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Lunch Time Seminar from previous semesters.

Summer Term 2024:

Date Speaker Title
25.4.2024

Georg Schmidt (JKU)

Voluntary Information Disclosure and Personalized Pricing

7.5.2024

Stefano Carattini (Georgia State University)

Climate change in the classroom

13.6.2024, 12:00

Anja Schöttner (FU Berlin)

TBA
13.6.2024, 15:00

Malika Jumaniyozva (JKU)

Monopsony: wages and job requirements

27.6.2024 Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick)

Persuasion in Networks

 

Winter Term 2023/24:

Date Speaker Title
5.10.2023

Ingrid Hägele (LMU)

Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market
12.10.2023 Felix Glaser (JKU)

Socio-Economic Inequality in Healthcare Utilization: Evidence from Health Shocks

19.10.2023

Edoardo Cefala (JKU)

The political consequences of mass repatriation

16. 11. 2023 Mario Lackner (JKU)

When performance melts away: Causal evidence of a negative effect of heat on performance in high-stakes competitions

23.11.2023 Vojtěch Mišák (Charles University, Prague)

Exploring the Mechanisms Between Weather and Crime: Insights from the Czech Republic

30.11.2023 Jochen Güntner (JKU)

Sudden stop: Demand and supply shocks in the German natural gas market, opens a file

14.12.2023

Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer (JKU)

tba
11.01.2024 Francesco Squintani (University of Warwick) Vortrag entfällt
25.01.2024 Mariya Teteryatnikova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) Vortrag entfällt

 

Summer Term 2023:

16. 3. 2023 Mario Lackner (JKU) Why even bother when no one is watching? Gender-specific responses to a friendly observer - evidence from a natural experiment
20. 4. 2023 Wolfgang Frimmel (JKU)

Careers of migrants between Austria and Germany: Evidence from linked register data

27.4.2023 Rene Wiesinger (JKU) Parental Death and Daughters' Fertility
4. 5. 2023 Zach Porreca (West Virginia University) The Right to Counsel: Criminal Prosecution in 19th Century London
25.5.2023 Imola Csóka (JKU, CEU) Ten simple rules for creating a replication package
1. 6. 2023 Omar Bamieh (Uni Wien)

Estimating the Returns to Occupational Licensing: Evidence from Regression Discontinuities at the Bar Exam

 

Winter Term 2022/23

06.10.2022 Daryna Grechyna
(University of Granada)

Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomic Volatility in the Presence of Political Frictions

10.11.2022 Sebastian Axbard (Queen Mary) Informed Enforcement: Lessons from Pollution Monitoring in China
17.11.2022 Maria Titova (Vanderbilt University) Targeted Advertising in Elections
15.12.2022 Pia Heckl (WU Wien)

Can Firms Reduce the Child Penalty? Consequences of a Mandated Increase in Firm Family-Friendliness

12.01.2023 Daniel Schäfer (JKU) The Impact of Automatic Enrolment into Pensions on Wages: Theory and Evidence
19.01.2023 Dieter Pennerstorfer (JKU) Farm exits and competition on the land market: Evidence from spatially explicit data
26.01.2023 Lindsey Bullinger (Georgia Tech) tba


Summer Term 2022

10.03.2022 Michael Brottrager (JKU)
Sick of taxes? Identifying taxpayer responses following the 2009 tax reform

07.04.2022

Karim Bekhtiar (IHS)
Robots and rural depopulation in Austria

28.04.2022

Micheal Irlacher (JKU)
Multiproduct Mergers and the Product Mix in Domestic and Foreign Markets

09.06.2022

Roman Klauser (RWI, Universität Düsseldorf)
The Effect of Job Loss Expectations on Training Participation

23.06.2022

Imola Csoka (JKU, CEU, Corvinus University of Budapest)
Effect of elite schools on university outcomes

 

Winter Term 2021/22:

27.01.2022

Rene Wiesinger (JKU)

Mandatory Wage Information and the Gender Wage Gap

02.12.2021 Jochen Güntner (JKU)
Brexit News Shocks and the UK Economy
18.11.2021

Guido Matias Cortes (York University)

Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality

21.10.2021

Karin Mayr-Dorn (JKU)

Trade diversion and labor market adjustment: Vietnam and the U.S.-China trade war

14.10.2021

Amir Habibi (Humboldt Universität Berlin)

Pay Transparency in Organizations

07.10.2021

Anja Prummer (JKU)

Discrimination in Promotion

02.09.2021

Matthias Fahn (JKU)

Downsizing, Trust, and Worker Morale

 

Summer Term 2021

17.06.2021

Johannes Muthers (JKU)

Opportunism and Manufacturer Collusion

10.06.2021

Peter Brummund (University of Alabama)

How Do Restaurants Pay for the Minimum Wage?

