2022
Johanna Rickne: The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work: Explanations and Implications
Time and Place: Dec. 8, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, The Frisch Centre (Gaustadalleen 21, 0349 Oslo) and on Zoom
Department seminar. Johanna Rickne is a Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, and part-time Professor of Economics at Nottingham University. She is also a CEPR Fellow, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and an affiliated researcher at IZA and at the Stockholm China Economic Research Center. She will present the paper "The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work: Explanations and Implications."
Ralf Martin: Efficient industrial policy for innovation: standing on the shoulders of hidden giants
Time and Place: Dec. 1, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Ralf Martin is an Associate Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, and he directs the Growth Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. He will present the paper "Efficient industrial policy for innovation: standing on the shoulders of hidden giants."
Alan Olivi: Price Theory for Incomplete Markets
Time and Place: Nov. 17, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Alan Olivi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL). He will present the paper "Price Theory for Incomplete Markets."
Andreas Schaab: Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: A Timeless Ramsey Approach
Time and Place: Nov. 10, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Andreas Schaab is an Assistant Professor at Toulouse School of Economics. He will present the paper "Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: A Timeless Ramsey Approach."
Xiaoguang Ling: Heterogeneous earning responses to inheritance: New event-study evidence from Norway
Time and Place: Nov. 7, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Xiaoguang Ling is a PhD candidate from University of Oslo. He will present the paper "Heterogeneous earning responses to inheritance: New event-study evidence from Norway."
Heidi Christina Thysen: Subjective Causality in Choice
Time and place: Nov.3, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Heidi Christina Thysen is an Assistant Professor at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). She will present the paper: "Subjective Causality in Choice".
Joseph Doyle: Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado
Time and Place: Oct. 31, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He will present the paper: "Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado".
Clara Martínez-Toledano: House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling.
Time and Place: Oct. 27, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Clara Martínez-Toledano is an Assistant Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College Business School, and Wealth Distribution Coordinator at WID.world. She will present the paper: "House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling".
Katherine R. H. Wagner: Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing.
Time and Place: Oct. 20, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Katherine R. H. Wagner is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia and a Research Affiliate of the CESifo Network. She will present the paper: "Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing".
Jonas Pilgaard Kaiser: Growth and Inequality: Experimental Evidence on How Misperceptions Affect Redistribution.
Time and Place: Oct.17, 2022 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM,Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Jonas Pilgaard Kaiser is a PhD candidate in Economics at Aarhus University, and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Integrative Business Psychology, the Copenhagen Network of Experimental Economists, and the Cognition and Behavior Lab. He will present the paper: "Growth and Inequality: Experimental Evidence on How Misperceptions Affect Redistribution".
Antonin Bergeaud: Good Rents versus Bad Rents: R&D Misallocation and Growth.
Time and Place: Oct. 13, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Antonin Bergeaud is an Associate Professor in the Economic Department of HEC Paris. He will present the paper: "Good Rents versus Bad Rents: R&D Misallocation and Growth" (written with Aghion, Boppart, Klenow and Li).
Christopher A. Neilson: Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Peru.
Time and Place: Oct. 10, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Christopher A. Neilson is a Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University. He will present the paper: "Teacher Compensation and Structural Inequality: Evidence from Centralized Teacher School Choice in Perú".
Antoine Ferey, Ludwig Maximilian: Redistribution and unemployment insurance.
Time and Place: Sep. 29, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Antoine Ferey is an Assistant Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He will present the paper: "Redistribution and unemployment insurance".
Yuhei Miyauchi: The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data.
Time and Place: Sep.19, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Yuhei Miyauchi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. He will present the paper: "The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data"
Daniel Haanwinckel: Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution.
Time and Place: Sep. 15, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Daniel Haanwinckel is an Assistant Professor at UCLA, Department of Economics. He will present the paper: "Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms: A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution".
Katarzyna Segiet: Outsourcing of Low-Skill Jobs.
Time and Place: Sep. 12, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Katarzyna Segiet is a PhD candidate from Statistics Norway (SSB). She will present the paper: "Outsourcing of Low-Skill Jobs".
Gabrielle Fack: The Effect of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students: Evidence from Low-income priorities in Paris High Schools.
Time and Place: Sep. 8, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Gabrielle Fack is Professor of Economics at the University Paris-Dauphine and research affiliate at PSE (Paris School of Economics), IPP (Institut des politiques publiques), CEPR (Center for Economic Policy Research) and CESifo. She will present the paper: "The Effect of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students: Evidence from Low-income priorities in Paris High Schools".
Nathan W. Chan: On generosity in public good and charitable dictator games.
Time and Place: Sep. 5, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Nathan W. Chan is an Associate Professor in the Resource Economics department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He will present the paper: "On generosity in public good and charitable dictator games".
Maria Nareklishvili: Adaptive Partial Identification of Treatment Effects.
Time and Place: Aug. 29, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Maria Nareklishvili is s a PhD candidate at Frischsenteret. She will present the paper: "Adaptive Partial Identification of Treatment Effects".
Alessandro Ferrari: Firm Heterogeneity, Market Power and Macroeconomic Fragility.
Time and Place: Aug.22, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Alessandro Ferrari is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at University of Zurich. He will present the paper: "Firm Heterogeneity, Market Power and Macroeconomic Fragility".
Asbjørn Goul Bjerrum Andersen:Initial settlement location and criminal behavior of young refugees in Norway.
Time and Place: June 16, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Asbjørn Goul Bjerrum Andersen is a PhD candidate at Frischsenteret. He will present the paper: "Initial settlement location and criminal behavior of young refugees in Norway".
Jonas Hjort: Input sourcing in lopsided low-income economies.
Time and Place: June 13, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Jonas Hjort is a Professor of Economics at University College London. He will present the paper: "Input sourcing in lopsided low-income economies".
Gueorgui Kambourov: Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality
Time and Place: June 9, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Gueorgui Kambourov is a Professor of Economics at University of Toronto. He will present the paper: "Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality" (joint with Andres Erosa, Luisa Fuster, and Richard Rogerson).
Jing Li: Colluding Against Environmental Regulation.
Time and Place: May 30, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Jing Li is an Assistant Professor of Applied Economics and holds the William Barton Rogers Career Development Chair of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She will present the paper: "Colluding Against Environmental Regulation".
Christopher Costello: Grandfathering with Anticipation.
Time and Place: May 23, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Christopher Costello is a professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara. He will present the paper: "Grandfathering with Anticipation".
Eliana La Ferrara: The nerds, the cool and the central. Peer education and teen pregnancy in Brazil.
Time and Place: May 12, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Eliana La Ferrara is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. She will present the paper: "The nerds, the cool and the central. Peer education and teen pregnancy in Brazil".
Antoine Bommier: Disagreement Aversion.
Time and Place: May 9, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Antoine Bommier is a Professor and Chair of Integrative Risk Management and Economic at ETH Zürich. He will present the paper: "Disagreement Aversion".
Carolina Arteaga: A Manufactured Tragedy: The Origins and Deep Ripples of the Opioid Epidemic.
Time and Place: May 5, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Carolina Arteaga is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. She will present the paper: "A Manufactured Tragedy: The Origins and Deep Ripples of the Opioid Epidemic" (written with Victoria Barone).
Lucas Bretschger: The Great Divide: Environmental Migration as a Response to Climate Change and Policy in North and South.
Time and Place: Apr. 28, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Lucas Bretschger is a professor at Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zürich. He will present the paper: “The Great Divide: Environmental Migration as a Response to Climate Change and Policy in North and South”.
Cristina Gualdani: Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry.
Time and Place: Apr. 7, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Cristina Gualdani is an Assistant Professor in Economics at Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance. She will present the paper: "Price Competition and Endogenous Product Choice in Networks: Evidence from the US Airline Industry".
Till Requate: Optimal network structure under expected technological change.
Time and Place: Apr. 4, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
ESOP seminar. Till Requate is a professor for innovation economics, competition policy, and new institutional economics at Kiel University. He will present the paper: "Optimal network structure under expected technological change".
Thomas Buser: Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes.
Time and Place: Mar. 31, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Thomas Buser is a Professor of Behavioral Applied Microeconomics at the University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He will present the paper: "Using genes to explore the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on education and labor market outcomes" (written with Rafael Ahlskog, Magnus Johannesson, Philipp Koellinger and Sven Oskarsson).
Andrea Schneider: Regulating the Sharing Economy: The Impact of Home-Sharing Ordinances on Commercial Airbnb Activity.
Time and Place: Mar. 24, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Andrea Schneider is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Jönköping International Business School. She will present the paper: "Regulating the Sharing Economy: The Impact of Home-Sharing Ordinances on Commercial Airbnb Activity".
Rema Hanna, Harvard Kennedy School. "Social Protection in Developing Countries: Lessons from Indonesia"
Time and Place: Mar. 14, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
ESOP seminar. Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School. She will present: "Social Protection in Developing Countries: Lessons from Indonesia".
Anders Akerman: Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and fast vs efficient policy in Sweden.
Time and Place: Mar. 10, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Anders Akerman is an Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger Business School. He will present the paper "Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and fast vs efficient policy in Sweden" (joint with Karolina Ekholm, Torsten Persson, and Oskar N. Skans).
Maxwell Kellogg: Household Self-Insurance and the Value of Disability Insurance in the United States.
Time and Place: Mar. 3, 2022 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B (room 212)
Department seminar. Maxwell Kellogg is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Retirement and Disability Research at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and will be joining the Economics Department at the University of Oslo as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2022. He will present the paper: "Household Self-Insurance and the Value of Disability Insurance in the United States".
2021
Isabela Manelici: Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica.
Time and place: Dec. 9, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Isabela Manelici is Assistant Professor of Economics at London School of Economics. She will present the paper: "Responsible Sourcing? Theory and Evidence from Costa Rica".
Ragnar Juelsrud: Granular credit risk.
Time and place: Dec. 3, 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77, room 212
Department seminar. Ragnar Juelsrud is Senior Research Economist at Norges Bank. He will present the paper: "Granular credit risk". Torje Hegna, Department of Economics, UiO. "How do Firms Respond to Cash Windfalls?"
Time and place: Nov. 26, 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Sognsveien 77, room 212
Department seminar. Torje Hegna is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, UiO. He will present the paper: "How do Firms Respond to Cash Windfalls?"
Dávid Krisztián Nagy: The Death and Life of Great British Cities
Time and place: Nov. 25, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77, room 212
Department seminar. Dávid Krisztián Nagy is CREi Junior Researcher and UPF Adjunct Professor and Barcelona School of Economics Affiliated Professor. He will present the paper: "The Death and Life of Great British Cities".
Tyra Merker: Explaining Uniform Pricing in Retail Markets – The Role of Consumer Self-Sorting.
Time and place: Nov. 19, 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Tyra Merker is a PhD student at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo . She will present the paper: "Explaining Uniform Pricing in Retail Markets – The Role of Consumer Self-Sorting".
Esther Bøler: Strapped for Cash:The Role of Financial Constraints for Innovating Firms.
Time and place: Nov. 18, 2021 2:15 PM – Oct. 18, 2021 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77, room 212
Department seminar. Esther Bøler is Assistant Professor of Economics at Imperial College London. She will present the paper "Strapped for Cash:The Role of Financial Constraints for Innovating Firms".
Josef Sigurdsson: Transitory Earnings Opportunities and Educational Scarring of Young Men.
Time and place: Nov. 11, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77B, room 212
Department seminar. Josef Sigurdsson is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University. He will present the paper: "Transitory Earnings Opportunities and Educational Scarring of Young Men"
Henry Overman: Selling more, but only for a while: Evidence from the largest business support RCT in the UK.
Time and place: Nov. 4, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77, room 212
Department seminar. Henry Overman is Professor of Economic Geography at LSE. He will present the paper: "Selling more, but only for a while: Evidence from the largest business support RCT in the UK".
Francesco Agostinelli: On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access.
Time and place: Oct. 21, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Francesco Agostinelli is an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department at University of Pennsylvania. He will present the paper: "On the Spatial Determinants of Educational Access".
Anders Humlum: Retraining Subsidies.
Time and place: Oct. 14, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Anders Humlum is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago. He will present the paper: "Retraining Subsidies".
Jianjun Miao: Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions in a Model with Low Interest Rates.
Time and place: Sep. 30, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Jianjun Miao is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He will present the paper: "Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions in a Model with Low Interest Rates".
Sydney C. Ludvigson: How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals.
Time and place: Sep. 23, 2021 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Sydney C. Ludvigson is Professor of Economics at New York University. She will present the paper: "How the Wealth Was Won: Factor Shares as Market Fundamentals"
Luigi Pistaferri: Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequality.
Time and place: Sep. 16, 2021 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Luigi Pistaferri is Professor of Economics, Stanford University. He will present the paper: "Assortative Mating and Wealth Inequality" (with Fagereng and Guiso).
Edwin Leuven: Sorting, Screening and College Admission.
Time and place: Sep. 9, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Sognsveien 77, room 212
Department seminar. Edwin Leuven is Professor at the Department of Economics, UiO. He will present the paper: Sorting, Screening and College Admission
Magnus Eliasson Stubhaug: The causal effect of parental wealth on child wealth.
Time and place: Aug. 20, 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Magnus Eliasson Stubhaug is Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, UiO. He will present the paper: The causal effect of parental wealth on child wealth.
Dave Donaldson: Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence.
Time and place: June 17, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Dave Donaldson is Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will present the paper: "Imports, Exports, and Earnings Inequality: Measures of Exposure and Estimates of Incidence".
David Weil, Brown University. "Quality-Adjusted Population Density"
Time and place: June 11, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. David Weil is Professor of Economics at Brown University. He will present the paper: "Quality-Adjusted Population Density".
Andrea Prat: Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News.
Time and place: June 10, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Andrea Prat is Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He will present the paper: "Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News".
Virgiliu Midrigan: Efficient Redistribution
Time and place: June 3, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Virgiliu Midrigan is William R. Berkley Term Professor of Economics And Business at NYU. He will present the paper "Efficient Redistribution".
Doireann Fitzgerald: How Do Firms Build Market Share?
Time and place: May 27, 2021 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Doireann Fitzgerald is a Senior Research Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She will present the paper "How Do Firms Build Market Share?" (joint with David Argente, Sara Moreira and Anthony Priolo).
David Lagakos: Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?
Time and place: May 6, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. David Lagakos is an associate professor of economics at Boston University He will present the paper "Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?".
Wolfgang Pesendorfer: Lindahl Equilibrium as a Collective Choice Rule.
Time and place: Apr. 30, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Wolfgang Pesendorfer is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He will present the paper Lindahl Equilibrium as a Collective Choice Rule.
Jesse Bruhn: Competition in the Black Market: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gangs in Chicago.
Time and place: Apr. 22, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Jesse Bruhn is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brown University. He will present the paper Competition in the Black Market: Estimating the Causal Effect of Gangs in Chicago.
Morten Bennedsen: Value-Based Leadership.
Time and place: Apr. 15, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Morten Bennedsen is the Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen and the André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chaired Professor of Family Enterprise at INSEAD. He will present the paper: Value-Based Leadership.
Hannes Malmberg, University of Minnesota. "The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development"
Time and place: Apr. 8, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Hannes Malmberg is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, Department of Economics. He will present the paper: The Missing Middle Managers: Labor Costs, Firm Structure, and Development (joint with Jonas Hjort and Todd Schoellman).
Nitya Pandalai-Nayar:Globalization, Structural Change, and International Comovement
Time and place: Mar. 25, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Nitya Pandalai-Nayar is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin, Department of Economics. She will present the paper: "Globalization, Structural Change, and International Comovement" (joint with Barth Bonadio, Zhen Huo and Andrei Levchenko).
Meredith Crowley: Dominant Currency Dynamics: Evidence on dollar-invoicing from UK exporters
Time and place: Mar. 15, 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
ESOP seminar. Meredith Crowley is Reader in International Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge. She will present the paper: "Dominant Currency Dynamics: Evidence on dollar-invoicing from UK exporters" (joint with Lu Han and Minkyu Son).
Corina Boar: Markups and Inequality
Time and place: Mar. 11, 2021 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Corina Boar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at New York University. She will present the paper: "Markups and Inequality" (joint with Virgiliu Midrigan).
Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg: Endogenous Gender Segregation
Time and place: Mar. 5, 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Vegard Sjurseike Wiborg is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, UiO. He will present the paper: "Endogenous Gender Segregation"
2020
Anna Pauls: Signalling bad policy? Incentives for dissent and repression.
Time and place: Dec. 18, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom Department seminar. Anna Pauls is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, UiO. She will present the paper: "Signalling bad policy? Incentives for dissent and repression".
Martin Eckhoff Andresen: What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same Sex Couples.
Time and place: Dec. 11, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Martin Eckhoff Andresen is a senior research economist at Statistics Norway. He will present the paper "What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Adopting and Same Sex Couples" (with Emily Nix, USC).
Maya R. Eden: Aggregating Welfare Gains.
Time and place: Dec. 10, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Maya R. Eden is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Brandeis University. She will present the paper: "Aggregating Welfare Gains".
Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner: Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets.
Time and place: Dec. 4, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Ragnhild Camilla Schreiner is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. She will present the paper: “Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets”.
Emil Verner: Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations.
Time and place: Dec. 3, 2020 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Emil Verner is an Assistant Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan. He will present the paper: "Credit Allocation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations".
Thomas van Huizen: Human capital formation and the quality of early childhood education and care.
Time and place: Nov. 19, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Zoom Department seminar.
Thomas van Huizen is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, School of Economics. He will present the paper: "Human capital formation and the quality of early childhood education and care".
Johannes Boehm: Growth and the Fragmentation of Production.
Time and place: Nov. 12, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Zoom Department seminar.
Johannes Boehm is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Department of Economics, Sciences Po. He will present the paper: "Growth and the Fragmentation of Production"
Robert W. Staiger: International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta.
Time and place: Nov. 5, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Zoom
Department seminar. Robert W. Staiger is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He will present the paper: "International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta".
Kristoffer Berg: Revealing Inequality Aversion from Tax Policy.
Time and place: Oct. 23, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus and Zoom
Department seminar. Kristoffer Berg is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Economics, UiO. He will present the paper: "Revealing Inequality Aversion from Tax Policy"
Giacomo Brusco: Does the Informal Sector Escape the VAT?
Time and place: Oct. 22, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus and Zoom
Department seminar. Giacomo Brusco is a researcher at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Does the Informal Sector Escape the VAT?".
Johannes Fleck: State Tax Policies and the Household Response to Changes in Federal Spending.
Time and place: Oct. 16, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Johannes Fleck is a PhD candidate in economics at the European University Institute in Florence and a guest researcher at the University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "State Tax Policies and the Household Response to Changes in Federal Spending".
Chen Lian: Mistakes in Future Consumption, High MPCs Now.
Time and place: Oct. 14, 2020 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, In Zoom
Department seminar. Chen Lian is an assistant professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. He will present the paper: "Mistakes in Future Consumption, High MPCs Now"
Anna Gumpert: Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments.
Time and place: Oct. 8, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, In Zoom
Department seminar. Anna Gumpert is an assistant professor at the Economics Department of LMU Munich and a research affiliate of CEPR and CESifo. She will present the paper Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments.
Kasper Kragh-Sørensen: Mortgage lending standards: Implications for consumption dynamics.
Time and place: Sep. 25, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Kasper Kragh-Sørensen is a postdoctoral researcher of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Mortgage lending standards: Implications for consumption dynamics".
Rick van der Ploeg: Asset Diversification versus Climate Action
Time: Sep. 24, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM
Department seminar. Rick van der Ploeg is Professor of Economics, and Research Director at Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre). He will present the paper: "Asset Diversification versus Climate Action".
Morten Nyborg Støstad: Inequality as an Externality: Consequences for Tax Design.
Time and place: Sep. 18, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Morten Nyborg Støstad, Paris School of Economics. He will present the paper: “Inequality as an Externality: Consequences for Tax Design” (joint with Frank Cowell).
Waldemar Marz: Climate Policy and Inequality in Two-Dimensional Political Competition.
Time and place: Sep. 4, 2020 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Waldemar Marz is a postdoctoral researcher of Economics at ifo Institute at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich. He will present the paper: “Climate Policy and Inequality in Two-Dimensional Political Competition”.
Plamen Nenov: Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach.
Time and place: Aug. 27, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Plamen Nenov is an Associate Professor of Economics at BI. He will present the paper: "Stock Market Wealth and the Real Economy: A Local Labor Market Approach".
Kristoffer Berg: Revealing equity principles from tax policy.
Time and place: June 19, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Zoom webinar
Department webinar. Kristoffer Berg is a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Revealing equity principles from tax policy”.
Kirill Borusyak: Non-Random Exposure to Natural Experiments: Theory and Applications.
Time and place: June 18, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Zoom webinar
Department webinar. Kirill Borusyak is an Assistant Professor at the University College London (UCL). He will present the paper: "Non-Random Exposure to Natural Experiments: Theory and Applications". Coauthored by Peter Hull.
Cecile Gaubert: Place-Based Redistribution.
Time and place: June 10, 2020 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM, Zoom webinar
Department webinar. Cecile Gaubert is an Assistant Professor at the University of California. She will present the paper: "Place-Based Redistribution". Coauthored by Pat Kline and Danny Yagan.
Bjørn Gjerde Johansen: Portfolio Complementarities and Electric Vehicle Adoption.
Time and place: June 5, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Zoom webinar
Department webinar. Bjørn Gjerde Johansen is a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "Portfolio Complementarities and Electric Vehicle Adoption". Coauthored by Anders Munk-Nielsen.
Alessandro Lizzeri: Rules and Commitment in Communication: an Experimental Analysis.
Time and place: May 28, 2020 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM, Zoom webinar
Department webinar. Alessandro Lizzeri is a Professor at NYU Stern. He will present the paper: "Rules and Commitment in Communication: an Experimental Analysis". Coauthored by Guillaume Frechette and Jacopo Perego.
Yikai Wang: Zoom-seminar: An Analytical SIR model of Epidemics and How Testing Reduces Infections
Time and place: Apr. 2, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Digital seminar in Zoom
Department seminar. Yikai Wang is an assistant professor at the University of Oslo. He will present the paper: An Analytical SIR model of Epidemics and How Testing Reduces Infections
Ingrid Hjort: The relocation effect: Environmental policy, tariffs and political trade-offs
Time and place: Mar. 6, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Ingrid Hjort is a PhD student at the University of Oslo. She will present the paper: "The relocation effect: Environmental policy, tariffs and political trade-offs"
Alexandra Brausmann: Resource discoveries and the duration of autocratic leadership.
Time and place: Feb. 28, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Alexandra Brausmann is a senior researcher at Center of Economic research at ETH Zürich. She will present the paper: “Resource discoveries and the duration of autocratic leadership”. Coauthored by Elise Grieg.
Knut Sunde: Norsk Industris konjunkturrapport 2020
Time and place: Feb. 14, 2020 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Knut Sunde er Direktør og leder for Bransje og Industripolitisk avdeling i Norsk Industri.
Martin Blomhoff Holm: The Transmission of Monetary Policy under the Microscope.
Time and place: Feb. 13, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Martin Blomhoff Holm is an assistant professor at the University of Oslo. He will present the paper: "The Transmission of Monetary Policy under the Microscope". Coauthored by Pascal Paul and Andreas Tischbirek.
Giacomo Brusco: Tax Reform and the Valuation of Superstar Firms.
Time and place: Feb. 6, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Giacomo Brusco is a PhD student at the University of Michigan. He will present the paper: "Tax Reform and the Valuation of Superstar Firms".
Christopher Carroll: Sticky Expectations and Consumption Dynamics.
Time and place: Jan. 30, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Christopher Carroll is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University. He will present the paper "Sticky Expectations and Consumption Dynamics". Coauthored by Edmund Crawley, Jiri Slacalek, Kiichi Tokuoka and Matthew N. White.
Martin Schmalz: (Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits?
Time and place: Jan. 23, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Martin Schmalz is an Associate Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, at University of Oxford. He will present his paper: "(Why) Do Central Banks Care about Their Profits?". Co-authored by Igor Goncharov and Vassos Ioannidou.
Marina Povitkina: In the Shadow of Doubt: Cooperation, Public Officials and Embezzlement.
Time and place: Jan. 17, 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Marina Povitkina is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo. She will present the paper: "In the Shadow of Doubt: Cooperation, Public Officials and Embezzlement", with Andrea Martinangeli.
Kasper Kragh-Sørensen: Optimal Property Taxation.
Time and place: Jan. 16, 2020 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Kasper Kragh-Sørensen is a PhD student at the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University. He will present the paper: "Optimal Property Taxation"
2019
Karol Flores-Szwagrzak: Uncertainty, Observation, and Choice.
Time and place: Dec. 19, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Karol Flores-Szwagrzak is an an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He will present the paper: "Uncertainty, Observation, and Choice".
Takuro Yamashita: Large mechanism design with moment-based allocation externality.
Time and place: Nov. 21, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Takuro Yamashita is an Assistant Professor at Toulouse School of Economics. He will present the paper: "Large mechanism design with moment-based allocation externality".
Walter Bossert: Daunou’s voting rule and the lexicographic assignment of priorities.
Time and place: Nov. 15, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Water Bossert is a Professor of Economics, University of Montréal. He will present the paper: "Daunou’s voting rule and the lexicographic assignment of priorities". Co-authored by Salvador Barbera and Kotaro Suzumura.
Valerie Smeets: Multi-Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies.
Time and place: Nov. 14, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Valerie Smeets is a professor at Aarhus University, Department of Economics and Business in Denmark. She will present the paper: "Multi-Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies". Co-authored by Emmanuel Dhyne, Amil Petrin and Frederic Warzynski.
Winnie van Dijk: The socio-economic consequences of housing assistance.
Time and place: Nov. 7, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Winnie van Dijk is a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Chicago Becker Friedman Institute. She will present the paper: "The socio-economic consequences of housing assistance".
Hessel Oosterbeek: Elite schools harm marginal students and benefit high achievers: Evidence from admission lotteries.
Time and place: Oct. 24, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Hessel Oosterbeek is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He will present the paper: "Elite schools harm marginal students and benefit high achievers: Evidence from admission lotteries". Co-authored by Nienke Ruijs and Inge de Wolf.
Christian Moser: The Gender Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences.
Time and place: Oct. 18, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Christian Moser is an Assistant Professor within the Economics Division at Columbia Business School. He will present the paper: "The Gender Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences". Co-authored by Iacopo Morchio.
David Weinstein: The Impact of E-Commerce on Relative Prices and Consumer Welfare
Time and place: Oct. 17, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. David Weinstein is a Professor at Columbia University. He will present the paper: "The Impact of E-Commerce on Relative Prices and Consumer Welfare". Co-authored by Yoon J. Jo and Misaki Matsumura.
Mary Amiti: Dominant Currencies: How firms choose currency invoicing and why it matters?
Time and place: Oct. 14, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Mary Amiti is an Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She will present the paper: "Dominant Currencies: How firms choose currency invoicing and why it matters?". Co-authored by Oleg Itskhoki and Jozef Konings.
Nicolas Coeurdacier: Capital Flows in an Aging World.
Time and place: Oct. 10, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Nicolas Coeurdacier is an Associate Professor of Economics at SciencesPo. He will present the paper: "Capital Flows in an Aging World". Co-authored by Z. Barany and S. Guibaud.
Eric Nævdal: The Effect Of Increased Productivity In The Management Of Renewable Resources – And Some Stuff You Didn't Know About The Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans Model.
Time and place: Oct. 4, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Eric Nævdal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Frisch Centre. He will present the paper: "The Effect Of Increased Productivity In The Management Of Renewable Resources – And Some Stuff You Didn't Know About The Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans Model"
Bas Jacobs: The Public Finance Approach to Optimal Stabilization Policy.
Time and place: Oct. 3, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Bas Jacobs is a Full Professor at Erasmus School of Economics. He will present his paper: "The Public Finance Approach to Optimal Stabilization Policy".
Martin Schmalz: Common-Ownership Concentration and Corporate Conduct.
Time and place: Sep. 27, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Martin Schmalz is an Associate Professor of Finance, Saïd Business School, at University of Oxford. He will present his paper: "Common-Ownership Concentration and Corporate Conduct".
Adrien Auclert: Demographics, Wealth and Interest Rates in the 21st Century.
Time and place: Sep. 26, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Adrien Auclert is an Assistant Professor in the Stanford Economics Department. He will present the paper: "Demographics, Wealth and Interest Rates in the 21st Century". Co-authored by Hannes Malmberg, Frederic Martenet, and Matt Rognlie.
Abhijeet Singh: Auditing and Improving Education Data in Developing Countries.
Time and place: Sep. 19, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Abhijeet Singh is an Assistant Professor at the Stockholm School of Economics. He will present his paper: The Myths of Official Measurement: "Auditing and Improving Education Data in Developing Countries"
Luigi Bocola: Imperfect Risk-Sharing And The Business Cycle.
Time and place: Sep. 12, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Luigi Bocola is an an Assistant Professor in the Stanford Economics Department. He will present the paper: "Imperfect Risk-Sharing And The Business Cycle", co-authored by David Berger and Alessandro Dovis.
Hanne Marit Dalen: Is it the environmentalist talking?
Time and place: Sep. 6, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Hanne Marit Dalen is a PhD candidate at the University of Oslo. She will present her thesis: "Is it the environmentalist talking?"
Hans Hvide: Do Temporary Demand Shocks have Long-Term Effects for Startups?
Time and place: Sep. 5, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Hans Hvide is a Professor at the University of Bergen (UiB). He will present his paper: "Do Temporary Demand Shocks have Long-Term Effects for Startups?", which is co-authored by Tom G. Meling.
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg:Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution.
Time and place: Aug. 22, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg is a Professor in the Princeton Economics Department. He will present a paper entitled "Cognitive Hubs and Spatial Redistribution", co-authored by Pierre-Daniel Sarte and Felipe Schwartzman.
Herman Kruse:Joint Retirement in Couples Evidence of Asymmetric Complementarity in Leisure.
Time and place: June 27, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Herman Kruse is a PhD student at Department of Economics, UiO. He will present a paper entitled "Joint Retirement in Couples Evidence of Asymmetric Complementarity in Leisure"
Francesco Trebbi:Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises.
Time and place: June 19, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 529, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Francesco Trebbi is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia. He will present a paper entitled "Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises" co-authored with Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer, and Julien Labonne.
Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss: Unbiased Treatment Effects with Interference: Theory and Evidence from a Large-Scale Voting Experiment.
Time and place: June 14, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss is a PhD Candidate at NHH. He will present a paper entitled "Unbiased Treatment Effects with Interference: Theory and Evidence from a Large-Scale Voting Experiment".
Jeremy McCauley: The Role of Information in Explaining the Lack of Welfare-Induced Migration.
Time and place: June 13, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1220, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Jeremy McCauley recently finished his PhD in Economics at University College London and he will be joining the University of Bristol as a lecturer . He will present a paper entitled "The Role of Information in Explaining the Lack of Welfare-Induced Migration".
Frikk Nesje: Cross-dynastic Intergenerational Altruism.
Time and place: June 7, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Frikk Nesje is a PhD student at UiO and Research fellow at the University of Heidelberg. He will present a paper entitled "Cross-dynastic Intergenerational Altruism".
Gabriel Carroll:Information Games and Robust Trading Mechanisms.
Time and place: June 6, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Gabriel Carroll is an Assistant Professor in Department of Economics, Stanford University. He will present a paper entitled "Information Games and Robust Trading Mechanisms".
Gaurab Aryal: Coordinated Capacity Reductions and Public Communication in the Airline Industry.
Time and place: May 24, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Gaurab Aryal is an assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. He will present a paper entitled "Coordinated Capacity Reductions and Public Communication in the Airline Industry", co-authored by Federico Cilibertoz and Benjamin T. Leyden.
Pete Klenow:A Theory of Falling Growthand Rising Rents.
Time and place: May 23, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Pete Klenow is a Professor at Stanford University. He will present a paper entitled "A Theory of Falling Growthand Rising Rents" co-authored by Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, Timo Boppart, and Huiyu Li.
Asher Wolinsky: Auctions with bidder recruitment.
Time and place: May 16, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Asher Wolinsky is a Professor at Northwestern University. He will present a paper entitled "Auctions with bidder recruitment"
Paula Bustos: Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth.
Time and place: May 9, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Paula Bustos is an Associate Professor at CEMFI. She will present a paper entitled "Structural Transformation, Industrial Specialization, and Endogenous Growth", co-authored by Juan Manuel Castro Vincenzi, Joan Monras, and Jacopo Ponticelli.
Marc-Andreas Muendler: Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy.
Time and place: May 3, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Marc-Andreas Muendler is a Professor at University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). He will present a paper entitled "Tasks, Occupations, and Wage Inequality in an Open Economy", co-authored by S. Becker, H. Egger and M. Koch.
Anne Gielen: Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance.
Time and place: May 2, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Anne Gielen is an Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, Rotterdam. She will present a paper entitled "Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance", co-authored by Gordon B. Dahl.
Larry Karp:Sober optimism and the formation of international environmental agreements.
Time and place: Apr. 25, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Larry Karp is a Professor at University of California, Berkeley. He will present a paper entitled "Sober optimism and the formation of international environmental agreements", co-authored by Hiroaki Sakamoto.
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato: Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior: Evidence from China's VAT Reform.
Time and place: Apr. 12, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato is an Assistant Professor at Duke University. He will present a paper entitled "Tax Policy and Lumpy Investment Behavior: Evidence from China's VAT Reform", co-authored by Zhao Chen, Xian Jiang, Zhikuo Liu, and Daniel Yi Xu.
Martin Eckhoff Andresen: What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Same Sex Couples and Policy Reforms.
Time and place: Apr. 11, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Martin E. Andresen is a research economist at Statistics Norway. He will present a paper entitled "What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Same Sex Couples and Policy Reforms", co-authored by Emily Nix.
Thierry Mayer: Poor Substitutes? Counterfactual methods in IO and Trade compared.
Time and place: Apr. 4, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Thierry Mayer is a Professor at Sciences Po. He will present a paper entitled "Poor Substitutes? Counterfactual methods in IO and Trade compared", co-authored by Keith Head.
Christopher Walters: Monitoring discrimination with experimental audits: some possibility results.
Time and place: Mar. 28, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Christopher Walters is an Associate Professor at University of California, Berkeley. He will present a paper entitled "Monitoring discrimination with experimental audits: some possibility results" co-authored with Patrick Kline.
Leeat Yariv: Optimal Dynamic Matching.
Time and place: Mar. 21, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Leeat Yariv is a Professor at Princeton University. She will present a paper entitled "Optimal Dynamic Matching" co-authored by Mariagiovanna Baccara and SangMok Lee.
Ludwig Straub: Investment, heterogeneity, inattention.
Time and place: Mar. 15, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Ludwig Straub is a post-doctoral fellow in economics at Harvard. He will present a paper entitled "Investment, heterogeneity, inattention".
Andrew Bernard: Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization.
Time and place: Mar. 14, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Andrew Bernard is a Professor at Dartmouth. He will present a paper entitled "Heterogeneous Globalization: Offshoring and Reorganization", co-authored by Teresa Fort, Valerie Smeets, and Frederic Warzynski.
Maria Saez-Marti: Give me a break.
Time and place: Mar. 8, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. María Sáez Martí is senior lecturer at Yale. She will present a paper entitled "Give me a break".
Stefania Garetto: Multinational Expansion in Time and Space".
Time and place: Mar. 7, 2019 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Stefania Garetto is an Assistant Professor at Boston University. She will present a paper entitled "Multinational Expansion in Time and Space".
Mikkel Høst Gandil: Defying Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation.
Time and place: Jan. 25, 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Mikkel Høst Gandil is a PhD student in economics at University of Copenhagen. He will present a paper entitled "Defying Attendance Boundary Policies and the Limits to Combating School Segregation"
2018
Michael Best: Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats.
Time and place: Dec. 14, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
OFS seminar. Michael Best is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He will present a paper entitled "Incentives and the Allocation of Authority in Organizations: A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats" co-authored by Oriana Bandiera, Adnan Khan, and Andrea Prat.
Ralph Winkler: Incentives for Technology Investments in International Climate Policy.
Time and place: Dec. 6, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Ralph Winkler is a Professor at the University of Bern. He will present a paper entitled "Incentives for Technology Investments in International Climate Policy".
David Myatt: Advertising, List Prices, and Discounts in a Robust Clearinghouse Model of Sales.
Time and place: Nov. 29, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. David Myatt is a Professor of Economics at the London Business School. He will present a paper entitled "Advertising, List Prices, and Discounts in a Robust Clearinghouse Model of Sales" co-authored by David Ronayne.
Fulvio Castellacci: Internet Use and the U-shaped relationship between Age and Well-being.
Time and place: Nov. 23, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Fulvio Castellacci is the director of the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "Internet Use and the U-shaped relationship between Age and Well-being" co-authored by Henrik Schwabe.
Chang-Koo Chi: Relational Incentive Contracts and performance Measurement.
Time and place: Nov. 22, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Chang-Koo Chi is a Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He will present a paper entitled "Relational Incentive Contracts and performance Measurement" co-authored by Trond E. Olsen.
Stéphane Zuber:Integrated assessment of climate and population change: A first pass.
Time and place: Nov. 16, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Stéphane Zuber is a researcher at CNRS and the Paris School of Economics. He will present a paper entitled "Integrated assessment of climate and population change: A first pass" co-authored by Antonin Pottier, Marc Fleurbaey, and Aurélie Méjean.
Lorenzo Caliendo:Distortions and the Structure of the World Economy"
Time and place: Nov. 15, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Lorenzo Caliendo is a Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management. He will present a paper entitled "Distortions and the Structure of the World Economy" co-authored by Fernando Parro and Aleh Tsyvinski.
Federica Coelli:Trade policy uncertainty and innovation: evidence from China.
Time and place: Nov. 9, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Federica Coelli is a researcher at UiO . She will present a paper entitled "Trade policy uncertainty and innovation: evidence from China".
Balázs Szentes: Optimal Monitoring Design.
Time and place: Nov. 8, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Balázs Szentes is a Professor at the London School of Economics. He will present a paper entitled "Optimal Monitoring Design" co-authored by George Georgiadis.
Caroline Paunov:The economic impact of the digital transformation.
Time and place: Nov. 7, 2018 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Caroline Paunov is Senior Economist and Head of Secretariat for the OECD Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) at the Directorate for Science, Technology, and Innovation of the OECD. She will present a paper entitled "The economic impact of the digital transformation".
Tony Smith:The Historical Evolution of the Wealth-Distribution: A Quantitative-Theoretic Investigation.
Time and place: Nov. 2, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Tony Smith is a Professor of Economics at Yale University. He will present a paper entitled "The Historical Evolution of the Wealth-Distribution: A Quantitative-Theoretic Investigation", co-authored by Joachim Hubmer and Per Krusell.
Jakob Munch:Globalization and CEO Pay: Good Managers or Good Luck?
Time and place: Nov. 1, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Jakob Munch is a Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He will present a paper entitled "Globalization and CEO Pay: Good Managers or Good Luck?", co-authored by Svend Andersen and David Hummels.
Glen Weyl:Taking Vickrey Seriously, Not Literally.
Time and place: Oct. 26, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Glen Weyl is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New York City. He will present a paper entitled "Taking Vickrey Seriously, Not Literally", co-authored with Vitalik Buterin
Dinand Webbink: The Price of Forced Attendance.
Time and place: Oct. 25, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Dinand Webbink is a Professor of Policy Evaluation at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. He will present a paper entitled "The Price of Forced Attendance" co-authored by Sacha Kapoor and Matthijs Oosterveen.
