The Lunchtime Seminar (formerly Volkswirtschaftliches Doktorandenseminar/ VDS) of the Faculty of Economic Sciences serves as a platform for academic discussion among doctoral candidates, young academics and lecturers. Both finished papers and ongoing projects can be presented. External doctoral candidates and young academics can also present their research results upon invitation.
Unless otherwise announced, the seminars take place on Wednesdays from 1 - 2 p.m. in seminar room 14 of the Institutes building.
2025
05.02.2025
Milan Jakob Reda (Leipzig University) Putting a carbon price on heating fuels: household vulnerability and compensation in a microsimulation model with endogenous technology choice
29.01.2025
Charlotte Geiger (Leipzig University) tba
15.01.2024
Leonardo Urrutia (Leipzig University) tba
08.01.2025
Karolina Rütten (MCC Berlin) Preferences and willingness to pay for climate policy mixes
2024
18.12.2024
Felix Knopp (MCC Berlin) Compensating for carbon pricing with loss aversion – an optimal taxation modeling approach
04.12.2024
Julia Bobrzyk (Leipzig University) Global Inequality and the Legacy of Historical Climate Change
27.11.2024
Jane Torbert (Leipzig University) Zeroing in on the Zero Waste City
06.11.2024
Alkis Blanz (Leipzig University) The Pigouvian Efficiency Gap: A Macroeconomic Analysis of the Green Transition in Housing
30.10.2024
Tobias Bergmann & Nikolaj Moretti (MCC Berlin) Optimal Debt Ceilings for Present Biased Governments
03.07.2024
Lukas Buhmann (Halle University) Druzhba? The macroeconomic effects of dirty oil for Europe
12.06.2024
Frank Simmen (Leipzig University) Homicide and production in England since 1550
05.06.2024
Konstantin Gantert (Tilburg) Shopping Time and Frictional Goods Markets: Implications for the Phillips Curve and the Business Cycle
22.05.2024
Raffael Stretz (Leipzig University) Expansion targets for onshore wind energy as a driver of wind energy deployment? - Empirical evidence from Germany's federal states
08.05.2024
Malin Wiese (Leipzig University) Dasgupta meets Nordhaus: Natural Capital Dynamics in Integrated Assessment of Climate Change
17.04.2024
Karoline Offen (Halle University) The Macroeconomic Effects of FX Intervention
10.04.2024
Alex Roth (DIW) Do Wind Turbines Have Adverse Health Impacts?
17.01.2024
Alessandro Sardone (IWH) Net Zero: Distributional Effects and Optimal Share of Subsidies and Transfers
10.01.2024
Leonardo Urrutia (Leipzig University) Modelling Growth at Risk around a linear tendency: a quantile regression approach
2023
13.12.2023
Jordan Adamson (Leipzig University) A practical public good mechanism
18.10.2023
Philipp Lerch (Leipzig University) Electricity cost and CO2 saving potentials for the chlor-alkali electrolysis industry
12.07.2023
Milan Reda (Leipzig University) Carbon pricing and the affordability of residential heating – a theoretical approach
05.07.2023
Benedikt Schmal (DICE) The X Factor: Open Access, New Journals, and Incumbent Competitors
28.06.2023
Jan Bruch (Leipzig University) The Effects of Monetary Policy and Leaning against the Wind on Bubble Assets and Liquidity
14.06.2023
Alexandra Gutsch (IWH) Fiscal Policy During the Energy Crisis
24.05.2023
Jan Bruch (Leipzig University) Financial Development, Macroprudential Regulation and the Financial Sector: Liquidity in a Bubbly World
11.01.2023
Roberto Cruz Romero (GSGAS) Measuring Transparency: Insights from a Systematic Review and a Meta-Analysis
2022
07.12.2022
Edison Jakurti (Leipzig University) Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from the Spanish Survey of Household Finances
23.11.2022
Kamal Kassam (IAB) The residency obligation and labor market integration of refugees in Germany
09.11.2022
Vincent Stegmaier (Leipzig University) Headwind or Tailwind? The impact of wind power expansion on pro renewable voting outcomes in Germany.
13.07.2022
Leonardo Urrutia (Leipzig University) Growth-at-Risk: A New-Keynesian DSGE Model with Financial Vulnerabilities
15.06.2022
Anique Hadeler (Leipzig University, Fraunhofer IMW) The relationship between family influence, culture and digital transformation: An inquiry into German and Chinese family firms
18.05.2022
Frank Simmen (Leipzig University) Homeownership and Aerosol Air Pollution
26.01.2022
Konstantin Gantert (Leipzig University) Real PPI and Incomplete Price Pass-Through in a Frictional Wholesaler-Retailer-Consumer Framework
2021
26.05.2021
Karl F. Israel, Tim Sepp & Nils Sonnenberg (Leipzig University/UCO Angers) Japanese Monetary Policy and Household Saving
19.05.2021
Alexander Singer (Leipzig University) Price competition under uncertainty in over-the-counter markets: emergence of market structure and centrality premia
05.05.2021
Konstantin Gantert (Leipzig University) A Capacity Utilization Adjusted Measure of TFP. How non-clearing goods markets endogenously drive productivity over the business cycle
03.02.2021
João Carlos Claudio (IWH) Supply-Side Disturbances in Commodity Markets and the Business Cycle: Evidence from the Interwar Period
27.01.2021
Matthias Wieschemeyer (IWH/Leipzig University) The Role of Visa Policy in Shaping Immigration and Self-Selection: Evidence from the Implementation of the Schengen Agreement
13.01.2021
Konstantin Gantert (Leipzig University) A Capacity Utilization Phillips Curve: How Non-Clearing Goods Markets Drive Inflation and Monetary Policy
2020
09.12.2020
Jordan Adamson (Leipzig University) Trade, War, and State-Formation: Theory and Evidence from the Rise of Greece
05.02.2020
Joao C. Claudio (IWH) Terms of Trade News in Small Open Economies
15.01.2020
Konstantin Gantert (Leipzig University) Aggregate demand and the impact of monetary policy in a New Keynesian SAM model
08.01.2020
Matthias Wieschemeyer (IWH) International Migration, Loss Aversion and the Business Cycle
2019
30.10.2019
Jan Bruch (Leipzig University) Opportunity Costs and Bubbles
03.07.2019
Mirja Hälbig (Leipzig University/IWH) A Common Market Directive and an Extreme Price Parallelism in the Minerals Industries
26.06.2019
Frank Simmen (Leipzig University) Dirty Business, Billets, Bombs, and Nimby.
Does private homeownership crowd out industrial sites?
12.06.2019
Alexander Singer (Leipzig University) Core-Periphery OTC Markets: Network Formation and Centrality Premia
29.05.2019
Daniel Fehrle (University of Augsburg) Business cycle accounting for the German fiscal stimulus program
16.01.2019
Christoph Schult (IWH) Is Risk the Fuel of the Business Cycle
2018
12.12.2018
Julian Hackinger (TUM) Ignoring Millions of Euros: Transfer Fees and Sunk Costs in Professional Football
05.12.2018
Sebastian Müller (Leipzig University) Asymmetric Monetary Policy, Business Dynamism and Productivity
28.11.2018
Niels Gillmann (ifo Dresden) Economic Policy Uncertainty Connectedness among Developing Countries
24.10.2018
Alexander Singer (Leipzig University) Liquidity and sudden financial market declines
04.07.2018
Fabian Könings (Jena University) Trust in Prices and Educative Socialization
20.06.2018
Jingjing Lyu (Leipzig University) The impact of Chinese learning opportunity abroad on overseas students in China
13.06.2018
Matthias Wischemeyer (Halle Institute for Economic Research: IWH) Progressive tax-like effects of inflation: fact or myth? The U.S. post-war experience
23.05.2018
Thomas Daske (TUM) Efficient Incentives in Externality Networks
31.01.2018
João Carlos Claudio (Halle Institute for Economic Research: IWH)
Labor Productivity and The Slope of the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Examining the Role of News Shocks
24.01.2018:
Jingjing Lyu (Leipzig University)
Global Linkages across Sectors and Frequency Bands: A Band Spectral Panel Regression Approach
17.01.2018:
Konstantin Gantert (Leipzig University)
Inventories and Inflation in a Search Business Cycle Model
2017
13.12.2017
Sebastian Müller (Leipzig University)
Asymmetric Monetary Policy and its Effect on Business Dynamism
21.06.2017
Alexander Schneider (Leipzig University)
Hotelling's model with non-constant total demand
14.06.2017:
Mathias Klein (German Institute for Economic Research -- DIW)
Monetary Policy and Household (De-)Leveraging
24.05.2017:
David Herok (Leipzig University)
The Reallocation Effect of Capital Controls and Firm Concentration
17.05.2017:
Hans Torben Löfflad (Leipzig University)
The Macroeconomics of Housing and the Dynamics of Wealth Inequality
10.05.2017:
Luis Franjo García (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne -- EPFL)
Growth, Housing and Global Imbalances
03.05.2017:
Christoph Schult (Halle Institute for Economic Research -- IWH)
Sectoral Transformation in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model with Multiple Regions and Multiple Sectors
01.02.2017:
Hans Torben Löfflad (Leipzig University)
House Price Dynamics and Wealth Inequality: Ricardo Revisited
25.01.2017:
Dr. Benjamin Auer (Leipzig University)
Are anomaly-separating methodologies up to their designated task?
