CEPA Newsletter 05/2026

OvGU Faculty Colloquium

• 13.05.26 Governing Funded Pensions: Lessons from the Swedish Premium Pension Scheme for the German Reform Debate (Prof. Dr. Marlene Haupt, Hochschule München)

• 20.05.26 tba (Ass.-Prof. Nicole Siebold, Universität Aarhus)

• 27.05.26 Taxing residential electricity consumption (Prof. Denvil Duncan, Indiana University Bloomington)

OvGU Research Seminar

• 13.05.26 tba (Sergei Snegirev)

• 20.05.26 Test me if you can (Dr. Ulrike Vollstädt)

• 27.05.26 Seen One Seen Them All (Mathilde Bechdolf, joint work with Max Grossmann and Karim Sadrieh)

IWH Research Seminar

• 05.05.26 Do Local Bank Branches Shape Mortgage Origination? (Janet Gao, Georgetown University)

• 12.05.26 The Demographic Cliff and the Market for Higher Education: Implications for Public Finance. (Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania)

• 19.05.26 tba (Guido Friebel, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

   

Upcoming Events and Workshops

• 21-22.05.2026 8th Bundesbank Workshop for Young Scientists on Applied Economics, Hannover (co-organized by OVGU) [LINK]

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]

• Keilbach, H., Koetter, M., Ludolph, M., & Woebbeking, F. (2026). The limits of local laws in global supply chains: Cutting ties or “edutrading” procurement partners?. Journal of Development Economics, 103804.

• Fieles-Ahmad, O., M & Schulze-Spüntrup. S. (2026). Prompted Choice and Organ Donor Registrations: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Italy. ifo Working Paper No. 425

• Fieles-Ahmad, O.: Received a Best Paper Award for the Wintersemester 2025/26 for the paper: “The Fentanyl Shock: Synthetic Opioids and the Supply of Organ Donors.” 29.04.2026
• Ludolph, M.: Held a presentation with the title “Beyond Multipliers: Distributional Income Effects of Government Spending in the Euro Area,” at the ifo Dresden Workshop on Macroeconomics and International Finance, joint work with Gökhan Ider, Alexander Kriwoluzky, Madalina Patru, & Lena Tonzer, 23.-24.04.2026. 

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