Department of Economics

Spring

• 8, 12, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23 and 26 January 2026: Job Market
• 04/02/2026: Paul Muller, Vrije U Amsterdam, “Measuring and Decomposing the Gender Gap in Wage Negotiations: Evidence from Expatriates in the Netherlands”
• 11/02/2026: Job market
• 25/02/2026: Arianna Ornaghi, Hertie School,  "Media Consolidation"
• 11/03/2026: Valierie Smeets, Aarhus University, “High-Skill Immigration, Offshore R&D, and Firm Dynamics”
• 20/03/2026: Era Dabla-Norris, IMF, "Perceptions of Public Debt and Policy Expectations: Evidence from Cross Country Surveys”
• 25/03/2026: Fabrizio Leone, Banca d'Italia, “The Impact of Trade Wars on Firms in Third Countries”
• 08/04/2026: Amalia Repele, IIES, “Wealth Sorting and Cyclical Employment Risk, abstract below”
• 15/04/2026: Nathan Hancart, University in Oslo (UiO), "Selection Procedures in Competitive Admission"
• 22/04/2026: Diogo Britto, Bocconi University, “Parenthood and Productivity"
• 29/04/2026: Holger Spamann, Harvard University, "Shareholder Rights and the Bargaining Structure in Control Transactions”
• 06/05/2026: Nitya Pandalai Nayar, University of Texas Austin, “Supply Chain Resilience, Trade and Economic Fragility”
• 13/05/2026: Marius Brülhart, HEC Lausanne, "The Output Cost of Inheritance"
• 20/05/2026: Oscar Volpe, Harvard University, "Job Preferences, Labor Market Power, and Inequality"
• 27/05/2026: Philipp Grübener, Washington University in St. Louis, “Firm Dynamics and Earnings Risk”
• 03/06/2026: Roman Sustek, Queen Mary University, "Global House Prices since 1950"
• 10/06/2026: Miren Azkarate-Askasua, University of Mannheim, "Home Bias and the Gender Wage Gap"
• 17/06/2026: Toshihiro Okubo, Keio University, "AI and the Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from a Panel across the Generative-AI Era"

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?”

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"

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"

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."

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"