Forskningsseminarer

Avholdte seminarer

Her finner du en oversikt over tidligere avholdte seminarer ved Institutt for økonomi.

29.08. Knut Aase, NHH: Recursive utility and disappearing puzzles for discrete-time models

05.09. Kasper Meisner Nielsen, HKUST: Fire Sales and House Prices: Evidence from Estate Sales due to Sudden Death

19.09. Chiara Canta, NHH: Efficiency, access, and the mixed delivery of health care services

26.09. Gani Aldashev, University of Namur: Government Incentives for Private Ownership of Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Belgium

03.10. Bjørn Olav Johansen, UiB: The opportunism problem revisited: the case of retailer sales effort

10.10. Heike Auerswald, TU Dresden: Adaptation, Mitigation and Risk-Taking in Climate Policy

11.10. Greg Shaffer, University of Rochester: Exclusionary Discounts in a Dynamic Model with Financially Constrained Firms

15.10. Gary Fournier, Florida State University: Physician and Patient Migration to Ambulatory Surgery Centers as a Response to Poor Safety at Hospitals

17.10. Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Harvard Business School: Governing Misvalued Firms

24.10. Mathias Ekstrøm, NHH: Can Indifference Make the World Greener?

31.10. Jo Thori Lind, UiO: Rainy day politics. An instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes

05.11. Teemu Pennanen, King's College: Optimal investment and contingent claim valuation in illiquid markets

07.11. Ingvild Nordtveit, UiB: Lending to Developing Countries - How do official creditors respond to defaults?

14.11. Ugo Panizza, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies: Too much Finance?

21.11. Alexander Cappelen, NHH: You've got mail: A randomized field experiment on tax evasion.

28.11. Ola Vestad, SSB: Adverse Selection in a Mandatory Public Pension Scheme

24.01. Julian Vedeler Johnsen, UiB: Smoking Bans, Maternal Smoking, and Birth Outcomes

31.01. Aline Bütikofer, NHH: This is Not a Test - Long-Run Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout from Nuclear Weapon Testing

08.02. Mirjam van Praag, Amsterdam School of Economics: Why do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?

14.02. Vincent Somville, CMI: Ungrateful Children - Theory and Evidence on old Age Support from Nepal

28.02. Imran Rasul, UCL: Can Basic Entrepreneurship Transform the Economic Lives of the Poor?

07.03. Kjetil Bjorvatn, NHH: Ethnicity and cooperation: Experimental evidence from Kenya and Tanzania

14.03. Ivar Gaasland, UiB: Trade-off between food production and greenhouse gas mitigation in Norwegian agriculture

21.03. Knut P. Heen, HiMolde: Monopoly Theory from a Finance Perspective

11.04. Sjur Flåm, UiB: Order books and market clearing

18.04. Thomas Åstebro, HEC-Paris: Hierarchies, the Small Firm Effect, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Swedish Microdata

25.04. Tommy S. Gabrielsen, UiB: Resale price maintenance and up-front payments: achieving horizontal control under seller and buyer power

02.05. Alessia Russo: Self-Commitment Institution and Cooperation in OLG games

08.05. Bård Harstad, UiO: The Market for Conservation and other Hostages

16.05. Manudeep Bhuller, SSB: Education and Lifetime Earnings

23.05. Edwin Leuven, UiO: Ability peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment

30.05. Torfinn Harding, University of Sussex: Institutions and the Distribution of Oil

06.06. Kjetil Storesletten, UiO: Sharing High Growth Across Generations: Pensions and Demographic Transition in China

10.06. Robert Pollak (Washington U., St. Louis): Cohabitation and the uneven withdrawal from marriage in the US, 1950-2010

13.06. Prashant Baradwaye, UCSD: Do initial endowments matter only initially? Birth weight, parental investments and academic achievement in school

10.09. Amihai Glazer, UCI: Governmental Transfers and Altruistic Private Transfers

14.09. Katrine Løken, UIB: Peer effects in program participation

21.09. Fred Schroyen, NHH: Mapping Risk Aversion in Norway Using Hypothetical Income Gambles

28.09. Bernd Fitzenberger, Freiburg: The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

05.10. Morten Sæthre, NHH: The bargaining effect of cross-border M&A on wages

12.10. No seminar

19.10. Ben Jones, Northwestern: Understanding China: An Explanation for an Unusual Macroeconomy

26.10. Disputas Lene Lunde

02.11. Julie Riise Kolstad, UiB: Lifting the burden: State care of the elderly and the labor supply of adult children

09.11. Steinar Strøm, UiO: A probability approach to industrial organization

16.11. Juan Carluccio, Paris School of Economics: TBA

23.11. Liam Brunt, NHH: How fast, and how broad, was British industrialization to 1851? Evidence from a synthetic occupational census for 1801.

30.11. Imran Rasul, UCL: cancelled

07.12. Bill Kerr, Harvard: Entrepreneurship and urban growth: An empirical assessment with historical mines.

27.01. Francisco Santos, NHH: IPO underpricing and long-term underperformance

03.02. Julian Vedeler Johnsen, UiB: Complementary Leisure: The Unintended Spill-Over Effect of an Early Retirement Reform

10.02. Bjørnar Karlsen Kivedal, NTNU: A DSGE Model with Housing in the Cointegrated VAR Framework

17.02. Gernot Doppelhofer, NHH: Do Broken Speed Limits of Debt Predict Financial Crises?

24.02. Sjur Flåm, UiB: Bilateral exchange

02.03. Vincent Somville, CMI: Informal Savings and Intra-Household Strategies: Theory & Evidence from Urban Benin

09.03. Adrien Vigier, UiO: An Economic model of the Ivy League

16.03. Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, UiO: Why are firms that export cleaner? International trade and CO2 emissions

23.03. Sascha Becker, Warwick

30.03. Eirik Kristiansen, NHH: Paying for Staying: Managerial Contracts and the Retention Motive

13.04. Bjørn Olav Johansen, UiB: Buyer Power and Exclusion in Vertically Related Markets

20.04. Per Botolf Maurseth, BI: Market specific fixed and sunk export costs : Learning and spillovers

27.04. Wolter Hassink, Utrecht University: What Does Loyalty Buy?

04.05. Amrita Dhillon, Warwick: Employee referral, social proximity, and worker discipline

11.05. Michael Koch, University of Bayreuth: The Impact of Trade on the Organization of Labor within Firms

25.05. Udo Kreickemeier, University of Tübingen: Two-way migration between similar countries

01.06. AVLYST

08.06. Silvia Marchesi, Milano-Bicocca: How Defensive Were Lending and Aid to HIPC?

15.06. AVLYST

22.06. Christian Soegaard, University of Nottingham: Welfare Effects of Trade Policy in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

26.08. Gaute Torsvik (UiB): Financial incentives and sick absence: evidence from a natural experiment in a firm

02.09. Alexander Cappelen (NHH): Leading by example: the effect of leadership compensation in a public goods experiment

16.09. Igor Evstigneev (University of Manchester): Volatility-induced financial growth

23.09. Daniel Etzel (University of Bayreuth): Wage Bargaining Systems and International Trade

07.10. Bjørn Sandvik: En fri lunsj for oljefondet

14.10. Astri Drange Hole (HiB): "Exposing care services to competition - effects on quality"

21.10. Arnt Ove Hopland (NTNU): School Building Conditions and Student Achievements: Norwegian Evidence

28.10. Berber Kramer (VU Amsterdam): Individual versus Group Insurance: Demand for health insurance under joint liability in microfinance games

04.11. Karin Thorburn (NHH): Public Information and IPO-Underpricing

11.11. tba

18.11. Nathan Fiala (German Institute for Economic Research): Can Employment Programs Reduce Poverty and Social Instability? Experimental evidence from a Ugandan aid program

25.11. Sigve Tjøtta (UiB): Sustainable contribution in public good experiments

02.12. Steffen Andersen (CBS): Ability or Finances as Constraints to Entrepreneurship? Evidence from Survival Rates in a Natural Experiment

16.12. Hans Jørgen Whitta Jørgensen (University of Copenhagen): AVLYST!

21.1. Tarjei Havnes (UiO): Internet use, pornography and sex crime

28.1. Odd Rune Straume (Universidade do Minho/UiB): Quality competiton with profit constraints: Do non-profit firms provide higher quality than for-profit firms?

4.2. Hans Jarle Kind (NHH): Hotelling competition with multi-purchasing

11.2. Rune Jansen Hagen: Certified or branded? A game-theoretic analyis of the IMF’s policy support instrument

18.2. Maarten Lindeboom: Slipping anchors? Testing the vinettes approach to identification and correction of reporting heterogeneity

25.2. Kjell Vaage: Social Interactions at the Workplace: Exploring Sickness Absence Behaviour

11.3. Fredrik Heyman: Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

18.3. avlyst

25.3. Ivar Kolstad (CMI): Education and entrepreneurial success

1.4. Andreas Madestam (Bocconi): Shaping the nation: Estimating the impact of Fourth of July using a natural experiment.

8.4. Astrid Oline Ervik (NHH): Risk and Job Mobility Across Sectors

29.4. no seminar

6.5. Karin Monstad: avlyst

13.5. Karin Monstad: Is Teenage Motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

20.5. Alessandro Cigno (Firenze): How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

27.5. Michael Hoel (UiO): Incentives for environmental R&D

3.6. Disputas - ingen seminar

9.6. Michael Taksar (U of Missouri): Optimal Non-Proportional Reinsurance Control and Stochastic Differential Games

15.6. Ron Harstad (U of Missouri): Political Economy Field Experiments Become Possible

27.8. Gaute Torsvik (UiB): Beliefs, attitudes and productivity. Evidence from a customer service centre

1.9. Igor Pospelov (Dorodnicyn Computing Center, Moskva): Modeling of the Russian Economy in crisis

3.9.  Fabian Waldinger (Warwick): Peer Effects in Science: Evidence from the Dismissal of Scientists in Nazi Germany

10.9. Julie Riise Kolstad (UiB) disputerer: What affects the career choices of health workers?
       
17.9. Igor V. Evstigneev (University of Manchester): Asset Market Games of Survival: A Synthesis of Evolutionary and Dynamic Games
       
22.9. Ivar Gaasland (UiB) disputerer: Essays on the inefficiency of Norwegian agricultural policy

24.9. Muhammad Kamrul Islam (UiB): The social capital and health hypothesis: An integrating theory and new empirics.

1.10. Katrine Vellesen Løken (UiB) disputation: Families and children's development: economic approaches

8.10. Astrid Drange Hole (HiB): How do economists differ from others in distributive situations? AVLYST!

15.10. Farasat Bokhari (Kings College London): Entry in the ADHD drugs market: Welfare impact of generics and me-toos

22.10. Astrid Drange Hole (HiB): How do economists differ from others in distributive situations?

29.10. Hildegunn Ekroll Stokke (NTNU): Migration and dynamic agglomeration economies: Time-series evidence from Norway

12.11. Michael Rosholm (Aarhus):   tba   

19.11. Simen Markussen (Frisch):    tba

26.11. Wilhelm Kohler (Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen): Offshoring Tasks, Yet Creating Jobs

03.12. Nina Drange (UiS): The Effect of Preschool on the School Performance of Children from Immigrant Families. Results from an Introduction of Free Preschool in Two Districts in Oslo.

