The Department of Economics and Business Economics organizes a weekly research seminar that relates to the main research areas covered in the department with distinguished external scholars from all over the world.
These seminars are typically organized on Mondays at 12.20, in EOS 01.150. For more information, you can contact organizers Vincent Delabastita or Jan Schmitz.
| 08.09.2025 | Thomas Walther | Universiteit Utrecht | Certainly! Generative AI and its Impact on Academic Writing (in Finance) |
| 15.09.2025 | David de Busonje | Radboud Universiteit / Universiteit Leiden | Less carrot more stick: promoting health behavior change with deposit contracts |
| 29.09.2025 | Eric Johnson | Columbia | Exposing omitted moderators: Explaining why effect sizes differ in the social sciences with implications for research practices |
| 30.09.2025 | Elke Weber | Princeton | Query Theory: A Process Account of Constructed Judgments and Preferences (Please note: this takes place at 9.30 in EOS 01.770) |
| 10.11.2025 | Bram Wouterse | UMC | Insurance Choice and Private Information: Does Knowing Lead to Acting? |
| 17.11.2025 | Felix Kölle | Cologne | Who Gets Overruled? Gender, Interventions, and Autonomy Preferences |
| 01.12.2025 | Yijun Li | Erasmus | The Economics of Pay Versus Performance: Early Evidence on CEO Incentives and Shareholder Wealth |
| 04.12.2025 | Luke Heath Milsom | Leuven | The Long Shadow of a Sudden River |
| 15.12.2025 | Kristina Czura | Groningen |
| 09.09.2024 | Yilong Xu | Utrecht University | Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions |
| 16.09.2024 | Stefan Zeisberger | Radboud University | Why Do People Invest Sustainably? Evidence From New Robo Advisor Clients |
| 30.09.2024 | Georgios Gerasimou | Glasgow University | Learning to maximize (expected) utility |
| 14.10.2024 | Noemi Peter | RUG | Competitiveness (survey) measures and behavior |
| 21.10.2024 | Stefan Palan | University of Graz | Retail investors’ disposition effect and order choices |
| 02.12.2024 | Kim Peijnenburg | TiU | Forecast Bias and Individual Investor Stock Trading |
| 03.02.2025 | Catherine Guirkinger | UNamur | Height, parental investments and marriage payments in sub-Saharan Africa |
| 17.02.2025 | Maanik Nath | Utrecht | Drivers of Agricultural Growth in British India |
| 06.03.2025 | Elena Asparouhova | University of Utah | The Role of Financial Markets in Mitigating Credit Market Bubbles |
| 17.03.2025 | Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi | Mannheim | The Importance of Signaling for Women's Careers |
| 24.03.2025 | Menusch Khadjavi | VU | Social Capital and Social Credit Scores: Experimental Evidence from China |
| 31.03.2025 | Rob Bauer | MU | Sustainability Preferences: The Role of Beliefs |
| 07.04.2025 | Aldo Lucia | Ohio State Uni | When Are Decisions Improvable? An Evaluation of Diagnostic Methods |
| 28.04.2025 | Jan-Egbert Sturm | ETH Zurich | Structural reforms and the income share of labour: Opposing effects of financial sector and real economy reforms |
| 12.05.2025 | Maarten Bosker | Erasmus | Cultivating coca: the (un)importance of the price of legal alternatives |
| 19.05.2025 | Marco Castillo Ragan Petrie | Texas A&M | Welfare analysis with nonlinear budget sets and evidence from a large charitable fundraising experiment |
| 08.02.2024 | Thomas Langer | Münster University | Is the virtual crowd the wiser crowd? |
| 19.02.2024 | Marike Knoef | Tilburg University | The influence of municipal employment services on employment and health: an instrumental variable approach |
| 04.03.2024 | David Schindler | Tilburg University | The (Mis)Perceived Determinants of Team Success in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks |
| 11.03.2024 | Nicolas Jacquemet | Paris Sorbonne | Discrete Choice under Oaths |
| 25.03.2024 | Ankush Asri | Radboud University | Affirmative Action: Within-group Inequality in Competitive Environments |
| 15.04.2024 | Leonid Polishchuk | Uppsala University | |
| 06.05.2024 | Manuela Fritz | University of Groningen | Too hot to be happy? Mental health effects of the 2007 & 2015 Indian heat waves |
| 11.09.2023 | Eva Matthaei | RU | |
| 21.09.2023 | Stefan Trautmann | Heidelberg University | Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions |
| 25.09.2023 | Damiano Silipo | University of Calabria | Managerial beliefs, banking behavior and bank failures |
| 09.10.2023 | Saskia ter Ellen | International Monetary Fund | Inflation (in)attention, media, and central bank trust |
| 16.10.2023 | Gerrit Köchling | TU Dortmund | Social Proximity and Public Information Acquisition |
| 13.11.2023 | Max van Lent | Leiden University | The Impact of Retirement on Income and Spending: Causal Evidence from Transaction Data |
| 20.11.2023 | Jan Stoop | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Disparities in psychological traits and income: Race, ethnicity and gender in the US |
| 04.12.2023 | Remco Zwinkels | VU Amsterdam | Risk, return, and sentiment in a virtual asset market |
| 26.09.2022 | Stephan Siegel | University of Washington | Political Divide and the Composition of Households’ Equity Portfolios |
| 03.10.2022 | Martijn van den Assem | VU Amsterdam | High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction: Evidence from "The Price Is Right" |
| 10.10.2022 | Christopher Wickert | VU Amsterdam | Impactful research – Why we need it, what it is and how to do it |
| 13.10.2022 | Pavlo Blavatskyy | Montpellier Business School | Additive Choice Model |
| 17.10.2022 | Jeremy Bentley | University of Massachusetts | Narrative Reporting in a Team Environment |
| 07.11.2022 | Rutger Schilpzand | Radboud Universiteit | The Effect of Innovation Capacity on the Relationship Between Volatility and Growth |
| 21.11.2022 | Vladimir Novak | Bocconi University | Valuing Hope: A Model of Aspirations |
| 28.11.2022 | Jan Fidrmuc | Université de Lille | Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories, and Why? |
| 05.12.2022 | Peiran Jiao | Maastricht University | Tastes and Beliefs |
| 12.12.2022 | Philip Schnorpfeil | Goethe University Frankfurt | Inflation, Net Nominal Positions, and Consumption |
| 06.03.2023 | Christoph Wegener | Leuphana University Lüneburg | Riding the bubble or hedging the burst? |
| 13.03.2023 | Sébastien Duchene | Montpellier Business School | Risk-return trade-offs in the context of environmental impact: a lab-in-the-field experiment with finance professionals |
| 20.03.2023 | Steve Heinke | University of Basel | The Foundations of Successful Financial Decision Making |
| 24.04.2023 | Krisztina Kis-Katos | Goettingen University | Cash Transfers and Violent Crime in Indonesia |
| 08.05.2023 | Koen Schoors | Ghent University | Polarisation and social media: The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy |
| 15.05.2023 | Eric Danan | CY Cergy Paris University | Partial utilitarianism |
| 05.06.2023 | Anne Boring | EUR | Improving Student Evaluations of Teaching |
| 19.06.2023 | Subhasish Dey | University of Warwick | Educated Leaders through Legislation but at What Cost? |
| 26.06.2023 | Hannah Schildberg-Hoerisch | Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf | Who is in favor of affirmative action? |
| 03.07.2023 | Andreas Ortmann | UNSW Business School, UNSW | Can a Single Model Account for Both Risky Choices and Inter-Temporal Choices? |
| 13.09.2021 | Pieter Medendorp | RU, Donders Institute | Computational models of Brain and Behavior |
| 27.09.2021 | Leander Heldring | Northwestern University | Calvinist Culture and Dutch Development |
| 11.10.2021 | Imtiaz Sifat | Monash University Malaysia | Marital Status and CEO Dismissal |
| 18.10.2021 | Peter Schwardmann | Carnegie Mellon University | Learning about one's self |
| 15.11.2021 | Neil Stewart | Warwick Business School | Three Topics on Behavioral Investing |
| 20.12.2021 | Nona Karalashvili | World Bank | Effectiveness of Government Support for the Private Sector |
| 25.04.2022 | John Rust | University of Maryland | Equilibrium Trade in Automobiles |
| 09.05.2022 | Katrin Gödker | Maastricht University | Disposed to be overconfident |
| 16.05.2022 | Andis Sofianos | Heidelberg University | Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions |
| 27.06.2022 | Yasemine Karaibrahimoglu | Groningen University | The interplay between IFRS 7 disclosures and the expanded auditor’s report: Syndicated loan contracting evidence |
Interested in attending a seminar or giving a lecture yourself? Email stefan.zeisberger [at] ru.nl (stefan[dot]zeisberger[at]ru[dot]nl) for more information.