November 23-27, 2020

Monday, November 23


11.30 CET. Per Krusell (Stockholm University): Sources of U.S. wealth inequality.

Host: Aix Marseille School of Economics.

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12.00 CET. Harald Fadinger (Universität Mannheim): My Home is My Castle: The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis -- Evidence from Germany.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

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12.30 CET. Thierry Magnac (TSE, Toulouse): Lifecycle Wages: Selection and Missing Data.

Host: Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

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12.45 CET. John Clegg (University of Chicago): Carceral Legacy of Slavery.

Host: Dondena Center at Bocconi.

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13.00 Amsterdam time. ESA's job-market candidates' seminar.

Host: ESA.

Andreas Orland (University of Potsdam): Liquidity Constraints and Buffer Stock Savings: Theory and Experimental Evidence. Discussant: John Hey.

Cornelius Schneider (University of Cologne): The Bright Side of Tax Evasion. Discussant: Rupert Sausgruber.

Rémi Suchon (Université Libre de Bruxelles): It does (not) get better: expected income violation and altruism. Discussant: Arno Riedl.

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13.00 Saint Petersburg time (11.00 in Rome). Ralph Ossa (University of Zurich): Are Trade Agreements Good for You?

Host: HSE.

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13.45 CET. Ruben Durante (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona): The Virus of Fear: The Political Impact of Ebola in the U.S.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here (password Q6vB2R Raum-ID 3216879030)


15.00 CET. Margarita Tsoutsoura (Cornell University): The Labor Costs of Pro-Labor Bias in Bankruptcy: Evidence from Brazil.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here (password: 784226 Room-ID 588 324 0719)


16.00 CET. Shengwu Li (Harvard University): Investment Incentives in Near-Optimal Mechanisms.

Host: Virtual MD Seminar Series.

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16.00 CET. Raquel Fernandez (New York University): Girls, Boys, and High Achievers.

Host: CEPR / Stockholm University: Gender Economics Seminar Series.

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16.30 CET. Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell): Dynamic Social Interactions and Health Risk Behavior.

Host: Virtual Seminar on the Economics of Risky Health Behaviors (VERB).

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17.00 London time (18.00 in Rome). Symposium: COVID-19 and Global Gender Strategy: if not now, when?

Host: LSE

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17.30 CET. Kirsten Slungaard Mumma (Harvard University): Immigrant Integration in the United States: The Role of Adult English Language Training.

Host: Economics of Migration Seminar.

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Tuesday, November 24


9.45-13.05 CET. Macroeconometrics and Time Series Workshop.

Host: Banque de France.

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12.45 CET. Takuro Yamashita (Toulouse School of Economics): Robust Prediction in Games with Uncertain Parameters.

Host: Bocconi Department of Economics.

Zoom link: by invitation: for information or to receive the invitation link contact erika.somma@unibocconi.it.


13.00 London time (14.00 in Rome). Sin Yi Cheung (Cardiff University): The Violence of Uncertainty: how asylum waiting time undermines refugees’ health.

Host: LSE.

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13.00 CET. Roberto Galbiati (CNR Paris): Wealth Accumulation and Institutional Capture: the Rise of the Medici and the Fall of the Florentine Republic.

Host: Barcelona GSE Applied Economics Seminar Series.

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13.30 CET. Petru Negura (University of Moldova): Institutional trust, support to government and forms of solidarity in Moldova during the early phase of COVID-19 pandemic.

Host: Economics Department of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS).

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14.30 CET. Dmitry Kuvshinov (UPF-Barcelona GSE): A Long Way Down: Bank Capital and Profitability, 1870 - 2015.

Host: Barcelona GSE Finance Seminar Series.

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14.30 CET. Mariona Segú (University Paris Saclay): Jet setters: blessing or curse for French housing markets? Evidence from the EU aviation liberalization.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics.

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15.00 CET. Raquel Bernal (Universidad de Los Andes): The effects of a project and play-based early education program on medium term developmental trajectories of young children in a low-income setting.

Host: University of Bologna Department of Economics.

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15.15 CET. Juliane Begenau (Stanford University): Do Banks Have an Edge?

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here (password: 660072 Zoom room ID: 9840371383)


15.30 CET. Andrés Daniel Pluas Lopez (Universität Mannheim): Legal or Illegal Cannabis? Hard Drugs Access and Use.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

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16.30 CET. Arieda Muco (Central European University): Corruption, Intimidation, and Whistleblowing: An Empirical Approach.

Host. Bocconi Department of Social and Political Sciences.

Zoom link: By invitation: for information or to receive the invitation link contact chiara.fiaccadori@unibocconi.it


17.00 CET. Vitantonio Mariella (Sapienza University of Rome): Tenancy contracts and social capital at the origins of the North-South divide in Italy.

Host: YSI - Economic History Graduate Webinar.

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17.00 CET. Andrew Foster (Brown University): Start What You Finish! Ex Ante Risk and Schooling Investments in the Presence of Dynamic Complementarities.

Host: CEPR Virtual Development Webinars.

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17.00 CET. Michael Woodford (Columbia University): Optimally Imprecise Memory and Biased Forecasts.

Host: Virtual Behavioral Economics Seminar (VIBES).

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17.30 CET. Fan Li (Yale): Propensity score weighting for covariate adjustment in randomized clinical trials.

Host: Online Causal Inference Seminar.

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18.00 UK time (19.00 in Rome). Flavio Toxvaerd (University of Cambridge): Economics and the Epidemic: Models, Behaviour and Policy.

Host: Clare College, University of Cambridge.

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Wednesday, November 25


11.00 EDT (17.00 in Rome). Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Carlos III Madrid): Growth, war and pandemics: Europe in the very long-run.

Host: International Macro History Online Seminar.

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12.00 AEDT (2.00 in Rome). Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford): Just a Few Seeds More:Value of Network Information for Diffusion.

Host: Australasian Microeconomic Theory Seminars.

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12.30 CET. Roberto Rozzi (Ca' Foscari): Competing Conventions with Costly Acquisition of Information.

Host: Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

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12.30 CET. Christopher Roth (Warwick): Uncertainty and Information Acquisition: Evidence From Firms and Consumers.

Host: Bocconi Department of Finance.

Zoom link: to receive the invitation link for the online streaming, please contact dip.fin@unibocconi.it.


13.00 CET. Mariapia Mendola (University of Milan Bicocca): The Political Impact of Refugee Migration: Evidence from the Italian Dispersal Policy.

Host: University of Pavia Department of Economics.

Zoom link: contact seminar.dem@unipv.it.


13.00 CET. Ovielt Baltodano (Ca' Foscari): A Dynamic Stochastic Block Model for the International Trade Network.

Host: Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

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13.00 CET. Andras Jagadits (UPF-Barcelona GSE): Emigration and local structural change - Evidence from (Austria)-Hungary in the Age of Mass Migration.

Host: Barcelona GSE Internal Applied Lunch Seminar Series.

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13.00 Toronto time (19.00 in Rome). Sumegha Garg (Harvard): The Coin Problem with Applications to Data Streams.

Host: TCS+ online seminars in theoretical computer science.

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14.00 CET. Argyris Sakalis (The University of Sheffield): Property rights, development and agricultural choices: the case of early 20th century Greece.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics.

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14.00 CET. Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex): Job Displacement, Unemployment Benefits and Domestic Violence.

Host: University of Copenhagen Department of Economics.

Zoom link: contact Casper Worm Hansen for Zoom link.


15.00 CET. Minchul Yum (University of Mannheim): Status Externalities and Low Birth Rates in Korea.

Host: Webinar in Gender and Family Economics.

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15.00 CET. Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics): Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: How Social Media Affects Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts.

Host: Universität Mannheim Department of Economics.

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16.00 London time. Carol Graham (University of Maryland): Unequal Hopes, Lives, and Lifespans in the U.S.: Insights From Well-Being During COVID-19 (With Some Minor Insights on the 2020 Election Outcome).

Host: LSE.

Zoom link: t.sagoo@lse.ac.uk.


16.00 CET. Noemi Mantovan (Bangor Business School): The Dynamic of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match.

Host: University of Siena Department of Economics.

Meet link: Goodwin Virtual Room.


16.00 CET. Shabnam Mousavi (Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Berlin): Agent, Path, Outcome: framing Individual and collective action in our models.

Host: University of Milan Bicocca.

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16.00 CET. Raffaella Sadun (Harvard Business School): The Changing Nature of the C-suite Job: Evidence from Job Descriptions.

Host: ONLINE Economics Research Seminar at JKU Linz.

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16.00 CET. Andre Veiga (Imperial College Business School): Quality Information and Competitive Selection in Health Care.

Host: CEPR Virtual IO Seminar.

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17.00 CET. Andrés Felipe Barrientos (Florida State University): A Bayesian decision-theoretic approach to uncertain ranks and orderings: Ranking players and lineups.

Host: University of Milan Bicocca.

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17.30 CET. Madeline Zavodny (University of North Florida): Immigration, Working Conditions, and Compensating Differentials.

Host: Economics of Migration Seminar.

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17.30 CET. Chad Jones (Stanford): Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail.

Host: Barcelona GSE Bellaterra Macro Seminar.

