Brown Bag Seminar

1. Talks in the Brown Bag Seminar

The Brown Bag Seminar is an informal research seminar for students and faculty. It takes place on Tuesday from 12 p.m. until 1 p.m. in room RW 5 (Neues ReWi). The seminar serves the purpose of giving doctoral students and faculty a platform for presenting their current research. Talks about unfinished projects or even project ideas are particularly welcome. All talks will be held in English.

All faculty members and students are kindly invited to attend the seminar. Please feel free to bring your lunch along.

The announcements of upcoming talk will be sent by email to anyone subscribing to the Brown Bag Newsboard. Below you find the instructions how to subscribe to the newsboard. Moreover, a list of future and past talks can be found on this website.

Presenters may bring along an evaluation sheet in order to get feedback about their presentation skills. The presenter is kindly requested to bring a sufficient number of copies of the evaluation sheet to the seminar.

 

Summer Term 2012

Date

Title

Name

17 April 2012

 

Between Reason and Intuition

 

Christopher Kops

24 April 2012


A simple model of simultaneous wage regimes


Andreas Hauptmann (IAB)

8 May 2012

Joint determination of firm’s export invoicing decision and optimal monetary policy in a center-periphery model

Jie Fu

 

15 May 2012


Systemic Risk, Banking and Sovereign Debt in the Euro Area


Deyan Radev

22 May 2012


Investigation of New Insights on Exports between Turkey and GCC Countries


Gülcin Yücel

29 May 2012

t.b.a.

Reyn van Ewijk

5 June 2012

Abolishing Public Guarantees in the Absence of Market Discipline

Tobias Körner / Isabel Schnabel

12 June 2012

t.b.a.

Alexander Schäfer

19 June 2012

t.b.a.
Bernd Bartels

26 June 2012

Labor market reintegration employing Mental Contrasting with Implementation Intentions - a randomized, controlled field experiment


Henning Müller / Felix Schmidt

3 July 2012

t.b.a.

Katharina Klingler

10 July 2012

Expectations and Educational Decisions

Eva Berger

17 July 2012

t.b.a.

Alexey Cherepnev

2. Future talks

Winter Term 2012/2013

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Date

Title

Name

23 October 2012

- Reserved for internal meeting -

 

30 Oktober 2012

t.b.a.

Daniel Daus

6 November 2012

Impact of financial integration on lending behavior of financial instituions (with Falko Fecht)

Natalia Podlich (Deutsche Bundesbank)

13 November 2012

 

 

20 November 2012

  t.b.a.

Davide Sala 

27 November 2012

 

 

4 December 2012

 

 

11 December 2012

 

 

18 December 2012

 

 

8 January 2013

 

 

15 January 2013

 

 

22 January 2013

 

 

29 January 2013

 

 

5 February 2013


 

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4. Past talks in the Brown Bag Seminar

Winter Term 2011/2012

 

Date

Title Name
25 October
2011
- Reserved for internal meeting -
8 November
2011
Emotional Economics 1.0: Emotional Tension and Communication Klaus Wälde

15 November
2011
Room 03-150 (Dekanatssaal)

Special lecture: Presentation of FDZ and available data sources (in German) Forschungsdatenzentrum (FDZ) des Statistischen Landesamtes Hessen
22 November
2011

On fiscal policy as a source of volatility: Understanding the link within a dynamic model of re-distributive politics.

Abhinash Borah
29 November
2011

Noncognitive skills and return to employment after childbirth.

Eva Berger
6 December
2011

Heterogeneous effects of a nonlinear price schedule for outpatient care

Amelie Wuppermann

13 December
2011

*** Cancelled ***

20 December 2011

Infrastructure investment and integration in the EU.

Günther König
10 January
2012

The Distributional Predictions of Search and Matching Models

Michael Lamprecht
17 January 2012 Surprising Diversity of Informal Employment Opportunities in Latin America (with Isabel Günther and Stephan Klasen) Andrey Launov
24 January
2012

Global Sourcing and Input Specificity

Jennifer Abel-Koch
31 January
2012
*** Cancelled due to overlap with Excellence Initiative Presentation ***
7 February
2012
*** Cancelled ***
14 February
2012
- Reserved for internal meeting -

Summer Term 2011

 

Date

Title

Name

19 April 2011

- Reserved for internal meeting -

 

26 April 2011

To switch or not to switch - Can individual lending do better in microfinance than group lending?

Helke Wälde

3 May 2011

Threshold Effects from Absorptive Capacity and the Effectiveness of Innovation Policy

Daniela Strube

10 May 2011

Low-wage jobs – stepping stones or just bad signals?

Alexander Mosthaf

17 May 2011

Radical Overhaul of the Financial System - Does the Market Care?

Alexander Schäfer

24 May 2011

The 'Debt Privilege' – Determinants of Sovereign Credit Ratings for Industrialized Countries

Bernd Bartels

31 May 2011

Tail Risk and Sovereign Debt

Deyan Radev

7 June 2011

Consumption Inequality over the Life-Cycle: The Role of Labour Market Fricitions

Michael Graber (UCL)

14 June 2011

Public debt, expenditure composition, and sovereign default

Joachim Lutz

21 June 2011

Non-Gaussian Filtering using Sparse Grids. Application to interest rates

Constantin Weiser

28 June 2011

A critical look at Partial Least Squares

Katharina Klingler

5 July 2011

Do Bank Bail-Outs hurt Market Discipline? Evidence from the recent Financial Crisis

Florian Hett

12 July 2011

Underwriter Affiliation and Earnings Forecast Quality

Yvonne Kreis

19 July 2011

- Reserved for internal meeting -

 

Winter Term 2010/2011

 