10.12. No seminar

17.12. No seminar

22.1. Rolf Aarberge (SSB): On the Measurement of Long-term Income Inequality and Income Mobility

29.1. Bjørn Olav Johansen (UiB): The impact of private labels on retail prices and welfare

5.2. Sigve Tjøtta (UiB): Climate Change Policy and Geoengineering

12.2. Ingeborg Foldøy Solli (UiS): The Impact of Paternity Leave on Father Involvement

19.2. Laurence Jacquet (NHH): Optimal Redistributive Taxation with both Extensive and Intensive Responses

12.3. Carol Propper (University of Bristol): Does Market Power Kill: The impact of Competition on the English NHS

19.3. Ragnhild Balsvik (NHH): Foreign firms and host country productivity: does the mode of entry matter?

26.3. Wilma J Nusselder (Erasmus MC): Disability and free expected lifetime

16.4. Carsten Eckel (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg): International Trade and Retailing

21.4. Tore Ellingsen (Stockholm School of Economics): Social Framing Effects: Why Do Labels Affect Cooperation?

23.4. Hartmut Egger (University of Bayreuth):Why foreign ownership is good for you

30.4. AVLYST! (Mukul Majumdar (Cornell University): Sustainable Consumption under Supply Uncertainty)

07.5. AVLYST! Klaus Desmet (Universidad Carlos III Madrid): Spatial Development

14.5.  no seminar   

21.5. Marcel Thum (Dresden): tba
 

4.6. Andreas Moxnes (Universitetet i Oslo): The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and Implications for Intra-Industry Reallocation

04.09.2009 Arild Aakvik (UiB) Overworked? The relationship between workload and health worker performance in rural Tanzania

11.09.2009 Yuki (Uppsala University) The Impact of Feedstock Supply and World Oil Price Variability on Domestic Biofuel and Feedstock Markets

18.09.2009 Karine Nyborg (U i Oslo) Playing with the Good Guys: a Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation

25.09.2009 Gregory Corcos (NHH) Sequential Exporting

02.10.2009 Silvia Marchesi (University of Milano Bicocca): Read my lips: the role of information transmission in mulitilateral reform design.

09.10.2009 høstferie

16.10.2009 Hans Hvide (U of Aberdeen, Business School)  Are founders non- subsstitutable? Evidence from nascent firms where a founder dies

23.10.2009 Jonas Christensen (UiB) I`ll make you an offer you can`t refuse. - Why do goverments expropriate?

30.10.2009 Harald Dale Olsen (ISF) Sickness absense, performance pay and teams

06.11.2009 Katrine Løken (UiB) Your place or mine? On couple`s location decision

20.11.2009 Magne Mogstad (SSB) Is universal child care leveling the playing field? Evidence from Non linear Differance -in- differences (co-author: Tarjei Havnes)

27.11.2009 Kjetil Telle (SSB) Arbeid og kriminalitet

04.12.2009

11.12.2009 Internseminar/Kandidatfest

30.01.2009    Stian Skaar Ludvigsen (Aarhus U) Metaregresjon
   
06.02.2009    Nithin Umapathi (UCL) Maternal education, child-care and nutritional status: Lessons from a nutritional program
   
13.02.2009    Disputas: Eirik Christensen
   
20.02.2009    Alexander Cappelen (NHH)
   
27.02.2009    Ingvild Almås (NHH)
   
06.03.2009    Gunnar Eskeland (NHH)
   
13.03.2009    No seminar
   
20.03.2009    Hartmut Egger (U of Bayreuth)
   
27.03.2009    Lars Erik Borge (NTNU)
   
03.04.2009    Igor Evstigneev
   
10.04.2009     Påske
   
17.04.2009    Axel Dreher (U of Gottingen)
   
24.04.2009    Katariina Nilsson-Hakkala (U of Helsinki)
   
01.05.2009    Labor Day
   
08.05.2009    HEB workshop
   
15.05.2009    Sigbjørn Birkeland, NHH
   
25.05.2009    Odd Rune Straume (University of Minho) OBS! Ny dato!
   
29.05.2009   Avlyst!
   
05.06.2009    Andreas Madestram (Bocconi University)
   
12.06.2009    Stefan Napel  (U of Bayreuth) Aspirations, segregation, and occupational choice