Department of Economics

The Department of Economics has a faculty whose interests cover major fields in economics, mathematics and statistics.

Seminar series

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Spring 2025

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title
15/01/2025	Job Market
22/01/2025	Sebastian Seitz	University of Manchester	“Estimating the Moral Hazard Cost of Private Disability Insurance and its Welfare Consequences”
28/01/2025	Job Market
29/01/2025	Job Market
12/02/2025	Giulia Vattuone	SOFI, Stockholm University	“Women in Top Academic Positions: Is There a Trickle-down Effect?"
19/02/2025	-
26/02/2025	Jens Wikstrom	University of Gothenburg	“Private Health Insurance under Universal Coverage: Balancing Efficiency and Equity”
05/03/2025	Jinglun Yao	IIES	"Knowledge is (Market) Power"
06/03/2025	Simon Mongey	FRB Minneapolis	“Pricing Inequality”
12/03/2025	Kjetil Storesletten	University of Minnesota / UiO	"Fiscal Progressivity of the U.S. Federal and State Governments"
19/03/2025	Axel Gottfries	University of Edinburgh	"Wage Fixing"
26/03/2025	Naoki Aizawa	U Wisconsin - Madison	Labor Unions and Social Insuranc"
02/04/2025	Margherita Borella	University of Torino	Subjective Earnings and Employment Dynamics
09/04/2025	Carlo Schwarz	Bocconi	“Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia”
16/04/2025	Easter
23/04/2025	Jose P. Vasquez	LSE	"The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions”
30/04/2025	Isabel Micó Millán	Bank of Spain	“Inheritance Tax Avoidance through the Family Firm”
06/05/2025	Joao Cocco	London Business School	“Lenders and Landlords in the Mortgage Market”
14/05/2025	Joan Monras	UPF, CREI, BSE	“Floating Population: Migration with(out) Family and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity”
21/05/2025	Magnus Irie	Princeton	“Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance and Top Wealth Inequality“
28/05/2025	Stephanie Ettmeier	University of Bonn	"Measuring the Effects of Aggregate Shocks on Unit-Level Outcomes and Their Distribution"
04/06/2025	Sergio Salgado	Wharton School, UPenn	“Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy”
11/06/2025	Arna Olafsson	Copenhagen Business School	TBA

Previous seminars

2024

Spring

24/01/2024: Johan Sæverud, University of Copenhagen, "The Impact of Social Security Eligibility and Pension Wealth on Retirement"
31/01/2024: Max Kellogg, University of Oslo, "Family Trajectories and the Burden of Care in the Aftermath of Old-Age Health Shocks"
07/02/2024: Carol Propper, Imperial College London, "The Effects of Pension Reforms on Physician Labour Supply: Evidence from the English NHS"
14/02/2024: Jaakko Meriläinen, Stockholm School of Economics, "Long-Run Consequences of Propaganda in the Classroom"
21/02/2024: Winter break
28/02/2024: Maarten Janssen, University of Vienna, "Search Platforms: Big Data and Sponsored Positions"
13/03/2024: Dimitris Korobilis, Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow, "Agreed and Disagreed Uncertainty"
20/03/2024: Elisabeth Pröhl, University of Amsterdam, "Existence and Uniqueness of Recursive Equilibria With Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk"
17/04/2024: Carlo Prato, Columbia University, "Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting"
24/04/2024: Evgenia Passari, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, "The Origins of Commodity Price Fluctuations"
08/05/2024: Mounu Prem, Einaudi Institute/Universidad del Rosario/Toulouse School of Economics, "Fear to vote: Explosions, Salience, and Elections"
15/05/2024: Mikael Lindahl, University of Gothenburg, "Dynastic human capital, ethnic capital, and the intergenerational mobility of immigrants"
22/05/2024: Andre Veiga, Imperial College, "Designing Incentives for Multitasking Agents: Evidence from Payments to English Physicians"
29/05/2024: Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago, "Evaluating Recent Crackdowns on Disability Benefits: Effects on Household Income and Health Care Utilization in Australia"
05/06/2024: Bradley Setzler, Pennsylvania State University, "Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry"

Fall

21/08/2024: Niklas Engbom, New York University, "Misallocative Growth"
28/08/2024: Francesca Parodi, Cattolica University of Milan, "Heterogeneity in Household Spending and Well-being on Retirement"
04/09/2024: Arpad Abraham, University of Bristol, "Optimal Income Redistribution"
11/09/2024: Bas van der Klaauw, VU University Amsterdam, "A randomized experiment on improving job search skills of older unemployed workers"
18/09/2024: Marcos Vera Hernandez, UCL, "Time Horizons and the Dynamic Effects of Cost-Sharing in Medical Care: Evidence from Colombia"
25/09/2024: David Seim, Stockholm University, "Deadwood Labor? The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection for Older Workers"
09/10/2024: Gianmarco Daniele, University of Milan, "Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions"
16/10/2024: George Hendrikse, Rotterdam School of Management, "To Light a Candle is to Cast a Shadow, Governance of enterprises from an Attention Perspective"
23/10/2024: Guillermo Toral, IE University Madrid, "Street-Level Rule of Law: Prosecutor Presence and the Fight against Corruption"
30/10/2024: Amanda Dahlstrand, University of Zurich, "Online versus In-Person Services: Effects on Patients and Providers"
06/11/2024: Sara Casella, LUISS, EIEF, "Women's Labor Force Participation and the Business Cycle"
13/11/2024: Valerie Smeets, Aarhus, "Human Capital and Labor Market Shocks in the Modern Economy"
27/11/2024: Lukas Freund, Columbia, "Superstar Teams"
11/12/2024: Vincent Sterk, UCL, "Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis"
18/12/2024: Pietro Garibaldi, University of Torino, "Monopsony in Growth Theory"

2023

Spring

11/01/2023: Jeanne Commault, Sciences Po, "How Do Persistent Earnings Affect the Response of Consumption to Transitory Shocks?"
18/01/2023: Ciaran Rogers, IIES Stockholm University/Paris, "Risky Insurance: Life-cycle Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets"
25/01/2023: Andreas Kotsadam, Frisch Centre, "Peer effects on authoritarianism – Evidence from the Norwegian Armed Forces"
01/02/2023: Ingrid Haegele, LMU Munich, "The Broken Rung: Gender and the Leadership Gap"
15/02/2023: Anna Picco, Sveriges Riksbank, "Financial Constraints without Binding Borrowing Constraints"
01/03/2023: Mathias Klein, Sveriges Riksbank, "The Political Costs of Austerity"
08/03/2023: Christopher Busch, LMU Munich, "Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects"
15/03/2023: Olle Folke, Uppsala University, "The Class Ceiling in Politics"
22/03/2023: Gonzalo Paz Pardo, European Central Bank, "The Aggregate and Distributional Implications of Credit Shocks on Housing and Rental Markets"
29/03/2023: Martin Weidner, University of Oxford, "Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects"
12/04/2023: Alàïs Martin-Baillon, University of Copenhagen / NYU Abu Dhabi, "When should we tax firms? Optimal corporate taxation with firm heterogeneity"
03/05/2023: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University, "Why Are Returns to Wealth so Dispersed"
10/05/2023: Denni Tommasi, University of Bologna, "Street Food Safety in Urban Markets"
17/05/2023: CONSTITUTION DAY.
24/05/2023: Peter M. Morrow, University of Toronto, "The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement"
01/06/2023: Dario Caldara, Fed Board, "The International Spillovers of Synchronous Monetary Tightening"
14/06/2023: Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania, "On the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Earnings and Consumption Heterogeneity"
21/06/2023: Sydnee Caldwell, UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, "Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market"

Fall

23/08/2023: Christiane Szerman, London School of Economics and Political Science/University College London, "The Labor Market Effects of Disability Hiring Quotas"
30/08/2023: Andrea Weber, Central European University, "Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes?"
06/09/2023: Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science, "The Chronic Condition Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle"
13/09/2023: Stefan Robert Helge Hinkelmann, Stockholms Universitet, "(Be-)Coming Clean: A Model of the U.S. Energy Transition"
20/09/2023: Jonas Hjort, University College London/University of Oslo, "Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies"
27/09/2023: Marta Prato, Yale/Bocconi University, "Career Choice of Entrepreneurs and the Rise of 'Smart' Firms"
11/10/2023: Giulia Giupponi, Bocconi University, "Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth: Evidence from Germany"
18/10/2023: L. Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics and Political Science, "Structural Transformation over 150 years of Women's and Men's Work"
01/11/2023: Isaac Baley, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Self-insurance in Turbulent Labor Markets"
08/11/2023: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan, "Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students"
22/11/2023: Maria Balgova, IZA, Bonn, "Firm Concentration & Job Design: The Case of Schedule Flexible Work Arrangements"
29/11/2023: Edwin Leuven, University of Oslo, "Minority penalty in holistic college admission"
13/12/2023: Alexander Popov, European Central Bank, "Out with the New, In with the Old? Bank Supervision and the Composition of Firm Investment"

2022

Spring

09.03.2022: Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, "Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms."
14.03.2022: Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University, "Two-Way Fixed Effects, the Two-Way Mundlak Regression, and Difference-in-Differences Estimators."
23.03.2022: Ivan Ivanov, Federal Reserve, "Fighting Failure: The Persistent Real Effects of Resolving Distressed Banks."
30.03.2022: Rustam Jamilov, University of Oxford, "The Spending Effects of Dividend Tax News Shocks."
06.04.2022: Øyvind Aas, Kristiania University College, "Zigzags on The Road to The Top: Matching with Leadership Spillovers in College Football."
20.04.2022: Kurt Mitman, IIES, "Why does capital flow from equal to unequal countries."
27.04.2022: Gustavo De Souza, IIES/Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "The Labor Market Consequences of Appropriate Technology."
04.05.2022: Jose Pablo Vasquez, London School of Economics, "Trade with Nominal Rigidities: Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock."
11.05.2022: Frederic Warzynski, Aarhus University, "Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization."
18.05.2022: Denis Gorea, Danmarks Nationalbank, "Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?"
25.05.2022: Yoko Okuyama, Uppsala University, "Electoral institutions, women's representation, and policy outcomes."
01.06.2022: Christopher Roth, University of Cologne, "Narratives about the Macroeconomy."
15.06.2022: Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "The Anatomy of Sorting – Evidence from Danish Data."

Fall

24.08.2022: Yoosoon Chang, Indiana University, "The Effects of Economic Shocks on Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations."
31.08.2022: Andreas Fuster, Swiss Finance Institute, "A Diverse Fed Can Reach Underrepresented Groups."
07.09.2022: Kenichi Shimizu, University of Glasgow, "Semiparametric Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models."
14.09.2022: Emil Temnyalov, UCT Sydney, "Organizational Structure and Differential Treatment."
21.09.2022: Etienne Lehmann, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, CRED, "How to Tax Different Incomes?"
28.09.2022: David Schonholzer, IIES, "School Capital Expenditure Rules, Student Outcomes, and Real Estate Capitalization."
12.10.2022: Thomas Tangerås, IFN, "Incentives for Network Owners to Restrict Trade in an International Electricity Market."
19.10.2022: Anastasia Girshina, Stockholm School of Economics, "Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns."
26.10.2022: Clara Martínez-Toledano, Imperial College Business School, "House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality, and Portfolio Reshuffling."
28.10.2022: Abel Brodeur, University of Ottawa, "Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias."
02.11.2022: Neelam Jain, City University London, "Estimating Cost Functions in Differentiated Product Oligopoly Models Without Instrument."
16.11.2022: Silvia Sarpietro, University of Bologna, "Individual Forecast Weighting."
30.11.2022: Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics, "On the Optimal Design of Transfers and Income-Tax Progressivity."
07.12.2022: Matthias Doepke, Northwestern/LSE, "Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills."

2021

Spring

06/01/2021: Heidi Thysen, London School of Economics, "Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations"
13/01/2021: Vania Stavrakeva, London Business School, "Deviations from FIRE and Exchange Rates: AGE Theory of Supply and Demand"
19/01/2021: Christopher Tonetti, Stanford GSB, NA
27/01/2021: Jesse Shapiro, Brown University, "Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence from Sweden”
03/02/2021: Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University, "Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: Resurrecting the Real Income Channel"
17/02/2021: Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University, "The Worker Job Surplus"
03/03/2021: Ragnhild Schreiner, University of Oslo, "Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets"
10/03/2021: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University, "The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight: A Neo-Kindlebergerian View"
17/03/2021: Elliott Ash, ETH Zürich, "Media Slant is Contagious"
24/03/2021: Morten Olsen, University of Copenhagen, "The dynamics of labor share: evidence from Danish microdata"
07/04/2021: Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota, "The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development"
14/04/2021: Philippe Goulet Coulombe, University of Pennsylvania, "The Macroeconomy as a Random Forest"
21/04/2021: Luigi Bocola, Stanford University, "Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity"
28/04/2021: André Seidel, University of Bergen, "A global map of Amenities: Public Goods, Ethnic Divisions and Decentralization"
05/05/2021: Mark Aguiar, Princeton University, "Micro Risks and Pareto Improving Policies with Low Interest Rates"
12/05/2021: Melissa Dell, Harvard University, NA
19/05/2021: Lena Hensvik, Uppsala University, "Spousal earnings and household dynamics: Evidence from a promotion reform”
26/05/2021: Matti Sarvimäki, Aalto University, "The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 School Reform"
09/06/2021: Corina Boar, New York University, "Occupational Choice and the Intergenerational Mobility of Welfare"
16/06/2021: Daniel Hauser, Aalto University, "Misinterpreting Social Outcomes and Information Campaigns"

Fall

25/08/2021: Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago, "How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income"
01/09/2021: Martin E. Andresen, Statistics Norway, "What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples"
17/09/2021: Tommaso Monacelli, Bocconi, "Bewley Banks"
22/09/2021: Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois, "Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the Covid Labor Market"
29/09/2021: Jonas Cederlöf, University of Edinburgh, "Reconsidering the Cost of Job Loss: Evidence from Redundancies and Mass Layoffs"
06/10/2021: Fall Break
13/10/2021: Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin, "The Comparative Statics of Sorting"
20/10/2021: Nina Bobkova, Rice University, "Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics"
27/10/2021: Dimitris Korobilis, University of Glasgow, "A new algorithm for sign restrictions in vector autoregressions"
03/11/2021: Quentin Lippmann, University of Essex, "Gender and Lawmaking in Times of Quotas"
10/11/2021: Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto, "Serial Entrepreneurship in China"
12/11/2021: George Kapetanios, King’s College London, "Interpretability of machine learning models for asset pricing"
17/11/2021: Bertil Tungodden, NHH, "Fairness across the world: Preferences and beliefs"
24/11/2021: Benjamin Wong, Monash University, "Random Subspace Local Projections"
01/12/2021: Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University, "Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Create Female-Friendly Jobs"
07/12/2021: Moritz Kuhn, University of Bonn, "Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality"