Johannes Hoelzemann: The Streetlight Effect in Data-Driven Exploration (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

We consider settings such as innovation-oriented R&D where agents must explore across different projects with varying but uncertain payoffs. How does providing partial data on project payoffs affect individual...

Ismail Celebi: Border effect in passenger railway transport in Central and Eastern Europe (MUES seminar)

2:00 PM

Increasing high-speed railway planning in Central and Eastern Europe and the lack of border effect estimations in this region encouraged a border effect study in this region. Using railway data collected...

Lata Gangadharan​: The gender leadership gap in competitive and cooperative institutions (MUES seminar)

1:10 PM

Impact of climate change policies: Behavioral insights

5:15 PM

You are cordially invited to a guest lecture by Professor Lata Gangadharan, behavioral economist. A key focus of her research has been on developing novel experimental methods to study economic and social institutions.

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...