Guest lectures and seminars - Page 8

Department seminar. Ole-Andreas Elvik Næss is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Management Science at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He will present the paper "Never-Realized Capital Gains" (written with Lucy Msall, University of Chicago).

Department seminar. John Morrow is a Senior Lecturer affiliated to the Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Economic Policy Research at Queen Mary University of London. He will present the paper "Firms in Product Space: Adoption, Growth and Competition" (written with Luca Macedoni and Vlad Tyazhelnikov).

Julien Bois presents the paper The Most Dangerous Branch? The EU-led Constitutionalisation of Independent Public Authorities and the Reshuffling of the Balance of Powers in Member States at the Tuesday Seminar on 18 March 2025.

Department seminar. Lucas Conwell is a Lecturer at the Department of Economics at University College London. He will present the paper "Privatized Provision of Public Transit".

Department seminar. Giulia Vattuone is a Labour Economist at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. She will present the paper "Women in Top Academic Positions: Is There a Trickle-down Effect?" (written with Manuel Bagues, Milan Makany and Natalia Zinovyeva).

Department seminar. Jette Bredahl Jacobsen is a Professor at the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Copenhagen. She will present the paper "Incorporating biodiversity into net national income".

Dean Karlan is the Frederic Esser Nemmers Distinguished Professor of Economics and Finance at Northwestern University and earlier Chief Economist of USAID. He will prsent the paper "Unconditional cash transfers: A Bayesian meta-analysis of randomized evaluations in low and middle income countries" (written with Tommaso Crosta, Finley Ong, Julius Rüschenpöhler, and Christopher R. Udry).

Department seminar. Jacopo Bizzotto is an Associate Professor of Economics at OsloMet. He will present the paper "Design and Sale of Market Segments" (written with Jesper Rüdiger and Stefan Terstiege).

Department seminar. Zack Grossman is an Associate Professor of economics at UC Merced. He will present the paper "Incentivizing agents with image concern".

Steven Klein presents the paper Systemic Risk and Democracy: A Conceptual Map at the Tuesday Seminar on 25 February 2025.

Department seminar. Jerry Montonen is a PhD student in Economics at Aalto University and Helsinki GSE. He will present the paper "Dating and Breaking Up With the Boss: Benefits, Costs and Spillovers" (written with David Macdonald and Emily Nix).

Department seminar. Jinglun Yao is a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He will present the paper "Knowledge is (Market) Power".

On 13 February, Dr. Brice Laurent (CSI, Mines Paris PSL) will give a guest lecture on the occasion of his visit to the TIK Centre. The lecture is open, and should be of interest to anyone in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS).

Department seminar. Florian Grosset is an Assistant Professor at CREST, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. He will present the paper "Complementarities in Labor Supply: How Joint Commuting Shapes Work Decisions" (written with Aletheia Donald).

Department seminar. Annika Bacher is an Assistant Professor of Economics at BI Norwegian Business School. She will present the paper "Housing and Savings Behavior across Family Types."

Philip Roscoe (University of St Andrews) visits TIK for a seminar charting the structural, technological and social changes that gave rise to the finance we know today, and to ask how critical social scientists are to confront the likes of Elon Musk. 

In this final seminar, Stine Engen will present the draft of her PhD thesis titled “On green finance and the turning of climate change into climate risk”.

Marta Lorimer presents the paper Ideologising Europe and Europeanising Ideology: Political Party Ideologies and the European Union at the Tuesday Seminar on 4 February 2025.

Department seminar. John Hassler is a Professor of Economics at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University. He will present the paper "Climate Policy in the Wide World" (written with Per Krusell and Conny Olovson).

Department seminar. Sebastian Seitz is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. He will present the paper "Estimating the Moral Hazard Cost of Private Disability Insurance and its Welfare Consequences."

In this final seminar, Jørgen Finstad will present the draft of his PhD thesis titled “Exploring multi-sector dynamics of lumpy decarbonization technologies: The case of Carbon Capture in Norway”.

Department seminar. Kjetil Storesletten is a Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. He will present the paper "Tax and Transfer Progressivity at the U.S. State Level" (joint with Johannes Fleck, Jonathan Heathcote, and Gianluca Violante). 

Chantale Tippett is a PhD candidate at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture. This seminar marks her midway evaluation.

Department seminar. Gunnar S. Eskeland is a Professor of Resource and Environmental Economics, NHH Norwegian School of Economics. He will present the paper "Moral cartels: fossil owners in a climate treaty."