Department of Economics

External Seminars

2025

      • Johannes Spinnewijn (London School of Economics), 18 December, "At-Risk or Responsive? Targeting in Unemployment Policy"

      • Eric Ghysels (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and CEPR), 11 December, "Measuring and Explaining Economic Uncertainty Across US States and Metropolitan Areas"

      • Sandra Eickmeier (Deutsche Bundesbank), 11 December, “The Consciousness Gap: Why Conventional Policies Alone Can’t Solve the Environmental Crisis” 

      • Matthew Gordon (Paris School of Economics), 4 December, "Pollution, Plastics, and the Global Trade in Garbage"

      • Bertil Tungodden (NHH Norwegian School of Economics), 27 November, "The Business of Mistakes: Moral Acceptability of Consumer Exploitation"

      • Richard Dennis (University of Glasgow and CAMA), 20 November, "Adding Macroprudential Policy to the Mix: When Monetary, Fiscal and Macroprudential Authorities Interact"

      • Sébastien Houde (Université de Lausanne), 19 November, "Strategic Responses to Carbon Policies and Biased Beliefs: Evidence From Firm Managers"
      • Tamon Asonuma (IMF), 13 November, "Heterogeneous Sovereign Debt Crisis Costs"
      • Jonathan Chapman (University of Bologna), 23 October, "Reassessing Qualitative Self-Assessments and Experimental Validation"
      • Sebastian Rast (De Nederlandsche Bank), 16 October, "The unequal effects of trend inflation"
      • Gert Peersman (Ugent), 2 October, "Understanding Post-Pandemic Inflation Fluctuations: The Commodity Cost Channel"
      • Simon Galle (BI Norwegian Business School), 26 September, "The Labor Market Impact of Technical Change: Inspecting the Mechanisms”
      • Michele Lenza (European Central Bank and CEPR), 25 September, "Do we need firm data to understand macroeconomic dynamics?"
      • Ariane Bousquet (INRAE - Dijon), 23 September, "Subsidizing Electric Vehicles: The Role of Horizontal and Vertical Preferences"
      • Pablo D'Erasmo (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), 18 September, "Bank Stocks and Deposit Flows Partners in Banking Stress"
      • Estelle Cantillon (ULB), 8 September, "Who gains from market fragmentation? Evidence from the early stages of the EU carbon market"
      • Cloé St-Hilaire (University of Waterloo), 14 July, "Financialization, housing rents, and affordability in Toronto"
      • Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin), 20 June, "The Twenty-four Hour Economy or Rolled-up Sidewalks: Trends in Work Timing and Their Causes"
      • Sharat Ganapati (Georgetown University), 5 June, "Quantity Discounts and Distortions: Scale Economies and Incomplete Tariff Pass-Through"
      • Lukas Lehner (University of Edinburgh), 5 June, "Worker Employment Risk Perceptions: Consequences for Wages, Job Search, and Separation Rates"
      • Johannes Matt (LSE), 28 May, "Firm Dynamics and Growth with Soft Budget Constraints"
      • Thuy Lan Nguyen (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), 26 May, "The Macroeconomic Effects of Cash Transfers: Evidence from Brazil"

      • Martijn Boermans (De Nederlandsche Bank), 22 May, "Hedging against inflation: International evidence on investor clientele effects in the bond market"

