Research seminars

Program 2024-2025

Spring semester

 

Gianluca Benigo (HEC Lausanne)
TBD
February 28, 2025| 11.30 – 12.30 | Room D62

Jérémie Gignoux (Paris School of Economics)
TBD
April 4, 2025| 11.30 – 12.30  | Room D62

Stefan Felder ( University of Basel)
Reimbursing physicians with unknown altruism under diagnostic risk
April 11, 2025| 11.30 – 12.30  | Room D62

Cloé Garnache (Olso Metropolitan University)
TBD
May 9, 2025| 11.30 – 12.30  | Room D62

Kevin Kotzé (University of Cape Town)
TBD
May 16, 2025| 11.30 – 12.30  | Room D62

Autumn semester

 

Marco Pecoraro (Federal Office of Statistics)
Immigration, unemployment and voting behaviour: Evidence from the 1990s Yugoslav refugee crisis
December 13, 2024 | 11.30 – 12.30  | Room R.107, ALB2

Jérémie Gignoux (Paris School of Economics)
December 6, 2024 | ANNULÉ

Kenza Benhima (HEC Lausanne)
Granular Expectation Shocks and International Financial Contagion
November 29, 2024 | 11.30 – 12.30  | Room R.107, ALB2

Sebastien Houde (HEC Lausanne)
Big Hassle on the Decarbonization Frontier ?
November 15, 2024 | 11.30 – 12.30  | Room R.107, ALB2

François Bourguignon, (World Bank)
Political Liberalisation and State Capture by Business Interests
November 1, 2024 | 12:15 – 13.30  | Room R.110, ALB2

Samuel Lordemus (University of Lucerne)
Where the money flows? Colonial health investment and hospital outcomes in the D.R. Congo
September 27, 2024 | 11.30 – 12.30 | Room R.107, ALB2

Archives

Economics seminars

Spring semester

Berno Büchel & Bénédicte Droz (University of Fribourg)
Meat consumption can trigger information avoidance
February 23, 2024

Philipp Grunau (Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany)
Who Benefits from Place-Based Policies? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
March 8, 2024

Peter Nilsson (University of Stockholm)
What happens when Discrimination in Academia becomes salient?
April 12, 2024

Merla Kubli (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
From social acceptance to business model design: the case of smart EV charging
April 19, 2024

Michaela Slotwinski (University of Zurich)
(Not) Thinking about the Future: Inattention and Maternal Labor Supply
April 26, 2024

Martin Huber (University of Fribourg)
Testing the identification of causal effects in data
May 3, 2024

Andreas Ziegler (University of Kassel, Germany)
Social norms and individual climate protection activities: A survey experiment for Germany
May 17, 2024

Béatrice Roussillon (University of Grenoble, France)
Intentions or actions: who should be targeted to encourage pro-environmental and pro-social behavior?
May 24, 2024

Autumn semester

Adélaïde Fadhuile (Université de Grenoble)
Intrinsic Motivation to Promote the Development of Renewable Energy : A Field Experiment from Household Demand
September 22, 2023

Jonas Savelsberg (ETH Zurich)
Increasing Electrical Vehicle Adoption with personalized nudging
September 29, 2023

Costanza Naguib (University of Bern)
Education expansion college choice and labour market success
October 6, 2023

Raphael Auer (BIS)
Granular Origins of Inflation
November 10, 2023

Berno Büchel (University of Fribourg)
Experimental evidence that meat consumption triggers information avoidance
November 16, 2023 | CANCELLED

Laura Hering (Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
Banning women from STEM: the Case of Iran
December 1, 2023

Mirjam Bächli (University of Lausanne)
Immigration, Inequality and Income Taxes
December 8, 2023

Spring semester

Alessio Lombini and Piergiuseppe Fortunato (University of Maryland, UNCTAD)
COVID-19 Vaccination, Political Partisanship and Moral Values
January 10, 2023

Juerg Schwery (Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung)
Too young to enter? Students’ age and their sorting into academic and vocational education
February 24, 2023

Mauro Caselli (Università di Trento)
Productivity and Quality of Multiple-Product Firms
March 3, 2023

Reinhard Madlener (Technical University of Aachen)
An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Passenger Vehicle Sales in Germany
March 10, 2023

Madeline Werthschulte (ZEW)
Can Self-Set Goals Encourage Resource Conservation? Field Experimental Evidence from a Smartphone App
March 17, 2023

Volodymyr Vakhitov and Nataliia Zaika (American University Kyiv)
Evacuation intentions and revealed Behaviour: Evidence from Ukranian war
March 31, 2023

Jan Stuhler (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Labor Market Effects of Immigration – Identification and Interpretation
May 12, 2023

Jean-Philippe Nicolai (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble)
Lobbying On Environmental Standards Under Deep Trade Agreements
May 26, 2023

Siwar Khelifa (St-Etienne School of Economics)
TBD
June 2, 2023

Autumn semester

Pamfili Antipa (Banque de France)
Charity Begins at Home-Why Britain resumed the Gold Standard after the French Wars
September 30, 2022

Anthony Edo ( CEPII – Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’informations Internationales)
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
October 14, 2022

Stéphane Mechoulan (Dalhousie University)
Revisiting the Effects of Abortion Legalization on the Incidence of Sexually-Transmitted Diseases
October 28, 2022

Kathrine von Graevenitz (University of Mannheim)
The effect of eletricity network charges on German manufacturing
November 11, 2022

Juerg Schweri (Eidgenössische Hochschule für Berufsbildung)
Too young to choose? Students’ age and their choice between academic and vocational education
CANCELLED

David Ardia (HEC Montréal)
Sentometrics: an Overview of Methodology and Applications
December 9, 2022

Spring semester

Gianandrea Nodari (University of Geneva)
Central Bank Cooperation 1930-1932, a Reappraisal
April 29, 2022

Fabien Cottier (Columbia University)
Crop Price Variability, Environmental Change and Intra-Regional Migration in Africa
May 5, 2022

Angelina Hackmann (University of Bremen)
Navigating the housing channel of monetary policy across euro area regions
May 13, 2022

Andreas Fuster (EPFL)
Tiers of Joy? Reserve Tiering and Bank Behavior in a Negative-Rate Environment
May 20, 2022

John Turner (Queens University of Belfast)
Why did shareholder liability disappear?
June 3, 2022

Autumn semester

Beatrix Eugster (University of St-Gallen)
Misclassification in linear-in-means models: theory and application to peer effects estimation
October 22, 2021

Martin Hoesli and Louis Johner (University of Geneva)
Portofolio Diversification across U.S. Gateway and Non-Gateway Real Estate Markets
November 5, 2021

Kilian Rieder (OeNB)
Financial stability policies and bank lending: Quasi-experimental evidence from Federal Reserve interventions in 1920-21
December 3, 2021

John Turner (University of Queen’s, Belfast)
Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and CorporateOwnership in Edwardian Britain
December 10,2021 – CANCELLED

Serhiy Kandul (University of Zürich)
Recycling of uncast votes: can random allocation of votes enhance voter turnout? Evidence from two experiments
December 17, 2021

Spring semester

Rui Esteves (Graduate Institute Geneva)
The Value of a quote: Stock market listing for sovereign bonds, 1872-1911
March 19, 2021

Ricccardo Trezzi (European Central Bank)
The Missing Internal Devaluation: Nominal and Real Adjustment to the Great Recession within the US
March 26, 2021

Leif Anders Thorsrud (BI Norwegian Business School)
Narrative monetary policy surprises and the media
April 16, 20201

Camille Dumeignil (Université de Savoie Mont-Blanc)
The impact of free cross-border labour mobility on the labour market for the country of origin: A natural experiment
April 23, 2021

Reamonn Lydon (Central Bank of Ireland)
The ins and outs of the gender unemployment gap in the OECD
May 21, 2021

Andreas Löschel (University of Münster)
When Nudges Fail to Scale: Field Expermimental Evidence from Goal Setting on Mobile Phone
May 28, 2021

