Workshop on Economics and Finance

Due to the current situation the workshop will be held virtually.

The workshop is organized jointly by Professors Johannes Brumm, Petra Nieken, Ingrid Ott, Clemens Puppe, Philipp Reiss, Martin Ruckes, Melanie Schienle, Nora Szech, Marliese Uhrig-Homburg and Berthold Wigger. Contact persons: David Ehrlich and Lixuan Zhao

The workshops will be held from 11:45 - 13:00.

Forthcoming

Winter Term 2020/2021
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Nov 4th, 2020	Russell Golman	Carnegie Mellon	Social Norms of Beliefs and Opinions
Jan 21st, 2021	Roel van Veldhuizen	Lund University	tba
Feb 11th, 2021	Alexei Parakhonyak	Oxford University	tba

Previous

Winter Term 2019/2020
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Oct 24th, 2019	Gönül Dogan	University of Cologne	Ingroup love drives ingroup bias within natural groups	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Oct 31st, 2019	Duane Stock	University of Oklahoma	How a Bond Issuance Affects Liquidity of Preexisting Bonds of the Firm	building 09.21/ room 320
Nov 21st, 2019	Michael Ungeheuer	Aalto University, Helsinki	The Power of Pricing: Information, Trade and Salient Returns	building 09.21 / room 320
Dec 12th, 2019	Simone Vannuccini	University of Sussex/Brighton	On the Basis of Brain: Neural Network-Inspired Changes in General Purpose Chips	building 20.30 / room 0.016
Jan 30th, 2020	Torsten Jochem	University of Amsterdam	Bias Propagation in Economically Linked Firms	building 09.21 / room 124
Feb 6th, 2020	Hans Gersbach	ETH Zurich	Proposal Assessment Voting	building 09.21 / room 320
Feb 13th, 2020	Peter Demerjian	University of Illinois Chicago	Measuring disclosure investment strategy: A data envelopment analysis approach	building 09.21/ room 320

Summer Term 2019
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Apr 25th, 2019	Michael Neugart	TU Darmstadt	Social Networks, Promotions, and the Glass-Ceiling Effect	building 20.30/ room 0.016
May 9th, 2019	Alexander Stremitzer	ETH Zurich	Aspirational Rules	building 20.30/ room 0.016
May 16th, 2019	Björn Vollan	Philipps-Universität Marburg	Break-down of pro-social behavior in the wake of anticipated displacement? Experimental evidence from three sea-level rise hotspots	building 20.30/ room 0.016
May 23rd, 2019	Ivan Savin	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Free associations of citizens and scientists with (green) economic growth: A computational linguistics analysis	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jun 6th, 2019	Mathias Hoffmann	University of Zurich	Growing Like Germany: Local Public Debt, Local Banks, Low Private Investment	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jun 13th, 2019	Adam Sanjurjo	University of Alicante	The Role of Memory in Search and Choice	building 01.87/ room 5.25
Aug 1st, 2019	Dan Li	Chinese University of Hon Kong (Shenzhen)	The Demand-Driven Information Market	building 09.21, room 124 11:00 am (deviating time and place)

Winter Term 2018/2019
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Oct 18th, 2018	Mujaheed Shaikh	Vienna University of Economics and Business	Too sticky to switch? Lessons learned from health plan choices of the elderly	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Oct 25th, 2018	Francesco D'Acunto	Boston College	Regressive Mortgage Credit Redistribution in the Post-crisis Era	building 09.21/ room 124
Nov 15th, 2018	Dmitri Vinogradov	University of Glasgow	Central Bank Announcements: Big News for Little People?	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Nov 22nd, 2018	Florian Heider	ECB	Variation margins, fire sales, and information-constrained optimality	building 09.21/ room 320
Dec 6th, 2018	Shurojit Chatterji	Singapore Management University	Random Mechanism Design on Multidimensional Domains	building 09.21/ room 320
Dec 13th, 2018	Martin Peitz	University of Mannheim	Segmentation versus Agglomeration: Competition between Platforms with Competitive Sellers	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Dec 14th, 2018	Marta Serra-Garcia	University of California, San Diego	Time-Inconsistent Charitable Giving	Building 01.85 (KD2-Lab) 11:00 am (deviating time and place!)
Jan 17th, 2019	Christina Pawlowitsch	Paris School of Economics	Costly Signals: Rationality and Evolution	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jan 24th, 2019	Thomas Buser	University of Amsterdam	Does willingness to compete predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choices and validated survey measures	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jan 31st, 2019	Matías Núñez	Paris Dauphine	Approval Mechanisms: Theory and Experiments	building 09.21/ room 320
Feb 7th, 2019	Marcus Pivato	Université de Cergy-Pontoise	Rank-additive population axiology	building 09.21/ room 320
Feb 21st, 2019	Devrimi Kaya	Ruhr-University Bochum	Entry and Capital Structure Mimicking in Concentrated Markets: the Role of Incumbents' Financial Disclosures	building 09.21/ room 124
Mar 26th, 2019	Christoph Schuhmacher	Massey University	GDPLive - Real time GDP forecasting	building 09.21/ room 320 5:30 pm (deviating time)

Summer Term 2018
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Apr 18th, 2018	Michael Weber	University of Chicago	Flexible Prices and Leverage	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R124 2:00 pm
Apr 26th, 2018	Bernd Schwaab	ECB	Risk endogeneity at the lender/investor-of-las-resort	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R320 11:45 am
May 3rd, 2018	Andreas Roider	University of Regensburg	Whistleblower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
May 17th, 2018	Julia Nafziger	Aarhus University	Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
May 24th, 2018	Jeanne Hagenbach	CREST/Ecole Polytechnique Paris	Communication with Evidence in the Lab	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
May 30th, 2018	Subhasish Modak Chowdhury	University of East Anglia	‘Born this Way’?: Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone May Determine Conflict Behavior	30.28 R004 (SR 4) 11:45 am
Jun 6th, 2018	Joshua Tasoff	Claremont Graduate University	Machine Learning and Simple Choices for Eliciting Individual Demand	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R124 10:00 am (deviating time and place!)
Jun 7th, 2018	Dinko Dimitrov	Saarland University	Fair Competition Design	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
Jun 14th, 2018	Ulrich Zierahn	ZEW	Minimum Wages and Self-Employment	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
Jun 21th, 2018	Benjamin Bittschi	IHS Vienna	On the Political Feasibility of Increasing the Legal Retirement Age	30.28, R220 (SR1) 11:45 am
July 17th, 2018	Christoph Schumacher	Massey University	Is it bad to be good? An investigation into potential underfunding of tertiary health care providers under a capitation-based funding system	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R320 5:30 pm (deviating time and place!)
July 26th, 2018	Stefan Hirth	University of Southern Denmark	Rating Under Asymmetric Information	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R320 11:45 am (deviating place!)

Winter Term 2017/2018
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Oct 26th, 2017	Christina Rott	Maastricht University	Advice from Women and Men and Selection into Competition	20.30, SR 0.016
Nov 9th, 2017	Remzi Sanver	CNRS and Université Paris Dauphine	Evaluationwise strategy-proofness	09.21 (Blücherstr.), R320
Nov 16th, 2017	Anke Gerber	University of Hamburg	A Shut Mouth Catches No Flies: Consideration of Issues and Voting	09.21 (Blücherstr.), R320
Nov 30th, 2017	Moritz Kuhn	University Bonn	The Great American Debt Boom, 1949-2013	20.30, SR -1.017
Jan 25th, 2018	Bettina Klaus	Université de Lausanne	Top Trading Cycles, Consistency, and Acyclic Priorities for House Allocation with Existing Tenants	20.30, SR -1.017

