Department of Economics
Department Seminar
Upcoming and past seminars
Upcoming seminars 2025
April 7, 2025
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Title: Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes? Evidence from Connections to the German Federal Parliament
April 14, 2025
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Title: Novel global and regional risk factors
April 28, 2025
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Title: Growth through Innovation Bursts
May 5, 2025
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Title: Higher Education Sorting and Social Mobility
May 12, 2025
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Title: Knowledge is (Market) Power
May 19, 2025
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Title: TBA
May 26, 2025
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June 16, 2025
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June 23, 2025
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September 1, 2025
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September 8, 2025
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September 15, 2025
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October 20, 2025
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October 27, 2025
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November 3, 2025
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November 24, 2025
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December 1, 2025
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Upcoming seminars 2026
March 16, 2026
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May 4, 2026
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Past seminars
2025
March 24, 2025
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Title: Political economy of industrial decarbonisation
March 17, 2025
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Title: The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws
March 3, 2025
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Title: Gender Differences in Policy Knowledge: Evidence from the Recovery and Resilience Plan
February 17, 2025
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Title: Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale
2024
December 9, 2024
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Title: Who Becomes a Father? The Rising Importance of Non-Cognitive Ability
November 25, 2024
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Title: Committing to Grow: The Full Impact of WTO Accession
November 18, 2024
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Title: Expertise at Work: New Technologies, New Skills, and Worker Impacts
November 11, 2024
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Title: Large Shocks, Networks and State-Dependent Pricing
October 28, 2024
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Title: The Effect of Experimenter Demand on Interference
October 22, 2024 (EXTRA Seminar)
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Title: Foreign Profit Shifting and The Welfare Responses to The US-China Trade War: Evidence from Manufacturers in Vietnam
October 21, 2024
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Title: Parental Wealth and Early Labor Market Outcomes
October 7, 2024
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Title: Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021
September 30, 2024
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Title: Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry
September 23, 2024
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Title: Binary Response Dynamic Panel Data Models with Switching State Dependence
September 16, 2024
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Title: VersatileQualitative Inquiries: A Simple Open Source Tool for AI-led Interviews
September 9, 2024
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Title: Health and labor market consequences of low-value care: The role of practice style
September 2, 2024
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Title:Hetereogeneous Firms, Growth and the Long Shadows of Business Cycles
June 17, 2024
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Title:Much Ado about Nothing? The Extraterritorial Effects of the U.S. Embargo against Cuba
June 10, 2024
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Title:The Impact of Crisis-Period Interest Rate Declines on Distressed Borrowers
June 3, 2024
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Title:Vertical Integration and Plan Design in Health Insurance Markets
May 28, 2024 (Extra Seminar, please note Tuesday @10 am)
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Title: Estimating Higher Order Risk Preferences with a Flexible Utility Function: The Bézier Curve
May 27, 2024
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Title:Immigrants, Imports, and Welfare: Evidence from Household Purchase Data
May 13, 2024
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Title: Housing Bubbles with Phase Transitions
May 6, 2024
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Title: Exploring the Role of Social Media in the Diffusion of Economic Research
April 22, 2024
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Title:The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge:Evidence from the Jet Age
April 15, 2024
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Title:The Effects of Debt Relief on Labor Market Outcomes
April 8, 2024
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Title:Delayed childbearing and urban revival
March 25, 2024
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Title: Approximate submodularity in market design
March 18, 2024
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Title: Vacancy duration and wages
March 11, 2024
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Title: Racial Diversity and Team Performance: Evidence from the American Offshore Whaling Industry, with Metin Coşgel (University of Connecticut).
March 4, 2024
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Title:How Social Structure Drives Innovation: Surname Diversity and Patents in U.S. History
February 12, 2024
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Title:Competing Narratives in Action: An Empirical Analysis of Model Adoption Dynamics
2023
March 20, 2023
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Title:Behavioral Policy Targeting: Evidence from Payments for Vaccinations
March 27, 2023
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Title:Inheriting inequality
March 28, 2023
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Title:How to Build a Green Economy in Ukraine after the War: A System Dynamics Modelling Approach
April 3, 2023
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Title:Expectations and Credit Slumps
April 17, 2023
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Title:Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation
April 24, 2023
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Title:A Resolution of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem
April 24, 2023
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Title:International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market
May 1, 2023
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Title:Class Segregation in Daily Activities: Evidence from Location Data
May 8, 2023
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Title:Multinational Production and Corporate Labor Share
May 15, 2023
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Title:Confidence, Optimism, and Litigation: A Litigation Model under Ambiguity
May 22, 2023
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Title:Does voluntary information disclosure lead to less cooperation than mandatory disclosure ? Evidence from a sequential prisoner’s dilemma experiment
May 24, 2023
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Title:Tax Policy, Selling Expenses, and the Growth of Young Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Tax Incentive Policy
June 6, 2023
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Title:Transparency and competition for influence
June 9, 2023
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Title:Universal Basic Income: A Dynamic Assessment
June 12, 2023
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Title:Default rules, ethical reminders, and registration costs: An experiment on stem-cell donor registration
June 19, 2023
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Title:When do Firms Profit from Wage Setting Power?Dynamic Monopsony vs. Concentration
September 4, 2023
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Title:Equilibrium Sorting and the Gender Wage Gap
September 11, 2023
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Title:Exclusive Portfolio Dealing and Market Inefficiency
September 18, 2023
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Title:Imperfect (Re)allocation in Imperfect Markets: Evidence from China’s Pilot Carbon ETS
October 3, 2023
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Title:A model of approval with an application to list design
October 9, 2023
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Title:How Oil Shocks Propagate: Evidence on the Monetary Policy Channel
October 16, 2023
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Title:The Occupational Ladder: Implications for Wage Growth and Wage Gaps over the Life Cycle
October 23, 2023
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Title:Markups and Mergersin the US Hospital Industry
October 30, 2023
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Title:The real effects of land use regulation: quasi-experimental evidence from a discontinuous policy variation
November 6, 2023
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Title:Childhood Shocks Across Ages and Human Capital Formation
November 13, 2023
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Title:A Theory of Price Caps on Non-Renewable Resources
November 20, 2023
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Title:Transaction Sequencing and House Price Pressures
November 27, 2023
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Title:Who benefits from faster public transit?
