November 30-December 3, 2020

Dear Ph.D. students and colleagues,

This is to let you know about the upcoming seminars and conferences this week.

Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think may be interested and/or to let me know the addresses of students and colleagues who want to be added to the mailing list.

Best wishes,

Fabio Sabatini

Monday, November 30


11.30 CET. Fabien Postel-Vinay (Aix-Marseille): A structural analysis of mental health and labor market trajectories.

Host: Aix-Marseille School of Economics.

Zoom link: join here.


13.00 CET. ESA's job-market candidates' seminar.

Host: ESA.

Xiao Yu (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Effects of interventions to change last-moment submitting behaviour.

Hakan Ozyilmaz (UC Santa Barbara): The Debt Payment Puzzle: An Experimental Investigation.

Zoom link: join here (password esajobtalk)


14.30 EST (20.30 in Rome). Sujeong Shim (U. Wisconsin): Who Is Credible? Government Popularity and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Lending.

Host: Graduate Student International Political Economy (GSIPE) workshop.

Zoom link: join here.


15.00 UK (16.00 in Rome). Friederike Mengel (Essex), The Causal Effect of Inequality on Attribution and Social Trust.

Host: PolEconUK Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.


15.30 CET. Harry Pei (Northwestern University): Reputation Building under Observational Learning.

Host: One World Mathematical Game Theory Seminar.

Zoom link: join here (password 001300).


16.00 CET. Iris Bohnet (Harvard University): Supply- and Demand-Side Effects in Performance Appraisals: Gender and Race.

Host: CEPR Gender Economics Seminar Series.

Zoom link: register here.


16.00 CET. Mary Amiti (FED New York): The Effect of the U.S.-China Trade War on U.S. Investment.

Host: Online Geneva Trade and Development Workshop.

Zoom link: register here.


16.00 Penn time (22.00 in Rome). Mike Waugh (NYU Stern): The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration

Host: Penn State Department of Economics.

Zoom link: register here.


16.30 CET. Pablo Celhay (School of Government at PUC-Chile): When a Strike Strikes Twice: Massive Student Mobilizations and Teenage Pregnancy in Chile.

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

Zoom link: join here (password VERB).


17.30 CET. Ivàn Werning (MIT): Taming a Minsky Cycle.

Host: IGIER Bocconi.

Zoom link: join here.


17.30 CET. Jaime Arellano-Bover (Yale University): The Role of Firms in the Assimilation of Immigrants.

Host: Junior Seminar on The Economics of Migration.

Zoom link: register here.


18.00 CET. Rick Van der Ploeg (Oxford U): Climate Risks: Carbon Pricing and Financial Policy.

Host: Climate Change Macroeconomics and Finance Forum.

Zoom link: register here.


23.00 CET. Marynia Kolak (Chicago): Integrating Place-Based Thinking for Health Applications with Spatial Data Science.

Host: SoDa Labs Webinar.

Zoom link: join here (password 245316).


Tuesday, December 1


9.00-15.15 CET. Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics PhD Workshop.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona.

Program: here.

Zoom link: register here.


12.15 CET. Jan Stoop (Erasmus School of Economics): Does selection bias cause us to overestimate gender differences in competitiveness.

Host: FETS (French Experimental TalkS).

Zoom link: register here.


12.45 CET. Niccolò Lomys (Toulouse School of Economics): Learning while Bargaining: Experimentation and Coasean Dynamics.

Host: Bocconi Department of Economics.

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


13.00 CET. Ghazala Azmat (Sciences Po): The Fall of the Aspirations Wall: Educational Aspirations, Achievement and Societal Change.

Host: Applied Economics Seminar Series at Barcelona GSE.

Zoom link: join here.


14.00 CET. Seth Benzell (MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy): How to Govern Facebook: A Structural Model for Taxing and Regulating Big Tech.

Host: TSE New online seminar on the Economics of Platforms.

Zoom link: please contact Marie-Hélène Dufour.


14.30 CET. Giorgio Gulino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): Corruption Corrupts: Scandals and Supermarket Thefts.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics IEB Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.


14.30 EST (20.30 in Rome). GSIPE Virtual Conference: The International Political Economy of Aid and Development.

Host: Graduate Student International Political Economy (GSIPE) workshop.

Zoom link: register here.


14.45 CET. Michela Tincani (UCL): How do beliefs shape the impacts of preferential admissions on student outcomes?

Host: Sciences Po Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here.


15.30 CET. Yeon Koo-Che (Columbia University): Weak Monotone Comparative Statics.

Host: Barcelona GSE Bellaterra Micro Seminar.

Zoom link: join here (password: micro)


15.30 CET. Michael Alexeev (Indiana University): Who profits from oil windfalls in Russian regions? Inequality, decentralized tax revenues, and corruption.

Host: IOS/UR Tuesday Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.


16.00 UK time (17.00 in Rome). Siwan Anderson (Vancouver School of Economics): Marriage, Commitment and Unbundling Gendered Norms.

Host: University of Essex Department of Economics.

Zoom link: please contact the seminar organisers.


17.00 CET. Alessandra Voena (Stanford): Maternal Mortality Risk and Spousal Differences in the Demand for Children.

Host: Virtual Development Economics Seminar Series (VDEV).

Zoom link: register here.


17.30 CET. Vanessa Didelez (University of Bremen): Causal reasoning in survival and time-to-event analyses.

Host: Online Causal Inference Seminar.

Zoom link: join here (password: 007080)


Wednesday, December 2


10.00 AEST (1.00 in Rome). Andrzej Baranski (New York University, Abu Dhabi): Communication in multilateral bargaining with joint production.

Host: BESC e-seminars.

Zoom link: register here.


12.00 ET (18.00 in Rome). Raquel Fernandez (New York University): Coming Out in America: Aids, Politics, and Cultural Change.

Host: Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series.

Zoom link: register here.


12.00 CET. Zahra Siddique (University of Bristol): Words Matter: Gender, Jobs and Applicant Behavior in India.

Host: University of Verona Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here.


12.00 NYT (18.00 in Rome). Jonathan Chiu (Bank of Canada): The Economics of Cryptocurrencies - Bitcoin and Beyond.

Host: Virtual Finance Theory Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.


12.15 CET. Luigi Pascali (Pompeu Fabra): Wars, Taxation and Representation: Evidence from Five Centuries of German History.

Host: University of Passau.

Zoom link: register here.


12.00 EDT (18.00 in Rome). James Hollyer (Minnesota): Political Outsiders and Democratic Backsliding.

Host: GRIPE Webinar NYU

Zoom link: join the mailing list by joining the Google Group here


12.30 CET. Ylenia Brilli (Ca' Foscari University of Venice): Culture of origin and parenting.

Host. Ca' Foscari University of Venice Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here.


12.30 CET. Horacio Larreguy Arbesú (Harvard University): Online Political Information: Facebook ADs, Electorate Saturation, and Electoral Accountability in Mexico.

Host: Bocconi Departments of Economics and Political Sciences.

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


12.30 New York time (18.30 in Rome). ESA's job-market candidates' seminar.

Host: ESA.

Sakshi Upadhyay (Virginia Tech): To Join or not to Join: Coalition Formation in Public Good Games.Discussant: Tim Salmon.

William Brown (Purdue University): The effect of complexity in an electorate: Experimental evidence. Discussant: Rick Wilson.

Ryan Rholes (Texas A&M): Escaping secular stagnation with unconventional monetary policy. Discussant: Daniela Puzzello.


12.45 CET. William R Clark (Texas A&M University): The Fragility of Presidential Democracy: A Rexamination.

Host: Bocconi Department of Political Sciences.

