Seminar Series
The Department of Economics hosts a weekly research seminar series featuring scholars from Trinity and beyond. These seminars provide a platform for the presentation and discussion of new research across all areas of economics.
Seminars take place on Tuesdays in the TRISS Seminar Room (6th Floor, Arts Building), unless otherwise noted. Some events are organised jointly with the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), and selected seminars are held online via Zoom.
All are welcome to attend. To receive seminar announcements or access Zoom links, please contact: economicsresearch@tcd.ie
Date & Time (Irish time) |
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September 16, 2025 14.00-15.15 Joint with CEPH |
Giacomo de Giorgi (University of Geneva) |
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September 23, 2025 14.00-15.15 |
TBC |
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September 30, 2025 14.00-15.15 |
Christian Merkl (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg |
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7 October, 2025 14:00-15:15 |
Kate Smith (London School of Economics) |
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October 14, 2025 14:00-15:15 |
Wayne Sandholtz (Nova School of Business and Economics) |
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October 21, 2025
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TBC |
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October 28, 2025 READING WEEK |
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November 4, 2025 14:00-15:15 (Joint with CEPH) |
Victoria Gierok (University of Oxford) |
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November 11, 2025 14:00-15:15 |
Pierre Biscaye (Université Clermont Auvergne) |
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November 18, 2025 14:00-15:15 |
Efi Adamopoulou (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) |
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November 25, 2025 14:00-15:15 (Joint with CEPH) |
Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki) |
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December 2, 2025 14.00-15.15 ONLINE |
Barbara Biasi (Yale University) |
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December 9, 2025 |
TBC |
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January 20, 2026 17:00-18:00 (Joint with CEPH) |
Ran Abramitzsky (Stanford University) |
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January 27, 2026 14:00-15:15 (Joint with CEPH) |
Kerstin Enflo (Lund University) |
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February 3, 2026 14:00-15:15 |
Sebastian Rausch (Heidelberg University) |
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February 10, 2026 |
TBC |
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February 17, 2026 |
TBC | |
February 24, 2026 |
Kieran Larkin (University of Stockholm) |
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March 3, 2026 READING WEEK |
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March 10, 2026 14:00-15:00 (Joint with CEPH) |
Antoine Bertheau (Norwegian School of Economics) |
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March 24, 2026 |
TBC |
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March 31, 2026 |
TBC |
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April 7, 2026 14:00-15:15 (Joint with CEPH) |
Ana Moreno Maldonado (University of Mannheim) |
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April 28, 2026
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TBC | |
May 5, 2026 |
TBC | |
May 12, 2026 14:00-15:15 (Joint with CEPH) |
Marc R Flandreau (University of Pennsylvania) |
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May 19, 2026 |
TBC |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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September 12, 2023 |
Katherine Casey (Stanford Graduate School of Business) |
The Incentives to (Not) Debate in Low Information Races |
September 19, 2023 |
Marta Reynal-Querol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
The Colonial Origins of State Capacity: evidence from Spanish Conquerors in Latin America (joint with Tim Besley) |
September 26, 2023 |
Marta Santamaria (Warick University) |
Community Networks and Trade |
October 3, 2023 |
Omar Rachedi (ESADE) |
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm |
October 10, 2023 |
Konstantin Kholodilin (German Institute for Economic Research) |
Who Controls the Rent Controls the Boom |
October 17, 2023 |
Òscar Jordà (UC Davis) |
Loose Monetary Policy and Financial Instability |
October 31, 2023 |
Francesca Parodi (Cattolica University Milan) |
Heterogeneity in Household Spending and Well-being on Retirement (joint with Patrick Moran, Martin O’Connell, Cormac O’Dea) |
