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      Lunch seminars

      These seminars host renown external researchers and benefited from the financial support of the FNR – National Research Fund until June 2024:

      • 21-Sep-22

        David Wozabal TU München, DE
        Nash-Type Bargaining for Risk-Averse Agents

      • 28-Sep-22

        Daniel Kuhn EPFL, CH
        On Robust Optimization, Blackouts and the Law

      • 12-Oct-22

        Petter Lundborg Lund University, SE
        On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Donor Children

      • 19-Oct-22

        Zhou Wei ESCP Business School Paris, FR
        Self-Cannibalization Effect in the Sharing Economy

      • 26-Oct-22

        Christina Kühnl Stuttgart University, DE
        Postponed

      • 09-Nov-22

        Maximilian Kasy University of Oxford, UK
        Adaptive maximization of social welfare

      • 23-Nov-22

        Aude Pommeret Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, FR
        Confronting the carbon pricing gap: Second best climate
        policy

      • 30-Nov-22

        Jan Stuhler Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ES
        Immigration and Monopsony: Evidence Across the Distribution of Firms

      • 06-Dec-22

        Etienne Wasmer New York University, Abou Dhabi, UAE
        Conflict in Unified Growth Theory

      • 07-Dec-22

        Yaron Shaposhnik University of Rochester, US
        The Pandora’s Box Problem with Sequential Inspections

      • 11-Jan-23

        Sascha Becker Monash University, Australia
        Shallow Christianity, Charisma, and the Rise of Hitler

      • 25-Jan-22

        Francesco Squintani University of Warwick, UK
        Strategic Information Disclosure in Networks

      • 01-Feb-23

        Ingrid Van Keilegom KU Leuven, BE
        Instrumental variable quantile regression under random right censoring

      • 08-Feb-23

        Gizem Korpeoglu Eindhoven University of Technology
        Cancelled

      • 22-Feb-23

        Philipp Boeing ZEW, DE
        Postponed

      • 08-Mar-23

        Hans Gersbach ETH Zurich, CH
        Artificial Intelligence as Self-learning Capital

      • 15-Mar-23

        Cem Özgüzel OCDE, FR
        Trusting Immigrants

      • 22-Mar-23

        Silke Forbes Tufts University, USA
        Cancelled

      • 19-Apr-23

        Gilles Laforgue Toulouse School of Economics
        Recycling promoting policies in a dynamic model of resource use with endogenous R&D

      • 26-Apr-23

        Nelly Exbrayat Gates-Les Saint Etienne, FR
        Urbanization and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

      • 03-May-23

        Jakub Growiec SHG Warsaw School of Economics, PL
        Accelerating Economic Growth: Lessons From 200,000
        Years of Technological Progress and Human Development

      • 10-May-23

        Florian Allroggen MIT, USA
        Pathways Toward a Sustainable Future for Aviation

      • 17-May-23

        Christina Kühnl Stuttgart University, DE
        The Rise and Effective Usage of Social Selling in Business-to-Business Companies

      • 24-May-23

        Mariapia Mendola University of Milano-Bicocca, IT
        Political Backlash to Refugee Settlement: Cultural and Economic Drivers

      • 07-Jun-23

        Hongmin Li Arizona State University, USA
        Balancing Risk and Return in Product Line Pricing

      • 21-Jun-23

        Xiting Gong University of Hong Kong, China
        TBD

      • 27-Jun-23

        Philipp Boeing ZEW, DE
        Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-sided Noncompliance

      • 28-Jun-23

        Anastasia Litina University of Macedonia, GR
        TBD

      • 24-Nov-21

        Josef Zweimueller University of Zurich, CH
        Duration Dependence in Job Search

      • 08-Dec-21

        Fabian Waldinger University of Munich, DE
        Scholars at Risks: Academic Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

      • 15-Dec-21

        Swati Dhingra London School of Economics, UK
        The Crisis and Job Guarantees in Urban India

      • 12-Jan-22

        Gilles Duranton University of Pennsylvania, USA
        The Fast, the Slow, and the Congested: Urban Transportation in Rich and Poor Countries

      • 26-Jan-22

        Mikhail Pakhnin European University at St Petersburg, RUS
        The Neoclassical Growth Model with Time-Inconsistent Decision Making and Perfect Foresight

