Research Seminars
You are welcome to attend the Department's research seminars.
Fall 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 30.08. | Ferdinand Rauch | University of Oxford | Economic Geography Aspects of the Panama Canal |
| 13.09. | Robert Dur | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Macroeconomic Conditions When Young Shape Job Preferences for Life |
| 27.09. | Valentin Lang | University of Zurich | Cancelled |
| 18.10. | Eeva Mauring | University of Vienna | Informational Cycles in Search Markets |
| 22.10. | Anna Godøy | UC Berkeley | Economics of Fertility: Evidence from the Minimum Wage |
| 25.10. | Jerome Adda | Bocconi | The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation |
| 31.10. | Julian Vedeler Johnsen | SNF | Competition, Paternity Leave and Career Advancement |
| 01.11. | Patrick Bennett | NHH | Returning to Education Over the Life Cycle: Descriptive and Causal Evidence. |
| 08.11. | Marc Goni | University of Vienna | Lineages of Scholars in pre-industrial Europe: Nepotism vs Intergenerational Human Capital Transmission |
| 15.11. | Kai Konrad | Max Planck Institute | Preemption contests between groups |
| 22.11. | Paolo Crosetto | Grenoble | METARET- a meta-analysis of risk elicitation tasks |
| 06.12. | Siri Isaksson | NHH | Cancelled |
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 07.02. | Gordon B. Dahl | UCSD | Doctor Switching Costs in Health Insurance |
| 14.02. | Justin Valasek | NHH | Refugees and Social Capital: Evidence from Northern Lebanon |
| 21.02. | Kaveh Majlesi | Lund University | Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure |
| 28.02. | Nadine Riedel | Bochum | Combatting Tax Evasion: Evidence from Comparing Commercial and Business Tax Registry |
| 07.03. | Julie Cullen | UCSD | Performance information and personnel decisions in the public sector: the case of school principals |
| 14.03. | Per Johannson | Uppsala | Subjective Expectations, Educational Choice Heterogeneity and Gender: Evidence from a Sample of Swedish High School Students |
| 21.03. | Katherine Meckel | UCSD | Cigarette Taxes, Mental Health, and Mortality Outcomes |
| 28.03. | Fanny Landaud | NHH | From Employment to Engagement? Stable Jobs, Temporary Jobs and Cohabiting Relationships |
| 04.04. | Knut Røed | Frisch Centre | Immigration and Social Mobility |
| 25.04. | Gerhard Riener | Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics | Who wants to be the hired gun? Experimental Evidence from Matrilineal and Patriarchal Societies in India |
| 23.05. | Ian Wooton | Stratchclyde | Targeting FDI |
| 06.06. | Vincent Sterk | UCL | The nature of firm growth |
| 20.06. | Martina Viarengo | Graduate Institute | Gender Gaps in Career Dynamics |
| 25.06. | Stelios Michalopoulos | Brown | Folklore |
Fall 2018
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 06.09. | Otto Toivanen | Aalto University | The social origins and IQ of inventors
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| 07.09. | Prashant Bharadwaj | UCSD | Health shocks to the elderly and adult labor supply
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| 13.09. | Michaela Tincani | UCL | Equality of opportunity in access to higher education: lessons from the randomization of a national policy |
| 20.09. | Kai Gehring | University of Zurich | Stimulant or depressant? Resource-related income shocks and conflict
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| 27.09. | Ingar Kyrkjebø Haaland | NHH | Beliefs about Behavioral Responses to Taxation
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| 04.10. | Mikael Lindhal | University of Gothenburg | The importance of nature-nurture interactions in skill formation: Evidence from a large sample of adoptees
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| 18.10. | Arizo Karimi | Uppsala University | Parenthood, Family Friendly, and Gender Gaps in Early Work Careers
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| 25.10. | Astrid Kunze | NHH | Flexible Work Arrangements for Mothers
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| 08.11. | Petra Thiemann | Lund University | Inequality in Education Outcomes: The Role of Sorting among Students, Teachers, and Schools
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| 15.11. | Pietro Biroli | University of Zurich | Genetics and Health Insurance: How Genes and Insurance Status Affect Smoking Decisions after Health Shocks
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| 22.11. | Alexander Willén | NHH | Oh Mother: The Neglected Impact of School Disruptions
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Spring 2018
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
| 25.01 | University of Bologna | Intangible Assets and the Organization of Global Supply Chains | |
| 01.02 | Anna Bindler | University of Gothenburg | |
