Description

Advanced Seminars

The Advanced Seminars are a regular departmental event attended by faculty, PhD students, post-docs, and fellows working in various areas of economics. The aim is to invite prominent economists from all fields , to present their research. Recent past presenters have included Nobel Prize laureate Esther Duflo, John Bates Clark medalist Gabriel Zucman, and renowned researchers such as Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Beata Javorcik, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Christian Gollier, and Antonio Cabrales—just to name a few.

Attendance at this seminar is mandatory for members of the department.

Macro Seminars, Micro Seminars, and Public Economics and Policy Seminars

These three specialized seminars are regular departmental events attended by faculty, PhD students, post-docs, and fellows. The aim is to invite top researchers as well as young scholars to present their research in these areas. These seminars provide an opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research at the frontier of the discipline. Moreover, they offer a valuable chance for PhD students to connect with faculty and discuss their research with the speakers.

The Macro Seminars span all areas of macroeconomics and international economics, the Micro Seminars focus on game theory, behavioral economics, and general microeconomics, and the Public Economics and Policy Seminars concentrate on policy-relevant research in public economics, development economics, and trade.

Attendance at this seminar is mandatory for members of the department interested in this field.

Research Days

This bi-annual event allows PhD students to present their research to faculty and post-doctoral fellows over several days. It serves as a platform for PhD students to receive feedback on their research and prepare for the job market. Additionally, Research Days include one-on-one feedback sessions with the CPhD (the committee in charge of supervising the PhD program), providing PhD students an opportunity to discuss their progress and well-being within the program.

Lausanne Theory for Empirical Micro Reading Group and Seminars

This bi-weekly event is attended by PhD students and occasionally post-doctoral fellows and faculty interested in research using economic theory to answer empirical questions. The idea is to help PhDs develop their skills in understanding theoretical methods that could be relevant to their work (examples include contract theory or quantitative spatial economics for development economics, structural models for political economy). Each week, for one hour, PhD students discuss a paper or one PhD student presents their research. This is also an opportunity for PhD students to informally discuss their weekly accomplishments and share ideas.

Approximately once per month, the Lausanne Theory for Empirical Economics Group joins the Rare Voices Micro Research Cluster to attend presentations by PhD students from the University of Lausanne, the University of Geneva, and the Graduate Institute. For 1.5 hours, one or two PhD students present their research in a seminar-style setting and receive feedback.

The reading group is also held on Zoom to allow external PhD students to join and participate, which is greatly encouraged.

Lausanne Macro Reading Group and Seminars

This weekly event is attended by PhD students and occasionally post-doctoral fellows and faculty interested in macroeconomics. Each week, for one hour, PhD students discuss a paper or one PhD student presents their research. This is also an opportunity for PhD students to informally discuss their weekly accomplishments and share ideas.

Approximately once per month, the Macro Reading Group hosts a seminar, welcoming PhD students from Lausanne and other universities to present their research.

The reading group is also held on Zoom to allow external PhD students to join and participate, which is greatly encouraged.

Walras-Pareto Lectures 

Since 1991, the year of the University of Lausanne’s 100th anniversary, the Department of Economics has been organizing an annual set of three lectures by world-renowned economists. This lecture series is named after Léon Walras and Vilfredo Pareto, the famous founders of the “Lausanne School” of economics. Most of these lectures are subsequently published in English as part of the Walras-Pareto series by the MIT Press (Cambridge, USA) and/or in French by Editions Payot (Lausanne).