Winter 2014/15

October 16, 2014	Peter Mohr (FU Berlin) An Introduction to Neuroeconomics
October 30, 2014	Nick Powdthavee (London School of Economics) Would you pay for transparently useless advice? A test of boundaries of beliefs in the folly of predictions
November 13, 2014	António Afonso (Technical University of Lisbon) Monetary Developments and Expansionary Fiscal Consolidations: Evidence from the EMU
November 14, 2014	Jonathan Haidt (New York University) Three stories about capitalism: The moral psychology of economic life and strife
November 27, 2014	Jeanette Brosig-Koch (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Information and Quality - Designing Non-monetary Performance Incentives for Physicians
December 11, 2014	Timm Bönke (FU Berlin) Eigenleistung und Erbschaft in der deutschen Vermögensverteilung
January 8, 2015	Volker Grossmann (Université de Fribourg) Optimal Public Insurance and Health Inequality with Biologically Founded Human Ageing
January 22, 2015	Carlo-Fiorio (University of Milan) Ownership and Performance in the Market for Corporate Control: The Role of State-Owned Enterprises
February 5, 2015	Alois Stutzer (Universität Basel) Voting Rights and Migrant Integration: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Support for the Research Seminar in Economics by the Deutsche Bundesbank, Hauptverwaltung Berlin is gratefully acknowledged.