Amrish Patel
Titles: Paper 1: Cooperation between Emotional Players
Paper 2: Fear and Economic Behavior
 

MARCH

Monday 1 March, 2021, time: 12:05-13:15, Job Talk, Health

Yuejun Zhao, Monash/Ragnar Frisch Center
Title: Job Displacement and the Mental Health of Partners: A Burden Shared Is a Burden Halved?
 

Monday 1 March, 2021, time: 15:00-16:00, EEU

Robert Stavins, Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School
Title: The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy
 

Tuesday 2 March, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00

Ingela Alger, Senior Researcher at Toulouse School of Economics
Title: Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic
 

Monday 8 March, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Ola Olsson, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: A climate pulse model of long-run development
 

Tuesday 9 March, 2021, time: 15:05-16:00

Fiona Burlig, Assistant Professor,  Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Title: Groundwater, energy, and crop choice
 

Thursday 11 March, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, DEV

Susanna Oh, Assistant Professor, Paris School of Economics
Title: :  Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive? with Supreet Kaur, Sendhil Mullainathan, Suanna Oh and Frank Schilbach
 

Monday 15 March, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Ulrike Kornek, Professor, Kiel University
Title: Tba
 

Tuesday 16 March, 2021, time: 15:05-16:00, GES

Victoria Prowse, Magner Chair and an Associate Professor, Purdue University
Title: Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes
 

Monday 22 March, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Jimmy Karlsson, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Tba
 

Wednesday 24 March, 2021, time: 15:05-16:00, GES

Wojciech Kopczuk, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Title: Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway
 

Thursday 25 March, 2021, Time: 12:05-13:00, DEV

Benjamin Marx, Assistant Professor at Science Po
Title: Islam and the State: Religious Education in the Age of Mass Schooling (joint with Samuel Bazzi and Masyhur Hilmy)
 

Monday 29 March, 2021, Time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Wolfgang Habla, Senior Researcher, ZEW, Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim
Title: The Optimal Design of Climate Policy in the Presence of Capital Tax Competition
 

Monday 29 March, 2021, Time: 16:00-17:00, Higher Seminar

Ruijie Tian, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Chapter 3, The Weakest Link: Assessing the Supply Chain Effect of Natural Disasters
Opponent: Jevan Cherniwchan (Carleton University)
 

Tuesday 30 March, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, GES

Andrea Pozzi, Associate Professor, EIEF an a CEPR research fellow
Title: Pecuniary Externalities in Financial Frictions: Do They Matter for Welfare?
 

APRIL

Thursday 8 April, 2021, Time: 12:05-13:00, DEV

Kristen Kao, Senior Research Fellow, Dept of Political Science, University of Gothenburg
Title: To Punish or to Pardon? Attitudes Towards Justice and Reintegration for Europeans who Cooperated with the Islamic State
 

Monday 12 April, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

E. Somanathan, Professor, Centre for Research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi
Title: Tba
 

Tuesday 13 April, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, GES

Name: Martin Karlsson, Professor, University of Duisburg-Essen
Title: The Long-term Effects of Hospital Deliveries in Sweden
 

Monday 19 April, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Julius Andersson, PhD, London School of Economics
Title: Tba
 

Tuesday 20 April, 2021, time: 12;05-13:00, GES

Johannes Spinnewijn, Associate Professor, LSE
Title: Retirement Consumption and Pension Design
 

Thursday 22 April, 2021, Time: 12:05-13:00, DEV

Ola Olsson, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Unsustainable Civilization: The Collapse of Classic Maya Society
 

Friday 23 April, 2021, Time 13:15, Room B44, PhD Defense

Anna Lindahl, PhD candidate, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Empirical Tests of Exchange Rate and Stock Return Models
Opponent: Professor Hossein Asgharian
 

Tuesday 27 April, 2021, time:

Name: tba
Title: tba
Zoom link: tba

MAY

Monday 3 May, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Per Strömberg, Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
& Gustav Martinsson, Associate Professor, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
Title: Carbon Pricing and Firm-Level CO2 Abatement: Evidence from a Quarter of a Century-Long Panel
 

Tuesday 4 May, 2021, time: 16:05-17:00, GES

Irene Botasaru, Associate Professor, McMaster University
Title: A panel model with heteroskedasticity, with an application to earnings risk 
 

Thursday 6 May, 2021, time: 12:05-13.00, DEV

Roxanne Kovacs, Postdoctoral Researcher in Health Economics, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title; Does high workload reduce the quality of healthcare? Evidence from rural Senegal.
 

Tuesday 11 May, 2021, time: 16:05-17:00, GES

Anke Becker, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Title: On the Economic Origins of Concerns over Women’s Chastity
 

Wednesday 12 May, 2021, time: 13:15-15:00, Higher Seminar

Lisa Norrgren, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Chapter 1: Time Preferences, Illness, and Death
Chapter 2: Time Preferences and Medication Adherence: A Field Experiment With Pregnant Women in South Africa.
Discussant: Professor Martin Karlsson
 

Tuesday 18 May, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, GES

Adeline Delavande, Professor of Economics, University of Technology, Sidney
Title: Mortality Risk Information, Survival Expectations and Sexual Behaviors
 

Thursday 20 May, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, DEV

Joe Vecci, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Locus of Control, Economic Decision-Making and Aspirations: A Field Experiment in Odisha, India.
 

Monday 24 May, 2021, time: 12:00-13:00, EEU

Erik Sebastiaan Merkus, PhD student, Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Tba
 

Monday 31 May, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, EEU

Daniel R Driscoll, PhD candidate in Sociology at UC, San Diego
Title: The Socio-Politics of National Carbon Pricing
 

JUNE

Wednesday 2 June, 2021, time: 18:00, Higher Seminar

Ruijie Tian, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Chapter 2, Heterogeneous Responses to Carbon Pricing: Firm-level Evidence from Beijing Emissions Trading Scheme
Opponent: Meredith Fowlie, UC Berkeley
 

Thursday 3 June, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00, DEV

Karlijn Morsink, Utrecht University
Title: Do No Harm? The Welfare Consequences of Behavioural Interventions (joint work with Glenn Harrison and Mark Schneider).
 

Thursday 10 June, 2021; Time: 15:00, Final Seminar

Jakob Enlund, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Echoes of Violent Conflict: The Effect of the Israel-Palestine Conflict on Hate Crimes in the U.S.
Discussant: Professor Laura Mayoral
 

Friday 11 June, 2021, time: 10:15, PhD Defense

Carolin Sjöholm, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Essays on Public Policy in the Informal Sector Context
Opponent: Andreas Madestam, Department of Economics, Stockholm University
 

SEPTEMBER

Monday 6 September, 2021, 12:05-13:00, EEU

Markus Wråke, CEO, Energiforsk AB
Title: Energy transition in Sweden and globally
 

Tuesday 7 September, 2021, 12:05-13:00, GES

Mats Köster, Assistant Professor, Central European University, Vienna
Title: Steering Fallible Consumers
 

Thursday 9 September, 2021, 12:05-13:00, DEV

Måns Söderbom, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Social Insurance Reform and Worker Compensation

Friday 10 September, 2021, at 15:15, Room B44 and Zoom, PhD Defense

Ruijie Tian, Phd Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Impacts of Climate Policy and Natural Disaster: Evidence from China
Opponent: Dallas Burtraw, Senior Fellow and Resources for the Future, RFF
 

Tuesday 14 September, 2021, 15:05-16:00, GES

Benjamin Friedrich, Associate Professor, Northwestern University, USA
Title: Interdependent Values in Matching Markets: Evidence from Medical School Programs in Denmark
 

Tuesday 21 September, 15:05-16:00, GES

Madeline KcKelway, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Title: : How Does Women’s Employment Affect Household Decision-making? Experimental Evidence from India
 

Monday 27 September, 2021, 12:05-13:00, EEU

Joao Manuel Lameira Vaz, Post-doc, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Fisheries
 

Tuesday 28 September, 2021, 12:05-13:00, GES

Leonie Gerhards, Post Doc, University of Hamburg
Title: Keep Them Out of It! How Concerns for Others’ Privacy Influence the Willingness to Sell Personal Data
 

OCTOBER

Monday 4 October, 2021, 12:05-13:00, EEU

Ville Inkinen, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Wetlands
 

Thursday 7 October, 2021, 12:05-13:00, DEV

Roxanne Kovacs, Post-Doc, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Titlke: Does free maternity care improve access and save lives? Quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya

Tuesday 12 October, 2021, 10:05-11:00, GES

Phillipe Aghion, Professor, Collège de France
Title: Rethinking Capitalism Post Covid: The Power of Creative Destruction
 

Monday 18 October, 2021, 12:05-13:00, EEU

Frans de Vries, Professor, University of Aberdeen Business School
Title: Investment Incentives in Tradable Emissions Markets with Price Floors
 

Tuesday 19 October, 2021, time: tba, GES

Speaker: Tba

Thursday 21 October, 2021, 12:05-13:00, DEV

Jakob Enlund, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Electoral Cycles, Foreign Policy and Conflict Mitigation: Evidence from Contributors to UN Peacekeeping Operations

Monday 25 October, 2021, 12:05-13:00,  room B44 and zoom, EEU

Pedro Guimaraes Naso, Post-doc, The Graduate Institute, Geneva
Delegation of Regulation and Perceived Corruption in South Africa
 

Tuesday 26 October, 2021, 12:05-13:00, GES

Marjon van der Pol, Professor, University of Aberdeen
Title: The elicitation of time preferences: future bias and order and oath effects.
 

NOVEMBER

Monday 1 November, 2021, 12:05-13:00, room B44 and zoom, EEU

Jan Steckel, Researcher, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
Title: Coal, Carbon Pricing and the Poor
 

Tuesday 2 November, 2021, 15:05-16:00, GES

Ivan Rudik, Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Title: Tba
 

Monday 8 November 2021, 12:05-13:00, room B44 and zoom, EEU

Marc Leandri, Assistant Professor, CEMOTEV, Université Versailles Saint Quentin
Title: "Ticks Economics"
 

Tuesday 9 November, 2021, 12:05-13:00, GES

Katinka Holtsmark, Assistant Professor, University of Oslo
Title: The Marginal Cost of Public Funds With Inequality
 

Monday 15 November, 2021, 9:45-11:45, room B44 and Zoom, Final Seminar

Lisa Norrgren and Louise Jeppsson, PhD candidates, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Chapter 3: Can mother's time preferences predict children's education outcomes? By Lisa Norrgren and Louise Jeppsson
Chapter 4: The puzzle of education and health. Investigating the role of time preference, cognitive ability and educational plans. By Lisa Norrgren
Discussant: Mikael Lindhal, Professor, Department of Economics, UoG
 

Monday 15 November, 2021, 12:05-13:00, B44 and zoom, EEU

Jens Ewald, Phd Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Understanding the Resistance to Carbon Taxes: The role of revenue use
 

Tuesday 16 November, 2021, 16:05-17:00, GES

Adrienne Sabety, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Title: Natural Disasters and Elective Medical Services: The Consequences of Foregone Healthcare
 

Thursday 18 November, 2021, 12:05-13:00, DEV, Room B44

Jonathan Lehne, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Irrigation vs education: The long run effects of opium cultivation in British India

Monday 22 November, 2021, 12:05-13:00, EEU

Francisco Alpízar, Professor, Wageningen University and Research
Title: Exposure-enhanced goods and technology disadoption
 

Tuesday 23 November, 2021, 12:05-13:00, GES

Bard Hardstad, Professor, University of Oslo
Title: Trade and Trees
 

Monday 29 November 2021, 12:05-13:00, EEU

Jurate Jaraite, Researcher, Vilnius University
Title: Take a ride on the (not so) green side: How do CDM projects affect Indian manufacturing firms’ environmental performance?
 

