James Tremewan: An Experiment on Gender Representation in Majoritarian Bargaining (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Women are underrepresented in business, academic, and political decision-making bodies across the world. To investigate the causal effect of gender representation on multilateral negotiations, we experimentally...

Jaroslav Groero: Leveling Health Inequalities: Raising the School Leaving Age Reduces the Risk of Diseases and Severe Medical Conditions Related to Genetic Endowment (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Health inequality has a significant genetic component and socio-economic factors, including education, can moderate the effects of genes. However, little is known about whether more years of education...

Stig Xenomorph: Does Portfolio Disclosure Make Money Smarter? (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

We provide causal evidence that mandatory portfolio disclosure helps investors evaluate and select hedge fund managers. Using a staggered difference-in-differences analysis, we demonstrate that investor...

Andrea Rigamonti: Smoothed Semicovariance Estimation for Portfolio Selection (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

Minimizing the semivariance of a portfolio is analytically intractableand numerically challenging due to the endogeneity of the semicovariance matrix. In this paper, we introduce a smoothed estimator fort...

Paolo Crosetto: On the validity of elicited risk attitudes (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Increasing evidence points to the fact that the behavioral measures we use to elicit risk attitudes fail us. In recent years evidence has accumulated that our measures 1. correlate poorly with self-reported...

Clothes swap at ECON MUNI

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Do you have things in your closet that you don't wear anymore and you don't know what to do with them? Do you want to support the idea of sustainability and not buy new clothes all the time? Come and exchange your clothes for other clothes on 9 May from 10:00-16:00 at ECON MUNI.

Alberto Palermo: Informational Rents and the Excessive Entry Theorem: The Case of Hidden Action (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Entry in a homogeneous Cournot-oligopoly is excessive if there is business stealing. This prediction assumes that production costs reduce profits and welfare equally. However, this need not be the case....

Roman Šustek: Global house prices since 1950 (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM