Welcome to the 2022 Ohlin Lecture at the Stockholm School of Economics

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Adam Altmejd, SSE, presenting "Inheritance of Fields of Study". Swedish children are often three times more likely than the average child to attain the degree that their parent holds. To estimate how much of this association is caused by the choices of the parent, I employ a regression discontinuity design to study the choices of individuals who applied to Swedish universities between 1977 and 1999 and evaluate if their enrollment in fields increase the probability that their children later study the same topic.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Isis Durrmeyer, Toulouse School of Economics, presenting "The Welfare Costs of Urban Traffic Regulations". We compare the short-term impacts of alternative transportation policies to reduce road traffic. Our results suggest that all the policies are costly for individuals: the benefits of relaxing road congestion do not offset the costs of substituting away from cars.

ACE Academic Insights Breakfast Seminar, February 2022

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Chloé Nibourel, SSE, presenting "Young politicians in Sweden".

The Forum for Research on Eastern Europe and Emerging Economies (FREE) network with two of its members, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) and the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), invite you to an online seminar and discussion on the risk of war between Russia and Ukraine and potential consequences. Join the discussion on 17 February 2022!

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Christian Bayer, University of Bonn, presenting "Monopsony Makes Firms not only Small but also Unproductive: Why East Germany has not Converged". When employers face a trade-off between growing large and paying low wages—that is, when they have monopsony power—some productive employers will decide to acquire fewer customers, forgo sales, and remain small. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that East German plants (compared to West German ones) face a steeper sizewage curve, invest less into marketing, and remain smaller.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Matthias Hänsel, SSE, presenting "Job-saving policies and the Business Cycle". The seminar will discuss ongoing work on the macroeconomic effects of labor market policies aiming to prevent job separations (e.g. firing restriction, short term work).

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Ana Reynoso, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Michigan, who will be speaking on "The impact of divorce laws in the equilibrium in the marriage market". This paper investigates how the adoption of unilateral divorce affects the gains from marriage and who marries whom. Exploiting variation in the timing of adoption across the US states, I first show that unilateral divorce increases assortative matching among newlyweds.

Associate Professor Yuliya Snihur from Toulouse Business School presented a paper on how new ventures in nascent markets pivot their business models as they develop their organizational identity.