Departmental Seminar Past Years
- 2023-2024 Fall Semester
- 2023-2024 Spring Semester
- 2022-2023 Fall Semester
- 2022-2023 Spring Semester
- 2021-2022 Fall Semester
- 2021-2022 Spring Semester
- 2020-2021 Fall Semester
- 2020-2021 Spring Semester
- 2019-2020 Fall Semester
- 2019-2020 Spring Semester
- 2018-2019 Fall Semester
- 2018-2019 Spring Semester
2023-2024 Fall Semester
2023-2024 Spring Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 05-05-2024 | Karine van der Beek, BGU | Land Reform and Access to Credit: the response of bankruptcies to land enclosures in England 1750-1830 |
| 19-05-2024 | David Genesove, HUJI | "Haggle or Hammer? Dual-Mechanism Housing Search" |
| 26-05-2024 | Danny Ben-Shahar, TAU | "The Value of Status: Exploring the Price of Relative Positioning" |
| 09-06-2024 | Jacob Oded, TAU | "Hero or Villain? Insider Selling through Stock Repurchase Programs" |
| 13-06-2024 | Marco Tabellini, Harvard Univesity | "Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates" |
| 16-06-2024 | Oded Galor, Brown University | "Diverse Mindset" |
| 18-06-2024 | Alan D. Miller, Western University | "Political Speech and the Corporation" |
| 23-06-2024 | Analia Schlosser, TAU | "Short- and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel" |
| 30-06-2024 | Gregory Clark, Southern Denmark University | “Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021” |
| 04-07-2024 | Idan Hodor, Monash University | “Equity or Future Equity: A Moral Hazard Theory.” |
| 09-07-2024 | David Slusky, University of Kansas | "Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers" |
2022-2023 Fall Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 02-11-2022 | Russell Cooper, EUI | Determining Gender Differences in Education and Labor Market Outcome |
| 13-11-2022 | Victor Saldarriaga, PSE | The Distributional Dynamics of Wages over the Business Cycle |
| 20-11-2022 | Ram Fishman, TAU (Public Policy) | “Closing the global agricultural productivity gap: Does training in Israel affect the cultivation of smallholder farmers from Nepal?”. |
| 27-11-2022 | Roni Hirsch, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute | Waiting for Profit: Abstinence and Expectation in the Nineteenth Century |
| 04-12-2022 | Ada Gonzalez-Torres, BGU (Job Talk) | “Monitoring Harassment in Organizations”, joint with Laura Boudreau, Sylvain Chassang and Rachel Heath. |
| 11-12-2022 | Hosny Zoabi, NES (Job Talk) | The Microfinance Disappointment: An Explanation based on Risk Aversion (with Alexey Khazanov, Omer Moav, Zvika Neeman) |
| 14-12-2022 | Nimrod Leher, Wisconsin (Job Talk) | Trade Policy Uncertainty and Import Prices |
| 18-12-2022 | Rachel Ruslana Palatnik, Emek Yezreel (Job Talk) | "Rigorous Economic Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation" |
| 25-12-2022 | Assaf Kott, Brown (Job Talk) | "Income Shocks, School Choice, and Long-Term Outcomes: Lessons from Child Allowances in Israel" |
| 01-01-2023 | Tzachi Raz, HUJI | "Soil Heterogeneity and the Formation of Close-knit Communities" |
| 08-01-2023 | Aluma Dembo, IDC | "Ever Since Allais" |
| 12-01-2023 | Maor Milgrom, Brown (Job Talk) | "The Costs of Job Displacement and the Demand for Industry-Specific Human Capital" |
| 15-01-2023 | Naomi Gershoni, BGU | Does Public School Choice Promote Student Diversity? |
| 22-01-2023 | Dimitrios Xefteris, University of Cyprus | "Weighting Votes" |
