Econometrics & Applied Micro Seminars

Our seminars are held by world-famous scholars from around the globe

Econometrics/Applied Micro seminars take place on Mondays from 11:00 to 12:15, unless otherwise specified.

Term 1

20 October 2025
Presenter: Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam
Title: "Is there really a Child Penalty in the Long Run? New Evidence from IVF Treatments" (joint with P. Lundborg and A. Würtz Rasmussen)
27 October 2025 - Joint Seminar, from 10.00-12.30
Presenter: Massimiliano Marcellino, Bocconi University
Title: "Firm Heterogeneity and Aggregate Fluctuations: a Functional VAR Model for Multidimensional Distributions" (joint with A. Renzetti and T. Tornese)
Presenter: Fabio Canova, Norwegian Business School
Title: "Low Frequency Movements and VAR Analysis" (joint with L. Fosso)

24 November 2025
Presenter: Erin Evelyn Gabriel, University of Copenhagen
Title: "Incorporating Covariates in Partial Identification: A Case Study in the Classical Instrumental Variable Setting" (joint with G. Jonzon, A. Sjölander and M. C. Sachs)
01 December 2025
Presenter: Johanna Rickne, Stockholm University
Title: "Sexual Harassment and Women’s Academic Careers" (joint with O. Folke and R. Vammen Lesner)

Term 2

26 January 2026
Presenter: Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California
Title: "Self-employment within the Firm" (joint with J. H. Lee, A. Peter, T. Porzio, R. Sen and E. Tugume)
23 February 2026
Presenter: Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Labor Unions and Social Insurance" (joint with N. Aizawa and K. Komatsu)
02 March 2026
Presenter: Francis J. DiTraglia, University of Oxford
Title: "Bayesian Double Machine Learning for Causal Inference" (joint with L. Liu)
09 March 2026 - Joint Gender Talks/Applied Micro Seminar
Presenter: Michèle Tertilt, University of Mannheim
Title: "Private Information in the Family" (joint with S. and M. Doepke)
30 March 2026
Presenter: Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Title:

Term 3

13 April 2026
Presenter: Yagan Hazard, Collegio Carlo Alberto and UNITO (ESOMAS)
Title:
11 May 2026
Presenter: Raffaella Sadun, Harvard Business School
Title:
25 May 2026
Presenter: Tatevik Sekhposyan, Texas A&M University
Title:
01 June 2026
08 June 2026

Term 1

15 November 2024 - Extra Session from 9:30 to 10:45
Presenter: Yiru Wang (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: "Phillips Curve across Space and Time"
18 November 2024
Presenter: Laura Panza (University of Melbourne)
Title: "Nation-building and mass migration: Evidence from Mandatory Palestine)"
25 November 2024
Presenter: Pietro Biroli (Bologna University)
Title: "Talent is Everywhere, Opportunity is Not: Online Role Model Mentoring and Students’ Aspirations"
02 December 2024
Presenter: Weinstein Russell Michael (University of Illinois)
Title: "Workhorses of Opportunity”: Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility

Term 2

10 January 2025 - Extra Session from 9:15 to 10:45
Presenter: Steve Pischke (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Title: "Differences-in-differences for the 2020s"
20 January 2025
Presenter: Nicola Fontana (Trinity College Dublin)
Title: "When the Dictator is in Town"
17 February 2025
Presenter: Giacomo De Giorgi (Université de Genève)
Title: "Farming, Non-Farm Enterprises, and Migration under Incomplete Markets"
24 February 2025
Presenter: Kevin Munger (European University Institute)
Title: "Bounding Knowledge Decay From Agnostic Temporal Generalization"
17 March 2025
Presenter: Alessandra Voena (Standford University)
Title: "How Are Gender Norms Perceived?"
24 March 2025
Presenter: Toru Kitagawa (Brown University)
Title: "Policy Choice in Time Series by Empirical Welfare Maximization"

Term 3

14 April 2025 - Extra Session
Presenter: Linbo Wang (University of Toronto)
Title: "The synthetic instrument: From sparse association to sparse causation"
28 April 2025
Presenter: Albrecht Glitz (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title: "Economic Espionage and Firm Outcomes"
12 May 2025
Presenter: Michele Giannola (University of Naples Federico II)
Title: "The Effect of Center-Based Early Education on Disadvantaged Children’s Developmental Trajectories: Experimental Evidence from Colombia"
02 June 2025
Presenter: Mara Squicciarini (Università Luigi Bocconi)
Title: "Dealing with Adversity: Religiosity or Science? Evidence from Great Influenza Pandemic"

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