Research

Department of Economics

The Department of Economics has a faculty whose interests cover major fields in economics, mathematics and statistics.

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Spring 2026

Date Speaker Affiliation Title
08/01/2026 Job market
12/01/2026 Job market
14/01/2026 Job market
16/01/2026 Job market
19/01/2026 Job market
22/01/2026 Job market
23/01/2026 Job market
26/01/2026 Job market
04/02/2026 Paul Muller Vrije U Amsterdam TBA
11/02/2026 Job market
18/02/2026 Winter break
25/02/2026 Arianna Ornaghi Hertie School TBA
04/03/2026 TBA
11/03/2026 Valerie Smeets Aarhus University TBA
18/03/2026 Nitya Pandalai Nayar University of Texas Austin TBA
25/03/2026 TBA
01/04/2026 Easter break
08/04/2026 Amalia Repele IIES TBA
15/04/2026 Aditya Kuvalekar University of Essex TBA
22/04/2026 Diogo Britto Bocconi University TBA
29/04/2026 Holger Spamann Harvard University TBA
06/05/2026 Fabrizio Leone Banca d'Italia TBA
13/05/2026 Luigi Pistaferri Stanford TBA
20/05/2026 Oscar Volpe Harvard University TBA
27/05/2026 TBA
03/06/2026 Roman Sustek Queen Mary University TBA
10/06/2026 Miren Azkarate-Askasua  University of Mannheim TBA

Previous seminars

2025

Fall

  • 20/08/2025: Yuan Zi, IHEID, "A Thirst for Silver: Trade Shocks and the Institutional Roots of Qing Decline in the Early Nineteenth Century”
  • 27/08/2025: Danial Lashkari, Princeton University, "Creative Destruction through Innovation Bursts". Read more here.
  • 03/09/2025: Laurence Go, University of Oslo, “Inattentive Citizens: Effect of Elections on Political Interest for Over Five Million Citizens Worldwide”
  • 10/09/2025: Rune Vejlin and Jesper Bagger, Aarhus University and University of Edinburgh, "Unpacking the Wage Sorting Trend"
  • 17/09/2025: Erik Öberg, Uppsala University, “Stimulus effects of common fiscal policies”
  • 24/09/2025: Camille Urvoy, University of Mannheim, "Political Bias in the Media: Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020"
  • 08/10/2025: Banu Demir, Oxford, "Plastic Turkey: International Impacts of China's Waste Import Ban”
  • 15/10/2025: Linh To, Boston University, "When Are Estimates Independent of Measurement Units?"
  • 22/10/2025: Kjell Salvanes, NHH, “Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming”
  • 29/10/2025: Etienne Guigue, LMU Munich, "Markups, Markdowns, and Bargaining in a Vertical Supply Chain”
  • 05/11/2025: Ingar Haaland, NHH, “News Customization with AI”
  • 12/11/2025: Sergio Galletta, ETH Zurich, "Political Influence During Childhood"
  • 19/11/2025: Matteo Paradisi, EIEF, “The Labor Demand Implications of Brand Capital: Evidence from Trademark Transactions”
  • 26/11/2025: Bård Harstad, Stanford GSB, “Contingent Trade Agreements”
  • 03/12/2025: Joana Naritomi, LSE, “Does Progressivity Raise Tax Capacity? Experimental Evidence from the D.R. Congo”
  • 10/12/2025: Christian Traeger, UiO

Spring

  • 15/01/2025: Job Market
  • 22/01/2025: Sebastian Seitz, University of Manchester, “Estimating the Moral Hazard Cost of Private Disability Insurance and its Welfare Consequences”
  • 28/01/2025: Job Market
  • 29/01/2025: Job Market
  • 12/02/2025: Giulia Vattuone, SOFI, Stockholm University, “Women in Top Academic Positions: Is There a Trickle-down Effect?"
  • 26/02/2025: Jens Wikstrom, University of Gothenburg, “Private Health Insurance under Universal Coverage: Balancing Efficiency and Equity”
  • 05/03/2025: Jinglun Yao, IIES, "Knowledge is (Market) Power"
  • 06/03/2025: Simon Mongey, FRB Minneapolis, “Pricing Inequality” 
  • 12/03/2025: Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota / UiO, "Fiscal Progressivity of the U.S. Federal and State Governments"
  • 19/03/2025: Axel Gottfries, University of Edinburgh, "Wage Fixing"
  • 26/03/2025: Naoki Aizawa, U Wisconsin - Madison, "Labor Unions and Social Insurance"
  • 02/04/2025: Margherita Borella, University of Torino, "Subjective Earnings and Employment Dynamics"
  • 09/04/2025: Carlo Schwarz, Bocconi, “Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia”
  • 23/04/2025: Jose P. Vasquez, LSE, "The Gains from Foreign Multinationals in an Economy with Distortions”
  • 30/04/2025: Isabel Micó Millán, Bank of Spain, “Inheritance Tax Avoidance through the Family Firm”
  • 06/05/2025: Joao Cocco, London Business School, “Lenders and Landlords in the Mortgage Market”
  • 14/05/2025: Joan Monras, UPF, CREI, BSE, “Floating Population: Migration with(out) Family and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity”
  • 21/05/2025: Magnus Irie, Princeton, “Innovations in Entrepreneurial Finance and Top Wealth Inequality“
  • 28/05/2025: Stephanie Ettmeier, University of Bonn, "Measuring the Effects of Aggregate Shocks on Unit-Level Outcomes and Their Distribution"
  • 04/06/2025: Sergio Salgado, Wharton School, UPenn, “Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy”
  • 11/06/2025: Arna Olafsson, Copenhagen Business School, “What Makes Depositors Tick? Bank Data Insights into Households' Liquid Asset Allocation”
  • 18/06/2025: Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago, “The negative income tax experiment 50 years later: What can we learn by accounting for attrition?”
2024

Spring

  • 24/01/2024: Johan Sæverud, University of Copenhagen, "The Impact of Social Security Eligibility and Pension Wealth on Retirement"
  • 31/01/2024: Max Kellogg, University of Oslo, "Family Trajectories and the Burden of Care in the Aftermath of Old-Age Health Shocks"
  • 07/02/2024: Carol Propper, Imperial College London, "The Effects of Pension Reforms on Physician Labour Supply: Evidence from the English NHS"
  • 14/02/2024: Jaakko Meriläinen, Stockholm School of Economics, "Long-Run Consequences of Propaganda in the Classroom"
  • 21/02/2024: Winter break
  • 28/02/2024: Maarten Janssen, University of Vienna, "Search Platforms: Big Data and Sponsored Positions"
  • 13/03/2024: Dimitris Korobilis, Adam Smith Business School of the University of Glasgow, "Agreed and Disagreed Uncertainty"
  • 20/03/2024: Elisabeth Pröhl, University of Amsterdam, "Existence and Uniqueness of Recursive Equilibria With Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk"
  • 17/04/2024: Carlo Prato, Columbia University, "Politics Transformed? Electoral Competition under Ranked Choice Voting"
  • 24/04/2024: Evgenia Passari, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, "The Origins of Commodity Price Fluctuations"
  • 08/05/2024: Mounu Prem, Einaudi Institute/Universidad del Rosario/Toulouse School of Economics, "Fear to vote: Explosions, Salience, and Elections"
  • 15/05/2024: Mikael Lindahl, University of Gothenburg, "Dynastic human capital, ethnic capital, and the intergenerational mobility of immigrants"
  • 22/05/2024: Andre Veiga, Imperial College, "Designing Incentives for Multitasking Agents: Evidence from Payments to English Physicians"
  • 29/05/2024: Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago, "Evaluating Recent Crackdowns on Disability Benefits: Effects on Household Income and Health Care Utilization in Australia"
  • 05/06/2024: Bradley Setzler, Pennsylvania State University, "Imperfect Competition and Rents in Labor and Product Markets: The Case of the Construction Industry"

