Workshop on Economics and Finance

The workshop is organized jointly by Professors Johannes Brumm, Petra Nieken, Ingrid Ott, Clemens Puppe, Philipp Reiss, Martin Ruckes, Melanie Schienle, Nora Szech, Marliese Uhrig-Homburg and Berthold Wigger.

Contact persons: David Ehrlich and Lixuan Zhao

Current semester

Winter Term 2022/2023
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Time	Place
Oct 11th, 2022	Klaus Nehring	University of California, Davis	Maximally Context-independent Impartially Ordinal Social Choice: Condorcet and Borda Rejoined	17:30 - 18:30	building 09.21/ room 320
19th Oct, 2022	Laurence Kotlikoff	Boston University	Can Today's and Tomorrow's World Uniformly Gain from Carbon Taxation?	17:00	building 30.28/ seminar room 2 (R120)
Oct 26th, 2022	Rudolf Kerschbamer	University of Innsbruck	Nobel and Novice: A Field Experiment on the Matthew Effect in Peer Review	15:00 - 16:00	Zoom (online)
Nov 3rd, 2022	Shaul Shalvi	University of Amsterdam	Willful Ignorance: A Meta Analytic Review	12:00 - 13:00	Zoom (online)
Nov 9th, 2022	Florian H. Schneider	University of Zurich	On the relative deservingness of capital and labor (with Vanessa Valero and Roberto A. Weber)	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Nov 16th, 2022	Danisz Okulicz	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Lawyer Matching Problem	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Nov 23rd, 2022	Anna Dreber Almenberg	Stockholm School of Economics	Direct and Conceptual Replications	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Dec 7th, 2022	Sandro Ambuehl	University of Zurich	How Paternalistic Preferences Shape the Welfare State: The Case of In-Kind Nutrition Assistance	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Dec 14th, 2022	M. Utku Ünver	Boston College	Market Design for Distributional Objectives in (Re)assignment: An Application to Improve the Distribution of Teachers in Schools	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Jan 11th, 2023	Thomas Buser	University of Amsterdam	Using genes to explore the relationship between personality, cognitive skills and labor market outcomes	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Jan 18th, 2023	Roel van Veldhuizen	Lund University	Time Pressure Preferences	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Feb 1st, 2023	Jason Dana	Yale School of Management	Taste-Based Gender Favoritism in High Stakes Decisions: Evidence from The Price Is Right	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)
Feb 8th, 2023	Hector Chade	Arizona State University	Multidimensional Screening and Menu Design in Health Insurance Markets	17:00 - 18:00	Zoom (online)
Feb 15th, 2023	Rustamdjan Hakimov	University of Lausanne	Confidence and College Applications: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention	16:00 - 17:00	Zoom (online)

Previous

Summer Term 2022
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
July 14, 2022	Mikhail Pakhnin	European University at St. Petersburg	Kantian Optimization with Quasi-hyperbolic Discounting	20.30 SR 0.016

Summer Term 2021
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
April 29th, 2021	Hendrik Rommeswinkel	National Taiwan University	Measuring Consumer Freedom	online

Winter Term 2020/2021
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Oct 15th, 2020	Frank Rosar	University of Bonn	Dynamic Voting with an Irreversible Option
Nov 4th, 2020	Russell Golman	Carnegie Mellon	Social Norms of Beliefs and Opinions
Jan 21st, 2021	Roel van Veldhuizen	Lund University	Gender Differences in Tournament Choices: Risk Preferences, Overconfidence or Competitiveness?
Feb 11th, 2021	Alexei Parakhonyak	Oxford University	Dynamic Consumer Search

Winter Term 2019/2020
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Oct 24th, 2019	Gönül Dogan	University of Cologne	Ingroup love drives ingroup bias within natural groups	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Oct 31st, 2019	Duane Stock	University of Oklahoma	How a Bond Issuance Affects Liquidity of Preexisting Bonds of the Firm	building 09.21/ room 320
Nov 21st, 2019	Michael Ungeheuer	Aalto University, Helsinki	The Power of Pricing: Information, Trade and Salient Returns	building 09.21 / room 320
Dec 12th, 2019	Simone Vannuccini	University of Sussex/Brighton	On the Basis of Brain: Neural Network-Inspired Changes in General Purpose Chips	building 20.30 / room 0.016
Jan 30th, 2020	Torsten Jochem	University of Amsterdam	Bias Propagation in Economically Linked Firms	building 09.21 / room 124
Feb 6th, 2020	Hans Gersbach	ETH Zurich	Proposal Assessment Voting	building 09.21 / room 320
Feb 13th, 2020	Peter Demerjian	University of Illinois Chicago	Measuring disclosure investment strategy: A data envelopment analysis approach	building 09.21/ room 320

