Events at CERGE-EI: 2016

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January 

Monday, 11 January, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Miri Stryjan (Job Talk) “Electoral Rules and Leader Selection: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Community Groups”

Wednesday, 13 January, 2016 | 19:45 | Economics Discovery Hub

Corporate Finance

Thursday, 14 January, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Hector Galindo-Silva, Ph.D. (Job Talk) “Political Representation and Armed ConfIict: Evidence from Local Councils in Colombia”

Friday, 15 January, 2016 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Myra Mohnen (Job Talk) “Stars and Brokers: Peer Effects among Medical Scientists”

Wednesday, 20 January, 2016 | 19:45 | Economics Discovery Hub

Prof. Jan Hanousek "Where Theory Meets Practice: Empirical Application of Large Pan-European Firm-level Data"

Monday, 25 January, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Patricia Navarro-Palau (Job Talk) “Effects of Differentiated School Vouchers: Evidence From a Policy Change and Date of Birth Cutoffs”

Wednesday, 27 January, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Andrei Victor Potlogea (Job Talk) “Trade Liberalization and Economic Development: Evidence from China's WTO Accession”

Thursday, 28 January, 2016 | 15:00 | Defense - PhD

Georgi Burlakov: “Essays on Vertically Differentiated Markets for Complementary Goods”

Friday, 29 January, 2016 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Andreas Menzel (Job Talk) “Organizational Learning: Experimental Evidence from Bangladeshi Garment Factories”

February 

Monday, 1 February, 2016 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Piotr Denderski (Job Talk) “A Model of Confounded Entrepreneurial Choice”

Wednesday, 3 February, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Gaetano Basso (Job Talk) “Local Labor Markets Adjustments to Oil Booms and Busts”

Friday, 5 February, 2016 | 15:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Audinga Baltrunaite (Job Talk) “Political Finance Reform and Public Procurement: Evidence from Lithuania”

Monday, 8 February, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Christoph Koenig (Job Talk) “Loose Cannons – War Veterans and the Erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany”

Tuesday, 9 February, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Rocco d’Este (Job Talk) “Breaking the Crystal Meth Economy: The Effects of Over the Counter Medicine Restrictions on Drug-Related Crime in the United States”

Wednesday, 17 February, 2016 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Introduction to Data Analysis using R

Wednesday, 24 February, 2016 | 11:00 | Special Event

Public Presentation "Perspectives on the European Economy"

Thursday, 25 February, 2016 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Veronika Selezneva (Job Talk) “A Side Effect of Financial Innovation”

Thursday, 25 February, 2016 | 18:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Writing Policy Papers under Pressure

Monday, 29 February, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Hessel Oosterbeek (U. of Amsterdam) “The Performance of School Assignment Mechanisms in Practice”

March 

Tuesday, 1 March, 2016 | 15:00 | Special Event

Public Debate "Economic History of Ukraine 1991-2016"

Thursday, 3 March, 2016 | 16:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Processing Data with Stata: A Practical Example

Thursday, 3 March, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Felix Bierbrauer (U. of Cologne) “Robust Mechanism Design and Social Preferences”

Monday, 14 March, 2016 | 09:00 | Special Event

Conference "The Economics of Livable Cities"

Monday, 14 March, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Maia Güell (U. of Edinburgh) “Unemployment Duration Variance Decomposition à la ABS: Evidence from Spain”

Wednesday, 16 March, 2016 | 08:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Career Counseling Workshop: Branislav Saxa “A Career in Central Banking”

Wednesday, 16 March, 2016 | 17:00 | Special Event

Free Webinar: Study MA in Applied Economics at CERGE-EI

Thursday, 17 March, 2016 | 16:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Workshop: Radek Janhuba “Determinants of Life Satisfaction: An Empirical Example Using Stata”

Thursday, 17 March, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Marco LiCalzi (U. of Venice) “Target-based solutions for Nash bargaining”

Thursday, 17 March, 2016 | 18:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Evening Discussion: Vojtěch Bartoš “Attention Discrimination: From a Research Idea to a Publication in the American Economic Review”