      • 09-Feb-22

        Carsten Eckel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, DE
        Postponed

      • 23-Mar-22

        Randolph Bruno University College London, UK
        The identification of time-invariant variables in panel data model: exploring the role of Science in firms’ productivity

      • 20-Apr-22

        Jos van Ommeren VU University of Amsterdam, NL
        Neighbourhood stigma and place-based policies

      • 04-May-22

        Jeffrey Furmann Boston University, USA
        Postponed

      • 11-May-22

        Robert Elliott University of Birmingham, UK
        Natural Disasters and Voting Behaviour – Evidence from Environmental Legislation in the US Senate

      • 18-May-22

        Arturas Juodis University of Amsterdam, NL
        This Shock is Different: Estimation and Inference in Misspecified Two-Way Fixed Effects Panel Regressions

      • 01-Jun-22

        Sascha Becker Monash U, AU & U of Warwick, UK
        Postponed

      • 08-Jun-22

        Blanca Martinez University of Complutense Madrid, ES
        Posponed

      • 22-Jun-22

        Ruud Teunter Groningen University, NL
        Condition-based Production and Maintenance Optimization

      • 29-Jun-22

        Christian Kiedaisch University of Namur, BE
        Superstar Innovators and the Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on Innovation

      • 18-Sept-19

        Katrin Millock Paris School of Economics, FR
        Climate Change, Migration and Irrigation

      • 25-Sept-19

        Lena Janys Dep. of Economics, Uni. Bonn, DE
        Selecting Relevant Outcomes in a Multiple Outcome Setting using the Sparse-Group Lasso

      • 16-Oct-19

        Panu Poutvaara CES-IFO, University of Munich, DE
        Refugees’ and Irregular Migrants’ Self-selection into Europe: Who Migrates Where?

      • 23-Oct-19

        Erico Santarelli University of Bologna, IT
        The Impact of Intellectual Property Rights on Labor Productivity: Do Constitutions Matter?

      • 06-Nov-19

        Anne Gielen Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
        Migrant Selection and Assimilation – Intergenerational Evidence from Three Waves of Immigrants

      • 27-Nov-19

        Zuzanna Studnicka Brown University, USA
        What’s next? Returning to exports after a failure

      • 11-Dec-19

        Bram De Rock Université libre de Bruxelles, BE
        Stable Marriage, Household Consumption and Unobserved Match Quality

      • 18-Dec-19

        Petra Moser New York University, USA
        Immigration, Science, and Invention: Evidence from the Quota Acts

      • 08-Jan-20

        Dorothée Honhon UT Dallas, USA
        Package Size and Pricing Decisions with a Bulk Sale Option

      • 22-Jan-20

        Sandra Transchel Kühne Logistic University, DE
        Multiproduct Inventory Planning Considering Consume Choices and Substitution Effects

      • 29-Jan-20

        Carmen Camacho CNR, PSE, Paris, FR
        Diffusion under Limited Production Factors: the Case of Pollution in Soil

      • 05-Feb-20

        Jos van Ommeren VU University, Amsterdam, NL
        Short-term rentals and the housing market: Quasiexperimental evidence from Airbnb in Los Angeles

      • 11-Feb-20

        Edward Riedl Boston University, USA
        Market Perceptions of fair Value Reporting for Tangible Assets

      • 26-Feb-20

        Thomas Steger University of Leipzig, DE
        Distributional Effects of Surging Housing Costs under Schwabe’s Law

      • 11-Mar-20

        Ana Fontoura Gouveia Banco de Portugal, PT
        Cancelled

      • 18-Mar-20

        Jan Brueckner University of California, USA
        Airline Mitigation of Propagated Delays via Schedule Buffers: Theory and Empirics

      • 25-Mar-20

        Juan Carlos Escanciano Universidad Carlos III, ES
        Optimal Linear Instrumental Variables Approximations

      • 1-Apr-20

        Robert J.R. Elliot University of Birmingham, UK
        Cancelled

      • 22-Apr-20

        Marisa Miraldo Imperial College, London, UK
        Peer and network effects in medical innovation: the case of laparoscopic surgery in the English NHS

