Economic Lunch in Past Semesters
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 18, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Yuna Heo | "Plus": Climate change and bank default +2 more papers |
| Sep 25, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Tobias Schib | What Contributes to an Attractive Local Political Office: Evidence from Municipal Council Elections in Switzerland |
| Oct 2, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Abdelradi Mohammed | Water Policy and Irrigation Efficiency in Egypt: A CGE Model with biophysical constraints |
| Oct 9, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Marco Graziano | Convenience yields and the foreign demand for US Treasuries |
| Oct 16, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Andrea Ghisletta | Prison Break: The Causal Impact of Short Incarceration on Recidivism and Labor Market Outcomes in Switzerland |
| 13:00 | ||||
| Oct 23, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | David Borner | Central Bank Information and Pure Monetary Policy Shocks in Switzerland |
| Oct 30, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Sascha Sebastian Brunner | Financial Consequences of P4P for Hospitals: A Simulation for Total Hip Replacements in Switzerland |
| Nov 6, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Mitchell Goldberg | Geographic Dispersion of Economic Shocks in the Metaverse |
| Nov 13, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Richard Abbasi | Does opt-out legislation crowd out living organ donations? A cross-country study |
| Nov 20, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Mario Bernasconi | Pension Reforms and Partial Retirement |
| Nov 27, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Adrien Wicht | Seniority and Sovereign Default: The Role of Official Multilateral Lenders |
| December 4, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | joint with Research Seminar | |
| Dec 11, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Katrin Maria Schuler | Frictions in DeFi Liquidations: Evidence from the Aave V2 Main Market |
| Dec 18, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Pascal Kündig | Latent Gaussian Process Models: Iterative Methods and Applications to Mortgage Credit Risk |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC | TIME | ECONOMICS LUNCH "PLUS" PRESENTER AND TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 28, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Jeremias Lenzi | Efficient Voting Mechanisms in the Absence of Identification Systems | 13:10 | |
| March 6, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Robin Argueyrolles | Saving Money Twice for Twice the Benefits - The Impact of Gasoline and Diesel Subsidy Reforms on Global Biofuel Mandates | 13:10 | |
| March 13, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Lucca Nietlispach | Preliminary: Revenue Streams of Social Impact Incubators and Accelerators: The Influence of Program Benefits | 13:10 | |
| March 20, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Martina Bossard | Procuring New Ideas: On the Value of Performance Information in Innovation Tournaments | 13:10 | |
March 27, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Marie-Catherine Bieri | Assessing Economic Sentiment with Newspaper Text Indices: Evidence from Switzerland | 13.10 | |
| April 3, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Matthias Nadler | DeFi Risk Transfer: Towards A Fully Decentralized Insurance Protocol | 13:10 | |
| April 10, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Lars Fluri | Dense-to-sparse neural network modelling for accounting data using feature importance attributions | 13:10 | |
| April 17, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| April 24, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom |
| 13:10 | ||
| May 1, 2024 | No Seminar | Tag der Arbeit | ||||
| May 8, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| May 15, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Felix Bekemeier | Risk underwriting in Decentralized Finance (DeFi): Market stability under prediction market structures | 13:10 | |
| May 22, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Héctor Ramírez | The role of seasonal thermal energy storage in the decarbonization of the Swiss residential sector | 13:10 | |
| May 29, 2024 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Juri Nithammer (University of Potsdam) | Payoffs, Beliefs, and Cooperation in Infinitely Repeated Games | 13:10 |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC | TIME | ECONOMICS LUNCH "PLUS" PRESENTER AND TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 20, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Dilek Sevim | Mental Health Effects of Retirement on Couples During the Covid-19 Pandemic | 13:10 | |
| September 27, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Avralt-Od Purevjav | Market Access, Firm-level Outcomes and Misallocation of Capital in India | 13:10 | |
| October 4, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | CANCELLED | 13:10 | ||
| October 11, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Rebekka Bärenbold | Investigating Fund Adequacy and Financial Liability in Nuclear Decommissioning- A Swiss Case Study | 13:10 | |
October 18, 2023 | 12:15 - 13:30 | S15 and Zoom | Prof. Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University | B.Hintermann | ||
| October 25, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Laura Felber | Nowcasting Economic Activity Using Transaction Payments Data | 13:10 | |
| November 1, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Marina Andrea Misev | News that Moves Markets: The Impact of Climate Change News on Green Asset Demand | 13:10 | |
| November 8, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Johannes Lehmann | Self-Managed Working Time and Overtime Compensation | 13:10 | |
| November 15, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Laura Christine Schwab and Jakob Roth | Mobility Pricing to Promote E-biking and Reduce Transportation Externalities: Insights from a GPS-Tracked Experiment | 13:10 | |
| November 22, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Kaspar Burghartz | Decomposing Short-Term Interest Rate Expectations over the FOMC Cycle | 13:10 | |
| November 29, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Amélie-Sophie Bank | Preliminary: Maternal Job Preferences (in the Context of Neighborhood) Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment | 13:10 | |
| December 6, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Nico Pascal Sütterle | Effects of an audit split on consulting and audit quality | 13:10 | |
| December 13, 2023 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Santiago Ernesto Alvarez-Blaser | Inflation and price dispersion: new cross-sectional and international evidence | 13:10 |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC | TIME | ECONOMICS LUNCH "PLUS" PRESENTER AND TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 22, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| March 1, 2023 | 12:15 | Basler Fasnacht No Seminar | 13:10 | |||
| March 8, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 | 13:10 | |||
| March 15, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Véra Zabrodina | "Discussion of the results of the PhD survey (group III only)" | 13:10 | |
| March 22, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| March 29, 2023 (joint with Research Seminar) | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Prof. Vesa Pursiainen, Universität St. Gallen | "Retail Customer Reactions to Private Equity Acquisitions" | 13:10 | |
| April 5, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| April 12, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Augustin Ignatov | "European Highway Networks, Transportation Costs and Regional Income" | 13:10 | |
| April 19, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| April 26, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Andrea Ghisletta | “Self-Interest, Voter Behavior and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a Swiss Pension Reform” | 13:10 | |
| May 3, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Andrea Blum | "Unveiling Bank Run Behavior: The Impact of Deposit Insurance Knowledge and Credibility on Withdrawals - Evidence from Swiss Survey Data" | 13:10 | |
| May 10, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Patrick Arnold | "Common Ownership and Quality Competition" | 13:10 | |
| May 17, 2023 (joint with Research Seminar) | 12:30 - 13:45 | S15 and Zoom | Prof. Gene M. Grossmann, Princeton University | "Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote International Diversification or Reshoring?" | ||
| May 24, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Christian Nolde | “Green technology adaptation: State-owned enterprises versus second-best taxation” | 13:10 | |
| May 31, 2023 | 12:15 | S14 and Zoom | Muhammad Maladoh Bah | "Early nuclear power plant phase-out and nuclear decommissioning funds in the U.S." | 13:10 |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC | TIME | ECONOMICS LUNCH "PLUS" PRESENTER AND TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 21, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | 13:00 | |||
| September 28, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Farshid Balaneji | "News and Implied Volatility Forecasting, Beyond the Sentiment Analysis" | 13:00 | |
| October 5, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Denis Bieri | "The Impact of the Introduction of Bitcoin Futures and their Role in Price Discovery" | 13:00 | |
| October 12, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | 13:00 | |||
| October 19, 2022 | 12:15 | S6 / S7 (HG, on the side of the Faculty of Law) and Zoom | Caner Ates | "Liquidity Savings Auctions" | 13:00 | |
| October 26, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | 13:00 | |||
| November 2, 2022 | 12:30 - 14:00 | S15 and Zoom | Silke Bellanger (Head of Digital Services, University Library) and | Introduction to Research Data Management (Team UB) | ||
| November 9, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | 13:00 | |||
| November 16, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Philipp Stähli | 13:00 | ||
| November 23, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Farshid Balaneji | "Classifying Stock Excess Returns Using the Sentiment Analysis of Financial News." | 13:00 | |
| November 30, 2022 (joint with the research seminar) | 12:15 - 13:30 | S15 and Zoom | Prof. Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Universität Zürich | |||
| December 7, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Constantin Kempf | “Construction costs and initial yield effects of MINERGIE certification and sustainable construction measures in new multi-family houses in Switzerland” | 13:00 | |
December 14, 2022 | 12:30 - 13:45 | S15 and Zoom | "Selection and parallel trends" | |||
| December 21, 2022 | 12:15 | S15 and Zoom | Ulrike Unterhofer and Véra Zabrodina | “Hours Mismatch and Income Tax Incentives for Low-Earning Workers” | 13:00 |
| DATE | TIME | PLACE | PRESENTER | TOPIC | TIME | ECONOMICS LUNCH "PLUS" PRESENTER AND TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 23, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| March 2, 2022 | 12:15 | Zoom | Sebastian Schäfers | "Product Lotteries and Loss Aversion" (preliminary paper distributed by email) | 13:10 | |
| March 9, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | No Seminar! Basler Fasnacht | 13:10 | ||
| March 16, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | 13:10 | |||
| March 23, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Gregor Lenhard | "State-Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (S-ANFIS): A Generalized Regime-Switching Model for Financial Modeling" | 13:10 | |
| March 30, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom |
| 13:10 | ||
| April 6, 2022 (joint with the Research Seminar) | S 15 and Zoom | 12:15 | Prof. Dr. Nicola Pavoni "Economic Shocks and Populism: The Political Implications of Reference-Dependent Preferences" | 13:10 | Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth "Fundamentally Reforming the Public DI System: Evidence from German Notch Cohorts" | |
| April 13, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Remo Nyffenegger | "Central Bank Digital Currency with Heterogeneous Bank Deposits" | 13:10 | |
| April 20, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Julia Starzetz | "Employee Absenteeism in the Digital Age" | 13:10 | |
| April 27, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Felix Rochlitz | "Foreign-Domestic Wage Gaps within Firms" | 13:10 | |
| May 4, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Elisa Rottner | "Do manufacturing plants respond to exogenous changes in electricity prices? Evidence from administrative micro-data" | 13:10 | Prof. Dr. Beat Hintermann: "Cost pass-through in German manufacturing" |
| May 11, 2022 | 12:30 - 13:45 | S 13 and Zoom | joint with the Research Seminar: | |||
| May 18, 2022 | 12:15 | Zoom | Brian Mattmann | "Customer Liquidity Provision in Corporate Bond Markets: Electronic Trading versus Dealer Intermediation" | 13:10 | S 13 and Zoom Jan Bauer: "Sparse principal loading analysis" |
| May 25, 2022 | 12:15 | S 13 and Zoom | Léo Picard | "Neural metaphor detection from political speeches" | 13:10 | |
| June 1, 2022 | 12:15 | S 15 and Zoom | Lukas Hitz | "Intraday option implied risk neutral densities and FOMC announcements" | 13:10 |
| 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 |