Economic Research Seminar

Previous seminars 2026

• Date: 5/2/2026
• Time: 14:00 - 15:30 
• Room: 4B26
• Speaker: Paolo Zacchia (CERGE-EI)
• Topic: The Heterogeneous Consequences of Reduced Labor Costs on Firm Productivity
• Contact person: Flavio Malnati

• Date: 22/1/2026
• Time: 14:00 - 15:30 
• Room: 4B26
• Speaker: Candan Erdemli (Central European University) 
• Topic: Consequences of an Early Grave: Losing a Sibling During Childhood
• Contact person: Richard Kalis

Seminars 2025

• Date: 11/12/2025
• Time: 14:00 - 15:30 
• Room: 4B26
• Speaker: Lyla Zhang (Macquarie University Sydney)
• Topic: When Peers Buy In or Stay Out: Evidence on Social Learning and Utility in Parental Investment Decisions from a Field Experiment in China
• Contact person: Matej Lorko

• Date: 04/12/2025
• Time: 14:00 - 15:30 
• Room: 4B26
• Speaker: Joel Stiebale (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)
• Topic: Gains from Patent Protection: Innovation, Market Power and Cost Savings in India
• Contact person: Richard Kališ

• Date: 6/11/2025
• Time: 12:30 - 13:30 
• 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: 23/10/2025
• Time: 12:30 - 13:30 
• 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: 16/10/2025
• Time: 12:30 - 13:30 
• 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: 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: 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)

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  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

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• 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?

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• 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

Seminar XV

Matej Hladiš, Comenius University, Bratislava – Detection of suspicious businesses: data envelopment analysis

Seminar XIV

Štefan Rehák, University of Economics in Bratislava – Location? Location! Analysing appartment prices in Bratislava with hedonic price model

Invitation XIII

Daniela Rroshi, Vienna University of Economics and Business – Consumer Information and the Speed of Price Transmission

Invitation XII

Taggert J. Brooks, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse – Free To Choose: Suboptimal Decision Making In Health Plan Choices

Invitation XI

Jens-Peter Loy, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel – Product Differentiation and Cost Pass-Through: Some Evidence for Canada und Germany

Invitation X

Karolina Tura-Gawron, Politechnika Gdanska, Poland and Maria Siranova, University of Economics Bratislava – What are the drivers of consumer inflation expectations in European Union?

Invitation IX

Peter Bednárik, Vienna University of Economics and Business  – Game theory, altruism and competition

Invitation VIII

Daniel Dujava, University of Economics Bratislava – Building Credibility of Central Banks: A case of western Balkans

Invitation VII

Matej Lorko,  Macquarie University, Sydney – When is your paper going to be finished? The effect of anchors on task duration estimates

Invitation VI

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 –

Invitation V

Martin Kocúrek, University of Economics Bratislava – Do I want to study? Experimenting with student’s motivation

Invitation IV

Mikuláš Luptáčik, University of Economics Bratislava – Analysis and quantification of a new fiscally neutral European tax

Invitation III

Oliver Rafaj, University of Economics Bratislava – Identification of Urban Regions in Slovak Republic

Invitation II