2nd PhD Workshop 2013

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics. The aim of the workshop is to give talented young researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their research and to study new developments in Empirical Economics.

Lecturers

The first lecture will be given by Arno Riedl on “Experimental Economics”. Riedl is Professor of Public Economics at Maastricht University. In his research he uses tools and methods of behavioural and experimental economics to investigate decision-making in a variety of social and economic situations. He has published in top journals in economics, biology, neuroscience and political science.

Sascha O. Becker will talk about “The Role of Education in Economic History”. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick and Deputy Director of the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). His research interests are in Education and Labour Economics, Public Economics and Economic History. His papers have appeared in international journals, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review.

The final lecture will be given by Daniel S. Hamermesh on “Research Advice for PhD Students”. Hamermesh is Sue Killam Professor in the Foundations of Economics at University Texas and Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway University of London. His research concentrates on time use, labour demand, discrimination and unusual applications of labour economics. He authored several seminal books and a wide array of articles in labour economics in the leading general and specialized economics journals.

Audience

The 2nd Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics is open to around 20 graduate students and post doctorates within three years after dissertation. Participants will be given the opportunity to present and discuss their own research in a poster session. We encourage all young researchers interested in Empirical Economics to apply.

Submission

Please submit your CV and a paper (or an extended abstract) by January 15, 2013 to workshopuempwifo.uni-potsdampde.

There will be no workshop fees; travel and accommodation expenses have to be covered by the participants.

• Stijn Baert (Ghent University): Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a field experiment
• Elisabeth Bublitz (Friedrich Schiller University Jena): Matching skills of individuals and firms along the career path
• Thorsten Martin (University of Potsdam): Municipality debt in Germany: A spatial econometric approach
• Miriam Reuschel (University of Potsdam): What Explains the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship? A New Decomposition Approach based on Personality
• Martin Weißenberger (University of Potsdam): The Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed and the Role of "Unobserved" Characteristics for Matching Estimators