Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Economic Theory II (Macro)

Previous Speakers

Summer Term 2024

 

Date 

 

17.04.2024

 

Speaker/Topic

 

No seminar

 

 

24.04.2024

 

No seminar

 

  

01.05.2024

 

 

No seminar due to bank holiday

08.05.2024

 

No seminar

 

15.05.2024

 

Johanna Krenz 

"QE Transmission in Euro Area Countries — The Role of Household Inequality“

 

22.05.2024

 

No seminar

 

 

29.05.2024

 

No seminar

 

05.06.2024

 

No seminar due to dies academicus

 

12.06.2024

 

Samuel Fahim (TU) 

"When anonymity matters: a currency adoption model."

 

19.06.2024

 

Selen Andic (HU)

"Borrowing Constraints, North-South Trade and Sustainable Current Accounts in Neoclassical Growth."

Zoom-link: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/9992593911

 

26.06.2024

 

 

Cancelled: Gökhan Ider (DIW)

"Global Financial Cycle Transmission through Domestic Policy and Vulnerabilities"

 

03.07.2024

 

 

Thomas Dengler (HU)

"Asymmetric Labour Market Frictions in a Currency Union."

Zoom-link: https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/9992593911

10.07.2024

 

 

Frederik Kurcz (HU) 

"Quantifying the fiscal channel of monetary policy."

 

17.07.2024

 

Veljko Bojovic (HU)

Cancelled

 

 

 

   

 

Winter Term 2023/24

 

Date

 

October 18, 2023

 

Speaker/Topic

 

No Seminar

 

October 25, 2023

 

Konrad Kuhmann (HU Berlin)

"Asymmetric and Heterogeneous Investment Responses to Credit Supply shocks"

November 1, 2023

 

 

Vanessa Schmidt (HU Berlin)

"Aggregate Lending Standards and Inequality" (with Hannah Seidl)

November 8, 2023

 

Muhammed Bulutay (TU Berlin)

"Better than Perceived? Correcting Misperceptions about Central Bank Inflation Forecasts"

November 15, 2023

 

No Seminar

November 22, 2023

 

Ben Schumann (DIW, FU Berlin)

"Global Risk and the Dollar"

November 29, 2023

 

Fabian Seyrich (DIW, FU Berlin)
"A Behavioral Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian Model"

December 6, 2023

 

No Seminar (postponed to Jan 24)

December 13, 2023

 

Erik Dasenbrock (FU Berlin)

"Wage rigidities and unemployment rate fluctuations over the life cycle"

December 20, 2023

 

No Seminar

January 10, 2024

 

 

Thomas Dengler (Bundesbank, HU Berlin)

"Asymmetric Labor Market Frictions in a Currency Union"

 

January 17, 2024

 

 

Johanna Krenz (Uni Hamburg)

"Macroprudential Policy Shocks, Non-bank Financial Intermediation and Systemic Risk in Europe"

January 24, 2024

 

 

Winnie Coleman (FU Berlin)

"Asymmetric Inflation Target Credibility"

January 31, 2024

 

Vanessa Schmidt (HU Berlin)

"Inequality, Home Production, and Monetary Policy"

February 7, 2024

 

 

Febraury 14, 2024

 

 

 

Summer Term 2023

 

Datum 

 

19.04.2023

 

Sprecher/Thema

 

 

 

26.04.2023

 

 

 

 

03.05.2023

 

 

Timo Stieglitz

„Industrialization, returns, inequality“

10.05.2023

 

 

17.05.2023

 

cancelled/abgesagt

24.05.2023

 

Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg

"A note on „Sticky leverage" by Gomes, Jermann and Schmid”

31.05.2023

 

 

07.06.2023

 

Samuel Fahim

“A Model of Cryptocurrency Transaction Fees”

14.06.2023

 

cancelled/abgesagt

21.06.2023

 

Johanna Krenz

"Effects of QE in Eurozone Countries"

28.06.2023

 

 

Vanessa Schmidt

"Consumption Inequality, Home Production, and Monetary Policy"

 

05.07.2023

 

 

Anna-Maria Göth

"The Optimal Capital Adjustment for the Green Transition” (online via zoom)

12.07.2023

 

 

Konrad Kuhmann

"Heterogeneous Investment Responses to Aggregate Credit Supply Shocks”

19.07.2023

 

 

cancelled/abgesagt

 

Winter Term 2022/23

 

Date

 

19.10.2022

Speaker/Topic

 

 

 

26.10.2022

 

Lea Steininger 

„Labor share and monetary policy"

 

02.11.2022

 

 

 

09.11.2022

 

 

16.11.2022

 

 

23.11.2022

 

 

30.11.2022

 

Thomas Dengler

"Short-time work and precautionary savings"

07.12.2022

 

 

14.12.2022

 

Samuel Fahim

“Experimental Evidence on the Efficiency of Search Models”

04.01.2023

 

Gökhan Ider

"Can the ECB influence energy inflation?"

11.01.2023

 

 

Veljko Bojovic

"Frontiers of Heterogeneous Agent Research in Open and Closed Economies: Facts, Methods and Policy Implications"

(Budapest School of Central Banking Studies in 2022)

18.01.2023

 

 

 

25.01.2023

 

 

 

01.02.2023

 

 

08.02.2023

 

 

15.02.2023

 

 

 

Konrad Kuhmann

"Heterogeneous investment responses to aggregate credit supply shocks" 

 

Anna Maria Göth

"The Optimal Capital Adjustment for the Green Transition"

 

Vanessa Barbara Schmidt

"Home Production of the Rich and the Poor"

 

Summer Term 2022

 

Date

 

20. April

Speaker/Topic

 

Selen Andic

“conditional convergence by the level of development”

virtual session

27. April
No seminar - Dies Academicus
 

04. Mai 2022

 

Mauricio Salgado Moreno:

"Identifying Heterogeneous Bank Responses to US Monetary Policy Shocks” with Dennis Zander (University of Warwick)

11. Mai 2022

 

No seminar - Dies Academicus

18. Mai 2022

 

Konrad Kuhmann

"Assessing heterogeneous firm responses to aggregate funding shocks"

25. Mai 2022

 

Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg

“The Network Effects of Clearing Trade Credit”, with Milan Bozic, Toni Whited, and Jurica Zrnc

01. Juni 2022

 

No seminar

08. Juni 2022

 

Vanessa Schmidt

"The Distributional Effects of Shocks
to the Loan-to-Value Ratio", with Hannah Seidl

15. Juni 2022

 

No seminar

22. Juni 2022

 

Samuel Fahim

"On fiat and cryptocurrencies competition"

29. Juni 2022

 

Lukas Boer:

" The economic consequences of trade shocks"

06. Juli 2022

 

Thomas Dengler

"Tales from an estimated SW-HANK model for the
euro area"

13. Juli 2022

 

Hannah Seidl

"The house price channel of quantitative easing"

20. Juli 2022

 

Gökhan Ider

 

Winter Term 2021/22

 

Date

 

Speaker/Topic

20. Oktober 2021

 

Lukas Boer: "Energy Transition Metals"

27. Oktober 2021

 

 

3. November 2021

 

 

10. November 2021

 

Johanna Krenz: Financial Integration and International Comovement - The Demand Channel

17. November 2021

 

Mohammadreza Mafi: Oil Revenue Volatility and Growth

24. November 2021

 

Mauricio Salgado Moreno: "Monetary Policy, Excess Reserves and Credit Supply: Old-Style vs. New-Style Central Banking" (Job Market Paper)

1. Dezember 2021

 

Tobias König: Firm Heterogeneity and the Capital Market (Job Market Paper)

8. Dezember 2021

 

Joonseok Oh: Optimal Monetary Policy Mix at the Zero Lower Bound

15. Dezember 2021

 

Hannah Seidl: Monetary Policy and Heterogeneity – A Recap of Gianluca Violante's Summer School at Study Center Gerzensee (online)

5. Januar 2022

 

Anna-Maria Göth

12. Januar 2022

 

Lea Bitter: Bank deposits and CBDC in a New Monetarist New Keynesian Model

19. Januar 2022

 

Florentine Schwark

26. Januar 2022

 

Veljko Bojovic

2. Februar 2022

 

Konrad Kuhmann

9. Februar 2022

 

Hannah Seidl

16. Februar 2022

 

Vanessa Schmidt

 

Winter Term 2020/21

Date

 

Speaker/Topic

November 4, 2020

Joonseok Oh (FU)

" Revisiting the New Keynesian Policy Paradoxes under QE "

November 11, 2020

Lukas Boer (HU, DIW)

"A Simple Instrument for Proxy Vector Autoregressive Analysis"

November 18, 2020

 

November 25, 2020

 

December 2, 2020

Catalina Martinez Hernandez (FU, Job Market Candidate)

"Disentangling the effects of multidimensional monetary policy on inflation and inflation expectations in the euro area"

December 9, 2020

Konrad Kuhmann (HU)

"Firm Heterogeneity and the Transmission of Credit Policy - Insights from a Two-Agent Model"

December 16, 2020

 

January 6, 2021

Tobias König (HU, DIW)

"Firm Heterogeneity and Capital Markets"

January 13, 2021

Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg (HU)

"Monetary Policy under Sovereign Risk" (with Martin Wolf)

January 20, 2021

Mauricio Salgado Moreno (HU)

"Monetary Policy, Excess Reserves and Credit Supply: Old-Style vs. New-Style Central Banking"

January 27, 2021

Melina Ludolph (HU, Job Market Candidate)

"The unbundling of equity research fees from sales commissions: Does MiFID II work?"

Feburary 3, 2021

Thomas Dengler (HU)

"Precautionary savings and short-time work"

Feburary 10, 2021

Mauricio Salgado Moreno (HU)

"Climate-Related Disclosures in the UK Financial Sector" (with Jonathan Acosta-Smith, Benjamin Guin and Quynh-Anh Vo)

Feburary 17, 2021

Veljko Bojovic (HU)

"Monetary Policy, Lumpy Investments and Sticky Expectations"

Feburary 24, 2021

Johanna Krenz (Uni Hamburg)

"Banks Balance Sheets and the International Transmission of Shocks — Some new insights on the role of the real exchange rate"

Summer Term 2020

Date

 

Speaker/Topic

April 29, 2020

Lukas Boer:

"The persistent impact of trade policy shocks on financial markets"

May 6, 2020

Tobias König:

"The Macroeconomic Effects of a European Deposit (Re-)Insurance Scheme"

May 20, 2020

Mauricio Salgado Moreno:

"Monetary Policy and Bank Lending: Has the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Changed since the Financial Crisis?"

May 27, 2020

Konrad Kuhmann:

"Firm Heterogeneity, Financial Frictions and Credit Policy"

June 3, 2020

Julia Otten:

"Macroprudential Policy:  A Quantitative Approach - A Recap of Enrique Mendoza's Summer School at EUI"

June 17, 2020

Selen Andic:

"The recent movements in the labor share."

June 24, 2020

Hannah Seidl:

"Unconventional Fiscal Policy in HANK (with Fabian Seyrich)"

July 1, 2020

Prof. Dirk Engelmann (HU):

"Advanced Job Market Training"

July 8, 2020

Thomas Dengler:

"Short-time work and precautionary savings"

July 15, 2020

Adrian Ochs:

"Identification in Macroeconomics: A Double Machine Learning Approach”

 

Winter Term 2019/20

Date

Speaker/Topic
October 16, 2019

Lutz Weinke (HU)

"Idiosyncratic Shocks, Lumpy Investment and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism"

October 30, 2019

Thomas Dengler (HU)

"Wage Adjustment in Europe: Evidence from Micro Data"

November 20, 2019

Alejandro Sarmiento (job market candidate)

"Nitrogen Oxides and the productivity of court rulings"

November 27, 2019

Stefan Gebauer (job market candidate)

"Welfare-Based Optimal Macroprudential Policy with Shadow Banks"

December 04, 2019

Ana Garcia-Hernandez (job market candidate)

"Political Voice and Pro-Sociality: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment in Uganda"

December 11, 2019

Martin Harding (job market candidate)

"Monetary Policy and Household Net Worth

December 18, 2019

Lukas Gehring

"Optimal Income Tax Progressivity with Heterogeneous Two-Agent Households"

January 15, 2020

Tobias König (HU)

"The Macroeconomic Effects of a European Deposit (Re-)Insurance Scheme"

January 22, 2020

Julia Otten (HU)

"Household Heterogeneity and the Cost of Pegging"

January 29, 2020

Mauricio Salgado Moreno (HU):

"What do 500,000 Observations on Banks Say About the Transmission of Monetary Policy in the 21st Century?"

February 05, 2020

Lea Bitter (TU): "Bank runs under a Central Bank Digital Currency"

February 12, 2020

Konrad Kuhmann (HU):  

"Asset Purchase Programmes with Firm Heterogeneity"

 

Summer Term 2019

 

Date

 

Speaker/Topic

May 15, 2019

 

Andreas Tryphonides (HU)

"Measuring Ex-Ante Liquidity Risk and the Effects of Macroprudential Policy: Evidence from Chilean Bond Auctions"

 

May 22, 2019

 

Julia Otten (HU)

"Household Heterogeneity and the Adjustment to External Shocks of a Small Open Economy"

 

May 29, 2019

Mauricio Salgado Moren (HU)

"Monetary Policy, Excess Reserves and Credit Supply: Old-style vs New-Style Central Banking"

 

June 5, 2019

 

Martin Harding (FU, DIW)

"Household Credit Constraints and the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Consumption"

 

June 12, 2019

 

Prof. Michael C. Burda (HU)

 

June 19, 2019

 

Tobias König (HU, DIW)