2016
07.12.2016:
Maria Näther (Leipzig University)
Core Periphery Formation in Interbank Markets
29.06.2016:
Jan Weidner (TU Darmstadt)
Hierarchies in Public Institutions: Evidence from Central Banks
22.06.2016:
Frank Simmen (Leipzig University)
Specific Oil Price Shocks and the Australian Macroeconomy
15.06.2016:
Matthias Huber (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Ethnic Heterogeneity and Student Achievement: Evidence from Project STAR
27.01.2016:
Mathias Klein (TU Dortmund University)
Austerity and Private Debt
20.01.2016:
Juliane Gerstenberger (Leipzig University)
Corporate Finance and Monetary Policy - Evidence from German Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
2015
27.10.2015:
Stefan Angrick (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo)
Balance-of-Payments Disequilibria and Monetary Policy Autonomy: An Examination of Open-Economy Policy Constraints
22.07.2015:
Hans Torben Löfflad (Leipzig University)
Is there a Negative Natural Real Interest Rate? Evidence from Auerbach-Kotlikoff
15.07.2015:
Matthias Wieschemeyer (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
International Migration and the European Crisis
08.07.2015:
Björn Urbansky (Leipzig University)
Global Liquidity Glut, Capital Controls and the Pretence of Knowledge in China and the U.S.
17.06.2015:
Karl Trela (Leipzig University)
Decision Support Methods for Climate Adaptation Policy
10.06.2015:
Jingjing Lyu (Leipzig University)
Did Chinese Outward Activity Attenuate or Aggravate the Great Recession in Developing Countries?
03.06.2015:
Raphael Fischer (Leipzig University)
Regional Heterogeneity, Aging Society and the Rise of Public Debt in Japan in the Post-Bubble Crisis: Lessons from the EMU
15.04.2015:
David Klenert (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Infrastructure and Inequality: Insights from Incorporating Key Economic Facts about Household Heterogeneity
28.01.2015:
Robert Unger (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Traditional or Shadow Banks - Who Originated the US Credit Boom?
14.01.2015:
Sophia Latsos (Leipzig University)
Do Federal Reserve Bank Presidents have a Regional Bias?
2014
17.12.2014:
Benjamin Larin (Leipzig University)
Expansionary Asset Price Bubbles in an Auerbach-Kotlikoff Model
03.12.2014:
Sebastian Böhm (Leipzig University)
Inequality Dynamics when Capital Returns Exceed the Rate of Economic Growth
12.11.2014:
Nomtha Vellem (Leipzig University)
The Impact of Oil Price Changes on Selected Economic Indicators: A Case Study of South Africa
05.11.2014:
Maria Näther (Leipzig University)
The Effect of the Central Bank's Standing Facility on Interbank Lending and Bank Liquidity
16.07.2014:
Jian Li (Goethe University Frankfurt)
The Importance of Early Life War Experience for Health and Wealth Outcomes in China
09.07.2014:
Björn Urbansky (Leipzig University)
Spontaneous Order and Economic Developments in China and Japan from a Historical Perspective
02.07.2014:
Marika Behnert, Sören Graupner (Leipzig University)
Crop Rotation and Complex Dynamics in Interacting Cobweb Markets
25.06.2014:
Marian Panganiban (Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena)
Group Dynamics in Social Dilemmas: An Agent-Based Model
04.06.2014:
Katharina Knoll (FU Berlin)
No Price like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012
23.04.2014:
Frank Hüttner (HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management)
Liability Situations with Joint Tortfeasors
05.02.2014:
Pablo Duarte (Leipzig University)
Informal Finance and Capital Inflows in Latin America
29.01.2014:
Carolin Holzmann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Are Anti-Tax-Avoidance Measures Effective? Effects of Earnings-Stripping Rules on Profit Shifting to Tax Havens
22.01.2014:
Nadia Yerly (University of Fribourg)
Haushaltsdisziplin: Institutionelle Messmethode
2013
27.11.2013:
Sebastian Böhm (Leipzig University)
Endogenous Human Capital Formation and Directed Technological Change
06.11.2013:
Daniel Willam (Leipzig University)
Zombie Bank Lending and Policy Countermeasures: A Welfare Analysis
17.07.2013:
Björn Urbansky (Leipzig University)
Spontaneous Order and Economic Developments in China and Japan from a Historical Perspective
19.06.2013:
Bastian Gawellek (Leipzig University)
Efficiency of German Universities and the Excellence Initiative
29.05.2013:
David Leuwer (Leipzig University)
Scrapping Subsidies in Times of Global Crisis: How Long is the Shadow of Fiscal Stimulus?
24.04.2013:
Dr. Andreas Schäfer (Leipzig University)
Inequality, Life Expectancy and Pollution
03.04.2013:
Andrés Zambrano Ph.D. (University of los Andes)
Endogeneous Employment and Incomplete Markets
16.01.2013:
Dr. Sabine Klinger (IAB Nuremberg)
Decomposing Beveridge Curve Dynamics by Correlated Unobserved Components
2012
12.12.2012:
Dr. Berno Büchel (University of Hamburg)
Do Consumers' Preferences Really Matter? Spatial Competition with Restricted Strategies
05.12.2012:
Dominik Karos (University of Saarbrücken)
Power Indices: Monotonicity vs. the Paradox of Smaller Coalitions
28.11.2012:
Sascha Bützer (LMU Munich)
Macroeconomic Imbalances in the Euro Area: A Matter of Culture?
07.11.2012:
Michael Kloß (Ifo Dresden)
Long-Term Unempolyment Benefits and the Hazard Rate - Evidence from the German Hartz IV Reform
24.10.2012:
Hendrik Hagedorn (DIW Berlin)
A Model of Austrian Economics
10.10.2012:
Robert Lehmann (Ifo Dresden)
Forecasting GDP at the Regional Level with Many Predictors
18.07.2012:
Wolfgang Nagl (Ifo Dresden)
Better Safe than Sorry? The Effects of Income Risks on Wages
04.07.2012:
Alexander von Kotzebue (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Charitable Giving, Tax Exemptions, and Fundraising
27.06.2012:
Lei Ji (EUI Florence)
Rethinking Directed Technical Change
20.06.2012:
Prof. Dr. Stefan Wagner (ESMT Berlin)
Patent Thickets, Public Goods, and Conflict Resolution
06.06.2012:
David Leuwer (Leipzig University)
The Exchange Rate Susceptibility of Some European Core Industries and the Currency Union
09.05.2012:
Michael Diemer (Leipzig University)
Who should rescue subsidiaries of multinational banks?
02.05.2012:
Dr. Christian Feilcke (TU Munich)
Endogene Informationen und Versicherungszwang
11.04.2012:
Daniel William (Leipzig University)
Forbearance Lending and Banks' funding
07.03.2012:
Tomas Slacik (ECB)
Early Warning Indicators for Currency Crises
25.01.2012:
Franziska J. Weiss (University of Zurich)
Engel's Law and Directed Technical Change
18.01.2012:
Robert Unger (Deutsche Bundesbank)
Does the Natural Rate of Interest Ensure Monetary Stability, Financial Stability or Both?
2011
14.12.2011:
Martin Kohl (Leipzig University)
Size of Government
07.12.2011:
Björn Urbansky (Leipzig University)
Displacements and Economic Order - How Markets Adjust to Financial Liberalization
30.11.2011:
Robert Stelter (University of Rostock and UCL (IRES))
Endogenous Age Structures in OLG-Models
23.11.2011, 14:00 Uhr:
PD Dr. Ulf Christian Ewert (University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg)
An Agent-Based Simulation of Early Hanseatic Trade
02.11.2011:
Dr. Steffen Müller (University of Erlangen-Nurmberg)
Teacher Experience and the Class Size Effect - Experimental Evidence
20.07.2011:
Alexander Fink (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia)
When Do Rulers Delegate Powers to Jurisdictions? The Independence of Medieval European Cities
13.07.2011:
Dr. Marco Sunder (Leipzig University)
Efficiency in German Manufacturing, 1998-2009
06.07.2011:
Björn Urbansky (Leipzig University)
Krise und Ordnung - eine Hayekianische Analyse der Finanzmarktkrise
29.06.2011:
Ekkehard Köhler (Walter Eucken Insitute, Freiburg)
An Impact Analysis of Major Events of the Financial Crisis on the Swiss Interest Rate Anomaly
22.06.2011:
Sebastian Böhm (Leipzig University)
Economic Perspectives in East Germany - A Theoretical Approach
15.06.2011:
Maike Irrek (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
Economic Perspectives in East Germany - Empirical Results
08.06.2011:
Dominic Quint (FU Berlin)
How Large Is the Stress from the Common Monetary Policy in the Euro Area?
