Seminars
2025-2026 Seminars
June 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
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| 01.06.26 | Antoni Estevadeordal (Georgetown Americas Institute) and Gaston Nievas (Paris School of Economics | UPF Economic History Seminar | “Trade and diplomacy: Economic determinants of international cooperation agreements and its effect on international trade in the post–World War II era” | ||
| 01.06.26 | Julieta Caunedo (Cornell University) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | "TBC" | ||
May 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04.05.26 | Matteo Maggiori (Stanford University) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Geoeconomic Pressure” | ||
| 04.05.26 | Xabier Garcia Fuente (Universitat de Barcelona) | UPF Economic History Seminar | “Social expenditure in Latin America during the twentieth century: A new database” | ||
| 05.05.26 | Tamma Carleton (Berkeley ARE) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 06.05.26 | Alessandro Palucci (PhD Student UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “Spatial frictions, input-output linkages, and access to the foreign market” | ||
| 06.05.26 | Stephanie Wang (University of Pittsburgh) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “The Malleability of Motivated Beliefs” | ||
| 07.05.26 | Alex MacKay (University of Virginia) | UPF Joint Management and Microeconomics Seminar | “Markups and Cost Pass-through Along the Supply Chain” | ||
| 11.05.26 | María José Fuentes Vasquez (UAB) | UPF Economic History Seminar | “The impact of liberal reforms on female education in Colombia in the first half of the 20 th Century: A regional approach” | ||
| 12.05.26 | Ryan Lewis (Colorado Boulder, visiting UPF) | UPF Finance Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 12.05.26 | Julia Cajal-Grossi (Geneva University) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 13.05.26 | Guillaume Frechette (NYU) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data” | ||
| 14.05.26 | Ima Sammani (Utrecht University) | UPF Management Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 18.05.26 | Núria Mas | UPF CRES Seminar | “Pushing Back Against Private Practice: The Unintended Effects of Paying Public Doctors More” | ||
| 18.05.26 | Guillem Blasco (Universitat de Barcelona) | UPF Economic History Seminar | “The Anatomy of Industrial Dualism: Mechanization, Productivity, and Local Externalities in Late Imperial Russia” | ||
| 18.05.26 | Pete Klenow (Stanford University) | UPF CRES Seminar | “Idea Rents and Firm Growth” | ||
| 19.05.26 | Christina Felfe (Konstanz University) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 20.05.26 | Federico Mattei (Phd student UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 21.05.26 | David Lagakos (Boston University) | UPF Departmental Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 26.05.26 | Svetlana Bryzgalova (LBS) | UPF Finance Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 26.05.26 | Réka Juhász (UBC) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 27.05.26 | Simone Cigna (PhD Student UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “The Shrinking Home: evidence from the housing crisis in Barcelona” | ||
| 27.05.26 | Katie Coffman (Harvard Business School) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “Discrimination, Rejection, and Willingness to Apply: Effects of Blind Hiring Processes” | ||
| 28.05.26 | Ina Ganguli (University of Massachusetts Amherst) | UPF Management Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 28.05.26 | Matteo Sfragara (Università degli Studi di Padova) | UPF Statistics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
April 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07.04.26 | Moses Shayo (Hebrew University) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 08.04.26 | Luca Looser, (PhD student UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “Frictions in Structural Change: Evidence from the Dust Bowl” | ||
