Agenda

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Lecturers Susanna Subirà and Estel Gelabert will sit in the Science Carriage expert's seat this week on the train going from Barcelona to the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The train will leave at 11:28 a.m. from Plaça Catalunya. They will also be on the train leaving Sabadell Parc del Nord at 12:27 p.m. and travelling to the UAB. 

Lecturers Subirà and Gelabert, both from the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, will be chatting with train passengers on issures related to perinatal mental health affecting pregnant and post-partum women.

Both lecturers have participated in creating the Science Carriage podcasts, which can be consulted here.

Place: Science Carriage, FGC. UAB-BCN, 11:28 a.m. - Sabadell Parc del Nord-UAB 12:27 p.m.

Date: Thursday 1, February2024 - 11:20h

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Next February 1 at 12:00, the presentation by Mikhail Freer (University of Essex) "Revealed Preference Analysis Under Limited Attention" will take place in the Sala de Graus.

Mikhail is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Essex. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at ECARES of the University of Brussels and held a research associate position at the Department of Economics at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). In addition, he was a member of the Group for the Advancement of Revealed Preferences (GARP).

His research interests are: experimental economics, behavioral economics, game theory and revealed preference theory.

Date: Thursday 1, February2024 - 12:00h

End date: Thursday 1, February2024 - 13:00h

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Next February 2 at 12:00, the presentation by Antoine Zerbini (LSE) will take place "Segment and Rule: Modern Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes" in the Sala de Graus.

Antoine is a PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He works on applied models of information economy and political economy and study of issues of technology and modern censorship, media and transparency and debugging in organizations.

Date: Friday 2, February2024 - 12:00h

End date: Friday 2, February2024 - 13:00h

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Next February 5 at 12:00 p.m., the presentation "Staying Together Forever? Life-cycle Effects of Overoptimistic Couples" will take place in the Sala de Graus

David Koll is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Mannheim and a member of the Collaborative Research Center TR 224. He also works as a research associate at the European University Institute with Philipp Kircher in his ERC project.

He obtained a PhD in Economics from the EUI in September 2020. His research fields are macroeconomics, labor and public economics.

Date: Monday 5, February2024 - 12:00h

End date: Monday 5, February2024 - 13:00h

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Next February 6 at 12:00 p.m., the presentation "Optimal Unemployment Insurance Financing: Theory and Evidence from Two US States" will take place in the Sala de Graus.

Sara's research interests are in the fields of public economics, labor economics and political economy. His work integrates economic theory with microdata analysis to study social insurance programs and labor market inequalities.

Date: Tuesday 6, February2024 - 12:00h

End date: Tuesday 6, February2024 - 13:00h

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Next February 7 at 12:00 p.m., the presentation "Fiscal Exchange and Tax Compliance: Strengthening the Social Contract Under Low State Capacity" will take place in the Sala de Graus.

Laura was born in 1993 in Munich. He obtained his degree in Cultural Studies and International Business, as well as in Business Administration and Economics from the University of Passau. After that, he did his master's degree in Development Economics at the University of Göttingen. During this time, he worked as a student assistant at RWI and the University's Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. His main research interests are development economics, applied microeconomics and impact assessment.

Date: Wednesday 7, February2024 - 12:00h

End date: Wednesday 7, February2024 - 13:00h