Research Seminars

The Bonn Applied Microeconomics Seminar is cohosted by IZA and the Institute for Applied Microeconomics at the University of Bonn.

Participation in the Applied Micro Seminar is open to researchers, students, and visitors of the University of Bonn, IZA, and collaborating institutions (e.g., via CRCs or Clusters of Excellence). The seminar presentations, including the discussions, are held in English.

You can stay up-to-date by subscribing to our web calendar. If you wish to receive announcements of upcoming talks and information regarding the availability of sign-up meetings with the speakers via e-mail, please contact seminar@iza.org so that we can add you to the Applied Micro mailing list.

 

Upcoming Presentations

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar
When:
Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Patrick Agte
When:
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar
When:
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Matt Lowe
When:
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar
When:
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Marta Serra-Garcia
When:
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Alison Andrew
When:
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar
When:
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Lukas Bolte
When:
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Cuimin Ba, “Over- and Underreaction to Information: The Role of Complexity in Belief-Updating”
When:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
Description:
Cuimin Ba, J. Aislinn Bohren, and Alex Imas:
“Over- and Underreaction to Information: The Role of Complexity in Belief-Updating”

This paper explores how cognitive constraints—namely, attention and processing capacity—interact with properties of the learning environment to determine how people react to information. In our model, people form a simplified mental representation of the environment via salience-channeled attention, then process information with cognitive imprecision. The model predicts overreaction to information when environments are complex, signals are noisy, information is surprising, or priors are concentrated on less salient states; it predicts underreaction when environments are simple, signals are precise, information is expected, or priors are concentrated on salient states. Results from a series of pre-registered experiments provide support for these predictions and direct evidence for the proposed cognitive mechanisms. We show that the two psychological mechanisms act as cognitive complements: their interaction is critical for explaining belief data, and together they yield a highly complete model in terms of capturing explainable variation in belief-updating. Our theoretical and empirical results connect disparate findings in prior work: underreaction is typically found in laboratory studies, which feature simple learning settings, while overreaction is more prevalent in financial markets which feature greater complexity.

https://cuiminba.com/uploads/Overreaction.pdf

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Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Hanna Wang
When:
Tuesday, June 24, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Ran Spiegler
When:
Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
Niebuhrstraße 5, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar
When:
Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Heather Sarsons
When:
Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Bonn Applied Micro Seminar: Linh T. Tô
When:
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 02:15 PM CET
Where:
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 5-9, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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