Research Seminar in Past Semesters

Date

Time

Place

Invited speaker

Host

February 27, 2024

12:30

S 15

Prof. Dr. John W. Mayo
Georgetown University
"The Role of Antitrust Policy on the Composition of Mergers: Further Reflections on Stealth Consolidation"

Weder
March 5, 202412:30S 15Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Fahlenbrach
Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Swiss Finance Institute
"Leading by Example: Can One Universal Shareholder’s Voting Pre-Disclosure Influence Voting Outcomes?"
Heo

March 12, 2024

12:30

 No seminar-

March 19, 2024

12:30

S 15Prof. Dr. Dana Sisak
Erasmus University Rotterdam
"
Information Sharing with Social Image Concerns and the Spread of Fake News (with Philipp Denter)"
 
Roux

March 26, 2024

12:30

S 15

Prof. Dr. Almuth Scholl
Professor of International Macroeconomics of University of Konstanz
"The Political Economy of Domestic and External Sovereign Debt"

Lein
Müller

April 2, 2024

12:30

 No seminar-
April 9, 2024

12:30

S 15Prof. Dr. Holger Strulik
Professor of Macroeconomics and Development of the University of Göttingen
"Pandemics and the Economics of Aging and Longevity"
Felder
Fink

April 16, 2024

12:30

S 15Prof. Dr. Reto Hofstetter
Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Lucerne
"How to Hire Influencers for Marketing Success? Contract Design in Influencer Marketing"
Lanz

April 23, 2024

12:30

S 15Prof. Dr. Irene Monasterolo
Professor of Climate Finance, Utrecht University, SUERF and Institute Louis Bachelier fellow
"Climate credit risk and corporate valuation"

Gantenbein
Heo
Kachi

April 30, 2024

12:30

S 13

Prof. Dr. Lingqing Jiang
Professor at Department of Economics of the University of Essex
"Fair Play or Winning Ugly? Risk Taking Behaviour in Elite Competition under Different Rules"

Felder

May 7, 2024

12:30

S 15Prof. Dr. Eva Buechel
Professor of Marketing at the University of Southern California
"The Upsides and Downsides of Mysterious Consumption"
Brendl

May 14, 2024

12:30

S 15Prof. Dr. Thomas Stratmann
Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University
"Citizen Monitoring and Bureaucratic Output: Evidence from the Bureau of Indian Affairs"
 
Stutzer
May 21, 2024

12:30

S 15

Prof. Dr. Steven Ongena
University of Zürich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven, NTNU Business School & CEPR
"Climate Change and Bank Deposits"

Heo
May 28, 202412:30S 15Prof. Dr. Philippe Aghion
College de France and London School of Economics
"Transition to Green Technology Along the Supply Chain"
Weder

Date

Time

Place

Invited speaker

Host

July 12, 2023
(Summer School Research Event)
12:30S15

Dr. Dragan Filimonovic

“Do regional scientific breakthroughs translate into lasting innovation advantage?”

G. Nöldeke
A. Stutzer

September 19, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Daniel Schwartz, University of Chile

"The Rise of a Nudge: Field Experiment and Machine Learning on Minimum and Full Credit Card Payments"

M.Brendl
September 26, 2023

12:30

S15 and ZoomNo Seminar 

October 3, 2023

12:30

S15 and ZoomDr. Lukas Altermatt, University of Essex
"E-Money and Liquidity"

A.Müller
R.Weder

October 10, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Dr. Christina Besmer, Markus Bossert, Birgit Knöpfli and Prof. Kurt Schmidheiny
"Reproducibility, Data Editors and Research Data Management (with Roadshow Data Stewardship Programme)"

K. Schmidheiny
October 17, 2023
 
12:30S15 and ZoomNo Seminar
 
 

October 18, 2023
(Joint with Economics Lunch)

12:15

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Gabriel Kreindler, Harvard University

"Optimal Public Transportation Networks: Evidence from the World's Largest Bus Rapid Transit System in Jakarta"

B.Hintermann

October 24, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Lorenz Kueng, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and Swiss Finance Institute Professor (SFI)

"Renting Hedges Wage Risk"

S. Lein
November 2 (Thursday / unusual time), 2023

12:30

S 15 and ZoomProf. Dr. Dave Donaldson, MIT, Department of Economics
"Misallocation in Firm Production: A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries"
R. Weder

November 7, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Roland Rathelot, ENSAE Paris

"How can AI improve search and matching? Evidence from 59 million personalized job recommendations"

C. Wunsch

November 14, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago

"Criminal Charges, Risk Assessment, and Violent Recidivism in Cases of Domestic Abuse"

C. Wunsch

November 21, 2023

12:30

S15 and ZoomNo Seminar 

November 28, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Timo Boppart, University of St. Gallen und IIES, Stockholm University

"Micro PPI-Based Real Output Forensics"

A.Müller

December 5, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Amit Goyal, University of Lausanne & Swiss Finance Institue

"A Joint Factor Model for Bonds, Stocks, and Options"

Y. Heo

December 12, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Olivier Deschenes, UC Santa Barbara

"Equity Impacts of a Market for Clean Air"

B.Hintermann

 

 

Date

Time

Place

Invited speaker

Host

February 21, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Ralph Ossa, University of Zurich

“Growth, Trade, and Patents: A Quantitative Evaluation of TRIPS”

R. Weder
February 28, 2023   12:30 Basler Fasnacht
No Seminar
 

March 7, 2023

12:30

 No Seminar 

March 14, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Mariana Lopes da Fonseca,
Universität St. Gallen

"On defaults in taxation: Quasi-experimental evidence from Portugal"

A. Stutzer

March 21, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University

"Avoiding Regulation: Rate Reviews and Contracts in the Freight Rail Industry"

R. Weder

March 28, 2023

12:30

 No Seminar 
March 29, 2023
(Joint with Economics Lunch)
12:15S14 and Zoom

Prof. Vesa Pursiainen,
Universität St. Gallen

"Retail Customer Reactions to Private Equity Acquisitions"

Y. Heo
April 4, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Ryan Chahrour,
Cornell University

"Risky Business Cycles"

S. Lein

April 11, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Rava Azeredo da Silveira, University of Basel

"Cognitive Biases and Costly Mental Representations"

R. Weder

April 18, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Germain Gaudin, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

"Quality and Imperfect Competition"

C. Roux

April 25, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Grigory Vilkov, Frankfurt School

"Media Narratives and Price Informativeness."

Y. Heo

May 2, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Ken Benoit,
Director of the Data Science Institute (DSI),The London School of Economics and Political Science

"A better wordscores: Scaling text with the class affinity model"

A. Kachi

May 9, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Pedram Sendi,
ecpm, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel

“Handling uncertainty in cost-effectiveness analysis in the presence of risk aversion.”

S. Felder
May 16, 2023

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Adeline Y. Lo
University of Wisconsin-Madison and Glenn B. & Cleone Orr Hawkins Chair of Political Science

"Refugees in modern media"

A. Kachi
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
(Joint with Economics Lunch)
12:30S15 and Zoom

Prof. Gene M. Grossman,
Princeton University

"Supply Chain Resilience: Should Policy Promote International Diversification or Reshoring?"

R. Weder
May 23, 2023  

No seminar, it will be postponed

Prof. Lorenz Kueng, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) and
Swiss Finance Institute Professor (SFI)

"Renting Hedges Wage Risk"

S. Lein
May 30, 202312:30S15 and Zoom

Prof. Beatrix Eugster,
Universität St. Gallen

“Ethnic Clustering in Schools and Early Career Outcomes”

A. Stutzer und C. Wunsch

Date

Time

Place

Invited speaker

Host

September 20, 2022  No Seminar 

September 27, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Christoph Moser, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

"Cross-Border Commuting, Gender Differences, and the Outside Option"

S. M. Lein

October 4, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Rafael Lalive, Université de Lausanne

"Why Finding a Job Gets Harder as Spells Lengthen: Job Seekers vs Employers"

A. Stutzer

October 11, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Bryan S. Graham, Berkeley, University of California

“Simulated Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Large Games”

K. Schmidheiny

October 18, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Paolo Piacquadio, University of St.Gallen

"Fairness and Paretian Social Welfare Functions."

G. Nöldeke

October 25, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Tobias Kretschmer, LMU München

"Competing for Attention on Information Platforms: The Case of News Outlets"

M. Beckmann
November 1, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Guillaume Daudin, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL

"The British war on French trade, 1744-1815"

R. Stelter

November 8, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Christian Laux, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

"Accounting changes and enforcement of bank capital requirements in a crisis"

S. Böckem/U. Schiller

November 15, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Laura Grigolon, Ph.D., University of Mannheim

"Stigma as a Barrier to Treatment and Adoption of Innovation"

C. Roux

November 22, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Elsa Leromain, University of Antwerp

"Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States"

S. Lein

November 29, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Eyal Winter,
Hebrew University Jerusalem and Lancaster University

"Winners and Losers in Priority Services"

G. Nöldeke
November 30, 2022
(joint with the Economics Lunch)
12:15S15 and Zoom

Prof. Carlos Alós-Ferrer, Universität Zürich

"Learning Preferences from Response Times"

G. Nöldeke

December 6, 2022

16:15

S13 and Zoom

 Prof. Arthur Spirling, New York University

"Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference"

A. Kachi

December 13, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Antonio M. Bento, USC Price

"Why do inefficient policies persist? Evidence from Energy Subsidies in Brazil"

B. Hintermann
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 (joint with the Economics Lunch)12:30S 15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Kaspar Wüthrich, UC San Diego

"Selection and parallel trends"

C. Wunsch

 

 

Date

Time

Place

Invited speaker

Host

February 22, 2022

    

March 1, 2022

12:30

S15 and ZoomProf. Dr. Julien Daubanes, University of Geneva

"Why do firms issue green bonds?"
B.Hintermann

March 8, 2022 - No Seminar

 

 Basler Fasnacht - No Seminar 

March 15, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Dina Pomeranz, University of Zurich

"The Race Between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Chile"

A. Stutzer

March 22, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Sascha O. Becker, PhD, Monash University, Melbourne/Australia

"Freedom of the Press? Catholic Censorship during the Counter-Reformation"

R. Stelter

March 29, 2022

12:30

Zoom

Prof. Dr. Lisa Bruttel, Universität Potsdam

"A comparison of the per-se approach and a judgment by effect in competition law."

C. Roux
April 5, 2022

12:30

S15 and ZoomProf. Dr. Andrei Levchenko, University of Michigan

"News Media and International Fluctuations."
C. Wunsch
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
(joint with the Economics Lunch)
12:15 and 13:10S15 and Zoom

12:15 Prof. Dr. Nicola Pavoni, Bocconi University

"Economic Shocks and Populism: The Political Implications of Reference-Dependent Preferences"

13:10 Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth, Cornell University

"Fundamentally Reforming the Public DI System: Evidence from German Notch Cohorts"

C. Wunsch

April 12, 2022

12:30

S15 and ZoomProf. Dr. Markus Schmid, Universität St.Gallen

"CEO Turnover and Director Reputation"
H.Zimmermann

April 19, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. David Strömberg, Stockholm University

"Social Media and Collective Action in China"

A.Stutzer

April 26, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Dirk Sliwka, University of Cologne

"When Bonuses Backfire: Evidence from the Workplace"

M.Beckmann

May 3, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Paul Sharp, University of Southern Denmark

"The Sleeping Giant Who Left for America: The Determinants and Impact of Danish Emigration During the Age of Mass Migration"

R.Stelter

May 10, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann, Universität Hamburg

"Rewards for information provision in patient referrals: a theoretical model and an experimental test"

St.Felder
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
(joint with the Economics Lunch)
12:30S13 and Zoom

Prof. M. Scott Taylor, University of Calgary

"Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow motion extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales."

R.Weder

May 17, 2022

12:30

S15 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Fabian Herweg, University of Bayreuth

"Prices versus Quantities with Morally Concerned Consumers"

C.Roux, G.Nöldeke
May 24, 202212:30S15 and ZoomProf. Dr. Armon Rezai, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien

"Bayesian climate estimation and optimal policy derivation"
B.Hintermann
May 31, 202212:30S15 and ZoomProf. Dr. Roxana Halbleib, University of Freiburg, Germany

"Use the Market’s Heartbeat to Predict Extreme Financial Risks"
Ch.Kleiber

 

 

Date

Time

Place

Invited speaker

Host

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Prof. Elliott Ash, PhD, ETH Zürich

"Visual Stereotypes in News Media"

K.Schmidheiny

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Dr. Christian Pröbsting, Université Lausanne

"Market Segmentation and Spending Multipliers"

S.M. Lein

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Prof. Igor Letina, PhD, Universität Bern

"Killer Acquisitions and Beyond: Policy Effects on Innovation Strategies"

C.Roux and G. Nöldeke

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Dr. Dietmar Fehr, Assistant Professor University of Heidelberg

Perceived Relative Wealth and Risk Taking"

G. Fink

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Mazzonna, Università della Svizzera italiana

"Happy pills? The health consequences of the dramatic increase in antidepressant use"

St. Felder

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

12:30

S13 and ZoomProf. Dr. Paul Ehling, Norwegian Business School

"Asset Prices with Wealth Dispersion"
H. Zimmermann

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Iris Kesternich, KU Leuven

"In good and bad times - associations of spousal health and the role of assortative matching on early-life factors in Europe"

St. Felder

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Casaburi, Universität Zürich

"Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya" 

G. Fink

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Open Slot

(Postponed to Spring Term 2022: Prof. Paul Sharp, PhD, University of Southern Denmark; "The Sleeping Giant Who Left for America: The Determinants and Impact of Danish Emigration During the Age of Mass Migration")

R. Stelter

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

12:30

S13 and ZoomOpen slot 

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

Prof. Christelle Dumas, PhD, Université de Fribourg

"Antibiotics pollution in India"

G. Fink

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

(Postponed to Spring Term 2022: Prof. Dr. Mathias Kifmann, Universität Hamburg; "Rewards for information provision in patient referrals: a theoretical model and an experimental test")

St. Felder

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

12:30

S13 and Zoom

(Postponed to Spring Term 2022: Prof. Dr. Fabian Herweg, University of Bayreuth, "Prices versus Quantities with Morally Concerned Consumers")

C.Roux, G.Nöldeke

Date

Time

Place

Invited speaker

Host

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

12:30

ZoomProf. Botond Kőszegi, Central European University (CEU)

"Procrastination Markets"
C. Roux

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

16:15

Zoom

Prof. Ross Levine, Berkeley Haas

"Competition Laws, Ownership, and Corporate Social Responsibility"

O.Mahmoud

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

  

No seminar

 

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

12:30Zoom

Prof. Anna Dreber Almenberg, Stockholm School of Economics

"(Predicting) replications"

C.Roux, O.Mahmoud, S.M.Lein

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

16:15

Zoom

Prof. Stephan Meier, Columbia Business School

"Gender Differences in Preferences of Meaning at Work"

A. Stutzer

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

16:15

Zoom

Prof. Hersh Shefrin, Santa Clara University

"Financial Service Providers, AI, Satisficing, and the Human Touch In the Market for Financial Nudges and Boosts"

O.Mahmoud

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

17:00Zoom

Prof. Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley

"Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency"

B.Hintermann

Monday, April 19, 2021

12:30

Zoom

Prof. Andrea Vedolin, Boston University

"Model Complexity, Expectations, and Asset Prices"

P.Gantenbein

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

16:15

Zoom

Prof. Louis Preonas, University of Maryland

"Energy, groundwater, and crop choice"

B.Hintermann

Tuesday, May 4, 2021

16:15

Zoom

Prof. Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University / President of the American Political Science Association

"Connections Among Political Actors"

A.Kachi

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

12:30

Zoom

Prof. Hans Gersbach, ETH Zurich

"From Local to Global: A Theory of Public Basic Research in a Globalized World"

R.Weder

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

12:30

Zoom

Prof. Dr. Daniel Kaufmann, Université de Neuchâtel

"Do Sticky Wages Matter? New Evidence from Matched Firm-Survey and Register Data"

S.M.Lein

Tuesday, May 25, 2021

12:30

ZoomDr. Jakob Miethe, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

"Offshore real estate investment. Economic incentives, secrecy motives, and ultimate ownership"
K.Schmidheiny

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

16:15

Zoom

Prof. Lucija Muehlenbachs, University of Calgary

"Cash versus in-kind settlements: Evidence from environmental enforcement cases"