Luca Onorante (European Central Bank)
Economic Policy Uncertainty in the Euro Area: an unsupervised machine learning approach
June 4, 2021

Autumn semester

Diego Känzig (London Business school)
The Distributional Impact of the Pandemic
September 18, 2020

Alice Aubert (EAWAG)
Gamifying online survey to elicit laypersons’ preferences for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
September 25, 2020

Nikhil Patel (BIS Basel)
The “original sin” redux: a model based evaluation
October 16, 2020

Doina Radelescu (University of Bern)
Household Preferences for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
November 6, 2020

Piergiuseppe Fortunato (UNCTAD)
Coronagraben. Culture and Social Distancing in Times of COVID-19
November 13, 2020

Flora Budianto (BIS Basel)
Average Inflation Targeting and the Interest Rate Lower Bound
November 27, 2020

Alain Naef (UC Berkeley/Ban)
Blowing against the Wind? A Narrative Approach to Central Bank Foreing Exchange Intervention
December 4, 2020

Spring semester

Stefano Scagnolari (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
Young drivers’ nighttime mobility preferences: a Hybrid Choice Model
February 21, 2020

Piergiuseppe Fortunato (UNCTAD)
Yes, the Medium Matters: Social Networks, Education and the Rise of Populism in Europe
March 6, 2020

Doina Radulescu (University of Bern) – CANCELLED
Household Preferences for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
March 20, 2020

Carlos Ordás Criado (Laval University, Canada) – CANCELLED
TBD
March 27, 2020

Alice Aubert (EAWAG) – CANCELLED
Gamifying online survey to elicit laypersons’ preferences for Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
April 24, 2020

Dan-Olof Rooth (Stockholm University) – CANCELLED
TBD
May 8, 2020

Flora Budianto (BIS) – CANCELLED
Average inflation targeting and the interest rate lower bound
May 15, 2020

Luca Taschini (LSE and University of Edinburgh) – CANCELLED
TBD
May 29, 2020

Autumn semester

Andreas Schrimpf (BIS)
Explaining Monetary Spillovers: The Matrix Reloaded
September 27, 2019

Regina Betz (ZHAW)
How Do Firms Respond to a Rising Carbon Tax?
October 4, 2019

Rahel Braun (University of Basel)
Heterogeneous Elasticities of Substitution in a TANK Model
October 11, 2019

Katrin Assenmacher (ECB)
The ECB’s monetary policy: strategy, non standard measures and outlook
October 25, 2019

Hans Koster (VU Amsterdam)
The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England
November 8, 2019

Daniel Kaufmann (University of Neuchâtel)
Nominal wage rigidities in Switzerland
November 15, 2019

Marijke Verpoorten (University of Antwerp) – CANCELLED
Would you fight? We asked aggrieved artisanal miners in Eastern Congo
November 22, 2019

Benjamin Born (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
The worst of both worlds: Fiscal policy and fixed exchanged rates
November 29, 2019

Alexia Gaudeul (University of Göttingen)
Fostering creativity in team work: Experimenting with payoff sharing and word ownership rules in the game of Scrabble
December 6, 2019

Matthias Uhl (TU Munich)
Beware of toothles tigers. Institutionalizing whistleblowing may crowd out compliance
December 13, 2019

Spring semester

Mary Jean Bürer (HEIG-VD)
Smart Contracts and Blockchain Use Cases in the Energy Sector – Risks and Opportunities
March 8, 2019

Bodo Sturm (HTWK Leipzig)
Are exporters more environmentally friendly? A re-appraisal using China’s micro-data
March 15, 2019

Katrin Millock (PSE)
Climate change, migration, and irrigation
March 22, 2019

Christian Thoeni (Université de Lausanne)
The Complementarity of Good Institutions and Voluntary Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from 43 Societies
March 29, 2019

Ivana Logar (EAWAG)
A comparison of attribute non-attendance in discrete choice experiments based on stated, inferred, and mouse-tracking data
April 5, 2019

Patrick Premand (World Bank)
Creating New Positions? Direct and Indirect Effects of a Subsidized apprenticeship Program
April 12, 2019

Emmanuel Milet (University of Geneva)
The impact of trade liberalization on informality in local labor markets in Peru
May 3, 2019

Robert Finger (ETH Zurich)
Innovations in Agricultural Insurance Solutions
May 10, 2019

Mariarosaria Comunale (European Central Bank)
Who did it? A European Detective Story. Tracking growth in the Euro Area with an atheroretical tool
May 17, 2019

Marco Casari (University of Bologna)
Plan B for climate change: An experiment on geoengineering
May 24, 2019

Autumn semester

Thomas Bolli (ETH Zurich / KOF)
Complementarities among education types in determining firms productivity
September 21, 2018

Christina Cattaneo (University of Milano)
Should they stay or should they go? Climate migrants and local conflicts
September 28, 2018

Basil Guggenheim (Swiss National Bank)
What do Swiss franc Libor futures really tell us?
October 5, 2018

Peter Karadi (European Central Bank)
Deconstructing monetary policy surprises: The role of information shocks
October 19, 2018

Martin Kocher (IHS Vienna)
Cooperation in a company: A large-scale experiment
November 2, 2018

Piergiuseppe Fortunato (United Nations – Conference on Trade and Development)
Trade and Development Report 2018: Power, Platforms and the Free Trade Delusion
November 9, 2018

Lídia Farré (University of Barcelona)
Does paternity leave reduce fertility?
November 16, 2018

Christoph Basten (University of Zurich)
How banks respond to negative interest rates: Evidence from the Swiss exemption threshold
November 23, 2018

Timo Goeschl (University of Heidelberg)
Social Distance and Inter-Charity Competition
November 30, 2018

Florian Huber (University of Vienna)
Should I stay or should I go? A latent threshold approach to large-scale mixture innovation models
December 14, 2018

Spring semester

Samad Sarferaz (ETH/KOF)
Macro and micro level impulse responses: A survey experimental identification procedure
01.06.2018

Valerie Karplus (MIT)
Management and energy efficiency in a Chinese manufacturing cluster
25.05.2018

Andreas Mueller (University of Essex)
A theory of structural change that can fit the data
18.05.2018

Octavian Strimbu (University of Geneva​)
Partial verifiability induced contests
04.05.2018

Christoph Moser (University of Salzburg)
Hidden protectionism? Evidence from non-tariff barriers to trade in the United States
20.04.2018

Rebecca Stuart (Central Bank of Ireland)​
The term structure, leading indicators and recessions: Evidence from Switzerland, 1974-2017
23.03.2018

Sebastian Vollmer (University of Goettingen)
Impact of delivering iron-fortified salt through a school feeding program on child health, education and cognition: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural India
16.03.2018

Sabrina Teyssier (INRA Grenoble​)
Consumer preferences for meals with plant-based proteins and the impact of information
09.03.2018

Enrico Petracca (University of Bologna)
From bounded to embodied rationality
02.03.2018

Serhiy Kandul (University of Neuchâtel​)
I deserve more! An experimental analysis of illusory ownership in dictator games
23.03.2018

Autumn semester

Ingmar Schumacher (IPAG Paris)
Results on aggregation issues in climate economics
15.12.2017

François Maréchal (University of Franche-Comté​)
The Impact of a Right of First Refusal Clause in a First-Price Auction with Unknown Heterogeneous Risk-Aversion
01.12.2017

Antoine Bommier (ETH Zurich)
Household Finance and the Value of Life
24.11.2017

Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg)
The role of fees in foreign education: Evidence from Italy
17.11.2017

Isabel Martinez (LISER)
Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays
10.11.2017

Michael Siegenthaler (KOF / ETH Zurich​)
From Labor to Cash Flow? The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Swiss Firms
03.11.2017

Nuno Palma (University of Manchester)
Spending a Windfall: American Precious Metals and Euro-Asian Trade 1531-1810
20.10.2017

Giuseppe Sorrenti (University of Zurich)
Money vs. Time: Family Income, Labor Supply and Child Achievement
13.10.2017

Selin Yilmaz (University of Geneva)
Appliance factors that influence household electricity demand and demand response
06.10.2017

Hongliang Zhang (University of Neuchâtel)
Weather, climate and production risk
09.09.2017

Daniel Kaufmann (University of Neuchâtel)
Manufacturing prices and employment after the Swiss franc shock
22.09.2017

Spring semester

Sefi Roth (London School of Economics)
Do students work Harder if university costs more?
02.06.2017

Simon Lüchinger (University of Lucerne)
Tax incentives for reducing energy consumption: an empirical evaluation of Basel’s electricity levy
19.05.2017

François Maréchal (University of Franche-Comté) Cancelled
12.05.2017

Martin Péclat (University of Neuchâtel)
What drives social contagion in the adoption of solar photovoltaic technology?
05.05.2017

François Langot (University of Le Mans and Paris School of Economics)
On Non-linearities in Unemployment
28.04.2017

Stéfan Késenne (University of Antwerp)
The Economics of the transfer market in football
07.04.2017

Frédéric Robert-Nicoud (University of Lausanne)
The optimal distribution of population across cities
24.03.2017

MaRaju J. Singh (World Bank)
Growth (but not only) is good for the poor.
23.03.2017

Winand Emons (University of Bern)
Penalty Structures and Deterrence in a Two-Stage Model:Experimental Evidence
10.03.2017

Hannes Weight (University of Basel)
Assessing the energy security – A compound Indicator
03.03.2017

Autumn semester

Alain Naef (University of Cambridge)
Does sterilized central bank intervention have long term effects on exchange rates? The case of the British Exchange Equalization Account, 1952-1972
16.12.2016

Rafael Lalive (University of Lausanne)
Spatial Search Strategies of Job Seekers and the Role of Unemployment Insurance
09.12.2016

Conny Wunsch (University of Basel)
The Role of Risk Taking as Causal Mechanism for Solidarity: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
02.12.2016

Claudia Binder (EPFL)
The Energy Transition – An Integrative Analysis (Paper 1 & Paper 2)
25.11.2016

Isabelle Stadelmann (University of Bern)
Why are incentive-based instruments unpopular? Experimental insights on electricity policy acceptance
17.11.2016

Sebastien Rausch (ETH Zurich)
Combining Price and Quantity Controls under Partitioned Environmental Regulation
11.11.2016

Sarah Lein (University of Basel)
Price and Consumption Responses to Large Exchange-Rate Shocks: Evidence from the Swiss Appreciation
04.11.2016

Hannes Schwandt (University of Zurich)
The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-utero Exposure and Human Capital Development
28.10.2016

Josef Zweimueller (University of Zurich)
Severance Pay: Labor Market Responses to the Introduction of Occupational Pensions in Austria
21.10.2016

Jackline Wahba (University of Southampton)
Upward or Downward: Occupational Mobility and Return Migration
07.10.2016

Cécile Hediger (University of Neuchâtel)
The Direct and Indirect Rebound Effects for Residential Heating in Switzerland
30.09.2016

Bruno Lanz (University of Neuchâtel)
The Behavioral Effect of Pigovian Regulation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
23.09.2016

Spring semester

Yassin (University of Neuchâtel) Reforming Employment Protection in Egypt: An Evaluation Based on Transition Models with Measurement Errors
15.04.2016

Alvarez (University of Geneva) Playing with Fire? The Internationalization and Condition of Mexican Banks prior to the 1982 Debt Crisis
24.04.2016

Cullmann (DIW Berlin) Productivity growth and ownership in regulated firms
15.05.2016

Zhuravleva (Toulouse School of Economics) A Dynamic Analysis of Demand for Childcare, Maternal Employment and Child Obesity in Russia
20.05.2016

Moreau (Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL)) Decoupling Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Counter Evidence from Embodied Energy in Swiss Trade
03.06.2016

Autumn semester

Puddu (Université de Neuchâtel) Dangerous Liaisons: Interest groups and politicians’ votes. A Swiss perspective
18.09-2015

Castro (Banco de España) The countercyclical capital buffer in Spain: an exploratory analysis of key guiding indicators
25.09.2015

Martin (UIB) Why did Spanish cajas fail during the financial crisis?
16.10.2015

Landis (ETHZ)Efficiency and Equity in Swiss Climate Policy – A First Assessment
23.10.2015

Hirschberg (Paul Scherrer Institute)Integrated Energy and Mobility Assessment
06.11.2015

Mayordomo (University of Navarra) Dealing with Dealers: Sovereign CDS Comovements
13.11.2015

Kimmich (Swiss Federal Research Institute) Trust and contract choice: An experimental approach to Swiss wood supply chains
11.12.2015

Economics and finance seminars

Spring semester

Chithis (Surrey University) Turning Lights into Flights: rebound effects from sustainable behaviour and efficiency improvements
19.06.2015

Klinke (Université de Neuchâtel) Energy Supply Contracting Adoption : Empirical Evidence of Barriers and Drivers on the Swiss Market.
12.06.2015

Chulwoo Han (Durham University) A Geometric Treatment Of Time Varying Volatilities
05.06.2015

Bonilla (University of Newcastle) Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in a Search Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
29.05.2015

Bregnard (Université de Neuchâtel) Pension fund governance: The determinants of board of trustees effectiveness of Swiss pension funds
26.05.2015

Moraru (Université de Neuchâtel) Quality versus quantity: The role of mandated IFRS and reporting frequency on financial analysts’ information environment.
26.03.2015

Goncalves (Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva) Effects of home care policy on nursing home use in Switzerland
27.03.2015

Chaieb (University of Geneva) Integration of Sovereign Bonds Markets: Time Variation and Maturity Effects
24.05.2015

Schaeck (Lancaster University Management School) How does the Eurozone crisis affect securities portfolios?
28.04.2015

Krey (Swiss Federal Office of Energy) Swiss gas market and the development of a future gas law in Switzerland
22.05.2015

Pérignon (HEC Paris) The Counterparty Risk Exposure of ETF Investors
20.03.2015

Leray (Université de Lausanne) Systemic perspectives on Material Flow Analysis and Modeling: towards an accounting of Social Practices in household consumption dynamics
13.03.2015

Graf (Université de Neuchâtel) Flow-stock imbalances and vulnerability: The case of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
20.02.2015

Semestre d’automne

Bilinski (City University London – Cass Business School) Strategic Distortions in Analyst Target Prices in the Presence of Short-Term Institutional Investors
29.01.2015

Betz & Leu (University of New South Wales, Sidney/University of Applied Sciences, Zurich) Trading costs in the first phase of the EU ETS: Estimation and explanations – Evidence from CITL data
19.12.2014

Mueller (University of Basel) The distributional effects of a revenue-neutral steering tax on energy: Empirical evidence from Swiss household data
05.12.2014

Wagner (University of Zurich) Tips and Tells from Managers: How Analysts and the Market Read Between the Lines of Conference Calls
28.11.2014

Strobl (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) Transparency and Talent Allocation in Money Management
21.11.2014

Zhang (Université de Neuchâtel) The Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds Ownership on Corporate Investment
07.11.2014

Bianchi (University of Warwick) A Dynamic Test of the Conditional CAPM
31.10.2014

Kraehenbuehl (Université de Neuchâtel) Supply Analysis of the Forestry Industry
31.10.2014

Weber (Université de Neuchâtel) An analysis of willingness to pay for fuel economy in the Swiss car market
24.10.2014

Bolli (KOF) The Impact of Work-Based Education on Personality Skills 10.10.2014

Hasler (University of Toronto) Disagreement and Predictability over the Business Cycle
26.08.2014

Spring semester

Datta (ETHZ) Estimating residential electricity demand in Switzerland using household survey data
23.05.2014

De Coulon (King’s College London) Targeting under-performance by ethnicity in Secondary Schools
16.05.2014

Patel (University of Geneva) Environmental assessment of renewables
09.05.2014

Marchica (Manchester Business School) Shareholder Diversification, Bank Risk-Taking and Capital Allocation Efficiency
04.04.2014

Roger (Paris-Dauphine University) Target prices forecast quality and analysts’ forecast performance
28.03.2014

Goetz (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main) Financial Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization: Evidence from U.S. States
21.03.2014

Carraz (Université de Strasbourg) Academic patenting and the scientific enterprise: Lessons from a Japanese university
07.03.2014

Listorti (Federal Office of Agriculture) Analysis of price transmission in the wheat sector
17.01.2014

Magron (Université de Strasbourg) Are individual investors such poor portfolio managers?
10.01.2014

Autumn semester

Schaeck (Bangor University) Depressing depositors and cheering up borrowers: The effects of bank bailouts on banking competition and the evolution of zombie banks
13.12.2013

Schleich (Grenoble École de Management) Rebound in private households
06.12.2013

Degen (HEC Lausanne) How Can Consumers Use Electricity More Efficiently? Exploring the Role of Information
29.11.2013

Bareit (ETHZ and OFEN) Does the Swiss Car Market Reward Fuel Efficient Cars? Evidence from the Hedonic Pricing Approach and a Regression Discontinuity Design
22.11.2013

Alzúa (Universidad de la Plata) Youth unemployment
07.11.2013

Monnin (Council on economic policies) The impact of inflation on income inequality
25.10.2013

Gravel (Université de la Méditerranée) Ranking Radically Uncertain or Objectively Ambiguous Décisions
18.10.2013

Ginés (Universitat Jaume I) Cultural transmission as complementarity-building investment
27.09.2013

Pacheco (Université de Neuchatel) The Extent of the Impact: Measuring Externalities
20.09.2013

Spring semester

Fortunato (Unctad) Democracy, Education and the Quality of Government
31.05.2013

López (Universidad de Navarra) Earnings Management and the Use of Available-for-Sale Intruments by Bank Managers
24.05.2013

Mayordomo (Universidad de Navarra) Short sales constraints and financial stability: evidence from the Spain 2011 ban
03.05.2013

Croci (Università Cattolica MIlano) Do Risk-Taking Incentives Induce CEOs to Invest? New Evidence from Acquisitions
19.04.2013

Charlier (University of Savoie) Energy-Saving Investments in the Residential Sector: An Econometric Analysis
12.04.2013

Mura (Manchester Business School) CEO Gender, Corporate Risk-Taking, and the Efficiency of Capital Allocation
22.03.2013

Ardia (Université Laval) Implied expected return
15.03.2013

Moro (University of Stirling) Life Satisfaction and Air Pollution in Europe
08.03.2013

Autumn semester

Michielsen (Tilburg University) Energy abundance and trade in energy-intensive industries
14.12.2012

Garcia Appendini (University of St.Gallen)Creditor incentives under firm financial distress
30.11.2012

Valta (HEC Paris)Financing investment: The choice between public and private debt
23.11.2012

Crivelli (University of Geneva) Regionalism and External Protection: Preferences Received Also Matter
23.11.2012

Degeorge (USI) News Dissemination and Investor Attention
16.11.2012

Moretti (CFS, Goethe University) Transparency and Emerging Market Bond Spreads
09.11.2012

Graf (UniNE (IRENE)) Feedback Effect and Banking Sector Vulnerability
02.11.2012

Marami (UniNE (IAF)) Mandatory hedging and firm value: Evidence from interest rate protection covenant in syndicated loans
26 .10.2012

Weaver (University of Geneva) Effet du DRG sur les durées de séjour et réadmission en Suisse
12 .10.2012

Jakob (TEP Energy) Economics of Energy Efficiency
05.10.2012

Nagy (UniNE (IAF))Opening the black box: an analysis of equity hedge fund’s performance
28.09.2012

Hintermann (Basel University) Economic coercion in public finance
21.09.2012

Spring semester

Gresse (Université Paris-Dauphine) Liquidity Benefits from IPO Underpricing: Ownership Dispersion or Information Effect
22.06.2012

Montoriol (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Firms as Liquidity Providers: Evidence from the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis
01.06.2012

Lupton (Paris) Conflits autour des déchets
Previous document is a chapter of the book “Economie des déchets. Une approche institutionnaliste” by Sylvie Lupton
25.05.2012

Myles (Exeter University)Behavioral and social approaches to tax evasion
15.05.2012

Pecoraro (Université catholique de Louvain)
Is there still a wage penalty for being overeducated but well-matched in skills? A panel analysis of a Swiss graduate cohort
11.05.2012

Vaillancourt (Université de Montréal)
Le rendement de la scolarité universitaire au Québec: analyse économétrique de micro-données du recensement de 2006 et calcul du taux de rendement interne
07.05.2012

Gross (Simon Fraser University) Free Mobility with the EU and Immigration of North American Brains to Switzerland: What Consequences?
30.04.2012

Infante (Banca d’Italia) A known unknown? Network of firms and access to credit in Italy
27.04.2012

Vanin (Università degli studi di Bologna) On the Historical and Geographic Origins of the Sicilian Mafia
20.04.2012

Schaeck (Bangor University) Executive Board Composition and Bank Risk Taking
29.03.2012

Olarreaga (Université de Genève) There Goes Gravity: How eBay Reduces Trade Costs
16.03.2012

Vahabi (Université de Paris) Violent enforcement, conflictual costs and transaction costs
1. Appropriation, violent enforcement and transaction costs: a critical survey.
2. Integrating social conflict into economic theory.
09.03.2012

Kaminski, Structural Land-Use Analysis of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: a Proactive Approach.
24.02.2012

Autumn semester

Blasch (ETHZ) Demand for voluntary carbon offsetting – A discrete choice experiment among Swiss consumers
16.12.2011

Gogniat (UniNE (IRENE)) Estimating the Benefits of an Improvement in Water Quality and Flow Regulation: Case study of the Doubs
28.10.2011

Min (UniNE ( IAF)) A Consumption-Based Explanation of Momentum Profits
30.09.2011

Spring semester

Diana Pacheco (UniNE, (IRENE)) Poverty persistence
24.06.2011

Dusan Isakov (Univesity of Fribourg) Technical Analysis with a Long-Term Perspective: Trading Strategies and Market Timing Ability
17.06.2011

Luca Deidda (Univesity of Sassari) Relationship Finance, Market Finance and Edogenous Business Cycles
10.06.2011

Stefano Puddu (UniNE, (IRENE)) Too TAF towards the risk (joint work with Andreas Wälchi)
13.05.2011

Dominic Roher (University of Zurich) War, trust, and identity: Evidence from Uganda (joint work with Mathias Thoenig and Frabrizio Zilibotti)
06.05.2011

Catalin Starica (UniNE, (Stat)) The facts behind Sector Rotation
08.04.2011

Lionel Perini (UniNE, (IRENE)) Peer effects in Swiss Lower Secondary Schools
01.04.2011

Javier Suarez (CEMFI, Madrid) Liquidity shocks, roll-over risk and debt maturity
11.03.2011

Filippo Brutti (University of Zurich) Sovereign Defaults and Liquidity Crises
11.02.2011

Climnet Quintana-Domeque (University of Alacant) Urban Infrasctructure and Economic Development: Experimental Evidence from Street Pavement
25.02.2011

Useful information

Seminars usually take place on Fridays from 11.30 to 12.30.

With some exceptions Room D62, Av. Premier-Mars 26 (Spring semester 2025)

The seminar series is open to all; to receive notifications please email: Prof. Mehdi Farsi

Getting to Neuchâtel

From Zurich airport: 1h40 by direct Intercity train.
From Geneva airport: 1h30 by direct Intercity train.

Train schedules SBB CFF FFS

Meetings with Economist