Institute Research Seminar

The weekly Research Forum of the Institute of Economics provides a vibrant space for faculty, researchers, guest lecturers and doctoral students to present their latest work and receive valuable feedback from a supportive yet intellectually rigorous community. Its aim is to strengthen scientific collaboration within the institute, inspire new research directions, and foster high-quality academic output. The regular talks also offer insights into international trends and help sustain the dynamic research atmosphere of the institute.

Time slot: Wednesdays, 11:40-12:40

Location: E.218 (H-1093 Budapest, Fővám sqr 8.)

You can check our previous events via THIS LINK.

The next lecture in the series

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and Abstract
May 20	Max Gillman	University of Missouri–St. Louis; Corvinus University, Budapest; CERGE-EI; ELTE-CERS-IE	Stochastic Discount Factor with Inflation Risk Premium: Theory and VECM Evidence of the Forward Solution

Upcoming Seminars

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and Abstract
May 27 _{(Financed by NDRI STARTING-24 150299)}	Andrew Ellis	London School of Economics	Limited belief propagation and contingent thinking
June 3	Ian Crawford	University of Oxford	The demand for integers; revealed preference and welfare economics with partially-observed choice sets

Previous Seminars in the spring semester of the 2025/26 academic year

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and Abstract
February 11	Sebastian Ottinger	CERGE-EI	Forced Migration and Industry Diffusion
February 25	Anita Kopányi-Peuker	University of Amsterdam	Disclosure of conflict of interests in long-run relationships
March 3.	Edouard Schaal	CREI (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional); Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona	Echoes and delays: Time-to-build in Production Networks
March 11	Konuray Mutluer	CERGE-EI	Influence Motivated Communication
March 18 ₍_{In collaboration with MNB)}	Georgios Georgiadis	European Central Bank	From Brussels to Bangkok: how investment funds transmit financial spillovers
March 25 _{Financed by K143346}	Győző Gyöngyösi	Utrecht University	Decentralized but Dependent: Clientelism through Workfare
April 15	Boris Knapp	Corvinus University of Budapest	Perverse Effects of Imperfectly Enforced Price Controls
April 22	Péter Karádi	European Central Bank	Disentangling Monetary Policy, Central Bank Information, and Fed Response to News Shocks
April 29 ₍_{In collaboration with}_{: (1) Corvinus Game Theory Seminar (2) Doctoral Program in Economics at Corvinus (3) Hungarian Society of Economics, “Theory and Experimental Economics” Program)}	Ariel Rubinstein	Tel Aviv University	No Prices No Games!
May 6 _{(Financed by NDRI STARTING-24 150299)}	Frank Riedel	Bielefeld University	Belief-Efficiency in Markets

Events in the fall semester of the 2025/26 academic year

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title and Abstract
September 17	Romain Houssa	University of Namur	Sources of Oil price fluctuations: resolving the debate with a general equilibrium model
September 24 (CANCELLED)	Melis Kartal	Vienna University of Economics and Business	Sorting fact from fiction in a complex world under the shadow of motivated reasoning
October 1 _{(Financed by NDRI STARTING-24 150299)}	Christoph Kuzmics	University of Graz	Renegotiation-Proof Cheap Talk
October 8 ₍_{In collaboration with}_the _{Doctoral Program in Economics at Corvinus)}	Jean-Jacques Herings	Tilburg University	Negotiation In Bankruptcy Problems
October 15	Mathias Klein	Sveriges Riksbank, Monetary Policy Department	Do Capacity Constraints Affect the Pass-Through of Monetary Policy to Prices
October 22	Alejandro Cuñat	University of Vienna	Unbalanced Trade 2.0
October 29	——	—Fall Break—	——
November 5	Gergely Gánics	Banco de España	Simple tests for the correct specification of conditional predictive densities
November 12 _{(Financed by NDRI STARTING-24 150299)}	Geoffrey Castillo	Nottingham Trent University	Cooperation in repeated asymmetric prisoner’s dilemmas
November 19 ₍_{In collaboration with}_MNB)	Glenn Magerman	ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles	Optimal policy mix in economic unions
November 26 _{(Financed by NDRI STARTING-24 150299)}	Helene Mass	University of Vienna	Gaming the test – when should test thresholds be unpredictable?
December 3	Christian Ochsner	CERGE-EI, Prague	Pandemics’ backlash: The effects of the 1918 influenza on health attitudes and behavior
December 10 _{(Financed by NDRI STARTING-24 150299)}	Alexander Wagner	University of Salzburg	Human-Algorithm Collaboration in Planning Tasks