Summer Term 2019
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Apr 25th, 2019	Michael Neugart	TU Darmstadt	Social Networks, Promotions, and the Glass-Ceiling Effect	building 20.30/ room 0.016
May 9th, 2019	Alexander Stremitzer	ETH Zurich	Aspirational Rules	building 20.30/ room 0.016
May 16th, 2019	Björn Vollan	Philipps-Universität Marburg	Break-down of pro-social behavior in the wake of anticipated displacement? Experimental evidence from three sea-level rise hotspots	building 20.30/ room 0.016
May 23rd, 2019	Ivan Savin	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Free associations of citizens and scientists with (green) economic growth: A computational linguistics analysis	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jun 6th, 2019	Mathias Hoffmann	University of Zurich	Growing Like Germany: Local Public Debt, Local Banks, Low Private Investment	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jun 13th, 2019	Adam Sanjurjo	University of Alicante	The Role of Memory in Search and Choice	building 01.87/ room 5.25
Aug 1st, 2019	Dan Li	Chinese University of Hon Kong (Shenzhen)	The Demand-Driven Information Market	building 09.21, room 124 11:00 am (deviating time and place)

Winter Term 2018/2019
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Oct 18th, 2018	Mujaheed Shaikh	Vienna University of Economics and Business	Too sticky to switch? Lessons learned from health plan choices of the elderly	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Oct 25th, 2018	Francesco D'Acunto	Boston College	Regressive Mortgage Credit Redistribution in the Post-crisis Era	building 09.21/ room 124
Nov 15th, 2018	Dmitri Vinogradov	University of Glasgow	Central Bank Announcements: Big News for Little People?	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Nov 22nd, 2018	Florian Heider	ECB	Variation margins, fire sales, and information-constrained optimality	building 09.21/ room 320
Dec 6th, 2018	Shurojit Chatterji	Singapore Management University	Random Mechanism Design on Multidimensional Domains	building 09.21/ room 320
Dec 13th, 2018	Martin Peitz	University of Mannheim	Segmentation versus Agglomeration: Competition between Platforms with Competitive Sellers	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Dec 14th, 2018	Marta Serra-Garcia	University of California, San Diego	Time-Inconsistent Charitable Giving	Building 01.85 (KD2-Lab) 11:00 am (deviating time and place!)
Jan 17th, 2019	Christina Pawlowitsch	Paris School of Economics	Costly Signals: Rationality and Evolution	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jan 24th, 2019	Thomas Buser	University of Amsterdam	Does willingness to compete predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choices and validated survey measures	building 20.30/ room 0.016
Jan 31st, 2019	Matías Núñez	Paris Dauphine	Approval Mechanisms: Theory and Experiments	building 09.21/ room 320
Feb 7th, 2019	Marcus Pivato	Université de Cergy-Pontoise	Rank-additive population axiology	building 09.21/ room 320
Feb 21st, 2019	Devrimi Kaya	Ruhr-University Bochum	Entry and Capital Structure Mimicking in Concentrated Markets: the Role of Incumbents' Financial Disclosures	building 09.21/ room 124
Mar 26th, 2019	Christoph Schuhmacher	Massey University	GDPLive - Real time GDP forecasting	building 09.21/ room 320 5:30 pm (deviating time)

Summer Term 2018
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Apr 18th, 2018	Michael Weber	University of Chicago	Flexible Prices and Leverage	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R124 2:00 pm
Apr 26th, 2018	Bernd Schwaab	ECB	Risk endogeneity at the lender/investor-of-las-resort	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R320 11:45 am
May 3rd, 2018	Andreas Roider	University of Regensburg	Whistleblower Protection: Theory and Experimental Evidence	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
May 17th, 2018	Julia Nafziger	Aarhus University	Motivational Goal Bracketing: An Experiment	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
May 24th, 2018	Jeanne Hagenbach	CREST/Ecole Polytechnique Paris	Communication with Evidence in the Lab	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
May 30th, 2018	Subhasish Modak Chowdhury	University of East Anglia	‘Born this Way’?: Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone May Determine Conflict Behavior	30.28 R004 (SR 4) 11:45 am
Jun 6th, 2018	Joshua Tasoff	Claremont Graduate University	Machine Learning and Simple Choices for Eliciting Individual Demand	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R124 10:00 am (deviating time and place!)
Jun 7th, 2018	Dinko Dimitrov	Saarland University	Fair Competition Design	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
Jun 14th, 2018	Ulrich Zierahn	ZEW	Minimum Wages and Self-Employment	30.28 R220 (SR 1) 11:45 am
Jun 21th, 2018	Benjamin Bittschi	IHS Vienna	On the Political Feasibility of Increasing the Legal Retirement Age	30.28, R220 (SR1) 11:45 am
July 17th, 2018	Christoph Schumacher	Massey University	Is it bad to be good? An investigation into potential underfunding of tertiary health care providers under a capitation-based funding system	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R320 5:30 pm (deviating time and place!)
July 26th, 2018	Stefan Hirth	University of Southern Denmark	Rating Under Asymmetric Information	09.21 (Blücherstr.) R320 11:45 am (deviating place!)

Winter Term 2017/2018
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
Oct 26th, 2017	Christina Rott	Maastricht University	Advice from Women and Men and Selection into Competition	20.30, SR 0.016
Nov 9th, 2017	Remzi Sanver	CNRS and Université Paris Dauphine	Evaluationwise strategy-proofness	09.21 (Blücherstr.), R320
Nov 16th, 2017	Anke Gerber	University of Hamburg	A Shut Mouth Catches No Flies: Consideration of Issues and Voting	09.21 (Blücherstr.), R320
Nov 30th, 2017	Moritz Kuhn	University Bonn	The Great American Debt Boom, 1949-2013	20.30, SR -1.017
Jan 25th, 2018	Bettina Klaus	Université de Lausanne	Top Trading Cycles, Consistency, and Acyclic Priorities for House Allocation with Existing Tenants	20.30, SR -1.017

Summer Term 2017
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title of speech	Place
May 11th, 2017	Inga Deimen	University Bonn	Information, Authority, and Smooth Communication in Organizations
May 18th, 2017	Andreas Irmen	University of Luxembourg	Factor Income Distribution and Endogenous Economic Growth - When Piketty meets Romer
June 8th, 2017	Behnud Mir Djawadi	University of Paderborn	Business Ethics in Organizations: An Experimental Examination of Whistleblowing and Personality
June 22th, 2017	Volker Nocke	UCLA/University of Mannheim	Multiproduct-Firm Oligopoly: An Aggregative Games Approach
June 29th, 2017	Dan Levin	Ohio State	An Experimental Study of Estimation and Bidding in Common-Value Auctions with public information
July 6th, 2017 (deviating place!)	Philippe Mongin	GREGHEC/CNRS/HEC Paris	Social Preference Under Twofold Uncertainty
July 13th, 2017 (deviating place!)	Florian Englmaier	LMU Munich	Field Experiments on Incentives of Problem Solving Teams
July 27th, 2017	Martin Strobel	Maastricht University	An Experimental Study on Stag Hunt in Endogenous Networks

Winter Term 2016/2017
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Oct 20th, 2016	Matthias Sutter	University of Cologne	Costly customers' mistakes in credence goods markets
Nov 10th, 2016	Achim Wambach	ZEW/ University of Cologne	Constraints on Matching Markets based on Moral Concerns
Nov 24th, 2016	Holger Rau	University of Göttingen	Decisions under Uncertainty in Social Contexts
Dec 8th, 2016	Susann Fiedler	MPI Bonn	How Social Preferences Guide the Transformation of Objective Payoffs: An Eye-tracking Analysis
Dec 15th, 2016	Ulrich Zierahn	ZEW	Racing With or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe
Jan 19th, 2017	Ludger Wößmann	LMU Munich/ ifo Institute	The Political Economy of University Tuition Fees: Information Provision and Income Contingency in Representative Survey Experiments
Feb 2nd, 2017	Dana Sisak	University Rotterdam	An experiment on group complex problem solving

Summer Term 2016
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Apr 21th, 2016	Dmitri Blüschke	University of Klagenfurt	Macroeconomic policies in a monetary union: a game-theoretic analysis
Apr 28th, 2016	Nikolaus Hautsch	University of Vienna	Revisiting the Stealth Trading Hypothesis - Does Time-Varying Liquidity Explain the Size Effect?
May 19th, 2016	Robert Taylor	Essex University	A Bootstrap Stationarity Test for Predictive Regression Invalidity
June 2nd, 2016	Bettina Rockenbach	University of Cologne	Desire to Win Drives Overbidding in Tullock Contests
June 9th, 2016	Dirk Sliwka	University of Cologne	Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and Value Creation
June 15th, 2016	Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch	University Bonn	The impact of fine size and uncertainty on punishment and deterrence: Theory and evidence from the laboratory
June 16th, 2016	Sascha O. Becker	University of Warwick	Religion, Division of Labor and anti-Semitism Over 600 Years of German History
June 20th, 2016	Karin Thorburn	Norwegian School of Economics	Does gender-balancing the board reduce firm value?	(deviating time & place!) 20.13, R 110 4:00 pm
June 23rd, 2016	Alberto Bucci	University of Milan	Financial Development and Economic Growth: Long Run Equilibrium and Transitional Dynamics
June 30th, 2016	Wan-Hsin Liu	IfW Kiel	Regional Inequality of Higher Education in China
July 7th, 2016	Julia Schaumburg	VU Amsterdam	Bank business models at zero interest rates
July 19th, 2016 (deviating time & place!)	Christoph Schumacher	Massey University	Estimating risk preferences of bettors with different bet sizes	20.12, R 002
July 21st, 2016	Sven Klingler	Copenhagen Business School	Hedge Fund Funding Risk

Winter Term 2015/2016
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Nov 12th, 2015	Frank Heinemann	TU Berlin	Global-Game Selection in Games with many Actions and Asymmetric Players
Dec 3rd, 2015	Andreas Reischmann	Heidelberg University	Conditional Contribution Mechanisms for the Provision of Public Goods in Dynamic Settings - Theory and Experimental Evidence
Dec 10th, 2015	Erik Snowberg	California Institute of Technology	Econographics and Political Attitudes: Evidence from Nationwide Incentivized Survey(s)
Jan 14th, 2016	Özgür Gürerk	RWTH Aachen	Experimental Economics in Virtual Reality
Jan 28th, 2016	Jean-Jaques Herings	Maastricht University	Equilibrium and Matching under Price Controls
Feb 4th, 2016	Matthias Kräkel	University Bonn	Peer Effects and Incentives
Feb 11th, 2016	Pierre-Alexandre Balland	Utrecht University	Technological diversification of regions: theory, empirics, and policy
Feb 18th, 2016	Erik Kimbrough	Simon Fraser University	Fractionalization, Kinship and Corruption

Summer Term 2015
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
July 21st, 2015 (deviating time & place!)	Paul J. Healy	Ohio State University	Epistemics in Games: Two Experimental Studies	20.14, R 103.2
July 9th, 2015	Nihat Aktas	WHU	Executive Compensation and Deployment of Corporate Resources: Evidence from Working Capital
July 2nd, 2015	Björn Bartling	University of Zurich	Social Norms and the Replacement Logic
June 25th, 2015	Maja Adena	WZB	Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany
June 11th, 2015	Paolo Zeppini	University of Bath	Networks, Percolation, and Demand
May 26th, 2015 (deviating time & place!)	Jiehua Chen	TU Berlin	Parliamentary Voting Procedures: Agenda Control, Manipulation, and Uncertainty	20.14, R 216
May 21st, 2015	Oliver Gürtler	University of Cologne	Promotion Signaling, Discrimination and Positive Discrimination Policies
May 12th, 2015 (deviating time & place!)	Attila Tasnádi	Corvinus University Budapest	The Kreps-Scheinkman Game in Mixed Duopolies	20.14, R 216
May 5th, 2015 (deviating time & place!)	Gleb Koshevoy	Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences	Stability of Rejections and Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts	20.14, R 216

Winter Term 2014/2015
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Feb 5th, 2015	Andreas Irmen	University of Luxembourg	Endogenous Capital- and Labor-Augmenting Technical Change in the Neoclassical Growth Model
Jan 29th, 2015	Ronald Peeters	Maastricht University	Eliciting Interval Beliefs: An Experimental Study
Jan 22th, 2015	Joachim Weimann	University of Magdeburg	Understanding the Emergence of Public Debt
Jan 15th, 2015	Markus Schmid	University of St. Gallen	Financial Advice and Bank Profits
Jan 8th, 2015	Konrad Stahl	Mannheim University	Trust, Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Dec 12th, 2014	Andreas Schäfer	ETH Zurich	Endogenous Enforcement of Intellectual Property, North-South Trade, and Growth
Nov 27th, 2014	Marion Ott	RWTH Aachen	Nash Equilibria of Sealed-Bid Package Auctions
Nov 20th, 2014	Claudia Neri	University of St.Gallen	Freedom, Power and Interference: an Experiment on Decision Rights
Nov 13th, 2014	Johannes Pfeifer	Mannheim University	Does Austerity Pay Off?
Oct 30th, 2014	Andreas Leibbrandt	Monash University	If One Price Is Good, Are Two Better? Experimental Evidence on Pricing and Customer Antagonism
Oct 23rd, 2014	Matti Keloharju	Aalto University	Initial Offer Precision and M&A Outcomes

