Seminars

Seminar schedule for WS 2021/22

The ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar will continue in digital format (via zoom). We will announce in good time when the seminar can take place as a classroom event again. We are happy to receive your message if you would like to give a talk in the winter semester 2021/22 yourself or suggest another person

To keep up-to-date you can join our e-mail distribution list (join the mailing list).

	Organisation: C-SEB // c-seb-seminars@uni-koeln.de		Organisation: ECONtribute // Prof. Dr. Anna Bindler
Tuesday	12:00 – 13:00 ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar	Wednesday	12:00 – 13:00 ECONtribute and C-SEB Seminar
12.10.2021	No seminar	13.10.2021	David Seim (Stockholm University) “How Do Inheritances Shape Wealth Inequality? Theory and Evidence from Sweden”
19.10.2021	Lisa Spantig (RWTH Aachen) “Flexible Microcredit: Effects on Loan Repayment and Social Pressure”	20.10.2021	Jordi Blanes i Vidal (London School of Economics) “Monitoring Workers Through Their Peers”
26.10.2021		27.10.2021	Ingela Alger (Toulouse School of Economics) “Homo Moralis Goes to the Voting Booth: (i) Voter Participation and (ii) the Divided Majority Dilemma”
02.11.2021	Aleksandr Alekseev (University of Regensburg) “The Economics of Babysitting a Robot”	03.11.2021	Leah Boustan (Princeton University) tba
09.11.2021		10.11.2021	Andrea Weber (Central European University) tba
16.11.2021	Ingrid Haegele (University of California, Berkeley) “Talent Hoarding in Organizations”	17.11.2021	Sandro Ambuehl (University of Zurich) tba
23.11.2021		24.11.2021	Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt) “Structural Change in Labor Supply and Cross-Country Differences in Hours Worked”
30.11.2021		01.12.2021	Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim) tba
07.12.2021		08.12.2021	Daniel Reck (London School of Economics) tba
14.12.2021		15.12.2021	Tarek Hassan (Boston University) tba
21.12.2021	Marco Mariotti (Queen Mary University of London) tba	22.12.2021	No seminar
28.12.2021	No seminar	29.12.2021	No seminar
04.01.2022	No seminar	05.01.2022	No seminar
11.01.2022	Sonja Settele (University of Copenhagen) tba	12.01.2022	Abdoulaye Ndiaye (New York University) tba
18.01.2022		19.01.2022	Chris Blattmann (University of Chicago) tba
25.01.2022		26.01.2022	Clemens Kroneberg (University of Cologne) tba
01.02.2022		02.02.2022	No seminar

Seminar schedule for SS 2021

The ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar will continue in digital format (via zoom). We will announce in good time when the seminar can take place as a classroom event again. Please contact us if you would like to give a talk in the summer semester 2021.

We will keep the seminar calendar up-to-date and continue to provide information via our e-mail distribution list (join the mailing list).