2022-2023 Spring Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 05-03-2023 | Dotan Persitz, TAU | "Information Aggregation on Networks: an Experimental Study" joint with Marina Agranov (Caltech) and Ben Gillen (Claremont McKenna College) |
| 12-03-2023 | Moran Koren, BGU | The Gatekeeper's Effect: The Implications of Pre-Screening, Self-selection, and Bias on Hiring Processes. |
| 19-03-2023 | Noa de la Vega, TAU | The Differential Effect of Childbirth on Men’s and Women’s Careers |
| 26-03-2023 | Georgia Michailidou, NYUAD | "The Time to Lie" |
| 02-04-2023 | Ran Weksler, Haifa | "Certification Markets with Signaling Considerations" (with Boaz Zik). |
| 16-04-2023 | Abigail Hurwitz, HUJI | "Private information and risk preferences in the annuity market: Evidence from Sweden" (Johannes Hagen, Michal Hodor, and Abigail Hurwitz) |
| 30-04-2023 | Eran Hofmann, HUJI | "Moving to fluidity: regional growth and labor market churn" (with Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider) |
| 07-05-2023 | Nir Yoseph, TAU | How to Promote Trade in Durable Goods Markets? |
| 10-05-2023 | Denis Kojevnikov, Tilburg | Econometric Inference on a Large Bayesian Game with Heterogeneous Beliefs (with Kyungchul Song) |
| 14-05-2023 | Rish Singhania, Exeter | TBA |
| 21-05-2023 | Erin Krupka, Michigan | Title: Determinants of Norm Compliance: Moral Similarity and Group Identification (with A. Schneeberger) |
| 28-05-2023 | Yoram Halevy, HUJI | "Difficult Decisions" with David Walker-Jones and Lanny Zrill. |
| 11-06-2023 | Charles Nathanson, Northwestern | Real Effects of Rollover Risk : Evidence from Hotels in Crisis (Michael Reher and Anthony A. DeFusco) |
| 15-06-2023 | Ronen Gradwohl, Ariel University | Social Media and Democracy |
| 18-06-2023 | Asaf Zussman, HUJI | Responding to Anticipated Bias: Evidence from Football in Israel (with Noam Binstock) |
2021-2022 Fall Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 10-10-2021 | Shiran Rachmilevitch (Haifa) | "Auctions with multi-member bidders" |
| 24-10-2021 | Hugo Jales (Syracuse) | "Minimum wage and Informality in a Roy Bargaining Economy: Evidence from a Bunching Estimator" (with Zhengfei Yu). |
| 04-11-2021 | Michel Strawczynski (HUJI) | Shall a Means-Tested Basic Income Substitute Traditional Welfare? (With Oren Tirosh) |
| 07-11-2021 | Dan Zeltzer (TAU) | The Impact of Increased Access to Telemedicine (with Liran Einav, Joseph Rashba, and Ran Balicer) |
| 14-11-2021 | Alon Eizenberg (HUJI) | "Estimating the Potential Effect of Multi-Market Contact on the Intensity of Competition" (with Dalia Shilian and Daniel D. Blanga). |
| 21-11-2021 | Ella Segev (BGU) | Equity Crowdfunding |
| 25-11-2021 | Boaz Abramson (Stanford) (Job Talk) | The Welfare Effects of Evictions and Homelessness Policies |
| 12-12-2021 | Yevgeny Tsodikovich (AMSE) (Job Talk) | "Repeated Games with Switching Costs: Stationary vs History-Independent Strategies" (With Xavier Venel and Anna Zseleva) |
| 16-12-2021 | Eran Politzer (Harvard) (Job Talk) | A Change of Plans - The Impact of Involuntary Switching in Health Insurance |
| 19-12-2021 | Boaz Zik (University of Bonn) (Job Talk) | Test-taking Skills and Strategic Communication (with Ran Weksler) |
| 26-12-2021 | Yonatan Berman (Kings College London) (Job Talk) | The Long Run Evolution of Absolute Intergenerational Mobility |
| 02-01-2022 | Yotam Margalit (Tel Aviv University) | "The Political Consequences of Green Policies: Evidence from Italy" |