| 08.02 | DICE | Hotel rankings of online travel agents, channel pricing and consumer protection | |
| 01.03 | Cesifo | Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success | |
| 15.03 | Bhash Mazumder | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US |
| 22.03 | Danish Centre for Applied Social Science | Maternity Ward Crowding, Procedure Use and Health | |
| 05.04 | Constanza Biavaschi | NTNU | Immigrant Franchise and Immigration Policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era |
| 12.04 | Manudeep Bhuller | UiO | Signalling and Employer Learning with Instruments |
| 26.04 | Toulouse School of Economics | Endogenous Monitoring in a Partnership Game | |
| 03.05 | University of Oxford | ||
| 15.05 | Peter Koudijs | Stanford | TBA |
| 31.05 | MIT Sloan | TBA | |
| 07.06 | Andreas Fuchs | Heidelberg University | The Effects of Foreign Aid on Refugee Flows |
| 14.06 | Northwestern | TBA | |
| 21.06 | University of Chicago | TBA |
Fall 2017
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
17.09.2015 | Arizo Karimi | University of Uppsala | Does paternity leave make relationships jumpy? A regression discontinuity approach. |
24.09.2015 | Joao Montez | London Business School | Why variable inventory costs intensify retail competition, and a |
15.10.2015 | Marianne Simonsen | University of Aarhus | |
22.10.2015 | Odd Rune Straume | University of Minho | Patient Mobility and Health Care Quality when Regions and Patients Differ in Income |
29.10.2015 | Øystein Thøgersen | NHH | Saving and bequest in China: An analysis of intergenerational exchange |
05.11.2015 | Karin S. Thorburn | NHH | All-stock payment in takeovers: Efficient payment design or bidder opportunism |
12.11.2015 | Eirik G. Kristiansen | NHH | |
19.11.2015 | Mathias Iwanowsky | IIES | Surviving the Killing Fields - The long-term consequences of the Khmer Rouge |
03.12.2015 | Katie Baird | University of Washington Tacoma | |
10.12.2015 | Andreas Kostøl | UiB / SSB | Disability Benets, Consumption Insurance, and Household Labor Supply |
Spring 2015
Autumn 2014
| Date: | Speaker: | Institution | Title: |
| 21.08.2014 (13.00-14:15) | Bash Mazumber | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | |
| 28.08.2014 | Martina Nyqvist | Stockholm School of Economics | Safe Sex for a Chance to Win: Evidence from a Field Experiment on HIV Prevention |
| 04.09.2014 | Matti Keloharju | Aalto University School of Business | Matched as a Teenager? What Traits of a Million 18-Year-Olds Tell Us about CEOs |
| 25.09.2014 | Rita Ginja | Uppsala University | The Health and Labor Market Effects of Non-contributory Health Insurance: Evidence from Mexico |
| 02.10.2014 | Juanna Johnsen | Stockholm School of Economics | Student Aid, Academic Achievement, and Labor Market Behavior: Grants or Loans? |
| 09.10.2014 | Torkild Hovde Lyngstad | University of Oslo | |
| 16.10.2014 | Ivar Kolstad | CMI | |
| 23.10.2014 (from 1pm-2.15pm) | Hartmut Egger | University of Bayreuth | |
| 30.10.2014 | Kjell Salvanes | NHH | Does grief transfer across generations? In-utero deaths and child outcomes |
| 06.11.2014 | Roland Hodler | University of St. Gallen | Aid on Demand: The Allocation of China's Foreign Assistance at the Subnational Level |
| 13.11.2014 | Dan-Olof Rooth | Linneaus University | Health Endowments and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises |
| 27.11.2014 | Jon H. Fiva | BI Norwegian Business School | TBA |
04.12.2014(from 10am-11am) | Salvatore Piccolo | Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore | TBA |
11.12.2014 | Daniel L. Chen | ETH Zurich | The political economy of beliefs: Why fiscal and social conservatives/liberals come hand-in-hand |
18.12.2014 | David Skarbek | King's College, London | The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System |
Spring 2014
Autumn 2013
29.08. Knut Aase, NHH: Recursive utility and disappearing puzzles for discrete-time models
05.09. Kasper Meisner Nielsen, HKUST: Fire Sales and House Prices: Evidence from Estate Sales due to Sudden Death
19.09. Chiara Canta, NHH: Efficiency, access, and the mixed delivery of health care services
26.09. Gani Aldashev, University of Namur: Government Incentives for Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium
03.10. Bjørn Olav Johansen, UiB: The opportunism problem revisited: the case of retailer sales effort
10.10. Heike Auerswald, TU Dresden: Adaptation, Mitigation and Risk-Taking in Climate Policy
11.10. Greg Shaffer, University of Rochester: Exclusionary Discounts in a Dynamic Model with Financially Constrained Firms
15.10. Gary Fournier, Florida State University: Physician and Patient Migration to Ambulatory Surgery Centers as a Response to Poor Safety at Hospitals
17.10. Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Harvard Business School: Governing Misvalued Firms