      • 29-Apr-20

        Josef Zweimueller University of Zurich, CH
        Family Policies and the Dynamics of Gender Inequality

      • 13-May-20

        Gilles Duranton Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA
        Urban growth and its aggregate implications

      • 27-May-20

        Catia Batista Nova University, Lisbon, PT
        Cancelled

      • 17-Jun-20

        Jeffrey Furman Boston University, US
        Cancelled

      • 24-Jun-20

        Maria Lucia Parella University Degli Studi di Salerno, IT
        Testing different structures of Spatial Dynamic Panel Data models by a bootstrap multiple testing procedure

      • 01-Jul-20

        Patrick Pintus Aix-Marseille University, FR
        The Causal Effect of infrastructure Investments on Income Inequality: Evidence from US States

      • 30-Sept-20

        Ronald Davies University College Dublin, IE
        Patent Boxes and the Success Rate of Applications

      • 02-Dec-20

        Esteban Jaimovich University of Surrey, UK
        Inside the White Box: Unpacking the Determinants of Quality and Vertical Specialization

      • 09-Dec-20

        Michel Bierlaire Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, CH
        Postponed

      • 13-Jan-21

        Joachim Freyberger Universität Bonn, DE
        Normalizations and misspecification in skill formation models

      • 27-Jan-21

        Martin Spindler Universität Hamburg, DE
        Recent Advances in High-Dimensional Inference

      • 10-Feb-21

        Rouba Ibrahim University College London, UK
        Priority Queueing Systems with Deceptive Customers

      • 03-Mar-21

        Silke Forbes Tufts University, USA
        Does Competition Benefit Complements? Evidence from Airlines and Hotels

      • 31-Mar-21

        Muriel Dejemeppe Université catholique de Louvain, BE
        Hiring subsidies for disadvantaged youth after the Great Recession. Short- and long-term net impact on employment

      • 21-Apr-21

        Juan Carlos Escanciano Carlos III Madrid, ES
        Irregular Identification of Structural Models with Nonparametric Unobserved Heterogeneity

      • 28-Apr-21

        Marisa Miraldo Imperial College London, UK
        Innovation Diffusion and Physician Networks: Keyhole Surgery for Cancer in the English NHS

      • 05-May-21

        Michel Bierlaire Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, CH
        Reconstructing daily schedules of individuals: a utility maximization approach

      • 12-May-21

        David Hemous University of Zurich, CH
        Induced Automation: Evidence from Firm-level Patent Data

      • 19-May-21

        Gilles Duranton University of Pennsylvania, USA
        Mobility, Congestion, and Accessibility in World Cities – Evidence from Google Maps

      • 02-Jun-21

        Megan MacGarvie Boston University, USA
        Drinking from the Firehose: Preprints, Chinese Scientists, and the Diffusion of Research on COVID-19

      • 09-Jun-21

        Selvaprabu Nadarajah University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
        Self-guided Approximate Linear Programs

      • 16-Jun-21

        Ina Ganguli University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
        Why U.S. Immigration Barriers Matter for the Global Advancement of Science

      • 30-Jun-21

        Maria Lucia Parrella University of Salerno, IT
        Testing different structures of Spatial Dynamic Panel Data models by a bootstrap multiple testing procedure

      • 22-Sep-21

        Jan Brueckner University of California, Irvine, USA
        A New Spatial Hedonic Equilibrium in the Emerging Work-from-Home Economy?

      • 13-Oct-21

        Cees Withagen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
        Road Networks and Tropical Deforestation

      • 27-Oct-21

        Catherine Guirkinger University of Namur, BE
        Behind the Veil of Cultural Persistence: Marriage and Divorce in a Migrant Community

      • 10-Nov-21

        Mario Guajardo NHH Norwegian School of Economics
        Smart Charging of Electrical Vehicles: Coordinate Energy Consumption Through a Digital Platform

      Research seminars

      They aim to present the work of our researchers or of their collaborators:

      • 04.10.2022

        Giuseppe Grasso
        The Impact of Restricting Fixed-Term Contracts on Labor and Skill Demand: Evidence from Italian Online Job Vacancy Data

      • 18.10.2022

        Silvia Peracchi
        Migration Crisis in the Local News: Evidence from the French-Italian Border

