CEPA Newsletter 04/2026

OvGU Faculty Colloquium

• 15.04.2026 Pandemics' backlash: The effects of the 1918 influenza on health attitudes and behavior (Ass.-Prof. Dr. Christian Ochsner, CERGE-EI Prag)
• 22.04.2026 Different Consumption Responses to Equivalent Changes in the Real Interest Rate (Prof. Dr. Frank Heinemann, TU Berlin)
• 29.04.2026 Forgoing Consumption Experiences that Others Cannot Access (Prof Dr. Janina Steinmetz, City St. George University of London)

OvGU Research Seminar

• 15.04.2026 Impact of Prompted Choice on Organ Donor Registrations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Italy (Martin Omar Fieles-Ahmad, OvGU)
• 22.04.2026 tba (Kolja Gauer, OvGU)
• 29.04.2026 tba (Jannik Greif, OvGU)

IWH Research Seminar

• 14.04.2026 tba (Gyöngyi Loranth, University of Vienna)

Upcoming Events and Workshops

• No events were reported by CEPA members for the newsletter.

Calls for Papers/Other Calls

• Deadline 11.05.2026: 12th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on "Challenges to Financial Stability", Halle (Saale) 24.08-25.08.2026 [LINK]

• Ludolph.  M., Nghiem, G., Tonzer, L. (2026) Fiscal Expansion and Housholds’ Income Inequality Expectations: A Survey Experiment, Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) dp-744

• Derlin, M.: Presented the project „Income and Affective Well-Being“ at the BeWell Meeting 2026. Joint work with Carina Keldenich and Andreas Knabe. Halle (Saale), 26.02-27.02.2026
• Fieles-Ahmad, O., M.: Presented the project “I got 99 Problems and a Birch is One- Seasonal Allergies and Traffic Accidents in the UK” at the Annual AURÖ workshop for early-career researchers in Environmental and Resource Economics , Leipzig 04.03.-06.03.2026
• Keldenich, C.: Presented the paper „Connecting the Dots: Continuity in the Relationship Between Income and Emotional Well-Being“ at the BeWell Meeting 2026. Joint work with Manja Derlin and Andreas Knabe. Halle (Saale), 26.02-27.02.2026
• Knabe, A.: Participated as a discussant in a live TV political talkshow on current welfare reform on MDR Fakt ist!, 11.03.2026
• Ludolph, M.: Presented at the 18th FIW Research Conference International Economics, “The limits of local laws in global supply chains: Cutting ties or “edutrading” procurement partners?" Joint work with Hendrik Keilbach, Michael Koetter, Fabian Wöbbeking, Vienna, 19.02.-20.02.2026

Faculty of Economics and Management

Halle Institute for Economic Research

Central-German Doctoral Program Economics

Berlin Network of Labor Market Research (BeNA)

BSE Applied Micro Seminar