November 7, 2023 ONLINE |
Peter Hull (Brown University) |
Racial Discrimination in Child Protection |
November 14, 2023 |
Stefano Gagliarducci (Tor Vergata University of Rome) |
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November 21, 2023 |
Margaret Samahita (University College Dublin) |
Can social pressure stifle free speech |
November 28, 2023 |
Michael B. Devereux (Vancouver School of Economics) |
Foreign Reserves Management and Original Sin |
December 5, 2023 |
Jim Ziliak (University of Kentucky) |
Interpreting Cohort Profiles of Lifecycle Earnings Volatility |
January 23, 2024 |
Daniel Sturm (London School of Economics) |
Neighborhood Effects: Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London |
January 30, 2024 |
Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan) |
From Refugees to Citizens: Labor Market Returns to Naturalization (joint with Francesco Fasani and Maxime Pirot) |
February 6, 2024 |
Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) |
Flow of Ideas: Economic Societies and the Rise of Useful Knowledge (with Francesco Cinnirella and Julius Koschnick) |
February 13, 2024 |
Macartan Humphreys (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) |
Effects of economic and social incentives on bureaucratic quality |
February 20, 2024 |
Jason Sockin (Universtiy of Pennsylvania) |
Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around? |
February 27, 2024 |
Rachel Ngai (Imperial College London & London School of Economics) |
To Own or to Rent?The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets |
March 12, 2024 |
Lucia Corno (Cattolica University Milan) |
“Breast-ironing” and Breast-Feeding: Experimental evidence from Cameroon |
March 19, 2024 |
Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford) |
The Economic Cost of Rape |
March 26, 2024 |
Ben Arold (ETH Zurich) |
Words Matter: The Value of Collective Bargaining Agreements |
April 2, 2024 ONLINE |
Michael D. Bauer (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco) |
Perceptions about Monetary Policy |
April 9, 2024 |
Philipp Ager (University of Mannheim) |
Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming |
April 16, 2024 ONLINE |
Michela Carlana (Harvard Kennedy School) |
How Far Can Inclusion Go? The Long-term Impacts of Preferential College Admissions (with E. Miglino and M. Tincani) |
April 30, 2024 |
Alan de Bromhead (University College Dublin) |
Irish Regional GDP since Independence |
May 7, 2024 ONLINE |
Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) |
Conquering Nature: how the Gotthard-Tunnel changed the European Economy (with Carlo Ciccarelli) |
May 14, 2024 |
Andrew Bernard (Dartmouth College) |
The Great Firewall and Knowledge Diffusion |
June 18, 2024 |
Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson School of Management) |
Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence (with Yiming Cao, Benjamin Enke, Armin Falk and Nathan Nunn) |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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September 13, 2022 ONLINE |
Michela Giorcelli (University of California - Los Angeles) |
The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War (joint with Mattia Bertazzini) |
September 20, 2022 ONLINE |
Refet Gürkaynak (Bilkent University) |
News and Noise Shaping International Yield Curves (joint with Mark Kerssenfischer,Burçin Kısacıkoğlu and Jonathan H. Wright) |
September 27, 2022 |
Valeria Rueda (University of Nottingham) |
Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market (joint with Markus Eberhardt and Giovanni Facchini) |
October 4, 2022 ONLINE |
Christian Redfearn (University of Southern California) |
Houston, You Have a Problem: How Large Cities Accommodate More Housing (joint with Anthony W. Orlando) |
October 11, 2022 |
Christopher Rauh (University of Cambridge) |
The Impact of Fear of Automation |
October 18, 2022 ONLINE |
Oded Galor (Brown University) |
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November 1, 2022 |
Steven Lugauer (University of Kentucky) |
Policy and Misallocation: Evidence from Chinese Firm-Level Data (joint with Guowen Chen and Ana María Herrera) |
November 8, 2022 ONLINE |
Vicky Fouka (Stanford University) |
Fundamentals as Drivers of Moral Change: The British Abolitionist Movement |
November 15, 2022 |
Paula Gobbi (Université Libre de Bruxelles) |
Revolutionary transition: Inheritance change and fertility decline (joint with Victor Gay and Marc Goñi) |
November 22, 2022 ONLINE |
Gauti Eggertsson (Brown University) |
Non-linear IS curves: Microfoundations for a Hyper-Keynesian Model (joint with Manuel Lancaster and Lawrence Summers) |
November 29, 2022 |
Stefano Caria (University of Warwick) |
The Allocation of Incentives in Multi-Layered Organizations (joint with Erika Deserranno, Philipp Kastrau, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta) |
