Brown bag seminars 2015

Informal brown bag seminars are usually held on Mondays at 11:30 a.m. These seminars serve as an opportunity for IFN and visiting researchers to present ongoing research and test ideas and results.

Upcoming seminars:

Past seminars:

Dec

Political Finance Reform and Public Procurement:Evidence from Lithuania

Audinga Baltrunaite IIES

Nov

It's All in the Interval: An Imperfect Measurements Approach to Estimate Bidders' Primitives in Auctions

David Sundström Umeå University

Nov

Designing Minimum-Risk Nonlinear Price Schedules for Water Utilities

Frank Wolak Stanford University

Nov

Kill Two Birds with One Stone? Environmental Policy Design with Multiple Targets in the Swedish Car Market

Cristian Huse Stockholm School of Economics

Nov

Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States

Mounir Karadja IIES

Oct

Inheritance and Small Business Ownership: Liquidity, Start-Up and Performance

Sebastian Escobar Uppsala University

Oct

Bayesian Persuasion by Stress Test Disclosure

Wolfgang Gick Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

Oct

Tillers of Prosperity: The Substitution of Machine for Labor, and Structural Transformation

Shuhei Kitamura IIES

Oct

Mergers and Collusion in Industries with Horizontal Subcontracting

Jan Bouckaert University of Antwerp

Oct

Inheritance and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Population Registers

Mikael Elinder Uppsala University and IFN

Sept

New Market Products and Employment: A Study Using Comparable Data for 12 European Countries

Martin Falk Austrian Institute of Economic Research, WIFO

Aug

Mean Versus Standard Deviation Trade-Offs in Wind and Solar Energy Investments: The Case of California

Frank Wolak Stanford University

June

Discrimination at the University: Gender Discrimination and In-group Bias

Joakim Jansson and Björn Tyrefors Hinnerich Stockholm University

May

Why Pay the Middleman? Placement Agents’ Vision Advantages in U.S. Venture Capital Fundraising

Chris Rider Georgetown University, USA

Apr

The Income Elasticity of Health Investments

Gabriella Chirico Uppsala University

Apr

Employment Protection and Work Effort

Carl Magnus Bjuggren IFN

Mar

How Can We Measure Entrepreneurial Ecosystems?

Dane Stangler Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, USA

Mar

Patterns of Crises: Legislative Voting, Urgency, and Errors – An Empirical Analysis of Law Making during the Great Recession

Wolf von Laer IFN

Feb

Who’s Listening? Heterogenous Impact of Social Interaction on Individuals’ Stock Market Participation

Emma Zetterdahl Umeå University

Jan

Wage Inequality and Mobility into Entrepreneurship from Swedish Firms, 1993-2007

Karl Wennberg Stockholm School of Economics

Jan

Trade In Ideas – Performance and Behavioral Properties of Markets in Patents

Eskil Ullberg George Mason University