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Agenda
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NovemberMacroeconomics, SeminarsDaniel JAAR (EUI, PUC Chile) “Informality, Inflation and Fiscal Progressivity in Developing Countries”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM19
NovemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsFrederic KOESSLER (HEC)
“A belief-based approach to signaling (with Marie Laclau and Tristan Tomala...
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM20
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Mathematical Finance, SeminarsSara SVALUTO-FERRO (University of Verona) “Signature-based models: theory, calibration, and expansions”
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM20
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Mathematical Finance, SeminarsJulio BACKHOFF (University of Vienna) “t.b.a.”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM26
NovemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsHéloïse CLOLERY (Bocconi)
“The Effects of Quotas on Team Decisions: Prior Biases and Learning”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM27
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance, SeminarsArmon REZAI (Institute for Political Economy of Public Policy ) “Intergenerational welfare effects of emissions targets in small open economies”
10:00 AM - 11:00 PM27
NovemberFinance-Insurance, Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance, SeminarsHens THORSTEN (UZH ) “t.b.a.”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM27
NovemberSeminars, SociologyOscar STUHLER (Northwestern University)
“Agency Expressions in Organizational Communication”
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM02
DecemberApplied Seminar, SeminarsMichael SIEGENTHALER (ETH ZÜRICH)
“t.b.a.”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM03
DecemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsMartin VAETH (PSE)
“TBA”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM04
DecemberFinance-Insurance, Quantitative Sustainable Economics and Finance, SeminarsMarkus LIEPPOLD (UZH ) “t.b.a.”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM04
DecemberActuariat et Risques Contemporains, Finance-Insurance, SeminarsLHAUT Stéphane (CREST) “Wasserstein–Aitchison GAN for angular measures of multivariate extremes”
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM10
DecemberMicroeconomics, SeminarsGarima SHARMA (Northwestern)
“TBA”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM11
DecemberFinance-Insurance, SeminarsAmedeo ANDRIOLLO (Université Paris-Dauphine PSL) “Causality versus Serial Correlation: an Asymmetric Portmanteau Test”
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM11
DecemberFinance-Insurance, SeminarsPierluigi VALLARINO (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano Switzerland) “A General randomized test for alpha”
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM11
DecemberSeminars, SociologyMads MEIER JAEGER (University of Copenha...
“Breadth, Depth, or Consecration? Omnivorousness Tastes in Music and Perceptio...
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM16
DecemberApplied Seminar, SeminarsEdoardo CISCATO (KU LEVEN)
“t.b.a.”
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM18
DecemberThere are no upcoming events at this time.Publications
economics
Consumer Mobility, Offline and Online Regional Trade: Evidence From High-Frequency Transaction Data
The shift from offline to online purchasing is reshaping trade patterns: a weaker effect of distance has been observed in digital transactions. This study analyzes these dynamics at an unprecedented s ...
International Economic Review, 2025
statistics
Large Language Models as Markov Chains
Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably efficient across a wide range of natural language processing tasks and well beyond them. However, a comprehensive theoretical analysis of the LLMs' generali ...
ArXiv Stat, 2025
sociology
Uninvited Protagonists: The Networked Agency of Venezuelan Platform Data Workers
Data workers use digital platforms to perform on-demand online tasks for technology industries, in a competitive landscape that extends beyond national borders and drives down remunerations. Using a m ...
New Technology, Work and Employment, 2025
sociology
The role of digital platforms in market coordination through quality valuations. The case of restaurants
How do digital platforms affect coordination in the restaurant market? In particular, how do they reshape firms’ positions in the quality space and their dependence on both consumers’ valuations a ...
European Journal of Sociology, 2025













