Agenda of the Section Economics
Coming up
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RHI Seminar: Breads from local and diversified crops for improving food security
19 September 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of September. Our speaker for this month is Martijn Noort from Wageningen University
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Matías Mayor (University of Oviedo) : “Resilience, path dependenceand path breaking in old industrial regions".
24 September 2024 - Seminar - On Tuesday 24 September Matias Mayor from the University of Oviedo (Spain), will give a seminar entitled “Resilience, path dependence and path... -
Katja Kaufmann (University of Bayreuth): "Peer Effects in Financial Decisions: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data".
01 October 2024 - Seminar - On Tuesday 01 October Katja Kaufmann from the University of Bayreuth (Germany), will give a seminar entitled "Peer Effects in Financial... -
Sachintha Fernando (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg): “Zero fare, cleaner air? The causal effect of Luxembourg’s free public transportation policy on carbon emissions".
08 October 2024 - Seminar - Tuesday 08 October, Sachintha Fernando from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), will give a seminar entitled “Zero fare,... -
RHI Seminar: “Globalizations in a nutshell – Tracing a 700-year history of trade in shea in West Africa”
10 October 2024 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of October. Our speaker for this month is Andrew Wardwell from CIFOR (Centre for International Forestry...
Past activites
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RHI Seminar: The Determinants of Spatial Diffusion of Colonial Health Care Facilities in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900-1955
11 May 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of May. Our speaker for this month is Arlinde Vrooman (University of Groningen). She will be presenting her... -
Dr. Matthieu Stigler (ETH Zurich) “With big data come big problems: pitfalls in measuring basis risk for crop index insurance.”
25 April 2023 - Seminar - On Tuesday April 25, Dr. Matthieu Stigler (ETH Zurich) will present the paper “With big data come big problems: pitfalls in measuring basis risk... -
Dr. Tavneet Suri (MIT Management Sloan School) “The (Many) Million Dollar Question: Experimental Evidence from Kenya on Universal Basic Income.”
18 April 2023 - Seminar - On Tuesday April 18, Dr. Tavneet Suri (MIT Management Sloan School) will present the paper “The (Many) Million Dollar Question: Experimental... -
Dr. Hope Michelson (University of Illinios-UC) "Restoring Trust: Evidence from the Fertilizer Market in Tanzania.”
04 April 2023 - Seminar - On Tuesday April 4, Dr. Hope Michelson (University of Illinios - UC) will present the paper "Restoring Trust: Evidence from the Fertilizer Market... -
RHI Seminar: Breaking Tradition: Teacher-student effects at English Universities during the Scientific Revolution
23 March 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to a RHI Seminar with speaker Julius Koschnick (London School of Economics). He will be presenting his paper titled: Breaking... -
RHI Seminar: Reversing Fortunes of German Regions, 1926-2019: Boon and Bane of Early Industrialization?
09 March 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of March. Our speaker for this month is Richard Franke (University of Bayreuth). He will be presenting his... -
RHI Seminar: Pupils today, astronauts tomorrow? The impact of Italy’s 1962 school Reform on human capital accumulation
09 February 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of February. Our speaker for this month is Gabriele Cappelli (University of Siena). He will be presenting his... -
RHI Seminar: The Effects of Immigration in an Agricultural Frontier Economy: Brazil 1890-1920
12 January 2023 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of January. Our speaker for this month is Dr. Andrea Papadia (University of York). He will be presenting his... -
RHI Seminar: Feeding African Cities: Hinterland Suitability & Urban Growth in 20th Century Sub-Saharan Africa
08 December 2022 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of December. Our speaker for this month is Tanik Joshipura, of Wageningen University. He will be presenting... -
RHI Seminar: Capital and the ‘Cooperative’ in Rural India, 1904-1914
10 November 2022 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of November. Our speaker for this month is dr. Maanik Nath from Utrecht University. He will be presenting his... -
RHI Seminar: The First East Asian Economic Miracle: Wages, Living Standards and Foundations of Modern Economic Growth in Southeast Asia, 1880-1938
27 October 2022 - Seminar - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of October. Our speaker for this month is Jean-Pascal Bassino, Professor of Economics at École Normale... -
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook Webinar
26 September 2022 - Webinar - This webinar presents 10 years trends and prospects for agricultural markets as well as key results from the Outlook’s scenario on sustainable... -
Dr. Maria Vrachioli (Technical University of Munich) Water in pesticide application and rationalinefficiency: The case of Spanish crop producers.
06 September 2022 - Seminar -
RHI Seminar: Indian cotton textiles and the evolution of spinningtechnology in the British cotton industry during the eighteenth century
06 September 2022 - Seminar - Our speaker for this month's seminar is Dr. Alka Raman from London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Raman will be presenting her paper... -
Professor Deepak Nayyar on The Asian Miracle - learning from a half-century of transformations
22 June 2022 - Seminar - You are all cordially invited to a Lecture organized by Wageningen School of Social Sciences (WASS), WUR Economics Section, N.W. Posthumus Institute... -
RHI Seminar: Merciful Tyrants? Explaining Rebel Forgiveness and State Capacity in Mughal South Asia (1556-1707)
09 June 2022 - Seminar - This month, we are excited to welcome Ms. Safya Morshed from the London School of Economics. The seminar will take place in room B0073 at the... -
Piero Ronzani (University of Trento) “Lateral reading and incentives to spot disinformation about science.”
07 June 2022 - Seminar -
Dušan Drabik (Wageningen University-AEP) Has Agricultural Land Consolidation Increased Farmland Rents in Slovakia?
02 June 2022 - Seminar -
Dr. Shashidhara Kolavalli (Senior Researcher) “Steering the cocoasector in Ghana.”
24 May 2022 - Seminar