Events at CERGE-EI: 2018

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January 

Thursday, 11 January, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé (Columbia U.) “Multiple Equilibria in Open Economy Models with Collateral Constraints: Overborrowing Revisited”

Monday, 22 January, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Denni Tommasi, Ph.D. (Job Talk) “Control of Resources and Demand for Food”

Tuesday, 23 January, 2018 | 15:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Selma Walther, Ph.D. (Job Talk) “Fertility Responses to Reductions in Mortality: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from 20th Century America”

Monday, 29 January, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Jeffrey Penney, Ph.D. (Job Talk) “An Instructor Like Me: Uncovering the Channels of Racial Interactions”

February 

Friday, 2 February, 2018 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Ala Avoyan (Job Talk) “Communication In Global Games: Theory and Experiment”

Tuesday, 13 February, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Building Shiny Apps

Thursday, 15 February, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

Friday, 16 February, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Mathias Iwanowsky (Job Talk) “Property Rights, Resources and Wealth: Evidence from a land reform in the United States”

Friday, 23 February, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Christian Ochsner (Job Talk) “Activated history – The case of the Turkish sieges of Vienna”

Monday, 26 February, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Vasily Korovkin (Job Talk) “Detecting Auctioneer Corruption: Evidence from Russian Procurement Auctions”

Wednesday, 28 February, 2018 | 14:30 | Defense - PhD

Liyousew Gebremedhin Borga: "The Role of Early Intervention on Childhood Skill Formation"

Wednesday, 28 February, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Workshop: How to Design a Successful Economic Experiment

March 

Thursday, 1 March, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Mikhail Poyker (Job Talk) “Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System”

Thursday, 1 March, 2018 | 17:00 | Special Event

Webinar: Studying PhD in Economics at CERGE-EI

Friday, 2 March, 2018 | 13:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Eric Bonsang, Ph.D. (U. Paris Dauphine) “Gender Norms and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life”

Friday, 2 March, 2018 | 13:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Giacomo Pasini, Ph.D. (Ca' Foscari U. of Venice) “Psychosocial Stress and Leave Taking at Child Birth”

Friday, 2 March, 2018 | 14:00 | Public Lecture

José-Víctor Ríos-Rull, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) "Banking Dynamics and Capital Regulation"

Monday, 5 March, 2018 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Andreas Steinhauer, Ph.D. (U. of Edinburgh) “Risk-sharing and family labor supply”

Tuesday, 6 March, 2018 | 16:00 | Special Event

Webinar: Studying MA in Applied Economics at CERGE-EI

Monday, 12 March, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Erik Hornung (U. of Cologne) “Bismarck’s Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline”

Thursday, 15 March, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Sergi Basco, Ph.D. (UAB, Spain) “Housing Bubbles and Misallocation: Evidence from Spain”

Thursday, 15 March, 2018 | 18:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Mastering Advanced Excel Functions

Monday, 19 March, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) “Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets”

Monday, 19 March, 2018 | 16:00 | Special Event

EEAG Report on the European Economy: What Now, With Whom, Where To – The Future of the EU

Tuesday, 20 March, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Wednesday, 21 March, 2018 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Workshop: Efficient Data Handling in R

Thursday, 22 March, 2018 | 16:00 | Public Lecture

IDEA seminar: Access to confidential micro data for research and policy analysis

Friday, 23 March, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

ADEMU workshop: Risk Sharing and Macroeconomic Interdependencies

Monday, 26 March, 2018 | 15:30 | Special Event

Webinar: Studying PhD in Economics at CERGE-EI

Wednesday, 28 March, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Workshop: IFRS 9 - How Regulation Can Drive Quantitative Model Testing

Thursday, 29 March, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Axelle Ferriere, Ph.D. (EUI, Italy) “The Heterogeneous Effects of Government Spending: It’s All About Taxes.”

April 

Wednesday, 4 April, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Life Insurance Mathematics and Financial Analysis in Practice

Thursday, 5 April, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Omar Rachedi, Ph.D. (Banco de España) “The Young, the Old, and the Government: Demographics and Fiscal Multipliers”

Thursday, 12 April, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Davide Debortoli, Ph.D. (UPF, Spain) “Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: Insights from TANK Models”

Friday, 13 April, 2018 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Dejan Kovač: "Essays on Conflicts and Human Capital Accumulation"

Monday, 23 April, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Dan Black (Harris, U. of Chicago) “Simple Tests for Selection: Learning More from Instrumental Variables”

Tuesday, 24 April, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Workshop: Programming a NAO Robot with Python

Wednesday, 25 April, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Georgy Egorov, Ph.D. (Kellogg, Northwestern U.) “Strategic Communication with Minimal Verification”

Thursday, 26 April, 2018 | 14:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. Stanley Zin (New York University) "Monetary Policy and Financial Markets"

Thursday, 26 April, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Application of Statistical Methods in Finance using R