      • Ralf Meisenzahl (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Vice President and Director of Financial Research), 14 May, "The Dollar Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission"
      • Emircan Yurdagul (CEPR), 8 May, "Expropriation Risk Over the Business Cycle"
      • Jose de Sousa (University of Paris Panthéon-Assas), 5 May, "Feedback and Gender Homophily in Team Formation"
      • Faisal Sohail (University of Melbourne), 24 April, Gender Gaps in Time Use and Entrepreneurship
      • Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics, EHESS, CEPII and CEPR), 17 April, "High Temperature Shocks are Supply Shocks. Evidence from One Century of Monthly Data"
      • Jillian Carr (Purdue University), 10 April, "Stimulus Payments and Crime: Randomized Timing from Social Security Serial Digits"
      • Rudolfs Bems (IMF & CEPR), 9 April, "Demand for Safe Assets and Spillovers from the Global Dollar Cycle"
      • Michal Kobielarz (KU Leuven), 3 April, "Recessionary Wage Flexibility in a Monetary Union – A TANK Approach"
      • Klaus Schaeck (University of Bristol Business School), 27 March, "Legal Uncertainty and Local Bank Lending: Evidence from McGirt v. Oklahoma"
      • Sarah Mouabbi (Banque de France), 20 March, "Inflation and GDP Risk: Balancing the Scales with Surveys"
      • Jan De Loecker (KULeuven), 13 March, "The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel"

      • Tom Truyts (Université Saint-Louis, Brussels), 6 March, "Beamm: large-scale, open-access online tax-benefit microsimulation modeling"

      • Johannes Boehm (Geneva Graduate Institute), 6 February, "Trade and the End of Antiquity"
      • Jens Christensen (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), 5 February, "The Natural Rate of Interest in the Euro Area: Evidence from Inflation-Indexed BondsMonetary Policy and Inflation Scares"
      • Mathias Trabandt (Goethe University Frankfurt), 16 January, "Monetary Policy and Inflation Scares"

2024

      • Luca Pensieroso (UCLouvain), 19 December, "Fertility and Family Type in the United States: a Historical Analysis"
      • Francesca Monti (UCLouvain), 12 December, "In the Fed we trust? Measuring trust in central banking and its effects on the macroeconomy” 
      • Michele Modugno (Federal Reserve), 3 December, "Decoding Equity Market Reactions to Macroeconomic News"
      • Werner De Bondt (DePaul University), 2 December, "Extreme returns and U.S. stock market anomalies"
      • Jan Feld (University of Wellington), 28 November, "On the Generalizability of Sex-Differences in Risk Attitudes"
      • Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley), 13 November, "From Labor to Intermediates: Firm Growth, Input Substitution, and Monopsony"
      • Jan Krause (Kiel Center for Globalization), 7 November, "Hungry and Rational: Preference Shifts and Rationality under Food Deprivation"
      • Alessio Reghezza (ECB), 17 October, "Macroprudential and monetary policy tightening: More than a double whammy?"
      • Natalia Ramondo (Boston University), 10 October, "Quantifying Carbon Emissions in the Global Economy"
      • Didier Fouarge (ROA, Universiteit Maastricht), 3 October, "Labour market information and students’ occupational choice: One-format-fits-all? Evidence from a field experiment"
      • Campbell Leith (University of Glasgow), 26 September, "Central Bank Independence, Government Debt and the Re-Normalization of Interest Rates"
      • Sylvie Démurger (CNRS and Department of Economics ENS, Lyon), 3 September, “Housing costs and real income differences across Chinese cities” 
      • João Tovar Jalles (University of Lisbon), 20 June, "The impact of endogenous product and labour market reforms on unemployment: New evidence based on local projections"
      • Xavier Gabaix (Harvard University), 18 June, "Granular Instrumental Variables and Propagation of Shocks in Networks: Identification and Applications"
      • Andrej Sokol (Bloomberg LP), 6 June, "Targeted Financial Conditions Indices and Growth-at-Risk"
      • Alberto Russo (Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona, Italy)), 6 June, "Inequality-constrained monetary policy in a financialized economy"

      • Paige Weber (University of California, Berkeley), 5 June, “Will cleaning up the local environment narrow or widen inequality?”

