New members of the Department of Economics present their research and exchange their ideas
09:30 - 16:00
Zoom
Lectures, talks and seminars
Economics, Department of
We are delighted to share with you the schedule for this year’s Rentree Workshop, with seven presentations from new faculty spaced throughout the day.
The Rentree workshop is organized every year before the beginning of the Autumn term in the Department of Economics. The new members of the department present their research to the other members of the department and exchange ideas while they get to know each other better.
9:45-10:00 Christian Ghiglino (Head of Department): Welcome
10:00-10:30 Quentin Lippmann: From Material to Non-Material Needs?
The Evolution of Mate Preferences Through the 20th Century in France
10:30-11:00 Xiaoyu Xia: Sophistication and Cautiousness in College Applications
11:00:11:30 Lukas Altermatt: Liquidity, the Mundell-Tobin Effect, and the Friedman Rule
11:30-1:00 Lunch break (optional socialising in Zoom breakout rooms)
1:00-1:30 Egon Tripodi: Social influence in prosocial behavior: evidence from a large-scale
experiment
1:30-2:00 Evan Friedman: Stochastic Equilibria: Noise in Actions or Beliefs?
2:00-3:00 Break (optional socialising in Zoom breakout rooms)
3:00-3:30 Nicholas Reynolds: Increased Mortality of White Americans and a Decline in the
Health of Cohorts Born after World War II
3:30-4:00 Dan Friedman: Order Protection through Delayed Messaging
4:00 Thanks and close conference