The Economic Research Seminars at the Faculty of Economics and Finance are a great chance for researchers, students, and others to share and discuss economic topics. These seminars help improve research and create a lively academic community in Bratislava.
For a list of upcoming seminars, see the schedule below. If you’d like to receive event invitations, please contact us to be added to the mailing list.
We look forward to seeing you at our next seminar!
UPCOMING SEMINAR
- Date: 9/10/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Ragip Kaan Erdemli (University de Barcelona)
- Topic: Do transparency policies work as expected? Evidence from the retail gasoline market
- Contact person: Richard Kališ
- Date: 16/10/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Vladimir Otrachshenko (National Bank of Slovakia)
- Topic: The Non-linear Impact of Temperature on Firms’ Performance: Impacts, Mechanisms, and Coping Strategies
- Contact person: Peter Tóth
- Date: 23/10/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Anna-Theresa Renner (TU Wien)
- Topic: Heat and construction worker’s health: Evidence from spatially-explicit data on work accidents
- Contact person: Richard Kališ
- Date: 6/11/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Karim Bekhtiar (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna)
- Topic: Mitigating Mobility Frictions: The Effects of Cash-on-Hand on Labor Mobility”
- Contact person: Richard Kališ
- Date: 20/11/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Joel Stiebale (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)
- Topic: TBA
- Contact person: Richard Kališ
- Date: 11/12/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Lyla Zhang (Macquarie University Sydney)
- Topic: TBA
- Contact person: Matej Lorko
Planned seminars 2026
- Date: 22/1/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
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- Date: 5/2/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Paolo Zacchia (CERGE-EI)
- Topic: TBA
- Contact person: Flavio Malnati
- Date: 19/2/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Stefano Pagliarani (University of Warsaw)
- Topic: TBA
- Contact person: Matej Lorko
- Date: 5/3/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
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- Date: 19/3/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
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- Date: 16/4/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
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- Date: 30/4/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
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- Date: 14/5/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Andrew Smith (University of Leeds)
- Topic: TBA
- Contact person: Richard Kališ
- Date: 28/5/2026
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Stefan Nikolić (Loughborough University)
- Topic: TBA
- Contact person: Flavio Malnati
Previous seminars 2025
- Date: 25/9/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Martin Hulényi (Université de Lille)
- Topic: Growing in the Desert: A Comparative Analysis of Firms Located in Border Regions of the 2004 Enlargement
- Contact person: Martin Lábaj
- Date: 29/5/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Sofie R Waltl (University of Cambridge)
- Topic: Reach Me if You Can: How to Boost the Participation of Rich Households in Wealth Surveys?
- Date: 15/5/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Eduard Nežinský (Bratislava School of Economics and Finance)
- Topic: Impact of Automation on Employment: A Nonlinear Input-Output Model
- Date: 3/4/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Ella Sargsyan (Institute of Economics and Social Research, UCLouvain)
- Topic: Potato to the Rescue: Home Production and Child Health during a Deep Economic Crisis
- Date: 20/3/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Lorenzo Navarini (University of Vienna and KU Leuven)
- Topic: Changes in Returns to Multidimensional Skills across Cohorts
- Date: 6/3/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Christian Ochsner (CERGE-EI & University of St. Gallen)
- Topic: Pandemics’ reprisals: The U-shaped pattern of suffering for effective policy measures
- Date: 20/2/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Ekaterina Prytkova (Côte d'Azur University)
- Topic: The Employment Impact of Emerging Digital Technologies
- Date: 13/2/2025
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Matěj Bělín (Institute of Social Policy)
- Topic: A small open economy with a large automotive sector and growing robot exposure: A case study of Slovakia
Seminars 2024
- Date: 12/12/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Viktor Lazar (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
- Topic: Transatlantic Subnational Innovation Competitiveness Index 2.0
- Date: 28/11/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Zsófia Bárány (Central European University, Vienna)
- Topic: Aggregate Labor Share and Firm-level Automation
- Date: 14/11/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Alice Kügler (Central European University, Vienna)
- Topic: Displacement Effects in Manufacturing and Structural Change
- Date: 17/10/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Enrico Maria Camarda (Copenhagen Business School)
- Topic: Patient Choice, Payment Systems and Multidimensional Quality
- Date: 3/10/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Daniel Dujava (Inštitút Finančnej Politiky, MF SR)
- Topic: Prečo ženy menej zarábajú, aj keď sa lepšie učia? (The seminar will be held in Slovak language)
Date: 2/5/2024- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Ana L. Abeliansky (Vienna University Of Economics and Business, OeNB)
- Topic: Infection Risk at Work, Automatability, and Employment
- Date: 18/4/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Florian Szücs (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
- Topic: Market Power and Regulation in Pharmaceutical Markets
- Date: 21/3/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Jelena Reljic (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Topic: Will robot replace workers? Assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis
- Date: 7/3/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Mária Balgová (IZA – Institute of Labor Economics)
- Topic: Wage Information and Applicant Selection
- Date: 22/2/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Jean-Robert Tyran (University of Vienna, DE NHF)
- Topic: Why votes are (not) for sale — Empirical evidence from Southern India
- Date: 8/2/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Luca Fumarco (Masaryk University, Brno)
- Topic: (un)Effectiveness of the Temporary Protection EU Act – A Study with Ukrainian Refugees Job Applicants
- Date: 25/1/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Marek Hlaváč (Institute of Social Policy)
- Topic: Dobieha slovenské HDP na obyvateľa v parite kúpnej sily bohatšie krajiny EÚ?
- Date: 18/1/2024
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker:Peter Tóth (Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave)
- Topic: The Pass-Through of a VAT Cut to Prices. Evidence From Slovak Scanner Data
Seminars 2023
- Date: 7/12/2023
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: Online only
- Speaker: Matteo Pazzona (Brunel University London)
- Topic: Long term contracts and Productivity in a High Skilled Labour Market
- Date: 23/11/2023
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Sara Amoroso (DIW Berlin)
- Topic: The Role of Regulation and Regional Government Quality for High Growth Firms: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- Date: 9/11/2023
- Time: 9:30 - 11:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech)
- Topic: To inspire and to inform: The role of role models
- Date: 26/10/2023
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Andrej Cupák (Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave)
- Topic: Financial advisors and risky mortgage behavior: novel evidence from loan-level register data
- Date: 12/10/2023
- Time: 14:00 - 15:30
- Room: Knižnica Ekonomického Ústavu SAV
- Speaker: Jakub Červený (Institute of Healthcare Analysis)
- Topic: Special PhD Seminar on IV Regressions
- Date: 4/5/2023
- Time: 11:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Tomáš Lichard (University of Economics in Prague)
- Topic: Corporate taxation shifting
- Date: 21/4/2023
- Time: 10:30
- Room: MS Teams
- Speaker: Edouard Turkisch
- Topic: Labour markets and wages: developments since the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis
- Date: 14/4/2023
- Time: 10:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Jean-Robert Tyran (University of Vienna)
- Topic: Voting and the provision of public goods
Seminars 2022
- Date: 2/12/2022
- Time: 09:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Flavio Malnati (CERGE-EI)
- Topic: Benedic, Domine, nos et haec tua dona:∗ Northern Crusades, State-Formation and Early Economic Development
- Date: 21/11/2022
- Time: 15:30
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Jakub Lonsky (Liverpool University)
- Topic: Highway to Hell? Interstate Highway System and Crime
- Date: 20/10/2022
- Time: 10:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Štepán Mikula (Masaryk University, Brno)
- Topic: Expected Transport Accessibility Improvement and House Prices: Evidence from the Construction of the World’s Longest Undersea Road Tunnel
- Date: 6/10/2022
- Time: 12:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Sophia Dimelis (Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave)
- Topic: Does government stability affect the banking system's stability
- Date: 28/4/2022
- Time: 15:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Jakub Steiner (CERGE-EI)
- Topic: Attention Please!
- Date: 7/4/2022
- Time: 15:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Paola Bertoli (University of Verona)
- Topic: COVID Angels Fighting Daily Demons?Mental Wellbeing of Healthcare Workers and Religiosity
- Date: 31/3/2022
- Time: 15:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Martin Šveda (Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava)
- Topic: Where does Bratislava reach?
- Date: 3/3/2022
- Time: 15:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Ibrahim Sirkeci (University of Salford, Manchester)
- Topic: Multilevel analysis of the labour market outcomes
- Date: 28/2/2022
- Time: 13:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Jaroslava Hloušková (Institute for Advanced Study)
- Topic: Regime-dependent commodity price dynamics
- Date: 13/3/2022
- Time: 12:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Klaus Prettner (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
- Topic: Do you kow your biases? A Monte Carlo analysis of dynamic panel data estimators
Seminars 2021
- Date: 9/2/2021
- Time: 17:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Frank Verboven (KU Leuven)
- Topic: Private Monopoly and Restricted Entry: Evidence from the Notary Profession
- Date: 2/12/2021
- Time: 11:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Balázs Lengyel (ELKH Centre for Economic- and Regional Studies)
- Topic: Social networks and applications in economic geography
- Date: 18/11/2021
- Time: 14:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Thomas Zoerner (Austrian National Bank)
- Topic: An Introduction to VAR models and an application to credit market sentiments
- Date: 4/11/2021
- Time: 20:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Bart J. Wilson (Chapman University)
- Topic: Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century
- Date: 11/10/2021
- Time: 14:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Sophia Dimelis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
- Topic: The impact of ICT and FDI on productivity growth: A comparative analysis across countries and across industries
- Date: 7/10/2021
- Time: 17:00
- Room: 4B26
- Speaker: Peter Katuščák (Aachen University)
- Topic: What Drives Conditional Cooperation in Public Goods Games?
Older version of seminars
Martin Hodula, Czech National Bank – A profit-to-provisioning approach to setting the counter cyclical capital buffer: the Czech example
Matej Hladiš, Comenius University, Bratislava – Detection of suspicious businesses: data envelopment analysis
Štefan Rehák, University of Economics in Bratislava – Location? Location! Analysing appartment prices in Bratislava with hedonic price model
Daniela Rroshi, Vienna University of Economics and Business – Consumer Information and the Speed of Price Transmission
Taggert J. Brooks, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse – Free To Choose: Suboptimal Decision Making In Health Plan Choices
Jens-Peter Loy, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel – Product Differentiation and Cost Pass-Through: Some Evidence for Canada und Germany
Karolina Tura-Gawron, Politechnika Gdanska, Poland and Maria Siranova, University of Economics Bratislava – What are the drivers of consumer inflation expectations in European Union?
Peter Bednárik, Vienna University of Economics and Business – Game theory, altruism and competition
Daniel Dujava, University of Economics Bratislava – Building Credibility of Central Banks: A case of western Balkans
Matej Lorko, Macquarie University, Sydney – When is your paper going to be finished? The effect of anchors on task duration estimates
Edward Bergman, Vienna University of Economics and Business – Designing a valuable research question
Daniel Murta, University of Coimbra, Portugal – Modelling the Equilibrium in the market for Taxis in Portugal –
Martin Kocúrek, University of Economics Bratislava – Do I want to study? Experimenting with student’s motivation
Mikuláš Luptáčik, University of Economics Bratislava – Analysis and quantification of a new fiscally neutral European tax
Oliver Rafaj, University of Economics Bratislava – Identification of Urban Regions in Slovak Republic