      • Ana Rute Cardoso (University of Lisbon), 30 May, "When girls choose STEM"
      • Miguel Ballester (University of Oxford), 16 May, “The rationalizability of survey responses”
      • Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University), 25 April, "Valuing Technology Complementarities: Rooftop Solar and Energy Storage"
      • Paloma Lopez-Garcia (European Central Bank), 18 April, "Environmental regulation and productivity"
      • Alex Popov (ECB), 18 April, "Quantitative Easing and Corporate Innovation"
      • Anna Rogantini Picco (Sveriges Riksbank), 11 April, "Who Is Afraid of Eurobonds?"
      • Eric Ghysels (UNC Chapel Hill), 21 March, "Tensor Principal Component Analysis with Applications in Finance"
      • Sigrid Suetens (Universiteit of Tilburg), 21 March, "Ethnic Salience and Discrimination"
      • Michael Rubens (UCLA), 23 February, "Exploiting or Augmenting Labor?"
      • James Tremewan (IESEG School of Management), 1 February, "Norm-related beliefs and vaccination rates of nurses in France"
      • Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg), 30 January, " The Impact of a Possible Trump Reelection on Mexican Immigration Pressures in Alternative Countries"

2023

      • Ross Levine (Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford - National Bureau of Economic Research), 14 December, “Credit market conditions and mental health”
      • Sebastian Ebert (Heidelberg University), 14 December, "Eliciting Stopping Times"
      • Angelos Theodorakopoulos (Assistant Professor at Aston Business School, Birmingham), 7 December, "Unlocking New Methods to Estimate Country-specific Trade Costs and Trade Elasticities"
      • Edouard Challe (European University Institute), 16 November, "Inequality and Optimal Monetary Policy in the Open Economy"
      • Simone Lenzu (New York University, Stern School of Business), 26 October, "Anatomy of the Phillips Curve: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications"
      • Ross Levine (Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford - National Bureau of Economic Research), 19 October, "Credit market conditions and mental health"
      • Matloob Piracha (Canterbury School of Economics), 19 October, "Ethnic identity and educational outcomes"
      • Günter Coenen (European Central Bank), 12 October, "Macroeconomic effects of carbon transition policies: an assessment based on the ECB’s New Area-Wide Model with a disaggregated energy sector"
      • Dmitry Mukhin (London School of Economics), 28 September, "Optimal Exchange Rate Policy"
      • Leonie Wenz (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), 28 September, "The economic commitment of climate change"
      • Ariel Burstein (UCLA), 13 September, "Measuring Welfare by Matching Households Across Time"
      • Anders Humlum (University of Chicago), 13 September, "The Firm Boundaries of Capital-Skill Complementarity" 
      • Martin Huber (University of Fribourg), 22 June, "Detecting Grouped Local Average Treatment Effects and Selecting True Instruments With an Application to Estimating the Effect of Prison on Recidivism"
      • Sebastian Schmidt (European Central Bank and CEPR), 15 June, “Monetary-fiscal policy interactions when price stability occasionally takes a back seat”
      • Francesco Vona (University of Milan), 8 June, "Climate Policy and the Carbon Content of Jobs"
      • Gauti B. Eggertsson (Brown University), 1 June, “It’s Baaack: The Surge in Inflation in the 2020s and the Return of the Non-Linear Phillips Curve”
      • Bulent Guler (Indiana University), 31 May, "Do Automatic Stabilizers Really Stabilize? Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Policies and the Housing Market"
      • Murillo Campello (Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)), 30 May, "Delayed Creative Destruction: How Uncertainty Shapes Corporate Assets"
      • Rafael Dix-Carneiro (Duke University, BREAD and NBER), 25 May, "Globalization, trade imbalances and labor market adjustment"
      • Lieven Baele (Universiteit Tilburg), 25 May, "What triggers Flights to Safety?"
      • Adrien Auclert (Stanford University, CEPR and NBER), 22 May, "Managing an Energy Shock: Fiscal and Monetary Policy"
      • Marta Talevi (VU Amsterdam), 8 May, “The Electric Vehicle Rebound Effect”
      • David Ardia (HEC Montréal), 4 May, "Is it Alpha or Beta? Decomposing Hedge Fund Returns When Models are Misspecified"