Tuesday 30 November, 2021, time: 12:05-13:00 in room B44, GES

Erik Plug, Professor, University of Amsterdam
Title: Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality (joint work with Martin Nybom, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler)
 

DECEMBER

Wednesday 1 December 2021, 10:00, Final Seminar

Jakob Enlund, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title/paper: Electoral Cycles, Foreign Policy and Conflict Mitigation: Evidence from Contributors to UN Peacekeeping Operations
Discussant: Professor Ola Olsson, Department of Economics, GU
 

Thursday 2 December, 2021, 12:05-13:00, DEV

Louise Jeppsson, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Tba

Monday 6 December, 2021, 12:05-13:00, Zoom and SEB-salen, EEU

Efthymia Kyriakopoulou, Assistant Professor, SLU
Title: Working From Home and Urban Land Structure
 

Tuesday 7 December, 2021, 12:05-13:00, GES

Torben Mideksa, Assistant Professor, Uppsala University
Title: Pricing for a Cooler Planet: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Taxing Carbon
 

Monday 13 December, 2021, 12:05-13:00, EEU

Knut Einar Rosendahl, Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Title: Coal phaseout in Europe
 

Tuesday 14 December, 2021, 12:05-13:00, room B44, GES

Anne Boring, Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Turning Back the Clock: Beliefs About Gender Roles During Lockdown 
 

Thursday 16 December, 2021, 12:05-13:00, DEV

Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Aid and child health: Local effects of aid on stunting in Malawi

SEPTEMBER

Tuesday 15 September, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Lassi Ahlvik, Associate Professor, University of Helsinki
Title: Investment and the timing of taxes: Evidence from a cash refund program in the Norwegian petroleum sector

Tuesday 22 September, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Johan Vikström, Associate Professor, IFAU
Title: What makes a good caseworker
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/64289456535

Tuesday 29 September, 2020, 17:05-18:00, zoom, GES

Petra Persson, Assistant Professor, Stanford
Title: The roots of health inequality and the value of intra-family expertise
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/64289456535

OCTOBER

Thursday 1 October, 2020, 12:05-13:00,  DEV

Måns Söderbom, Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Worker Turnover and Job Reallocation: Evidence from Matched Employer-Empolyee Data
Zoom link:  https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/3925532901

Tuesday 6 October, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Owen Ozier, Senior Economist, The World Bank
Title: Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Tuesday 13 October, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Camille Terrier, Assistant Professor, HEC Lausanne
Title: Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Thursday 15 October, 2020, 12:05-13:00,  DEV

Ann-Sofie Isaksson, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Aid and institutions
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/3925532901

Tuesday 20 October, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Ben Greinier, Professor, WU Vienna
Title: The effect of a "None of the above" ballot paper option on voting behavior and election outcomes
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Thursday 29 October, 2020, 12:05-13:00,  DEV

Jakob Enlund, PhD candidate, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Early stage research project: Evaluating UN Peacekeeping Operations - Prospects for Instrumenting Troop Deployments.
Zoon title: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/3925532901

NOVEMBER

Tuesday 3 November, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Xavier Gabaix, Professor, Harvard University
Title:  In Search of the Origins of Financial Fluctuations: The Inelastic Markets Hypothesis
Zoom address: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Tuesday 10 November, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Cloé Garnache, Assistant Professor, Oslo University
Title: Peak pricing in Norway: A large-scale field experiment
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Thursday 12 November, 2020, 12:05-13:00, room B44, DEV

Dick Durevall, Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Intimate Partner Violence in Colombia
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/3925532901

Thursday 19 November, 2020, 14:15-15:30, zoom, GES

Nikhil Agarwal, Associate Professor, MIT
Title: Choices and Outcomes in Assignment Mechanisms: The Allocation of Deceased Donor Kidneys
Zoom link: https://eu01web.zoom.us/meeting/64850028851

Tuesday 24 November, 2020, 12:45-13:45, zoom, GES

Gernot Wagner, Associate Professor, New York University
Title: Declining CO2 price paths
zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Thursday 26 November, 2020, 12:05-13:00,  DEV

Annika Lindskog, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Harmful norms: Can social convention theory explain the persistence of female genital cutting in Africa?
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/3925532901
 

DECEMBER

Tuesday 1 December, 2020, 12:05-13:00, zoom, GES

Andrea Weber, Professor, Central European University
Title: Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach
Zoom link:https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Tuesday 8 December, 2020, 09:05-10:00, zoom, GES

Sujata Visaria, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University
Title: Do Women Receive Worse Financial Advice?
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

Tuesday 15 December, 2020, 12:05-13:00, GES

Marta Reynal-Querol, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE Research Professor
Title: Colonization, Early Settlers and Development. The case of Latin America
Zoom link: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/66072103860

JANUARY

Wednesday 9 January, 12:05-13:00, room E45, Job Talk Development
Joseph Vecci, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Leader Identity and Coordination

Monday 14 January, 12:05-14:00, room E45, Job Talk Development
Mattea Stein, Paris School of Economics
Title: Know-how and know-who: Effects of a randomized training on network changes among small urban entrepreneurs.

Thursday 17 January, 12:05-14:00, room B44, Job Talk Labor
Mathias von Buxhoeveden, Uppsala University
Title: Unemployment Insurance and Wage Formation

Thursday 17 January, 14:00-16:00, room B44, Job Talk Development
Marc Witte, Oxford University
Title: Job Referrals and Strategic Network Formation: Experimental Evidence from Urban Neighbourhoods in Ethiopia

Friday 18 January, 12:05-14:00, room C33, Job Talk Labor
Bo Hu, VU Amsterdam
Title: Managerial Labor Market Competition and Incentive Contracts

Monday 21 January, 12:05-14:00, room B44, Job Talk, Development
Soeren Henn, Harvard University,
Title: Complements or Substitutes: State Presence and the Power of Traditional Leaders

Tuesday 22 January, 12:05-14:00, room B41, Job Talk, Development
Lara Cockx, Leuven University
Title: Moving towards a better future? Migration and Children's health and education

Thursday 24 January, 12:05-14:00, room E 45, Job Talk, Development
Phillip Ross, Boston University
Title: Ancestral Roots of Locus of Control

Friday 25 January, 12:05-14:00, room E 43, Jog Talk, Labor
Elisabet Olme, Stockholm University
Title:School Choice, Admission Rules and Segregation in Primary Schools

Monday 28 January, 12:05-14:00, room F 45, Job Talk, Development
Eva Raiber, Toulouse School of Economics
Title: Anticipated Fertility and Educational Investment: Evidence from the One-Child Policy in China

Monday 28 January, 14:00-15:15, room F45, Job Talk Labor
Eric Melander, University of Warwick, UK
Title: Mobility and Mobilisation: Railways and the Spread of Social Movements

Tuesday 31 January, 12:05-14:00, room F 43, Job Talk, Labor
Annalisa Loviglio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Title: Schools and Their Multiple Ways to Impact Students: A Structural Model of Skill Accumulation and Educational Choices

Thursday 31 January, 12:05-14:00, room F 43, Job Talk, Labor
Todd Morris, University of Melbourne
Title: The Unequal Burden of Retirement Reform: Evidence from Australia

FEBRUARY

Tuesday 5 February, 12:05-14:00, room F 43, Job Talk, Labor
Andreas Ek, London School of Economics
Title: Cultural Values and Productivity

Tuesday 26 February, 12:05-13:00, Room F44, GES
Dorothea Kübler, Professor, WZB&Technical University, Berlin
Title: How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments at Public Offices

MARCH

Monday 4 March, 12:05-13:00, room F45, EEU
Anders Branth Pedersen, Senior Researcher, Aarhus University
Title: The effects of risk based pesticide taxation in Denmark

Tuesday 5 March, 12:05-13:00, room C33, GES
Matti Liski, Professor, Aalto University, Helsingfors
Title: Footloose and regulation-free! A mechanism for global commons and mobile firms

Thursday 7 March, 12:05-13:00, Conference room E5, DES
Olle Hammar, PhD student, Uppsala University
Title: It’s Where You’re From, It’s Where You’re At: Culture, Individualism and Preferences for Redistribution

Tuesday 12 March, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Maria Perrotta Berlin, Assistant Professor, Stockholm School of Economics - SITE
Title: The donor footprint and gender gaps

Monday 18 March, 12:05-13:00, room F45, EEU
Wolfgang Habla, Post Doctoral Researcher, Centre for European Economic Research, ZEW
Title: Strategic delegation and centralized climate policy (with Maria Arvaniti, ETH Zurich)

Tuesday 19 March, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Diego Battiston, Assistant Professor, Stockholm University
Title: The Persistent Effects of Brief Interactions: Evidence from Immigrant Ships

Thursday 21 March, 12:05-13:00, Conference room E5, DES
Annika Lindskog, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Can monetary incentives increase the valuation of the girl child?

Tuesday 26 March, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Xavier D'Haultfoeille, Professor, CREST-ENSAE, Paris
Title: Asymptotic Results for Dyadic Data

Thursday 28 March, time: 10.15, room E6, FINAL SEMINAR
Debbie Lau, PhD Student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Opponent: Dr Simona Tudor
Titles:
1. The Impact of Mother Tongue Education: Labour Market Outcomes and Educational Inequality
2. The Impact of Salt Iodization on Human Capital: Evidence from Sweden

Thursday 28 March, 14.15-16.00, conf. room E5, FINAL SEMINAR
Carolin Sjöholm, PhD Student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Opponent: Anna Bindler
Paper 1: The Policy Implications of Price Sensitivity of Demand for Health Insurance – Evidence from Community Based Health Insurance in Rwanda
Paper 2: The Role of Childcare on Female Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico
 

APRIL

Tuesday 2 April, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Daniele Nosenzo, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham/LISER
Title: Law & Norms: Empirical Evidence

Wednesday 3 April, 12:05-13:00, Room D617, DES
Joe Vecci, Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Good to the last mile: Testing new solutions to improve use of climate adaption strategies in India

Tuesday 9 April, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Anandi Mani, Professor, University of Oxford, UK
Title: Cognitive Droughts

Wednesday 10 April, 12:05-13:00, room B33, PhD Seminar Exchange
Erling Risa, PhD Student, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Title: Status Traps in Social Mobility and Human Capital Investment

Thursday 11 April, 14:00-15:00, Conference room E5, DES
Sonia Bhalotra, Professor, University of Essex
Title: Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Tuesday 23 April, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Ghazala Azmat, Professor, Sciences Po, Paris
Title: Gender Promotion Gaps: Career Aspirations and Early Workplace Experiences

MAY

Thursday 2 May, 12:05-13:00, Conference room E5, DES
Mohammad Sepahvand, PhD, Researcher, Uppsala University
Title: Does Revolution change risk attitudes? Evidence from Burkina Faso

Wednesday 8 may, 12:05-13:00, room B44, GES
Federico Echenique, Professor, Caltech, Pasadena, California
Title: Statistical Discrimination and Affirmative Action in the Lab

Tuesday 14 May, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Ian Bateman, Professor, University of Exeter, UK
Title:Clarifying and applying the Natural Capital Approach to decision making

Wednesday 15 May, 12:05-13:00, room B23, PhD Seminar Exchange
Anne Lundgaard Hansen, PhD Student, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Title: “Yield Curve Volatility and Macroeconomic Risks”

Thursday 16 May, 12:05-13, Conference room E5, DES
Louise Jeppsson, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Household Decision Making: Does Decision Domain Matter?

Friday 17 May, 10:00-12:00, Room E44, PhD Defense
Eyoual Demeke, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Opponent: Bereket Kebede, University of East Anglia
Title of dissertation: Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics

Tuesday 21 May, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Paul Heidhues, Professor, University of Düsseldorf
Title: Browsing versus Studying: A Pro-Market Case for Regulation

Monday 27 May, 12:05-13:00, room F45, EEU
Olga Chiappinelli, Research Associate, DIW Berlin
Title: Green Public Procurement as an incentive for low-carbon investment

Monday 27 May, 13:00-15:00, Room B21, Higher Seminar before defense
Simon Schürz, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Paper 1: Inefficient Parental Decision-Making: Evidence from Educational Investments in Tanzania
Paper 2: Distributional Preferences in Adolescent Peer Networks
Discussant: Joseph Vecci, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg

Tuesday 28 May, 12:05-13:00, room B44, GES
Aline Bütikofer, Associate Professor, NHH;Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen
Title: The Impact of Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health

Wednesday, 29th of May, 12.05-13.00, in Conference room E5
Claes Ek, Researcher, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Panel data and cluster randomization: a general formula for power calculation in RCTs

Wednesday 29 May, 13:15, SEB-salen, PhD Defense
Tamás Kiss, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Opponent: Professor Ana Galvao, Warwick Business School
Title: Predictability in Equity Markets: Estimation and Inference

Wednesday 29 May, 10:00-12:00, Conference room, E5, Higher Seminar before defense
Hoang-Anh Ho, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Paper 1: Tying Peasants to Their Land.
Paper 2: Land Tenure and Economic Development: Evidence from Vietnam.
Discussant: Andreas Madestam, Department of Economics, Stockholm University.

JUNE

Tuesday 4 June, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Clement Imbert, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick, UK
Title: Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China

Friday 14 June, 12:05-13:00, Conference room E5, DES
Victoria Baranov, Melbourne University
Title: Men. Roots and Consequences of Masculinity Norms

27 June, 12:05-13:00, Conference room E5, DES
Lakshmi Iyer, University of Notre Dame
Title: The title will be "Liberté, Parité, Securité: Women’s Political Representation and Crime

27 June, 14:00, room E44, PhD defense
Maksym Khomenko, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Essays on the Design of Public Policies and Regulations
Opponent: Docent Johan Vikström, Uppsala University
AUGUST

Tuesday 27 August, 10:45-13:00, conference room E6, Higher Seminar
Samson Mukanjari, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title 1: Do Markets Trump Politics? Fossil Fuel Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the US Election (with Thomas Sterner)
Title 2: Climate Policy: Effects of the Trump Election on Fossil Fuel Commodity Markets
Discussant: Christian Gollier, Professor, Toulouse School of Economics

SEPTEMBER

Monday 2 September, 12:05-13:00, room E45, GES
Heather Sarsons, Assistant Professor
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Title: Interpreting Signals in the Labor Market: Evidence from Medical Referrals

Monday 9 September, 12:05-13:00, room E44, GES
Janet Currie, Professor
Princeton University
Title: The Clean Air Acts and Racial Inequality in Ambient Air Pollution

Tuesday 10 September, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Guido Friebel, Professor
Goethe University Frankfurt
Title: A Pay Change and Its Long-Term Consequences

Thursday 12 September 12:00-13:00, room E5, Final seminar
Melissa Rubio, Phd candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Paper 1: The Effect of Violence on Social Capital: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in an Illegal Market
Opponent: Anna Bindler,

Tuesday 17 September, 12:05-13:00, room F43, GES
Simone Schaner, Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Title: Does Patient Demand Contribute to the Overuse of Prescriptions Drugs

Thursday 19 September, 12:05-13:00, conf room E5, DES
Gharad Bryan, Assistant Professor
London School of Economics
Title: Can Market Design help the World's Poor? Evidence from a Lab Experiment on Land Trade

Tuesday 24 September, 12:05-13:00, room F43, GES
Hervé Moulin, Professor
University of Glasgow
Title: Bidding for a Fair Share

OCTOBER

Tuesday 1 October, 12:05-13:00, room F43, GES
Julien Daubanes, Assistant Professor
University of Geneva
Title: Green finance and climate policy

Thursday 3 October, 12:05-13:00, seminar room E5, DES
Joe Vecci, Post-Doc, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Addressing Intimate Partner Violence: Evaluating Interventions with Male Perpetrators vs Female Victims

Monday 7 October, 12:05-13:00, B44, EEU
Inge van den Bijgaart, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Renewable energy implementation and fossil stock development

Tuesday 8 October, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Marie Claire Villeval, Professor
University of Lyon, GATE
Title: The way people lie in markets

Tuesday 15 October, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Imran Rasul, Professor
University College London
Title: The Impacts of a Multifaceted Pre-natal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life: Evidence from Households in Extreme Poverty

Thursday 17 October, 12:05-13:00, conference room E5, DES
Simon Schürz, PhD candidate, Department of Economics. University of Gothenburg
Title: Parental Decision-Making and Educational Investments: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Monday 21 October, 12:05-13:00, room B44, EEU
Thomas Sterner, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Mind the Gap... Explaining the difference between Nordhaus 3.5°C and IPCC 1.5°C

Wednesday 23 October, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Amir Jina, Assistant Professor
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Title: Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits

NOVEMBER

Monday 4 November, 10:00-11:30 in conference room D501, J/K, final seminar
Samson Mukanjari, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Paper 3:Coordinated Carbon Taxes or Tightened INDCs: Distributional Implications of Two Options for Climate Negotiations (with Thomas Sterner)
Opponent: Inge van den Bijgaart

Tuesday 5 November, 12:05-13:00, room F45, GES
Sydnee Caldwell, Post Doc/Assistant Professor
Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley
Title: Outside Options, Bargaining and Wages: Evidence from Coworker Networks

Thursday 7 November, 12:00-14:00, Conference room E5, Job Talk/Final Seminar
Melissa Rubio Ramos, Phd candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: From Plantations to Prisons:The Legacy of Slavery on Black Incarceration in the US
Discussant: Anna Bindler

Tuesday 12 November, 12:05-13:00, room F43, GES
Friederike Mengel, Professor
University of Essex
Title: Exposure to Inequality, Personal Relative Position and Belief in Meritocracy

Wednesday 13 November, 12:00-13:10, room E45, Job market presentation
Simon Schürz, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Parental Decision-Making and Educational Investments: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Thursday 14 November, 12:05-13:00, Conference room E5, DES
Selene Ghisolfi, PhD student IIES, Stockholm University
Title: Contribution Requirements and Redistribution Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Tuesday 19 November, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Björn Öckert, Professor
IFAU, Uppsala University
Title: Does the ‘Boost for Mathematics’ boost mathematics?

Tuesday 19 November, 14:00 in conference room E5, Final seminar
Melissa Rubio, Phd candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Paper 2: Comparing Labor Market Risk Across Developing Countries
Opponent: Dick Durevall

Thursday 21 November, 12:05-13:00, conference room E5, LAM - Labour/Applied Micro brown bag
Ylenia Brilli, Post Doctoral Researcher
University of Verona
Title: Health at birth and parental investment decisions

Monday 25 November, 12:05-13:00, room B44 , EEU
Marcella Veronesi, Professor, University of Verona
Title: Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident

Tuesday 26 November, 12:05-13:00, room F45, GES
Tom Kirchmaier, Professor,
Copenhagen Business School/LSE
Title: Jihadi Attacks, Media and Local Hate Crime?

Wednesday 27 November 10:00-11:30, room E5, Final seminar
Carolin Sjöholm, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Paper 3: Regional Variation in the Quality of Primary Healthcare: Evidence from Rwanda
Opponent: Gustav Kjellsson

DECEMBER

Monday 2 December, 12:05-13:00, room B44, EEU
Emmanuel Combet, Researcher
CIRED and ADEME, France
Title: Overview of the acceptability of carbon taxes and potential avenues for the future: a focus on the French case

Tuesday 3 December, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Martin Huber, Professor
University of Fribourg
Title: Direct and Indirect Effects based on Changes-in-Changes

Tuesday 3 December, 14:15-15:00, D617, Final Seminar
Tewodros Tesemma, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Opponent: Dr Yonas Alem
Paper 3: Cooking Fuel and Women's Subjective Well-being: A panel data evidence from Urban Ethiopia

Wednesday 4 December, 12:05-13:00, room B44, Job talk practice
Samson Mukanjari, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Climate Policy: Effects of the Trump Election on Fossil Fuel Commodity Markets

Tuesday 10 December, 12:05-13:00, room B44, GES
Gaetano Basso, Economic Advisor
Bank of Italy
Title: Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Wednesday 11 December, 12:05-13:00, room B44, Job Talk Practice
Melissa Rubio, PhD student, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title:From Plantations to Prisons: The Legacy of Slavery in the US

Monday 16 December, 12:05-13:00, room B44, EEU
Zihan Nie, Post-Doc,
Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Title: Celebrity endorsement in promoting pro-environmental behavior

Tuesday 17 December, 12:05-13:00, room B44, GES
Ingrid Hoem Sjursen, Post-Doc
Stockholm School of Economics
Title: Accountability and taxation: Experimental evidence