Departmental Seminar - Dec 4th
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Dorothea KÜBLER is the Director of the Department of Market Behavior at the WZB and a Professor of Economics at the Technical University of Berlin. She is also Vice Chair of the Board of Academic Advisors of the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Vice Chair of the Einstein Foundation Berlin, and Vice President Europe of the Economic Science Association (ESA). She is a founding member of the “Matching in Practice” network and a member of the collaborative research center CRC TRR 190 “Rationality and Competition” and the excellence cluster, SCRIPTS.
Her research uses experimental methods and game theory to examine decision-making and market design. In recent years, her work has concentrated on the design of matching markets, such as the centralized procedure for awarding places at universities in Germany. She also looks at the influence of social and moral norms on behavior in markets, and studies educational choices and discrimination in the labour market. In 2020, she was awarded the Schader Prize. And last October, she received the Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of the foundations of law and economics.
Dorothea Kûbler will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:
AI versus HR: A field experiment in hiring (read abstract, PDF 29.77 KB)
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Date: MONDAY, December 4th - 2.45 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
This is our final Departmental Seminar before the holidays: we look forward to seeing you again for the Winter/Spring Semester in 2024!
Friday Seminar - Dec 1st
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Georgia THÉBAULT is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department, working with Ghazala Azmat on her ERC CoG project The Role of Educational Constraints in Shaping Inequalities (UNEQUALED). She holds a PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics (PSE).
Her research interests are in education and labour economics. Her doctoral dissertation looked at institutional determinants of inqualities in accessing higher education.
Georgia Thébault will present a paper, joint with Nagui Bechichi, at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Clément DE CHAISEMARTIN is Professor at the Department since 2021. He joined us from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is also a an Affiliated Professor at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Among his editorial duties, he is Associate Editor of the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and is a Member of the Editorial Board of the American Economic Review.
His research interests focus on econometric methods for policy evaluation, and on the economics of education. His work is published regularly in the "Top Five" international journals as well as specialised reviews. Laureate of the AFSE-Malinvaud Prize, he was further distinguished in 2022 as nominee for the 'Best Young Economist Prize' awarded by Le Monde and le Cercle des économistes. The same year, he was awarded a prestigious ERC CoG grant for his project Completing the revolution : Enhancing the reality, the principles, and the impact of economics' credibility revolution (REALLYCREDIBLE).
Clément de Chaisemartin will also present a paper at the next Friday Seminar on the topic:
Estimating Elasticities with Extensive Margin Responses
More about Clément DE CHAISMARTIN and his research
Date: FRIDAY, December 1st - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
The next Friday Seminar will host Valentin MARCHAL (PhD Sciences Po) & Dániel GYETVAI (PhD Sciences Po) on December 8th.
Applied Microeconomics Seminar - Nov 30th
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Nina ROUSSILLE is Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since July 2023. She is also the Executive Director of the Hub for Equal Representation at the London School of Economics (LSE). She received her Phd in Economics from University of California at Berkeley in 2021.
Her research is in the fields of labour and gender economics, with a particular interest for the distributional effects of labour market policies. Although she is only at the beginning of her academic career, her work and her teaching have been awarded a number of prizes and scholarships. Recently she was the recipient of a consequential grant from IZA/FCDO Programme on Gender, Growth and Labour Markets.
Nina Roussille will present a paper, joint with Zoë Cullen, Julia Gilman, and Heather Sarsons, at the next Applied Microeconomics Seminar on the topic:
Secrecy as a Collective Bargaining Tactic: Evidence from Hollywood (read abstract, PDF 73.51 KB)
More about Nina ROUSSILLE and her research
Date: THURSDAY, November 30th - 12.30 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
This is the last Applied Microeconomics Seminar before the holidays - we look forward to seeing you again during the Winter/Spring Semester in 2024 !
Structural Seminar - Nov 28th
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Sam ALTMANN is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) after completing his DPhil in Economics at Oxford. He will be joining the Queen Mary University of London as Assistant Professor in September 2024.
His research interests lie in empirical industrial organisation, focusing on market design, dynamic games and auctions. He is a very promising scholar as attested by the numerous scholarships and prizes he was awarded during his graduate studies. This year he was the laureate of the Cairncross Prize awarded by the Royal Economic Society at the Scottish Economic Society annual conference.
Sam Altmann will present a paper at the next Structural Seminar on the topic:
More about Sam ALTMANN and his research
Date: TUESDAY, November 28th - 3.15 pm
Location: Department of Economics - 4th floor - Salle Jean-Paul Fitoussi (H 405)
The next Structural Seminar will host Giulia BRANCACCIO (New York University) on December 12th.
Roy-ADRES Seminar - Nov 27th
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Andreas BLUME is the McClelland Professor of Economics at Eller College of Management of the University of Arizona since 2012. Prior to joining Eller, he taught at the University of Iowa and the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and a Faculty Affiliate for the Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona. Among his current editorial duties, he is an Advisory Editor of Games and Economic Behavior.
His current research focus is on using game theoretic and experimental methods to study strategic communication with imperfectly shared languages, through noisy channels, with costly messages and on organizational coordination in environments with limited or no communication. He has been awarded a number of important grants by the National Science Foundation.
Andreas Blume will present a paper at the next Roy-ADRES Seminar on the topic:
Meaning in Communication Games (read abstract, PDF 28.92 KB)
More about Andreas BLUME and his research
Date: MONDAY, November 27th - 5 pm
Location: PSE - Jourdan Campus - Room R1-09
The next Roy-ADRES Seminar will host Christopher SANDMANN (London School of Economics) on December 4th.
