Universitat de Barcelona - Economic Theory Seminars
Seminars of the Section of Economic Theory at the Department of Economics - Universitat de Barcelona
Academic Year 2023-24
Unless otherwise specified, all seminars take place in room 2302 (Avinguda Diagonal 696)
Upcoming Seminars
Tuesday, May 7, 12.15-13.30. Kaustav Das (University of Leicester): "Strategic Disclosure in Research Races" (with Kalyan Chatterjee and Miaomiao Dong).
Tuesday, May 14, 12.15-13.30. Fabien Petit (University College London): "The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies".
Past Seminars
Tuesday, October 3, 12.15-13.30. Massimo Motta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Self-preferencing and foreclosure in digital markets: theories of harm for abuse cases".
Tuesday, October 10, 12.15-13.30. Martí Mestieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Heterothetic Cobb Douglas: An Application to Economic Growth"
Tuesday, October 17, 12.15-13.30. Maxim Senkov (Prigo University, Czech Republic): "Setting Interim Deadlines to Persuade" (with Yiman Sun (CERGE-EI))
Tuesday, October 24, 12.15-13.30. Céline Poilly (Aix-Marseille School of Economics): "Fiscal multipliers during disasters" with Dallal Bendjellal (IMF) and Andreas Dibiasi (University of Bozen).
Tuesday, November 7, 12.15-13.30. Pablo Brañas (Universidad Loyola Andalucía): "Developmental Meritocracy" (with Isabelle Brocas and Juan Carrillo).
Thursday, November 9, 12.15-13.30. Eduardo Ferraz (Universidad del Rosario). "Widening Research Direction: Optimal Academia Incentives in R&D Competition" with Guillem Roig.
Monday, November 13, 12.15-13.30. Elisa Cavatorta (King's College): "Revealing the Space for a Peace Agreement between Parties in Conflict".
Tuesday, November 14, 12.15-13.30. Luigi Iovino (Bocconi University): "Corporate Taxation and Carbon Emissions" with T. Martin and J. Sauvagnat.
Thursday, November 16, 12.15-13.30. Vasia Panousi (Université de Montreal). "Investment risk and financial integration".
Tuesday, November 21, 12.15-13.30. Ricardo Ribeiro (Católica Porto Business School): "Estimating Oligopoly with Shareholder Voting Models", with J. Azar.
Tuesday, November 28, 12.00-13.15. Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University): "Inequality and Measured Growth".
Tuesday, December 12, 12.15-13.30. Juan Carlos Conesa (State University of New York at Stony Brook ): "The cost of trade disruptions at different stages of development”, with M. Delventhal, P. Pujolas, and G. Raveendranathan
Tuesday, January 9, 12.15-13.30. Miguel Risco (Bonn Graduate School of Economics): "Feed for good? On the effects of personalization algorithms in social platforms", with M. Lleonart. Recruitment seminar.
Tuesday, January 16, 12.15-13.30. Qianshuo Liu (Esade Business School): "Performance Evaluation and Collaboration Matching between Industry and Academic". Recruitment seminar.
Tuesday, January 23, 12.15-13.30. Sofía Ruiz Palazuelos (Aix-Marseille School of Economics): "Network perception in network games". Recruitment seminar.
Tuesday, January 30, 12.15-13.30. Jacopo Gambato (University of Mannheim): "Consumer Search and Firm Strategy with Multi-Attribute Products ". Recruitment seminar.
Thursday, February 1, 12.15-13.30. Vasundhara Mallick (Pennsylvania State University): "How Markets Disrupt Mediated Trade " (Online). Recruitment seminar.
Tuesday, February 6, 12.15-13.30. Clément Staner (ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles): "Frustration and Personal Motivation ".
Tuesday, February 20, 12.15-13.30. Carlos Urrutia (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México): "Informality, Tax Distortions, and the Cyclicality of Fiscal Policy" , with Tiago Tavares (ITAM).
Tuesday, February 27, 12.15-13.30. Rosa Ferrer (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Adversarial Career Concerns: Trial Lawyers' Effort Incentives and other Applications", with Danisz Okulicz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology )
Tuesday, March 5, 12.15-13.30. Fabian Herweg (University of Bayreuth): "Do Zombies Rise when Interest Rates Fall? A Relationship Banking Model", with Maximilian Kähny (University of Bayreuth).
Wednesday, March 6, 12.15-13.30. Timothy J. Kehoe (University of Minnesota): "Default and Interest Rate Shocks: Renegotiation Matters", with Victor Almeida, Carlos Esquivel, and Juan Pablo Nicolini.
Tuesday, March 12, 12.15-13.30. Jaume Ventura (CREI, Universitat Pompeu Fabra): "Fixed costs, product heterogeneity and the force of competition", with Vladimir Asriyan, Alberto Martin, and Maria Ptashkina.
Thursday, March 14, 12.15-13.30. Mark Aguiar (Princeton University): "Micro Risks and (Robust) Pareto Improving Policies", with Manuel Amador and Cristina Arellano.
Tuesday, April 9, 12.15-13.30. Andrea Chiavari (Oxford University): "Climate Change, Firms, and Aggregate Productivity", with Andrea Caggese, Sampreet Goraya, and Carolina Villegas-Sanchez).
Tuesday, April 16, 12.15-13.30. Peter Achim (University of York): "The Hidden Cost of Cheap Advice", with Bojia Li.
Tuesday, April 30, 12.15-13.30. Sevi Rodriguez-Mora (Cunef and the University of Edinburgh): "The Role of Industries in Rising Inequality" and "The Role of Geography in Determining the Inequality between Italians".
Questions?
Contact aledechiara at ub.edu or marc.teignier at ub.edu for information