"The Financial Accelerator and Optimal Monetary Policy"

 

July 10, 2019

Prof. Dirk Engelmann (HU)

"Advanced Job Market Training"

Summer Term 2018

 

Date

Lecturer/Topic

April 25, 2018

 

Maren Brede (HU): "Real exchange rate dynamics in New-Keynesian models – The Balassa-Samuelson effect revisited"

Mai 16, 2018

 

Grzegorz Dlugoszek (HU): "Uncertainty and the Great Retrenchment: A DSGE Perspective"

Mai 23, 2018

 

Dirk Engelmann (HU): "Introduction to the Job Market"

June 06, 2018

 

Short Presentations Session

June 13, 2018

 

Martin Ignacio Harding (DIW):  "Financial frictions and nonlinearities in the New Keynesian model"

June 27, 2018

 

Johanna Krenz (HU): "Banks’ portfolio choice and international risk-sharing - A role for macrocprudential policy?"

July 04, 2018

 

Dirk Engelmann (HU): "Advanced Job Market Training"

July 11, 2018

 

Tobias König (DIW/HU): "The Financial Accelerator, Wages and Optimal Simple Monetary Policy"

July 18, 2018

 

Mauricio Salgado Moreno (HU): "Monetary Policy in the post-UMP age: The importance of the interbank market for the monetary transmission mechanism"

 

Winter Term 2017/18

 

Date

Lecturer/Topic

25. Oktober

2017

Stefanie Seele (HU, Job Market Candidate): "No Role for the Hartz Reforms? Demand and Supply Factors in the German Labor Market, 1993-2014"

01. November 2017

Lukas Mergele (HU, Job Market Candidate): "Public Employment Services Under Decentralization: Evidence from a Natural Experiment"

08. November 2017  

Homayoon Moradi (WZB, Job Market Candidate): "Moral Wiggle Room Reverted: Information Avoidance Is Myopic"

22. November 2017

Benjamin Larin (Uni Leipzig): "The Macroeconomics of Housing and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality"

29. November 2017

Ahmed Hanoma (BDPEMS): "Inflation Expectations with MIDAS: Can Market-Based Measures Forecast Survey-Based Measures"

06. Dezember 2017

Hannah Liepmann (HU, Job Market Candidate): "The Impact of a Negative Labor Demand Shock on Fertility - Evidence from the Fall of the Berlin Wall"

13. Dezember 2017

Simon Jurkatis (FU, Job Market Candidate): "Inferring Trade Direction in Fast Markets"

20. Dezember 2017

Johanna Krenz (HU): "Unconventional Monetary Policy in a Monetary Union"

10. Januar

2018

Anna  Almosova (HU): "Blockchain Miners in a Macroeconomic Model: Search and Matching Approach"

17. Januar

2018

Juliusz Radwański (HU): "Babylonian risk aversion"

24. Januar

2018

Maren Brede (HU): "Real Exchange Rate Dynamics in New Keynesian Models: The Balassa-Samuelson Effect Revisited"

31. Januar

2018

Mauricio Salgado Moreno (HU): "Macro, Money, and Finance: A Continuous-Time Approach"

07. Februar

2018

Julia Otten (HU): "Transfer Multipliers in a Heterogeneous-Household Model"

14. Februar

2018

Grzegorz Dlugoszek (HU): "Macroeconomic Effects of Financial Uncertainty"

 

Summer Term 2017

 

Date

Lecturer/Topic

April 26, 2017

 

 

Dirk Engelmann (HU): "Introduction to the Job Market"

May 24, 2017

 

Mathias Klein (DIW): "Monetary Policy and Household (De-)leveraging"

 

June 7, 2017

Anna Almosova (HU): "Assessing Interest Rate Rule Nonlinearities"

 

June 21 2017

Andreas Backhaus (LMU): "Schools and Schooling. Educational cultures and educational infrastructure in Poland"

 

June 28, 2017

Grzegorz Długoszek (HU): "Time-Varying Global Risk and Country Portfolios"

 

July 5, 2017

Dirk Engelmann (HU): "Advanced Job Market Training"

 

July 19, 2017

Stefanie Seele (HU): "Temporary Agency Work as a Substitute? -Empirical Evidence from the German Industry during the Great Recession"

 

Summer Term 2016

 

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

April 20,

2016

 

tba

April 27,

2016

 

Michele Piffer (DIW): "Identifying Uncertainty Shocks using the Price of Gold"

May 04,

2016

  tba                                                                         

May 11,

2016   

 

tba

May 18,

2016    

 

tba

May 25,

2016    

 

Thilo Huning: "Soil, Transparency, and Political Fragmentation: Evidence from the Holy Roman Empire"