Fall

  • 21/08/2024: Niklas Engbom, New York University, "Misallocative Growth"
  • 28/08/2024: Francesca Parodi, Cattolica University of Milan, "Heterogeneity in Household Spending and Well-being on Retirement"
  • 04/09/2024: Arpad Abraham, University of Bristol, "Optimal Income Redistribution"
  • 11/09/2024: Bas van der Klaauw, VU University Amsterdam, "A randomized experiment on improving job search skills of older unemployed workers"
  • 18/09/2024: Marcos Vera Hernandez, UCL, "Time Horizons and the Dynamic Effects of Cost-Sharing in Medical Care: Evidence from Colombia"
  • 25/09/2024: David Seim, Stockholm University, "Deadwood Labor? The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection for Older Workers"
  • 09/10/2024: Gianmarco Daniele, University of Milan, "Mafia, Politics and Machine Predictions"
  • 16/10/2024: George Hendrikse, Rotterdam School of Management, "To Light a Candle is to Cast a Shadow, Governance of enterprises from an Attention Perspective"
  • 23/10/2024: Guillermo Toral, IE University Madrid, "Street-Level Rule of Law: Prosecutor Presence and the Fight against Corruption"
  • 30/10/2024: Amanda Dahlstrand, University of Zurich, "Online versus In-Person Services: Effects on Patients and Providers"
  • 06/11/2024: Sara Casella, LUISS, EIEF, "Women's Labor Force Participation and the Business Cycle"
  • 13/11/2024: Valerie Smeets, Aarhus, "Human Capital and Labor Market Shocks in the Modern Economy"
  • 27/11/2024: Lukas Freund, Columbia, "Superstar Teams"
  • 11/12/2024: Vincent Sterk, UCL, "Optimal Monetary Policy during a Cost-of-Living Crisis"
  • 18/12/2024: Pietro Garibaldi, University of Torino, "Monopsony in Growth Theory"
2023

Spring

  • 11/01/2023: Jeanne Commault, Sciences Po, "How Do Persistent Earnings Affect the Response of Consumption to Transitory Shocks?"
  • 18/01/2023: Ciaran Rogers, IIES Stockholm University/Paris, "Risky Insurance: Life-cycle Insurance Portfolio Choice with Incomplete Markets"
  • 25/01/2023: Andreas Kotsadam, Frisch Centre, "Peer effects on authoritarianism – Evidence from the Norwegian Armed Forces"
  • 01/02/2023: Ingrid Haegele, LMU Munich, "The Broken Rung: Gender and the Leadership Gap"
  • 15/02/2023: Anna Picco, Sveriges Riksbank, "Financial Constraints without Binding Borrowing Constraints"
  • 01/03/2023: Mathias Klein, Sveriges Riksbank, "The Political Costs of Austerity"
  • 08/03/2023: Christopher Busch, LMU Munich, "Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects"
  • 15/03/2023: Olle Folke, Uppsala University, "The Class Ceiling in Politics"
  • 22/03/2023: Gonzalo Paz Pardo, European Central Bank, "The Aggregate and Distributional Implications of Credit Shocks on Housing and Rental Markets"
  • 29/03/2023: Martin Weidner, University of Oxford, "Moment Conditions for Dynamic Panel Logit Models with Fixed Effects"
  • 12/04/2023: Alàïs Martin-Baillon, University of Copenhagen / NYU Abu Dhabi, "When should we tax firms? Optimal corporate taxation with firm heterogeneity"
  • 03/05/2023: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University, "Why Are Returns to Wealth so Dispersed"
  • 10/05/2023: Denni Tommasi, University of Bologna, "Street Food Safety in Urban Markets"
  • 17/05/2023: CONSTITUTION DAY.
  • 24/05/2023: Peter M. Morrow, University of Toronto, "The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement"
  • 01/06/2023: Dario Caldara, Fed Board, "The International Spillovers of Synchronous Monetary Tightening"
  • 14/06/2023: Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania, "On the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Earnings and Consumption Heterogeneity"
  • 21/06/2023: Sydnee Caldwell, UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, "Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market"

Fall

  • 23/08/2023: Christiane Szerman, London School of Economics and Political Science/University College London, "The Labor Market Effects of Disability Hiring Quotas"
  • 30/08/2023: Andrea Weber, Central European University, "Do Politicians Affect Firm Outcomes?"
  • 06/09/2023: Johannes Spinnewijn, London School of Economics and Political Science, "The Chronic Condition Index: Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle"
  • 13/09/2023: Stefan Robert Helge Hinkelmann, Stockholms Universitet, "(Be-)Coming Clean: A Model of the U.S. Energy Transition"
  • 20/09/2023: Jonas Hjort, University College London/University of Oslo, "Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies"
  • 27/09/2023: Marta Prato, Yale/Bocconi University, "Career Choice of Entrepreneurs and the Rise of 'Smart' Firms"
  • 11/10/2023: Giulia Giupponi, Bocconi University, "Forward-Looking Labor Supply Responses to Changes in Pension Wealth: Evidence from Germany"
  • 18/10/2023: L. Rachel Ngai, London School of Economics and Political Science, "Structural Transformation over 150 years of Women's and Men's Work"
  • 01/11/2023: Isaac Baley, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, "Self-insurance in Turbulent Labor Markets"
  • 08/11/2023: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan, "Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students"
  • 22/11/2023: Maria Balgova, IZA, Bonn, "Firm Concentration & Job Design: The Case of Schedule Flexible Work Arrangements"
  • 29/11/2023: Edwin Leuven, University of Oslo, "Minority penalty in holistic college admission"
  • 13/12/2023: Alexander Popov, European Central Bank, "Out with the New, In with the Old? Bank Supervision and the Composition of Firm Investment"
2022

Spring

  • 09.03.2022: Torben Heien Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, "Causal Effects of Early Career Sorting on Labor and Marriage Market Choices: A Foundation for Gender Disparities and Norms."
  • 14.03.2022: Jeffrey Wooldridge, Michigan State University, "Two-Way Fixed Effects, the Two-Way Mundlak Regression, and Difference-in-Differences Estimators."
  • 23.03.2022: Ivan Ivanov, Federal Reserve, "Fighting Failure: The Persistent Real Effects of Resolving Distressed Banks."
  • 30.03.2022: Rustam Jamilov, University of Oxford, "The Spending Effects of Dividend Tax News Shocks."
  • 06.04.2022: Øyvind Aas, Kristiania University College, "Zigzags on The Road to The Top: Matching with Leadership Spillovers in College Football."
  • 20.04.2022: Kurt Mitman, IIES, "Why does capital flow from equal to unequal countries."
  • 27.04.2022: Gustavo De Souza, IIES/Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, "The Labor Market Consequences of Appropriate Technology."
  • 04.05.2022: Jose Pablo Vasquez, London School of Economics, "Trade with Nominal Rigidities: Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock."
  • 11.05.2022: Frederic Warzynski, Aarhus University, "Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization."
  • 18.05.2022: Denis Gorea, Danmarks Nationalbank, "Why Are Returns to Private Business Wealth So Dispersed?"
  • 25.05.2022: Yoko Okuyama, Uppsala University, "Electoral institutions, women's representation, and policy outcomes."
  • 01.06.2022: Christopher Roth, University of Cologne, "Narratives about the Macroeconomy."
  • 15.06.2022: Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "The Anatomy of Sorting – Evidence from Danish Data."

Fall

  • 24.08.2022: Yoosoon Chang, Indiana University, "The Effects of Economic Shocks on Heterogeneous Inflation Expectations."
  • 31.08.2022: Andreas Fuster, Swiss Finance Institute, "A Diverse Fed Can Reach Underrepresented Groups."
  • 07.09.2022: Kenichi Shimizu, University of Glasgow, "Semiparametric Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models."
  • 14.09.2022: Emil Temnyalov, UCT Sydney, "Organizational Structure and Differential Treatment."
  • 21.09.2022: Etienne Lehmann, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, CRED, "How to Tax Different Incomes?"
  • 28.09.2022: David Schonholzer, IIES, "School Capital Expenditure Rules, Student Outcomes, and Real Estate Capitalization."
  • 12.10.2022: Thomas Tangerås, IFN, "Incentives for Network Owners to Restrict Trade in an International Electricity Market."
  • 19.10.2022: Anastasia Girshina, Stockholm School of Economics, "Why Women Earn Lower Real Estate Returns."
  • 26.10.2022: Clara Martínez-Toledano, Imperial College Business School, "House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality, and Portfolio Reshuffling."
  • 28.10.2022: Abel Brodeur, University of Ottawa, "Unpacking P-Hacking and Publication Bias."
  • 02.11.2022: Neelam Jain, City University London, "Estimating Cost Functions in Differentiated Product Oligopoly Models Without Instrument."
  • 16.11.2022: Silvia Sarpietro, University of Bologna, "Individual Forecast Weighting."
  • 30.11.2022: Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics, "On the Optimal Design of Transfers and Income-Tax Progressivity."
  • 07.12.2022: Matthias Doepke, Northwestern/LSE, "Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills."
2021