	Organisation: C-SEB // c-seb-seminars@uni-koeln.de		Organisation: ECONtribute // Prof. Dr. Anna Bindler
Tuesday	12:00 – 13:00 ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar	Wednesday	12:00 – 13:00 ECONtribute and C-SEB Seminar
13.04.2021	Ashutosh Thakur (University of Cologne) “Combining social choice and matching theory to study institutional stability”	14.04.2021	Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University) “Accounting for Business Income in Measuring Top Income Shares: Integrated Accrual Approach Using Individual and Firm Data From Norway” This seminar takes place at 4 pm CET.
20.04.2021	Anna Bindler (University of Cologne) “Discontinuities in the Age-Victimization Profile and the Determinants of Victimization”	21.04.2021	Joscha Legewie (Harvard University) “The Enduring Impact of NYC’s Stop, Question & Frisk Program. Lessons From “Big Data”” This seminar takes place at 4 pm CET.
27.04.2021	No seminar	28.04.2021	Tom Wilkening (University of Melbourne) “Getting Dynamic Implementation to Work”
04.05.2021	No seminar	05.05.2021	Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick) “How Big is the Media Multiplier? Evidence From Dyadic News Data”
11.05.2021	No seminar	12.05.2021	Maya Eden (Brandeis University) “Price-Independent Anonymity Implies the Social Ranking of Income Distributions” This seminar takes place at 4 pm CET.
18.05.2021	No seminar	19.05.2021	Arun Advani (University of Warwick) “Race-Related Research in Economics and Other Social sciences”
25.05.2021	No seminar	26.05.2021	No seminar
01.06.2021	Julian Teichgräber (UZH University of Zurich) “Inequality in Models With a Competition for Market Shares”	02.06.2021	Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton University) “Mobility for All: Representative Intergenerational Mobility Estimates Over the 20th Century” This seminar takes place at 4 pm CET.
08.06.2021	No seminar	09.06.2021	Jaime Arellano-Bover (Yale University) “Differences in On-the-Job Learning Across Firms”
15.06.2021	No seminar	16.06.2021	Aline Bütikofer (Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)) “Building Bridges and Widening Gaps”
22.06.2021	No seminar	23.06.2021	Catherine Thomas (London School of Economicsand Political Science (LSE)) “Who Benefits From Online Gig Economy Platforms?”
29.06.2021	Johannes Wohlfart (University of Copenhagen) “Beliefs About the Stock Market and Investment Choices: Evidence From a Field Experiment”	30.06.2021	Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) “Public Subsidies, Political Discretion, and Policy Effectiveness”
06.07.2021	Yiqiu Chen (University of Cologne) “Optimal Sequential Implementation”	07.07.2021	Joris Lammers (University of Cologne) “Misjudgments of Nonlinear Past and Future Growth for Perceptions of Climate Change and the COVID-19 Pandemic — Their Consequences and the Benefits of their Correction”
13.07.2021	No seminar	14.07.2021	Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford) “The Gender Wage Gap in an Online Labour Market: The Cost of Interruptions”
20.07.2021	Markus Möller (University of Cologne) “Regret-Free Truthtelling in School Choice With Consent”	21.07.2021	No seminar

Seminar schedule for WS 2020/21

The ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar will continue to be offered in digital form (via zoom) until further notice. We will announce in good time when the seminar can take place in the usual format as a classroom event again.

We will keep the seminar calendar up-to-date and continue to provide information via our e-mail distribution list (to join the distribution list, please send an e-mail to: c-seb-seminars@uni-koeln.de).

