Economics & Politics Seminar
Termin / Date: Dienstag / Tuesday, 14:15-15:15
Ort / Location: AWI 02.036 (Bergheimer Str. 58). Everybody is welcome!
The seminars are organized jointly with the Institute for Political Science.
Sommersemester 2013
21.5.2012
L. Venkatachalam (Madras Institute of Development Studies)
"Efficient Allocation of Irrigation Water: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India"
Wintersemester 2012-2013
30.10.2012
Sandra Sequeira (LSE)
"Displacing Corruption"
13.11.2012
Galina Zudenkova (University of Mannheim)
"A Rationale for Intra-Party Democracy"
20.11.2012
Christoph Moser (KOF, ETH Zurich)
"The Value of the Revolving Door: Political Appointees and the Stock Market"
27.11.2012
Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State University)
"School Feeding Programs, Intrahousehold Allocation and the Nutrition of Siblings: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso"
4.12.2012
Dimiter Toshkov (Leiden University)
"Why do legislative proposals fail?"
11.12.2012
Silvia Marchesi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
"Did high debts distort loans and grants allocation to IDA countries?"
22.1.2013
Thomas Siedler (University of Hamburg)
"The Economics of Information: Job Information Centers and Labor Market Outcomes"
29.1.2013
Puriya Abbassi (Deutsche Bundesbank)
"Liquidity of Financial Markets and the Demand for Reserves"
5.2.2013
Timo Weishaupt (University of Mannheim)
"Assessing the Impact of International Organizations on National Labor-Market Reforms"
Sommersemester 2012
15.5.2012
Raji Jayaraman (European School of Management and Technology)
"Productivity Responses to a Contract Change"
22.5.2012
Todd Sandler (University of Texas at Dallas)
"Terrorist Success in Hostage-Taking Missions: 1978-2010"
29.5.2012
Daniel Finke (Heidelberg University)
"Does domestic level parliamentary scrutiny influence EU legislation?"
12.6.2012
Patrick Nolen (University of Essex)
"Gender Composition and Performance: The effect of single-sex classes on exam scores"
19.6.2012
Stefanie Walter (Heidelberg University)
"Distributional Politics in Times of Crisis. Eastern European Policy Responses to the 2008-10 Global Economic Crisis"
26.6.2012
Atilim Seymen (Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
"The Effects of Countercyclical Fiscal Policy: Firm-Level Evidence from a Recent Natural Experiment in Turkey"
3.7.2012
Christoph Sajons (Pompeu Fabra)
"Is Bob the Banker more electable than Bob the Builder? The effect of profession information on voter satisfaction and behavior in open-list elections"
10.7.2012
Matthias Neuenkirch (Philipps-University Marburg)
"What's in a Second Opinion? Shadowing the ECB and the Bank of England"
17.7.2012
Herbert Obinger (University of Bremen), Carina Schmitt (University of Bremen), Reimut Zohlnhöfer (Heidelberg University)
"Partisan Politics and Privatizations in the OECD, 1980-2008"