June 01,
2016                 

  Humboldt Forum Wirtschaft

June 08,
2016    

 

Alexander Wulff: "Incomplete Information, Financial Market Imperfections, and Aggregate Saving"

June 15,
2016

  Albrecht Glitz: "Industrial Espionage and Productivity"

June 22,
2016

  Felix Strobel: "The Government Spending Multiplier, Uncertainty, and Sovereign Risk"

June 29,
2016

  Falk Mazelis: "Macroeconomic Consequences of Shadow Bank Regulation"

July 6,
2016

  Jelena Zivanovic: "Corporate Debt Financing and Business Cycles"

July 13,

2016

  Phillip Pfeiffer: "Endogenous Growth Cycles and Asset Prices in a Search Economy"

July 20,

2016

  Benjamin Grosse-Rueschmann: "The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Firm Credit"

 

Winter Term 2015/2016

 

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

October 14,

2015

 

tba

October 21,

2015

 

Job Market talk by Lutz Weinke (Placement Director of BDPEMS)

October 28,

2015

  tba                                                                         

November 04,

2015    

 

Stefanie Seele: Changes in the German Labor Market: The Role of Demand and Supply Factors

November 11,

2015    

 

Julien Albertini: Aggregate Employment, Job Polarization and Inequalities: A Transatlantic Perspective

November 18,

2015    

 

Guo Xu (LSE): Determinants and Consequences of Bureaucrat Effectiveness: Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service

November 25,
2015                 

  Falk Mazelis: The Role of Shadow Banking in the Monetary Transmission Mechanism and the Business Cycle

December 02,
2015    

  Johannes Johnen (Job Market Candidate): Dynamic Competition in Deceptive Markets

December 09,
2015

  Martin Pollrich (Job Market Candidate): Mediated Audits

December 16,
2015

  Alexander Nesterov (Job Market Candidate): School Choice With Advice: The Adaptive Acceptance Rule

January 06,
2016

  Felix Strobel: Government Spending Shocks and Sovereign Risk

January 13,
2016

  Johanna Krenz: Banks' Balance Sheets and the International Transmission of Shocks

January 20,

2016

  Jelena Zivanovic: (tba)

January 27,

2016

  Kai Priesack: (tba)
February 3, 2016   Maren Brede: Budget-Neutral Fiscal Rules Targeting Inflation Differentials
February 10, 2016   Grzegorz Dlugoszek: Solving DSGE Portfolio Choice Models With Perturbation Methods

 

 

Summer Term 2015

 

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

April 15,

2015

 

Falk Mazelis: Monetary Policy Effects on Financial Intermediation via the Regulated and the Shadow Banking Systems

April 22,

2015

 

Christian Ochsner (Ifo Dresden): Political uncertainty and its long-run spatial effects - Expected loss of market access along the temporary intra-Austrian border

April 29,

2015

  Davud Rostam-Afschar: How Risk Averse and Prudent are Workers?

May 06,

2015    

 

Raphael Schoettler: Can history be reversed? - German reunification and the real estate market

May 13,

2015    

 

Lukas Mergele: Is Local Better? German Jobcenters and the Decentralization of Welfare Institutions 

May 20,

2015    

 

 

May 27,
2015                 

  canceled - Humboldt Forum Wirtschaft

June 03,
2015    

  Janine Hart: Migration, Unemployment and the Business Cycle

June 10,
2015

   

June 17,
2015

  Jelena Zivanovic

June 24,
2015

  Johanna Krenz  

July 01,
2015

  Juliane Hennecke: Locus of Control and Labor Market Migration

July 08,
2015

  Grzegorz Dlugoszek  

July 15,

2015

  Felix Strobel

 

Winter Term 2014/2015

 

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

Oct 15,

2014

 

Dan Hamermesh: The Psychic Cost of Children (joint with H. Buddelmeyer & M. Wooden) 

Oct 22,

2014

  Lutz Weinke: Introduction to the International Job Market for Economists

Oct 29,

2014

  Julian Schumacher: Enforcement in Sovereign Debt Markets                                                                                        

Nov 05,

2014

 

Lea Steinruecke: Saving Europe's banks - Investigating the impact of state aid during the financial crisis on banks' balance sheets

Nov 12,

2014

  Maren Brede: When the Taylor principle is insufficient - A benchmark for the fiscal theory of the price level in a monetary union

Nov 19,

2014 

  Philipp Heller: Matching with Waiting Times: The German Entry-Level Labour Market for Lawyers (joint with Philipp Dimakopoulos) 

Nov 26,
2014

   

Dec 03,
2014

  BDPEMS/RTG slot   

Dec 10,
2014

  Hong Lan: Stochastic Volatility in the Real General Equilibrium

Dec 17,
2014

  Johanna Krenz   

Jan 07,
2015

   

Jan 14,
2015

  Alexander Wulff: Idiosyncratic Risk, Borrowing Constraints and Financial Integration - A Discussion of Ambiguous Results (joint with Maik Heinemann)

Jan 21,
2015

   

Jan 28,

2015

  Jelena Zivanovic 

Feb 04,

2015

  Felix Strobel

Feb 11,

2015

 

Thilo Huning: How England Unified Germany: Geography an the Rise of Prussia After 1815 (joint with Nikolaus Wolf)  

 

 

Summer term 2014

 

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

April 16,

2014    

  

canceled            

April     23,

2014

  Dorothea Kübler/Julia Schmid (WZB): Scarring effects and youth unemployment: A field experiment on recruitment decisions in Germany

April 30,

2014

   Philipp König (DIW): Asymmetric Information and Roll-Over Risk                                                                                    

May 07,

2014    

 

Daniel Neuhoff: Generalized Exogenous Processes in DSGE: A Bayesian Approach                                                  

May 14,

2014

  No BB - Humboldt Forum Wirtschaft

May 21,

2014

  canceled

May 28,
2014

  Felix Strobel

June 04,
2014

 

Jessica Oettel                                             

June 11,
2014

  Sebastian Böhm (Uni Leipzig): The Trickle-Down Growth Hypothesis Revisited: Publicly Financed Higher Education

June 18, 2014

  Grzegorz Dlugoszekslot

June 25,
2014

  Lorenz Klipper

July 02,
2014

  Charlotte Senftleben

July 09,
2014

   

July 16,

2014

 

Kai Priesack
 

 

 

Winter term 2013/2014

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

Oct 16,

2013

 

Lutz Weinke: Introduction to the International Job Market for Economists

Oct 23,

2013

  BDPEMS/RTG slot

Oct 30,

2013

                                                                                       

Nov 06,

2013

 

BDPEMS/RTG slot                                                    

Nov 13,

2013

   

Nov 20,

2013

  BDPEMS/RTG slot

Nov 27,
2013

  Alexander Meyer-Gohde: Linear Methods for Risky Economies

Dec 04,
2013

   

Dec 11,
2013

  Maria Grith: Reference Dependent Preferences and the Empirical Pricing Kernel Puzzle

Dec 18,
2013

   

Jan 08,
2014

  cancelled

Jan 15,
2014

  Frauke Peter (DIW): Social Gradients in Starting Day Care and Children's Development

Jan 22,
2014

  Jelena Zivanovic

Jan 29,

2014

  cancelled

Feb 05,

2014

  Jan Marcus (DIW): The Effect of Shortening Secondary Schooling on Grade Repetitions and Graduation Rates (joint with Mathias Hübener)

Feb 12,

2014

  Mikhail Leonov
 

 

Summer term 2013

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

Apr 10,

2013     

 

Daniel Hamermesh: Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

Apr 17,

2013

  BDPEMS/RTG slot

Apr 24,

2013

  Alexandra Fedorets: Closing the Gender Pay Gap and Individual Task Profiles

May 08, 2013

  Michael Raven: Interfaces of Process Development in Biotechnology                                           

May 15, 2013

   

May 22, 2013

  BDPEMS/RTG slot

May 29,
2013

  no Brown Bag due to Humboldt Forum Wirtschaft
                                                                                      

Jun 05,
2013

  Anna Elek

Jun 12,
2013

  Christian Moser (Princeton University): Financial Frictions, Barriers to Entry, and Development Trajectories

Jun 19,
2013

  Davud Rostam-Afschar (FU Berlin): Taxation and Precautionary Savings over the Lifecycle

Jun 26,
2013

  Alexander Meyer-Gohde: Model Uncertainty and Generalized Entropy

Jul 03,
2013

  Michael Lee: What explains house price dynamics in the U.S. real estate market?

