Past semesters
Fall Semester 2025
📅 HC Kongsted (Copenhagen Business School)
Being your own Master: How Constraints on Academic Freedom Affect Graduates’ Career Choices
🗓 Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104
Hans Christian Kongsted is a Professor of Applied Econometrics at the Department of Strategy and Innovation at the Copenhagen Business School. His research interests are innovation, entrepreneurship, and the economics of science.
📅 Guido Friebel (Goethe University in Frankfurt)
Value-based Leadership
🗓 Wednesday, October 1, 2025 | ⏰ 12:15–13:30 | 📍 Room: RAA-E-21
Guido Friebel is a Professor of Human Resources at Goethe University in Frankfurt. His main research interests are organizational and personnel economics.
📅 Mitchell Hoffmann (UC Santa Barbara)
Empowering Inclusive Work
🗓 Wednesday, October 22, 2025 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104
Mitchell Hoffman is the Richard F. Aster Jr. Professor of Economics at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on workplace productivity and hiring, at the intersection of labor, personnel, and behavioral economics.
📅 Patricia Funk (Università della Svizzera Italiana)
Women in Editorial Boards: An Investigation of Female Representation in Top Economic Journals
🗓 Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104
Patricia Funk is a Professor in Economics at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. Her research interests are gender economics and political economics.
📅 Fabian Lange (McGill University)
The Structure of Hiring Costs and the Volatility of Job Openings
🗓 Wednesday, December 10, 2025 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104
Fabian is Professor of Economics and Canada Research Chair in Labor and Personnel Economics at McGill University in Montreal. His research interests are in labor and personnel economics. Fabian holds a PhD degree (2004) from University of Chicago.
Spring semester 2025:
📅 Christina Felfe (University of Konstanz)
🗓 Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | ⏰ 12:15–13:45 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104
Christina Felfe is a Full Professor and Head of the Chair of Applied Microeconomics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research focuses on Labor, Education, and Migration Economics.
📅 Lee Flemming (UC Berkeley)
🗓 Monday, May 26, 2025 | ⏰ 14:15 - 15:45 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104
Lee Fleming is a Professor at UC Berkeley's Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and Faculty Director of the Fung Institute. His research focuses on innovation, invention, and technological recombination. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard Business School.