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June 2019
ECONtribute PhD Mini Course – Thomas Winberry (Chicago Booth)
Thomas Winberry (Chicago Booth) will be giving a mini course on "Solving heterogeneous agent models in discrete and continuous time" offered by the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute on Tuesday, June 4. It will consist of two parts of about 2 to 2.5 hours (11-13 and 14-16 o'clock) and take place in room 510. If you are interested in participating, please write an E-Mail to jpfeifer@uni-koeln.de. Please note, that places are filled on a first-come-first-served basis.
Find out more »ECONtribute PhD Mini Course: Inga Deimen (University of Arizona)
ECONtribute PhD Mini Course: “Topics in strategic communication" For more information contact: Heike Kirch kirch@wiso.uni-koeln.de
Find out more »ECONtribute – Seminar: Christina Schneider (UCSD)
The Political Economy of Bilateral Bailouts: IMF loans during times of financial crisis often occur in conjunction with bilateral financial rescues. These bilateral bailouts are substantial in size and a central component of international cooperation during financial crises. We analyze the political economy of bilateral bailouts and study the trade-offs that potential creditor governments experience when other countries find themselves in financial distress. Creditor governments want to stabilize crisis countries by providing additional liquidity, particularly if the crisis country is…
Find out more »ECONtribute PhD Mini Course: Inga Deimen (University of Arizona)
ECONtribute PhD Mini Course: “Topics in strategic communication" For more information contact: Heike Kirch kirch@wiso.uni-koeln.de
Find out more »July 2019
ECONtribute Workshop – Frontiers in Macrofinance and Financial History
Program: Frontiers in Macrofinance and Financial History - Bonn This workshop is jointly funded by the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy EXC 2126 and INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking). Organizer: Moritz Schularick. For more information please contact Elin Al Zaim: elin.zaim@uni-bonn.de
Find out more »ECONtribute Seminar: Petra Nieken (Uni Karlsruhe/KIT)
Petra Nieken: „Motivation and incentives in an online labor market“ (joint work with Sebastian Fest, Ola Kvaloy, and Anja Schöttner) Abstract: In this paper, we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect on quantity – and no effect on quality – irrespective of how the workers are…
Find out more »ECONtribute Seminar: Anja Schöttner (HU Berlin)
Anja Schöttner: „Non-Competitive Wage-Setting as a Cause of Unfriendly and Inefficient Leadership“ (joint work with Robert Dur and Ola Kvaloy) Abstract: This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can – in addition to the use of monetary incentives – motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles that differ in their non-monetary consequences for the worker's well-being. Some leadership…
Find out more »September 2019
ECONtribute Seminar: Johannes Stroebel (NYU)
Peer Effects in Product Adoption Abstract: We study the nature of peer effects in the market for new cell phones. Our analysis builds on de-identified data from Facebook that combine information on social networks with information on users’ cell phonemodels. To identify peer effects, we use variation in friends’ new phone acquisitions resulting from random phone losses and carrier-specific contract terms. A new phone purchase by a friend has a large positive and long-term effect on an individual’s own…
Find out more »Selten Salon: Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University)
"Kindererziehung aus ökonomischer Sicht: Von Ungleichheit, Helikoptereltern und Tiger-Mamas" This event is jointly organized with IZA (https://www.iza.org/de) 23. September 2019 Talk: 18:00- 19:30, Drinks and Snacks afterwards Universitätsclub Bonn e.V. Adresse: Konviktstr. 9, 53113 Bonn Anmeldung unter pakebusch@wiso.uni-koeln.de More Information Selten Salon Video
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