Summer Term 2017
Title	Speaker	Date
Information, Authority, and Smooth Communication in Organizations	Inga Deimen (University Bonn)	May 11th, 2017
Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth - When Piketty meets Romer	Andreas Irmen (University of Luxembourg)	May 18th, 2017
Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality	Behnud Mir Djawadi (University of Paderborn)	June 8th, 2017
Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly: An Aggregative Games Approach	Volker Nocke (UCLA/University of Mannheim)	June 22th, 2017
An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information	Dan Levin (Ohio State)	June 29th, 2017
Social Preference Under Twofold Uncertainty	Philippe Mongin (GREGHEC/CNRS/HEC Paris)	July 6th, 2017 (deviating place!)
Field Experiments on Incentives of Problem Solving Teams	Florian Englmaier (LMU Munich)	July 13th, 2017 (deviating place!)
An Experimental Study on Stag Hunt in Endogenous Networks	Martin Strobel (Maastricht University)	July 27th, 2017

Winter Term 2016/2017
Title	Speaker	Date
Costly customers' mistakes in credence goods markets	Matthias Sutter (University of Cologne)	Oct 20th, 2016
Constraints on Matching Markets based on Moral Concerns	Achim Wambach (ZEW/ University of Cologne)	Nov 10th, 2016
Decisions under Uncertainty in Social Contexts	Holger Rau (University of Göttingen)	Nov 24th, 2016
How Social Preferences Guide the Transformation of Objective Payoffs: An Eye-tracking Analysis	Susann Fiedler (MPI Bonn)	Dec 8th, 2016
Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe	Ulrich Zierahn (ZEW)	Dec 15th, 2016
The Political Economy of University Tuition Fees: Information Provision and Income Contingency in Representative Survey Experiments	Ludger Wößmann (LMU Munich/ ifo Institute)	Jan 19th, 2017
An experiment on group complex problem solving	Dana Sisak (University Rotterdam)	Feb 2nd, 2017

Summer Term 2016
Title	Speaker	Date
Macroeconomic policies in a monetary union: a game-theoretic analysis	Dmitri Blüschke (University of Klagenfurt)	Apr 21th, 2016
Revisiting the Stealth Trading Hypothesis - Does Time-Varying Liquidity Explain the Size Effect?	Nikolaus Hautsch (University of Vienna)	Apr 28th, 2016
A Bootstrap Stationarity Test for Predictive Regression Invalidity	Robert Taylor (Essex University)	May 19th, 2016
Desire to Win Drives Overbidding in Tullock Contests	Bettina Rockenbach (University of Cologne)	June 2nd, 2016
Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and Value Creation	Dirk Sliwka (University of Cologne)	June 9th, 2016
The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence: Theory and evidence from the laboratory	Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch (University Bonn)	June 15th, 2016
Religion, Division of Labor and anti-Semitism Over 600 Years of German History	Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick)	June 16th, 2016
Does gender-balancing the board reduce firm value?	Karin Thorburn (Norwegian School of Economics)	June 20th, 2016
Financial Development and Economic Growth: Long Run Equilibrium and Transitional Dynamics	Alberto Bucci (University of Milan)	June 23rd, 2016
Regional Inequality of Higher Education in China	Wan-Hsin Liu (IfW Kiel)	June 30th, 2016
Bank business models at zero interest rates	Julia Schaumburg (VU Amsterdam)	July 7th, 2016
Estimating risk preferences of bettors with different bet sizes	Christoph Schumacher (Massey University)	July 19th, 2016 (deviating time & place!)
Hedge Fund Funding Risk	Sven Klingler (Copenhagen Business School)	July 21st, 2016

