ECONtribute Seminar

The ECONtribute seminar takes place during the semester on Wednesdays from 12:00 PM – 13:15 PM in room 3.206 (University of Cologne, Studierenden-Service-Center building, Universitätsstraße 22a, 50923 Cologne).

Internationally renowned scholars present their current research work relevant to the research areas of the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute and C-SEB.

The seminar is organized by ECONtribute. Please send an e-mail to Rebekka Cordes to receive regular updates.

The program of the seminar is organized by Prof. Dr. Erik Hornung, Prof. Dr. Christopher Roth, Prof. Dr. Sonja Settele and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Siegloch. Suggestions for speakers can be submitted to: researchseminar@econtribute.de

ECONtribute Seminar - Summerterm 2024

10.07.2024

Stefano Caria (University of Warwick): “tba”

26.06.2024

Charlotte Bartels (DIW): “tba”

19.06.2024

Terry Moon (Vancouver): “tba”

12.06.2024

Guillerme Haeringer: “tba”

05.06.2024

Xavier Jaravel (LSE): “Distributional Consumer Price Indices”

29.05.2024

Elliott Ash (ETH Zurich): “Proverbs and Cultural Change”

15.05.2024

Miriam Wüst: “Universal Investments in Toddler Health. Learning from a Large Government Trial”

08.05.2024

Nicola Gennaioli (Bocconi University): “How People Use Statistics”

24.04.2024

Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol): “State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings” with Clément Gorin and Stephan Heblich

17.04.2024

Paula Gobbi (Free University of Brussels): “Revolutionary Transition: Inheritance Change and Fertility Decline” with Victor Gay and Marc Goni

10.04.2024

Ines Helm (LMU Munich): “Firm Expansion in Imperfect Labor Markets” with Martin Friedrich and Uta Schönberg

ECONtribute Seminar – Winterterm 2023/2024

20.12.2023

Leander Heldring (Northwestern University): “tba.”

13.12.2023

Sarah Eichmeyer (Bocconi University): “The Value of Learning History”

06.12.2023

Giovanni Mastroboni (University of Turin): “Strategic Bureaucratic Opacity: Evidence from Death Investigation Laws and Police Killings” with Elda Celislami and Stephen Kastoryano

29.11.2023

Amanda Agan (Rutgers University): “Removing the Mark: Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation”

22.11.2023

Christina Felfe (University of Konstanz): “tba.”

15.11.2023

Fabian Waldinger (LMU München): “tba.”

08.11.2023

Galina Zudenkova (TU Dortmund): “tba.”

25.10.2023

Rafael Jimenez Duran (Bocconi University): “Toxic Content and User Engagement on Social Media: Evidence from a Field Experiment”

11.10.2023

Nico Voigtländer (UCLA): “Organizing a Kingdom”

ECONtribute Seminar - Summerterm 2023

05.07.2023

Esther Arenas Arroyo (Vienna University of Economics and Business): “tba.”

28.06.2023

Jana Gallus (UCLA Anderson): “tbd.”

21.06.2023

Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University): “Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth: Evidence from Germany” with Elisabeth Artmann and Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln

14.06.2023

Jonathan Schulz (George Mason University): “Surname Diversity, social ties and Innovation”

07.06.2023

Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick): “On prescribing antidepressants to children” with Meltem Daysal and Mircea Trandafir

24.05.2023

Erik Plug (University of Amsterdam): “The only child” with Petter Lundborg, Astrid Rasmussen, and Julius Ilciukas

17.05.2023

Niels Johannesen (University of Copenhagen): “Contagion in the supermarket: How much did transmission between consumers contribute to the Covid-19 pandemic?”

10.05.2023

Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam): “Multigenerational Impacts of a Natural Disaster” with Gordon B. Dahl (USCD)

03.05.2023

Rudi Bachmann (University of Notre Dame): “tbd.”

19.04.2023

Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics and Political Science): “Optimal minimum wages in spatial economies” with Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel

ECONtribute Seminar – Winterterm 2022/2023

25.01.2023

Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School): “Media Consolidation” with Josh McCrain, Gregory Martin, and Nicola Mastrorocco

18.01.2023

Matthias Thoenig (University of Lausanne): The Gravity of Violence – A Quantitative Model of Trade and Conflict

14.12.2022

Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris): “Political Donations, Charitable Giving and Ideology” with Moritz Hengel and Yuchen Huang

07.12.2022

Nina Roussille (MIT): tba

30.11.2022

Thomas Graeber (Harvard Business School): Stories, Statistics, and Memory

23.11.2022

Tim Moore (Purdue University): Importing the Opioid Crisis? The Relationship between Trade and Fentanyl Smuggling

02.11.2022

Elisa Facchetti (Queen Mary University): When Non-Native Speakers Compete for Top Schools: Displacement and Peer Effects in Primary Education

26.10.2022

Lucio Baccaro: What Growth Strategies do Citizens Want? Evidence from a New Survey

19.10.2022

Carlo Schwarz (Bocconi University): “tba”

12.10.2022

Stefano Fiorin (Bocconi University): How do Borrowers Respond to a Debt Moratorium? Experimental Evidence from Consumer Loans in India

ECONtribute Seminar - Summerterm 2022

06.07.2022

Ludwig Straub (Harvard University): A Goldilocks Theory of Fiscal Deficits

29.06.2022

Jörg L. Spenkkuch (Kellogg School of Managment at Northwestern University): Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations

22.06.2022

Andreas Steinhauer (University of Edinburgh): Do Family Policies Reduce Gender Inequality?

