Past semesters

The research seminar is a platform where invited researchers present their work. All lectures are open to the public and address economists and graduate students (MA level). Ph.D. students are expected to regularly attend the research seminar.

All seminars are open to the public and ususally take place on Tuesdays from 12:30 to 13:45 (seminar room S15).
 

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

All seminars are open to the public and ususally take place on Tuesdays from 12:30 to 13:45 (seminar room S 15). Without notice to the contrary, the seminar will take place in hybrid format with the lecturer present.

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

 

 

Coordinator:Georg Nöldeke
Responsible faculty members ST 2022: Beat Hintermann, Alois Stutzer, Michael Beckmann

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

 

 

Coordinator: Georg Nöldeke
Responsible faculty members AT 2021: Stefan Felder, Günther Fink, Robert Stelter

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