Winter Term 2015/2016
title	speaker	date
Global-Game Selection in Games with many Actions and Asymmetric Players	Frank Heinemann (TU Berlin)	Nov 12th, 2015
Conditional Contribution Mechanisms for the Provision of Public Goods in Dynamic Settings - Theory and Experimental Evidence	Andreas Reischmann (Heidelberg University)	Dec 3rd, 2015
Econographics and Political Attitudes: Evidence from Nationwide Incentivized Survey(s)	Erik Snowberg (California Institute of Technology)	Dec 10th, 2015
Experimental Economics in Virtual Reality	Özgür Gürerk (RWTH Aachen)	Jan 14th, 2016
Equilibrium and Matching under Price Controls	Jean-Jaques Herings (Maastricht University)	Jan 28th, 2016
Peer Effects and Incentives	Matthias Kräkel (University Bonn)	Feb 4th, 2016
Technological diversification of regions: theory, empirics, and policy	Pierre-Alexandre Balland (Utrecht University)	Feb 11th, 2016
Fractionalization, Kinship and Corruption	Erik Kimbrough (Simon Fraser University)	Feb 18th, 2016

Summer Term 2015
title	speaker	date
Epistemics in Games: Two Experimental Studies	Paul J. Healy (Ohio State University)	July 21st, 2015 (deviating time & place!)
Executive Compensation and Deployment of Corporate Resources: Evidence from Working Capital	Nihat Aktas (WHU)	July 9th, 2015
Social Norms and the Replacement Logic	Björn Bartling (University of Zurich)	July 2nd, 2015
Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany	Maja Adena (WZB)	June 25th, 2015
Networks, Percolation, and Demand	Paolo Zeppini (University of Bath)	June 11th, 2015
Parliamentary Voting Procedures: Agenda Control, Manipulation, and Uncertainty	Jiehua Chen (TU Berlin)	May 26th, 2015 (deviating time & place!)
Promotion Signaling, Discrimination and Positive Discrimination Policies	Oliver Gürtler (University of Cologne)	May 21st, 2015
The Kreps-Scheinkman Game in Mixed Duopolies	Attila Tasnádi (Corvinus University Budapest)	May 12th, 2015 (deviating time & place!)
Stability of Rejections and Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts	Gleb Koshevoy (Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences)	May 5th, 2015 (deviating time & place!)

Winter Term 2014/2015
title	speaker	date
Endogenous Capital- and Labor-Augmenting Technical Change in the Neoclassical Growth Model	Andreas Irmen (University of Luxembourg)	Feb 5th, 2015
Eliciting Interval Beliefs: An Experimental Study	Ronald Peeters (Maastricht University)	Jan 29th, 2015
Understanding the Emergence of Public Debt	Joachim Weimann (University of Magdeburg)	Jan 22th, 2015
Financial Advice and Bank Profits	Markus Schmid (University of St. Gallen)	Jan 15th, 2015
Trust, Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers	Konrad Stahl (Mannheim University)	Jan 8th, 2015
Endogenous Enforcement of Intellectual Property, North-South Trade, and Growth	Andreas Schäfer (ETH Zurich)	Dec 12th, 2014
Nash Equilibria of Sealed-Bid Package Auctions	Marion Ott (RWTH Aachen)	Nov 27th, 2014
Freedom, Power and Interference: an Experiment on Decision Rights	Claudia Neri (University of St.Gallen)	Nov 20th, 2014
Does Austerity Pay Off?	Johannes Pfeifer (Mannheim University)	Nov 13th, 2014
If One Price Is Good, Are Two Better? Experimental Evidence on Pricing and Customer Antagonism	Andreas Leibbrandt (Monash University)	Oct 30th, 2014
Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes	Matti Keloharju (Aalto University)	Oct 23rd, 2014

Summer Term 2014
title	speaker	date
Competing Mechanism Designer and Monotone Equilibria	Dr. Markus Walzl (University of Innsbruck)	July 17th, 2014
What Determines (First-Round) Contributions in Public Good Experiments? A Laboratory Test Using Large Groups	Prof. Jeannette Brosig-Koch (University of Duisburg-Essen)	July 10th, 2014
How Malleable Are Choice Brackets? The Case of Myopic Loss Aversion	Dr. Matthias Wibral (University of Bonn)	June 12th, 2014
International Financial Integration	Prof. Christiane Clemens (University of Bielefeld)	May 8th, 2014
Heterogeneity in Social Preferences	Prof. Daniel Schunk (University of Mainz)	April 29th, 2014 Remark: Deviation in room and time

