Research Seminars  2025

Tuesday, usually 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm, room D130 (any change mentioned below).  

The research seminar is organized by Prof. Christelle Dumas and Prof. Mark Schelker.

How to add the ecopol research calendar to your calendar:

• In Outlook: go to Calendar, then "Open calendar" (in Home), select "From Internet" and copy paste the link.
• In Google Agenda: click on the small arrow right to "Autres Calendriers/Other calendars", select "Ajouter par URL/Add by URL" and copy paste the following link. 

• February

  February 25,
  Presenter: Ritwika Sen, LMU Munich
  Title: Supervision at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment
  Abstract: How does supervision impact worker performance? This paper examines the effects of frontline supervision on the speed and quality of production in a Ugandan data-collection firm. We conducted a field experiment, varying the timing and intensity of supervision among workers, to study the effects of supervision on worker performance. We find that, following increased supervision, workers demonstrate improvements in the dimensions of performance where they were initially weakest. These effects persist, even on days, performance metrics, and tasks that are not directly supervised. Our findings suggest that supervision facilitates targeted on-the-job coaching of workers, which results in economically meaningful improvements in their performance. This underscores the significance of supervisors as conduits for the transmission of tacit production knowledge within organizations.

• March

  March 11,  from 3.45pm - 5:00pm, room C230
  Presenter: Jozef Barunik, Charles University Prague

• April

  April 8,
  Presenter: Jamel Saadaoui, University Paris 8 

• May

  May 6,
  Presenter: Alexandra "Ali" Cirone, London School of Economics

  May 20,
  Presenter: Claude Rasairo, IHEID 

  May 27,
  Presenter: Timo Schenk, Erasmus University