Seminarier inom nationalekonomi

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
Titla: 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 Gotheburg
Opponent: Bereket Kebede, University of East Anglia
Title of disertation: Essays on Environmental and Behavioral Economics

Tuesday 21 May, 12:05-13:00, room F44, GES
Paul Heidhues, Professor, University of Düsserdorf
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
Oponent: 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
Oponent: 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 Planatations 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