	Organisation: C-SEB // c-seb-seminars@uni-koeln.de		Organisation: ECONtribute // Prof. Dr. Anna Bindler
Tuesday	12:00 – 13:00 ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar	Wednesday	12:00 – 13:00 ECONtribute and C-SEB Seminar
03.11.2020	Max R.P. Grossmann (University of Cologne) “z-Tree Unleashed: A Novel Client-Integrating Architecture for Conducting z-Tree Experiments over the Internet” If you are interested in the presentation slides, please email Max Grossmann.	04.11.2020	Lukas Kiessling (Max Planck Institute Bonn) “Parental Paternalism”
10.11.2020	Gönül Doğan (University of Cologne) “Pyramid Schemes”	11.11.2020	Ingo Isphording (IZA Institute of Labor Economics) “The Value of a Peer”
17.11.2020	Yingshuai Zhao (University of Cologne) “The Value of Response Time Information in Supply Chain Bargaining”	18.11.2020	Olga Kuzmina (New Economic School Moscow) “Gender Diversity and Firm Performance: Evidence from Quota-Implied Discontinuities”
24.11.2020	Maivand Sarin (University of Cologne) “In Your Name! The Effect of Intermediaries on Discrimination”	25.11.2020	Albrecht Ritschl (London School of Economics) “Hitler’s Mefo Bills, 1933-1939 – A Case for MMT?”
01.12.2020	Lukas Reinhardt (University of Cologne) “Loss of Control and Choice Restriction”	02.12.2020	Matthew Harding (University of California-Irvine) “Managers vs Algorithms: Can Algorithms Replicate Human Intuition?” This seminar takes place at 4 pm CET.
08.12.2020	Johannes Reich (SAP) “Money as a Social Coordination Mechanism to Fairly Express our Free Material Preferences”	09.12.2020	Andreas Irmen (University of Luxembourg) “Automation, Growth, and Factor Shares in the Era of Population Aging”
15.12.2020	Marvin Deversi (University of Cologne) “Cooperation in a Company: A Large-Scale Experiment”	16.12.2020	Giovanni Mastrobuoni (Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin) “Migrants at Sea: Unintended Consequences of Search and Rescue Operations”
22.12.2020	no seminar	23.12.2020	no seminar
29.12.2020	no seminar	30.12.2020	no seminar
05.01.2021	no seminar	06.01.2021	no seminar
12.01.2021	Marius Vogel (University of Cologne) “Fair Compensations for Heterogeneous Labor Inputs”	13.01.2021	Dorothea Kübler (WZB and Technical University of Berlin) “How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments with Online Booking Systems”
19.01.2021	Maoliang Ye (Southern University of Science and Technology) “Building Cooperation Through Gradualism in Finitely Repeated Investment Games”	20.01.2021	Christina Gathmann (Heidelberg University) “College Openings and Local Economic Development”
26.01.2021	Max R.P. Grossmann (University of Cologne) “AnonPay: Enhancing Participant Privacy in Online Experiments” If you are interested in the presentation slides and further information, please visit this website.	27.01.2021	Christine Binzel (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg) “Vernacularization and Linguistic Democratization”
02.02.2021	Robert Stüber (WZB Berlin) “Why High Incentives Cause Repugnance”	03.02.2021	Georg Weizsäcker (Humboldt University of Berlin) “Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply” This seminar takes place at 4 pm CET.
09.02.2021	no seminar	10.02.2021	Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University (SOFI) and Nottingham University) “Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market”
16.03.2021	no seminar	17.03.2021	Stefania Albanesi (University of Pittsburgh) “Predicting Consumer Default” This seminar takes place at 4 pm CET.

Seminar schedule for SS 2020

Due to the restrictions imposed by COVID-19, C-SEB will not be organising on-site seminars in the summer semester 2020. The ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar on Tuesday can be accessed in digital form (via zoom). The ECONtribute and C-SEB Seminar, originally scheduled for Wednesday, is cancelled for the summer semester.

Together with colleagues from different institutions, Nicolas Fugger (University of Cologne/ C-SEB) has initiated the Virtual Market Design Seminar as an online alternative to seminars in the field of market design that were cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19. The seminar announcements can be found in the seminar calendar below and at virtual-md-seminar.com.

We will keep the seminar calendar up-to-date and continue to provide information via our e-mail distribution list (to join the distribution list, please send an e-mail to:c-seb-seminars@uni-koeln.de).

	Organisation: C-SEB // c-seb-seminars@uni-koeln.de		Organisation: Virtual MD Seminar Series // Nicolas Fugger
Tuesday	12:00 – 13:00 ECONtribute and C-SEB Design & Behavior Seminar	Monday	16:00 – 17:00 Virtual MD Seminar Series
07.04.2020	no seminar	09.04.2020	Special date, Thursday, 14:00-15:00 pm Maarten Janssen (University of Vienna) “Regulating Product Communication”
14.04.2020	no seminar
21.04.2020	no seminar	20.04.2020	Scott Duke Kominers (Harvard Business School) “Redistribution through Markets”
28.04.2020	no seminar
05.05.2020	no seminar	04.05.2020	Renato Gomes (Toulouse School of Economics) “Regulating Platform Fees under Price Parity”
12.05.2020	no seminar
19.05.2020	Jakob Alfitian (University of Cologne) “The Hidden Costs of Dismissals: Empirical Evidence on the Effect of Termination Notices on Employee Attendance”	18.05.2020	Benny Moldovanu (University of Bonn) “Extreme Points and Majorization: Economic Applications”
26.05.2020	no seminar
02.06.2020	no seminar	01.06.2020	Peter Cramton (University of Cologne) “Electricity Markets in Transition”
09.06.2020	no seminar
16.06.2020	no seminar	15.06.2020	Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford University) “Just a Few Seeds More: Value of Network Information for Diffusion”
23.06.2020	no seminar
30.06.2020	no seminar	29.06.2020	Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania) “Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination”
07.07.2020	no seminar
14.07.2020	no seminar	13.07.2020	Vasiliki Skreta (University of Texas at Austin, University College London) Test Design Under Undetectable Falsification
		27.07.2020	Eyal Winter (Hebrew University & Lancaster University) “Exploitative Priority Service”