15.06.2022

Andrea Prat (Columbia University): tba

08.06.2022

Zoe Cullen (Harvard University): tba

01.06.2022

Martin Nybom (University of Stockholm): Like mother, like child? The rise of women’s intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States

25.05.2022

Jeanne Hagenbach (Centre national de la recherche scientifique): Motivated vs. Skeptical Beliefs

18.05.2022

Ksenia Shakhgildyan (University of Bocconi): Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Bidding and Collusion in Online Advertising

11.05.2022

Guo Xu (University of California Berkeley): Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age

04.05.2022

Elisa Macchi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Worth Your Weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesityin Low-Income Countries

27.04.2022

Uta Schönberg (University College London): The Effects of Business Taxation on Local labor Markets, Firms and Workers

06.04.2022

Olivier Coiboin (University of Texas Austin, USA)

ECONtribute Seminar – Winterterm 2021/2022

26.01.2022

Clemens Kroneberg (University of Cologne): The long arm of the country of origin? Evaluating the cultural baggage hypothesis on inter-ethnic differences in youth violence

19.01.2022

Chris Blattmann (Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago): How Organized Crime is Organized: The Gangs of Medellín

12.01.2022

Abdoulaye Ndiaye (Leonard N. Stern School of Business)

15.12.2021

Tarek Hassan (Boston University): The Immigrant Next Door: Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

08.12.2021

Daniel Reck (London School of Economics): The Welfare Economics of Reference Dependence

01.12.2021

Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim): This Time It’s Different: The Role of Women’s Employment in a Pandemic Recession

24.11.2021

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt): Structural Change in Labor Supply and Cross-Country Differences in Hours Worked

17.11.2021

Sandro Ambuehl (University of Zurich): Interpreting the Will of the People: A Positive Analysis of Ordinal Preference Aggregation (with B. Douglas Bernheim) and Politicians’ Social Welfare Criteria: An Experiment With German Legislators (with Sebastian Blesse, Philip Dörrenberg, Christoph Feldhaus, Axel Ockenfels)

10.11.2021

Andrea Weber (Central European University): "What can we learn from temporary layoffs and recall hires about firm and worker expectations?" (joint with Arash Nekoei)

03.11.2021

Leah Boustan (Princeton University): Political Speech about Immigration to the US is More Positive but More Polarized Than Any Time in the Past 150 Years

27.10.2021

Ingela Alger (Toulouse School of Economics): Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: (i) voter participation and (ii) the divided majority dilemma

20.10.2021

Jordi Blanes i Vidal (London School of Economics): Monitoring Workers through their Peers

13.10.2021

David Seim (Stockholm University): How Do Inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

ECONtribute Seminar – Summerterm 2021

14.07.2021

Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford): The Gender Wage Gap in an Online Labour Market: The Cost of Interruptions

07.07.2021

Joris Lammers (University of Cologne): Misjudgments of Nonlinear Past and Future Growth for perceptions of Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic — their consequences and the benefits of their correction

30.06.2021

Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University): Public Subsidies, Political Discretion, and Policy Effectiveness

23.06.2021

Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)): Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?

16.06.2021

Aline Bütikofer (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)): Building Bridges and Widening Gaps

09.06.2021

Jaime Arellano-Bover (Yale University): Differences in On-the-Job Learning Across Firms

19.05.2021

Arun Advani (University of Warwick): Race-related research in economics and other social sciences

12.05.2021

Maya Eden (Brandeis University): Price-Independent Anonymity Implies the Social Ranking of Income Distributions

05.05.2021

Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick ): How Big is the Media Multiplier? Evidence from Dyadic News Data

28.04.2021

Tom Wilkening (University of Melbourne): Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work

21.04.2021

Joscha Legewie (Harvard University): The Enduring Impact of NYC's Stop, Question & Frisk Program. Lessons from "Big Data"

14.04.2021

Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University): Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data from Norway

ECONtribute Seminar – Winterterm 2020/2021

17.03.2021

Stefania Albanesi (University of Pittsburgh): Predicting Consumer Default.

10.02.2021

Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University & Nottingham University): Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market

03.02.2021

Georg Weizsäcker (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply

27.01.2021

Christine Binzel (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): Vernacularization and Linguistic Democratization

20.01.2021

Christina Gathmann (Universität Heidelberg): College Openings and Local Economic Development

13.01.2021

Dorothea Kübler (WZB & Technische Universität Berlin): How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems

09.12.2020

Andreas Irmen (University of Luxembourg): Automation, Growth, and Factor Shares in the Era of Population Aging

02.12.2020

Matthew Harding (University of California-Irvine): Managers vs Algorithms: Can Algorithms replicate Human Intuition?

25.11.2020

Albrecht Ritschl (London School of Economics): Hitler’s Mefo Bills, 1933-1939 – A Case for MMT?

18.11.2020

Valentina Melentyeva (Uni Mannheim & ZEW): Gender Diversity and Firm Performance: Evidence from Quota-implied Discontinuities

16.11.2020

Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin): Migrants at Sea - Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations

11.11.2020

Ingo Isphording (Institute of Labor Economics): The Value of a Peer

ECONtribute Seminar – Summerterm 2020

01.07.2020

Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford): Common Ownership, Competition, and Top Management Incentives

17.06.2020

Jennifer Doleac (Texas A&M University): Algorithmic Risk Assessment in the Hands of Humans

03.06.2020

Cloé Garnache (University of Oslo): Does the Salience of Risk Affect Large, Risky Asset Prices?

13.05.2020

Felix Bierbrauer (University of Cologne): Politically Feasible Reforms of Non-linear Tax Systems