      • Giovanni Ricco (Ecole Polytechnique, University of Warwick, OFCE-SciencesPo, and CEPR), 4 May, "External Instrument SVAR Analysis for Noninvertible Shocks"

      • Karel Mertens (Federal Reserve Bank Dallas), 27 April, "The Returns to Government R&D: Evidence from U.S. Appropriation Shocks"
      • Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), 20 April, "Automation and rent dissipation"
      • Alberto Plazzi (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Swiss Finance Institute), 30 March, “The Core, the Periphery, and the Disaster: Corporate-Sovereign Nexus in COVID-19 Times”
      • Misato Sato (London School of Economics and Political Science), 30 March, "Carbon pricing compensation and competitiveness: Lessons from UK manufacturing"
      • Ilke Aydogan (IÉSEG School of Management), 23 March, "Experiments on compound lotteries with objective and subjective probabilities"
      • Baptiste Perez Riaza (Université de Namur), 17 March, "Exploring the Determinants of Market Efficiency for Crypto-Assets: An Empirical Analysis of Market Conditions and Crypto-assets Characteristics"

      • Domenico Giannone (Amazon.com, University of Washington, IAAE and CEPR), 16 March, “Scarce, Abundant, or Ample? A Time-Varying Model of the Reserve Demand Curve”

      • Brice Corgnet (EM Lyon), 2 March, “On the appeal of complexity”
      • Antonio Moreno (University of Navarra), 16 February, "The Cyclicality of the Term Structure of Interest Rates"

2022

      • Bruno Albuquerque (IMF), 21 December, "US Monetary Policy Spillovers and the Zombie Lending Channel"
      • Tamon Asonuma (IMF), 6 December, "Expenditure Consolidation and Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Front- or Back-loaded"
      • Larbi Alaoui (Barcelona School of Economics), 24 November, "Coordination and Sophistication"
      • Rachel Lee (IMF, University of Virginia), 24 November, "How Does a Budget Rule Affect Sovereign Default Incentives and Welfare?"
      • Jean-Baptiste Michau (Ecole Polytechnique, France), 17 November, "The Trilemma for Low Interest Rate Macroeconomics"
      • Ulrich Wagner (University of Mannheim), 9 November, "Measuring and Evaluating Implicit Air Pollution Trades on the European Carbon Market"
      • Thomas Philippon (Stern School of Business, New York University), 26 October, "Additive Growth"
      • Stefan Nagel (University of Chicago, NBER, CEPR, and CESifo), 25 October, "Dynamics of Subjective Risk Premia"

      • Michael D. Bauer (Universität Hamburg, CEPR and CESifo), 13 October, “Perceptions about Monetary Policy”

