Past semesters
The Economics Lunch provides an excellent opportunity for doctoral students of the WWZ and for young researchers from other institutions to present their own research (ideas and possible results) and advance it productively through discussions with other doctoral students and professors.
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC | TIME | Economics Lunch "plus" Presenter and Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 22, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| September 29, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Dr. Daniele Ballinari | "Retail investors' trading activity and the predictability of stock return correlations" | 13:10 | |
| October 6, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| October 13, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| October 20, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Joëlle Velvart | "Social norms, identity and the green electricity mix" | 13:10 | |
| October 27, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Kevin Huynh | "Model Averaging of Count Data Regressions" | 13:10 | |
| November 3, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| November 10, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| November 17, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom |
| 13:10 | ||
| November 24, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| December 1, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Véra Zabrodina | "Unemployment Insurance in the Presence of Heterogeneity" | 13:10 | Prof. Conny Wunsch: "Exogenous Wage Cuts and Family Labour Supply" (joint work with Dragan Filimonovic) |
| December 8, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Augustin Ignatov | "Highways and Convergence - New Economic Geography Empirics" | 13:10 | |
| December 15, 2021 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Dr. Lorenz Hartmann | "An Axiomatization of Alpha-Maxmin Expected Utility Preferences" | 13:10 |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER Economics Lunch | TOPIC | TIME | PRESENTER Economics Lunch "plus" | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 3, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Cyrill Bühler | "Capital Returns after a Terms of Trade Shock" | 13:10 | ||
| March 10, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Severin Zimmermann | "The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences" | 13:10 | ||
| March 17, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Alice Hengevoss | "The Effect of Comprehensive INGO Accountability on Program Effectiveness: Towards a Discursive Logic" | 13:10 | Prof. Dr. Georg von Schnurbein | "Effects of COVID-19 volunteering on the willingness to volunteer long-term" |
| March 24, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | No seminar | 13:10 | |||
| March 31, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | No seminar | 13:10 | |||
| April 7, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | No seminar | 13:10 | |||
| April 14, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Fintan Oeri | "How Economic Resources, Lobbying Capacity and Group Type shape Lobbying Influence" (preliminary paper on demand) | 13:10 | ||
| April 21, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Michael Huynh | "Swiss pension funds and the determinants of free cash flow" | 13:10 | ||
| April 28, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | 13:10 | ||||
| May 5, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Andrea Ghisletta | "The impact of vocational training interventions on youth labor market outcomes: a meta-analysis" | 13:10 | ||
| May 12, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Dr. Kumar Rishabh | "Fintech Lending and Sales Manipulation" | 13:10 | ||
| May 19, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Thomas Gerber | "Examining the Spread of Trade Theories in 19th Century British Parliament" | 13:10 | ||
| May 26, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Nicholas Arnold | "NPO Approaches Towards Companies and Effects on Households' Willingness to Buy and Donate" | 13:10 | ||
| June 2, 2021 | 12:15 | Zoom | Raja Daouah | postponed | 13:10 |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 16, 2020 | 12:15 | WWZ Auditorium max. 29 on registration only, and Zoom | Jorma Schäublin | "Pension Funds. Managing the Funding Ratio" |
| September 23, 2020 | 12:15 | Seminar room S15 max. 24 on registration only, and Zoom | Christoph Thommen | "The Impact of a Business Cycle Shock on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Switzerland" |
| September 30, 2020 | 12:15 | Seminar room S15 max. 24 on registration only, and Zoom | ||
| October 7, 2020 | 12:15 | Seminar room S15 max. 24 on registration only, and Zoom | Ali Darudi | "Auctions for renewables: does the choice of payment scheme matter?" |
| October 14, 2020 | 12:15 | Seminar room S15 max. 24 on registration only, and Zoom | Caner Ates | |
| October 21, 2020 | 12:15 | Seminar room S15 max. 24 on registration only, and Zoom | Ulrike Unterhofer | "Peer Effects in Active Labour Market Policies" |
| October 28, 2020 | 12:15 | Zoom | Sebastian Fleer | "How the Mandatory Disclosure of Forward-Looking Information Affects Financial Intermediation" |
| November 4, 2020 | 12:15 | Zoom | Véra Zabrodina | "Dynamic Moral Hazard in Nonlinear Health Insurance Contracts" |
| November 11, 2020 | 12:15 | Zoom | Carla Mendes | "Electric mobility in Switzerland: How many Teslas can the system deal with?" |
| November 18, 2020 | 12:15 | Zoom | Sinan Acemoglu | "Boosting Actuarial Regression Models" |
| November 25, 2020 | 12:15 | Zoom | Marius Faber | "Robots and Reshoring: Evidence from Mexican Labor Markets" |
| December 2, 2020 | 12:15 | Zoom | Matthias Niggli | "Environmental Policy and Heterogeneous Labor Market Effects: Evidence from Europe" |
| December 9, 2020 | 12:15 | Zoom | Rachel Straumann | "Choice of nursing home: The out-of-pocket price is pivotal" |
| December 16, 2020 | 12:15 | postponed to Spring Term 2021 | Raja Daouah | "Asymmetric information, opportunism and Financing decisions" |
Economics Lunch Spring Term 2020 (Coronavirus pandemic)
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 11, 2020 | 12:30 | S 15 | Patrick Böhler | "Drivers of aggregate US equity and bond ETF flows" |
| May 27, 2020 | 12:30 | Zoom | Manuel Buchmann | "Skilled or Unskilled? An occupation-based approach of classifying workers in Switzerland." Download Abstract |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 20, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Andreas Freitag | "Exchange-rate pass-through via the supply side" Abstract |
| February 27, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Sara Stühlinger | "Financial Management Competencies in Nonprofit Organizations" Abstract |
| March 6, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | ||
| March 13, 2019 | 12:30 | No Seminar - Basler Fasnacht | ||
| March 20, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Rahel Braun | "Heterogeneity in Inflation and Substitution Across Households" Abstract |
| March 27, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Lisa Oberländer, PhD cand. Paris School of Economics | "The hotter, the fatter? Weather fluctuations and Food Consumption in Mexico" Abstract |
| April 3, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Marius Faber | "The impact of technology and trade on migration: Evidence from the US" Abstract |
| April 10, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | ||
| April 17, 2019 | 12:30 - 13:45 | S 15 | Featuring WWZ Research Seminar Prof. Dr. Sebastian Findeisen, University of Mannheim | "Adjusting to Robots: Worker-Level Evidence" Host: Prof. Dr. Kurt Schmidheiny |
| April 24, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | ||
| May 1, 2019 | 12:30 | No Seminar - Labour Day | ||
| May 8, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Dragan Filimonovic | "Increase in Fines and Enforcer's Behaviour: Evidence from Belgrade's Buses." Abstract |
| May 15, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Diep Nguyen | "Learn or React? An Experimental Study of Preventive Health Decision Making" Abstract |
| May 22, 2019 | 12:30 | S 15 | Romina Ruprecht | "Monetary Policy Implementation under Negative Interest Rates." Abstract |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 19, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | |
| September 26, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Dr. Steve Heinke, Faculty of Psychology, Center of Economic Psychology: "Active and Passive Information Acquisition: Application to Financial Markets" (abstract) |
| October 3, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Hamza Mirza: "Audit Market Concentration and Regulatory Reforms" (abstract) |
| October 10, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Kumar Rishabh: "Bank as a Venture Capitalist" (abstract) |
| October 17, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | |
| October 24, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Dr. Anton Bondarev: "Games without winners: Catching-up with the leader under asymmetric spillovers" (abstract) |
| October 31, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Dr. Matthias Krapf: "The Joint Distribution of Wealth and Income Risk: Evidence from Bern" (abstract) |
| November 7, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Cancelled |
| November 14, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Anja Roth joint with Dr. Michaela Slotwinski: "Gender norms and income misreporting within households" (abstract) |
November 21, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Istvàn Hegedüs: "Autonomy, Monitoring and Performance" (abstract) |
| November 28, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | |
| December 5, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Dr. Tsz-Ning Wong: "Evidence acquisition under private information: When do test monitoring and mandatory disclosure improve market information" (abstract) |
| December 12, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | David Gallusser: "Size, sorting or returns? Decomposing the association of financial sector pay and the rise in Swiss wage inequality" (abstract) |
| December 19, 2018 | 12:30 | S 15 | Maja Zarkovic: "Combining Climate Policy Instruments: How the Swiss do it and what it delivers" (abstract) |
Program for the Spring Term 2018
Usually, presentations take place on Wednesdays from 12.30 to 1.15 pm in the seminar room S15 (WWZ).
Date | Presenter and Topic |
Feb 28, 2018 | Zornitsa Todorova (External PhD)-"Monetary Policy through International Supply Chains: Evidence from Europe"(abstract) |
March 7, 2018 | Joséphine Molleyres-"Central Clearing: Effects on Corporate Credit Risk" (abstract) |
March 14, 2018 | Stephanie Armbruster- "The effects of flood events on land and housing value: Evidence from the Swiss real estate market" (abstract) |
March 21, 2018 | Beaumont Schoeman- "The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Labour Supply, Bargaining Power, and Welfare in a Developing Country Setting" (abstract) |
March 28, 2018 | |
April 4, 2018 | Samuel Häfner - "Risk-Aversion and Misperceived Winning Probabilities in Discriminatory Share Auctions."(abstract) |
April 11, 2018 | Bich Diep Nguyen-"Youth Decision Making Autonomy and Educational Attainment" (abstract) |
April 18, 2018 | Prof. Meredith Fowlie, PhD - "Mitigating Emissions Leakage in Incomplete Carbon Markets" (abstract) Room S 13 |
April 25, 2018 | Adrian Ettlin - "Dynamic Modeling of Peer-to-Peer Power Market Making" (abstract) |
May 2, 2018 | Aurelio Perucca- "Impact of technological development in the audit market on earnings transparency" (abstract) |
May 9, 2018 | Heiko Sorg- "On the Functional Modelling of Risk-neutral Inflation Densities" (abstract) |
May 16, 2018 | Romina Ruprecht- "Negative Interest Rates as an Exchange Rate Targeting Tool" (abstract) |
May 23, 2018 | Moritz Schillinger- "Bidding into Balancing Markets in a hydro-dominated Electricity System" (abstract) |
May 30, 2018 | Anne Schertenleib- "How to Achieve The Switch From Private Car Use To Sustainable Transport Options In Leisure Travel" (abstract) |
Program for the Autumn Term 2017
Usually, presentations take place on Wednesdays from 12.30 to 1.15 pm in the seminar room S 15 (WWZ).
Date | Presenter and Topic |
September 20, 2017 | |
September 27, 2017 | Lukas Fabian Eckert- "Stay don't run away:Hospital reimbursement schemes and patients' length of stay." (abstract) |
October 4, 2017 | |
October 11, 2017 | Dragan Filimonovic-"Income Decline and Consumption:Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Serbia" (abstract) |
October 18, 2017 | Anja Roth- „How the Provision of Childcare Affects Attitudes towards Maternal Employment“. (abstract) |
October 25, 2017 | Lukas Altermatt- "Savings, asset scarcity, and monetary policy"(abstract) |
November 1, 2017 | |
November 8, 2017 | |
November 15, 2017 | Nicolas Schreiner-"Direct Democracy and Political Extremism" (abstract) |
November 22, 2017 | Lukas Hohl- "Breaking-up: An experiment on international economic integration" (abstract) |
November 29, 2017 | Laura Hahn-"The Effects of Changes in the Exchange Rate on Labour Supply from Abroad" (abstract) |
December 6, 2017 | Flokarta Dzambazoska-"Accounting for market research activities"(abstract) |
December 13, 2017 | Annabelle Dörr-"The effects of asking for an invoice- Evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment" (abstract) |
December 20, 2017 |