6 Feb Ádám Csápai: Forecast combination using machine learning: the case of Slovakian commercial banks (MUES seminar) We study whether machine learning forecast combinations can improve on the equal-weight mean of survey forecasts from Slovak commercial banks for GDP growth and inflation. Using monthly bank forecasts... from 11:00 AM
6 Feb Pallavi Prabhakar: Bottom up accountability? Information, Expectations and Civic Action in India (MUES seminar) Despite years of transparency reforms, their impact on civic participation is not well understood. We study whether government performance information from one of the largest transparency initiatives can... from 1:00 PM
9 Feb Luca Fumarco: Judging by the Color of their Skin – Judges’ Implicit and Attention Discrimination in US Boxing Public lecture within the habilitation procedure of Luca Fumarco in the field of Economics. This lecture is based on our paper, which studies racial bias in expert performance evaluation using professional boxing in the United States as a quasi-experimental... from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
10 Feb Sébastien Montpetit: A Welfare Analysis of Universal Childcare: Lessons From a Canadian Reform (MUES seminar) We assess the welfare impact of the introduction of universal daycare services in Qu´ebec in 1997. Unlike the standard sufficient-statistic metric, which assumes marginal changes in fiscal policy, our... from 2:00 PM
12 Feb Online Open Day Discover Applied Health Economics Still hesitating about which study programme to choose? Join us at online Open Day and discover whether Applied Health Economics is the right fit for you. We will meet on 12 February 2026 at 9:30 AM Registration: from 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM
12 Feb Angela Jiang : Where to Go After the Hospital: How Cost-Sharing and the Family Affect Post-Acute Care (MUES seminar) This paper studies the relationship between patient cost-sharing and the demand for care after hospital stays (post-acute care), and how this relationship is mediated by non-medical custodial care needs... from 4:00 PM
13 Feb Eric Bruno Klemm: Early Retirement, Capital Adjustment and Technology Adoption (MUES seminar) Older workers are often viewed as obstacles to innovation, suggesting that their exit allows firms to reallocate resources toward new capital and technology. I argue instead that older, experienced workers... from 11:00 AM
13 Feb Bruno Cardinale Lagomarsino: Enlisting Change: The Labor Market Consequences of Military Conscription (MUES seminar) I provide new evidence on the labor market impacts of military conscription using employer-employee administrative data covering the universe of men born between 1958 and 1975 in Argentina. For identification,... from 1:00 PM