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 4:45 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. The talks are held in lecture room HS 111.21 (Beethovenstr. 8, 2nd floor), unless otherwise stated.

Summer 2025
Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
25 March | Andrei Kalk, University of Vienna | Protecting the Environment: On the Interplay Between Voluntary Contributions and Public Policy | Finus |
01 April | Jos van Ommeren, VU Amsterdam | From Flow to Fortune? The Economic Impacts of Agricultural Dams | Manner |
08 April | Johan Gustafsson, University of Umeå | Public pensions in the age of automation | Wendner |
29 April | Sachintha Fernando, University of Halle | Climate Policy Evaluation Using Synthetic Controls: Lessons from a Failed Carbon Tax Replication | Manner |
06 May | Lukas Meyer, University of Graz | Intergenerational Justice. Needs-based Sufficientarianism in the Context of Climate and Historical Justice | Finus |
13 May | Arnaud Dellis, UQAM | How Do People Vote Under Instant Runoff Voting? An Experiment on Complexity and Voting Behavior | Schneider |
20 May | Gabriel Felbermayr, Wifo | Ökonomie im Wandel: Real- und Finanzwirtschaft im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Klimawandel, Rechtspopulismus und künstlicher Intelligenz | Palan |
27 May | Roman Liesenfeld, University of Cologne | Regularized Wishart Autoregressive Stochastic Volatility | Manner |
03 June | Alexander Linsbichler, University of Linz | The case against index number monism: from Gottfried Haberler to the 21st century | Eckert |
17 June | Klaus Prettner, WU Vienna | Climate change and automation: the emission effects of robot adoption | Schneider |
24 June | Ernesto Rivera Mora, University of Boulder | Optimal Scaling Auctions: A Consumer Theory Deconstruction | Kuzmics |
1 July | Alicia Rambaldi, University of Queensland | How Do Homes Transfer Across The Income Distribution? Search and Supply Constraints | Hill |
Coordinators of the Research Seminar
| +43 316 380 - 3450 https://homepage.uni-graz.at/de/michael.finus/ |
| +43 316 380 - 7137 http://www.maik-t-schneider.net |