Preview Spring Semester 2026

📅 Jaime Arellano-Bover
🗓 Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104

Jaime Arellano-Bover is a labor economist and applied microeconomist currently at Yale University. His research focuses on wage determination, human capital, migration, firm dynamics, and labor market entry (e.g. how conditions at first job affect career trajectories).

📅 Vera Rocha (Copenhagen Business School)
🗓 Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104

Vera Rocha is a Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School. Her research sits at the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategic human capital, and labor market inequality. She studies venture formation, career transitions into entrepreneurship, and how firms’ hiring strategies evolve.

📅 Manuela Collis (Rotman) / Avinash Collis (Carnegie Mellon)
🗓 Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104

Manuela Collis is a doctoral researcher in Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Her work explores gender effects in decision-making settings, innovation, and behavioral/experimental approaches.
Avinash Collis is an Assistant Professor at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. He researches the economics of information technologies: digital platforms, welfare effects of digitization, and behavioral interventions in online environments.

📅 Richard Faltings (UCSD)
🗓 Wednesday, May 20, 2026 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 | 📍 Room: PLM-F-103/104

Richard Faltings is an Assistant Professor at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego. His research spans market design, pricing, platform economics, and the use of machine learning / reinforcement learning in economic decision making.

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