Internal Department Seminar
The Internal Department Seminar takes place on Mondays, 12:00pm to 13:00pm in lecture room HS001, L7 3-5 during the lecture period. The exact dates, presenters and topics are shown below.
Contact: Prof. Dr. Matthias Meier; m.meieruni-mannheim.de
Prof. Krzysztof Pytka, Ph.D.; pytkauni-mannheim.de
The presentation titles will be updated on a rolling basis.
Schedule of Seminar Presentations
Current/
FSS 2025
Date Name Title Feb 10 Feb 17 David Müller Boosting Climate Mitigation Investments: Experimental Evidence on Cloud-Cover Based Insurance for Solar Panels among Entrepreneurs in Pakistan Feb 24 Mar 3 Mar 10 Giorgia Conte (UC Dublin) Time to grow up? The distributional effects of parental leave policies on fertility and child human capital Mar 17 Mar 24 Mar 31 Matthias Meier On the Importance of Manufacturing Order Books Apr 7 Claes Bäckmann Housing Returns over the Income Distribution Apr 28 Assaf Abraham One Hundred Years of Manufacturing: Long-Term Consequences of the Indiana Gas Boom May 5 Santiago Hermo (Monash) High Wage Collective Bargaining Units: The Effect of Unions on Firm Pay May 12 Ursula Berresheim Work from Home, Work for Less? How Workplace Flexibility Affects Mothers’ Careers May 19 Dirk Krueger (U Penn) The Medical Expansion, Life-Expectancy and Endogenous Directed Technical Change May 26 Moritz Kuhn
Previous Semesters
HWS 2024
Date Name Title Sep 2 Cancelled Cancelled Sep 9 Johannes Gessner Regulatory Stringency, Supply Chains and Innovation in the Car Industry Sep 16 Maximilian Mähr Consequences of Affirmative Action: The Impact of Hiring a Female Professor Sep 23 Felix Rusche Broadcasting Change: India's Community Radio Policy and Women's Empowerment Sep 30 Andrii Tarasenko Effects of Input Trade Liberalization with Strategic Sourcing Oct 7 Hannes Twieling United in Booms, Divided in Busts: Regional House Price Cycles and Monetary Policy Oct 14 Chiara Malavasi Should I Care or Should I Work? Multigenerational Effects of Long-Term Care Oct 21 So Jin Lee Systemic Influence in Structural Break: Granular Time Series Detection Oct 28 Daniel Overbeck Bargaining Over Taxes Nov 4 Sandra Kurniawati Regional and sectoral effects of commodity booms: Evidence from Indonesia Nov 11 Sabine Stillger The Role of Firm Heterogeneity and Intermediate Inputs for Carbon Leakage Nov 18 Thibault Cezanne Monetary Policy, Binding Regulatory Capital Constraint and Banks’ Reaction Nov 25 Oksana Leukhina TBA Dec 2 Giacomo Ferraro The effect of polarised information on social preferences: an experimental approach FSS 2024
Date Name Title Feb 26 Camila Steffens (Carlos III) Effects of E-commerce on Local Employment and Firms’ Dynamics March 04 Jason Sockin (IZA/Cornell) Will I Ever Be Satisfied? Job Quality and Unionization March 11 Scott Sommers (Minnesota) Trade Liberalization, Structural Change, and Skill Premium Growth in India March 18 Volker Nocke Acquihiring for Monopsony Power April 08 Ioannis Kospentaris (Athens) How much work experience do you need to get your first job? April 15 Ana Moreno-Maldonado Mums and the City: Household Labour Supply and Location Choice April 22 Wladislaw Mill War Causes Religiosity: Gravestone Evidence from the Vietnam Draft Lottery April 29 Andrei Zaloilo (TSE) TBA May 06 TBA May 13 TBA TBA May 27 Rocio Madera (SMU) Income Dynamics of Couples: Correlated Risks and Heterogeneous Within-Household Insurance HWS 2023
