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Winter-Semester 2025/26

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
16.10.Javier Feinmann
(Paris School of Economics)
Payments Under the Table: Employer-employee collusion in Brazil
23.10.Oren Danieli
(Tel Aviv University School of Economics)
The Long-Term Effects of Gifted Programs
30.10.Maxime Gravoueille
(Monash University)
Wage and Employment Effects of Wage Subsidies
27.11.Antoine Bozio
(Paris School of Economics)
Follow the money! Why dividends overreact to flat-tax reforms
04.12.Axelle Ferriere
(Sciences Po)
Optimal Redistribution: Rising Inequality vs. Rising Living Standards
11.12.Franziska Disslbacher
(WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Wealth Taxation, Redistribution, and Inequality: An International Comparison
18.12.Steve Cicala
(Tufts University)
Adverse Selection as a Policy Instrument: Unraveling Climate Change
05.02.Felix Koenig
(Carnegie Mellon University)
The Impact of Extending Mandatory Paid Time Off

Sommer-Semester 2025

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
08.05.Andreas Haller
(Norwegian School of Economics)
Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Repeated Unemployment
15.05.Angie Acquatella
(Toulouse School of Eocnomics)
Health Care Demand among Low-Income Individuals
05.06.Maya Eden
(University of Zurich)
How Important is Intergenerational Altruism for Social Discounting?
12.06.Theresa Neef
(IWH Halle)
When capitalism takes over socialism: the lasting economic divide between East and West Germany
03.07.Wouter Leenders
(UC Berkeley)
Taxing high wages: Evidence from the Netherlands
10.07.Michael Siegenthaler
(ETH Zurich)
The Role of Wages and Job Benefits in Job Search
17.07.Francesco Capozza
(WZB)
Science by Consensus: Eliciting Citizens’ and Experts' Research Funding Priorities
24.07.Philipp Wangner
(University of Mannheim)
The Savings Wedge

Winter-Semester 2024/25

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
17.10.Carina Neisser
(University of Cologne)
The Effects of Income Disclosure by Politicians
24.10.Maxwell Kellogg
(University of Oslo)
Family Trajectories and the Burden of Care in the Aftermath of Old-Age Health Shocks
31.10.Abigail Payne
(University of Melbourne)
To Enrol or Not to Enrol in University: The Role of Tuition and Government Regulation in a Context of Income Contingent Loans
14.11.Emanuel Hansen
(LMU Munich)
Designing Redistribution with Endogenous Transfer Take-up
28.11.Philipp Wangner
(University of Mannheim)
Inequality, Business Cycles, and Growth: A Unified Approach to Fiscal Stabilization Policies
05.12.Ségal Le Guern Herry
(Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Wealth Taxation and Portfolio Allocation
12.12.Christoph Moser
(FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Cross-border Commuting, Gender Differences and the Outside Option
19.12.Dominika Langenmayr
(KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Navigating the Amazon: The Incidence of Digital Service Taxes

Sommer-Semester 2024

DateSpeaker(s) (Affiliation)Title of Presentation
April 25Mike Zabek (Federal Reserve Board)Personal Tax Changes and Financial Well-Being: Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
May 2Bas Jacobs (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)Should We Tax Capital Income or Wealth?
May 16Camille Urvoy (University of Mannheim)Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002-2020
May 23Stefan Staubli (University of Calgary)Measuring the Value of Disability Insurance from Take-Up Decisions
June 13Terry Moon (University of British Columbia)Corporate Tax Cuts and Worker Earnings: Evidence from Small Businesses
July 4Dominik Sachs (HSG St. Gallen)Quantifying Okun’s Leaky Bucket: The Case of Progressive Childcare Subsidies
July 11Sebastian Findeisen (University of Konstanz)Family-FriendlyWorkplace Policies
July 18Michael Siegenthaler (KOF, ETH Zürich)The Role of Wages and Fringe Benefits in Job Search: Evidence from a Large-Scale Online Field Experiment