Date Title Name
26 October
2010
- Reserved for internal meeting -
2 November
2010
Matching and Saving - some first quantitative results Klaus Wälde
9 November
2010
Too big to save Andreas Barth
16 November
2010
Do They Know What's at Risk? An Empirical Analysis of Health Risk Perception among Smokers and the Obese Amelie Wuppermann
23 November
2010
The Effects of Civil Conflicts on Domestic Violence Jose Victor Gallegos (Syracuse University)
30 November
2010
7 December
2010, 12 p.m., RW5
Firm Size and the Choice of Export Mode Jennifer Abel-Koch

7 December 2010, 12.30 p.m., RW2

Special Lecture: Presentation of the Transition Report 2010

Jeromin Zettelmeyer (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)

14 December
2010
Equity Home Bias and Distribution Costs Christina Ortseifer
21 December
2010
Spillovers between financial systems: German perspective on systemic risk Natalia Podlich (Deutsche Bundesbank)
11 January
2011, 2 p.m., Dekanatssaal
Implications of Behavioral Economics for Welfare Economics Bastiaan Oud (Universität Zürich)
25 January
2011
Cancelled for health reasons
1 February
2011
Labour market policy and the distribution of wealth under aggregate uncertainty Tobias Nagel
8 February
2011
The Information Content of Market Demand Functions for Central Bank Liquidity Puriya Abbassi
15 February
2011
- Reserved for internal meeting -

Summer Term 2010

 

Date

Title

Name

13 April 2010

- Reserved for internal meeting -

20 April 2010

Financial Integration and Growth - Is Emerging Europe Different? (with Christian Friedrich, Jeromin Zettelmeyer)

Isabel Schnabel

27 April 2010

Job Search, Human Capital and Wage Inequality

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (University of Leicester)

11 May 2010

Numerical Integration on Sparse Grids - Applications in Econometrics (with Florian Heiss)

Constantin Weiser

18 May 2010

Bayesian Learning (with Klaus Wälde)

Christopher Kops

25 May 2010

On the Comovement of Western Europe and the Transition Economies During the Crisis

Deyan Radev

8 June 2010

Board Accountability and Risk Taking in Banking – Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Tobias Körner (RGS Econ)

15 June 2010

To be or to earn: A model of identity and group choice when status and social distance are endogenous (with Mario Mechtel)

Florian Hett

22 June 2010

Financial Advice: An Improvement for Worse?

Yigitcan Karabulut (Goethe University Frankfurt)

13 July 2010

- Reserved for internal meeting -

 

Winter Term 2009/2010

 

 Date Title Name  

15.09.2009

Die japanischen Banken in der Subprimekrise - Die Rolle der Bankenaufsicht

Thomas Roos

Diploma thesis

06.10.2009
Hs II

Banking Regulation and Systemic Risk

Andreas Barth

Diploma thesis

10.11.2009

Dynamics in the economy - Business Cycles, Firms, and the Labour Market

Beate Schirwitz

(ifo Institut, Dresden)

Research talk(Dissertation)

17.11.2009

Die Rolle der Zentralbank bei der Bekämpfung von Finanzkrisen am Beispiel der Subprimekrise

Christian Heil

Diploma thesis 

24.11.2009

Externe und marktbasierte Ratings als Instrumente zur Bonitätsbeurteilung

Kai Karst

Diploma thesis

01.12.2009

Banks and Market Discipline

Sebastian Andresen

Diploma thesis

15.12.2009

Interest Rate Dynamics and Monetary Policy Implementation in Switzerland

Puriya Abbassi

 Research talk (Dissertation)

 05.01.2010

 Das deutsche Bad-Bank-Konzept zur Bewältigung der Bankenkrise

 Gloria-Johanna Jörg

 Diploma thesis

19.01.2010

Copulas and Contagion

Deyan Radev

Research talk (Dissertation)

 26.01.2010

Labor market effects of foreign direct investment

Andreas Hauptmann (IAB)

 Research talk (Dissertation)

 22.02.2010 (Monday,
12 p.m.!)

Monitoring and sanctions in a non-stationary structural job search model

Andrey Launov

 Research talk

 02.03.2010

 Die Bedeutung zentralen Clearings für die Finanzmarktstabilität

 Christian Valentin Maul

 Diploma thesis

16.03.2010

 Internalizing Systemic Risk

 Beatrice Weder

 Research talk

 

Summer Term 2009

 Date Title Name

04.03.2009 

 Bank bail-outs and market discipline: An empirical analysis of the rescue of Bear Stearns

 Florian Hett

 Diploma thesis

14.04.2009

Braucht Europa eine zentrale Finanzaufsicht?

Tim Gürten

Diploma thesis

05.05.2009

 Competition, Risk-Shifting, and
 Public Bail-out Policies

 Isabel Schnabel 

Research talk

 19.05.2009

Some troubling descriptive statistics on microfinance 

 Helke Wälde

 Research talk (Dissertation)

 26.05.2009

 Der Umgang mit notleidenden Banken - Lehren aus der schwedischen Krise von 1990 bis 1992

 Olaf Krehbiel-Gräther

 Diploma thesis

 02.06.2009

 Die Auswirkungen des "Fair Value Accounting" auf den Bankensektor

 Polina Todorova

 Diploma thesis

16.06.2009

Waren die Hartz-Reformen eine gute Sache?

Klaus Wälde

Research talk

23.06.2009 Contagion Among Interbank Money Markets During the Subprime Crisis Puriya Abbassi Research talk (Dissertation)

 30.06.2009

 Firm Size Distribution

 Michael Lamprecht

 Research talk (Dissertation)

 14.07.2009 

 When Do State-Owned Banks Hamper Economic Growth?

 Tobias Körner (RGS)

 Research talk (Dissertation)

 

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