Workshop
Workshop

GSDS Research Colloquium

Archive

Summer Semester 2021

Date

Referent

Topic

28.04.2021

Hana Attia

 Divert When It Does Not Hurt: The Imposition of U.S. Presidential Sanctions From 1989-2015
05.05.2021 Laëtitia Dillenseger Irregular working hours and subjective well-being: The study case of the Netherlands

19.05.2021

Lea Haiges

 Horizontal Inequalities & Party Rhetoric: Indigenous Mobilization in the Andean States

26.05.2021

 Alina Greiner Social (Dis-)Integration Post-War: Evidence from the DRC

07.07.2021

Jule Beck

 Relaxing the Grip of Food Insecurity – Are Tanzanian Households Resilient to Shocks?

14.07.2021

Deepti Bhatia

 Discrimination in Task Allocation at the Workplace

21.07.2021

Aras Canipek

 Evidence on the Empirical Relevance of Debt Governance

Winter Semester 2020/21

Date

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Topic

18.11.2020

Patrick Sullivan

Information Provision and Estate Tax Repeal Support: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment

25.11.2020

Nico Gradwohl

Exploration and advice integration in spatially-correlated bandits
02.12.2020 Sandra Morgenstern

Political Information & Migration
09.12.2020 Regina Anselm

The Persistence of Social Taboos

16.12.2020

Juho Alasalmi

Self-signaling and voting for redistribution

13.01.2021

 Benjamin Guinaudeau Disentangling echo chambers from filter bubbles: a political audit of Twitter Algorithms

20.01.2021

Tjasa Omerzu

How does learning new information affect judgment policies?

27.01.2021

Deepti Bhatia

The Taste of Caste: Discrimination in Labor Market with Unequal Access to Learning

03.02.2021

Anastasia Simmet

Minimum Distance estimation in the Instrumental Variables Regression

10.02.2021

Ann-Sophie Lauterbach

No personal desk, no drive? A quasi-experimental exploration of flexi-desking and underlying mechanisms leading to employee absence

Summer Semester 2020

Date

Time

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Topic
20.05.20 11.00 Sandra Morgenstern

Can Credibility beat Anxiety? Evidence from a Field Experiment
27.05.20 11.00 Regina Anselm

Attribution of Responsibility: Reward and Punishment in an Eye-Tracking Experiment
10.06.20 11.00 Henrike Biehl Investigating the effect of sustainability-related disclosures in company's financial statements on auditor judgement
17.06.20 11.00 Rebecca Strauch Protest and Digital Adaptation

Winter Semester 2019/20

Date Time Referent Topic
20.11.19 12.00 Philipp Lutscher

Signal of Power? Propaganda during Contentious Times in Competitive Autocracies
27.11.19 12.00 Simon Stehle

The effect of official property valuation
04.12.19 12.00 Benjamin Guinaudeau Floor Speeches and Ideological Position: a New Approachto Estimate Ideological Position of Representatives
11.12.19 12.00 Nico Gradwohl

Informing Judgments and Decision making through social information

18.12.19

 12.00 Mario Krauser

Educational Resource Curse? A Disaggregated Analysis of Oil Ownership and Human Capital Formation
08.01.20 12.00 Julian Schüssler

Causal Graphs: Applications for Instrumental Variables, Mediation, and Sample Selection
15.01.20 12.00

Tjaša Omerzu

Influence of the prior knowledge on learning in a multiple-cue judgment task
22.01.20 12.00 Konstantin Bätz

Overshadowed Liberalism: Protectionism during Interstate Disputes.
29.01.20 12.00 Maurizio Strazzeri Family reunification for refugees and labor market integration
05.02.20 12.00 Julia Becker

Direct democracy versus representative democracy. A lab experiment
12.02.20 12.00 Sascha Göbel From Twitter to Ballot. Using Neural Networks to Estimate Voting Behavior

 Summer Semester 2019

Date Time Referent Topic

16.04.2019  

 11.45-
12.45

Pantelis Pipergias Analytis (University of Southern Denmark)   

Social learning strategies for matters of taste

23.04.2019   

11.45-
12.45

Adrian Alter (IWF Washington)   