      • Huixin Bi (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City), 4 October, "Unconventional Monetary Policy and Local Fiscal Policy"
      • Klaus Desmet (Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, NBER and CEPR), 22 September, "The Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes"
      • Elisabeth Leduc (PhD candidate in Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles), 15 September, "Training Jobseekers to Address Labour Shortages: An Experimental Study on Information Barriers"
      • David Baqaee (UCLA), 13 September, "Growth Through Creation and Destruction of Supply Chains”
      • Renée Adams (University of Oxford - Saïd Business School), 12 September, "Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions"
      • Johannes Stroebel (New York University – Stern School of Business, NBER and CEPR), 30 June, "A quantity-based approach to constructing climate risk hedge portfolios"
      • Joanna Lahey (Texas A&M University), 27 June, "Age and the labor market for Hispanics in the United States"
      • Alexandre Corhay (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto), 16 June, “Inflation risk and the finance-growth nexus”
      • Monika Schnitzer (University of Munich), 8 June, "The Breakup of the Bell System and its Impact on US Innovation"
      • Maureen O’Hara (Johnson College of Business, Cornell University), 23 May, "Financial Market Ethics"
      • Haroon Mumtaz (Queen Mary University London), 18 May, "Impulse response estimation via flexible local projections"
      • Christian Pröbsting (KU Leuven), 13 May, "Quantifying the Benefits of Labor Mobility in a Currency Union"
      • Attila Lindner (University College London), 11 May, "Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes"
      • Frank Bohn (Radboud University), 9 May, ""Let me out, I’m trapped in a blur”: Political Budget Cycles, Uninformed Voters and Government Competence Uncertainty"
      • Wolfgang Lemke (European Central Bank), 5 May, "Natural rate chimera and bond pricing reality"
      • Matthew Smith (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), 28 April, "Fostering network collaboration – a topic modelling approach"
      • Manuel Hoffman (​​​Harvard University​), 27 April, "Television and the Labor Market: Evidence from Natural Experiments in West and East Germany"
      • Pei Huang (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim), 25 April, "Racial Disparities in the Health Effects from Air Pollution: Evidence from Ports"
      • Francesco Zanetti (University of Oxford), 7 April, "State Dependence of Fiscal Multipliers: The Source of Fluctuations Matters"
      • Takaaki Aoki (Kagawa University), 31 March, "Finding a potential of human flow for revealing urban spatial structures"
      • Nicola Coniglio (Bari University), 25 March, "The geography of displacement, refugees’ camps and social conflicts"
      • Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University), 11 March, "Subsidizing Labor Hoarding in Recessions: The Employment and Welfare Effects of Short Time Work"
      • Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University, NBER and CEPR), 15 February, "Platform, Tokens, and Interoperability”
      • Fabiano Ribeiro (Lavras Federal University, Brazil), 3 February, "The Physics of Cities  (complexity, scaling laws, urban scaling/allometry)"

2021

      • Johannes Pfeifer (Universität der Bundeswehr München), 16 December, "Mr. Keynes meets the Classics: Government Spending and the Real Exchange Rate"
      • Fabio Canova, (BI Norwegian Business School, CAMP and CEPR), 2 December, “Costly disasters and the role of fiscal policy”
      • Katrin Auspurg (LMU Munich), 26 November, "Understanding the ‘why’ and ‘when’ aspects of ethnic discrimination and segregation: A multifactorial experimental approach to explore mechanisms and conditions on the German housing market"
      • Nick Netzer (University of Zurich), 19 November, "Endogenous Risk Attitudes"
      • Loïc Berger (CNRS/IESEG Lille), 29 October, "Unraveling Ambiguity Aversion"

      • Nicolas Astier (Paris School of Economics), 25 October, “Riding together: Eliciting travelers' preferences for long-distance carpooling”

      • José-Luis Peydró (Imperial College, UPF-CREI-ICREA and CEPR), 21 October, "Monetary Policy and Inequality"
      • Mirabelle Muûls (Imperial College London), 22 September, “Managerial and Financial Barriers to the Net-Zero Transition”
      • Sarah Zubairy (Texas A&M University), 17 September, “State dependent government spending multipliers: Downward nominal wage rigidity and sources of business cycle fluctuations”
      • Vivian Zhanwei Yue (Emory University, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, NBER and CEPR), 24 June, “Sovereign Risk and Financial Risk”
      • Morten Ravn (University College London), 29 April, “Financial Frictions: Macro vs Micro Volatility”
      • Harald Uhlig (The University of Chicago), 15 April, “Central Bank Digital Currency: When Price and Bank Stability Collide”
      • Enrique G. Mendoza (University of Pennsylvania and NBER), 1 April, “A Macroeconomic Model of Healthcare Saturation, Inequality and the Output-Pandemia Tradeoff”
      • Florin Bilbiie (University of Lausanne), March 23, “Aggregate-Demand Amplification of Supply Disruptions: The Entry-Exit Multiplier”
      • Nir Jaimovich (University of Zurich), March 11, “Job Hunting: a costly quest”
      • Luciana Juvenal (Bank of England), February 19, “Terms-of-Trade Shocks are Not all Alike"
      • Raghuram G. Rajan (University of Chicago Booth School of Business & NBER), February 15, "Going the Extra Mile: Distant Lending and Credit Cycles"
      • Ricardo Caballero (MIT Economics, USA), February 11, "Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets"
      • Lawrence J. Christiano  (Northwestern University), January 21, “Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?”

