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.
(Past) Research Seminars
| 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 | Tba |
Past seminars of the last academic years:
Academic year 2024 -2025
| 09.09.2024 | Yilong Xu | Utrecht University | Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions |
| 16.09.2024 | Stefan Zeisberger | RU | Learning to Maximize (Expected) Utility |
| 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 |
Past seminars of the last academic years:
Academic year 2023 -2024
| 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 |
Past seminars of the last academic years:
Academic year 2022 -2023
| 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? |
Academic year 2021-2022
| 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 |
Contact information
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.
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