The Department of Economics and Business Economics organizes a weekly research seminar that relates to the main research areas covered in the department with distinguished external scholars from all’over the world.
These seminars are typically organized on Mondays at 12.20, in EOS 01.150. For more information, you can contact organizers Vincent Delabastita Jan Schmitz.
Academic Year 2025 - 2026
08.09.2025 Thomas Walther Utrecht Certainly! Generative AI and its Impact on Academic Writing (in Finance)
15.09.2025 David de Busonje Radboud/Leiden Less carrot more stick: promoting health behavior change with deposit contracts
29.09.2025 Eric Johnson Columbia
30.09.2025 Elke Weber Princeton
10.11.2025 Bram Wouterse
17.11.2025 Felix Kölle Cologne
24.11.2025 Luke Heath Milsom Leuven
01.12.2025 Yijun Li Erasmus
15.12.2025 Kristina Czura Groningen
Past seminars of the last academic years:
Academic year 2024 - 2025
09.09.2024 Yilong Xu Utrecht University Higher order risk preferences and
economic decisions
16.09.2024 Stefan Zeisberger Why Do People Invest Sustainably? Evidence From New Robo Advisor Clients
30.09.2024 Georgios Gerasimou Glasgow University Learning to maximize (expected) utility
14.10.2024 Noemi Peter Competitiveness (survey) measures and behavior
21.10.2024 Stefan Palan University of Graz Retail investors’ disposition effect and order choices
02.12.2024 Kim Peijnenburg Forecast Bias and Individual Investor Stock Trading
03.02.2025 Catherine Guirkinger UNamur Height, parental investments and marriage payments in sub-Saharan Africa
17.02.2025 Maanik Nath Utrecht Drivers of Agricultural Growth in British India
06.03.2025 Elena Asparouhova University of Utah The Role of Financial Markets in Mitigating Credit Market Bubbles
17.03.2025 Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi Mannheim The Importance of Signaling for Women’s Careers
24.03.2025 Menusch Khadjavi Social Capital and Social Credit Scores: Experimental Evidence from China
31.03.2025 Rob Bauer Sustainability Preferences: The Role of Beliefs
07.04.2025 Aldo Lucia Ohio State Uni When Are Decisions Improvable? An Evaluation of Diagnostic Methods
28.04.2025 Jan-Egbert Sturm ETH Zurich Structural reforms and the income share of labour: Opposing effects of financial sector and real economy reforms
12.05.2025 Maarten Bosker Erasmus Cultivating coca: the (un)importance of the price of legal alternatives
19.05.2025 Marco Castillo
Ragan Petrie Texas A&M Welfare analysis with nonlinear budget sets and evidence from a large charitable fundraising experiment
Academic year 2023 - 2024
08 .02.2024 Thomas Langer Münster University Is the virtual crowd the wiser crowd?
19.02.2024 Marike Knoef Tilburg University The influence of municipal employment services on employment and health: an instrumental variable approach
04.03.2024 David Schindler Tilburg University The (Mis)Perceived Determinants of Team Success in Non-Routine Analytical Tasks
11.03.2024 Nicolas Jacquemet Paris Sorbonne Discrete Choice under Oaths
25.03.2024 Ankush Asri Radboud University Affirmative Action: Within-group Inequality in Competitive Environments
15.04.2024 Leonid Polishchuk Uppsala University
06.05.2024 Manuela Fritz University of Groningen Too hot to be happy? Mental health effects of the 2007 & 2015 Indian heat waves
11.09.2023 Eva Matthaei
21.09.2023 Stefan Trautmann Heidelberg University Higher order risk preferences and economic decisions
25.09.2023 Damiano Silipo University of Calabria Managerial beliefs, banking behavior and bank failures
09.10.2023 Saskia ter Ellen International Monetary Fund Inflation (in)attention, media, and central bank trust
16.10.2023 Gerrit Köchling TU Dortmund Social Proximity and Public Information Acquisition
13.11.2023 Max van Lent Leiden University The Impact of Retirement on Income and Spending: Causal Evidence from Transaction Data
20.11.2023 Jan Stoop Erasmus University Rotterdam Disparities in psychological traits and income: Race, ethnicity and gender in the US
04.12.2023 Remco Zwinkels VU Amsterdam Risk, return, and sentiment in a virtual asset market
Academic year 2022 - 2023
26.09.2022 Stephan Siegel University of Washington Political Divide and the Composition of Households’ Equity Portfolios
03.10.2022 Martijn van den Assem VU Amsterdam High-Stakes Failures of Backward Induction: Evidence from "The Price Is Right"
10.10.2022 Christopher Wickert VU Amsterdam Impactful research - Why we need it, what it is and how to do it
13.10.2022 Pavlo Blavatskyy Montpellier Business School Additive Choice Model
17.10.2022 Jeremy Bentley University of Massachusetts Narrative Reporting in a Team Environment
07.11.2022 Rutger Schilpzand Radboud Universiteit The Effect of Innovation Capacity on the Relationship Between Volatility and Growth
21.11.2022 Vladimir Novak Bocconi University Valuing Hope: A Model of Aspirations
28.11.2022 Jan Fidrmuc Université de Lille Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories, and Why?
05.12.2022 Peiran Jiao Maastricht University Tastes and Beliefs
12.12.2022 Philip Schnorpfeil Goethe University Frankfurt Inflation, Net Nominal Positions, and Consumption
06.03.2023 Christoph Wegener Leuphana University Lüneburg Riding the bubble or hedging the burst?
13.03.2023 Sébastien Duchene Montpellier Business School Risk-return trade-offs in the context of environmental impact: a lab-in-the-field experiment with finance professionals
20.03.2023 Steve Heinke University of Basel The Foundations of Successful Financial Decision Making
24.04.2023 Krisztina Kis-Katos Goettingen University Cash Transfers and Violent Crime in Indonesia
08.05.2023 Koen Schoors Ghent University Polarisation and social media: The Effect of Independent Online Media in an Autocracy
15.05.2023 Eric Danan CY Cergy Paris University Partial utilitarianism
05.06.2023 Anne Boring Improving Student Evaluations of Teaching
19.06.2023 Subhasish Dey University of Warwick Educated Leaders through Legislation but at What Cost?
26.06.2023 Hannah Schildberg-Hoerisch Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf Who is in favor of affirmative action?
03.07.2023 Andreas Ortmann UNSW Business School, UNSW Can a Single Model Account for Both Risky Choices and Inter-Temporal Choices?
Academic year 2021 - 2022
13.09.2021 Pieter Medendorp RU, Donders Institute Computational models of Brain and Behavior
27.09.2021 Leander Heldring Northwestern University Calvinist Culture and Dutch Development
11.10.2021 Imtiaz Sifat Monash University Malaysia Marital Status and CEO Dismissal
18.10.2021 Peter Schwardmann Carnegie Mellon University Learning about one’s self
15.11.2021 Neil Stewart Warwick Business School Three Topics on Behavioral Investing
20.12.2021 Nona Karalashvili World Bank Effectiveness of Government Support for the Private Sector
25.04.2022 John Rust University of Maryland Equilibrium Trade in Automobiles
09.05.2022 Katrin Gödker Maastricht University Disposed to be overconfident
16.05.2022 Andis Sofianos Heidelberg University Intelligence Disclosure and Cooperation in Repeated Interactions
27.06.2022 Yasemine Karaibrahimoglu Groningen University The interplay between IFRS 7 disclosures and the expanded auditor’s report: Syndicated loan contracting evidence