December 6, 2022 ONLINE |
Ruizue Jia (University of California, San Diego) |
Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China |
January 24, 2023 |
Łukasz Rachel (University College London) |
Leisure-Enhancing Technological Change |
January 31, 2023 |
Federico Rossi (University of Warwick) |
Skill Supply and the Organisation of Production |
February 7, 2023 ONLINE |
Stefan Avdjiev (Bank for International Settlements) |
Bank Opacity - Patterns and Implications (joint with Maximilian Jager) |
February 14, 2023 |
Joshua Blumenstock (University of California, Berkeley) |
Machine Learning Targeting of Social Assistance: Evidence from Togo |
February 21, 2023 ONLINE |
Richard Rogerson (Princeton University) |
Occupations, Life Cycle Wage Growth and Inequality (joint with Andres Erosa, Luisa Fuster and Gueorgui Kambourov) |
March 14, 2023 ONLINE |
Andrea Ferrero (University of Oxford) |
Capital Flows and Exchange Rates: A Quantitative Assessment of the Dilemma Hypothesis |
March 21, 2023 |
Tommaso Monacelli (Bocconi University) |
Bewley Banks |
March 30, 2023 |
Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) |
Development Mismatch: Evidence from Land Use Conversions in Pastoral Africa |
April 4, 2023 |
Orla Doyle (University College Dublin) |
Pregnancy Loss: Stress, Investment, and Subsequent Children (joint with Aline Butikoker, Rita Ginja, and Deirdre Coy) |
April 11, 2023 ONLINE |
Amber Peterman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
C’est la vie!: Violence and health impacts of a West African edutainment television series |
April 20, 2023 ONLINE |
Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago) |
How Are Gender Norms Perceived? |
April 25, 2023 |
Henrique S. Basso (Bank of Spain) |
Robot Adoption and Inflation Dynamics (joint with Omar Rachedi) |
May 2, 2023 ONLINE |
Augustin Tapsoba (Toulouse School of Economics) |
Polygyny and the Economic Determinants of Family Formation Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa |
May 9, 2023 |
Eric Melander (University of Birmingham) |
Brexit and the Blitz: Conflict, Collective Memory and Euroscepticism |
May 16, 2023 ONLINE |
Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Undermined Social Cohesion in the US |
May 23, 2023 |
Melanie Xue (London School of Economics) |
Women and Asylums |
May 30, 2023 |
Nico Voigtländer (UCLA, Anderson School of Management) |
Organizing a Kingdom |
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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14 September 2021 |
Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley) |
The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending (joint with Olivier Coibion, Dimitris Georgarakos, Geoff Kenny and Michael Weber) |
21 September 2021 |
Simone Schaner (University of Southern California) |
Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration (joint with Samuel Bazzi, Lisa Cameron and Firman Witoelar) |
22 September 2021 |
Eric T. Swanson (University of California, Irvine) |
An Alternative Explanation for the “Fed Information Effect” (joint with Michael D. Bauer) |
28 September 2021 |
Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) |
Forced Displacement and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Separated Siblings (joint with Giorgio Chiovelli, Elias Papaioannou, and Sandra Sequiera) |
5 October 2021 |
Juan Vargas (Universidad del Rosario) |
Landmines: The Local Effects of Demining (joint with Mounu Prem and Miguel E. Purroy) |
6 October 2021 |
Jordi Gali (CREI) |
Monetary Policy and Endogenous Financial Crises |
12 October 2021 |
Elise Huillery (University Paris-Dauphine) |
Emperors without Scepters: Early Colonial Leaders' Personality and Civil Conflicts (joint with Quoc-Anh Do, Sacha Dray, and Jean-Louis Keene) |
19 October 2021 |
Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto) |
Land Security and Mobility Frictions (joint with Tasso Adamopoulos, Loren Brandt, Chaoran Chen, and Xiaoyun Wei) |
20 October 2021 |
Anna Cieslak (Duke University) |
Policymakers' uncertainty (joint with Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon and Song Xiao) |
2 November 2021 |
Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College) |
The Long-run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India (joint with Sam Asher, Alison Campion and Douglas Gollin) |
3 November 2021 |
Rachel Ngai (LSE) |
Structural Transformation and U-shaped Female Employment (with Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo) |
9 November 2021 |
Claudia Olivetti (Dartmouth College) |
Female Labor Force Participation and Intergenerational Mobility (joint with Jørgen Modalsli, M. Daniele Paserman and Laura Salisbury) |
16 November 2021 |
Douglas A. Irwin (Dartmouth College) |
Trade Payments Reform and Economic Growth Revisited (joint with James Feyrer) |
17 November 2021 |
Ludwig Straub (Harvard University) |
A Goldilocks Theory of Fiscal Policy (joint with Atif Mian and Amir Sufi) |
23 November 2021 |
Greg Martin (Standford University) |
The Impact of Online Competition on Local Newspapers: Evidence from the Introduction of Craigslist (joint with Milena Djourelova and Ruben Durante) |
30 November 2021 |
Jack Willis (Columbia University) |
Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya (joint with Michelle Acampora and Lorenzo Casaburi) |
1 December 2021 |
Doireann Fitzgerald (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) |
How Do Firms Build Market Share? (joint with Daavid Argente, Sara Moreira and Anthony Priolo) |
25 January 2022 |
Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
Automation, Career Values, and Political Outcomes (joint with Gregor Schubert, Bledi Taska, and Pinar Yildirim) |
1 February 2022 |
Marco Tabellini (Harvard Business School) |
Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy (joint with Giacomo Magistretti) |
2 February 2022 |
Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota) |
Why Do Couples and Singles Save During Retirement? (joint with Eric French, John Bailey Jones and Rory McGee) |
8 February 2022 |
Vincent Pons (Harvard Business School) |
Electoral Turnovers (joint with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet) |
15 February 2022 |
James Fenske (University of Warwick) |
Missing Women in Colonial India (joint with Bishnupriya Gupta and Cora Neumann) |
February 2022 |
Juan M Sanchez (Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis) |
Domestic Policies and Sovereign Default (joint with Emilio Espino, Julian Kozlowski and Fernando M. Martin) |
22 February 2022 |
Sule Alan (European University Institute) |
Improving Workplace Climate in Large Corporations: A Clustered Randomized Intervention (joint with Gozde Corekcioglu and Matthias Sutter) |
1 March 2022 |
Per Krusell (Stockholm University) |
The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture (joint with Timo Boppart, Patrick Kiernan, and Hannes Malmberg) |
2 March 2022 |
Morten Ravn (University College London) |
Financial Frictions: Micro vs Macro Volatility (joint with Seungcheol Lee and Ralph Luetticke) |
15 March 2022 |
Maria Carreri (University of California, San Diego) |
Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia (joint with Luis R. Martinez) |
16 March 2022 |
Luca Macedoni (Aarhus University) |
Large Firms, Consumer Heterogeneity and the Rising Share of Profits (joint with Robert Feenstra and Mingzhi Xu) |
22 March 2022 |
Jan de Loecker (KU Leuven) |
The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel (joint with John Asker and Allan Collard-Wexler) |
29 March 2022 |
Torsten Persson (Stockholm University) |
The Political Economics of Green Transitions (joint with Tim Besley) |
30 March 2022 |
Liliana Varela (London School of Economics) |
Labor Supply and Establishment Size (joint with Lin Shao and Faisal Sohail) |
5 April 2022 |
Emircan Yurdagul (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) |
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12 April 2022 |
Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris) |
Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020 (joint with Moritz Hengel, Nicolas Hervé and Camille Urvoy) |
13 April 2022 |
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas (University of California, Berkeley) |
Date | Speaker | Title |
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18 September, 2020 |
Matteo Maggiori ( Stanford University) |
Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens (joint with Antonio Coppola, Brent Neiman and Jesse Schreger) |
29 September, 2020 |
Nancy Qian (Northwestern University) |
The Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33 (joint with Andrei Markevichy and Natalya Naumenkoz) |
2 October, 2020 |
Ivan Werning (MIT) |
A Multi-Risk SIR Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdown (joint with Daron Acemoglu, Victor Chernozhukov and Michael D. Whinston) |
6 October, 2020 |
John Gathergood (Nottingham University) |
Investor Attention, Reference Points and the Disposition Effect (joint with George Loewenstein, Edika Quispe–Torreblanca and Neil Stewart) |
13 October, 2020 |
Claudio Ferraz (University of British Columbia) |
Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil (joint with Frederico Finan and Monica Martinez-Bravo) |
16 October, 2020 |
Veronica Guerrieri (Chicago) |
Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages (joint with Guido Lorenzoni, Ludwig Straub and Iván Werning) |
20 October, 2020 |
Ekaterina Zhuravaskaya (Paris School of Economics) |
Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin's Ethnic Deportations (with Antonela Miho and Alexandra Jarotschkin) |
27 October , 2020 |