| 06-01-2022 | Alexey Khazanov (Boston college) | “Sovereign Default Risk and Currency Returns”. |
2021-2022 Spring Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 06-03-2022 | Sayantan Ghosal (Glasgow) | "P-stable expectations coordination large games and markets" (with Gabriel Desgranges) |
| 13-03-2022 | Itai Ater (Tel Aviv) | "Price Saliency and Fairness: Evidence from Regulatory Shaming" |
| 20-03-2022 | Iñaki Rodriguez Longarela (Stockholm) | "Online vs. Classroom: Course engagement and attention with large groups of students" |
| 27-03-2022 | Eran Yashiv (TAU) | "When to Lock, Not Whom: Managing Epidemics Using Time-Based Restrictions.” with Yinon BarOn, Tanya Baron And Ofer Cornfeld |
| 03-04-2022 | Ilan Noy (Victoria University of Wellington) | Social Inequalities in Climate-Change Attributed Impacts of Hurricane Harvey |
| 07-04-2022 | Bruno Caprettini - University of Zurich | "Going viral: Protests and Polarization in 1932 Hamburg." |
| 10-04-2022 | Hosny Zoabi (New Economic School) | Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Households? (with Libertad Gonzalez) |
| 24-04-2022 | Elisa Cavatorta (KCL) |
Revealing the space for peace agreements among parties in conflict |
| 01-05-2022 | Beata Itin-Shwartz (HUJI) | “Do marketing channel reforms increase competition? Evidence from Indian produce markets” |
| 08-05-2022 | Itay Saporta Eksten (TAU) | "Universal Basic Income: Inspecting the Mechanisms" |
| 15-05-2022 | Ittay Nissan (HUJI) | "Risk-attitudes when choosing for others" |
| 22-05-2022 | Denis Kojevnikov (Tilburg) | Econometric Inference on a Large Bayesian Game with Heterogeneous Beliefs (with Kyungchul Song) |
| 29-05-2022 | S. Abraham Ravid (Yeshiva University) | Innovation under Ambiguity and Risk (with Gabriela Coiculescu and Yehuda Izhaki |
2020-2021 Fall Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 24-09-2020 | Sarit Weisburd, Tel Aviv University | "Police Response Time and Injury Outcomes" (paper) |
| 06-10-2020 | Niki Nikiforakis, NYU Abu Dhabi | "Predicting social tipping and norm change in controlled experiments" (with James Andreoni and Simon Siegenthaler) |
| 25-10-2020 | Beni Lauterbach, Bar Ilan University | "The Life-Cycle of Dual Class Firm Valuation" (paper) Zoom Link (for password, contact us) |
| 03-11-2020 | Amnon Maltz, University of Haifa | "A Behavioral Approach to Increasing Influenza Vaccination Uptake Rates” (joint with Adi Sarid). Haifa-NYU Abu Dhabi Joint Seminar Zoom Link |
| 08-11-2020 | Michael Amior, Hebrew University | "Monopsony and the Wage Effects of Migration" (with Alan Manning) (paper) |
| 15-11-2020 | David Weiss, Tel Aviv University | "Women's Liberation, Household Revolution" Zoom Link |
| 22-11-2020 | Ilan Nehama, Bar Ilan University | "Almost Quasi-Linear Utilities in Disguise: An Extension of Roberts' Theorem." |
| 29-11-2020 | Daniel Fershtman, Tel Aviv University | "Sequential Learning with Endogenous Considerations Sets". Zoom Link |
| 03-12-2020 | Ittai Shacham, Tilburg University | "Advertising Quantity Regulation and Content Quality Distortion" (paper) (Job Talk) Zoom Link |
| 06-12-2020 | Shmuel San, NYU | "Who Works Where and Why? Parental Networks and the Labor Market" (Job Talk) (paper) Zoom Link |
| 17-12-2020 | Ariel Zucker, UC Berkeley | "Price Discrimination in Behavior Change Contracts: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment" (paper) (Job Talk). Time: 18:15-19:30. Zoom link |
| 20-12-2020 | Elior Cohen, UCLA | "Housing the Homeless: The Effect of Housing Assistance on Recidivism to Homelessness, Economic, and Social Outcomes". (paper) (Job Talk). Time: 9:15-10:30. |
| 24-12-2020 | Tom Zohar, Stanford | "Out of Labor and Into the Labor Force? The Role of Abortion Access, Social Stigma, and Financial Constraints." (paper) (Job Talk). Time: 9:15-10:30. |
| 27-12-2020 | Liang Diao, SFU | "Collective Defense by Common Property Arrangements: the Rise and Fall of the Kibbutz" (paper) (Job Talk) |
| 03-01-2021 | Yael Elster, TAU (Coller School of Management) | "Real-estate Investors, House Prices and Rents: Evidence from Capital-gains Tax Changes" (paper) (Job Talk) |
| 10-01-2021 | Laura Gati, Boston College | "Monetary Policy & Anchored Expectations - An Endogenous Gain Learning Model." (paper) (Job Talk) |
| 14-01-2021 | Wenting Song, University of Michigan | "Firm Inattention and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy: A Text-Based Approach" (Job Talk) (paper) |
| 17-01-2021 | Michele Fornino, MIT | Automation and the Future of Work: Assessing the Role of Labor Flexibility (joint with Andrea Manera) (Job Talk) (paper) |
| 21-01-2021 | Michal Hodor, University of Pennsylvania | "Gig Workers and Performance Pay: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis of an On-Demand Industry" (Job Talk) (paper) |
2020-2021 Spring Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 07-03-2021 | Oren Danieli, Tel Aviv University | "Revisiting U.S. Wage Inequality at the Bottom 50%" (paper) |
| 14-03-2021 | Ori Heffetz, HUJI | Behavior-Predictive Beliefs are Inconsistent with Information-Based |
| 21-03-2021 | Yonatan Berman, CUNY | Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950—2020 (with Branko Milanovic) |
| 04-04-2021 | Jiabin Wu, University of Oregon | “Decentralized Matching Market with Transfers: Experimental and Noncooperative Analyses" |
| 29-04-2021 | Nathan Canen, University of Houston | Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization: 1927-2018 (with Chad Kendall and Francesco Trebbi) |
| 02-05-2021 | Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago | Macroeconomic Dynamics and Reallocation in an Epidemic: Evaluating the 'Swedish" Solution, with Dirk Krueger (U Penn) and Taojun Xie (NUS). |
| 09-05-2021 | Heng Chen, University of Hong Kong | Do Media Bow to Foreign Economic Powers? Evidence from News Websites Crackdown |
| 13-05-2021 | Ben Schreiber, Bank of Israel | "The Effect of Print Media Tone on Overnight and Intraday Stock Returns" (with Yossi Saadon) |
| 23-05-2021 | Edoardo Grillo, Collegio Carlo Alberto | "Electoral Campaigns as Dynamic Contests" joint with A. Acharya, T. Sugaya and E. Turkel (paper) |
| 03-06-2021 | Yaniv Yedid-Levi, IDC Herzilya | "The Macroeconomics of Automation: Data, Theory, and Policy Analysis" (with Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten, and Henry Siu) (paper) |
| 06-06-2021 | Simone Moran - BGU | Negotiating All or Part of the Seller’s Endowment (with Adiel Moyal (UCD), Amos Schurr (BGU), Ilana Ritov (HUJI)) |
| 13-06-2021 | Yuval Heller - Bar Ilan University | Sampling Dynamics and Stable Mixing in Hawk-Dove Games Joint with Srinivas Arigapudi & Amnon Schreiber |
2019-2020 Fall Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 03-11-2019 | Joseph Zeira, the Hebrew University | Automation and Unemployment: Help is on the Way |
| 10-11-2019 | David Weil, Brown University | Are Poor Countries Relatively Overpopulated and Why? |
| 17-11-2019 | Hannah Trachtman, Yale University | Intervention Externalities due to Limited Attention (job talk) |
| 21-11-2019 | Oren Rigbi, Israel Competition Authority and Ben Gurion University | The Effects of Vendor Allowance Contracts – Big Data Evidence from the Israeli Food Retail Market |
| 24-11-2019 | Chaim Fershtman, Tel Aviv University | A Computational Framework for Analyzing Dynamic Procurement Auctions: The Market Impact of Information Sharing |
| 01-12-2019 | Viacheslav Savitskiy, Brown University | Environmental Roots of Labor-Leisure Preference |
| 05-12-2019 | Ro'ee Levy, Yale University | Social Media, News Consumption and Polarization: Evidence from a Field Experiment (job talk) |
| 08-12-2019 | Nir Hak, Harvard University | Estimation of Learning, Adoption and Diffusion over a Network (job talk) |
| 12-12-2019 | Joel Mokyr, Northwestern University | The Holy Land of Industrialism: Rethinking the Industrial Revolution. Paper 1 and 2 |
| 15-12-2019 | Itzchak Tzachi Raz, Harvard University | There’s No Such Thing As Free Land: The Homestead Act and Economic Development (job talk) |
| 22-12-2019 | Avner Strulov-Shlain, University of Chicago | More than a Penny's Worth: Left-Digit Bias and Firm Pricing |
| 26-12-2019 | Aluma Dembo, University of Oxford | Rationality and Error in Individual Choice Data: A Revealed Preferences Approach (job talk) |
| 05-01-2020 | Yannay Shanan, Tel Aviv University | The intergenerational effects of welfare participation (job talk) |
| 12-01-2020 | Abigail Hurwitz, University of Pennsylvania | Is One Plus One Always Two? Insuring Longevity Risk While Having Multiple Savings Accounts (job talk) |
| 19-01-2020 | Amir Goren, UC Irvine | Financial Intermediation and the Lucas Puzzle (job talk) |
| 23-01-2020 | Yefim Roth, University of Haifa | Decisions from Valuations of Unknown Payoff Distributions. Paper 1 Paper 2 |
2019-2020 Spring Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 08-03-2020 | Eyal Ert, the Hebrew University | CANCELLED |
| 15-03-2020 | Yuval Heller, Bar-Ilan University | CANCELLED |
| 19-03-2020 | Arik Roginsky, University of Chicago | CANCELLED |
| 22-03-2020 | Julio Davila, CORE Paris 1 | CANCELLED |
| 29-03-2020 | Daniel Fershtman, Tel Aviv University | CANCELLED |
| 19-04-2020 | Oren Danieli, Tel Aviv University | CANCELLED |
| 26-04-2020 | Ori Heffetz, the Hebrew University | CANCELLED |
| 03-05-2020 | Yotam Margalit, Tel Aviv University | CANCELLED |
| 10-05-2020 | Uri Herz, University of Haifa | TBA |
| 17-05-2020 | Hannah Trachtman, Yale University | TBA |
| 24-05-2020 | TBA | TBA |
| 31-05-2020 | Ben Schreiber, Bank of Israel | TBA |
| 07-06-2020 | Hillel Rapoport, Paris School of Economics | TBA |
| 14-06-2020 | TBA | TBA |
| 18-06-2020 | Mariko Klasing, University of Groningen | TBA |
| 21-06-2020 | Petros Milionis, University of Groningen | TBA |
2018-2019 Fall Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| October 25, 2018 | Sergiu Hart, the Hebrew University | Forecasting, Calibration, and Dynamics |
| November 1, 2018 | Henry Schneider, Queen's University | Promoting Best Practices in a Multitask Workplace: Experimental Evidence on Checklists |
| November 8, 2018 | Moses Shayo, the Hebrew University | How Do Markets Affect Values and Behavior? Emerging Patterns from Three Studies |
| November 15, 2018 | Ran Spiegler, Tel Aviv University | A Model of Competing Narratives |