Zoom link: for information: franca.assirelli@unibocconi.it; isabella.grassi@unibocconi.it


13.00 ET (19.00 in Rome). Yang Liu (Stanford): Faster Divergence Maximization for Faster Maximum Flow.

Host: TCS+

Zoom link: register here.


14.30 Lisbon time (15.30 in Rome). Andrew Zeitlin (Georgetown University): Benchmarking a Child Nutrition Program against Cash: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda.

Host: Novafrica Seminars in Development.

Zoom link: contact the Research Office by email.


14.30 EDT (20.30 in Rome). Sarah S. Stith (University of New Mexico): Does Increasing Access-to-Care Delay Accessing of Care? Evidence from Kidney Transplantation.

Host: Electronic Health Economics Colloquium (EHEC)

Zoom link: register here.


14.45 Pennsylvania time (20.45 in Rome). Ricardo Lagos (New York University): The Limits of Monetary Economics: On Money as a Latent Medium of Exchange.

Host: University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here.


15.00 London time (16.00 in Rome). Maria Petrova (Pompeu Fabra University): Bombs, Broadcasts and Resistance: Allied Intervention and Domestic Opposition to the Nazi Regime during World War II.

Host: CEPR Webinar: The Political Economy Webinar Series.

Zoom link: register here.


16.00 CET. Aniko Öry (Yale School of Management): Aiming for the Goal: Contribution Dynamics of Crowdfunding.

Host: CEPR Virtual IO Seminar (VIOS) series.

Zoom link: register here.


16.00 CET. Andrea Tulli (University of Tübingen): Sweeping the Dirt Under the Rug: Measuring Spillovers from an Anti-Corruption Measure.

Host: JKU Economics Seminars.

Zoom link: email econseminar@jku.at to register.


16.00 Sydney time (6.00 in Rome). Ieva Sriubaite (CINCH): Economic Consequences of Road Traffic Injuries. Application of the Super Learner Algorithm.

Host: Applied Young Economists Seminar

Zoom link: register here.


17.00 CET. Mark Carlson (FED): The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era.

Host: International Macro History Online Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.


17.30 CET. Sulin Sardoschau (Humboldt University): Do refugees converge to local culture? Evidence from German regions.

Host: Economics of Migration Seminars.

Zoom link: register here.


Thursday, December 3


11.00 CET. Paul Brandily (PSE): Understanding the Reallocation of Displaced Workers to Firms.

Host: PSE Macro Workshop.

Zoom link: join here.


11.30 CET. Juan José Ganuza (UPF and BGSE): Designing Relational Sanctions in Buyer-Supplier Relationships.

Host: UPF Management Seminar Series.

Zoom link: join here (password 683961)


12.00 EDT (18.00 in Rome). Michael Kirchler (University of Innsbruck): Delegation Decisions in Finance.

Host: MiddExLab Virtual Seminar Series.

Zoom link: register here.


12.00 EST (18.00 in Rome). Laura Pillosoph (FED New York): Latent Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume.

Host: Virtual Macro Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.


12.30 CET. Tiziano Vargiolu (Università di Padova): Optimal Installation of Solar Panels with Price Impact.

Host: Free University of Bozen.

Zoom link: join here.


12.30 CET. Ekaterina (Smetanina (Chicago Booth): Forecast evaluation and selection in unstable environments

Host: GW Columbian College of Arts & Sciences.

Zoom link: register here.


12.45 CET. Joan Costa-Font (London School of Economics): Health and Income inequality aversion after a health and income shock: Evidence from Covid-19.

Host: Dondena Bocconi.

Zoom link: join here.


13.00 ET (19.00 in Rome). Sofia Amaral (University of Munich): Women in Teams and the Legal Path of Crimes.

Host: Online Economics of Crime Seminar.

Zoom link: register here.


14.00-18.00 GMT (15.00-19.00 in Rome). First day of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace-Online Meeting.

Host: CEPR.

Program: here.

Zoom link: register here.


14.30 CET. Nick Vivyan (Durham University): Party Development and Election Violence: Evidence from Nineteenth Century England and Wales.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona School of Economics.

Zoom link: join here (password 954039).


15.00 EDT (21.00 in Rome). Ricardo Reyes-Heroles (FRB): Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity and Skill Acquisition.

Host: Dynamic Trade Institute Seminars.

Zoom link: register here.


16.00 CET. Yotam Margalit (Tel Aviv University): Media Ownership as Political Investment.

Host: Dondena Bocconi.

Zoom link: join here.


16.00 UK time (17.00 in Rome). Wioletta Dziuda (Harris-Chicago): Voters and the Policy Stability versus Responsiveness Tradeoff.

Host: Virtual Seminars in Economic Theory.

Zoom link: register here.


17.00 CET. Stefano Castriota (University of Pisa), Marco Delmastro (AGCOM), Mirco Tonin (Free University of Bozen): National or Local? The Demand for News in Italy During Covid-19.

Host: Società Italiana degli Economisti.

Zoom link: register here.


17.00 CET. Kosuke Uetake (Yale School of Management): TBA.

Host: Virtual Digital Economy Seminar.

Zoom link: subscribe here.


17.00 CET. Luisa Gagliardi (Bocconi): Temporal flexibility in the workplace and women’s career progression: Evidence from cross-time-zone acquisitions.

Host: SIE Workshop.

Zoom link: register here.


17.00 CET. Kelsey Jack (Tufts University): Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel.

Host: Exeter University.

Zoom link: register here.


17.05 CET. Chad Syverson (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business): Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization.

Host: Bocconi Department of Economics.

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


18.30 CET. Nick Bloom (Stanford University). Working from Home: Will it Persist?

Host: Princeton University Bendheim Center for Finance.

Zoom link: register here.


Friday, December 4


9.00-18.00 CET. 3rd Joint Research Conference on Firm Financing and Firm Dynamics: "Firms in Times of the Pandemic.

Host: Banque de France, Bank of Italy, Sciences Po.

Program: here.

Zoom link: register here.


11.00 ET (17.00 in Rome). Matteo Crosignani (NY FED): Zombie Credit and (Dis-)Inflation: Evidence from Europe.

Host: MoFiR Virtual Seminars on Banking

Zoom link: register here.


12.00 ET (18.00 in Rome). Catherine MacLean (Temple University): The effect of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices and tobacco product sales: evidence from retail panel data.

Host: Tobacco Online Policy Seminar (TOPS).

Zoom link: subscribe the email list here.


12.30 CET. Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner (University of Oslo): Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets.

Host: University of Oslo Department of Economics.

Zoom link: register here.


13.00 Penn time (19.00 in Rome). Nicolas Lambert (Stanford University): The Power of Referential Advice

Host: Penn University Department of Economics.

Zoom link: join here.


14.00-18.00 GMT (15.00-19.00 in Rome). Second day of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace-Online Meeting.

Host: CEPR.

Program: here.

Zoom link: register here.


15.00 CET. Federico Innocenti (University of Mannheim): Bayesian Persuasion with heterogeneous receivers and limited attention.

Vitoria Rabello de Castro (University of Minnesota): Entry Timing in the Face of Switching Costs and its Welfare Effects: Evidence from Same-Day Grocery Delivery Platforms.

Host: Louvain Economics of Digitization (LED) Seminars

Zoom link: register here.


16.00 CET. Laura Brandimarte (University of Arizona): The sense of privacy.

Host: University of Tor Vergata Riccardo Faini CEIS Seminars.

Teams link: register here.


17.00 CET. Marie Beigelman (Universitat de Barcelona): Intimate partner violence.

Host: Universitat de Barcelona PhD in Economics student seminar.

Zoom link: If you are interested in attending, please contact Ghizlen Ouasbaa by December 3rd, 2020.