Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2025, 16:00 (via Zoom)
Tragfähigkeit der Staatsfinanzen (in German)
Emilie A. Höslinger (ifo München)
Mittwoch, 28. Januar 2026, 16:00 (via Zoom)
Reformoptionen für das deutsche Rentensystem (in German)
Marcel Thum (TU Dresden / ifo Dresden)
Past speakers
January 23, 2025
Vera C. Smith (1912-1976) – F. A. Hayek’s Student Against the Tide
Lachezar Grudev (Zwickau University of Applied Sciences)
December 12, 2024
Capitalism versus Socialism: The Confusion of Frank Knight, the Clarity of Ludwig von Mises
Peter Boettke (George Mason University)
October 17, 2024
Good Money: Paths towards a Just and Sustainable Society
Philippa Sigl-Glöckner (Dezernat Zukunft)
December 14, 2023
The International Monetary System and International Financial System as an Analogy to the Copernican Heliocentric system
Michael Bordo (Rutgers University)
November 30, 2023
Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?
Larry White (George Mason University)
October 19, 2023
The Fiscal Policy Strategy of the German Federal Government: A Discussion
Arash Molavi Vasséi (Bundesministerium der Finanzen)
September 28, 2023
Multinationals and Tax Avoidance
Lorraine Eden (Texas A&M University)
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)
January 26, 2023
Rabbits Caught in the Headlights: Experts, Crowd Wisdom, and Belief Updating
W. Benedikt Schmal (DICE, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
January 12, 2023
Free Speech and the Future of the University
Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago)
December 8, 2022
Management Opposition, Strikes and Union Threat
Patrick Nüß (Kiel University)
November 24, 2022
“Schockmomente”
Harold James (Princeton University)
July 21, 2022
The New Deal and Recovery: The Keynesian Myth
George Selgin (The Cato Institute)
June 23, 2022
Employee vs. Independent Worker: A Framework for Understanding Work Differences
Liya Palagashvili (Mercatus, George Mason University)
June 9, 2022
Resilience, Spontaneous Order, and Social Contract
Markus Brunnermeier (Princeton University)
February 21, 2022
Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply
Barbara Boelmann (University College London)
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)
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)
January 10, 2022
Can Dollarization Constrain a Populist Leader: The Case of Rafael Correa in Ecuador
Nicolás Cachanosky (Metropolitan State University of Denver)
June 24, 2021
Origins of Fabian Socialism in India
Shruti Rajagopalan (Mercatus Center, George Mason University)
June 17, 2021
Economic Ideas and Taiwan’s Shift to Export Promotion in 1958
Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College)
May 20, 2021
Vigilantism, Institutions, and Norms: Understanding Attitudes towards Lynching in Brazil
David Skarbek (Brown University)
May 6, 2021
Home or Away? Profit Shifting with Territorial Taxation
Dominika Langenmayr (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
Fall / Winter 2020-21
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)
February 1, 2021
Rational Choice Theories at the Cowles Commission, 1944–1960
Catherine Herfeld (University of Zurich)
January 25, 2021
Knowledge and Incentive Problems in Regulatory Studies: An Austrian Perspective
Diana W. Thomas (Creighton University)
January 18, 2021
Capitalism and Democracy: Some Lessons from German Economic History, 1800–1919
Gerhard Wegner (University of Erfurt)
Spring / Summer 2020
July 9, 2020
Index Funds and the Austrian School: A New Take on “Austrian Investing”
Roland Fritz (University of Siegen)
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)
June 11, 2020
Family Types and the Spirit of Capitalism: Evidence from Regional Surveys
Jerg Gutmann (University of Hamburg)
June 4, 2020
Who is the Ultimate Boss of Legislators: Voters, Special Interest Groups or Parties?
David Stadelmann (Bayreuth University)
Fall / Winter 2019-20
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
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
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
Spring / Summer 2019
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
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
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
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
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
January 24, 2019
Food for Thought from Old Indian Texts
Harald Wiese (Leipzig University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room TBA
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
June 14, 2018
Deficient Behavioral Foundations of New Paternalism
Mario J. Rizzo (New York University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
Special Event, 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
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
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
April 19, 2018
Which Countries Receive Aid by Private Charities and Why?
Pia Rennert (Leipzig University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
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
January 11, 2018
Capital Controls and Entry: Evidence from Emerging Market Economies
David Herok (Leipzig University)
Location: Grimmaische St. 12, 04109 Leipzig, Room I411
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
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
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
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
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