Rebecca Diamond (Stanford University) |
The Effect of Foreclosures on Homeowners, Tenants, and Landlords (joint with Adam Guren and Rose Tan) |
30 October, 2020 |
Emy Nakamura (Berkeley) |
The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States (joint with Jonathon Hazell, Juan Herreno and Jon Steinsson) |
3 November, 2020 |
Chad Syverson (Chicago University) |
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s EarlyIndustrialization (joint with Serguey Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama and Tetsuji Okazaki) |
20 November, 2020 |
Alan Taylor (UC Davis) |
The Long-Run Effects of Monetary Policy (joint with Òscar Jordà and Sanjay R. Singh) |
17 November, 2020 |
Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics) |
The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S. (joint with Greg Kaplan and Giovanni L. Violante) |
24 November, 2020 |
Chloe le Coq (Stockholm School of Economics) |
How Do Social Entrepreneurs Respond to Rewards? A Field Experiment on Motivations (joint with I. Ganguli and M. Huysentruyt) |
26 November, 2020 |
Philip R. Lane (European Central Bank) |
Monetary policy in a pandemic: ensuring favourable financial conditions |
27 November, 2020 |
Gabriel Zucman (Berkeley) |
Externalities in International Tax Enforcement: Theory and Evidence (joint with Thomas R. Tørsløv and Ludvig S. Wier) |
1 December, 2020 |
Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics) |
The People versus the Markets: A Parsimonious Model of Inflation Expectations |
8 December, 2020 |
Kelsey Jack (UC Santa Barbara) |
Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel (joint with Jenny Aker) |
11 December, 2020 |
Valentina Bruno (American University) |
Dollar and Exports (joint with Hyun Song Shin) |
15 December, 2020 |
Katherine Eriksson (UC Davis) |
Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party (joint with Marcella Alsan and Gregory Niemes) |
29 January, 2021 |
Maurice Obstfeld (Berkeley) |
Globalization and Nationalism: Retrospect and Prospect |
2 February, 2021 |
Katheryn Russ (UC Davis) |
Trade Shocks and the Shifting Landscape of U.S. Manufacturing (joint with Katherine Eriksson, Jay C. Shambaugh and Minfei Xu) |
9 February, 2021 |
Alexia Delfino (Bocconi) |
Learning to see the world’s opportunities: the impact of visualisation on entrepreneurship |
12 February, 2021 |
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan (Maryland) |
International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycles (joint with Julian di Giovanni, Mehmet Fatih Ulu and Yusuf Soner Baskaya) |
16 February, 2021 |
Claudia Olivetti (Dartmouth College) |
The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials: Evidence from Establishment Data (joint with Erling Barth and Sari Pekkala Kerr) |
23 February, 2021 |
Vincent Sterk (University College London) |
Stock Market Participation, Inequality, and Monetary Policy (joint with Davide Melcangi) |
26 February, 2021 |
James Cloyne (Davis) |
Decomposing the Fiscal Multiplier (joint with Òscar Jordà and Alan M. Taylor) |
2 March, 2021 |
Elias Papaioannou (London Business School) |
Religion and Educational Mobility in Africa (joint with Alberto Alesina, Sebastian Hohmann and Stelios Michalopoulos) |
9 March, 2021 |
Natalie Bau (UCLA) |
The Equilibrium Effects of Grants to Public Schools |
12 March, 2021 |
Luca Fornaro (CREI) |
The Global Financial Resource Curse (joint with Gianluca Benigno and Martin Wolf) |
23 March, 2021 |
Dina Pomeranz (University of Zurich) |
The Race Between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Chile |
26 March, 2021 |
Victoria Ivashina (Harvard) |
Why is Dollar Debt Cheaper Evidence from Peru (joint with Bryan Gutierrez and Juliana Salomao ) |
30 March, 2021 |
Hunt Alcott (NYU) |
Digital Addiction (joint with Matthew Gentzkow, and Lena Son) |
6 April, 2021 |
Petra Moser (NYU) |
Women in Science Lessons from the Baby Boom (joint with Scott Kim) |
9 April, 2021 |
Hiro Ito (Portland) |
Post Covid-19 Exit Strategies and Emerging Markets Economic Challenges (joint with Joshua Aizenman) |
13 April, 2021 |
Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton University) |
Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development (joint with Nikita Melnikov and Carlos Schmidt-Padilla) |
20 April, 2021 |
Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi) |
Technology Adoption and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Industrialization in France (joint with Réka Juhász and Nico Voigtländer) |
23 April, 2021 |
Wenxin Du (Chicago) |
Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks (joint with Alyssa Anderson and Bernd Schlusche) |
21 May, 2021 |
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (Brookings Institution) |
Foreign Investment in emerging market debt securities: measurement and evidence from euro area investors |