Zoom link: contact rauls@movebarcelona.eu


Thursday, November 26


11.00 CET. Bayram Cakir (PSE): Automation, Skill Premium and Factor Shares: Labor Will Be Back.

Host: PSE Macro Workshop.

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12.15 Oslo time. Andrea Martinangeli (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance): Institutional quality causes social trust: Survey and experimental evidence on trusting under the shadow of doubt.

Host: Norwegian School of Economics FAIR Seminar.

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12.30 CET. Maria Petrova (Barcelona GSE): Automation, Career Values, and Political Preferences.

Host: Paris Empirical Political Economy Seminar.

Zoom link: please contact the organizers Oliver Vanden Eynde (PSE) and Benjamin Marx (Sciences Po).


13.45 CET. Francesco Lippi (LUISS): The Macroeconomics of Sticky Prices with Generalized Hazard Functions.

Host: Bocconi Department of Economics.

Zoom link: by invitation: for information contact patrizia.pellizzari@unibocconi.it.


14.00 CET. Sylvain Dejean (U. La Rochelle): Ideological Isolation in News Consumption: Evidence From France.

Host: Paris Seminar on the Economics of Digitization.

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14.30 London time (15.30 in Rome). Anisha Ghosh (McGill University): Recovering Heterogeneous Beliefs and Preferences from Asset Prices.

Host: QRFE Webinar at Durham University.

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15.00 CET. Martin Kores (KfW) and Michael Cooke (GiveDirectly): Coordination and Implementation of the COVID Programs.

Host: Digital Development Dialogue (3D).

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15.00 CET. Eeva Mauring (University of Bergen): Sequential Search with Limited Price Discrimination.

Host: MaCCI EPoS Virtual IO Seminar.

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16.00 UK time (17.00 in Rome). Nicolas Lambert (MIT): The Power of Referential Advice.

Host: Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory.

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16.30 CET. Natalya Naumenko (George Mason University): The Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33.

Host: EIEF.

Zoom link: email events@eief.it.


16.30 CET. Town Oh (Purdue University): How do High-skilled International Students Impact Domestic Students? An analysis using the post OPT-STEM Extension period.

Host: Applied Young Economists Seminar

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17.00 Kyiv time (16.00 in Rome). Pawel Bukowski (LSE): Social Mobility and Social Regimes: Intergenerational Mobility in Hungary, 1949-2017.

Host: Kyiv School of Economics.

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17.00 CET. Irene M. Buso (LUISS): The Show Must Go On. How to elicit Lablike Data on the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on fairness and cooperation.

Host: Società Italiana degli Economisti.

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18.00 CET. Italo Colantone (Bocconi), We Were the Robots: Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe.

Host: MEDEA Seminars.

Zoom link: contact marcella.nicolini@unipv.it.


Friday, November 27


11.00 Saint Petersburg time(9.00 in Rome). Sascha O. Becker (Monash): Why an EU Referendum? Why in 2016?

Host: HSE.

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12.30 CET. Jean-Marc Robin (Sciences Po): The Anatomy of Sorting – Evidence from Danish Data.

Host: Sciences Po.

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12.30 CET. Piero Gottardi (University of Essex and Ca’ Foscari): Mediation design.

Host: Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

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15.00 CET. Tarik Roukny (KU Leuven): Vertically Disintegrated Platforms.

Host: Louvain Economics of Digitization (LED) Seminars.

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15.00 CET. Matteo Benetton (University of California, Berkeley): Investors’ Beliefs and Asset Prices: A Structural Model of Cryptocurrency Demand.

Host: CEPR Household Finance Seminar Series.

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15.00 CET. Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics): Dominant Currency and the Impact of Monetary Policy.

Host: PSE and Banque de France.

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16.00 CET. Domenico Giannone (Amazon): Economic Predictions With Big Data: The Illusion of Sparsity.

Host: University of Tor Vergata Riccardo Faini CEIS Seminars.

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16.00 CET. Pietro Veronesi (University of Chicago): Self-image Bias and Lost Talent.

Host: Bocconi Department of Finance.

Zoom link: In order to receive the invitation link for the online streaming, please contact dip.fin@unibocconi.it.


16.00 UK time (17.00 in Rome). Karin Kinnerud (Norwegian Business School): Monetary policy and the mortgage market.

Host: University of Essex Department of Economics.

Zoom link: To register your place and gain access to the webinar, please contact the seminar organisers.


17.00 CET. Georgios Tsiachtsiras (Universitat de Barcelona): Rails and innovation: Evidence from China.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics.

Zoom link: please contact Ghizlen Ouasbaa by November 26th, 2020.