2022-2023
November 2, 17:30-19:00
Romain Ferrali (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) : How to Reduce Bureaucratic Corruption? Unpacking Brazilian Anti-Corruption Audits
January 11, 13:30-15:00
Thomas Pepinski (Cornell): The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis and the Politics of Public Opinion: Evidence from Hungary
January 18, 13:30-15:00
Stephanos Vlachos (University of Vienna): Economic Aryanization in the City of Bordeaux
February 1, 13:30-15:00
Martin Halla (JKU Linz), Werther at Work: Intra-Firm Spillovers of Suicides
February 8, 13:30-15:00
Renaud Bourles: The adoption and diffusion of international economic policy: the case of foreign investment screening
February 15, 13:30-15:00
Johannes Buggle (University of Vienna), The Refugee's Dilemma: Evidence from Jewish Outmigration in Nazi Germany
March 22, 13:30-15:00
Marco Casari (University of Bologna), "I will if you will" in climate cooperation
April 19, 13:30-15:00
Emeric Henry (Sciences PO), Welfare impact of policies to fight disinformation: stopping the false while preserving the true
May 10, 13:30-15:00
Jonas Bunte (Vienna Institute of Political Economy), International Coercion, Debt Diplomacy, and Land Transactions
2021-2022
February 23, 17:30-19:00
Tobias Marc Schiffbauer (World Bank, Vienna): Jobs or Privileges? Political Connections, Regulation, and Productivity
About the speaker:
Marc Schiffbauer is a Senior Economist at the World Bank working in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management unit. Marc has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Bonn in Germany.
March 23, 17:30-19:00
Fergal McCann (Central Bank of Ireland): Borrower responses to a macroprudential loosening: the importance of liquidity preferences
Authors: Elena Durante and Fergal McCann, Central Bank of Ireland
About the speaker:
Fergal McCann works in the Macro-Financial Division of the Financial Stability Directorate of the Central Bank of Ireland. He leads a team producing research and policy analysis on topics pertinent to the domestic financial system, macroprudential policy making, and financial stability issues.
May 11, 13:30-15:00
Bruno Caprettini (University of Zürich): Redistribution, Voting and Clientelism: Evidence from the Italian Land Reform
Authors: Bruno Caprettini, Lorenzo Casaburi and Miriam Venturini
About the speaker:
Bruno Caprettini is an economist working on political economy, development and economic history. He is especially interested in the impact of new technologies on growth and welfare as well as in the political economy of mobilization and civic engagement. He holds a Ph.D. from UPF and in 2018-22 he was SNF Ambizione fellow at UZH. In August 2022 he will join the School of Economics and Political Science of St Gallen University.
June 8, 13:30-15:00
Saumitra Jha (Stanford Graduate School of Business): Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France
Saumitra Jha is a professor in the political economy group at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Affairs.