2020

      • Ludwig Straub (Harvard University, USA), December 10, "Heterogeneous Agents and the Exchange Rate Channel of Monetary Policy"
      • François Koulischer (Université du Luxembourg), December 11, "Low Interest Rate and the Distribution of Household Debt"
      • Michael D. Bordo (Rutgers University, USA), November 24, "Do Enlarged Fiscal Deficits Cause Inflation: The Historical Record"
      • Javier Bianchi (Federal Reserva Bank of Minneapolis, USA), November 19, "Bank-runs, Contagion and Credit Easing"
      • Joseph E. Stiglitz (Columbia Business School, Nobel Prize Laureat in Economics 2001), November 14, "Bail-ins and Bail-outs: Incentives, Connectivity and Systemic Stability"
      • René M. Stulz (The Ohio State University, NBER and ECGI), November 10, "Is Financial Globalization in reverse after the 2008 Global Financial Crisis? Evidence from corporate valuations."
      • Camille Landais (London School of Economics, UK), November 6, "The Impact of Family Policies on the Dynamics of Gender Inequality"
      • Hanno Lustig (Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA, NBER and SIEPR), October 29, "The U.S. Public Debt Valuation Puzzle"
      • Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge University, USA and CEPR), October 15, "Exchange Rate Misalignment and External Imbalances: What is the Optimal Monetary Policy Response?"

2019

      • Karel Mertens (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, USA), November 14, "Do Monetary Policy Announcements Shift Expectations?"
      • Taisuke Imai (LMU Munich, Germany), November 7, "Approximate Expected Utility Rationalization"
      • Uyangha Turmunkh (IÉSEG School of Management, Lille France), October 24, "Social and Strategic Ambiguity versus Betrayal Aversion"
      • Dimitris Koribilis (University of Glasgow), October 4, "High-Dimensional Macroeconomic Forecasting Using Message Passing Algorithms"
      • Markus Eberhardt (University of Nottingham), October 3, "Facets of Democratic Change and their Causal Effect on Economic Growth"
      • Ralph De Haas (Director of Research at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), September 23, "Gender Discrimination in Small Business Lending. Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Turkey" 
      • Francesco Cecchi (Wageningen University), September 5, "Ambiguity Attitudes and Willingness to Pay for Weather Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Rural Kenya"
      • Werner De Bondt (DePaul University, Chicago), June 21, "The Risk Tolerance of Couples and Stock Market Participation"
      • Olivier L'Haridon (Université de Rennes), June 20, "An Effective and Simple Tool for Measuring Loss Aversion"
      • Zahra Siddique, (University of Bristol), June 13, "Violence and Female Labor Supply"
      • Patrick Arni (University of Bristol), May 7, “The Role of Incomplete Information in Shaping Policy Effects: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance”
      • Stefan Dercon (University of Oxford), April 30, “The future in mind: short and long-run impact of an aspirations intervention in rural Ethiopia" 
      • Claude Diebolt  (Université de Strasbourg & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), March 3, “We are Ninjas: How Economic History has Infiltrated Economics”
      • Robert Lensink (University of Groningen, University of Wageningen, IEEF and CIBIF), February 14, “Uptake and Impacts of Interlinked Index-based Insurance with Credit and Agricultural Inputs: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia” 
      • Michael Lechner (University of St. Gallen), January 24, “Modified Causal Forests for Estimating Heterogeneous Causal Effects” 

2018

    • Kostas Tatsiramos (University of Luxembourg, LISER and IZA), December 13, "On the origins of socio-economic inequalities: Evidence from a “children of twins” design"
    • Ian Burn (Stockholm University), November 29, "Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from a Field Experiments"
    • Hans Fehr (University of Würzburg),  October 11,  "Tenure choice, porfolio structure and long-term care - Optimal risk management in retirement”