Listed here are upcomming and past seminars on economics and finance at the UiS School of Business and Law. Seminars are usually held on Wednesdays from 12:15 to 13:15 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
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November 2025
- Thomas Buser, Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam. Title: TBA (19.11.25)
October 2025
- Peter Schott, Juan Trippe Professor of International Economics at Yale University. Title: TBA (29.10.25)
- Alessandro Toppeta, Assistant Professor of Economics at Stockholm University, Title: Effective Families or Effective Schools? Experimental Evidence on Fostering Children's Numeracy (15.10.25)
- Anders Humlum, Assistant Professor of Economics and Fujimori/Mou Faculty Scholar at the Booth School of Business,University of Chicago (01.10.25)
September 2025
- Alexander Guembel, Professor of Finance, Toulouse School of Economics. Title: TBA (17.09.25)
- Ben Greiner, Professor of Empirical Business Research at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. Title: TBA (10.09.25)
- Marcus M. Opp, Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics. - Green Capital Requirements (NB! Thursday, 04.09.25)
August 2025
- Renee Adams, Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Title: TBA (27.08.25)
June 2025
- Mikko Silliman, Researcher at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. Beyond Training: Informal learning, worker agency, and market structure (11.06.25)
- Seda Ertac, professor of economics at Koc University - Exposure to Competitive Performance Environments and Willingness to Compete (04.06.25)
May 2025
- Catherine Eckel, Sara and John Lindsey Professor in the Liberal Arts and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University, The Gender Leadership Gap in Competitive and Cooperative Institutions, (with Phil Grossman, Lata Gangadharan, Miranda Lambert, Nina Xue) (28.05.25)
- Marcus M. Opp, Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics. - Green Capital Requirements (postsponed to September 4, 2025)
- Tomas Dominguez-Iino, Research Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. - Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains (14.05.25)
- Chris Veld, Professor at Monash Univeristy, Melbourne. Shocks and Expected Stock Returns (13.05.25)
- Wendelin Schnedler, Research Fellow at the University of Paderborn. Seminar title: Do Women Loose Out Because Men Man Up? (07.05.25)
April 2025
- Banu Demir, Associate Professor of Economics at Department of Economics and Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford - Plastic Turkey: International Impacts of China's Waste Import (30.04.25)
- Timo Boppart, Professor of Macroeconomics and Political Economy at the Department of Economics, University of Zürich - Seminar title: "Idea Rents and Firm Growth" (with Peter J. Klenow, Reiko Laski, and Huiyu Li) 23.04.25)
- Alexander James, Associate Professor at the University of Wyoming College of Business. - Unconditional Cash Transfers & Voter Turnout (02.04.25)
March 2025
- Nina Drange, Frischsenteret - Parental Sibling Sex Composition and The Impact of Kinship Foster Care on Child Outcomes (co-authors: Simon Bensnes, Joseph Doyle, Øystein Hernæs) (17.03.25)
- Frikk Nesje, University of Copenhagen - Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality (12.03.25)