Economics Research Seminar
The Research Seminar in Economics presents a platform for invited speakers across all fields of economics. The seminar is open to faculty and students. Depending on speaker and audience, presentations and discussions will be in English or German.
Seminars are on Tuesdays from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The talks are held in lecture room HS 111.21 (Beethovenstr. 8, 2nd floor), unless otherwise stated.
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Winter 2025/26
| Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
| 07 Oct. | Daniel te Kaat, University of Groningen | Cross-Border Bank Flows, Regional Household Credit Booms and Bank Risk-Taking | Schertler |
| 14 Oct. | Hans Gersbach, ETH Zürich | The Future of Democracy | Schneider |
| 21 Oct. | Thomas Steger, University of Leipzig | The Legacy of Policy Inaction in Climate-Growth Models | Wendner |
| 28 Oct. | Alexander Hansak, CERGE EI Prague | Naive Consumers and Financial Mistakes | Kleinert |
| 04 Nov. | Alexandra Brausmann, University of Vienna | Misfortunes Never Come Singly: Managing the Risk of Chain Disaster | Finus |
| 11 Nov. | Melis Kartal, WU Vienna | Sorting fact from fiction in a complex world under the shadow of motivated reasoning | Kuzmics |
| 18 Nov. | Ismir Mulalic, Copenhagen Business School | The Geography of Life: Evidence Copenhagen | Kleinert |
| 25 Nov. | Franz Prettenthaler, Joanneum Research | Five ”centennial“ floods in 25 years in Austria: How many more opportunities to fix market failure in insuring floods will be needed or will climate change help to solve the problem? | Finus |
| 02 Dec. | Achim Hagen, Humboldt University Berlin | Climate Policies, Investments, and the Role of Elections | Finus |
| 09 Dec. | Danisz Okulicz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Lawyer Assignment with Congestion: Redesigning the Comal County Pilot Program | Kivinen |
| 16 Dec. | Martin Ruhs, Migration Policy Centre (European University Institute, Florence) | Beyond ‘all or nothing’: How policy choices shape attitudes towards irregular migrants | Klamler |
| 20 Jan. | Torben Klarl, University of Bremen | tba | Schneider |
Coordinators of the Research Seminar
| +43 316 380 - 3450 https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/michael.finus/ |
| +43 316 380 - 3458 https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/ronald.wendner/ |