Applied Microeconomics Seminar (AMiS)

This seminar series covers research topics in empirical microeconomics, including (but not restricted to) development economics, political economy, labor economics, and urban economics. Seminar organizers are Giulia Buccione, Diego Puga and Tom Zohar.

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First term
25 September 2025	13:30	Tito Boeri (Bocconi University), Do Elections Moderate or Polarize Political Rhetoric? (joint with Nina Nikiforova and Guido Tabellini).

30 September 2025	13:30	Graciela Sanromán (Universidad de la República Uruguay), Do Cash Transfers Improve Credit Performance? Evidence from Low-Income Borrowers.

2 October 2025	13:30	joint FIRMS - Paula Navarro (Norwegian School of Economics), Capacity Disruptions and Pricing: Evidence from US Airlines .

5 November 2025	13:30	joint FIRMS - Ozgen Kiribrahim (Arizona State University), Place-Based Environmental Regulations and Labor Market Dynamics .

6 November 2025	13:30	Sara Lowes (University of California, San Diego. ), Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo (joint with Eduardo Montero, Nathan Nunn, and James A. Robinson).

20 November 2025	13:30	Ciprian Domnisoru ( Aalto School of Business- Helsinki GSE), The Role of Firms in Shaping the Work, Study, and Graduation Choices of Student Employees.

Second term
26 February 2026	13:30	Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Underminded Social Cohesion in the US.

5 March 2026	13:30	Alex Willén (Norwegian School of Economics), The Rise of Specialists in the Workplace: Productivity Gains, Coordination Costs, and Learning .

12 March 2026	13:30	Elena Manresa (Princeton University), Student, Teacher, and School Decompositions in Elementary School Attainment. The Case of Denmark (joint with Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen, Miriam Gensowski, Jeppe Soondergard, Jonas Strøyberg, and Petra Thiemann).

19 March 2026	13:30	Mateo Montenegro (Toulouse School of Economics), TBA.

26 March 2026	13:30	Caitlin Myers (Middlebury College), TBA.