Friday, 27 April, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Larbi Alaoui, Ph.D. (UPF Barcelona) “Know When to Fold 'Em: The Grit Factor”

Friday, 27 April, 2018 | 16:00 | Public Lecture

IDEA seminar: Hidden treasure for policy research: Administrative micro data

May 

Thursday, 3 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Byeongju Jeong, Ph.D. (CERGE-EI) “Talent Rewards, Talent Uncertainty, and Career Tracks”

Friday, 4 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Owen Ozier, Ph.D. (The World Bank) “Gendered Language”

Wednesday, 9 May, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Data Management using Stata

Thursday, 10 May, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

The Review of Economic Studies Tour 2018

Friday, 11 May, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

The Review of Economic Studies Tour 2018

Friday, 11 May, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

The Review of Economic Studies Tour 2018

Monday, 14 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Benjamin Elsner, Ph.D. (University College Dublin) “The Distributional Treatment Problem in the Estimation of Peer Effects”

Thursday, 17 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Wei Cui, Ph.D. (UCL) “Default Cycles”

Friday, 18 May, 2018 | 10:45 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Anna Sanktjohanser, Ph.D. (TSE) “Endogenous Monitoring in a Partnership Game”

Friday, 18 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Johannes Hörner (TSE) “Motivational Ratings”

Saturday, 19 May, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

Open House 2018

Sunday, 20 May, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

Open House 2018

Monday, 21 May, 2018 | 09:00 | Special Event

Open Week of the MA in Applied Economics Program

Thursday, 24 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Matias Cortes, Ph.D. (York U., Canada) “The “End of Men” and Rise of Women in the High-Skilled Labor Market”

Friday, 25 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Daniel Garrett, Ph.D. (TSE) “Robust Predictions in Dynamic Screening”

Monday, 28 May, 2018 | 10:45 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Jingjing Zhang, Ph.D. (University of Technology, Sydney) “The Role of Communication in Managing Multi-level Conflicts”

Monday, 28 May, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Arthur Robson (SFU, Canada) “Evolved Attitudes to Idiosyncratic and Aggregate Risk in Age-Structured Populations”

June 

Friday, 1 June, 2018 | 09:00 | Special Event

New Economic Talent 2018 - Final Presentations

Friday, 1 June, 2018 | 11:00 | Special Event

MA and PhD Graduation Ceremony

Saturday, 2 June, 2018 | 18:30 | Special Event

Graduation Gala 2018

Friday, 15 June, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi U.) “Strategic Sample Selection”

Tuesday, 19 June, 2018 | 13:30 | Special Event

International Conference: 1918 – 2018 What happened to Wilsonian Idealism?

Friday, 22 June, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Konrad Mierendorff, Ph.D. (UCL) “Optimal Dynamic Allocation of Attention”

July 

Wednesday, 11 July, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

Final Project Presentations of the MA in Applied Economics program

Tuesday, 24 July, 2018 | 19:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Optimization of Cryptocurrency Portfolio Using Python

Thursday, 26 July, 2018 | 11:00 | Special Event

MA in Applied Economics Graduation Ceremony 2018

August 

Monday, 20 August, 2018 | 16:30 | Special Event

Career Integration Fellows: Presentation of Research

Thursday, 30 August, 2018 | 08:30 | Special Event

Conference "Finance for a Sustainable Future"

Friday, 31 August, 2018 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Jakub Matějů: “Three Essays on Monetary Policy”

September 

Wednesday, 5 September, 2018 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Ivan Sutóris: "Essays on Macroeconomic Models with Heterogeneous Agents"

Monday, 17 September, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Ian Krajbich, Ph.D. (Ohio State U.) “Using Response Times to Infer Preferences and Beliefs”

Friday, 21 September, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Micael Castanheira (ULB, Belgium) “Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions”

Monday, 24 September, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Projects in Applied Economics for Talented Students 2018

October 

Wednesday, 3 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Juan Camilo Cárdenas (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia) “Can Competition Promote Cooperation?”

Wednesday, 3 October, 2018 | 16:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Cosmin Ilut, Ph.D. (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA) “Economic Agents as Imperfect Problem Solvers”

Thursday, 4 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Marios Karabarbounis, Ph.D. (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) “Regional Consumption Responses and the Aggregate Fiscal Multiplier”

Thursday, 4 October, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Introduction to Python

Friday, 5 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Aislinn Bohren, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon U. and U. of Pennsylvania) “The Dynamics of Discrimination: Theory and Evidence”

Monday, 8 October, 2018 | 12:30 | Public Lecture

End homelessness now: lessons learned from the U.S. and a way forward for the Czech Republic

Monday, 8 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Gabriel Ulyssea, Ph.D. (U. of Oxford) “Informality and the Economic Effects of Mass Migration: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey”

Tuesday, 9 October, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Introduction to MatLab

Thursday, 11 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Söhnke M. Bartram (Warwick Business School) “Currency Anomalies”

Thursday, 11 October, 2018 | 18:00 | Special Event

International Food Party

Friday, 12 October, 2018 | 09:00 | Special Event

Mentoring Program for Women Researchers

Friday, 12 October, 2018 | 11:00 | Defense - PhD

Radek Janhuba: “Essays on Sports Economics”

Monday, 15 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Christian Dustmann (UCL) “Lowering Welfare Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families”

Tuesday, 16 October, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Presentation Skills

Friday, 19 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary U. of London) “Runoff Elections in the Laboratory”

Monday, 22 October, 2018 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Ludmila Matysková: “Essays on Information Economics”

Monday, 22 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Simon Weber, Ph.D. (KU Leuven) “Collective Models and the Marriage Market”

Thursday, 25 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Petr Sedláček, Ph.D. (U. of Oxford) “The Nature of Firm Growth”

Thursday, 25 October, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

How to Design a Successful Economic Experiment

Monday, 29 October, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

SHARE-CZ+ seminar, Prof. Andrea Weber (CEU) “Job Displacement, Family Dynamics, and Spousal Labor Supply”

Wednesday, 31 October, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Workshop: Credit Risk Modeling

November 

Thursday, 1 November, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Serdar Ozkan, Ph.D. (U. of Toronto) “Sources of Earnings Growth Heterogeneity”

Monday, 5 November, 2018 | 09:00 | Special Event

Open Week at CERGE-EI

Monday, 5 November, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

SHARE-CZ+ seminar, Dario Pozzoli, Ph.D. (Copenhagen Business School) “Coordination of Hours within the Firm”

Tuesday, 6 November, 2018 | 11:00 | Special Event

Tour of the Schebek Palace - Week of Science and Technology 2018

Tuesday, 6 November, 2018 | 13:00 | Special Event

Jan Švejnar: Transformation of the Czech Economy - Week of Science and Technology 2018

Tuesday, 6 November, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Introduction to Data Analytics

Thursday, 8 November, 2018 | 18:00 | Special Event

Tour of the Schebek Palace - Week of Science and Technology 2018

Friday, 9 November, 2018 | 09:00 | Special Event

Mentoring Program for Women Researchers

Monday, 12 November, 2018 | 13:00 | Public Lecture

Harry Patrinos: "The Future of Automation and Implications for Educational Systems"

Thursday, 15 November, 2018 | 14:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Ludo Visschers (U. of Edinburgh) “Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle”

Thursday, 15 November, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Social Preferences and How to Measure Them Using Economic Experiments

Friday, 16 November, 2018 | 10:00 | Special Event

Honorary Medal Ceremony for Professor Gérard Roland

Tuesday, 20 November, 2018 | 18:00 | Special Event

100 Years of U.S.-Czech Economic Relations: Speech by the U.S. Ambassador Stephen King

Monday, 26 November, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

SHARE-CZ+ seminar, Ján Palguta, Ph.D. (University Carlos III de Madrid) “Are Better Paid Politicians More Likely to Be Re-elected? Evidence from Two Discontinuity Designs”

Thursday, 29 November, 2018 | 14:00 | Special Event

Ira W. Lieberman: "In Good Times Prepare for Crisis: Lessons from the Great Depression through the Great Recession"

Thursday, 29 November, 2018 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

SQL Fundamentals

Friday, 30 November, 2018 | 09:00 | Special Event

Mentoring Program for Women Researchers

Friday, 30 November, 2018 | 14:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Sandro Shelegia, Ph.D. (UPF) “All-Pay Contests with Costly Participation and Default Allocations”

December 

Monday, 3 December, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Mitsuru Igami, Ph.D. (Yale U.) “Measuring the Incentive to Collude: The Vitamin Cartels, 1990-1999”

Thursday, 6 December, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Artem Prokhorov, Ph.D. (U. of Sydney Business School) “A New Family of Copulas, with Application to Estimation of a Production Frontier System”

Thursday, 6 December, 2018 | 15:30 | Special Event

Holiday party 2018

Thursday, 6 December, 2018 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Economics of Discrimination

Monday, 10 December, 2018 | 14:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Steven Rivkin (U. of Illinois at Chicago) “Elementary and Middle School Principal Effects on Future Academic, Behavioral and Labor-Market Outcomes”

Monday, 10 December, 2018 | 17:00 | Special Event

Final Presentations: Projects in Applied Economics 2018

Tuesday, 11 December, 2018 | 15:00 | Public Lecture

Steven Rivkin: How do we raise the quality of school leadership?

Thursday, 13 December, 2018 | 13:00 | Public Lecture

Ursula Renold: "The Dual-Track Vocational System"

Monday, 17 December, 2018 | 12:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Pavel Kocourek (Job Talk) “Revealing Private Information in a Patent Race”

Monday, 17 December, 2018 | 15:00 | Special Event

PhD in Economics Webinar