24.10. Mathias Ekstrøm, NHH: Can Indifference Make the World Greener?
31.10. Jo Thori Lind, UiO: Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes
05.11. Teemu Pennanen, King's College: Optimal investment and contingent claim valuation in illiquid markets
07.11. Ingvild Nordtveit, UiB: Lending to Developing Countries - How do official creditors respond to defaults?
14.11. Ugo Panizza, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies: Too much Finance?
21.11. Alexander Cappelen, NHH: You've got mail: A randomized field experiment on tax evasion.
28.11. Ola Vestad, SSB: TBA
05.12. TBA
12.12. TBA
Spring 2013
24.01. Julian Vedeler Johnsen, UiB: Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking, and Birth Outcomes
31.01. Aline Bütikofer, NHH: This is Not a Test - Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Weapon Testing
08.02. Mirjam van Praag, Amsterdam School of Economics: Why do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
14.02. Vincent Somville, CMI: Ungrateful Children - Theory and Evidence on old Age Support from Nepal
28.02. Imral Rasul, UCL: Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?
07.03. Kjetil Bjorvatn, NHH: Ethnicity and cooperation: Experimental evidence from Kenya and Tanzania
14.03. Ivar Gaasland, UiB: Trade-off between food production and greenhouse gas mitigation in Norwegian agriculture
21.03. Knut P. Heen, HiMolde: Monopoly Theory from a Finance Perspective
11.04. Sjur Flåm, UiB: Order books and market clearing
18.04. Thomas Åstebro, HEC-Paris: Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata
25.04. Tommy S. Gabrielsen, UiB: Resale price maintenance and up-front payments: achieving horizontal control under seller and buyer power
02.05. Alessia Russo, UiO: Self-Commitment Institution and Cooperation in OLG games
08.05. Bård Harstad, UiO: The Market for Conservation and other Hostages
16.05. Manudeep Bhuller, SSB: Education and Lifetime Earnings
23.05. Edwin Leuven, UiO: Ability peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment
30.05. Torfinn Harding, University of Sussex: Institutions and the Distribution of Oil
06.06. Kjetil Storesletten, UiO: Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China
10.06. Robert Pollak (Washington U., St. Louis): Cohabitation and the uneven withdrawal from marriage in the US, 1950-2010
13.06. Prashant Bharadwaj, UCSD: Do initial endowments matter only initially? Birth weight, parental investments and academic achievement in school
Autumn 2012
10.09. Amihai Glazer, UCI: Governmental Transfers and Altruistic Private Transfers
14.09. Katrine Løken, UIB: Peer Effects in Program Participation
21.09. Fred Schroyen, NHH: Mapping Risk Aversion in Norway Using Hypothetical Income Gambles
28.09. Bernd Fitzenberger, Freiburg: The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
05.10. Morten Sæthre, NHH: The bargaining effect of cross-border M&A on wages
12.10. TBA
19.10. Ben Jones, Northwestern: Understanding China: An Explanation for an Unusual Macroeconomy
02.11. Julie Riise Kolstad, UiB: Lifting the burden: State care of the elderly and the labor supply of adult children
09.11. Steinar Strøm, UiO: A probability approach to industrial organization
16.11. Juan Carluccio, Paris School of Economics: TBA
23.11. Liam Brunt, NHH: cancelled
30.11. Imran Rasul, UCL: cancelled
07.12. Bill Kerr, Harvard: Entrepreneurship and urban growth: An empirical assessment with historical mines.
Spring 2012
27.01. Francisco Santos, NHH: IPO underpricing and long-term underperformance
03.02. Julian Vedeler Johnsen, UoB: Complementary Leisure: The Unintended Spill-Over Effect of an Early Retirement Reform
10.02. Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, NTNU: A DSGE Model with Housing in the Cointegrated VAR Framework
17.02. Gernot Doppelhofer, NHH: Do Broken Speed Limits of Debt Predict Financial Crises?
24.02. Sjur Flåm, UoB: Bilateral exchange
02.03. Vincent Somville, CMI: Informal Savings and Intra-Household Strategies: Theory & Evidence from Urban Benin
09.03. Adrien Vigier, UoO: An Economic model of the Ivy League
16.03. Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, UoO: Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade and CO2 emissions
23.03. Sascha Becker, Warwick
30.03. Eirik Kristiansen, NHH:Paying for Staying: Managerial Contracts and the Retention Motive
13.04. Bjørn Olav Johansen, UiB: Buyer Power and Exclusion in Vertically Related Markets
20.04. Per Botolf Maurseth, BI: Market specific fixed and sunk export costs : Learning and spillovers
27.04. Wolter Hassink, Utrecht University:What Does Loyalty Buy?
04.05. Amrita Dhillon, Warwick: Employee referral, social proximity, and worker discipline
11.05. Michael Koch, University of Bayreuth: The Impact of Trade on the Organization of Labor within Firms
25.05.Udo Kreickemeier, University of Tübingen: Two-way migration between similar countries
01.06. CANCELLED
08.06. Silvia Marchesi, Milano-Bicocca: How Defensive Were Lending and Aid to HIPC?
15.06. CANCELLED
22.06. Christian Soegaard, University of Nottingham: Welfare Effects of Trade Policy in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Autumn 2011
26.08. Gaute Torsvik (UiB): Financial incentives and sick absence: Evidence from a natural experiment in a firm
02.09. Alexander Cappelen (NHH): Leading by example: the effect of leadership compensation in a public goods experiment
16.09. Igor Evstigneev (University of Manchester): Volatility-induced financial growth
23.09. Daniel Etzel (University of Bayreuth): Wage Bargaining Systems and International Trade
07.10. Bjørn Sandvik (UiB): A free lunch for the Norwegian Oil Fund
14.10. Astri Drange Hole (HiB): "Exposing care services to competition - effects on quality"
21.10. Arnt Ove Hopland (NTNU): School Building Conditions and Student Achievements: Norwegian Evidence
28.10. Berber Kramer (VU Amsterdam): Individual versus Group Insurance: Demand for health insurance under joint liability in microfinance games
04.11. Karin Thorburn (NHH): Public Information and IPO-Underpricing
11.11. tba
18.11. Nathan Fiala (German Institute for Economic Research): Can Employment Programs Reduce Poverty and Social Instability? Experimental evidence from a Ugandan aid program
25.11. Sigve Tjøtta (UiB): Sustainable contribution in public good experiments
02.12. Steffen Andersen (CBS): Ability or Finances as Constraints to Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Survival Rates in a Natural Experiment
16.12. cancelled
Spring 2011
21.1. Tarjei Havnes (UiO): Internet use, pornography and sex crime
28.1. Odd Rune Straume (Universidade do Minho/UiB): Quality competiton with profit constraints: Do non-profit firms provide higher quality than for-profit firms?
