Agenda of the Section Economics
Coming up
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Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University): “Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor’s Impact on the First Labor Unions."
02 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 2, Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University) will give a seminar entitled “Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor’s Impact on the First... -
Arnab Basu(Cornell University): ''Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India''
11 April 2024 - Seminar - Thursday April 11, Arnab Basu (Cornell University) will give a seminar entitled ''Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India''
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Tongzhe Li (University of Guelph): ''Rooted in Local Soil, Not Swept byGlobal Wind: A Field Experiment on Impure Public Goods''
16 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 16, Tongzhe Li (University of Guelph) will give a seminar entitled: ''Rooted in Local Soil, Not Swept by Global Wind: A Field Experiment... -
Erik Hornung (University of Cologne): “The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany.”
23 April 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday April 23, Erik Hornung (University of Cologne) will give a seminar entitled “The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in... -
RHI Seminar: Mary Elisabeth Cox
02 May 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to an additional RHI Seminar. The speaker is Mary Elisabeth Cox from CEU Vienna.
The seminar will take place in room B0077 in...
Past activites
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Jun-Ichi Itaya: Existence, Uniqueness, and Algorithm for Identifying Free Riders in Multiple Public Good Games
28 August 2018 - Seminar -
Robert Finger: Innovative insurance solutions: prospects and challenges for European agriculture
19 June 2018 - Seminar - Extreme weather events such as drought, heat waves and excess rainfall constitute an important and increasing source of risk for crop and livestock... -
Fedes van Rijn: Does certification improve hired labour conditions and wageworker conditions at banana plantations?
14 June 2018 - Seminar - Certification of banana plantations is widely used as a device for protecting and improving socio-economic conditions of wage labourers, including... -
Liesbeth de Schutter: Monitoring the performance of the EU bioeconomy in society
07 June 2018 - Seminar - Aiming at low carbon pathways and sustainable growth, the EU has embarked on a bioeconomy strategy to replace building blocks in the fossil economy by... -
Özge Öner: When Weak Ties are Strong. Ethnic enclaves, information frictions, and labor market sorting of immigrants
31 May 2018 - Seminar - In this paper, we investigate the effects of ethnic enclaves on the economic prospects of newly arrived immigrants. Using a geo-coded full population... -
Moritz Drupp: Relative prices and climate policy. How the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation
24 May 2018 - Seminar - We study how the scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities, affects the economic appraisal of climate policy. To this end, we... -
Joachim de Weerdt: Paying More For Less. Why don't households in Tanzania take advantage of bulk discounts
17 May 2018 - Seminar - Despite average daily per-capita consumption of roughly $1, many Tanzanian households do not take advantage of bulk discounts for staple goods. -
Bruhan Konda: Social heterogeneity, benefit heterogeneity and public good provision
03 May 2018 - Seminar - Ethnic identity and differences in social power between ethnic groups play a crucial role in determining the success of a collective action. While... -
Marrit van den Berg: Not my job
26 April 2018 - Seminar - Both peer-to-peer punishment and institutions that sanction free-riders can lead to the more efficient provision of public goods. However, financial... -
Linde Götz: Egypt’s Wheat Tenders. A Public Noticeboard for Black Sea Grain Notations?
12 April 2018 - Seminar - In season 2017/18, Russia is once more projected to become the world’s top wheat exporter. Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, is... -
Jan Kok and Luc Bulten: Colonial population censuses in 18th Ceylon
10 April 2018 - Seminar - RHI SEMINAR
Dutch Ceylon in the eighteenth century offers a fine opportunity to study the dynamics of administrative control of everyday family life... -
Maarten Voors: Healthcare Delivery during crises
05 April 2018 - Seminar - The 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest ever recorded. Post-mortems on the crisis assert that engaged and accountable health... -
Eric Verhoef: Trading Trips. Using Tradable Permits to Manage Urban Mobility
29 March 2018 - Seminar - The idea to use tradable permits for the regulation of road transport externalities has been around for already quite some time (e.g., Verhoef et al.,... -
Renate Hartwig: Eliciting the Willingness to Pay for Eyeglasses
22 March 2018 - Seminar - In this paper, we assess the willingness to pay for eyeglasses in rural Burkina Faso. We use a variant of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) method to... -
Information session about Buitex 2018 to Kaposvar, Hungary (YSS21303)
19 March 2018 - Meeting - Information session on March 19 about the European bilateral exchange programme, meant for third year students from the BSc programmes 'Bedrijfs-en... -
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk: Challenging the de-industrialization thesis
15 March 2018 - Seminar - Many dependency theorists as well as economic historians have contended that nineteenth-century imperial policies and economic globalization... -
Floor Groefsema: Images of the family farm during the formative years of post-war agricultural policy (1945-1970)
13 March 2018 - Seminar - RHI SEMINAR
This paper focuses on the question how the phenomenon of the family farm has been portrayed in policy texts. It concentrates on a... -
Steven Poelhekke: Priority roads. The Political Economy of Connecting Mines Versus Cities
08 March 2018 - Seminar - How does a change in political institutions affect infrastructure investment decisions? We answer this question empirically by focusing on West... -
Trond Husby: Spatial microsimulation for the Netherlands
01 March 2018 - Seminar - Spatial microsimulation is a set of techniques that allow the characteristics of individuals living in a particular area to be approximated, based on... -
Jessica Barker: Inter-group cooperation in an environmental dilemma
22 February 2018 - Seminar - Humans likely evolved to cooperate locally with members of small groups, at the expense of people in other groups. Because within-group cooperation...