Friday, 18 March, 2016 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Guido Tabellini (Bocconi U.) “Historical roots of political extremism: The effects of the Nazi occupation of Italy”

Tuesday, 22 March, 2016 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Alexandra Prokosheva: “Essays on Decision Making under Uncertainty”

Wednesday, 30 March, 2016 | 18:00 | Special Event

Free Webinar: Studying PhD in Economics at CERGE-EI

April 

Monday, 4 April, 2016 | 14:00 | Special Event

Smart Specialization (RIS3): From Academic Concept to European Policy and Czech Practice

Wednesday, 6 April, 2016 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Eva Hromádková: “Essays on Cost-Containment Measures in Health Care”

Monday, 18 April, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. James Snyder (Harvard University) “Party Polarization in Legislatures with Office-Motivated Candidates”

Thursday, 21 April, 2016 | 14:00 | Defense - PhD

Jana Cahlíková: “Essays on Discrimination and Endogenous Preferences”

Friday, 22 April, 2016 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Petr Sedláček, Ph.D. (University of Bonn) “Creative Destruction and Uncertainty over the Business Cycle”

Monday, 25 April, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Pascaline Dupas, Ph.D. (Stanford University) “The Daily Grind: Cash Needs, Labor Supply and Self-Control”

Thursday, 28 April, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Wieland Müller, Ph.D. (University of Vienna) “Consistency and Stationarity of Individual Time Preferences”

Friday, 29 April, 2016 | 09:00 | Special Event

ADEMU Workshop "Macroeconomics and Financial Imbalances and Spillovers"

Friday, 29 April, 2016 | 16:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Anton Braun (FRB Atlanta) “Why Prices Don’t Respond Sooner to a Prospective Sovereign Debt Crisis”

May 

Monday, 2 May, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Fabian Waldinger, Ph.D. (University of Warwick) “International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science in the Wake of WWI”

Monday, 9 May, 2016 | 15:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Michael A. Leeds (Temple University) “Incentives and Institutions: The Case of Nippon Professional Baseball”

Monday, 9 May, 2016 | 17:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. Jan Švejnar (Columbia University) “Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty”

Tuesday, 10 May, 2016 | 18:30 | Public Lecture

Dr. Sharon T. Freeman (AASBEA) "Helping SMEs in the Region Grow in the Western Market"

Wednesday, 11 May, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Astrid Kunze, Ph.D. (NHH) “Child Care Coverage and Flexible Working Arrangements of Mothers”

Wednesday, 11 May, 2016 | 18:45 | Economics Discovery Hub

Practical Workshop: Advanced Modeling in Financial Services Advisory Practice

Thursday, 12 May, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Yuval Heller, Ph.D. (University of Oxford) “Observations on Cooperation”

Friday, 13 May, 2016 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Bård Harstad (University of Oslo) “Gridlock and Inefficient Policy Instruments”

Monday, 16 May, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Rusty Tchernis, Ph.D. (Georgia State University) “On the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Endogenous Misreporting”

Thursday, 19 May, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Andreas Ortmann (UNSW) “On the deepening replication crisis in the social sciences and an example [Allais Paradox study] of what to do about it”

Tuesday, 24 May, 2016 | 19:00 | 25th Anniversary

My Enchanting Chateau Film Premiere

Wednesday, 25 May, 2016 | 09:00 | Special Event

Crash Course on Rational Inattention

Thursday, 26 May, 2016 | 09:00 | Special Event

3rd Conference on Rational Inattention and Related Topics

Thursday, 26 May, 2016 | 18:00 | Public Lecture

Prof. Aswath Damodaran (NYU Stern School of Business) “Corporate Finance and Valuation”

Friday, 27 May, 2016 | 18:30 | 25th Anniversary

25th Anniversary Gala

Saturday, 28 May, 2016 | 12:00 | Special Event

CERGE-EI Alumni Event

June 

Wednesday, 1 June, 2016 | 23:59 | Special Event

Deadline for Submitting Papers to New Economic Talent 2016

Monday, 6 June, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. Ludger Woessmann (CESifo Group Munich) “The Political Economy of University Tuition Fees: Information Provision and Income Contingency in Representative Survey Experiments”

