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Sommer-Semester 2026

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
Apr 14Carlo Schwarz
(Bocconi)
#Science: How Twitter Shapes Economic Research
May 5Samantha Burn
(Imperial College)
The Scale-Access Trade-off in Healthcare: Evidence from Stroke Care in England
May 12Tim Ederer
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Signal Extraction in Hiring: Evidence from Teacher Recruiting
May 19Andreas Link
(FAU)
Beasts of Burden, Trade, and Hierarchy: The Long Shadow of Domestication
May 26Benjamin Marx
(Boston University)
The Global Incumbency Advantage
Jun 2Nicolas Li
(George Washington University)
Bunching as Quantile Treatment Effects with a Meta-Analytic Reassessment of Existing Estimates
Jun 9Nico Voigtlaender
(UCLA)
Jun 23Anna Bindler
(DIW)
Jun 30Dan Fetter
(Dartmouth College)
Long-Run Intergenerational Effects of Social Security
July 7Woojin Kim
(Stanford)
Political Polarization in Medicine
July 14
Stefano Della Vigna
(UC Berkeley)
tbd
July 21
Lina Skoglund
(Harvard)
The Revolution Will Not Be Telegraphed

Winter-Semester 2025/26

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
Oct 21Michaela Pagel
(Washington University Olin Business School)
Opportunistic Borrowing Before Default? A New Test Using Multiple Delinquent Credit Cards
Oct 28Eric Chyn
(University of Texas Austin)
Ideology in Government: Evidence from the Office of Indian Affairs and the Assimilation Era
Dec 02Brian Beach
(Vanderbilt University)
Black Newspapers and Political Persuasion
Dec 16Dita Eckhardt
(University of Warwick)
Labor Market Entry Conditions and Occupational Mismatch: Evidence from Apprenticeship Graduates

Sommer-Semester 2025

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
May 6Fabian Waldinger
(LMU)
Scientific Practice Over the Twentieth Century
May 20Charlie Rafkin
(UC Berkeley)
Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market
May 27Augustin Bergeron
(Harvard University)
Progressivity and Tax Capacity: Experimental Evidence from D.R. Congo
June 3Roland Rathelot
(ENSAE, IP Paris)
tbc
June 24Arash Nekoei
(Universität Stockholm)
tbc
July 1Lukas Schmid
(Universität Luzern)
Do firms hire politicians as directors? Evidence from close elections
July 8Tomasz Olma
(LMU)
Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs
July 15Hiroshi Kumanomido
(LMU)
Currency Appreciation, Trade Diversion, and FDI: Evidence from The Plaza Accord in 1985
July 22Andrew Proctor
(LMU)
Careers of Extremely Intelligent Men

Winter-Semester 2024/25

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
Oct 22Stephan Heblich
(Toronto)
State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings
Oct 29Amitabh Chandra
(Harvard)
Living Large or Long? Preference Estimates from Completed-Life Stories
Nov 26Gabriella Conti
(University College London)
The Menopause "penalty"
Dec 03Caterina Chiopris
(Harvard University)
The diffusion of ideas
Dec 17Matteo Bobba
(Toulouse)
Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru

Sommer-Semester 2024

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
April 16Jose de Sousa (University of Paris-Saclay)"Trickle-Down Effects of Affirmative Action: A Case Study in France"
April 23Yiqun Chen (University of Illinois at Chicago)"The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from the Emergency Department"
April 30Barbara Petrongolo (University of Oxford)"Vacancy Duration and Wages"
May 7Virginia Minni (LSE)
"Making the Invisible Hand Visible: Managers and the Allocation of Workers to Jobs”
May 28Kensuke Teshima (Doshisha University)"From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo"
June 11Thomas Le Barbanchon (Bocconi)
June 18Ines Helm (LMU)
July 2Simon Trenkle
July 9Mathias Bühler (LMU)