ECONtribute Seminar

The ECONtribute seminar takes place Wednesdays from 12:00 PM – 13:15 PM in the SSC Building, Room 3.206. Please contact us for an invitation to join and send an e-mail to Dorothea Pakebusch.

Reputable scholars present research that is of interest to the research areas in the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute and C-SEB. It is organized by ECONtribute.

Please send suggestions for speakers to Prof. Dr. Christopher Roth and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Siegloch.

ECONtribute Seminar - Summerterm 2023

28.06.2023

Jana Gallus (UCLA Anderson): “tbd.”

21.06.2023

Giulia Giupponi (Bocconi University): “tbd.”

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