BCEE Research Seminar

Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 14:30 – 18:00 (registration and coffee from 14:00) 

Venue: HWR Berlin, Room A 2.05

Programme

14:00 – 14:30 Registration & