Normative Economics and Economic Policy

Calendar of Webinars for Fall 2025

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 17, 2025 Aart Gerritsen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
5pm CET; 11am EST TBA

December 1, 2025 Franz Dietrich (Paris School of Economics)
5pm CET; 11am EST TBA

January 19, 2026 Bertil Tungodden (Norwegian School of Economics)
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

This webinar series is coorganized by Maya Eden and Paolo Piacquadio

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