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MACIES Seminar
The MACIES seminar series takes place - unless otherwise stated - on Thursdays, 4:30-6:00 pm.
Seminar schedule for the summer term 2025
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 24.04.2025 | Tomomi Miyazaki Kobe University |
Effects of Fiscal Policy on Regional Employment under the Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan |
| 08.05.2025 |
Danisz Okulicz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Incentivizing Public Lawyers and Enhancing Fairness via Sorting in Adversarial Systems |
| 15.05.2025 |
Mohsen Shaeyan University of Mainz |
Persian Qanats and the Cooperation Culture |
| 22.05.2025 | Raphael Franck University of Stuttgart |
Safety Last? Political Supervision of Bureaucratic Performance and WorkerSafety in French Mines during the Industrial Revolution |
| Tuesday 12.15h! 27.05.2025 |
Kathy Spier Harvard Law School |
A Game Changer for Attorney Fees: Benchmarking Against Settlement Offers |
| 05.06.2025 | Gönül Dogan University of Cologne |
Issue Driven Ingroup Bias: Earthquakes and Elections |
| 12.06.2025 | Eberhard Feess Victoria University of Wellington |
Leading the Lie: A Game Theoretical and Experimental Study of Dishonesty |
| 03.07.2025 | Florian Neumeier Ifo Institut |
Almost Fare Free: Impact of a Cheap Public Transport Ticket on Mobility Patterns and Infrastructure Quality |
| 10.07.2025 | Haggai Porat Harvard Law School |
Bargaining with Algorithms: An Experiment on Algorithmic Price Discrimination and Consumer and Data Protection Laws |
Seminar schedule for the winter term 2024/25
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 24.10.2024 | Anna Ressi, WHU | Fake News and the Problem of Disregarding True Messages: Theory and Experimental Evidence |
| 31.10.2024 | Juliane Koch, Lund University (Sweden) | Wasteful Bluffing in Charitable Giving – An Experiment on Indirect Signalling |
| 05.12.2024 | Igor Asanov, University of Kassel |
Showing Life Opportunities: Online Education to Boost Opportunity-driven Entrepreneurship and Science Careers. |
| 12.12.2024 |
Özer Karagedikli, Asia School of Business |
Beyond the Aggregate: Heterogenous Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Allocation |
| 06.02.2025 | Mark Andor, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Sustainable Transport Alternatives in Reducing Car Use: A Large-Scale Field Test |
| 13.02.2025 |
Sarah Necker ifo Institut und Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Does information on tax shifting shift tax preferences? |
Seminar schedule for the summer term 2024
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 18.4.2024 | Waldemar Marz, ifo Institut | Income inequality and political polarization |
| 02.05.2024 | Petra Nieken, Karlsruhe (KIT) | The Gender of Opportunity: How Gendered Job Titles Affect Job Seeker Attention |
| 16.05.2024 | Mara Buhmann, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) | Economic Shocks and worker careers: how has the Covid-19 pandemic affected transitions out of unemployment? |
| Tuesday(!) 21.05.2024 |
Jeff Reuer, University of Colorado | Alliance Design |
| 23.05.2024 | Levent Yilmaz, Turkish German University Istanbul | Immigrants’ Personality Characteristics and Return Intentions |
| 13.06.2024 | Julia Blasch, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt | Energy transition at home: Understanding citizens' preferences and biases regarding energy efficient renovations |
| 20.06.2024 | Luisa Braunschweig, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) | Assortative Worker-Firm Matching over the Career |
| 04.07.2024 | Mike Felgenhauer, Brunel University London | Creativity and Scientific Misconduct |
| 11.07.2024 | Simon Hess, Universität Wien | "Social networks, local elections, and female representation: Evidence from Nepali voter registration data |
Seminar schedule for the winter term 2023/24
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 26.10.2023 | Emanuela Carbonara Universitá di Bologna |
Mitigating the Labor Displacing Effects of Automation through a Robot Tax: Evidence from a Survey Experiment |
| 02.11.2023 | Maite Lameris University of Groningen |
National Identification and Voting Behaviour |
| 09.11.2023 | Philipp Lergetporer TUM School of Management |
Early Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Gender Equality: A Randomized Controlled Trial |
| 16.11.2023 | Andreas Ziegler Universität Kassel |
The expressive effect of legal norms |
| 30.11.2023 | Adel Karaa Université de Tunis |
Towards an Integrated Model of the Mediating Effect of the Process of Individual Perceptions on the Relationship Between Job Quality and Mobility Intentions |
| 14.12.2023 | Friedrich Heinemann ZEW Mannheim & University of Heidelberg |
Europe‘s Fiscal Constitution and its Pandemic Transformation |
| 21.12.2023 |
Jerg Gutmann Universität Hamburg |
The Impact of Economic Sanctions on International Migration |
| 11.01.2024 | Irina Panovska University of Texas at Dallas |
Business Cycle Synchronization and Asymmetry in the European Union |
| 18.01.2024 | Giang Nghiem Leibniz University Hannover |
Inflation Literacy, Inflation Expectations, and Trust in the Central Bank: A Survey Experiment |
| 01.02.2024 | Stefan Voigt Universität Hamburg | Eliciting Values and Social Norms from Folktales – Introducing the Historical Values Survey |
Seminar schedule for the summer term 2023
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 13.04.2023 | Dr. Duncan Roth, IAB | Optimal minimum wages in spatial economics |
| 20.04.2023 |
Dr. Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) | The stability of global wheat trade network in the post-Soviet era; trade duration approach |
| 27.04.2023 |
Dr. Daniel Meierrieks, WZB Berlin Social Science Center | Terrorism and Child Mortality |
| 04.05.2023 | Prof. Dr. Claude Fluet, Université Laval |
Consumer Protection in Retail Investments: Are Market Adjusted Damages Efficient? |
| 11.05.2023 | Prof. Dr. Till Requate, Universtiät Kiel | Are two networks one too many? Optimal network sizes under uncertain technological progress |
| 01.06.2023 | Prof. Dr. Joachim Schleich, Grenoble Ecole de Management and Fraunhofer ISI Karlsruhe | The Moral Cost of Carbon |
| Tuesday 13.06.2023 12h |
Olivia Yates, University of Auckland | 'There’s so Much More to that Sinking Island': Victimhood and Justice in New Zealanders’ Attitudes Towards Climate Mobility |
| 29.06.2023 | Prof. Dr. Tim Krieger, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg | On the effect of religiosity on pre-Enlightenment warfare |
| 06.07.2023 | Prof. Dr. Pierre-Guillaume Meon, Université libre de Bruxelles | From connections to persistence: Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France |
| 13.07.2023 | Dr. Johannes Zahner, Goethe Universität Frankfurt | Whose Inflation Rates Matter Most? A DSGE Model and Machine Learning Approach to Monetary Policy in the Euro Area |
Seminar schedule for the winter term 2022/23
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 20.10.2022 |
Joshua Teitelbaum Georgetown University |
Tort Liability and Unawareness |
|
10.11.2022 |
Denys Lifintsev, Kyiv National Economic University (KNEU) Serhii Apalkov, KNEU |
Digital tools in teaching cross-cultural management and communication Sustainable Crowdfunding: Can Crowdfunding Platforms Efficiently Fund the Voluntary Carbon Market? |
| 17.11.2022 | Roee Sarel Universität Hamburg |
Regulating Cryptocurrencies: A Law & Economics Perspective |
| 15.12.2022 | Matthias Neuenkirch Universität Trier |
Do China and Russia Undermine US Sanctions? Evidence from DiD and Event Study Estimation |
| 12.01.2023 | Charles Palmer London School of Economics |
Forest co-management, food security and poverty traps in Malawi |
| 26.01.2023 | Luigi Franzoni University of Bologna |
Lost Profits and Unjust Enrichment damages for the misappropriation of trade secrets |
| 02.02.2023 | Kjetil Bjorvatn, NHH | Promises to promote honesty: Causal evidence from Norway and the United States |
Seminar schedule for the summer term 2022
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 21.04.2022 |
Lino Wehrheim Uni Regensburg |
Intimate or detached? The relationship between Economic History and Economics from a Topic Modelling Perspective |
| 28.04.2022 |
Colin von Negenborn Christian-Albrechts Univ. Kiel |
Alerting the Auditor: Combating Corruption in Accounting |
| postponed to 12.15.2022 online only! |
Dr. Bernardo Moreno Jiménez Universidad de Alicante |
Pairwise justifiable changes in collective choices |
| 19.05.2022 | Deszö Szalay Universität Bonn |
Communication in the shadow of catastrophe |
| 02.06.2022 | Efi Adamopoulou Universität Mannheim | Eating Habits: The Role of Early Life Experiences and Intergenerational Transmission |
| 23.06.2022 Room AP1 |
Malte Lierl, GIGA Hamburg | Giving Community-Based Organizations a Stake in Local Government Performance: A Field Experiment in Burkina Faso |
| 30.06.2022 | Kevin Rich Marquette University |
A streetcar undesired? Determinants and consequences of abnormal investment in the government setting |
| 14.07.2022 | Helmut Herwartz Universität Göttingen |
Transmission of shocks in an unified monetary and financial framework |
Seminar schedule for the winter term 2021/22
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 25.11.2021 | Hannes Rusch Universität Maastricht |
On the effectiveness of democratic institutions in preventing ethnic conflict: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment |
| 02.12.2021 | Grischa Perino Universität Hamburg |
The effect of regulatory complexity on individual voluntary climate action behavior: A representative online field experiment in Germany |
Seminar schedule for the summer term 2021
In Summer Semester 2021, the MACIE Seminar is held in an online format. Those interested in attending, please register with the ILIAS group: "MACIE seminar online" to receive the login data before each video conference.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 22.04.2021 | Gerald Eisenkopf Universität Vechta |
Leadership and Cooperation in Growing Teams |
| 20.05.2021 | Peter Tillmann Universität Gießen |
Financial Markets and Dissent in the ECB's Governing Council |
| postponed to 01.07.2021 |
Navid Sabet Goethe-Universität Frankfurt |
Legal Status, Local Spending and Political Empowerment: The Distributional Consequences of the 1986 IRCA |
Seminar schedule for the winter term 2020/21
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 19.11.2020 | Hanna Hottenrott, TU München |
Public Subsidies and the Sources of Venture Capital |
| 21.01.2021 | Marek Giebel, Copenhagen Business School |
Patent Enforcement and Innovation |
| 04.02.2021 | Claudia Herresthal, Universität Bonn |
Hidden Testing and Selective Disclosure of Evidence |
Seminar schedule for the winter term 2019/20
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 17.10.2019 | Steffen Eibelshäuser, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. |
The Evolution of Price Cycles in the German Retail Gasoline Market |
| 24.10.2019 |
cancelled! | |
| 07.11.2019 |
Abu Bakker Siddique, TU München |
Behavioral Consequences of Religious Education |
| 05.12.2019 | Gonzague Vannoorenberghe, Université Catholique de Louvain | Recovering Within-Country Inequality From Trade Data |
|
Tuesday, 14.01.2020 12.30h |
Pierre Boyer, École Polytechnique–CREST. | Politically feasible reforms of non-linear tax systems |
| 16.01.2020 | Menusch Khadjavi | Do Scientists Tell the Truth? Evidence from a Field Experiment |
| 23.01.2020 | Bernhard Ganglmair, ZEW | The Effect of Patent Litigation Insurance: Theory and Evidence from NPEs |
| 30.01.2020 | Andreas Pondorfer, Universität Bonn | Animal Spirits: The natural geography of economic behavior |
| Tuesday, 04.02.2020 |
Tomomi Miyazaki, Kobe University, Japan |
Stock Market Response to Public Investment under the Zero Lower Bound: Cross-industry Evidence from Japan |
| 06.02.2020 | Martin Rohleder, Uni Augsburg |
The Effect of Unobservable Constraints on Portfolio Management: Evidence from Separate Account-Mutual Fund Twins |
Seminar schedule for the summer term 2019
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 18.04.2019 | Andreas Landmann Universität Göttingen |
Gender Aspects in Low-Income Health Insurance: Evidence from Pakistan |
| 25.04.2019 | Cancelled! | |
| 02.05.2019 | Catherine Roux Universität Basel |
Competition Policy for Exclusionary Pricing: Experimental Evidence |
| 09.05.2019 | Stefan Ruenzi Universität Mannheim |
The Impact of Role Models on Women's Self-Selection in Competitive Environments |
| 23.05.2019 Room AP1 |
Hendrik Hakenes Universität Bonn |
Financial stability and the allocation of the deposit base in the banking system |
|
Monday, |
Yukio Koriyama |
The Winner-Take-All Dilemma |
| 06.06.2019 | Lars Hornuf Universität Bremen |
Paralyzed by shock: The portfolio formation behavior of peer-to-business lending investors |
| 13.06.2019 |
Johanna Gereke Universität Mannheim |
Foreigners in hostile hinterlands: Local exposure to refugees and right-wing support in Eastern Germany after the 2015 refugee crisis |
| postponed to 04.07.2019! | Nick Zubanov Universität Konstanz |
Skill dispersion, firm productivity, and production technology: new empirical evidence and implications |
| 11.07.2019 | Cancelled! |
Seminar schedule for the winter term 2018/19
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 18.10.2018 | Carsten de Dreu Leiden University /University of Amsterdam |
Revisiting the Form and Function of Conflict - Neurobiological, Psychological and Cultural Mechanisms for Attack and Defense Within and Between Groups |
| 25.10.2018 |
Pierre-Guillaume Mèon Université Libre de Bruxelles |
A Positive Effect of Political Dynasties: the case of France’s 1940 enabling act |
| 1.11.2018 |
Volker Hahn Universität Konstanz |
Committee Decision-Making under the Threat of Leaks |
| 22.11.2018 |
Andreas Lange Hamburg |
The risks that farmers take: An experiment on externalities with individual thresholds |
| 06.12.2018 Room AA110 |
Leonie Gerhards Universität Hamburg |
Deliberative Structures and their Impact on Voting Behavior under Social Conflict |
| 17.01.2019 Room AP1 |
Andreas Grunewald Universität Frankfurt/Universität Bonn |
Obfuscation in Auto Loan Intermediation |
| 24.01.2019 |
Jan Marcus Universität Hamburg |
The Effects of Tuition Fees on Study Duration and Completion |
| 31.01.2019 | Nora Szech Universität Karlsruhe |
The (In)Elasticity of Moral Ignorance |
| 14.02.2019 | Matthias Uhl Bundesbank |
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Seminar schedule for the summer term 2018
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 19.04.2018 | Simon Dato University of Bonn |
Talent Hoarding |
| 26.04.2018 | Sandra Jednak University of Belgrade |
Economic performance and measurement of the development |
| 03.05.2018 | Heiko Karle Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
Competition and Information Quality in the Market for News |
| 17.05.2018 | Alfred V. Guender University of Canterbury |
Credit Prices vs. Credit Quantities as Predictors of Economic Activity in Europe: Which Tell a Better StorY? |
| 24.05.2018 | Helmut Herwartz Universität Göttingen |
Structural volatility modelling with applications to spillover analysis and value-at-risk |
| 07.06.2018 | Vojtech Bartos LMU München |
Evidence for Direct Effect of Poverty on Time Preference: An Experiment with Ultra-poor Farmers in Uganda |
| 14.06.2018 | Florian Neumeier ifo Institut München |
Inequality and Extremist Voting: Evidence from Germany |
| 21.06.2018 | Hartmut Kliemt JLU Giessen |
On the Nature and Significance of -- (Ideal) Rational Choice Theory |
| 28.06.2018 | Matthijs van Veelen University of Amsterdam |
In and out of equilibrium: a unified theory of evolution in repeated games with population structure |
| 05.07.2018 | Sebastian Ebert Frankfurt School of Finance & Management |
Decision Making When Things Are Only a Matter of Time |
| Tuesday 10.07.2018 5.00 pm (!) |
Massimo D'Antoni Università di Siena |
Asymmetric Learning and Deterrence when the Probability of Sanctions is unknown |