4.2. Hans Jarle Kind (NHH): Hotelling competition with multi-purchasing
11.2. Rune Jansen Hagen: Certified or branded? A game-theoretic analyis of the IMF’s policy support instrument
18.2. Maarten Lindeboom: Slipping anchors? Testing the vinettes approach to identification and correction of reporting heterogeneity
25.2. Kjell Vaage: Social Interactions at the Workplace: Exploring Sickness Absence Behaviour
11.3. Fredrik Heyman: Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination
18.3. cancelled
25.3. Ivar Kolstad (CMI): Education and entrepreneurial success
1.4. Andreas Madestam (Bocconi): Shaping the nation: Estimating the impact of Fourth of July using a natural experiment.
8.4. Astrid Oline Ervik (NHH): Risk and Job Mobility Across Sectors
29.4. no seminar
6.5. Karin Monstad: cancelled
13.5. Karin Monstad: Is Teenage Motherhood contagious? Evidence from a natural Experiment
20.5. Alessandro Cigno (Florence): How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
27.5. Michael Hoel (U of Oslo): Incentives for environmental R&D
3.6. PhD defence - no seminar
9.6. Michael Taksar (U of Missouri): Optimal Non-Proportional Reinsurance Control and Stochastic Differential Games
15.6. Ron Harstad (U of Missouri): Political Economy Field Experiments Become Possible
Autumn 2010
27.8. Gaute Torsvik (UiB): Beliefs, attitudes and productivity. Evidence from a customer service centre
1.9. Igor Pospelov (Dorodnicyn Computing Center, Moskva): Modeling of the Russian Economy in crisis
3.9. Fabian Waldinger (Warwick): Peer Effects in Science: Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany
10.9. Julie Riise Kolstad (UiB) disputation: What affects the career choices of health workers?
17.9. Igor V. Evstigneev (University of Manchester): Asset Market Games of Survival: A Synthesisof Evolutionary and Dynamic Games
22.9. Ivar Gaasland (UiB) disputation: Essays on the inefficiency of Norwegian agricultural policy
24.9. Muhammad Kamrul Islam (UiB): The social capital and health hypothesis: An integrating theory and new empirics.
1.10. Katrine Vellesen Løken (UiB) disputation: Families and children's development: economic approaches
8.10. Astrid Drange Hole (HiB): How do economists differ from others in distributive situations? CANCELLED!
15.10. Farasat Bokhari (Kings College London): Entry in the ADHD drugs market: Welfare impact of generics and me-toos
22.10. Astrid Drange Hole (HiB): How do economists differ from others in distributive situations?
29.10. Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke (NTNU): Migration and dynamic agglomeration economies: Time-series evidence from Norway
12.11. Michael Rosholm (Aarhus): tba
19.11. Simen Markussen (Frisch): tba
26.11. Wilhelm Kohler (Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen): Offshoring Tasks, Yet Creating Jobs
03.12. Nina Drange (UiS): The Effect of Preschool on the School Performance of Children from Immigrant Families. Results from an Introduction of Free Preschool in Two Districts in Oslo.
10.12. No seminar
17.12. No seminar
Spring 2010
22.1. Rolf Aarberge (SSB): On the Measurement of Long-term Income Inequality and Income Mobility
29.1. Bjørn Olav Johansen (UiB): The impact of private labels on retail prices and welfare
5.2. Sigve Tjøtta (UiB): Climate Change Policy and Geoengineering
12.2. Ingeborg Foldøy Solli (UiS): The Impact of Paternity Leave on Father Involvement
19.2. Laurence Jacquet (NHH):Optimal Redistributive Taxation with both Extensive and
Intensive Responses
12.3. Carol Propper (University of Bristol): Does Market Power Kill: The impact of Competition on the English NHS
19.3. Ragnhild Balsvik (NHH) Foreign firms and host country productivity: does the mode of entry matter?
26.3. Wilma J Nusselder (Erasmus MC): Disability and free expected lifetime
16.4. Carsten Eckel (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg): tba
21.4. Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics): tba
23.4. Hartmut Egger (University of Bayreuth):Why foreign ownership is good for you
30.4. Cancelled! (Mukul Majumdar (Cornell University): Sustainable Consumption under Supply Uncertainty)
07.5. Cancelled! Klaus Desmet (Universidad Carlos III Madrid): Spatial Development
14.5. no seminar
21.5. Marcel Thum (Dresden): tba
Research seminars at the Department of Economics
Location: Seminar room 327, Department of Economics, 3rd floor. Entrance: Fosswinckels gate 14.
Time: 12.45 - 14.00