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis:Labor "Share Decline and Intellectual Property Products Capital"and "Growth Facts with Intellectual Property Products: An Exploration of 31 OECD New National Accounts."
Time and place: Oct. 18, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis is an Assistant Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He will present a combination of two papers entitled "Labor Share Decline and Intellectual Property Products Capital" co-authored by Dongya Koh and Yu Zheng, and "Growth Facts with Intellectual Property Products: An Exploration of 31 OECD New National Accounts" co-authored by Sangmin Aum and Dongya Koh.
Harald Fadinger:The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis.
Time and place: Oct. 11, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Harald Fadinger is an Associate Professor of International Economics at the University of Mannheim. He will present a paper entitled "The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity: Regional Heterogeneity, Asymmetries and Hysteresis", co-authored by Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat and Yanping Liu.
Arash Nekoei:How do Inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Theory and Evidence from Sweden.
Time and place: Oct. 4, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Arash Nekoei is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for International Economics at Stockholm University. He will present a paper entitled "How do Inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Theory and Evidence from Sweden", co-authored by David Seim.
John Broome:Separability, discounting and population ethics.
Time and place: Sep. 28, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. John Broome is Emeritus White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He will hold a presentation on "Separability, discounting and population ethics".
Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee,:Labor (Mis)Allocation and Development: Evidence from East Germany.
Time and place: Sep. 27, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Sang Yoon (Tim) Lee is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Toulouse School of Economics. He will present a paper entitled "Labor (Mis)Allocation and Development: Evidence from East Germany".
Alessandra Fogli:The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US cities.
Time and place: Sep. 20, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Alessandra Fogli is Senior Research Economist and Assistant Director,Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She will present a paper entitled "The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US cities", co-authored by Veronica Guerrieri.
Julia Cajal Grossi: International Buyers and Firm Performance.
Time and place: Sep. 14, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Julia Cajal Grossi is an Assistant Professor at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She will present a paper entitled "International Buyers and Firm Performance", co-authored by Rocco Macchiavello and Guillermo Noguera.
Felix Tintelnot:Trade and Domestic Production Networks.
Time and place: Sep. 13, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Felix Tintelnot is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. He will present a paper entitled "Trade and Domestic Production Networks", co-authored by Ayumu Ken Kikkawa, Magne Mogstad and Emmanuel Dhyne.
Peter Cramton.
Time and place: Sep. 6, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Peter Cramton is a Professor at the University of Cologne.
Mark Aguiar: Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men.
Time and place: Aug. 30, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Mark Aguiar is the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University. He will present a paper entitled "Leisure Luxuries and the Labor Supply of Young Men", co-authored by Mark Bils, Kerwin Kofi Charles and Erik Hurst.
Svein Johansen: Statistics Norway presents Microdata.no.
Time and place: Aug. 24, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Microdata to go, online, no applications needed. With their new service microdata.no NSD and SSB offer researchers instant online access to microdata without any applications. On an inhouse demo Friday 24 August Statistics Norway shows how to access the service, how it works, what it contains, and how you use it.
Dirk Krueger: Neoclassical Growth with Long-Term One-Sided Commitment Contracts.
Time and place: Aug. 23, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Dirk Krueger is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He will present a paper entitled "Neoclassical Growth with Long-Term One-Sided Commitment Contracts", co-authored by Harald Uhlig.
David Silver: Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and the Distribution of Marginal Returns to Health Care.
Time and place: Aug. 17, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. David Silver is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He will present a paper entitled "Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and the Distribution of Marginal Returns to Health Care".
John Eric Humphries: Does eviction cause poverty? Quasi-experimental evidence from Cook County, IL.
Time and place: Aug. 16, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. John Eric Humphries is an Assistant Professor at Yale University. He will present a paper entitled "Does eviction cause poverty? Quasi-experimental evidence from Cook County, IL", co-authored by Nicholas Mader, Daniel Tannenbaum, and Winnie van Dijk.
Tibor Besedes: Trade Integration and the Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics.
Time and place: June 22, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus.
Department seminar. Tibor Besedes is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He will present a paper entitled "Trade Integration and the Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics", co-authored by Juan Moreno-Cruz and Volker Nitsch.
Arnaud Costinot: Robots, Trade, and Luddism.
Time and place: June 21, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Arnaud Costinot is a Professor at MIT. He will present a paper entitled "Robots, Trade, and Luddism", co-authored by Iván Werning.
Nicolai Ellingsen: Lumpy investment and capital misallocation.
Time and place: June 15, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Nicolai Ellingsen is a PhD candidate at UiO. He will present a paper entitled "Lumpy investment and capital misallocation".
Helene Onshuus: Does High Leverage Amplify Consumption Response to Income changes?
Time and place: June 14, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Helene Onshuus is a PhD candidate at UiO. She will present a paper entitled "Does High Leverage Amplify Consumption Response to Income changes?", co-authored by Andreas Fagereng and Kjersti Næss Torstensen.
Joseph Doyle: Measuring Physician Quality: Evidence from Physician Availability
Time and place: June 1, 2018 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Associate Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He will present a paper entitled "Measuring Physician Quality: Evidence from Physician Availability".
Valerie A. Ramey: What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?
Time and place: May 31, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Valerie A. Ramey is a Professor of Economics at UC San Diego. She will present a paper entitled "What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?".
Serdar Ozkan: Sources of Inequality in Earnings Growth Over the Life Cycle.
Time and place: May 25, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Serdar Ozkan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He will present a paper entitled "Sources of Inequality in Earnings Growth Over the Life Cycle", co-authored by Fatih Karahan and Jae Song.
Richard Priestley: Consumption fluctuations and expected returns.
Time and place: May 24, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Richard Priestley is a professor at BI. He will present a paper entitled "Consumption fluctuations and expected returns", co-authored by Victoria Atanasov.
Arunava Sen: Matching with Partners and Projects.
Time and place: May 4, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Arunava Sen is a Professor at the Indian Statistical Insititute. He will present a paper entitled "Matching with Partners and Projects", co-authored by Antonio Nicolò and Sonal Yadav.
Keith Kuester: The dark side of low(ering) interest rates.
Time and place: May 3, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Keith Kuester is a Professor at the University of Bonn. He will present a paper entitled "The dark side of low(ering) interest rates", co-authored by Pablo Guerrón-Quintana.
Marte E. S. Ulvestad: Sickness absence and the importance of the workplace: Evidence from employee mobility.
Time and place: Apr. 20, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Marte E. S. Ulvestad is a PhD candidate at the Frisch Centre. She will present a paper entitled "Sickness absence and the importance of the workplace: Evidence from employee mobility".
Dennis Novy: Currency Unions, Trade, and Heterogeneity.
Time and place: Apr. 19, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Dennis Novy is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He will present a paper entitled "Currency Unions, Trade, and Heterogeneity", co-authored by Natalie Chen.
Pierre-Philippe Combes: The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities.
Time and place: Apr. 13, 2018 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
OFS seminar. Pierre-Philippe Combes is a Research Professor at GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne. He will present a paper entitled "The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities", co-authored by Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon.
Nicolas Berman: Fertile Ground for Conflict.
Time and place: Apr. 12, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Nicolas Berman is a Professor at Aix-Marseille University. He will present a paper entitled "Fertile Ground for Conflict", co-authored by Mathieu Couttenier, and Raphael Soubeyran.
Teodora Boneva: Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments.
Time and place: Apr. 5, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Teodora Boneva is a Post-doctoral fellow at University College London. She will present a paper entitled "Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments", co-authored Pietro Biroli, Akash Raja, and Christopher Rauh.
Espen Moen: Optimal Taxation with On-the-Job Search.
Time and place: Mar. 23, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Espen Moen is a Professor at BI. He will present a paper entitled "Optimal Taxation with On-the-Job Search", co-authored by Jesper Bagger, and Rune M. Vejlin.
Ezra Oberfield: Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production.
Time and place: Mar. 22, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Ezra Oberfield is an Assitant Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He will present a paper entitled "Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production", co-authored by Johannes Boehm.
Francis Kramarz: Firm-to-Firm Trade: imports, exports and the labor market.
Time and place: Mar. 15, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Francis Kramarz is a Professor at ENSAE ParisTech. He will present a paper entitled "Firm-to-Firm Trade: imports, exports and the labor market", co-authored by Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum.
Stephen Jenkins: How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics? Evidence from two rich countries.
Time and place: Mar. 9, 2018 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
OFS seminar. Stephen Jenkins is a Professor of Economic and Social Policy at LSE. He will present a paper entitled "How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics? Evidence from two rich countries", co-authored by Nicolas Hérault.
Matti Sarvimäki: Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations.
Time and place: Mar. 8, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Matti Sarvimäki is a Research Fellow at Aalto University and an Associate Research Professor at the VATT Institute for Economic Research. He will present a paper entitled "Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations", co-authored by Roope Uusitalo, and Markus Jäntti.
Knut Sunde: Norsk Industris konjunkturrapport 2018
Time and place: Mar. 2, 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Staff lunch seminar. Knut Sunde er Direktør og leder for Bransje og Industripolitisk avdeling i Norsk Industri.
Christoph Wolf: Informative Milestones in Experimentation.
Time and place: Mar. 1, 2018 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Christoph Wolf is an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. He will present a paper entitled "Informative Milestones in Experimentation".
2017
Anna Sanktjohanser: Endogenous Monitoring in a Partnership Game.
Time and place: Dec. 15, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Anna Sanktjohanser is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics. She will present a paper entitled "Endogenous Monitoring in a Partnership Game".
Moritz Kuhn: Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2013.
Time and place: Dec. 14, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Moritz Kuhn is an Associate Professor at the University of Bonn. He will present a paper entitled "Income and Wealth Inequality in America, 1949-2013", co-authored by Moritz Schularick, and Ulrike I. Steins.
Ralph Ossa: A Quantitative Analysis of Subsidy Competition in the U.S.
Time and place: Dec. 7, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Ralph Ossa is a Professor of Economics of Globalization and Emerging Markets at the University of Zurich. He will present a paper entitled "A Quantitative Analysis of Subsidy Competition in the U.S.".
Eduardo Perez-Richet: Information Design under Falsification.
Time and place: Nov. 30, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Eduardo Perez-Richet is a professor at the department of economics at Sciences Po. He will present a paper entitled "Information Design under Falsification", co-authored by Vasiliki Skreta.
David Dorn: Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure.
Time and place: Nov. 23, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. David Dorn is a Professor of International Trade and Labor Markets at the University of Zurich. He will present a paper entitled "Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure", co-authored by David Autor, Gordon Hanson, and Kaveh Majlesi.
Rossella Argenziano: Precedents, Reputation, and Higher-Order Induction. And: Second-Order Induction and Agreement.
Time and place: Nov. 16, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Rossella Argenziano is an Associate Professor at the University of Essex. She will present two papers entitled "Precedents, Reputation, and Higher-Order Induction" and "Second-Order Induction and Agreement", both co-authored by Itzhak Gilboa.
Claire Lim: The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures.
Time and place: Nov. 10, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Claire Lim is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University. She will present a paper entitled "The Political Economy of Medicaid: Ideology, Eligibility, and the Consequences of Cost-Saving Measures", co-authored by Jee Hun Choi.
Jan De Loecker: The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications.
Time and place: Nov. 9, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Jan De Loecker is a Professor of Economics at the University of Leuven. He will present a paper entitled "The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications", co-authored by Jan Eeckhout.
Guillermo Peña: A new approach to financial VAT and Does financial VAT affect the size of the financial sector?
Time and place: Nov. 3, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
OFS seminar. Guillermo Peña is a PhD student of Economics at the Department of Public Economics of the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He will present two recent papers, entitled “A new approach to financial VAT” and “Does financial VAT affect the size of the financial sector?”, both co-authored by Julio López Laborda.
Fabian Waldinger: Jewish Managers and Firm Performance - Evidence from ‘Aryanizations’ of Jewish Firms in Nazi Germany.
Time and place: Nov. 2, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Fabian Waldinger is an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics. He will present a paper entitled "Jewish Managers and Firm Performance - Evidence from ‘Aryanizations’ of Jewish Firms in Nazi Germany".
Hans K. Hvide: University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege.
Time and place: Oct. 26, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Hans K. Hvide is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Bergen. He will present a paper entitled "University Innovation and the Professor's Privilege", co-authored by Benjamin F. Jones.
Kyle Herkenhoff: Worker Mobility and the Diffusion of Knowledge.
Time and place: Oct. 12, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Kyle Herkenhoff is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. He will present a paper entitled "Worker Mobility and the Diffusion of Knowledge", co-authored by Jeremy Lise, Guido Menzio, and Gordon Phillips.
Tuomas Laiho: Information Acquisition in Common Pool Problems.
Time and place: Sep. 29, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Tuomas Laiho is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oslo. He will present a paper entitled "Information Acquisition in Common Pool Problems", co-authored by Olli-Pekka Kuusela.
Navin Kartik: Muddled Information.
Time and place: Sep. 28, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Navin Kartik is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University. He will present a paper entitled "Muddled Information", co-authored by Alex Frankel.
Andrea Papini: Business Income Risk and The Insurance Role of Taxation in Norway, 1993-2013.
Time and place: Sep. 22, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Andrea Papini is a Ph.D Candidate at UiO. He will present a paper entitled "Business Income Risk and The Insurance Role of Taxation in Norway, 1993-2013".
François Maniquet: Preference Responsibility vs Poverty Reduction in the Taxation of Labor Incomes.
Time and place: Sep. 21, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. François Maniquet is a professor at Université Catholique de Louvain. He will present a paper entitled "Preference Responsibility vs Poverty Reduction in the Taxation of Labor Incomes", co-authored by Lancelot Henry de Frahan.
Bryan S. Graham: Homophily and transitivity in dynamic network formation.
Time and place: Sep. 14, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Bryan S. Graham is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He will present a paper entitled "Homophily and transitivity in dynamic network formation".
Eliana La Ferrara: The political economy of enforcing program conditions: Evidence from Brazil.
Time and place: Sep. 8, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Eliana La Ferrara is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. She will present a paper entitled "The political economy of enforcing program conditions: Evidence from Brazil", co-authored by Fernanda Brollo, and Katja Kaufmann.
Claudio Michelacci: Ambiguous Policy Announcements.
Time and place: Sep. 7, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Claudio Michelacci is the Bajola Parisani Professor at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. He will present a paper entitled "Ambiguous Policy Announcements", co-authored by Luigi Paciello.
Luigi Pistaferri: Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth.
Time and place: Aug. 31, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Luigi Pistaferri is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He will present a paper entitled "Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth", co-authored by Andreas Fagereng, Luigi Guiso, and Davide Malacrino.
Jonathan Heathcote: Wealth and Volatility.
Time and place: Aug. 30, 2017 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Staff seminar. Jonathan Heathcote is a monetary advisor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He will present a paper entitled "Wealth and Volatility", co-authored by Fabrizio Perri.
Matthew Notowidigdo: Quantifying the Welfare Gains from Variety: A Sufficient Statistics Approach.
Time and place: Aug. 25, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
OFS seminar. Matthew Notowidigdo is an Associate Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He will present a paper entitled "Quantifying the Welfare Gains from Variety: A Sufficient Statistics Approach", co-authored by Kory Kroft, Jean-William P. Laliberté, and René Leal-Vizcaíno.
Fabian Lange: Supervisors and Performance Management Systems.
Time and place: Aug. 24, 2017 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Fabian Lange is an Associate Professor of Economics at McGill University. He will present a paper entitled "Supervisors and Performance Management Systems", co-authored by Anders Frederiksen, and Lisa B. Kahn.
Ingvil Gaarder: Incidence and Distributional Effects of Value Added Taxes.
Time and place: Aug. 18, 2017 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
OFS seminar. Ingvil Gaarder is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. She will present a paper entitled "Incidence and Distributional Effects of Value Added Taxes".
Diego Restuccia: Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China.
Time and place: Aug. 17, 2017 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Diego Restuccia is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He will present a paper entitled "Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China", co-authored by Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, and Jessica Leight.
2016
Francesco Nava: Multi-Variety Durable-Goods Monopoly.
Time and place: Dec. 15, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Francesco Nava is Lecturer at London School of Economics. He will present a paper entitled "Multi-Variety Durable-Goods Monopoly", written jointly with Pasquale Schiraldi.
Adam Szeidl: Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance.
Time and place: Dec. 1, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Adam Szeidl is Professor of Economics at Central European University. He will present the paper "Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance" written jointly with Jing Cai.
Nezih Guner: Child-Related Transfers, Household Labor Supply and Welfare.
Time and place: Nov. 24, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Nezih Guner is Adjunct Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He will present a paper entitled "Child-Related Transfers, Household Labor Supply and Welfare", written jointly with Remzi Kaygusuz and Gustavo Ventura.
Juuso Valimaki: Affiliated All-Pay Auctions.
Time and place: Nov. 17, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Juuso Valimaki is Professor of Economics at Aalto University. He will present a paper entitled "Affiliated All-Pay Auctions", written jointly with Chang-Koo Chi, Pauli Murto.
Torfinn Harding: The Effects of Land Use Regulation on Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon.
Time and place: Nov. 10, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Torfinn Harding is Associate Professor at NHH. He will present a paper entitled "The Effects of Land Use Regulation on Deforestation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon", written jointly with Liana O. Anderson, Samantha De Martino, Karlygash Kuralbayeva and Andre Lima.
Mikael Lindahl: Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility.
Time and place: Nov. 3, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Mikael Lindahl is Professor of Economics at the University of Gothenburg. He will present the paper "Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility".
Kalina B. Manova: Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US.
Time and place: Oct. 27, 2016 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Kalina B. Manova is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. She will present the paper " Managing Trade: Evidence from China and the US ", written jointly with Nick Bloom, John van Reenen, Stephen Sun and Zhihong Yu.
Pietro Tebaldi: Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design under the ACA.
Time and place: Oct. 20, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Pietro Tebaldi is Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. He will present the paper "Estimating Equilibrium in Health Insurance Exchanges: Price Competition and Subsidy Design under the ACA".
Etienne Lalé: The Rise of Part-time Employment.
Time and place: Oct. 13, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Etienne Lalé is Assistant Professor at the University of Bristol. He will present a paper entitled "The Rise of Part-time Employment", written jointly with Daniel Borowczyk-Martins.
Wei Cui: Search-Based Endogenous Asset Liquidity and the Macroeconomy.
Time and place: Sep. 29, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Wei Cui is Assistant Professor at the University College London. He will present a paper entitled "Search-Based Endogenous Asset Liquidity and the Macroeconomy", written jointly with Sören Radde.
Eric Swanson: Implications of Labor Market Frictions for Risk Aversion and Risk Premia.
Time and place: Sep. 27, 2016 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Eric Swanson is Professor of Economics at UC Irvine. He will present his paper «Implications of Labor Market Frictions for Risk Aversion and Risk Premia».
Simon Galle: Competition, Financial Constraints and Misallocation: Plant-level Evidence from Indian Manufacturing.
Time and place: Sep. 22, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Simon Galle is Postdoc at BI. He will present his paper "Competition, Financial Constraints and Misallocation: Plant-level Evidence from Indian Manufacturing".
Jim Tybout: Two-sided Search in International Markets.
Time and place: Sep. 15, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Jim Tybout is Professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University. He will present a paper entitled "Two-sided Search in International Markets", written jointly with Eaton, Jinkins and Xu.
Kai Konrad: Budget and Effort Choice in Sequential Colonel Blotto Campaigns.
Time and place: Sep. 8, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Kai Konrad is the Managing Director of Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance. He will present a paper entitled "Budget and Effort Choice in Sequential Colonel Blotto Campaigns".
Benjamin Moll: Monetary Policy According to HANK.
Time and place: Sep. 1, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Benjamin Moll is Assistant Professor at Princeton University. He will present the paper entitled "Monetary Policy According to HANK", written jointly with Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante.
Albert Ma: Product Differentiation with Multiple Qualities.
Time and place: Aug. 25, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Albert Ma is Professor of Economics at Boston University. He will present a paper entitled "Product Differentiation with Multiple Qualities", written jointly with Francesca Barigozzi.
Thomas de Haan: Fairness Preferences in the face of Limited Information.
Time and place: Aug. 18, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Thomas de Haan is assistant professor at NHH. He will present a paper entitled "Fairness Preferences in the face of Limited Information", written jointly with Caroline Bonn, Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden.
Deborah Lucas: Toward Comprehensive Measures of the Costs and Risks of Development Banks: The Case of the KDB.
Time and place: June 24, 2016 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Deborah Lucas is Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT. She will hold a presentation entitled "Toward Comprehensive Measures of the Costs and Risks of Development Banks: The Case of the KDB".
Alisdair McKay: The Automatic Stabilizer Property of Social Insurance Programs.
Time and place: June 23, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Alisdair McKay is assistant professor at Boston University. He will present a paper entitled "The Automatic Stabilizer Property of Social Insurance Programs", written jointly with Ricardo Reis.
Richard Rogerson: Skill-biased Structural Change.
Time and place: June 9, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Richard Rogerson is the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He will present a paper entitled "Skill-biased Structural Change", written jointly with Francisco J. Buera and Joseph P. Kaboski.
Keyu Jin: International Transmission with Heterogeneous Sectors.
Time and place: May 26, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Keyu Jin is assistant professor at LSE. She will present a paper entitled "International Transmission with Heterogeneous Sectors", written jointly with Nan Li.
Rafael Lalive: Does Early Child Care Affect Children’s Development?
Time and place: May 12, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Rafael Lalive is professor of economics at the University of Lausanne. He will present the paper "Does Early Child Care Affect Children’s Development?", written jointly with Christina Felfe.
Alex Solis: The Effects of Grade Retention on Educational Outcomes.
Time and place: Apr. 28, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Alex Solis is an assistant professor at Uppsala University. He will present the paper "The Effects of Grade Retention on Educational Outcomes".
Jakub Steiner: Rational Inattention Dynamics: Inertia and Delay in Decision-Making.
Time and place: Apr. 14, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Jakub Steiner is an associate professor at CERGE-EI. Hw will present the paper "Rational Inattention Dynamics: inertia and delay in decision-making", written jointly with Colin Stewart and Filip Matejka.
Vincent Sterk: The Dark Corners of the Labor Market.
Time and place: Apr. 7, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Vincent Sterk is Assistant Professor at University College London. He will present the paper "The Dark Corners of the Labor Market".
Nezih Guner: Managers and Productivity Differences.
Time and place: Mar. 31, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Nezih Guner is Adjunct Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He will present the paper "Managers and Productivity Differences".
Mark Armstrong: Ordered Consumer Search.
Time and place: Mar. 17, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Mark Armstrong is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. He will present the paper "Ordered Consumer Search".
Nicola Gennaioli: Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles.
Time and place: Mar. 10, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Nicola Gennaioli is professor of economics at Bocconi University. He will present a paper entitled "Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles", written jointly with Pedro Bordalo and Andrei Shleifer.
Rachel Griffith: Bounding Demand Elasticities with Unobserved Choice Set Heterogeneity.
Time and place: Feb. 18, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Rachel Griffith is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She will present the paper "Bounding Demand Elasticities with Unobserved Choice Set Heterogeneity".
Kristin Solberg-Watle: Income smoothing and redistribution from the spouse.
Time and place: Jan. 28, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Kristin Solberg-Watle is a PhD-candidate at the University of Oslo. She will present the paper "Income smoothing and redistribution from the spouse".
Patrick Bolton: A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management.
Time and place: Jan. 21, 2016 2:15 PM – 3:30 PM, Room ES 1047, Eilert Sundts hus
Department seminar. Patrick Bolton is the David Zalaznick Professor of Business at Columbia University. He will present the paper "A Theory of Liquidity and Risk Management", written jointly with Neng Wang and Jinqiang Yang.