Seminar schedule for WS 2019/20

Date	12:00 – 13:00 Seminar in Applied Microeconomics	13:30 – 14:45 ECONtribute and C-SEB Research Seminar
08.10.2019	Sebastian Mertesacker (University of Cologne) “Incorporating Engineering Fuel Requierements into Econometric Analyses of Households’ Fuel Demands”	Brice Corgnet (Emlyon Business School) „Working Too Much for Too Little: Stochastic Rewards Cause Work Addiction”
15.10.2019	Konrad Burchardi (Stockholm University) “Credit Constraints and Capital Allocation: Theory and Evidence from Uganda Agriculture”	Philipp Eisenhauer (University of Bonn) “The Option Value of Human Capital Investment”
22.10.2019
29.10.2019	Felix Kölle (University of Cologne) “Governance and Group Conflict”	Daphné Skandalis (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) “Unemployment Insurance and Job Search”
05.11.2019	Oliver Gürtler (University of Cologne) “A New Framework for Studying Contests with an Application to Diversity in Organizations”	Lorenz Götte (University of Bonn) “The Habit-Forming Effects of Feedback: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment”
12.11.2019	Felix Chopra (University of Bonn) “Do People Value More Informative News?”	Ingvild Almas (Stockholm University) “Fairness Across the World: Preferences and Beliefs”
19.11.2019	Helena Fornwagner (University of Innsbruck) “Saving the Planet, One Tree at a Time” In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute	Sule Alan (European University Institute) “Mitigating the Social Exclusion of Refugee Children: An Intervention on Perspective Taking”
26.11.2019	Lena Detlefsen (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) “Redistribution in Ethnically Diverse Germany”	Andreas Grunewald (Goethe University Frankfurt) “Auto Dealer Loan Intermediation: Consumer Behavior and Competitive Effects”
03.12.2019	Mareike Peters-Olbrich (University of Cologne) “The Effect of Enforcement on Auditor Conservatism”	Christine Laudenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt) “Personal Communication in a Digital World – Evidence from Loan Repayments”
10.12.2019	Razi Farukh (University of Cologne) „Inefficiency and Regulation in Credence Goods Markets with Altruistic Experts”	Michael Zierhut (HU Berlin) “Dynamic Inconsistency and Inefficiency of Equilibrium under Knightian Uncertainty”
17.12.2019	Michel Serafinelli (University of Essex) “Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations” In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute	Thomas Crossley (European University Institute) “House Price Shocks and Borrowing to Invest”
24.12.2019	no seminar
31.12.2019	no seminar
07.01.2020		Anna Gumpert (LMU Munich) “Firm Organization with Multiple Establishments”
14.01.2020	Marius Gramb (University of Cologne) “Anonymous or Personal: A Simple Model of Repeated Personalized Advice”	Claudia Steinwender (MIT Sloan School of Management) “All Aboard: The Aggregate Effects of Port Development”
21.01.2020	Felix Holzmeister (University of Innsbruck) “Delegated Decision-Making in Finance”	Daniel Metzger (Rotterdam School of Management) “The Impact of Financial Education of Managers on Medium and Large Enterprises – A Randomized Controlled Trial in Mozambique”
28.01.2020	Matthias Rodemeier (University of Münster) “The Welfare Effects of Persuasion and Taxation – Theory and Evidence from the Field”	Cristina Belles-Obrero (University of Mannheim) “Who Benefits from General Knowledge?”

Seminar schedule for SS 2019

Date	12:00 – 13:00 Seminar in Applied Microeconomics	13:30 – 14:45 C-SEB Research Seminar
02.04.2019	Frederik Schwerter (UoC) “Memory and Representativeness”	Helena Fornwagner (University of Innsbruck) “Credence Goods Markets”
09.04.2019	Christoph Wigger (University of Cologne) “Spillover Effects of High-Skilled Immigration on Native Innovation”	Michael Kirchler (University Innsbruck) “Cognitive Skills and Economic Preferences in the Fund Industry”
11.04.2019	Special date, 13:00-14:00 Uhr: Johann Graf Lambsdorff (University of Passau) “Money Illusion”
16.04.2019	Maria Cotofan (Erasmus School of Economics Rotterdam) “Repeated Praise: Evidence from a Field Experiment”	Sarah Auster (Universita’ Bocconi) “Robust Bidding and Revenue in Descending Price Auctions”
18.04.2019	Special date, 13:00-14:00 Uhr: Nils Köbis (University of Amsterdam) “Psychology of Corruption”
23.04.2019		Simeon Schudy (LMU Munich) “Campaign Promises with (Un)Observable Policy Actions”
30.04.2019	Milena Djourelova (University Pompeu Fabra) “Media, Immigration and the Power of Words”	Jesper Rüdiger (University of Madrid) “Who Acquires Information in Dealer Markets?”
07.05.2019	Lea Heursen (Humboldt University Berlin) “Are Women Less Effective Leaders Than Men? Evidence from Experiments Using Coordination Games”	Frank Moers (Maastricht University) “Promotions as Implicit Incentives for the Acquisition of Task-Specific Human Capital”
14.05.2019	Andras Molnar (Carnegie Mellon University) “The Demand for, and Avoidance of, Information”	Stefan Trautmann (Universität Heidelberg) “Implementing (Un)Fair Procedures? Favoritism and Process Fairness When Inequality Is Inevitable”
21.05.2019		Sven Seuken (University of Zurich) “Machine Learning-powered Iterative Combinatorial Auctions”
28.05.2019	Guido Friebel (Goethe University Frankfurt) “A Pay Change and its Long-Term Consequences” In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute	Jeff Ely (Northwestern University) “Feedback Design in Contests”
04.06.2019	Jan Hausfeld (University of Konstanz) “Eyes on the Prize: An (Interactive) Eye-Tracking Study of Motives in Economic Interactions”
11.06.2019	no seminar
18.06.2019	Special date, HS I (WiSo Building), 10:00-11:30am Max H. Bazerman (Harvard Business School) “Toward Prescriptive Ethics: An Ethical Field with a Focus on Improving Our Ethical Behavior”
18.06.2019	Mats Köster (DICE Universität Düsseldorf) “It Is All About Skewness: Salience Effects in Risky Choice”	Annie Liang (University of Pennsylvania) “Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Sources”
25.06.2019	Jan Recker (University of Cologne) “Process Theorizing with Digital Trace Data: Involving Artifacts, Involving Context”	Florian Zimmermann (University of Bonn) “Associative Memory and Overreaction in Expectations”
02.07.2019	Jakob Alfitian (University of Cologne) “Reducing Absenteeism in the Workplace: A Firm Level Field Experiment”	Anja Schöttner (Humboldt University Berlin) “Non-Competitive Wage-Setting as a Cause of Unfriendly and Inefficient Leadership”
09.07.2019	Loukas Balafoutas (Universität Innsbruck) “Religious Messages and Economic Behavior in Islam”	Benjamin Friedrich (Northwestern University) “Adaptation to Shocks and the Role of Capital Structure: Danish Exporters During the Cartoon Crisis”
03.09.2019	Special date, 13:30-14:45 Uhr: Erik Lindqvist (Stockholm University) “Long-run Effects of Lottery Wealth on Psychological Well-being”

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