| 08.04.26 | El Hadi Caoui (Univ. Toronto) | UPF Joint Microeconomics and Management Seminar | Estimating Consumer Preferences for LLMs: Evidence from LMArena | ||
| 09.04.26 | Bruno Cassiman (KU Leuven) | UPF Joint Management and Microeconomics Seminar | "TBA" | ||
| 09.04.26 | Cynthia Rush (Columbia University) | UPF Statistics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 10.04.26 | UPF Memorial Day to Honor Ghazala Azmat | Detailed program | |||
| 10.04.26 | Maxim Senkov (UB) | UPF Internal Microeconomics Seminar | “Optimal Voting Committee Design under State-Asymmetric Expertise” | ||
| 13.04.26 | Swati Dhingra (LSE) | CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | "TBC" | ||
| 13.04.26 | Luis Salvador Carulla | UPF-CRES Seminar | “Multi-project program evaluation for improving financing in heath care and research” | ||
| 14.04.26 | Xavier Jaravel (LSE University) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 15.04.26 | Matteo Giugovaz (PhD student UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “Law & Order and Social Capital” | ||
| 15.04.26 | Jan Knoepfle (Queen Mary University) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 16.04.26 | Krzysztof Łatuszyński (Warwick) | UPF Statistics Seminar | "Stereographic Markov Chain Monte Carlo” | ||
| 20.04.26 | Evi Pappa (UC3M) | CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Pricing Dynamics Under Financial Stress” (with E. Ahlander and M. Klein) | ||
| 20.04.26 | Maria Kalli (King’s College) | UPF Statistics Seminar | “Network Modeling of Asynchronous Change-Points in Multivariate Time Series” | ||
| 20.04.26 | Gianluca Russo (CUNEF) | UPF Economic History Seminar | “Inequality and social conflict in Catalonia” (with Daniel Carrera, Stefano Falcone, Andrea Pop) | ||
| 21.04.26 | Sara Machado | UPF-CRES Seminar | “Cognitive Function and Retirement Planning and Behavior: Evidence from European Statutory Retirement Age Policies” | ||
| 21.04.26 | Sascha Steffen (Frankfurt School) | UPF Finance Seminar | “The Cyclicality of Direct Lending” | ||
| 21.04.26 | Sebastian Otero (Columbia University) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “The Effects of Widespread Online Education on Market Structure and Enrollment” | ||
| 22.04.26 | Joaquin Varvasino (PhD Student UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “Limits of Free College in a Stratified School System” | ||
| 22.04.26 | Philipp Sadowski (Duke University) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “Complex Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and Choice by Greedy Approximation” (joint with Todd Sarver) | ||
| 27.04.26 | Ludwig Straub (Harvard University) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Optimal Long-Run Fiscal Policy with Heterogeneous Agents” | ||
| 28.04.26 | Laurent Fresard (Lugano) - Joint seminar with the management group | UPF Finance & Management Seminar | “TBA” | ||
| 28.04.26 | Elisa Macchi (Brown University) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | "Informal Redistribution Through Work” | ||
| 29.04.26 | Gabriel de Campos | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “When Educators Become Politicians” | ||
| 29.04.26 | Luis Salvador Carulla | UPF CRES Seminar | “Evaluación de la ineficiencia y el bajo valor en los sistemas de salud mental: Veinte años de experiencia internacional” | ||
| 29.04.26 | Roberto Corrao (Stanford University) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | "TBA" | ||
| 30.04.26 | Mathias Drton(Technical University of Munich) | UPF Statistics Seminar | “TBA” | ||
March 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02.03.26 | Diego Daurich (UCS, Marshall) | CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Zoning Out Opportunities: The Intergenerational Impact of Housing Supply Restrictions” | ||
| 03.03.26 | Manuel Gómez-Rodríguez |
UPF Job Talk |
“Improving Decision Making with Machine Learning, Provably” | ||
| 03.03.26 | Briant Knight (Brown University) |
UPF Applied Economics Seminar |
“Policing for profit? Evidence from post-Ferguson reforms in Missouri.” | ||
| 03.03.26 | Simon Freyaldenhoven (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar |
“On the Testability of the Anchor-Words Assumption in Topic Models” | ||
| 05.03.26 | Balázs Kovács (Yale School of Management, UPF Visiting) |
UPF Management Seminar |
“Political Alignment and Performance: From Golf Courses to Startups, Labs, and Patents” | ||
| 05.03.26 | Domènech Ruiz i Ballet (UB) |
UPF Statistics Seminar |
“Constructive Conditional Normalizing flows” | ||
| 06.03.26 | Albert Prades (CRES-UPF) |
UPF-CRES Seminar |
“Too Hot to Cope? The Role of Long-Term Care Against Heatwave Health Risks” | ||
| 06.03.26 | Leonard Treuren (KU Leuven, Visiting UPF) |
UPF Internal Microeconomics Seminar |
“Wage markups and buyer power in intermediate input markets” | ||
| 09.03.26 | Fabian Eckert (UC, San Diego) | CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | "The Housing Bottleneck” | ||
| 10.03.26 | Matthew C. Ringgenberg (University of Utah) |
UPF Finance Seminar |
“The Economics of Investor Engagement (Davidson Heath, Daniele Macciocchi, and Matthew C. Ringgenberg)” |
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| 10.03.26 | Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern University) |
UPF Applied Economics Seminar |
“The value of information for regulatory enforcement” | ||
| 10.03.26 | Oriol González-Casasús (UPF & BSE) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar |
“Beyond the Oracle: Misclassification-Robust Inference under Latent Grouped Heterogeneity” | ||
| 11.03.26 | Laura Veldkamp (Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business) |
UPF Departmental Seminar |
“The Data Economy: Measurement, Markets and Policy.” | ||
| 16.03.26 | Angélique Salanon (CRES-UPF Visiting) |
UPF-CRES Seminar |
“Impact of Emerging Infectious Diseases on Health System Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa” | ||
| 16.03.26 | Martin Beraja (UC, Berkeley) | CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Turning Straw Into Gold: Innovation, Appropriation, and the Emergence of Property Rights”. | ||
| 18.03.26 | Sixuan Li (PhD student, UPF) and Giuseppe Musillo (PhD visiting Student, Tilburg University) |
UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar |
“Conflicts and Formation of Gender Attitudes and Behaviors” and “The Sound of Automation: Digital Sampling and Creativity” |
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| 19.03.26 | Vera Rocha (Copenhagen Business School) |
UPF Management Seminar |
“Breaking in or burning out? Entrepreneurial careers and the gender gap in mental health” | ||
| 19.03.26 | Elena Manresa (Princeton University) |
UPF Statistics Seminar |
“Adversarial Method of Moments” (joint work with Ignacio Cigliutti) | ||
| 23.03.26 | Lamis Kattan (Georgetown University-SFS Qatar) |
UPF Economic History Seminar |
“Collective Memory and National Identity Formation: The Role of Family and the State” | ||
| 24.03.26 | Elena Pastorino (Stanford University) |
Special CREi-UPF Breakfast Seminar |
“Taxing the Rich? A Theory of Income and Wealth Inequality” (joint with V.V. Chari , P. J. Kehoe, P. Lopez , and S. Salgado) | ||
| 24.03.26 | Alexey Makarin (MIT Sloan) |
UPF Applied Economics Seminar |
“The War of Ideas: Institutions and Global Media Bias (with Sibo Liu, Jinfeng Wu, and Dong Zhang)” | ||
| 25.03.26 | Philipp Lergetporer (Assistant Professor of Economics at the Technical University of Munich) |
UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar |
“How generative AI affects performance of early-career workers – First results from a RCT in vocational schools” | ||
| 26.03.26 | Alfonso Gambardella (Bocconi University) |
UPF Management Seminar |
“Theory-based reasoning and performance” | ||
| 30.03.26 | Sarah Lein (University of Basel) | CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Inflation Expectations and Nominal Rigidities” | ||
February 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02.02.26 | Mª Jose Artega Garavito (Bocconi University) |
UPF Finance Seminar |
“The Rise of Green Banks in the U.S.” | ||
| 02.02.26 | Tino Martin Aguasca (CRES) |
UPF-CRES Seminar |
“Transforming public health and care services in Catalonia: health financing perspectives and contributions” | ||
| 03.02.26 | Nicole Fleskes (Rice University) |
UPF Finance Seminar |
“Regulation and Intermediation in Over-the-counter Markets” | ||
| 04.02.26 | Elena Aguilar (Princeton University) | CREi Recruitment Seminar | “Credit Constraints, Learning, and Spatial Misallocation” | ||
| 05.02.26 | Clara Xu (University of Pennsylvania) | CREi Recruitment Seminar | “The Value of Contingent Liquidity from Banks to Nonbank Lenders” | ||
| 05.02.26 | Ignacio Banares-Sanchez (LSE) |
UPF Applied Environmental Economics Seminar |
“Trading Trash on Tricycles” | ||
| 06.02.26 | Paula Donaldson (UC, San Diego) | CREi Recruitment Seminar | “Cross-sectional Identification with Heterogeneous Exposure to General Equilibrium Effects” | ||
| 11.02.26 | Juan F. Rubio Ramirez (Emory University) |
UPF Job Talk |
”Are Fiscal Transfers Inflationary?” (with J. Arias and M. Shin) | ||
| 12.02.26 | Vincent Rollet (MIT) | CREi Recruitment Seminar | “Zoning and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment” | ||
| 16.02.26 | Yinan Li (London School of Economics) |
UPF Accounting Seminar |
“Back to Banks? Nonbank Price Transparency and Small Business Lending” | ||
| 16.02.26 | Ciprian Domnisoru (Aalto University) |
UPF Economic History Seminar |
“The long run effects of Aid To Dependent Children” | ||
| 19.02.26 | Gonçalo Pacheco de Almeida (HEC Paris) |
UPF Management Seminar |
“The Bang for the Buck of Political Strategies” | ||
| 19.02.26 |
Heather Battey (Imperial College) |
UPF Statistics Seminar |
“Non-standard boundary behaviour in two-component mixture problems” |
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| 20.02.26 | Shanshan Luo (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia) |
UPF Operations Seminar |
“Mass vaccination scheduling: Trading off infections, throughput, and overtime” | ||
| 23.02.26 | Eduard Talamàs (IESE) | CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “The Value of Organizational Learning Technologies” | ||
| 23.02.26 | Alejandro Medina (Universitat de Verona) |
UPF-CRES Seminar |
“Pay-For-Delay: Preventing competition in Pharmaceutical Markets” | ||
| 26.02.26 | Dimitris Georgantzis Garcia |
UPF Management Seminar |
“Self-reported sustainability preferences and behavioural types in a dynamic common pool extraction (Armageddon) game” | ||
| 26.02.26 | Sergio Bacallado (University of Cambridge) |
UPF Statistics Seminar |
“In-Context Learning for Hierarchical Gaussian Processes: Mechanisms and Theoretical Trade-offs” | ||
January 2026
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/01/26 | Alireza Amanihamedani (London Business School) |
UPF Operations Seminar |
“Near-optimal Adaptive Policies for Dynamic Matching Markets” | ||
| 8/01/26 | Deniz Atalar (University of Cambridge) |
CREi-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar |
“Import Competition, Innovation, and the Cost of Protectionism” | ||
| 8/01/26 | Thomas Simon (University of Mannheim) |
UPF Management Seminar |
“Hips Don’t Lie: Physician Incentive Contracting and Surgery Outcomes” | ||
| 9/01/26 | Deniz Simsek (Northwestern University) |
UPF Operations Seminar |
“A Unified Fluid Model for Large Service Systems with Patience- or Delay-Dependent Service Times” | ||
| 9/01/26 | Giulio Gottardo (Oxford University) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar |
“Production Function Estimation with Noisy Data: A Flexible Cost Share Approach” | ||
| 12/01/26 | Marco Zanotti (Swiss Finance Institute at USI Lugano) |
UPF Finance Seminar |
“Asset (and Data) Managers” | ||
| 13/01/26 | David Van Dijcke (University of Michigan) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar |
“Regression Discontinuity Design with Distribution-Valued Outcomes” | ||
| 14/01/26 | Yiqi Liu (Cornell University) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar |
“Synthetic Parallel Trends” | ||
| 14/01/26 | Adrien Couturier (LSE) |
CREi Recruitment Seminar |
“The Sentiment Channel of Fiscal Policy” (with M. Bellifemine and J. Tozzo) | ||
| 15/01/26 | Bruno Fava (Northwestern University) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar |
“Training and Testing with Multiple Splits: A Central Limit Theorem for Split-Sample Estimators” | ||
| 15/01/26 | Daniela Witten (University of Washington) |
UPF Statistics Seminar |
“Valid F-screening in linear regression” | ||
| 16/01/26 | Adam Lee (BI Norwegian Business School) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar |
“Semiparametrics via parametrics and contiguity” | ||
| 16/01/26 | Stephan Hobler (LSE) |
CREi Recruitment Seminar |
”Worker Mobility and the Diffusion of Radical Technologies” | ||
| 19/01/26 | Agustina Colonna (University of Zurich) |
UPF Labor Seminar |
“Profit-Sharing, Wages, and Worker Compensation: Evidence from Mexico” | ||
| 19/01/26 | Arnau Pons |
UPF-CRES Seminar |
“La Xarxa Espanyola de Costos Hospitalaris: fonaments, aplicacions i perspectives”. | ||
| 20/01/26 | Katja Hofmann (Stanford University) |
UPF Applied Economics Seminar |
“Consumer Welfare and Misallocation in Panic Buying of Gasoline” | ||
| 20/01/26 | Pedro Martínez-Bruera (MIT) |
CREi Recruitment Seminar |
“Reassessing Central Bank Reputation Beyond Long-Run Expectations” (with T. E. Caravello and A. Carrasco-Martínez) | ||
| 21/01/26 | Haoyuan Zeng (University of Zurich) |
UPF Microeconomics Seminar |
“Identity-Compatible Auctions” | ||
| 22/01/26 | Philip Schnorpfeil (Goethe University Frankfurt) |
UPF Finance Seminar |
“The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes” | ||
| 22/01/26 | Federico Bobbio (Northwestern University) |
UPF Operations Seminar |
“Sharing with Frictions: Limited Transfers and Costly Inspection” | ||
| 23/01/26 | Etienne Le Rossignol (University of Namur) |
UPF Applied Economics Seminar |
“In-Group– Out-GroupTrust: Origins and Consequences” | ||
| 26/01/26 | Marta Guasch Rusinol (LSE) |
UPF International Finance Seminar |
“Debt Without Investment” | ||
| 27.01.26 | Bonnie Hayden Cheng (City University of Hong Kong) |
UPF Management Seminar |
“Reversing the Lens: Servant Leadership as a Driver of Leaders’ Thriving” | ||
| 27.01.26 | Caterina Soto-Vieira (LSE) | CREi Recruitment Seminar | “Home Production in the City” | ||
| 28.01.26 | Tilman Graff (Harvard University) | CREi Recruitment Seminar | “Depreciation and Growth: Evidence from Machine Repair in Uganda” | ||
| 29.01.26 | Brian Amorim Cabaco (UCL) |
UPF Macroeconomics Seminar |
“The Macroeconomic Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States” | ||
| 30.01.26 | Felipe Brugués (ITAM) |
UPF Applied Economics Seminar |
“Taxation when markets are not competitive: Evidence from a loan tax” | ||
December 2025
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
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| 1/12/25 | Isabelle Méjean (Sciences Po) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “The Fragmentation Paradox: De-risking Trade and Global Safety” | ||
| 1/12/25 |
Joan Ramon Rosés (LSE) |
UPF Economic History Seminar | “The long-run unintended consequences of the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’" | ||
| 2/12/25 |
Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen) |
UPF Joint Finance & Management Seminar | “Neighborhood CEOs” | ||
| 3/12/25 | Fulvia Oldrini (University of Zurich) | UPF Accounting Seminar | “Signaling with words or debt? The effect of voluntary disclosure on external public financing choices” | ||
| 3/12/25 |
Maxim Alexseev (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST) |
CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Export Policy for Dual-use Goods” | ||
| 3/12/25 | Paulo Natenzon (WUSTL) | UPF Microeconomics Job Talk | “Random Choice and Differentiation” | ||
| 5/12/25 | Jiaying Li (The University of Edinburgh) | UPF Internal Microeconomics Seminar | “Complexity and Higher Order Rationality: An Experimental Study” | ||
| 9/12/25 | Daniela Zipperer (University of Mannheim) | UPF Accounting Seminar | “Real Effects of Aggregate Information: Evidence from Environmental Investments” | ||
| 9/12/25 | Eduardo Davila (Yale University) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Intergenerational Welfare Assessments” (with S. Barcons and A. Schaab) | ||
| 9/12/25 |
Marcelo J. Moreira (Fundação Getulio Vargas) |
UPF Econometrics Seminar | “Inference Based on the Continuously Updating Estimator” | ||
| 10/12/25 | Alessia Russo (University of Padova) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “Sustainable Social Security” | ||
| 11/12/25 | Elena Tuzhilina (University of Toronto | UPF Statistics Seminar | “Efficient Canonical Correlation Analysis with Sparsity” | ||
| 15/12/25 | Alessandra Peter (NYU) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “IneQuality” | ||
| 15/12/25 |
Camila Regueiro-Ons (PhD Universidad Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) |
UPF-CRES Seminar | ”Does daddy heal mommy?: paternity leave and maternal postpartum health” | ||
| 15/12/25 |
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (UC3M) |
UPF Economic History Seminar |
“Top Income Concentration in Early Modern Spain, 1574-1799” | ||
November 2025
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
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| 03/11/25 | Maxim Alexseev (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Export Policy for Dual-use Goods” | ||
| 04/11/25 | Federico Zimmerman (Harvard Business School) | UPF Management Seminar | “Coherence and extremity as drivers of network segregation” | ||
| 04/11/25 | Naveen Gondhi (INSEAD) | UPF Finance Seminar | “Fading-Memory Expectations in Equity Markets” | ||
| 04/11/25 | Mounu Prem (EIEF) | Applied Economics Seminar | “Mafias and Firms” | ||
| 05/11/25 | Julian Berger (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) | UPF Management Seminar | “Rethinking human-AI decision making” | ||
| 05/11/25 | Alon Eizenberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “Costs, Discount Factors and Coordination in the Airline Industry” | ||
| 06/11/25 | Mehdi Ibn Brahim (SKEMA) | UPF Management Seminar | “Compound or Offset: Do Immigrant Workers Enjoy a Compensation Advantage or Experience a Compensation Penalty in New Ventures” | ||
| 06/11/25 | Johaness Schmidt-Hieber (University of Twente) | UPF Statistics Seminar | “Statistical theory for biologically inspired learning” | ||
| 07/11/25 | Agustín Troccoli Moretti (UPF) | UPF Internal Microeconomics Seminar | "Prerationality in Risky Decision Trees with Timed and Menu Consequence Nodes” | ||
| 10/11/25 | Georgios Nikolakoudis (University of Chicago) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Incomplete Information in Production Networks” | ||
| 17/11/25 | Corina Boar (NYU) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Nonlinear Inflation Dynamics in Menu Cost Economies” | ||
| 24/11/25 | Ricardo Reis (LSE) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “The Anatomy of a Peg: Lessons from China’s Parallel Currencies” | ||
| 25/11/25 | Paul Fontanier (Yale University) | UPF Finance Seminar | “Exchange Rate Stabilization and Monetary Transmission” | ||
| 26/11/25 | Alessandro Palucci (UPF) and Janik Deutscher (UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “Export superstars, input-output linkages and structural transformation” and “Labor Market Beliefs and Investment in Skills” | ||
| 27/11/25 | Xinrong Zhu (Imperial College London Business School | UPF Management Seminar | “Swap and Save: How a Button Shapes Lasting Online Grocery Shopping Behavior” | ||
| 28/11/25 | Francesco Capozza (UB) | UPF Internal Microeconomics Seminar | “Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter” | ||
October 2025
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
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| 01/10/25 |
Elliot Motte (UPF) |
UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar |
“Insult Politics in the Age of Social Media” |
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| 06/10/25 | Tishara Garg (Princeton University) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Can Industrial Policy Overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence” | ||
| 06/10/25 | Alfonso Díez Minguela (Universitat de Valencia) | UPF Economic History Seminar | “Did (bad) news travel fast? The information capacity of the Spanish Crown in mid-18th century?” | ||
| 07/10/25 | Dmitry Orlov (Wisconsin-Madison, Visiting UPF) | UPF Finance Seminar | “Distressed Investment, Corporate Debt Liquidity, and Capital Structure” | ||
| 07/10/25 | Christian Dustmann (UCL) |
UPF Applied Economics Seminar |
“Linking Lifecycle and Cross-sectional Inequality: Cohort Dynamics and the Role of Technological Change” | ||
| 08/10/25 | Nathan Jones (UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “Access Denied: Income Sorting and Housing Supply Regulation” | ||
| 08/10/25 |
Michael Thaler (University College London) |
UPF Microeconomics Seminar |
”Numbers Tell, Words Sell” (with Mattie Toma and Victor Yaneng Wang) |
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| 09/10/25 | Arvin Moazemi (Bocconi University) | UPF Management Seminar | “Brand Echo Chambers” | ||
| 13/10/25 | Yueran Ma (University of Chicago) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Business Concentration around the World: 1900–2020” | ||
| 14/10/25 | Jonathan Payne (Princeton University) | UPF Finance Seminar | “The Historical US Funding Advantage Since 1860” | ||
| 14/10/25 | UPF Workshop in Honor of Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz | ||||
| 16/10/25 | Claudia Goldin (Harvard University) |
UPF Economics Opening Lecture |
“Why Women Won” | ||
| 16/10/25 | Tal Shoshani (University of Southern California) | UPF Management Seminar | "The Socioeconomic Impact of Professional Restaurant Reviews: Evidence from Consumer Mobility Data” | ||
| 16/10/25 | Lawrence Katz (Harvard University) | UPF Departmental Seminar | “Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program” | ||
| 17/10/25 | Alex Frug (UPF) |
UPF Internal Microeconomics Seminar |
“Keeping in the dark with hard evidence” (joint work with Daniel Bird) | ||
| 20/10/25 | Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Monetary Policy along the Yield Curve: Why can Central Banks affect Long-term Real Rates?” | ||
| 21/10/25 | Manuel Flores (UAB) | CRES-UPF Seminar | “Causal Effects of Air Pollution on Child Health: Evidence from a Low-Pollution Setting” | ||
| 21/10/25 | Jinci Liu (IIES Stockholm University) | UPF Management Seminar | “Managing by Feedback” | ||
| 21/10/25 | Filippo De Marco (Bocconi University, Visiting UPF) | UPF Finance Seminar | “Inflation and Floating-Rate Loans: Evidence from the Euro-area” | ||
| 21/10/25 | Audinga Baltrunaite (Bank of Italy) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “Value of Words: : Evidence from Non-financial Disclosure Regulation” | ||
| 22/10/25 | Chiara Belletti (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL) | UPF Management Seminar | “Rating Systems and End-of-Game Effect: When Reputation Works and When it Doesn’t” | ||
| 22/10/25 | Martin Wiegand (UPF) | UPF Internal Applied Lunch Seminar | “Cities with Benefits” | ||
| 22/10/25 | Leslie M. Marx (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University) | UPF Microeconomics Seminar | “Bargaining: A Unified Approach” | ||
| 23/10/25 | Eddie Aamari (CNRS, ENS) | UPF Statistics Seminar | “Generative diffusions and minimax estimation” | ||
| 24/10/25 | Pia L. Ennuschat (UPF) | UPF Internal Microeconomics Seminar | “Targeted Information Design-Shaping monopolistic markets with heterogeneous consumers” | ||
| 30/10/25 | Johanna Schnier (Copenhagen Business School) | UPF Management Seminar | “Idea Evaluation in Organizations” | ||
| 31/10/25 | Roberto Martínez Lacoba | CRES-UPF Workshop | “Introducción a los modelos multiestado en R: algunas aplicaciones en Economía y Salud” | ||
September 2025
| DATE | SPEAKER | SERIES | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22/09/25 | Alejandro Sabal (Yale University) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Product Entry in the Global Automobile Industry” | ||
| 29/09/25 | Clara Santamaría (Sciences Po) | CREI-UPF Macroeconomics Seminar | “Delayed Childbearing and Urban Revival: A Structural Approach” | ||
| 30/09/25 | Sebastian Ottinger (CERGE-EI) | UPF Applied Economics Seminar | “Racial Discrimination and Innovation” | ||