Tuesday, 7 June, 2016 | 10:00 | Public Lecture

Ludger Woessmann: The Knowledge Capital of Nations

Tuesday, 7 June, 2016 | 16:00 | Special Event

2016 OECD Survey on the Czech Republic: Innovation Policy and Public Sector Efficiency

Wednesday, 8 June, 2016 | 14:00 | 25th Anniversary

Public Lecture "Boosting EU Competitiveness: What Can CEE Countries Do?"

Thursday, 9 June, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Prof. David Jaeger (CUNY) “Identification is Harder than You Think: Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration”

Tuesday, 14 June, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Dražen Prelec (MIT Sloan) “Eliciting and Aggregating Information when Ground Truth is Unverifiable: The Meta-Prediction Approach”

Thursday, 23 June, 2016 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Miroslava Federičová: “Essays on the Effects of Early School Tracking”

Friday, 24 June, 2016 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Prof. Alessandro Lizzeri (NYU) “The Political Economy of Debt and Entitlements”

July 

Thursday, 21 July, 2016 | 11:00 | Special Event

MA in Applied Economics Graduation Ceremony

August 

Friday, 12 August, 2016 | 13:00 | Special Event

CERGE-EI Graduate Teaching Fellows "Teaching Principles and Practices for Economics Course"

Monday, 15 August, 2016 | 11:00 | Defense - PhD

Tomáš Lichard: “Essays on Public Finance”

Thursday, 18 August, 2016 | 14:00 | Special Event

CERGE-EI Career Integration Fellows "Teaching Principles and Practices for Economics Course"

Friday, 19 August, 2016 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Vojtěch Bartoš: “Essays in Behavioral and Development Economics”

Sunday, 21 August, 2016 | 09:00 | Special Event

16th GDN/CERGE-EI Regional Research Workshop

Tuesday, 30 August, 2016 | 11:00 | Defense - PhD

Dagmara Çelik Katreniak: “Essays on Incentives and Information in Schools”

September 

Wednesday, 7 September, 2016 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Economics Projects for High School Students - Sample Lesson

Monday, 12 September, 2016 | 08:00 | Special Event

Discovery Week for MA in Applied Economics

Monday, 12 September, 2016 | 11:00 | Defense - PhD

Ján Palguta: “Economic Impact of Voting and Procurement Rules”

Monday, 19 September, 2016 | 08:00 | Special Event

PhD Academic Year 2016/2017 Begins

Monday, 26 September, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Pietro Biroli, Ph.D. (U. of Zurich) “Racial Differences in Human Capital Investments and Inequality Later in Life”

Monday, 26 September, 2016 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Projects in Applied Economics for Talented Students

Tuesday, 27 September, 2016 | 16:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Kristina Jablonicka “Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy and Public Policy”

Tuesday, 27 September, 2016 | 17:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Projects in Applied Economics for Talented Students

October 

Thursday, 6 October, 2016 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Moritz Kuhn, Ph.D. (BGSE, U. of Bonn) “Earnings Losses and Labor Mobility Over the Lifecycle”

Thursday, 6 October, 2016 | 18:10 | Economics Discovery Hub

Michael Hagan (Northwestern) “The Alice in Wonderland Model of Irrational Decision Making in Healthcare”

Monday, 10 October, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Silvia Barcellos, Ph.D. (USC Dornsife): “Heterogeneous Effects of Education on Health”

Wednesday, 19 October, 2016 | 19:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

J. Minks and M. Novovesky “Creating Business Impact with Data”

Thursday, 20 October, 2016 | 16:30 | Macro Research Seminar

Hitoshi Tsujiyama, Ph.D. (Goethe U. Frankfurt) “Optimal Income Taxation: Mirrlees Meets Ramsey”

Thursday, 20 October, 2016 | 18:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Petar Buha “Mastering Excel Basics”

Thursday, 20 October, 2016 | 19:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Pablo Maldonado “Web App Development in R using Shiny”

Tuesday, 25 October, 2016 | 13:00 | Defense - PhD

Iuliia Brushko: “Essays on Financial Markets”

Tuesday, 25 October, 2016 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Kuan-Heng Lin “R Programming for Czechitas”

November 

Tuesday, 1 November, 2016 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Data-driven Changemakers Datathon - Kick-off Event

Wednesday, 2 November, 2016 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Pavel Vaněček “A Gentle Excursion into Data Visualization”

Thursday, 3 November, 2016 | 17:30 | Special Event

Tour of the Schebek Palace - Week of Science and Technology 2016

Friday, 4 November, 2016 | 11:00 | Special Event

Economics for Life: Week of Science and Technology

Tuesday, 8 November, 2016 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Miroslav Singer “The Best from the Economics of Information Goods”

Wednesday, 9 November, 2016 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Vahan Sargsyan “Data Management and Analytical Skills Using Stata”

Friday, 11 November, 2016 | 09:30 | Special Event

Tour of the Schebek Palace - Week of Science and Technology 2016

Friday, 11 November, 2016 | 13:30 | Special Event

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, London School of Economics and Political Science, “Evaluating Access to Universal Digital Highways”

Friday, 11 November, 2016 | 13:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

Data-driven Changemakers Datathon - Day 1

Saturday, 12 November, 2016 | 09:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Data-driven Changemakers Datathon - Day 2

Sunday, 13 November, 2016 | 09:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Data-Driven Changemakers Datathon - Day 3

Monday, 14 November, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Olga Kuzmina, Ph.D. (NES, Moscow) “Operating Flexibility and Capital Structure: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”

Tuesday, 15 November, 2016 | 10:00 | Defense - PhD

Maxim Goryunov: “Essays in Economic Theory”

Tuesday, 15 November, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Terri Kneeland, Ph.D. (UCL) “Bounded Reasoning: Rationality or Cognition?”

Tuesday, 15 November, 2016 | 17:30 | Economics Discovery Hub

PWSCafé with Kamil Zeman

Saturday, 19 November, 2016 | 17:30 | Special Event

Tribute to Prof. Jan Kmenta

Monday, 21 November, 2016 | 08:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

New Economic Talent 2016 Final Round

Wednesday, 23 November, 2016 | 18:00 | Economics Discovery Hub

Aleš Nechuta “Writing Policy Papers under Pressure”

December 

Friday, 2 December, 2016 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Jennifer La’O, Ph.D. (Columbia U.) “A Traffic Jam Theory of Recessions”

Monday, 5 December, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Michel Maréchal, Ph.D. (U. of Zürich) “The Honest Citizen: Evidence from Nationwide Field Experiments”

Tuesday, 6 December, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Andrew Ellis, Ph.D. (LSE) “Screening Misperception through Securitisation”

Friday, 9 December, 2016 | 15:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Sebastian Dyrda, Ph.D. (U. of Toronto) “Living Arrangements and Labor Market Volatility of Young Worker”

Monday, 12 December, 2016 | 16:30 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Gregory Veramendi, Ph.D. (Arizona State U.) “College Major Choice: Sorting and Differential Returns to Skills”

Tuesday, 13 December, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Dana Sisak, Ph.D. (Erasmus U. Rotterdam) “Showing Off or Laying Low?”

Thursday, 15 December, 2016 | 16:30 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Grigory Kosenok (NES, Russia) “Charter school entry and school choice: The case of Washington, D.C.”

Friday, 16 December, 2016 | 15:00 | Micro Theory Research Seminar

Prof. Antonio Cabrales (UCL) “Targeted Socialization and Production”

Monday, 19 December, 2016 | 12:00 | Macro Research Seminar

Filip Rozsypal, Ph.D. (LSE) “Overpersistence Bias in Individual Income Expectations and Its Aggregate Implications”

Monday, 19 December, 2016 | 16:00 | Applied Micro Research Seminar

Rául Sánchez de la Sierra, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, Haas) “The state as organized crime: Industrial organization of the traffic police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”