Seminars

Engineering and Evaluating Cascading Effects in Teacher Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Who Gains, Who Stays, and Who Loses under Rent Regulation? A Structural Approach using Swiss Micro-Level Data 

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The Effect of Local Tax Incentives on the Spending Efficiency of EU Transfers

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Prof. Fabian Bernhard

EDHEC Paris

Self-conscious emotions and entrepreneurial behavior, intent and execution across cultural regions

Carla Coccia

University of Bern

Improving the quality of education in developing countries: An experimental evaluation of teacher training programs in El Salvador

Jorge De La Roca

University of Southern California

Skill allocation and urban amenities in the developing world

Pierre Magontier

University of Bern

The Fragility of Urban Social Networks

Frédéric Kluser

University of Bern

Intergenerational Nutrition Patterns and How to Break Them

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Forum Raumwissenschaften 2022

24.-25.10.2022

Soziale Kohäsion und die gebaute Umwelt: Was hält uns zusammen?

Sabine Kollbrunner and Marc Plancherel

State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

New Regional Policy in Switzerland – challenges and opportunities

Pascal Troxler

University of Bern

The Impact of Weather Forecasts on Ski Demand

Guest lecture

Prof. Dominique Foray

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)

Smart specialization strategies – insights gained from a unique European policy experiment

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13.05.2022

Sun Kyoung Lee

Yale University

European Immigrants and the United States’ Rise to the Technological Frontier

Costas Arkolakis

Yale University

Combinatorial Discrete Choice

Ferdinand Rauch

University of Oxford

Asymmetric Trading Costs and Ancient Greek Cities

Frédéric Kluser

University of Bern

Spatial frictions in consumption and retail competition

Eunjee Kwon

University Cincinnati

Why Do Improvements in Transportation InfrastructureReduce the Gender Gap in South Korea?

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Prof. Dr. Max v. Ehrlich
Prof. Dr. Christian Hilber
Prof. Dr. Olivier Schöni

On the long-term determinants of urban form – an economic analysis

Pierre-Philippe Combes

Paris School of Economics

Measuring land use changes by (machine) learning from historical maps - The emergence, growth, and stagnation of cities: France c. 1760-2020

Ines Helm

Stockholm University

The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks

Dr. Marcel Henkel

University of Bern

CRED Research Seminar

15.09.2021

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Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer

CRED

Verdichtung – Eine wirtschaftliche Chance für kleine und mittelgrosse Städte

regiosuisse-Wissenschaftsforum

Wachstumsunabhängigkeit – eine neue Leitlinie für die Regionalentwicklung?

Prof. Dr. Heike Mayer

Prof. Dr. Max v. Ehrlich

VWI Brown Bag Seminar

19.05.2021

Dr. Simon Büchler

University of Bern

Quantifying Land Use Regulation and its Determinants - Ease of Residential Development across Swiss Municipalities (Zoom)

VWI Research Seminar

17.05.2021

Kirill Borusyak

University College London (UCL)

Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications (Zoom)

VWI Research Seminar

26.04.2021

Yanos Zylberberg

University of Bristol

Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China (Zoom)

Human Geography Colloquium

Dr. Marcin R. Rataj

University of Bern

Entrepreneurship and Aging: An Economic Geography Perspective (Zoom)

VWI Research Seminar

Dirk Foremny

University Barcelona

Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility (Zoom)

VWI Brown Bag Seminar

31.03.2021

Preetha Kalambaden

University of Bern

Intergenerational Mobility in Switzerland: Evidence from large administrative Datasets (Zoom)

CRED Research Seminar

15.02.2021

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VWI Brown Bag Seminar

Pascal Troxler

University of Bern

Strategic Investments in Mountain Railways

VWI Research Seminar

Sebastian Siegloch

University of Mannheim and ZEW

Direct, Spill-Over and Welfare Effects of Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Investment Subsidies in East Germany (Zoom)

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COVID-19 & the impact on higher education: What does the future hold?

VWI Brown Bag Seminar

Preetha Kalambaden

University of Bern

Child Care and Parental Employment: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment (Zoom)

Human Geography Colloquium

Dr. Ben Davies 

Bath Spa University

Reflections on Q Methodology: Theoretical and Practical Considerations

Human Geography Colloquium

Dr. Mathias Jehling 

Leibniz-Institut, Dresden

Vom planerischen Ziel zum räumlichen Prozess: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Analyse städtischer Verdichtung

VWI Brown Bag Seminar

Dr. Marcel Henkel

University of Düsseldorf

The Role of Key Regions in Spatial Development (Zoom)

Human Geography Colloquium

Dr. Flurina Wartmann 

WSL

Exploring cultural landscape values and sense of place using interdisciplinary approaches

VWI Research Seminar

Raphael Parchet

Universita Della Svizzera Italiana

Who Bears the Burden of Local Taxes?

Human Geography Colloquium

Dr. Anna Butzin 

Westfälische Hochschule

Forschungsansatz Innovationsbiographien: Raum-zeitliche Erfassung von Wissensgenerierung in Innovationsprozessen

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Prof. Dr. Jean-David Gerber

CRED

Beitrag zum Forumsgespräch zu „Verdichten als Chance“

Anja Grujovic 

Cemfi

Tasks, Cities and Urban Wage Premia

VWI Research Seminar

Yannis Ioannides

Tufts University

Endogenous Social Networks and Inequality in an Intergenerational Settings

VWI Research Seminar

Nadine Riedel

Bochum-Ruhr Universität

Spatial Tax Enforcement Spillovers: Evidence from South Africa

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