Winter 2015/16

October 22, 2015	James Malcomson (University of Oxford, Emeritus Professor) Relational Incentive Contracts with Persistent Private Information
November 5, 2015	Michael Burda (HU Berlin) Not working at work: loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
November 12, 2015	Bernd Fitzenberger (HU Berlin) End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed Jointly organized with the Quantitative Economic Colloquium
November 19, 2015	Christoph Sajons (Uni Freiburg) Does candidate information on the ballot increase voter satisfaction? Evidence from a field experiment
December 3, 2015	Georg Meran (TU Berlin) A Theory of Optimal Green Defaults
December 17, 2015	Leonardo Gasparini (Universidad Nacional de la Plata) Assessing inequality in Latin America from a global perspective
January 14, 2016	Theocharis Grigoriadis (FU Berlin) Russian Revolution & the Soft Budget Constraint
January 28, 2016	Peter Funk (Uni Köln) Affluence, Activity and Apathy
February 4, 2016	Daniel Schunk (Uni Mainz) The KIDS-WIN-study: preliminary evidence from a randomized-controlled field experiment

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

Please note: In the summer term 2016, the Research Seminar in Economics will take place every Thursday from 12 am to 2 pm.