01.06.2011:
Finn Marten Körner (University of Oldenburg)
Global Imbalances: How the Real World Defeats Equilibrium Models
18.05.2011:
Joscha Beckmann (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Nonlinear Adjustment of Nominal Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Fundamentals
02.02.2011:
Katja Neugebauer (IAW, Tübingen)
All You Need Is Trade: On the Interdependence of Trade and Asset Holdings
26.01.2011:
Bastian Gawellek (Leipzig University)
The Greek Disease and Excessive Deficits in the EU: Commit to Prevent - not to Correct
19.01.2011:
Michael Diemer (Leipzig University)
Bank Bailout and Competition
12.01.2011:
Daniel Singh (LMU Munich)
Timing of Tracking: The Question, the Problem and the Possible Answer
05.01.2011:
Stefan Egle (Leipzig University)
The Green Paradox in a Ramsey Model with a Non-renewable Resource
2010
15.12.2010:
Dr. Andreas Schäfer (Leipzig University)
Trading Population against Pollution?
08.12.2010:
Martina Kuntze (Leipzig University)
Bundesstaatliche (De-)Zentralisierungstendenzen im Lichte jüngerer Föderalismusreformen
01.12.2010:
Frank Hüttner (Leipzig University)
Bedeutung gruppierter Regressionsvariablen und Kooperative Spieltheorie
24.11.2010:
Holger Zemanek (Leipzig University)
Asymmetric International Risk Sharing and Labour Market Flexibility in the Euro Area
03.11.2010:
Co-Pierre Georg (University of Jena)
Systemische Risiken in Interbankenmärkten
07.07.2010:
Johannes Diederich (University of Heidelberg)
What Drives Individual Willingness-to-pay for Greenhouse Gas Reductions?
30.06.2010:
Axel Löffler (Leipzig University)
Creditor vs. Debtor Central Banks: Inflation Targeting in Emerging Markets?
16.06.2010:
Bing Zhu (European Business School)
U.S. Regional Housing Bubbles and Sources of Spillovers
09.06.2010:
Izabela Ratajczak-Juszko (Oxford Climate Policy, Stockholm Environment Institute)
Negotiating Climate Change. From Copenhagen to Cancun
02.06.2010:
Wolfgang Bretschneider (Leipzig University)
Bezahlbarkeitsmessung - ein mikroökonomisches Argument für den Resteinkommensansatz
19.05.2010:
Philipp Mandel (Leipzig University)
Size Matters. The Relevance and Welfare Surplus of Agreeable College Class Size
26.01.2010:
Anke Hertwig (Leipzig University)
Oil Price Fluctuations and Economic Stability in Oil Exporting Countries
19.01.2010:
Christina Ziegler (Leipzig University, Ifo Munich)
Wage Determination and Current Account Imbalances in Central and Eastern Europe
05.01.2010:
Maik Pradel (Leipzig University)
Prozyklizität von Basel II - eine vertragstheoretische Analyse
2009
08.12.2009:
Dr. Andreas Schäfer (Leipzig University)
Economic Development in Eastern Germany: History, Expectations and Public Policy
24.11.2009:
Sebastian Böhm (Leipzig University)
Stabilität und Eindeutigkeit von Gleichgewichten in Modellen der räumlichen Faktormobilität in diskreter Zeit
14.07.2009:
Andreas Hoffmann (Leipzig University)
Foreign Credit and Overinvestment in Central and Eastern Europe
07.07.2009:
Franziska Kohl (Leipzig University)
Non-monotonic Relationship between Competition and Growth
30.06.2009:
Sebastian Petrick (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
The Impact of Temperature on Global Residential Energy Demand
23.06.2009:
Zuzana Potuzakova (University of Economics, Prague)
Mitteleuropa und wirtschaftliche Immigration
16.06.2009:
Steffen Elstner (Ifo Munich)
Transmission of Monetary Policy and Investigation based on ifo Microdata
09.06.2009:
Adrian Höhl (Leipzig University)
Central Banking and Financial Markets Stability
02.06.2009:
Stephan Freitag (Leipzig University)
The Endogeneity of Trade and Exchange Rate Stability in East Asia
26.05.2009:
Christina Ziegler (Leipzig University, Ifo Munich)
Wage Determination and Capital Markets in Central and Eastern Europe
19.05.2009:
Axel Löffler (Leipzig University)
Global Asymmetries in Monetary Policy Operations: Creditor versus Debtor Central Banks
05.05.2009:
Tobias Hiller, Stefan Wappler (Leipzig University)
Das Chi-Lösungskonzept und die Lohnentwicklung in Deutschland – Ein Vergleich alternativer Arbeitsmarktvariablen
28.04.2009:
Dr. Andreas Schäfer (Leipzig University)
Endogenous Intellectual Property Rights And Economic Growth
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