Summer Term 2014
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
July 17th, 2014	Dr. Markus Walzl	University of Innsbruck	Competing Mechanism Designer and Monotone Equilibria
July 10th, 2014	Prof. Jeannette Brosig-Koch	University of Duisburg-Essen	What Determines (First-Round) Contributions in Public Good Experiments? A Laboratory Test Using Large Groups
June 12th, 2014	Dr. Matthias Wibral	University of Bonn	How Malleable Are Choice Brackets? The Case of Myopic Loss Aversion
May 8th, 2014	Prof. Christiane Clemens	University of Bielefeld	International Financial Integration
April 29th, 2014 Remark: Deviation in room and time	Prof. Daniel Schunk	University of Mainz	Heterogeneity in Social Preferences	Building 20.21, Room 217

Winter Term 2013/2014
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Jan 30th, 2014	Assistant Prof. Loukas Balafoutas (Innsbruck University)	Innsbruck University	Don’t Expect Any Help: Direct and Indirect Punishment Among Strangers
Jan 16th, 2014	Assistant Prof. Christian Seel (Maastricht University)	Maastricht University	The Reverse War of Attrition
Dec 12th, 2013	Dr. Nikolaus Schweizer	Saarland University	Robust Measurement of Heavy-Tailed Risks: Theory and Implementation
Nov 28th, 2013	Dr. Michael Weber	University of California, Berkeley	Nominal Rigidities and Asset Pricing
Nov 22th, 2013 Remark: Deviation in room and time	Prof. Axel Ockenfels (University of Cologne)	University of Cologne	Impulse Balance in the Newsvendor Game
Nov 7th, 2013	Prof. Erasmus Kersting	Villanova University	Excess Reserves and Economic Activity
Oct 24th, 2013	Dr. Steffen Lippert	University of Otago	Learning and Collusion in New Markets with Uncertain Entry Costs

Summer Term 2013
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
July 18, 2013	Dr. Daniel Harenberg	ETH Zürich	Social Security and the Interactions between Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk
July 04, 2013	Professor Oliver Kirchkamp	Friedrich Schiller University Jena	How Do Incentives Affect Creativity?
June 27, 2013	Ulrich Schetter	ETH Zurich	Taxation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
June 20, 2013	Assistant Professor Melis Kartal	Universität Wien	Building Trust in Relational Contracting
June 13, 2013	Dr. Michael Greinecker	Universität Innsbruck	A Generalization of Kuhn's Theorem
June 06, 2013	Assistant Professor Emin Karagozoglu	Bilkent University	When the Going Gets Tough or Easy in Bargaining
May 23, 2013	Professor Piet Sercu	KU Leuven	An Anatomy of Fundamental Indexing
May 16, 2013	Professor Arno Riedl	University of Maastricht	Fairness and Coordination: The Role of Fairness Principles in Coordination Failure and Success

Winter Term 2012/2013
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Jan 31, 2013	Assistant Professor Elias Tsakas	Maastricht University	An Experiment on How Past Experience of Uncertainty Affects Risk Preferences
Nov 29, 2012	Professor Maik Heinemann	University of Potsdam	Endogenes Wachstum, Vermögensverteilung und Wachstumspolitik bei unvollständigen Märkten und idiosynkratischen Risiken

Summer Term 2012
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
July 12, 2012	Associate Professor of Economics Santanu Chatterjee	University of Georgia	Fiscal Policy and Real Exchange Rate
July 02, 2012 Remark: Deviation in room and time	Youchang Wu, Assistant Professor of Finance	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Corporate Investment over Uncertain Business Cycles
May 24, 2012	Prof. Uwe Dulleck	Queensland University of Technology	The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do Fair Prices Signal Good Types or Do They Induce Good Behaviour?
May 03, 2012	Dr. Viktor Winschel	University of Mannheim	The Reflexive Economics of Infinite Games, Horizons, Ressources and Regresses
Apr 26, 2012	Antje Berndt	Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University	What Broker Charges Reveal about Mortgage Credit Risk

Winter Term 2011/2012
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Nov 24, 2011	Hendrik Rommeswinkel	Universität St. Gallen	A Causal Measure of Freedom
Dec 01, 2011	Prof. Alexander Kempf	University of Cologne	Caught in the Act: How Hedge Funds Manipulate their Equity Positions
Dec 8, 2011	Maxim Ulrich (Assistant Professor)		Observable Long-Run Ambiguity and Long-Run Risk

Summer Term 2011
Datum	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
June 30, 2011	Associate Prof. Stefan Hirth	Aarhus University	The Credit Rating Game - revisited
July 07, 2011	Prof. Dr. Hans Haller	Virginia Tech	Network Extension

Winter Term 2010/2011
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Nov 18, 2010	Professor Thorsten Hens, Professor of Financial Economics	Swiss Banking Institute	Three Solutions to the Pricing Kernel Puzzle
Dec 2, 2010	Professor Dorothea Kübler	TU Berlin and WZB Berlin	Preference for Randomization: Empirical and Experimental Evidence
Dec 09, 2010	Professor Monika Trapp	University of Cologne	Trading the Bond-CDS Basis – The Case of Credit Risk and Liquidity
Jan 27, 2011	Professor Almuth Scholl	University of Konstanz	Debt Relief for Poor Countries: Effectiveness and Conditionality

Summer Term 2010
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Apr 15, 2010	Professor Josef Zechner	University of Vienna	A Theory of Debt Market Illiquidity and Leverage
May 27, 2010	Dr. Peter Postl	University of Birmingham	A Mechanism Design Approach to Optimal Voting Rules when Preferences Are Private Information
June 10, 2010	Professor Hendrik Hakenes	University of Hannover	The Birth and Burst of Asset Price Bubbles
July 1, 2010	Professor Rüdiger Fahlenbrach	Swiss Finance Institute and EPFL	The dark side of outside directors: Do they quit when they are most needed?

Winter Term 2009/2010
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Oct 15, 2009	Professor Matthew Ryan, University of Auckland		Truth-In-Advertising Laws and Pharmaceutical Promotion
Nov 5, 2009	Professor Thomas Gehrig, University of Freiburg		Two at the Top? Industrial Structure in the Auditing Industry
Dec 03, 2009	Professor Jörg Rocholl, ESMT Berlin		Skin in the Game: The Incentive Structure in Online Social Lending
Dec 10, 2009	Rense Corten, Ph.D., University of Utrecht		Cooperation and Reputation in Dynamic Networks
Jan 14, 2010	Professor Vittoria Levati, Max Planck Institute		!!! cancelled !!!
Jan 14, 2010 Remark: Deviation in room and time	Professor Marc Chesney, University of Zurich		The Price Dynamics of Emission Allowances : Theory and Experimental Markets
Jan 21, 2010	Professor Ernst Maug, University of Mannheim		Stealth Trading by Corporate Insiders
Jan 28, 2010	Professor Leo Kaas, University of Konstanz		Capital misallocation and aggregate factor productivity
Feb 11, 2010	Professor Ulf von Lilienfeld, Stockholm University		The Distributive Impact of Reforms in Credit Enforcement: Evidence from Indian Debt Recovery Tribunals

Summer Term 2009
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
July 23, 2009	Professor Dr. Walter Trockel, Bielefeld University		Nash program vs. Nash Implementation: The Role of Maskin Monotony
July 16, 2009	Professor Herakles Polemarchakis, University of Warwick		Intervention in Financial Markets with Idiosyncratic Risk
July 09, 2009	Professor Gaetano Bloise, University of Rome III		Asset Prices, Debt Constraints, and Inefficiency
July 02, 2009	Professor Volker Böhm, Ph.D., Bielefeld University		Dynamics of Asset Prices in the CAPM under Autoregressive Forecasting and Noise
June 18, 2009	Prof. Dr. Frank Riedel, Bielefeld University		Robust Optimal Stopping
Jun 04, 2009	Professor Remzi Sanver		Stereotype Formation as Trait Aggregation
May 28, 2009	Professor Christoph Schuhmacher		Hopping on the Methadone Bus

Winter Term 2008/2009
Date	Speaker	University/Institution	Title	Place
Jan 29, 2009	Constanze Binder	Universität Groningen	Diversity Revealed