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 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |