Economics and Finance Seminars

Listed here are upcoming 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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March 2026

  • Heitor Pellegrina, Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Seminar title: Public R&D Meets Economic Development:Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution (04.03.26)
  • Christoph Vanberg, Professor at the Alfred Weber Insitute for Economics, Heidelberg University, Seminar title: TBA (25.03.26)

April 2026

  • Matej Bajgar, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, Seminar title: TBA (15.04.26)
  • Karin S. Thorburn, Professor at the Department of Finance and Centre for Corporate Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Seminar title: TBA (22.04.26)
  • Kristiina Huttunen, Professor and Vice Head of the Department of Economics at Aalto University. Seminar title: TBA (29.04.26)

May 2026

  • Sébastien Pouget, Professor of Finance at the Univeristy of Toulouse Capitole. Seminar title: TBA (06.05.26)
  • Paul Dutronc-Postel, Senior Economist at the Institut des Politiques Publiques in Paris. Seminar title: TBA (13.05.26)
  • Vladimir Vladimirov, Professor of Finance at the University of Amsterdam. Seminar title: TBA (20.05.26)
  • Bjørn Espen Eckbo, Tuck Centennial Professor for Finance at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth's. Seminar title: TBA (27.05.26)

June 2026

  • Ingrid Huitfeldt, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Economics Department at the BI - Norwegian Business School. Seminar title: TBA (12.06.26)

December 2025

November 2025

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. Title: Firm Premia and Match Effects in Pay vs. Amenities (01.10.25)

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December 2024

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September 2024

  • Øivind A. Nilsen - Mixed Frequency Data in a Multiproduct Sticky Prices Model (11.09.24)

June 2024

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November 2023

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September 2023

August 2023

June 2023

  • Ingar Haaland - Misperceived Returns to Active Investing (14.06.23)
  • Kjetil Bjorvatn - Childcare, labor supply, and business development: Experimental evidence from Uganda (7.06.23)

May 2023

  • Woan Foong Wong - Multimodal Transport Network (31.05.23)
  • Anne Hannusch - Cohabitation and Child Development (10.05.23)
  • Clément Malgouyre - From Public Labs to Private Firms: Magnitude and Channels of R&D Spillovers (31.05.23)

April 2023

  • David Hemous - Climate change, directed innovation, and energy transition: The long-run consequences of the shale gas revolution (19.04.23)
  • Cloé Garnache - Sticky Asset Prices (12.04.23)

March 2023

  • Siri Isaksson - What Goes Around (Sometimes) Comes Around: Gender Differences in Retaliation (29.03.23)
  • Oliko Vardishvili - The Macroeconomic Cost of College Dropouts (22.03.23)
  • Julian Vedeler Johnsen - Adverse Impacts of Supply Restrictions in Secondary Schooling (15.03.23)
  • Joschka Wanner - Multinational Production, Trade, and Carbon Emissions

February 2023

  • Yabin Wang - Wholesale funding runs (15.02.23)
  • Isabel Z. Martínez - Wealth and Income Mobility over the Life-Cycle. Evidence from Swiss Tax Data. (22.02.23)