Winter Term 2013/2014
title	speaker	date
Don’t Expect Any Help: Direct and Indirect Punishment Among Strangers	Assistant Prof. Loukas Balafoutas (Innsbruck University)	Jan 30th, 2014
The Reverse War of Attrition	Assistant Prof. Christian Seel (Maastricht University)	Jan 16th, 2014
Robust Measurement of Heavy-Tailed Risks: Theory and Implementation	Dr. Nikolaus Schweizer (Saarland University)	Dec 12th, 2013
Nominal Rigidities and Asset Pricing	Dr. Michael Weber (University of California, Berkeley)	Nov 28th, 2013
Impulse Balance in the Newsvendor Game	Prof. Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne)	Nov 22th, 2013 Remark: Deviation in room and time
Excess Reserves and Economic Activity	Prof. Erasmus Kersting (Villanova University)	Nov 7th, 2013
Learning and Collusion in New Markets with Uncertain Entry Costs	Dr. Steffen Lippert (University of Otago)	Oct 24th, 2013

Summer Term 2013
title	speaker	date
When the Going Gets Tough or Easy in Bargaining	Assistant Professor Emin Karagozoglu (Bilkent University)	June 06, 2013
Building Trust in Relational Contracting	Assistant Professor Melis Kartal (Universität Wien)	June 20, 2013
Social Security and the Interactions between Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk	Dr. Daniel Harenberg (ETH Zürich)	July 18, 2013
A Generalization of Kuhn's Theorem	Dr. Michael Greinecker (Universität Innsbruck)	June 13, 2013
Fairness and Coordination: The Role of Fairness Principles in Coordination Failure and Success	Professor Arno Riedl (University of Maastricht)	May 16, 2013
How Do Incentives Affect Creativity?	Professor Oliver Kirchkamp (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)	July 04, 2013
An Anatomy of Fundamental Indexing	Professor Piet Sercu (KU Leuven)	May 23, 2013
Taxation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship	Ulrich Schetter (ETH Zurich)	June 27, 2013

Winter Term 2012/2013
title	speaker	date
An Experiment on How Past Experience of Uncertainty Affects Risk Preferences	Assistant Professor Elias Tsakas (Maastricht University)	Jan 31, 2013
Endogenes Wachstum, Vermögensverteilung und Wachstumspolitik bei unvollständigen Märkten und idiosynkratischen Risiken	Professor Maik Heinemann (University of Potsdam)	Nov 29, 2012

Summer Term 2012
title	speaker	date
Fiscal Policy and Real Exchange Rate	Associate Professor of Economics Santanu Chatterjee (University of Georgia)	July 12, 2012
Corporate Investment over Uncertain Business Cycles	Youchang Wu, Assistant Professor of Finance (University of Wisconsin-Madison)	July 02, 2012 Remark: Deviation in room and time
The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?	Prof. Uwe Dulleck (Queensland University of Technology)	May 24, 2012
The Reflexive Economics of Infinite Games, Horizons, Ressources and Regresses	Dr. Viktor Winschel (University of Mannheim)	May 03, 2012
What Broker Charges Reveal about Mortgage Credit Risk	Antje Berndt (Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University)	Apr 26, 2012

Winter Term 2011/2012
title	speaker	date
A Causal Measure of Freedom	Hendrik Rommeswinkel (Universität St. Gallen)	Nov 24, 2011
Caught in the Act: How Hedge Funds Manipulate their Equity Positions	Prof. Alexander Kempf (University of Cologne)	Dec 01, 2011
Observable Long-Run Ambiguity and Long-Run Risk	Maxim Ulrich (Assistant Professor)	Dec 8, 2011

Summer Term 2011
title	speaker	date
The Credit Rating Game - revisited	Associate Prof. Stefan Hirth (Aarhus University)	June 30, 2011
Network Extension	Prof. Dr. Hans Haller (Virginia Tech)	July 07, 2011

Winter Term 2010/2011
title	speaker	date
Three Solutions to the Pricing Kernel Puzzle	Professor Thorsten Hens, Professor of Financial Economics, Swiss Banking Institute	Nov 18, 2010
Preference for Randomization: Empirical and Experimental Evidence	Professor Dorothea Kübler, TU Berlin and WZB Berlin	Dec 2, 2010
Trading the Bond-CDS Basis – The Case of Credit Risk and Liquidity	Professor Monika Trapp, University of Cologne	Dec 09, 2010
Debt Relief for Poor Countries: Effectiveness and Conditionality	Professor Almuth Scholl, University of Konstanz	Jan 27, 2011

Summer Term 2010
title	speaker	date
A Theory of Debt Market Illiquidity and Leverage	Professor Josef Zechner, University of Vienna	Apr 15, 2010
A Mechanism Design Approach to Optimal Voting Rules when Preferences Are Private Information	Dr. Peter Postl , University of Birmingham	May 27, 2010
The Birth and Burst of Asset Price Bubbles	Professor Hendrik Hakenes, University of Hannover	June 10, 2010
The dark side of outside directors: Do they quit when they are most needed?	Professor Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Swiss Finance Institute and EPFL	July 1, 2010

Winter Term 2009/2010
title	speaker	date
Truth-In-Advertising Laws and Pharmaceutical Promotion	Professor Matthew Ryan, University of Auckland	Oct 15, 2009
[Updated] Two at the Top? Industrial Structure in the Auditing Industry	Professor Thomas Gehrig, University of Freiburg	Nov 11, 2009 [updated]
Skin in the Game: The Incentive Structure in Online Social Lending	Professor Jörg Rocholl, ESMT Berlin	Dec 03, 2009
Cooperation and Reputation in Dynamic Networks	Rense Corten, Ph.D., University of Utrecht	Dec 10, 2009
!!! cancelled !!!	Professor Vittoria Levati, Max Planck Institute	Jan 14, 2009
The Price Dynamics of Emission Allowances : Theory and Experimental Markets	Professor Marc Chesney, University of Zurich	Jan 14, 2010 Remark: Deviation in room and time
Stealth Trading by Corporate Insiders	Professor Ernst Maug, University of Mannheim	Jan 21, 2010
Capital misallocation and aggregate factor productivity	Professor Leo Kaas, University of Konstanz	Jan 28, 2010
The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals	Professor Ulf von Lilienfeld, Stockholm University	Feb 11, 2010

Summer Term 2009
title	speaker	date
Nash program vs. Nash Implementation: The Role of Maskin Monotony	Professor Dr. Walter Trockel, Bielefeld University	July 23, 2009
Intervention in Financial Markets with Idiosyncratic Risk	Professor Herakles Polemarchakis, University of Warwick	July 16, 2009
Asset Prices, Debt Constraints and Inefficiency	Professor Gaetano Bloise, University of Rome III	July 09, 2009
Dynamics of Asset Prices in the CAPM under Autoregressive Forecasting and Noise	Professor Volker Böhm, Ph.D., Bielefeld University	July 02, 2009
Robust Optimal Stopping	Prof. Dr. Frank Riedel, Bielefeld University	June 18, 2009
Stereotype Formation as Trait Aggregation	Professor Remzi Sanver, Bilgi University, Istanbul	June 04, 2009
Hopping on the Methadone Bus	Professor Christoph Schuhmacher, Massey University, Auckland	May 28, 2009

Winter Term 2008/2009
title	speaker	date
Diversity Revealed	Constanze Binder, Universität Groningen	Jan 29, 2009