Date Name Title Sep 11 Giovanni Ballarin Impulse Response Analysis for Structural Nonlinear Time Series Models Sep 18 Jacopo Gambato Consumer Search and Firm Strategy with Multi-Attribute Products Sep 25 David Koll Staying together forever? Life-cycle effects of overoptimistic couples Oct 2 Lukas Mahler Efficiency and Equity of Education Tracking: A Quantitative Analysis Oct 9 Jonathan Stäbler Disclosure Policy in Contests with Sabotage and Group Size Uncertainty Oct 16 Andrés Plúas-López Beyond Legalization: Access and Use of (Non-)Drug Trafficking Marijuana Oct 23 Laura Montenbruck Fiscal Exchange and Tax Compliance: Strengthening the Social Contract Under Low State Capacity Oct 30 Michele Bisceglia How Ambitious Should You Be? Researcher’s Project Choices with Signalling Concerns Nov 6 Andrea Modena Dynamic Tax Evasion and Capital Misallocation in General Equilibrium Nov 13 Mateus Souza The Tragedy of the Common Heating Bill Nov 20 Cäcilia Lipowski No Kids, No Tech: How Shortages of Young Workers Hinder Firm Technology Adoption Nov 27 Moritz Kuhn Dec 4 TBA FSS 2023
Date Name Title Feb 27 Chris Herrington Racial Gaps in Student Loan Repayment and Default: A Lifecycle Approach March 6 Hosny Zoabi The Microfinance Disappointment: An Explanation based on Risk Aversion March 13 cancelled cancelled March 20 Ezgi Kaya The ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation March 27 Maximilian Mähr Leveling the Playing Field: Knowledge Production in the Digital Age April 17 Efi Adamopoulou Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions April 24 Lei Li The Amazon Forest Fire: Export-Induced Deforestation and Political Change May 8 Pia Heckl Can Firms Reduce the Child Penalty? Consequences of a Mandated Increase in Firm Family-Friendliness May 15 Anne Hannusch Cohabitation and Child Development May 22 David Koll Staying together forever? Life-cycle effects of overoptimistic couples HWS 2022
Date Name Title Sept 12 Carl-Christian Groh Search, Data and Market Power Sept 19 Cristina Belles Obrero Hit Where Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner Violence Sept 26 Tommaso Gasparini Imperfect Banking Competition and the Propagation of Risk Shocks Oct 10 Suzanne Bellue Why don't poor families move? A spatial equilibrium of parental investment with imperfect information Oct 17 Beate Thies Air quality and the productivity of high skilled workers: evidence from GitHub Oct 24 Marco Reuter The value of decentralization using the blockchain Nov 7 Mykola Ryzhenkov The Labor Market Effects of Monetary Policy Nov 14 Kathrine von Graevenitz The Effect of Electricity Network Charges on German Manufacturing Nov 21 Oliver Pfäuti A behavioral heterogeneous agent new keynesian model Nov 28 Wladislaw Mill Linked Out? Discrimination in Job Network Formation Dec 5 Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden FSS 2022
Date Name Title March 21 Francisco Poggi Research or Development in Innovation Races March 28 Alexander Donges How the West Was Settled. The Choice of Re-Location by East German Companies that Fled after World War II Apr 4 Han Ye Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations: Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes Apr 25 Nicolas Bonneton Non-Stationary Search and Assortative Matching May 2 Camille Urvoy Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Broadcasts, 2002–2020 May 9 Lei Li Who Pays for the Tariffs? the Case of the US-China Trade War May 16 Klaus Adam Subjective Housing Price Expectations, Falling Natural Rates and the Optimal Inflation Target May 23 Miren Azkarate-Askasua Home Bias and the Gender Wage Gap May 30 David Koll Equity and Efficiency of Childcare Subsidies: A Dynamic Structural Approach HWS 2021
Date Name Title Sep 13 Philipp Ager Gender-biased Technological Change and Structural Transformation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Milking Machines in Norway Sep 20 Maximilian Jager – CDSE Clear(ed) decision: The effect of central clearing on firms’ financing decision Sep 27 Federico Innocenti – CDSE Can Media Pluralism Be Harmful to News Quality? Oct 4 Tsung-Hsien Li – CDSE Rationalizing the Payday Loan Puzzle: A Credit Scoring Explanation Oct 11 Timo Reinelt – CDSE Monetary Policy, Markup Dispersion, and Aggregate TFP Oct 18 Michaela Paffenholz – CDSE Adolescents' Mental Health and Human Capital: The Role of Socioeconomic Rank Oct 25 Sebastian Seitz – CDSE Estimating the Moral Hazard Cost of Private Disability Insurance and its Welfare Consequences Nov 8 Karl Schulz – CDSE Redistribution of Return Inequality Nov 15 Alexander Matusche – CDSE The Short-Run Employment Effects of Public Infrastructure Investment Nov 22 Jonas Gathen – ENTER The Consequences of Political Connections – Quantifying aggregate development effects from firm-size distortions in Indonesia Nov 29 Michèle Tertilt Consumer Credit with Over-Optimistic Borrowers Dec 6 Kevin Remmy Adjustable product attributes, indirect network effects, and subsidy design: The case of electric vehicles Dec 13 Daniil Larionov – CDSE Full Surplus Extraction from Colluding Bidders FSS 2021
Date Name Title Mar 8 Sebastian Siegloch Direct, Spillover and Welfare Effects of Regional Subsidies to Firms Mar 15 Michelle Sovinsky Joints and More: Bundle Choices, Complementarities and Dynamics among Sin Goods Mar 22 Jan Schymik Capital (Mis)allocation and Incentive Misalignment Apr 19 Efi Adamopoulou Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions Apr 26 Elu von Thadden Divided we Fall: International Health and Trade Coordination during a Pandemic 3 May Volker Nocke Collective Brand Reputation 10 May David Koll The fiscal return to childcare policies 17 May Cristina Bellés-Obrero The Right to Retire Early and Mortality 14 June Dan Savelle Consumer Journeys with Nested Weitzman S HWS 2020
Date Name Title Sep 14 Laura Grigolon Stigma as a Barrier to Adoption of Innovation Sep 21 CDSE Job Talk: Tomasz Olma Nonparametric Estimation of Truncated Conditional Expectation Functions Sep 28 CDSE Job Talk: Claudia Noack Sensitivity of LATE Estimates to Violations of the Monotonicity Assumption Oct 5 CDSE Job Talk: Felix Holub Gender Gaps and the Role of Bosses Oct 12 CDSE Job Talk: Raphael Epperson Information Avoidance and Moral Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices Oct 19 CDSE Job Talk: Moritz Drechsel-Grau Employment, Output and Productivity Effects of Minimum Wage Oct 26 CDSE Job Talk: Nils Wehrhöfer Austerity and Distributional Policy Nov 2 CDSE Job Talk: Andrey Alexandrov The Effects of Trend Inflation on Aggregate Dynamics and Monetary Stabilization Nov 9 Konrad Stahl When and Why Do Buyers Rate in Online Markets? Nov 16 Sagiri Kitao (U Tokyo) Welfare Effects of Polarization: Occupational Mobility over the Life-cycle Nov 23 Harald Fadinger CANCELLED: My Home is My Castle: The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis – Evidence from Germany Nov 30 Husnu Dalgic Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster? Dec 7 Antoine Camous Sentimental Financial Cycles FSS 2020
Date Name Title Feb 24 Joost Röttger Debt, Default, and Commitment Mar 2 Krisztina Molnar (NHH) Identifying Preference Shocks: Earthquakes, Impatience, and Household Savings Mar 9 Andreas Gerster Disaggregate Consumption Feedback and Energy Conservation Mar 16 Andrej Svorencik CANCELLED – Who Runs the AEA? Mar 23 Husnu Dalgic CANCELLED – Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster? Mar 30 Volker Nocke CANCELLED Apr 20 Michelle Sovinsky CANCELLED Apr 27 Dimitri Szerman CANCELLED 4 May Andreas Gulyas The Consequences of Pay Reporting: Evidence from Austria 11 May Matthias Meier International Supply Chain Disruptions during the Covid19 Pandemic 18 May Minchul Yum Changing Trends in Female Labor Supply: A Quantitative Exploration 25 May Dimitri Szerman Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics