Calendar

February 2025

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
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4
  • Pierre Boyer, École polytechnique–CREST
5
6
  • Johannes Boehm (Geneva Graduate Institute)
  • Jean Tirole -  Toulouse School of Economics
7
  • Belgian Environmental Economics Day (BEED 2025)
  • Catherine Porter, Lancaster
8
9
10
11
  • Edoardo Ciscato, KU Leuven
12
13
14
  • Arthur Apostel, UGent
15
16
17
  • Jan Almond Stöcker, epfl
18
  • Short Course on Functional Data Analysis
  • Navid Sabet, Goethe University in Frankfurt
19
  • Short Course on Functional Data Analysis
20
21
  • Fadhil Nadhif Muharam, SSE
22
23
24
25
  • Merry Ferrando,Tilburg University
26
27
28
  • Dogukan Guney, TSE
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
  • Short Course on Functional Data Analysis
    18 Feb, 10:00 - 15:00

    Day 1 – February 18


    9:30-11:00 Basics of Functional Data Analysis

    • What is functional data?
    • Basic theoretical concepts
    • The covariance and its decomposition
    • Functional data representation
    • Visualizing functional data

    11:00-11:30 Coffee break
    11:30-12:30 Functional Regression

    • Scalar-on-function regression
    • Function-on-scalar regression
    • Function-on-function regression

    12:30-13:30 Lunch break
    13:30-15:00 Functional Data Problems in R

    Location: R42.2.113

    Feb
    18

    Day 1 – February 18


    9:30-11:00 Basics of Functional Data Analysis

    • What is functional data?
    • Basic theoretical concepts
    • The covariance and its decomposition
    • Functional data representation
    • Visualizing functional data

    11:00-11:30 Coffee break
    11:30-12:30 Functional Regression

    • Scalar-on-function regression
    • Function-on-scalar regression
    • Function-on-function regression

    12:30-13:30 Lunch break
    13:30-15:00 Functional Data Problems in R

    Short Course on Functional Data Analysis

    Tuesday, 10:00 - 15:00

    Location: R42.2.113

  • Navid Sabet, Goethe University in Frankfurt
    18 Feb, 14:00 - 15:30

    title : Out of the Shadows and into the Classroom:Immigrant Legalization, Hispanic Human Capitaland Hispanic Representation on School Boards
      
    AbstractTo what extent does immigrant legalization foster human capital accumulation andtranslate into long-run economic mobility and political representation? I address thesequestions by comparing outcomes across people, public schools and counties in the USwith differential exposure to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), whichdocumented millions of Hispanic migrants. The IRCA increases Hispanic public schoolenrollment and high school completion, while whites sort out of public education andinto private schooling. In the long run, legal status boosts Hispanic college completion,access to high-skill occupations, and incomes. It also increases Hispanic school boardrepresentation and political mobility across locally elected public office but does not affectlocal government structure. These findings highlight legalization as a driver of humancapital investment and economic and political mobility. (JEL: I21, J15, H52)

    Location: R42.2.110

    Feb
    18

    title : Out of the Shadows and into the Classroom:Immigrant Legalization, Hispanic Human Capitaland Hispanic Representation on School Boards
      
    AbstractTo what extent does immigrant legalization foster human capital accumulation andtranslate into long-run economic mobility and political representation? I address thesequestions by comparing outcomes across people, public schools and counties in the USwith differential exposure to the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), whichdocumented millions of Hispanic migrants. The IRCA increases Hispanic public schoolenrollment and high school completion, while whites sort out of public education andinto private schooling. In the long run, legal status boosts Hispanic college completion,access to high-skill occupations, and incomes. It also increases Hispanic school boardrepresentation and political mobility across locally elected public office but does not affectlocal government structure. These findings highlight legalization as a driver of humancapital investment and economic and political mobility. (JEL: I21, J15, H52)

    Navid Sabet, Goethe University in Frankfurt

    Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:30

    Location: R42.2.110

Wednesday, 19 February 2025
  • Short Course on Functional Data Analysis
    19 Feb, 10:00 - 18:00


    9:30-11:00
     Registration and Amplitude & Phase Variation

    • The problem of curve registration
    • Different registration methods
    • Elastic analysis in the square root velocity framework

    11:00-11:30 Coffee break
    11:30-12:30 Further Selected Topics, such as:

    • Functional mixed models
    • Fragmented functional data

    12:30-13:30 Lunch break
    13:30-15:00 Functional Data Problems in R

    Location:

    Feb
    19


    9:30-11:00
     Registration and Amplitude & Phase Variation

    • The problem of curve registration
    • Different registration methods
    • Elastic analysis in the square root velocity framework

    11:00-11:30 Coffee break
    11:30-12:30 Further Selected Topics, such as:

