Normative Economics and Economic Policy

September 8, 2025 Paolo Piacquadio (University of St. Gallen)
5pm CET;  11am EST Intergenerational Population Ethics

September 22, 2025 Ingela Alger (Toulouse School of Economics)
5pm CET;  11am EST Norms and norm change - driven by social Kantian preferences 

October 6, 2025 Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics)
5pm CET;  11am EST Welfare and Replaceability

October 20, 2025 Kristof Bosmans (University of Maastricht)
5pm CET;  11am EST Multidimensional welfare and inequality: we need to talk about efficiency 

November 3, 2025 Aaron Payne (University of Pennsylvania)
5pm CET;  11am EST Income-Based Fines: Evaluating Rationales for Finnish Speeding Penalties 

November 17, 2025 Aart Gerritsen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
5pm CET;  11am EST To redistribute or to predistribute? The minimum wage versus income taxation when workers differ in both wages and working hours 

December 1, 2025 Franz Dietrich (Paris School of Economics)
5pm CET;  11am EST What are Social Norms? 

December 8, 2025 Matt Adler (Duke University)
5pm CET;  11am EST Pigou-Dalton and Separability:  Is Equity-Regarding Moral Betterness Separable across Persons? 

January 19, 2026 Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics)
5pm CET;  11am EST TBA

February 16, 2026 Paul Hufe (University of Bristol)
5pm CET;  11am EST TBA

February 3, 2025 Ran Shorrer (Penn State University)
5pm CET;  11am EST Consistent Indices

 February 17, 2025 Manuel Macera (University Torcuato Di Tella)
5pm CET;  11am EST The Social Discount Rate with Demographic Changes

March 10, 2025 Kevin Kuruc (University of Texas at Austin)
5pm CET;  12pm EDT Pareto for Pigs and Puppies?  

March 17, 2025 Sue Mialon (Emory University)
4pm CET;  11am EDT Economic Analysis of Abortion Restrictions

March 31, 2025 Yannai Gonczarowski (Princeton University)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Quantifying Inefficiency  

April 14, 2025 Gabriel Carroll (University of Toronto)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Is Equal Opportunity Different from Welfarism?

April 28, 2025 Benoit Decerf (World Bank)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT An axiomatic theory of simple welfare indices

May 12, 2025 Xavier Ragot (Sciences Po)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT From Homo Economicus To Homo Moralis: An aggregation theory of the Social Welfare Function

September 16, 2024 Charles Manski (Northwestern University)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality: with Focus on Discrete Choice 

 September 30, 2024 Loren Fryxell (University of Oxford)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT An Economic Theory of Criminal and Civil Law

October 14, 2024 Szilvia Papai (Concordia University)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Affirmative Action Policies in School Choice: Immediate versus Deferred Acceptance.

October 28, 2024 Richard Tol (University of Sussex)
5pm CET;  12pm EDT Endogenous population and the social cost of carbon

November11, 2024 Sandro Ambühl (University of Zurich)
5pm CET;  11am EST Interventionist Preferences and the Welfare State: The Case of In-Kind Nutrition Assistance

November 25, 2024 Laurence Kranich (University of Albany)
5pm CET;  11am EST Fair allocation of functionings

December 9, 2024 Jacob Nebel (Princeton University)
5pm CET;  11am EST Welfare Reflections: On Duality Conditions for Social Welfare Evaluation

January 15, 2024 Hendrik Rommeswinkel (Waseda University)
5pm CET;  11am EST Preference for Verifiability

 January 29, 2024 Peter Wakker (Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT The Prettiest Axiomatization of Normative Discounted Expected Utility, the Deceptive Beauty of Monotonicity, and the Million-Dollar Question: Row-First or Column-First

February 12, 2024 James Hammitt (Harvard University)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Fair Innings: an empirical test

February 26, 2024 Kristoffer Berg (University of Oxford)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Meritocratic Labor Income Taxation

March 11, 2024 Maya Eden (Brandeis University)
5pm CET;  12pm EST The irrelevance of intergenerational altruism for social discounting

March 25, 2024 Kaname Miyagishima (Aoyama Gakuin University)
5pm CET;  11am EST - Postponed -  

April 8, 2024 Geir Asheim (University of Oslo)
5pm CET;  11am EST Evaluating intergenerational consequences by the Pareto principle: efficiency when future identities are unobservable

April 22, 2024 Frikk Nesje (University of Copenhagen)
5pm CEST;  11am EDT Intergenerational discounting and inequality

May 6, 2024 Ernesto Perez (University of Navarra)
5pm CET;  11am EST Disinterested morality in non-cooperative games

May 20, 2024 David Baqaee (UCLA)
5pm CET;  11am EST A Sufficient Statistics Approach to Measuring Forward-Looking Welfare