Upcoming sessions

Thursday, December 12, 2024
Capitalism versus Socialism: The Confusion of Frank Knight, the Clarity of Ludwig von Mises
Speaker: Peter Boettke (George Mason University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m. (Leipzig time – CET) / 9:30 a.m. (EST)

Past speakers

Thursday, October 17, 2024
Good Money: Paths towards a Just and Sustainable Society
Speaker: Philippa Sigl-Glöckner (Dezernat Zukunft)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 14, 2023
The International Monetary System and International Financial System as an Analogy to the Copernican Heliocentric system
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 30, 2023
Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?
Larry White (George Mason University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 19, 2023
The Fiscal Policy Strategy of the German Federal Government: A Discussion
Arash Molavi Vasséi (Bundesministerium der Finanzen)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 28, 2023
Multinationals and Tax Avoidance
Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 15, 2023
The Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Stock Markets and Household Incomes in Japan
Nils Sonnenberg (Kiel Institute for the World Economy)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Fall / Winter 2022-23

Thursday, January 26, 2023
Rabbits Caught in the Headlights: Experts, Crowd Wisdom, and Belief Updating
W. Benedikt Schmal (DICE, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, January 12, 2023
Free Speech and the Future of the University
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 8, 2022
Management Opposition, Strikes and Union Threat
Patrick Nüß (Kiel University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, November 24, 2022
“Schockmomente”
Harold James (Princeton University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Spring / Summer 2022

Thursday, July 21, 2022
The New Deal and Recovery: The Keynesian Myth
George Selgin (The Cato Institute)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 23, 2022
Employee vs. Independent Worker: A Framework for Understanding Work Differences
Liya Palagashvili (Mercatus, George Mason University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Thursday, June 9, 2022
Resilience, Spontaneous Order, and Social Contract
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
Zoom: 3:30 p.m.

Fall / Winter 2021-2022

Monday, February 21, 2022
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply
Barbara Boelmann (University College London)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Monday, February 7, 2022
Carl Menger’s Theory of Wants and Goods: Precursors in the German Subjective-Value Tradition
David Harper (New York University) and Anthony Endres (University of Auckland)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Monday, January 24, 2022
Electoral Systems and Female Representation in Politics: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity
Monika Köppl-Turyna (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien / EcoAustria – Institute for Economic Research)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Monday, January 10, 2022
Can Dollarization Constrain a Populist Leader: The Case of Rafael Correa in Ecuador
Nicolás Cachanosky (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Spring / Summer 2021

Thursday, June 24, 2021
Origins of Fabian Socialism in India
Shruti Rajagopalan (Mercatus Center, George Mason University)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Thursday, June 17, 2021
Economic Ideas and Taiwan’s Shift to Export Promotion in 1958
Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Thursday, May 20, 2021
Vigilantism, Institutions, and Norms: Understanding Attitudes towards Lynching in Brazil
David Skarbek (Brown University)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Thursday, May 6, 2021
Home or Away? Profit Shifting with Territorial Taxation
Dominika Langenmayr (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Zoom: 3 p.m.

Fall / Winter 2020-21

Monday, February 8, 2021
The Austrian Institute for Business Cycle Research under Hayek and Morgenstern, 1927–1938: Forecasting, Theory, Policy Advice
Hansjörg Klausinger (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Zoom: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Monday, February 1, 2021
Rational Choice Theories at the Cowles Commission, 1944–1960
Catherine Herfeld (University of Zurich)
Zoom: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Monday, January 25, 2021
Knowledge and Incentive Problems in Regulatory Studies: An Austrian Perspective
Diana W. Thomas (Creighton University)
Zoom: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Monday, January 18, 2021
Capitalism and Democracy: Some Lessons from German Economic History, 1800–1919
Gerhard Wegner (University of Erfurt)
Zoom: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Spring / Summer 2020

Thursday, July 9, 2020
Index Funds and the Austrian School: A New Take on “Austrian Investing”
Roland Fritz (University of Siegen)
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, July 2, 2020
Long Live the Doge? Death as a Term Limit on Executives in Middle Age and Renaissance Venice
Daniel Smith (Middle Tennessee State University)
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, June 11, 2020
Family Types and the Spirit of Capitalism: Evidence from Regional Surveys
Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg)
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, June 4, 2020
Who is the Ultimate Boss of Legislators: Voters, Special Interest Groups or Parties?
David Stadelmann (Bayreuth University)
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Fall / Winter 2019-20

Thursday, January 30, 2020
Dining, Dancing, Drinking: Regulating Informal Channels of Interest Group Influence?
Karsten Mause (University of Münster)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, January 23, 2020
The Rational Irrationality of Firms and NGOs – Weak Feedback-Mechanisms as Drivers of Organizational Misperformance.
Sebastian Everding (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, December 19, 2019
Implications of Joint Decisions and Shared Consequences
Tim Lohse (Berlin School of Economics and Law)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Spring / Summer 2019

Thursday, July 11, 2019
Concentration of Production over Time – Persistence and Transformation of Regional Economic Patterns
Petrik Runst (Göttingen University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, July 4, 2019
Macht, Markt und Wettbewerb: Was steuert die Datenökonomie?
Justus Haucap (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room SR4
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, June 13, 2019
Securing Personal Freedom Through Institutions – the Tole of Democracy and Judicial Independence
Niclas Berggren (Research Institute of Industrial Economics and University of Economics in Prague)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, May 2, 2019
Economic Institutions, Adaptive Efficiency and Crisis Resilience – Lessons from the Great Recession
Robert Fritzsch (University of Erfurt)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, April 4, 2019
La Bourse, les Banques et l’Or: Johannesburg’s French Connection and the Paris Krach of 1895
Mariusz Lukasiewicz (Leipzig University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Fall / Winter 2018-19

Thursday, January 24, 2019
Food for Thought from Old Indian Texts
Harald Wiese (Leipzig University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room TBA
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, January 17, 2019
The Construction of an International Order in the Work of Jan Tinbergen
Erwin Dekker (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, January 10, 2019
Macht, Markt und Wettbewerb: Was steuert die Datenökonomie?
Justus Haucap (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, November 22, 2018
Paul Samuelson’s Graduate Economic Theory Lectures at M.I.T. in the Early 1940s:
The Student Notes of Elizabeth Ringo
Irwin Collier (Bard College Berlin)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, November 15, 2018
How Much Does Others’ Protection Matter?
Employment Protection, Future Labour Market Prospects and Well-Being
Christine Lücke (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, November 1, 2018
Neighborhood Dynamics in the Industrializing City: Berlin, 1861-1914
Kalle Kappner (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Spring / Summer 2018

Thursday, June 28, 2018
The Life of Carl Menger: A Man without Prejudice
Reinhard Schumacher (University of Potsdam)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Friday Lecture, June 15, 2018
The Uneasy Case for Nudging
Mario J. Rizzo (New York University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room SR 7
Time: 11 a.m.

Thursday, June 14, 2018
Deficient Behavioral Foundations of New Paternalism
Mario J. Rizzo (New York University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Special Event, Thursday, June 7, 2018
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker in Conversation with Alexander Fink
Carl Christian von Weizsäcker (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room SR-1
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 17, 2018
Behavioral Economics and International Law: The Case of Putnam’s Two-Level Game
Jan Schnellenbach (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, May 3, 2018
No Role For Hartz Reforms? Demand and Supply Factors in the German Labor Market, 1993-2014
Michael C. Burda (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, April 19, 2018
Which Countries Receive Aid by Private Charities and Why?
Pia Rennert (Leipzig University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Fall / Winter 2017-18

Thursday, January 18, 2018
Methodological Battles: How German Liberal Thought Forgot Legitimacy
(A Fresh Look at Various Monetary Regime Proposals)
Ekkehard Köhler (Walter Eucken Institute, Freiburg)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, January 11, 2018
Capital Controls and Entry: Evidence from Emerging Market Economies
David Herok (Leipzig University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, December 14, 2017
The Epistemic Value of Freedom: What Hayek Failed to Convey to Habermas
Julian Müller (Brown University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, December 7, 2017
Clearing the Market? Market Design from the Scholastics to Ordoliberalism
Philipp Rössner (University of Manchester)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, November 23, 2017
Classical Liberal and Socialist Austrian Women Economists: Jewishness and
Emancipation (Vienna, 1890-1938)
Giandomenica Becchio (University of Torino)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, November 16, 2017
The Courts as a Threat to Central Bank Autonomy: The Case of Colombia
Andrea L. Tapia-Hoffmann (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, October 19, 2017
The Weber-Wieser Connection: Early Economic Sociology as an Interpretative
Skeleton Key
Stefan Kolev (University of Applied Sciences Zwickau)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Time: 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.