The influence of macroprudential policies on household credit and spending

14.05.2019

11.45-
12.45

Jürgen Lerner (GSDS)   

The price of polarization in open peer-production

21.05.2019

11.45-
12.45

Martin Gassebner, Leibnitz Universität Hannover   

More than the sum of all parts? The effect of terror group splits and mergers

04.06.2019

11.45-
12.45

Peter Todd (Indiana University, Bloomington)   

Seeking and Finding: How patches are created and searched through in space and in mind

18.06.2019

11.45-
12.45

Julieta Peveri (Aix-Marseille Université)   

 Assessing the Impact of Political Leaders on Economic Growth

25.06.2019

13.30-
15.00
R512    

Anja Eisenbeiß, Forschungssupport Uni Konstanz   

Grant Proposal in a nutshell

09.07.2019

11.45-
12.45    

Dirk Streeb (GSDS)   

Tailoring Visualizations to Decision-Making Tasks and Assessing Transfer to a Different Task

Winter Semester 2018/19

Date                     Time                      Referent Topic
13.11.2018 11.45-12.45                         Gerhard Riener (Uni Düsseldorf, DICE) The Hidden Cost of Violent Conflict: Sorting into Local Labor Markets  A Field Experiment in Colombia
20.11.2018 11.45-12.45 Jan Sauermann (Uni Köln, Cologne Center for Comparative Politics) Fairness or Foresight: Why Is Majority Rule Stable?
27.11.2018 11.45-12.45 Stephane Wolton (LSE, Department of Government) A Political Economy of Discrimination
04.12.2018 11:45-12:45 Adrian Chadi Influenza Vaccines, Employee Health, and Sickness Absence – A Field Experiment at the Workplace
11.12.2018 11:45-12:45 Tommy Krieger Democracy and Institutional Quality: Theory and Evidence
08.01.2019 11:45-12:45 Lukas Rudolph (ETH Zürich) Europe's Refugee Crisis, Intergroup Contact and Asylum Attitudes
15.01.2019 11:45-12:45

 Nick Zubanov

 Skill Dispersion, Firm Productivity, and Production Technology: New Empirical Evidence and Implications
22.01.2019 11:45-12:45 Adam Joinson, University of Bath What do digital footprints reveal about people (and how can they be exploited)
29.01.2019 11:45-12:45 Patrick Weber The Impact of Economic Interests on the Imposition and Effectiveness of Sanctions
05.02.2019 11:45-12:45 Sebastian Hellmeier The Role of Pro-government Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes
Date                    Time                    Referent                          Topic
15.05.201811.45-12.45                         Johannes VüllersThe Use of Nonviolent Actions by Rebels in Civil Wars: Evidence from Nepal
05.06.201811.45-12.45Benjamin Scheibehenne
(University of Geneva)		Perceptual Bias or Risk Preference? Towards a better understanding of how people integrate sequential information
12.06.201811.45-12.45Erik Herron
(West Virginia University),
Susumu Shikano 		Micro-level Foundations of Contamination Effects in Mixed-member Systems
19.06.201811:45-12:45Marco MennerCorporate Governance and Employee Satisfaction
26.06.201811:45-12:45Stephan MaurerOf Mice and Merchants: Trade and Growth in the Iron Age
03.07.201811:45-12:45Gerald Schneider,
Mario Krauser,
Tim Wegenast		Natural Resource Management, Economic Growth, and the Provision of Public Goods
10.07.201811:45-12:45

Robert Kirkby
(Victoria University of Wellington)

Machine Learning the Consumption Function
Date                    Time                   Referent                      Topic
17.10.201711.45-12.45     Miriam Gensowski Joint Choice of Education and Occupation: The Role of Parental Occupation
07.11.201711.45-13.15Christina ZuberAnchoring social science methods in theories of causation
14.11.201711.45-13.15Marcel FischerWho buys homes when prices fall?
21.11.201711:45-12:45Anselm RinkDoes Public Opinion Affect Elite Rhetoric?
28.11.201711:45-12:45Jana MareckovaFlexible Aggregation of Categorical Regressors for Estimating Conditional Mean Functions
05.12.201711:45-12:45Marco Menner

Why the Ross  Recovery Theorem does not Work Empirically

12.12.201711:45-12:45Guillaume A. KhayatThe Corridor's Width as a Monetary Policy Tool
09.01.201811:45-12:45Andreas JungherrChanging minds by activating predispositions: Framing free trade
16.01.201811:45-12:45

Emilia Oljemark

Asymmetric Information and Reputation Building in a Trust Game
23.01.201811:45-12:45Yibo SunStatistical Investigation of High-dimensional Volatility Processes
30.01.201811:45-12:45David GrammlingIntergroup Discrimination and Political Orientation
06.02.201811:45-12:45Nathalie PopovicHow We Deal With Risk Information When Influenced by Stress and Negative Affect
Date                    Time                     Referent                       Topic
09.05.201711.45-12.45Carl MaierUninformed buyers and market efficiency
16.05.201711.45-13.15Lutz Kilian
(University of Michigan)		Lower Oil Prices and the U.S. Economy: Is This Time Different?
23.05.201711.45-12.45Benedikt HerrmannApplying Behavioral economics to policy making - first experiences
30.05.201711:45-12:45 Gordon Brown
(University of Warwick) 		Social Norms and Polarisation: A Cognitive Model
06.06.201711:45-12:45Volker HahnPolicy Effects in a Simple Fully Non-Linear New Keynesian Model of the Liquidity Trap
13.06.201711:45-12:45Karsten DonnayExplaining Electoral Violence Using Grievance Measures Derived From Social Media
20.06.201711:45-12:45Bihemo KimasaOccupational Job and Worker Flows in German Establishments
27.06.201711:45-12:45Christin Schulze
(MPIB Berlin)		Probability matching in repeated choice under uncertainty
04.07.201711:45-12:45Urs FischbacherTo be alike or to be different: Incentives for conformity and disconformity
11.07.201711:45-12:45Kristian Skrede GleditschThe decline of war and the transformation of political violence
18.07.201711:45-12:45Nadja YounesSecond-Order Status Effects: Investigating Changes in a CEO’s Status as Board Director
Date                    Time                      Referent                            Topic
18.10.201611.45-12.45Fadong ChenSequential Sampling Process with Intuition
25.10.201611.45-12.45Jan MellertTwin D’s and Credit to the Private Sector
08.11.201611.45-12.45Anja Shortland
(King´s College London)		The Role of Mafias and Insurgencies in Governing Kidnap for Ransom: Evidence from Colombia
15.11.201611:45-12:45Ansgar Wohlschlegel
(University of Portsmouth)		Rent Seeking and Bias in Appeals Systems (with Tim Friehe)
22.11.201611:45-12:45Andreas JungherrExplaining Public Support and Opposition Toward Trade Agreements: Accounting for Partners and Externalities
29.11.201611:45-13:15Sam BowlesEndogenous Preferences and Public Policy: Why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens
06.12.201611:45-12:45Anastasia ErshovaThe Salience-Discretion trade off in the EU legislative politics
13.12.201611:45-13:15Ulf-Dietrich ReipsInternet-based experiments: Characteristics, Methods, Innovations
10.01.201711:45-12:45Irenaeus WolffLucky Numbers in Simple Games
17.01.201711:45-12:45Lyudmila GrigoryevaFinancial volatility forecasting with non-scalar multivariate GARCH models
24.01.201711:45-12:45Florian KunzeWhen your client discriminates against you: External relational diversity effects in service jobs
31.01.201711:45-12:45Fabian DvorakRenegotiating Cooperation: Communication in Noisy, Indefinitely Repeated Interactions
07.02.201711:45-12:45Franziska DeutschmannThe Interaction between Socio-demographic and Economic Aspects in the Aftermath of the German Reunification
14.02.201711:45-12:45Christina Schneider
(University of California, San Diego)		The Dark Side of Cooperation: When International Organizations Spread
Date                   Time                     Referent                            Topic
26.04.201611.45-12.45

Branislav L. Slantchev
(University of California, San Diego)

Rich Subjects, Poor Kings: Rebellion Relief and the Ratchet Effect in Taxation
03.05.201612.00-13.00Peter SelbScrutinizing the Myth of Adolf Hitler as a Consummate Campaigner
10.05.201611:45-12:45

Iain Couzin

From Democratic Consensus to Cannibalistic Hordes: The Principles of Collective Behavior
17.05.201611:45-12:45Tal Sadeh
(Tel Aviv University) 		The Politics of Fiscal Policy Signalling in Government Bond Issues
24.05.201611:45-12:45Xu Cheng
(University of Pennsylvania)		Averaging GMM Estimator Robust to Misspecification
31.05.201611:45-12:45Verena MackElection Fraud, Digit Tests and How Human Fabricate Vote Counts
07.06.201611:45-13:15Toshio Yamagishi
(Hokkaido University)		Culture as a self-sustaining system of beliefs
14.06.201611:45-12:45Christian Breunig The Dynamics of Policy Change
21.06.201611:45-12:45Guido SchwerdtInformation and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
28.06.201611:45-12:45Janina HoffmannMemory foundations of human judgment
05.07.201611:45-12:45Jens JackwerthStock Market Performance of Jewish Firms During the 3rd Reich
12.07.201611:45-12:45Leo KaasHomeownership and Wealth in Europe
Date                   Time                    Referent                              Topic
20.10.201511:45-12:45Hansjörg NethBenchmarking Bounded Rationality
27.10.201511:45-12:45Nathaniel PhillipsPeeks and keeps: A new paradigm for studying the exploration-exploitation trade-off
03.11.201511:45-12:45Susanne GoldlückeMechanism Design Without Money: How to find a Volunteer
10.11.201511:45-13:15Axel Kind,
Marco Poltera,
Torsten Twardawski

Corporate Voting Values at Annual Shareholder Meetings

Overconfidence of CEOs and Boards in Mergers & Acquisitions
17.11.201511:45-12:45Almuth SchollThe Dynamics of Sovereign Default Risk and Political Turnove
24.11.201511:45-12:45Keshun ZhangAnger and Trust: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Germany and China
01.12.201511:45-13:15Sabine Otto,
Espen Rød 		The Grass Is Always Greener? Armed Groups’ Side Switching in Civil Wars

How Institutions in Authoritarian Regimes Shape the Effect of Repression on Protest

08.12.201511:45-12:45David SchochA Positional Approach for Network Centrality
15.12.201511:45-12:45Friederike Kelle,
Arpita Khanna,
Gerald Schneider		Ownership Matters: The Resource Curse Revisited
12.01.201611:45-12:45Simon MunzertUsing Wikipedia Page View Statistics to Measure Issue Salience
19.01.201611:45-12:45Susumu ShikanoIdentification issues of a Bayesian weighted unfolding model and their solutions
26.01.201611:45-12:45Winfried PohlmeierThe Econometrics of Big Data
02.02.201611:45-12:45Eylem GevrekEducation, Emigration, and Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Date                        Time                        Referent                                  Topic
12.05.201511:45-12:45Peter Haffke

Information processing in repeated monetary gambles: Effects of feedback and format

19.05.201511:45-12:45Nawid Siassi

Moving Towards a Single Labor Contract: Transition vs. Steady State

26.05.201511:45-12:45Michael Becher,
Daniel Stegmüller

Rational Mobilization of Ideological Group Members In Elections: Theory and Evidence from the U.S.

02.06.201511:45-13:15Urs FischbacherExperiments on Responsibility
09.06.201511:45-12:45Zohal Hessami,
Sven Resnjanski

Complex ballot propositions, individual voting behavior, and status quo bias: Evidence from Switzerland

16.06.201511:45-12:45Wolfgang GaissmaierHelping people make sense of risk
23.06.201511:45-13:15Andrew Little
(Cornell University)		Communication Technology and Protest
30.06.201511:45-12:45Georgi Kocharkov

Family Planning and Development: Aggregate Effects of Contraceptive Use

07.07.201511:45-12:45Matthias HertweckThe Aggregate Effects of the Hartz Reforms in Germany
14.07.201511:45-12:45Marius Busemeyer
Erik Neimanns,
Julian Garritzmann

Investing in Education in Europe: Findings from a survey of public opinion in eight European countries