Section of Economic Theory Seminars

Academic Year 2025-26

Unless otherwise specified, all seminars take place in room 2302 (Avinguda Diagonal 696)

from 12.15 to 13.30

Thursday Seminars

Thursday, October 2. Artashes Karapetyan (ESSEC Business School) - "More Data, More Credit? Information Sharing and Bank Credit to Households" (with Tamas Briglevics, Steven Ongena, and Ibolya Schindele)
Thursday, October 9. Eduard Gracia Rodriguez (UB) - "Follow the Median: Revisiting Rationality, Bubbles and Cycles"
Thursday, October 16. Sandro Shelegia (UPF) - "Ranking algorithms, learning, and pricing" (with Heski Bar-Isaac)
Thursday, October 23, Goonj Mohan (UB) - "Voluntary disclosure location and price choice in a hotelling model"
Thursday, October 30. Mikhail Drugov (UAB) - "Tournaments with a Standard" (joint with Dmitry Ryvkin and Jun Zhang)
Thursday, November 6. Hugo Reichardt (CREi) - "Task-Specific Technical Change and Comparative Advantage."
Thursday, November 13. Kemal Kıvanç Aköz (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) - "Inclusive Networks."
Thursday, November 20, Asier Mariscal (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) -TBA
Thursday, December 4, Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira (FGV) - TBA
Thursday, December 11, Dmitry Orlov (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - TBA
Thursday, December 18, Celine Poilly (AMSE, Aix-Marseille University) - TBA
Thursday, Aprial 9, Joan Costa-i-Font (LSE) - "How narratives and conversations shape Inequality preferences in times of change"
Thursday, April 16. Marta Serra-Garcia (UC San Diego) - TBA
Thursday, May 21. Tatevik Seghposyan (Texas A&M University) - TBA

Past Internal Seminars

Thursday, June 5, 2025. Marcel Peruffo (University of Sydney) - Cash Transfer Policies in Developing Countries: Universal or Targeted?.
Monday, June 2, 2025. André Victor D. Luduvice (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland) - Optimal Fiscal Reform with Many Taxes.
Thursday, May 29, 2025. Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University) - Social Structure, State Capacity and Economic Activity.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Shubhranshu Singh (Johns Hopkins Carey Business School) - Infrastructure Investment with Public and Private Product Development.
Thursday, May 22, 2025. Montse Vilalta (University of Barcelona) A new measure of assortative matching.
Thursday, May 15, 2025. José Azar (University of Navarra, School of Economics and Business and IESE Business School) - Labor market power in Spain.
Thursday, May 8, 2025. Caio Lorecchio (University of Barcelona) - Multilateral Bargaining with Information Spillovers.
Thursday, March 27, 2025. Marcela Eslava (Universidad de Los Andes) - Jobless Industrialization.
Thursday, March 20, 2025. Daniel Cardona (Universitat de les Illes Balears) - One-dimensional policy contests.
Thursday, February 20, 2025. Qianshuo Liu (University of Barcelona) - From Rivals to Allies? CEO Connections in an Era of Common Ownership.
Thursday, December 19, 2024, Marc de la Barrera (MIT) - Firm and Worker Dynamics with Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity.
Thursday, November 28, 2024. Natalia Valdez Gonzalez (University of Barcelona) - Transparency as a tool for promoting productivity.
Thursday, November 14, 2024. Eugènia Gonzalez-Aguado (Toulouse School of Economics) - Labor mobility over the business cycle (with Begona Dominguez).
Thursday, October 17, 2024. Caio Lorecchio (University of Barcelona) - Information Acquisition in Deliberative Democracies (with Oriol Tejada from University of Barcelona and Gerard Domenèch-Gironell from University of Padova).
Thursday, October 10, 2024. Pedro Gomis-Porqueras (Queensland University of Technology) - U.S. Dollar Swap Lines and QE: Implications for a Small Open Economy (with Begona Dominguez).
Thursday, March 7, 2024. Goonj Mohan (Universitat de Barcelona) - Regulating a Social Media Platform in the Data Economy.
Thursday, February 22, 2024. Wilma Ticona (Universitat de Barcelona) - Demographic Transition, TFP Growth Slowdown, and Structural Change.
Thursday, January 25, 2024. F. Javier Rodriguez Roman (Universitat de Barcelona) - Cash transfers and fertility: from short to long run.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023. Victor Ortego (University of California Riverside) - Home Construction Financing, Search Frictions and the Housing Market.
Thursday, October 5, 2023. Jaime Alonso (Universidade de Vigo) - Sectoral markups, capital-labor substitution and structural change.
Thursday, May 11, 2023. Bruno Delalibera (Universitat de Barcelona) - Social Security Reform, Retirement and Sectoral Decisions.
Thursday, May 4, 2023. Ricardo Gonzalez-Aguila (Universitat de Barcelona) - Currency misalignment and resource misallocation. Evidence from Cuba.
Thursday, April 27, 2023. Haomin Wang (University of Konstanz) - Gendered Effects of the Minimum Wage.
Thursday, March 23, 2023. Dimitrios Xefteris (Universitat de Barcelona) - Weighting Votes.
Thursday, March 16, 2023. Leo Kaas (Goethe Frankfurt University) - Labor and Wealth Dynamics in Equilibrium.
Tuesday, 14 June 2022. Caio Lorecchio (Universitat de Barcelona) - Bad reputation with Simple Rating Systems.
Tuesday, 14 June 2022. Luiz Brotherhood (Universitat de Barcelona) - Income-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions.
Thursday, 5 May 2022. Tomas Martinez (University of Brasilia) - Minimum Wage, Financial Frictions and the Life-cycle of Firms.
Thursday, 21 April 2022. Nic Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal) - Demand Learning, Customer Capital, and Exporter Dynamics.
Thursday, 31 March 2022. Arianna Garofalo (Universitat de Barcelona) - Fertility and migration.
Thursday, 24 March 2022. Cynthia Romero (Universitat de Barcelona) - Understanding Women: the Preference for the Skilled Non-Market Services Sector.
Thursday, 9 December 2021. Rafael Serrano-Quintero (Universitat de Barcelona) - Spatial Complementarities in Public Infrastructure and Structural Transformation in Brazil.
Thursday, 18 November 2021. Maria Dolores Guillo (Universitad de Alicante) - Productivity, intangibles and the services content of tradable goods.
Thursday, 4 November 2021. Marc Teignier (Universitat de Barcelona) - Structural Change, Land Use, and Urban Expansion.

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