27.05.2021

Mario Lackner (JKU)

The effect of income (shocks) on delinquent behavior – Evidence from the upper end of the income distribution

20.05.2021

Jochen Güntner (JKU)

Ease on the cannons, tighten on the trumpets: Geopolitical risk and the transmission of monetary policy shocks

06.05.2021

Matthias Fahn (JKU)

Competition and Productivity – The Role of Informal Incentives

29.04.2021

Nicholas Gagnon (WU Wien)

The Effect of Unfair Chances and Gender Discrimination on Labor Supply

25.03.2021

Dean R. Lillard (Ohio State University)

The Economics of Nicotine Consumption

18.03.2021

Mario Lackner (JKU)

The Forces Behind Social Unrest During Covid-19

04.03.2021

Michael Brottrager (JKU)

Exams in R

 

 

Winter Term 2020/21

12.11.2020

Ulrich Glogowsky (JKU)

Child Penalties, Family Policies, and Gender Norms in Germany

26.11.2020

Alexander Ahammer (JKU)

Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking

03.12.2020

Jochen Güntner (JKU)

The toll of voting in a pandemic: Municipal elections and the spread of COVID-19 in Bavaria

10.12.2020

Matthias Fahn (JKU)

Immigration and Wages

17.12.2020

Dieter Pennerstorfer (JKU)

How to Measure Product Differentiation

21.01.2021

Mihai Mutascu (West University of Timisoara, FEAA)

A wavelet investigation of Okun's law in the US

28.01.2021

Bernhard Schmidpeter (JKU)

Mothers' Job Search After Childbirth

 

Summer Term 2020

30.03.2020

(11:00-12:00 am)

Michael Brottrager (JKU)
Costs of mobility and regional unemployment: Evidence from Austrian Labor Market Districts

(link to presentation: https://twitter.com/jku_econ/status/1244594546866036736, opens an external URL in a new window)

23.04.2020
(12:00-13:00 pm)

Daniel Schäfer (JKU)
Nominal Wage Adjustments and the Composition of Pay: New Evidence from Payroll Data

14.05.2020 Neha Deopa (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Scenes from a Monopoly: Renewable Resources and Quickest Detection of Regime Shifts
04.06.2020 Arseny Samsonov (UCLA)

The Fragmentation of Views in a Democracy

25.06.2020 Walter D'Lima (Old Dominion University, Norfolk) 
Opioid Crisis and Housing Market Effects

 

Winter Term 2019/20

17.10.2019

Sijmen Duineveld (Universität Augsburg)

Adaptive labor supply as a driver of the business cycle

19.12.2019

Karin Mayr-Dorn (JKU)
Monetary versus non-monetary determinants of on-the-job search: theory and empirical evidence

16.1.2020

René Böheim (JKU)
Unearned income and labor supply: Evidence from survivors’ pensions

 

Summer Term 2019

09.05.2019

Matthias Fahn (JKU)
Informal Incentives and Product Market Competition

13.06.2019

Jochen Güntner (JKU)

Time-varying effects of oil price shocks on firms' price setting - Evidence from German manufacturing

27.06.2019

Dominik Grübl, Mario Lackner und Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (JKU)

Intergenerational Unemployment

 

Winter Term 2018/19

25.10.2018

Dieter Pennerstorfer (JKU)
Socioeconomic inequalities in child care accessibility: public-private disparities (preliminary)

08.11.2018

Alexander Ahammer (JKU)
Prescription authorization and the US opioid epidemic (first results)

15.11.2018

Wolfgang Frimmel (JKU)
Pension reforms and firm behavior

22.11.2018

Philipp Heimberger (JKU)
What determines Austria's export market performance? Evidence based on estimating an export model over 1997-2016

06.12.2018

Thomas Schober (JKU)
Hospital quality and instrumental variables

13.12.2018

Christoph Eder (JKU)
On the origin of the German East-West population gap

10.01.2019

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (JKU)
Bank equity and small firm risk taking

 

Summer Term 2016

21.06 2016

Dominik Grübl (JKU)
External Pressure, Risk Taking and Performance

14.06.2016

Thomas Schober (JKU)
The company you keep - The connection of health behavior among work peers

09.03.2016

Mario Lackner (JKU)
The causal effect of self confidence on performance - Evidence from Biathlon

 

Winter Term 2015/16

10.11.2015

Erhard Glötzl
Die Überwindung der Allgemeinen Gleichgewichtstheorie - Warum und Wie?

 

Summer Term 2015

21.04 2015

Thomas Schober 
Hospitals and the generic versus brand-name prescription decision in the outpatient sector

28.04.2015

Johann Bacher (JKU)
Evaluierung der Neuen Mittelschule

02.06.2015

René Böheim/Mario Lackner (JKU)
Gender Differences in Risk Taking: Evidenc from Basketball

16.06.2015

Michael Pammer (JKU)
Einkommensungleichheit 1911 auf Basis der Einkommensteuerdaten

23.06.2015

Maximilian Kasy
tba