      • 26.10.2022

        Antonio Cosma
        Pseudo indirect inference for binary dynamic panel data models

      • 22.11.2022

        Stellio Del Campo
        Inequality aversion for climate policy

      • 13.12.2022

        Evgenii Monastyrenko
        Trade shocks and product quality

      • 07.03.2023

        Elisabeth Kempter
        Uncovering the role of education in the uptake of preventive  measures against malaria in the African population

      • 14.03.2023

        Evgenii Monastyrenko
        The Impact of the UK hospitals procurement type on facility management costs

      • 28.03.2023

        Ksenia Usanova
        Postponed

      • 18.03.2023

        Andreas Vortisch
        The Impact of a Possible Trump Reelection on Immigration Pressure in Alternative Countries

      • 16.05.2023

        Inga Leda
        A Simple and Low-Cost Activation Policy – The Labor Market Effects of Subsidized Public Transport

      • 23.05.2023

        Seraphim Dempsey
        Graduating Scarring Effects on Mid-Life Health Conditions

      • 13.06.2023

        Pauline Corblet
        Impact of Occupational Sorting on the Gender Pay Gap

      • 28.09.2021

        Rana Cömertpay
        Refugee, Diversity and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • 27.11.2021

        Morgan Raux
        International students and the U.S. labor market

      • 11.01.2022

        Christina Gathmann
        Proportional Representation, Political Responsiveness and Child Mortality

      • 08.02.2022

        Rutger Poldermans
        Backward mean transformation in unit root panel data models

      • 29.03.2022

        Thomas Kaspereit
        The rise of intangible investments in cross-sectional earnings forecasting and implied cost of capital estimation

      • 26.04.2022

        Ksenia Usanova
        Talent Management in MSMEs of the aerospace industry – a proposition of a typology

      • 03.05.2022

        Christopher Hansen
        Which companies go public via SPACs? The impact of venture capital

      • 17.05.2021

        Evgenii Monastyrenko
        Quantifying a vertical differentiation trade model

      • 31.05.2022

        Christian Fisch
        The effect of trademark breadth on IPO valuation and post-IPO performance: an empirical investigation of 1,510 European IPOs

      • 28.06.2022

        Marialena Petrakou
        FDI spillovers in Greece and the role of local absorptive capacity

      • 20.10.2020

        Vincent Anesi
        Cloturing Deliberation

      • 10.11.2020

        Clotilde Mahe
        Is there a ‘jack-of-all-trades’ effect?

      • 08.12.2020

        Rutger Poldermans
        Finite sample properties of the GMM Anderson-Rubin test and identification issues

      • 19.01.2021

        Andreï Kostyrka
        The good, the bad, and the asymmetric: Evidence from a new conditional density model

      • 11.02.2021

        Luca Jacopo Uberti
        Corruption and Growth: Long-run Historical Evidence

      • 24.03.2021

        Cagil Kocyigit
        Distributionally Robust Auction Design

      • 20.04.2021

        Morgan Raux
        Labor market tightness and recruitment of foreign skilled workers

      • 27.04.2021

        Katrin Hussinger
        The Effect of Research Grants on the Scientific Output of University Professors – Evidence for Luxembourg

      • 04.05.2021

        Pietro Santoleri
        The Causal Effects of R&D Grants: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity

      • 11.05.2021

        Ridwan Rusli
        Transboundary Haze Games: Local Capture and Common Agency

      • 18.05.2021

        Anne Lange
        Outsourcing Decisions for Additive Manufacturing

      • 29.06.2021

        Melvin Drent
        Real-Time Integrated Learning and Decision Making for Deteriorating Systems

      • 19/11/2019

        Michel Beine
        Assessing the Role of Immigration Policy for Foreign Students: the Caase of Campus France

      • 10/03/2020

        Evgenii Monastyrenko
        Declared exchange rate and quality-driven pass-through to import prices

      • 26/05/2020

        Majlinda Joxhe
        Shaking Things Up: On the Stability of Risk and Time preferences

      • 10/06/2020

        Ka-kit Iong
        The Supply of Hours Worked and Endogenous Growth Cycles

      • 17/06/2020

        Konstantinos Tatsiramos
        Parental Assortative Mating and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital

      Logistics seminars

      Doctoral defenses