    • Functional mixed models
    • Fragmented functional data

    12:30-13:30 Lunch break
    13:30-15:00 Functional Data Problems in R

    Short Course on Functional Data Analysis

    Wednesday, 10:00 - 18:00

    Location:

Friday, 21 February 2025
  • Fadhil Nadhif Muharam, SSE
    21 Feb, 12:15 - 13:30

    Location: R42.2.113

    Feb
    21

    Fadhil Nadhif Muharam, SSE

    Friday, 12:15 - 13:30

    Location: R42.2.113

Tuesday, 25 February 2025
  • Merry Ferrando,Tilburg University
    25 Feb, 14:00 - 15:30

    Location: R42.2.113

    Feb
    25

    Merry Ferrando,Tilburg University

    Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:30

    Location: R42.2.113

Friday, 28 February 2025
  • Dogukan Guney, TSE
    28 Feb, 12:15 - 13:30

    Location: R42.2.113

    Feb
    28

    Dogukan Guney, TSE

    Friday, 12:15 - 13:30

    Location: R42.2.113

Tuesday, 04 March 2025
  • Marion Dumas, LSE
    04 Mar, 14:00 - 15:30

    Location: R42.2.113

    Mar
    04

    Marion Dumas, LSE

    Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:30

    Location: R42.2.113

Tuesday, 11 March 2025
  • Thomas Baudin, IESEG
    11 Mar, 14:00 - 15:30

    Location: R42.113

    Mar
    11

    Thomas Baudin, IESEG

    Tuesday, 14:00 - 15:30

    Location: R42.113

Friday, 14 March 2025
  • Timo Ehrig, Times2
    14 Mar, 12:15 - 13:30

    TITLE : The Theory-Based View of Strategy: How Counter-Theories Shape Confidence and Persuasion

     

    ABSTRACT : In this talk, I will present the emerging theory-based view of strategy and entrepreneurship, in particular, the role of counter-theories and their role in rationally calibrating confidence and persuasion processes. Counter-theories are logical arguments against a current viewpoint or theory of a strategist. While Ehrig&Schmidt (2022) show that rationally learning from counter-theories can change theories about the future of an industry, even if they are rejected, I will present two newer results. In ongoing work with Todd Zenger, we show that if Bayesian learning suggests that confidence in pursuing a big goal should be low, and persistence would be overconfident, listening to counter-theories can rationally elevate the confidence of the strategist again, enabling rational persistence in the face of negative feedback about an initial theory of a strategist. This process is characterized by a recalibration of confidence in yet untestable assumptions, and we call such confidence "confidence type 2". In ongoing work with Jens Schmidt, we show that challengers (like Tesla) can use counter-theories to persuade incumbents (like Daimler) and these persuasion processes can be manipulative, as the incumbents can work with superior awareness, implying a logic of persuasion that is different from signaling or Bayesian persuasion. I will conclude the talk with ideas that, if we had taught them, may have helped the German car industry to react wiser in interactions with Tesla.


    Ehrig & Schmidt 2022 SMJ: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smj.3381

    Ehrig & Zenger 2024 SS: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/stsc.2024.0177

    Location: R42.2.103

    Mar
    14

    TITLE : The Theory-Based View of Strategy: How Counter-Theories Shape Confidence and Persuasion

     

    ABSTRACT : In this talk, I will present the emerging theory-based view of strategy and entrepreneurship, in particular, the role of counter-theories and their role in rationally calibrating confidence and persuasion processes. Counter-theories are logical arguments against a current viewpoint or theory of a strategist. While Ehrig&Schmidt (2022) show that rationally learning from counter-theories can change theories about the future of an industry, even if they are rejected, I will present two newer results. In ongoing work with Todd Zenger, we show that if Bayesian learning suggests that confidence in pursuing a big goal should be low, and persistence would be overconfident, listening to counter-theories can rationally elevate the confidence of the strategist again, enabling rational persistence in the face of negative feedback about an initial theory of a strategist. This process is characterized by a recalibration of confidence in yet untestable assumptions, and we call such confidence "confidence type 2". In ongoing work with Jens Schmidt, we show that challengers (like Tesla) can use counter-theories to persuade incumbents (like Daimler) and these persuasion processes can be manipulative, as the incumbents can work with superior awareness, implying a logic of persuasion that is different from signaling or Bayesian persuasion. I will conclude the talk with ideas that, if we had taught them, may have helped the German car industry to react wiser in interactions with Tesla.


    Ehrig & Schmidt 2022 SMJ: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smj.3381

    Ehrig & Zenger 2024 SS: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/stsc.2024.0177

    Timo Ehrig, Times2

    Friday, 12:15 - 13:30

    Location: R42.2.103

Friday, 21 March 2025
  • Lucas Mandrisch
    21 Mar, 12:15 - 13:45

    Location: R42.2.113

    Mar
    21

    Lucas Mandrisch

    Friday, 12:15 - 13:45

    Location: R42.2.113