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Department seminar. Dirk Krueger is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He will present a paper entitled "Neoclassical Growth with Long-Term One-Sided Commitment Contracts", co-authored by Harald Uhlig.

Department seminar. David Silver is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He will present a paper entitled "Haste or Waste? Peer Pressure and the Distribution of Marginal Returns to Health Care".

Department seminar. John Eric Humphries is an Assistant Professor at Yale University. He will present a paper entitled "Does eviction cause poverty? Quasi-experimental evidence from Cook County, IL", co-authored by Nicholas Mader, Daniel Tannenbaum, and Winnie van Dijk.

Department seminar. Tibor Besedes is an Associate Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He will present a paper entitled "Trade Integration and the Fragility of Trade Relationships: Theory and Empirics", co-authored by Juan Moreno-Cruz and Volker Nitsch.

Department seminar. Arnaud Costinot is a Professor at MIT. He will present a paper entitled "Robots, Trade, and Luddism", co-authored by Iván Werning.

Department seminar. Nicolai Ellingsen is a PhD candidate at UiO. He will present a paper entitled "Lumpy investment and capital misallocation".

Department seminar. Helene Onshuus is a PhD candidate at UiO. She will present a paper entitled "Does High Leverage Amplify Consumption Response to Income changes?", co-authored by Andreas Fagereng and Kjersti Næss Torstensen.

Department seminar. Joseph Doyle is the Erwin H. Schell Associate Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He will present a paper entitled "Measuring Physician Quality: Evidence from Physician Availability".

Department seminar. Valerie A. Ramey is a Professor of Economics at UC San Diego. She will present a paper entitled "What Have We Learned from the Renaissance in Fiscal Research?".

Department seminar. Serdar Ozkan is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. He will present a paper entitled "Sources of Inequality in Earnings Growth Over the Life Cycle", co-authored by Fatih Karahan and Jae Song.

Department seminar. Richard Priestley is a professor at BI. He will present a paper entitled "Consumption fluctuations and expected returns", co-authored by Victoria Atanasov.

Department seminar. Arunava Sen is a Professor at the Indian Statistical Insititute. He will present a paper entitled "Matching with Partners and Projects", co-authored by Antonio Nicolò and Sonal Yadav.

Department seminar. Keith Kuester is a Professor at the University of Bonn. He will present a paper entitled "The dark side of low(ering) interest rates", co-authored by Pablo Guerrón-Quintana.

Department seminar. Marte E. S. Ulvestad is a PhD candidate at the Frisch Centre. She will present a paper entitled "Sickness absence and the importance of the workplace: Evidence from employee mobility".

Department seminar. Dennis Novy is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He will present a paper entitled "Currency Unions, Trade, and Heterogeneity", co-authored by Natalie Chen.

OFS seminar. Pierre-Philippe Combes is a Research Professor at GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne. He will present a paper entitled "The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities", co-authored by Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon.

Department seminar. Nicolas Berman is a Professor at Aix-Marseille University. He will present a paper entitled "Fertile Ground for Conflict", co-authored by Mathieu Couttenier, and Raphael Soubeyran.

Department seminar. Teodora Boneva is a Post-doctoral fellow at University College London. She will present a paper entitled "Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments", co-authored Pietro Biroli, Akash Raja, and Christopher Rauh.

Department seminar. Espen Moen is a Professor at BI. He will present a paper entitled "Optimal Taxation with On-the-Job Search", co-authored by Jesper Bagger, and Rune M. Vejlin.

Department seminar. Ezra Oberfield is an Assitant Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He will present a paper entitled "Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production", co-authored by Johannes Boehm.

Department seminar. Francis Kramarz is a Professor at ENSAE ParisTech. He will present a paper entitled "Firm-to-Firm Trade: imports, exports and the labor market", co-authored by Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum.

OFS seminar. Stephen Jenkins is a Professor of Economic and Social Policy at LSE. He will present a paper entitled "How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics? Evidence from two rich countries", co-authored by Nicolas Hérault.

Department seminar. Matti Sarvimäki is a Research Fellow at Aalto University and an Associate Research Professor at the VATT Institute for Economic Research. He will present a paper entitled "Habit Formation and the Misallocation of Labor: Evidence from Forced Migrations", co-authored by Roope Uusitalo, and Markus Jäntti.

Staff lunch seminar. Knut Sunde er Direktør og leder for Bransje og Industripolitisk avdeling i Norsk Industri.