| November 22, 2018 | Ilan Cooper, BI Norwegian Business School | What drives Q and investment fluctuations? |
| November 29, 2018 | Moshe Kim, University of Haifa | Nonseparability without Monotonicity: The Couterfactual Distribution M-Estimator for Causal Inference |
| December 6, 2018 | Nathan Goldstein, Bar Ilan University | What has happened to inflation persistence? A new expectations-based measure |
| December 13, 2018 | Ronen Gradwohl, Northwestern University | Decentralized Advice |
| December 16, 2018 | Mikhail Freer, l'Université libre de Bruxelles | Revealed Social Preferences |
| December 20, 2018 | Ity Shurtz, the Hebrew University | Physician Workload and Treatment Choice: the Case of Primary Care |
| December 23, 2019 | Ori Katz, Brown University | Railroads, Economic Development, and the Demographic Transition in the United States |
| December 27, 2018 | Ran Weksler, the Hebrew University | The Market for Information Intermediaries and Its Effects |
| December 30, 2018 | Jan-Philipp Dueber, University of Kent | Endogenous Time-Varying Volatility and Emerging Market Business Cycles |
| January 3, 2019 | Revital Bar, the Hebrew University | Ethnic Discrimination in the Housing Market: Evidence from Israel |
| January 6, 2019 | Eve Colson-Sihra, the Hebrew University | The Conspicuous Consumption of the Poor: Forgoing Calories for Aspirational Goods |
| January 10, 2019 | Navid Sabet, LMU Munich | The Political Economy of Immigrant Legalisation: Evidence from the 1986 IRCA |
2018-2019 Spring Semester
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| February 28, 2019 | Limor Golan, Washington University in St. Louis | What Explains the Racial Gaps in Task Assignment and Pay Over the Life-Cycle? |
| March 7, 2019 | George Gayle, Washington University in St. Louis | What Accounts for the Racial Gap in Time Allocation and Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital? |
| March 10, 2019 | Andrea Ichino, European University Institute | Economic Incentives, Home Production and Gender Identity Norms |
| March 14, 2019 | Dominik Karos, Maastricht University | Full Farsighted Rationality |
| March 17, 2019 | Eli Cook, University of Haifa | The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life |
| March 28, 2019 | Ella Segev, Ben Gurion University | Social learning and the design of new experience goods |
| March 31, 2019 | Pavel Jelnov, University of Hannover | When Should the Sun Shine? The Effect of Time Institutions on Health |
| April 4, 2019 | Matan Tsur, University of Vienna | Information Design in Competitive Insurance Markets |
| April 11, 2019 | Elyashiv Wiedman, the Hebrew University | How Does Media Coverage Affect Corporate Disclosure? |
| May 2, 2019 | Ro'i Zultan, Ben Gurion University | Manipulation in prediction markets |
| May 16, 2019 | Abigail Adams, University of Oxford | What Do Consumers Consider Before They Choose? Identification from Asymmetric Demand Responses |
| May 23, 2019 | Dino Levy, Tel Aviv University | The neural computation of inconsistent choice behavior |
| May 30, 2019 | Nikita Roketskiy, UCL | Consumer Privacy and Serial Monopoly |
| June 6, 2019 | Dan Ben-Moshe, the Hebrew University | Identification of Linear Regressions with Errors in all Variables |
| June 10, 2019 | Michael Kaganovich, Indiana University Bloomington | Gender Differences in Persistence in a Field of Study |
