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.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is David Slusky, University of Kansas. David presents "The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Abortion Clinic Visits". Due to COVID-19, 33 states in the USA banned elective medical procedures, and 13 of these states included surgical abortions.

Department of Economics welcomes you to a seminar with Alex Teytelboym, University of Oxford, presenting "An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan". We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan: one treatment to address liquidity constraints, one to address information frictions, and one to address challenges of self-control. Our Tempered Thompson Algorithm balances the goals of maximizing the precision of treatment effect estimates and maximizing the welfare of experimental participants.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, SSE. The seminar speaker is Markus Pettersson, SSE, presenting "Endogenous technological change along the demographic transition".