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.meier@mail-uni-mannheim.de
Prof. Krzysztof Pytka, Ph.D.; pytka@mail-uni-mannheim.de
The presentation titles will be updated on a rolling basis.
Schedule of Seminar Presentations
Current/ Upcoming Semester
FSS 2025
Date Name Title Feb 10Feb 17David MüllerBoosting Climate Mitigation Investments: Experimental Evidence on Cloud-Cover Based Insurance for Solar Panels among Entrepreneurs in PakistanFeb 24Mar 3Mar 10Giorgia Conte (UC Dublin)Time to grow up? The distributional effects of parental leave policies on fertility and child human capitalMar 17Mar 24Mar 31Matthias MeierOn the Importance of Manufacturing Order BooksApr 7Claes BäckmannHousing Returns over the Income DistributionApr 28Assaf AbrahamOne Hundred Years of Manufacturing: Long-Term Consequences of the Indiana Gas BoomMay 5Santiago Hermo (Monash)High Wage Collective Bargaining Units: The Effect of Unions on Firm PayMay 12Ursula BerresheimWork from Home, Work for Less? How Workplace Flexibility Affects Mothers’ CareersMay 19Dirk Krueger (U Penn)The Medical Expansion, Life-Expectancy and Endogenous Directed Technical ChangeMay 26Moritz KuhnWho gains from Capital Gains?
Previous Semesters
HWS 2024
Date Name Title Sep 2CancelledCancelledSep 9Johannes GessnerRegulatory Stringency, Supply Chains and Innovation in the Car IndustrySep 16Maximilian MährConsequences of Affirmative Action: The Impact of Hiring a Female ProfessorSep 23Felix RuscheBroadcasting Change: India's Community Radio Policy and Women's EmpowermentSep 30Andrii TarasenkoEffects of Input Trade Liberalization with Strategic SourcingOct 7Hannes TwielingUnited in Booms, Divided in Busts: Regional House Price Cycles and Monetary PolicyOct 14Chiara MalavasiShould I Care or Should I Work? Multigenerational Effects of Long-Term CareOct 21So Jin LeeSystemic Influence in Structural Break: Granular Time Series DetectionOct 28Daniel OverbeckBargaining Over TaxesNov 4Sandra KurniawatiRegional and sectoral effects of commodity booms: Evidence from IndonesiaNov 11Sabine StillgerThe Role of Firm Heterogeneity and Intermediate Inputs for Carbon LeakageNov 18Thibault CezanneMonetary Policy, Binding Regulatory Capital Constraint and Banks’ ReactionNov 25Oksana LeukhinaTBADec 2Giacomo FerraroThe effect of polarised information on social preferences: an experimental approachFSS 2024
Date Name Title Feb 26Camila Steffens (Carlos III)Effects of E-commerce on Local Employment and Firms’ DynamicsMarch 04Jason Sockin (IZA/Cornell)Will I Ever Be Satisfied? Job Quality and UnionizationMarch 11Scott Sommers (Minnesota)Trade Liberalization, Structural Change, and Skill Premium Growth in IndiaMarch 18Volker NockeAcquihiring for Monopsony PowerApril 08Ioannis Kospentaris (Athens)How much work experience do you need to get your first job?April 15Ana Moreno-MaldonadoMums and the City: Household Labour Supply and Location ChoiceApril 22Wladislaw MillWar Causes Religiosity: Gravestone Evidence from the Vietnam Draft LotteryApril 29Andrei Zaloilo (TSE)TBAMay 06TBAMay 13TBATBAMay 27Rocio Madera (SMU)Income Dynamics of Couples: Correlated Risks and Heterogeneous Within-Household InsuranceHWS 2023
Date Name Title Sep 11Giovanni BallarinImpulse Response Analysis for Structural Nonlinear Time Series ModelsSep 18Jacopo GambatoConsumer Search and Firm Strategy with Multi-Attribute ProductsSep 25David KollStaying together forever? Life-cycle effects of overoptimistic couplesOct 2Lukas MahlerEfficiency and Equity of Education Tracking: A Quantitative AnalysisOct 9Jonathan StäblerDisclosure Policy in Contests with Sabotage and Group Size UncertaintyOct 16Andrés Plúas-LópezBeyond Legalization: Access and Use of (Non-)Drug Trafficking MarijuanaOct 23Laura MontenbruckFiscal Exchange and Tax Compliance: Strengthening the Social Contract Under Low State CapacityOct 30Michele BiscegliaHow Ambitious Should You Be? Researcher’s Project Choices with Signalling ConcernsNov 6Andrea ModenaDynamic Tax Evasion and Capital Misallocation in General EquilibriumNov 13Mateus SouzaThe Tragedy of the Common Heating BillNov 20Cäcilia LipowskiNo Kids, No Tech: How Shortages of Young Workers Hinder Firm Technology AdoptionNov 27Moritz KuhnDec 4TBAFSS 2023
Date Name Title Feb 27Chris HerringtonRacial Gaps in Student Loan Repayment and Default: A Lifecycle ApproachMarch 6Hosny ZoabiThe Microfinance Disappointment: An Explanation based on Risk AversionMarch 13cancelledcancelledMarch 20Ezgi KayaThe ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislationMarch 27Maximilian MährLeveling the Playing Field: Knowledge Production in the Digital AgeApril 17Efi AdamopoulouStaggered contracts and unemployment during recessionsApril 24Lei LiThe Amazon Forest Fire: Export-Induced Deforestation and Political ChangeMay 8Pia HecklCan Firms Reduce the Child Penalty? Consequences of a Mandated Increase in Firm Family-FriendlinessMay 15Anne HannuschCohabitation and Child DevelopmentMay 22David KollStaying together forever? Life-cycle effects of overoptimistic couplesHWS 2022
Date Name Title Sept 12Carl-Christian GrohSearch, Data and Market PowerSept 19Cristina Belles ObreroHit Where Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner ViolenceSept 26Tommaso GaspariniImperfect Banking Competition and the Propagation of Risk ShocksOct 10Suzanne BellueWhy don't poor families move? A spatial equilibrium of parental investment with imperfect informationOct 17Beate ThiesAir quality and the productivity of high skilled workers: evidence from GitHubOct 24Marco ReuterThe value of decentralization using the blockchainNov 7Mykola RyzhenkovThe Labor Market Effects of Monetary PolicyNov 14Kathrine von GraevenitzThe Effect of Electricity Network Charges on German ManufacturingNov 21Oliver PfäutiA behavioral heterogeneous agent new keynesian modelNov 28Wladislaw MillLinked Out? Discrimination in Job Network FormationDec 5Ernst-Ludwig von ThaddenFSS 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 13Philipp AgerGender-biased Technological Change and Structural Transformation: Evidence from the Diffusion of Milking Machines in NorwaySep 20Maximilian Jager – CDSEClear(ed) decision: The effect of central clearing on firms’ financing decisionSep 27Federico Innocenti – CDSECan Media Pluralism Be Harmful to News Quality?Oct 4Tsung-Hsien Li – CDSERationalizing the Payday Loan Puzzle: A Credit Scoring ExplanationOct 11Timo Reinelt – CDSEMonetary Policy, Markup Dispersion, and Aggregate TFPOct 18Michaela Paffenholz – CDSEAdolescents' Mental Health and Human Capital: The Role of Socioeconomic RankOct 25Sebastian Seitz – CDSEEstimating the Moral Hazard Cost of Private Disability Insurance and its Welfare ConsequencesNov 8Karl Schulz – CDSERedistribution of Return InequalityNov 15Alexander Matusche – CDSEThe Short-Run Employment Effects of Public Infrastructure InvestmentNov 22Jonas Gathen – ENTERThe Consequences of Political Connections – Quantifying aggregate development effects from firm-size distortions in IndonesiaNov 29Michèle TertiltConsumer Credit with Over-Optimistic BorrowersDec 6Kevin RemmyAdjustable product attributes, indirect network effects, and subsidy design: The case of electric vehiclesDec 13Daniil Larionov – CDSEFull Surplus Extraction from Colluding BiddersFSS 2021
Date Name Title Mar 8Sebastian SieglochDirect, Spillover and Welfare Effects of Regional Subsidies to FirmsMar 15Michelle SovinskyJoints and More: Bundle Choices, Complementarities and Dynamics among Sin GoodsMar 22Jan SchymikCapital (Mis)allocation and Incentive MisalignmentApr 19Efi AdamopoulouStaggered Contracts and Unemployment during RecessionsApr 26Elu von ThaddenDivided we Fall: International Health and Trade Coordination during a Pandemic3 MayVolker NockeCollective Brand Reputation10 MayDavid KollThe fiscal return to childcare policies17 MayCristina Bellés-ObreroThe Right to Retire Early and Mortality14 JuneDan SavelleConsumer Journeys with Nested Weitzman SHWS 2020
Date Name Title Sep 14Laura GrigolonStigma as a Barrier to Adoption of InnovationSep 21CDSE Job Talk: Tomasz OlmaNonparametric Estimation of Truncated Conditional Expectation FunctionsSep 28CDSE Job Talk: Claudia NoackSensitivity of LATE Estimates to Violations of the Monotonicity AssumptionOct 5CDSE Job Talk: Felix HolubGender Gaps and the Role of BossesOct 12CDSE Job Talk: Raphael EppersonInformation Avoidance and Moral Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Food ChoicesOct 19CDSE Job Talk: Moritz Drechsel-GrauEmployment, Output and Productivity Effects of Minimum WageOct 26CDSE Job Talk: Nils WehrhöferAusterity and Distributional PolicyNov 2CDSE Job Talk: Andrey AlexandrovThe Effects of Trend Inflation on Aggregate Dynamics and Monetary StabilizationNov 9Konrad StahlWhen and Why Do Buyers Rate in Online Markets?Nov 16Sagiri Kitao (U Tokyo)Welfare Effects of Polarization: Occupational Mobility over the Life-cycleNov 23Harald FadingerCANCELLED: My Home is My Castle: The Benefits of Working from Home During a Pandemic Crisis – Evidence from GermanyNov 30Husnu DalgicFinancial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?Dec 7Antoine CamousSentimental Financial CyclesFSS 2020
Date Name Title Feb 24Joost RöttgerDebt, Default, and CommitmentMar 2Krisztina Molnar (NHH)Identifying Preference Shocks: Earthquakes, Impatience, and Household SavingsMar 9Andreas GersterDisaggregate Consumption Feedback and Energy ConservationMar 16Andrej SvorencikCANCELLED – Who Runs the AEA?Mar 23Husnu DalgicCANCELLED – Financial Dollarization in Emerging Markets: Efficient Risk Sharing or Prescription for Disaster?Mar 30Volker NockeCANCELLEDApr 20Michelle SovinskyCANCELLEDApr 27Dimitri SzermanCANCELLED4 MayAndreas GulyasThe Consequences of Pay Reporting: Evidence from Austria11 MayMatthias MeierInternational Supply Chain Disruptions during the Covid19 Pandemic18 MayMinchul YumChanging Trends in Female Labor Supply: A Quantitative Exploration25 MayDimitri SzermanProcuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics