Sorath Shah: From Spontaneity to Planning: Understanding Long-Distance Travelers' Mode Choice Preferences for BlaBlaCar Carpooling, Bus, and Train in Central Europe (MUES seminar)

12:00 PM

This study examines the mode choice preferences of long-distance travelers in Central Europe among carpooling, trains, and buses. Using three months of operational data from BlaBlaCar, a multilevel mixed-effects...

Cyril Thomson: Friends or Rivals? Social Capital and Upward Mobility in Colonial Schools (MUES seminar)

12:30 PM

How do ties with elite peers affect the social mobility of non-elites who have historicallyfaced social exclusion? Using novel data on high school and university graduates in five colo-nial Indian provinces...

Alireza Khoshghadam: Partial Retirement and Labor Supply: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Sweden (MUES seminar)

10:30 AM

The declining share of the working-age population (20-64) has led many countries to introduce social security reforms to extend the working lives of older employees. While reforms such as raising the early...

Alessandro Stringhi: Guilt and Fairness (MUES seminar)

10:30 AM

Guilt Aversion and Inequity Aversion are pivotal concepts in understanding human behavior in situations involving trust dynamics. Inequity Aversion explains trustworthiness through a preference for fairness,...

Marcelo Villena: On the empirical performance of Capital Assets Pricing models using machine learning (MUES seminar)

10:00 AM

A growing body of financial research shows that machine learning–based algorithms consistently outperform traditional financial benchmark models, often yielding significant statistical and economic advantages....

Serena Trucchi: Alcohol Consumption in an Empty Nest (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Gianluca Grimalda: Market integration, egalitarianism, and reward of merit: An experimental analysis from Papua New Guinea indigenous societies (MUES seminar)

12:30 PM

Extant literature proposes and finds empirical support for both a positive and a negative relationship between market integration and pro-sociality. According to a first strand of literature, market interactions...

Leandro Navarro: Sticky gravity (MUES seminar)

1:00 PM

International trade flows show strong persistence over time. This is true for yearly data and even more so for higher-frequency data such as monthly data. Standard gravity theory cannot explain the persistence,...