Research Seminars

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

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