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Brown Bag Seminar | A credible bargaining experiment with Savreen Kaur Nanda

5/2/2022, 12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Savreen Kaur Nanda, SSE, presenting “A credible bargaining experiment”. Participants endogenously generate a joint surplus by undertaking a real effort task, whose output is presumably useful to the experimenter independent of the bargaining data. I apply a 2X3 experiment design on this subjective claims paradigm.

Seminar in Economics | Fertility and Family Labor Supply with Hamish Low

4/27/2022, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Hamish Low, University of Oxford, who will present "Fertility and Family Labor Supply". We study the importance of fertility adjustments for labor market responsiveness of men and women using longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms. We estimate a life-cycle model of family labor supply in which couples choose the timing and number of children, which also replicates the asymmetric fertility adjustments.

Support the future of Ukraine

4/19/2022, 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) together with the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and the Embassy of Ukraine in Sweden invite students, faculty, staff and partners to an evening to learn more about the impact of the war in Ukraine and how we can support fellow students and faculty members from our partner school, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) and Ukrainian academics and students more generally.

Seminar in Economics | BBC, Brexit, and Balanced Reporting with Vardges Levonyan, University of Zurich

4/6/2022, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Vardges Levonyan, University of Zurich, presenting "BBC, Brexit, and Balanced Reporting". Media organizations can shape news via their choice of coverage and slant. We measure the aggregate slant of the BBC from 2014-18, benchmark it against UK newspapers of known political leaning, and show that it took a sharp turn to the right in the runup to the Brexit vote.