Research Seminars  2026

Tuesday, usually 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm, room E230.

The research seminar is organized by Prof. Christelle Dumas and Prof. Mark Schelker.

How to add the ecopol research calendar to your calendar:

  • In Outlook: go to Calendar, then "Open calendar" (in Home), select "From Internet" and copy paste the link.
  • In Google Agenda: click on the small arrow right to "Autres Calendriers/Other calendars", select "Ajouter par URL/Add by URL" and copy paste the following link. 
  • February

    February 17,
    Presenter: Sam Asher, Imperial College London Business School 
    Title: "Cultural Capital and Access to Opportunity in India"
      : 5:15pm

    February 24,
    Presenter: Igor Letina, University of Bern
    Title: "Market-Bound Research Contests"
    Abstract: In many instances, the social value of an innovation is much larger than the profits that a firm can obtain by selling the innovation on the market. When this is the case, a research contest can help align incentives and increase welfare. This paper examines the optimal design of research contests when the objective of the contest designer is the discovery and broad adoption of socially valuable innovations. We show that the contest designer benefits from conditioning the size of the prize on the market performance of the winner. The optimal contest features two quantity cutoffs and two prize levels. The low prize is awarded if the winner sells a quantity greater than the first cutoff while the high prize is awarded if the winner sells a quantity greater than the second cutoff.

  • March

    March 10,
    Presenter: Vincent Somville, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
     : 3:15pm
    Room: E040

    March 24,
    Presenter: Michela Bia, LISER

  • April

    April 21,
    Presenter: Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota

  • May

    May 5,
    Presenter: Julien Senn, Paris 1, Sorbonne

    May 19,
    Presenter: Catherine Roux, University of Basel