December 11, 2023
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Title:Logic of Business Groups: A moral hazard perspective
December 18, 2023
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Title:Ethnic Discrimination in States: Experimental Evidence from Peru
2022
March 7, 2022
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Title:Cultural Values and Productivity
March 11, 2022
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Title:Macroeconomic dynamics with rigid wage contracts
March 14, 2022
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Title:Co-Ethnic Neighbors and Investment in Host-Country Language Skills
March 21, 2022
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Title:Electoral institutions, women's representation, and policy outcomes
March 28, 2022
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Title:Job Ladder, Human Capital, and the Cost of Job Loss
April 4, 2022
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Title:Human Mobility and the Globalization of Knowledge Production: Causal Evidence from Multinational Enterprises
April 25, 2022
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Title:Competitive Selection and Information Aggregation in Auctions
May 2, 2022
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Title:International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share
May 6, 2022
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Title:Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition: The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution
May 9, 2022
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Title:Recursive median-voter equilibrium in public capital accumulation
May 16, 2022
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Title:The Distribution of Ambiguity Attitudes
May 23, 2022
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Title:Job Search and Matching by Race and Gender
June 13, 2022
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Title:Can Wealth Buy Health? A Model of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Investments in Health
June 20, 2022
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Title:Barriers to Global Capital Allocation
August 29, 2022
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Title:Are Immigrants More Left-Leaning than Natives?
September 5, 2022
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Title:Cleaner but Volatile Energy? The Effect of Coal Plant Retirement on Market Competition in the Wholesale Electricity Market
September 12, 2022
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Title:Visibility of Technology and Cumulative Innovation: Evidence from Trade Secrets Laws
September 20, 2022
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Title:Female Genital Cutting and Bride-Price
September 26, 2022
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Title:Sustainable Growth with Renewable Resource
October 3, 2022
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Title:Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates
October 10, 2022
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Title:Liquidity Constraints and the Value of Insurance
October 24, 2022
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Title:Do the Rich Flee Wealth Taxes? Evidence from Scandinavia
October 31, 2022
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Title:The Effects of Price Regulation on Pharmaceutical Expenditure and Availability
November 7, 2022
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Title:College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device
November 14, 2022
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Title:Institutions and industrialization: Evidence from the Free City of Eskilstuna
November 21, 2022
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Title:The Role of Local Public Goods for Fiscal Policy in the Spatial Economy
November 28, 2022
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Title:Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Price-driven Growth in a Baumol-Solow-Swan Economy
December 5, 2022
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Title:Arellano-Bond LASSO Estimator for Long Panel Dynamic Linear Models
2021
March 3, 2021 (Zoom Seminar)
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Title:Language Barriers in MNCs and Knowledge Transfers
March 22, 2021
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Title:“Since You’re So Rich, You Must Be Really Smart:” Talent, Rent Sharing, and the Finance Wage Premium
May 10, 2021
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Title:A Rational Theory of Limited Attention
August 30, 2021
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Title:Which Workers Earn More at Productive Firms? Position Specific Skills and Individual Worker Hold-up Power
September 6, 2021 (Online Seminar)
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Title:Subjective life expectancies, time preference heterogeneity and wealth inequality
September 13, 2021
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Title:High-Skill Immigration, Offshoring R&D, and Firm Dynamics
September 20, 2021
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Title:Nepotism vs. Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Academia (1088–1800)
September 29, 2021
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Title:Do you know your biases? A Monte Carlo analysis of dynamic panel data estimators Premiums
October 11, 2021
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Title:Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?
October 25, 2021
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Title:The Dynamics of Information Acquisition: Evidence From Firms and Households
November 11, 2021
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Title:The Wealth of Generations
November 22, 2021
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Title:Inframarginal Travelers and Transportation Policy
November 29, 2021
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Title:Optimal Lending by Stress-Tested Banks
December 6, 2021
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Title:Jihadi Terror Attacks and Local Hate Crime
December 13, 2021
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Title:The greater game in school choice: Manipulating school priorities through address changes