Departmental Seminar Past Years
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 |
