Weekly Seminar Overview

 

May 18-22, 2026

 

VCEE (Vienna Center for Experimental Economics) Brown-Bag Seminar

  • Speaker: Sannah Tijani (WU Vienna)
  • Title: Stigma and Policy Preferences in Taboo Markets: Sex Work Decriminalization (joint work with Federica Braccioli)
  • Date & Time: Monday, May 18, 13:15 - 14:15
  • Location: OMDS Seminar Room (#3.307), OMP-1

ISOR Colloquium

  • Speaker: Claire Vernade (University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany)
  • Title: Learning from a Bandit Learner
  • Date & Time: Monday, May 18, 16:45 - 17:45
  • Location: HS 7 (1-floor), OMP-1

PhD Research Seminar in Macroeconomics

  • Speaker: Tim Obermeier (University of Leicester)
  • Title: Marriage, Intra-Household Inequality and Wage Risk
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, May 19, 8:50 - 10:15
  • Location: OMDS Seminar Room (#3.307), OMP-1

PhD Seminar: Advanced Stochastic Modelling

  • Speaker 1: Qi Feng (13:15-14:15)
  • Title: Branched Signature Models
  • Speaker 2: Enrico Maria Ferrari (14:15-15:00)
  • Title: Learning Topological Multiparameter Filtrations: An Application to Medical Image Classification
  • Date: Tuesday, May 19
  • Location: Seminar Room 15 (OG01), Kolingasse 14

Vienna International Economics Seminar (VIES)

  • Speaker: David Atkin (MIT)
  • Title: The Incidence of Distortions (with Baptiste Bernadac, Dave Donaldson, Tishara Garg and Federico Huneeus)
  • Date & Time: Tuesday, May 19, 17:45 - 19:15
  • Location: HS 15 (2-floor), OMP-1

PhD Research Seminar in Microeconomics

  • Speaker: Aleksandar Vasic
  • Title: Algorithmic Pricing and Tacit Collusion in U.S. Airport Hotels
  • Date & Time: Wednesday, May 20, 11:45 - 13:00
  • Location: OMDS Seminar Room (#3.307), OMP-1

OMDS Finance Seminar

  • Speaker: Simon Loertscher (The University of Melbourne)
  • Title: Endogenous Demand and Oligopoly (with Bing Liu)
  • Date & Time: Wednesday, May 20, 12:00 - 13:00
  • Location: Seminar Room 3 (1-floor), OMP-1

Vienna Joint Economics (VJE) Seminar

  • Speaker: Antonio Rosato (Deakin Business School)
  • Title: The Missing “Loser’s Curse”: Experimental Evidence on Belief-Based Models in Common-Value Auctions
  • Date & Time: Thursday, May 21, 13:15 - 14:45
  • Location: HS 12 (2-floor), OMP-1

VGSF Finance Research Seminar

  • Speaker: Ravi Bansal (Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business)
  • Title: Democracy as a Hedge Asset: The Political Economy of the Growth-and-Risk Frontier
  • Date & Time: Friday, May 22, 11:00 - 12:15
  • Location: Campus WU Vienna, D3.0.225