Spring

  • 06/01/2021: Heidi Thysen, London School of Economics, "Equilibrium Contracts and Boundedly Rational Expectations"
  • 13/01/2021: Vania Stavrakeva, London Business School, "Deviations from FIRE and Exchange Rates: AGE Theory of Supply and Demand"
  • 19/01/2021: Christopher Tonetti, Stanford GSB, NA
  • 27/01/2021: Jesse Shapiro, Brown University, "Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills: Theory and Evidence from Sweden”
  • 03/02/2021: Matthew Rognlie, Northwestern University, "Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: Resurrecting the Real Income Channel"
  • 17/02/2021: Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University, "The Worker Job Surplus"
  • 03/03/2021: Ragnhild Schreiner, University of Oslo, "Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets"
  • 10/03/2021: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University, "The 2000s Housing Cycle With 2020 Hindsight: A Neo-Kindlebergerian View"
  • 17/03/2021: Elliott Ash, ETH Zürich, "Media Slant is Contagious"
  • 24/03/2021: Morten Olsen, University of Copenhagen, "The dynamics of labor share: evidence from Danish microdata"
  • 07/04/2021: Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota, "The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development"
  • 14/04/2021: Philippe Goulet Coulombe, University of Pennsylvania, "The Macroeconomy as a Random Forest"
  • 21/04/2021: Luigi Bocola, Stanford University, "Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity"
  • 28/04/2021: André Seidel, University of Bergen, "A global map of Amenities: Public Goods, Ethnic Divisions and Decentralization"
  • 05/05/2021: Mark Aguiar, Princeton University, "Micro Risks and Pareto Improving Policies with Low Interest Rates"
  • 12/05/2021: Melissa Dell, Harvard University, NA
  • 19/05/2021: Lena Hensvik, Uppsala University, "Spousal earnings and household dynamics: Evidence from a promotion reform”
  • 26/05/2021: Matti Sarvimäki, Aalto University, "The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway's 1936 School Reform"
  • 09/06/2021: Corina Boar, New York University, "Occupational Choice and the Intergenerational Mobility of Welfare"
  • 16/06/2021: Daniel Hauser, Aalto University, "Misinterpreting Social Outcomes and Information Campaigns"

Fall

    • 25/08/2021: Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago, "How Americans Respond to Idiosyncratic and Exogenous Changes in Household Wealth and Unearned Income"
    • 01/09/2021: Martin E. Andresen, Statistics Norway, "What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same-Sex Couples"
    • 17/09/2021: Tommaso Monacelli, Bocconi, "Bewley Banks"
    • 22/09/2021: Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois, "Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the Covid Labor Market"
    • 29/09/2021: Jonas Cederlöf, University of Edinburgh, "Reconsidering the Cost of Job Loss: Evidence from Redundancies and Mass Layoffs"
    • 06/10/2021: Fall Break
    • 13/10/2021: Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin, "The Comparative Statics of Sorting"
    • 20/10/2021: Nina Bobkova, Rice University, "Local Evidence and Diversity in Minipublics"
    • 27/10/2021: Dimitris Korobilis, University of Glasgow, "A new algorithm for sign restrictions in vector autoregressions"
    • 03/11/2021: Quentin Lippmann, University of Essex, "Gender and Lawmaking in Times of Quotas"
    • 10/11/2021: Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto, "Serial Entrepreneurship in China"
    • 12/11/2021: George Kapetanios, King’s College London, "Interpretability of machine learning models for asset pricing"
    • 17/11/2021: Bertil Tungodden, NHH, "Fairness across the world: Preferences and beliefs"
    • 24/11/2021: Benjamin Wong, Monash University, "Random Subspace Local Projections"
    • 01/12/2021: Lorenzo Lagos, Brown University, "Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Create Female-Friendly Jobs"
    • 07/12/2021: Moritz Kuhn, University of Bonn, "Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality"