About the Seminar
- Description:
- This is Munich's field workshop in empirical economics. It is jointly organized by members of LMU's Department of Economics.
Talks should be 75 minutes including discussion. - Audience:
- Master and doctoral students as well as all faculty interested in empirical research.
- Organizers:
- Davide Cantoni, Ingrid Hägele, Andrew Proctor, Claudia Steinwender, Uwe Sunde, Derya Uysal, Fabian Waldinger, Joachim Winter
- Schedule:
- Tuesdays, 12:00 - 13:15
- Location:
- Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, A014
- Contact:
- office.waldiner@econ.lmu.de
Summer Term 2025
| Date | Speaker(s) (Affiliation) | Title of Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| May 6 | Fabian Waldinger (LMU) | Scientific Practice Over the Twentieth Century |
| May 20 | Charlie Rafkin (UC Berkeley) | Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market |
| May 27 | Augustin Bergeron (Harvard University) | Progressivity and Tax Capacity: Experimental Evidence from D.R. Congo |
| June 3 | Roland Rathelot (ENSAE, IP Paris) | tbc |
| June 24 | Arash Nekoei (Universität Stockholm) | tbc |
| July 1 | Lukas Schmid (Universität Luzern) | Do firms hire politicians as directors? Evidence from close elections |
| July 8 | Tomasz Olma (LMU) | Flexible Covariate Adjustments in Regression Discontinuity Designs |
| July 15 | Hiroshi Kumanomido (LMU) | Currency Appreciation, Trade Diversion, and FDI: Evidence from The Plaza Accord in 1985 |
| July 22 | Andrew Proctor (LMU) | Careers of Extremely Intelligent Men |
Winter Term 2024/25
| Date | Speaker(s) (Affiliation) | Title of Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 22 | Stephan Heblich (Toronto) | State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings |
| Oct 29 | Amitabh Chandra (Harvard) | Living Large or Long? Preference Estimates from Completed-Life Stories |
| Nov 26 | Gabriella Conti (University College London) | The Menopause "penalty" |
| Dec 03 | Caterina Chiopris (Harvard University) | The diffusion of ideas |
| Dec 17 | Matteo Bobba (Toulouse) | Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru |
Link to Previous Terms