Past Seminars

Tuesday, June 11, 12.15-13.30. Melika Liporace (Tilburg University) - Persuasion in Random Networks.

Thursday, May 30, 12.15-13.30. Joonseok Oh (University of Southampton) - Macro Uncertainty, Unemployment Risk, and Consumption Dynamics (with Anna Rogantini Picco).

Tuesday, May 28, 12.15-13.30. Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim) - Optimal Merger Remedies (with Andrew Rhodes).

Tuesday, May 21, 12.15-13.30. Luisa Fuster (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) - Occupation Polarization and Inequality (with Andrés Erosa, Gueorgui Kambourov, and Richard Rogerson).  

Tuesday, May 14, 12.15-13.30. Fabien Petit (University College London) - The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies.

Tuesday, May 7, 12.15-13.30. Kaustav Das (University of Leicester) - Strategic Disclosure in Research Races (with Kalyan Chatterjee and Miaomiao Dong).

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. 

Tuesday, April 16, 12.15-13.30. Peter Achim (University of York) - The Hidden Cost of Cheap Advice (with Bojia Li).

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).

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, 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).

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 5, 12.15-13.30. Fabian Herweg (University of Bayreuth) - Do Zombies Rise when Interest Rates Fall? A Relationship Banking Model  (with Maximilian Kähny).

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).

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).

Tuesday, February 6, 12.15-13.30. Clément Staner (ECARES, Université libre de Bruxelles) - Frustration and Personal Motivation.

Thursday, February 1, 12.15-13.30.  Vasundhara Mallick  (Pennsylvania State University) -How Markets Disrupt Mediated Trade (Online). 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.

Tuesday, January 23, 12.15-13.30. Sofía Ruiz Palazuelos (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) - Network perception in network games. 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 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, 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, November 28, 12.00-13.15. Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University) -Inequality and Measured Growth.

Tuesday, November 21, 12.15-13.30. Ricardo Ribeiro (Católica Porto Business School) - Estimating Oligopoly with Shareholder Voting Models (with J. Azar).

Thursday, November 16, 12.15-13.30. Vasia Panousi (Université de Montreal) - Investment risk and financial integration.

Tuesday, November 14, 12.15-13.30. Luigi Iovino (Bocconi University) - Corporate Taxation and Carbon Emissions (with T. Martin and J. Sauvagnat).

Monday, November 13, 12.15-13.30. Elisa Cavatorta (King's College) - Revealing the Space for a Peace Agreement between Parties in Conflict.

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).

Tuesday, November 7, 12.15-13.30. Pablo Brañas (Universidad Loyola Andalucía) - Developmental Meritocracy (with Isabelle Brocas and Juan Carrillo).

Tuesday, October 24, 12.15-13.30. Céline Poilly (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) - Fiscal multipliers during disasters (with Dallal Bendjellal and Andreas Dibiasi). 

Tuesday, October 17, 12.15-13.30. Maxim Senkov (Prigo University, Czech Republic) - Setting Interim Deadlines to Persuade (with Yiman Sun). 

Tuesday, October 10, 12.15-13.30. Martí Mestieri (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Heterothetic Cobb Douglas: An Application to Economic Growth.

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, June 6, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Ákos Valentinyi (University of Manchester) -  New Evidence on Sectoral Labor Productivity: Implications for Industrialization and Development (with Berthold Herrendorf and Richard Rogerson).

Tuesday, May 30, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Giovanni Immordino (University of Naples Federico II) - From chance to choice: the economics of human enhancement.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 12.15-13.30.  Malin Arve (Norwegian School of Economics - NHH) - Procurement auctions for long-term projects with uncertain add-ons (with David Martimort).

Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Klaus Prettner (Vienna University of Economics and Business) - Medical innovation, life expectancy, and economic growth. 

Tuesday, May 9, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Carlos Garriga (St. Louis FED)  - Amazon HQ2: A Tale of Shocks to Housing Price Expectations. 

Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 12.15-13.30.  Felix Wellschmied (University Carlos III, Madrid) - Geographic mobility over the life cycle.

Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 12.15-13.30.  Igor Letina (University of Bern) -  Research Joint Ventures: The Role of Financial Constraints (with Philipp Brunner and Armin Schmutzler).

Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Rafael Costa Lima (Universidade Federal del Pernambuco) - Infinitely repeated cheap-talk: From information to  influence (with Paulo Melo-Filho).  

Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Axel Gautier (from  HEC Liege, University of Liege) -The Energy Community and the Grid (with Julien Jacqmin and Jean-Christophe Poudou).

Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Priit Jeenas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Government Procurement and Access to Credit: Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Implications (with Julian di Giovanni, Manuel García-Santana, Enrique Moral-Benito and Josep Pijoan-Mas).

Thursday, March 2, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Natalia Valdez-Gonzalez (Texax A&M) - Social stigma and subsequent competitive behavior (with Marco A. Palma and Alexander L. Brown).

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI) - Macroeconomic Development,  Rural Exodus, and Uneven Industrialization (with Tomás Budí Ors).

Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Vladimir Asriyan (CREi and Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Security Design in Non-Exclusive Markets with Asymmetric Information (with Victoria Vanasco).

Thursday, February 9, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Xincheng Qiu (University of Pennsylvania) - Vacant Jobs. 

Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Frederik Bjorn Christensen (Copenhagen Business School) - Improving Welfare by Public Education.

Thursday, January 26, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Goonj Mohan (Bocconi University) - The Data Economy and Polarization on Social Media.

Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Boris Knapp (University of Vienna) - Fake Reviews and Naive Consumers.

Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Eliza Stenzhorn (University of Bremen)- Lock-In Effects in Online Labor Markets. 

Friday, January 20, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Lidia Cruces Souza (Universidad Carlos III)- A Quantitative Theory of the New Life Cycle of Women's Employment.

Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Daniel Martins de Almeida Barreto (Science Po) - Price Discrimination with Redistributive Concerns.

Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Konuray Mutluer (European University Institute) - Leading by Example Among Equals.

Monday, January 16, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Tim Dominik Maurer (Copenhagen Business School) - Population Aging, Public Finances, and Alternatives for Retirement Reform.

Thursday, January 12, 2023, 12.15-13.30. David Puig (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - Taste for Variety: An Intertemporal Choice Model.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 12.15-13.30. Pablo Soto-Mota (Norwegian School of Economics) - Dishonesty at the doctor's office: What influences patients' disclosure of accurate information?  

Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 15.00-16.15. Ernesto Maria Gavassa Perez (University of Nottingham) - Moral Rules and Social Preferences in Cooperation Problems. 

Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Guillem Roig (Universidad del Rosario) - Sharing Bad News with Rivals.

Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Cecilia Garcia Peñalosa (Aix Marseille School of Economics) - The dynamics of Lifetime Earnings in France.

Tuesday, November 22, 2022, 12.15-13.30.  Marek Ignaszak (Goethe University Frankfurt) - Customer Acquisition, Business Dynamism and Aggregate Growth.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Marcel Peruffo (ECB and University of Sydney) - Secular Drivers of the Natural Rate of Interest in the US: A Quantitative Evaluation.

Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Tiago Cavalcanti (University of Cambridge) - A City of God: Afterlife Beliefs and Job Support in Brazil.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Elisa Giannone (UPF, CREI) - Unpacking moving.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Guido Friebel (Goethe University in Frankfurt) - Is This Really Kneaded? Ask the Manager! A Large-scale Trial on the Effects of Paperwork Reduction. 

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Pau Belda i Tortosa (UAB and BSE) - Capital Gains Taxation and Asset Price Cycles. 

Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Alexander Frug (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) - A theory of front-line management.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 12.15-13.30. Alessandro Ruggieri (University of Nottingham)- Firm Policies and the Labor Market in Developing Countries.