Jul 10,
2013

  Felix Strobel

 

Winter term 2012/2013

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic                                                                           

Oct 17, 2012      

 

Lutz Weinke: Introduction to the International Job Market for Economists

Oct 24, 2012

  Federico Ravenna (HEC Montréal): Screening and Labor Market Flows in a Model with Heterogeneous Workers

Oct 31, 2012

  Friedrich Poeschel (IAB): The time trend in the matching function                                                                                          

Nov 07, 2012

  Johannes Johnen (RTG): Auctions in Vertical Markets                                                                                   

Nov 14, 2012

  Stefan Kersting (HU): Structural Change in Agriculture: An Equilibrium Approach

Nov 21, 2012

  Philipp Heller (RTG): Competition in the French Food Retail Sector

Nov 28,
2012

                                                                                         

Dec 05,
2012

  Statistical Office and IAB: Introduction to available data and services provided by the Statistical Office and the IAB     

Dec 12,
2012

  Cancelled

Dec 19,
2012

  Juliane Fudickar: Net Neutrality

Jan 09,
2013

  Mark Weder (University of Adelaide): Countercyclical Markups and News Shocks

Jan 16,
2013

  Jelena Zivanovic: Overview of the Princeton Initiative

Jan 23,
2013

  Hong Lan: Simulation and Moments of DSGE Models with Recursive Preferences and Stochastic Volatility

Jan 30,
2013

  Hanna Sarah Zwiener: The Wage Effects of Occupational Mobility after Apprenticeship

Feb 06,
2013

  Angela Fiedler (Goethe University Frankfurt): Fixed Costs and Inter-Industry Wage Differentials

Feb 13,
2013

  Nils Gudat (Queen Mary University of London): The Competitive Effects of Trade in North America: An Empirical Application of the Melitz Ottaviano Model

Summer term 2012

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic

April 11, 2012 

 

Marvin Süße: Breaking the Unbreakable Union: The Economics of Political Separatism in the USSR                

April 18, 2012    

  N/A

April 25, 2012    

  Simon Voigts: A Transfer Mechanism for a Monetary Union (joint with Philipp Engler)

May 02, 2012    

  N/A

May 09, 2012

  Carsten Burhop (Uni Köln, MPI Köln): Beer, booze, and crime. On the causal effect of beer consumption on crime in Prussia, 1882-1910

May 16, 2012

  Günther Rehme: Love of Wealth' and Economic Growth

May 23,
2012

  Eva Garcia-Moran (European University Institute): With Strings Attached: Grand-Parent Provided Child Care, Fertility and Female Labor Market Outcomes

May 30,
2012

  Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (University of Oxford): Wages and International Tax Competition

June 06,
2012                  

  Kein Brown Bag, SFB Begehung

June 13,
2012

  Sabine Eschenhof (TU Darmstadt, GSEFM Frankfurt): Optimal Fiscal Policy under Commitment with Direct versus Indirect Taxes in an EMU Model

June 20,
2012

  Felix Mihram: Another piece in the Great Divergence puzzle – Empirical evidence on the asymmetric effect of trade

June 27,
2012      

  Lutz Weinke: Lumpy Investment and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism in General Equilibrium (joint with Michael Reiter and Tommy Sveen)

July 4,
2012

  Till Düppe: Arrow and Debreu De-homogenized

July 11,
2012

  N/A

Winter term 2011/12

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic

Oct 19,
2011     

 

N/A

Oct 26,
2011

  Fang Yao: Sticky Prices and Purchasing Power Parity Puzzle

Nov 02,
2011

  Wei Cui: On Optimal Response to Asset Price Fluctuation: A Primal Approach

Nov 09,
2011

  Thomas Steger: Prospering Regions or Declining Areas? - Factor Market Integration under Increasing Returns to Scale

Nov 16,
2011

  Hong Lan: Selected Topics from the LSE Macroeconomics Summer School

Nov 23,
2011

  Lutz Weinke

Nov 30,
2011

  N/A

Dec 07,
2011

  Alexander Meyer-Gohde

Dec 14,
2011

  Maxim Ulrich: Observable Long-Run Ambiguity and Long-Run Risk

Dec 21,
2011

  N/A

Jan 04,
2012

 

Jan 11,
2012

  Axel Minten

Jan 18,
2012

 

N/A

 

Jan 25,
2012

 

Jan Peter aus dem Moore

Feb 01,
2012

  Johanna Krenz: Journal Day

Feb 08,
2012

  Felix Strobel

Feb 15,
2012

  Jelena Zivanovic

Summer term 2011

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic

Apr 13,
2011    

 

Max Bruche, CEMFI

Apr 20,
2011

  Henning Weber, IfW Kiel - "Optimal Inflation and Firm's Productivity Dynamics"
 

Apr 27,
2011

  Jan Peter aus dem Moore

May 04,
2011     

  Nikolaus Wolf - "The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall"

May 11,
2011

  no Brown Bag due to the symposium of the Humboldt Forum Wirtschaft

May 18,
2011

  Journal Day

May 25,
2011

  Blaz Zakelj, EUI - "Inflation expectations and monetary policy design: Evidence from the laboratory"

Jun 01,
2011

  Holger Gerhardt

Jun 08,
2011

  Hong Lan and Alexander Meyer-Gohde - "Nonlinear Simulations and Impulses in DSGE Models - A Direct Pertubation with Nonlinear Moving-Average Policy Function"

Jun 15,
2011

  Ulrich Kaiser - "Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation"

Jun 22,
2011

  Beatrice Farkas, DIW - "Technology-Skill Complementarity and International TFP Differences"

Jun 29,
2011

  Michael Burda

Jul 06,
2011

  Philipp König, TU Berlin

Jul 13,
2011

 

 Journal Day

Winter term 2010/2011

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic

Oct 20,
2010       

 

Song Song

Oct 27,
2010

  Franziska Schulze

Nov 03,
2010

  Runli Xie

Nov 10,
2010

  Alexander Meyer-Gohde

Nov 17,
2010

  Lutz Weinke

Nov 24,
2010

  Johanna Mollerstrom (Harvard): "Asset bubbles and the costs of economic fluctuations"

Dec 01,
2010

  Dorothee Schneider

Dec 08,
2010

  Juliane Scheffel

Dec 15,
2010

  Davide Debortoli (San Diego)

Jan 05,
2011

  Atanas Hristov

Jan 12,
2011

  Michael Burda

Jan 19,
2011

  Jenny Kragl (EBS) - "Wage Floors and Optimal Job Design" (joint with Anja Schöttner)

Jan 26,
2011

  Paul Viefers (DIW)

Feb 02,
2011

 

Sebastian Braun (IfW) - "The Employment Effects of Mass Migration into Post-war West Germany"

Feb 09,
2011

  Alexandra Fedorets
Feb 16,
2011
  Atanas Hristov
     
Feb 23,
2011
  additional seminar: Tommy Sveen

Summer term 2010

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic

Apr 14,
2010

   

Apr 21,
2010

   

Apr 28,
2010   

   

May 05,
2010     

  Alexander Meyer-Gohde - "A Natural Rate Perspective on Equilibrium Selection and Monetary Policy".
May 06,
2010
  Ravi Balakrishnan (IMF) at ESMT - "Unemployment Dynamics during Recessions and Recoveries". http://www.esmt.org/eng/about-esmt/lecture-with-imf/
May 12,
2010
  Fang Yao - "Can the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Explain Inflation Gap Persistence?"

May 19,
2010

  Hong Lan - "An Overview of Three Popular Methods for DSGE Models"

May 26,
2010

   

Jun 02,
2010

   

Jun 09,
2010

  Leah Boustan - "Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration."

Jun 16,
2010

   

Jun 23,
2010

   

Jun 30,
2010

  Alexandra Spitz-Oener - "The Impact of Immigration on Natives' Wages: Heterogeneity following from Product and Labor Market Regulation"

Jul 07,
2010

  Holger Gerhardt - "Social Learning in Asset Markets: A Peek Into the Herding Brain"

Jul 14,
2010

  Holger Gerhardt - "How Does Cognitive Load Influence Risk Attitudes?"

Winter term 2009/2010

Date

 

Lecturer/Topic

Oct 14, 2009

 

-

Oct 21, 2009

  Prof. Michael Burda: "Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles"

Oct 28, 2009

 

Patrick Bunk

Nov 04, 2009

 

Prof. Lutz Weinke: "The Taylor Principle in a Medium-Scale Macroeconomic Model" (joint with Tommy Sveen)

Nov 11, 2009

 

Runli Xie: "Trade-Off between Consumption Growth and Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany"

Nov 18, 2009

 

Olfa Alouini: "Implications of Country Size in the Monetary Union: Insights from a DSGE Model"

Nov 25, 2009

  Fang Yao: "Real and Nominal Rigidities in Price Setting: A Bayesian Analysis Using Aggregate Data"

Dec 02, 2009

   

Dec 09, 2009

 

Alexandra Fedorets: "Cross-occupational Changes vs. Within-occupational Shifts. Analysis of Human Capital Mobility Using the Task-Based Approach"

Dec 16, 2009

  Michèle Tertilt: "An Equilibrium Model of the Malawian HIV / AIDS Epidemic" (joint with J. Greenwood and P. Kircher)

Jan 06, 2010

  Baktygul Turdubekova: "Income Inequality vs Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence"

Jan 13, 2010

 

Philipp König: "Bank Insolvency Risks and the Lender of Last Resort"

Jan 20, 2010

   

Jan 27, 2010

 

Melanie Arntz: "East Germans in West Germany: Pioneers of gender equality? Regional Migration and Occupational Segregation After Unification."

Feb 03, 2010

 

 

Feb 10, 2010

  Atanas Hristov: "Agency Costs, Unemployment and Business Cycles"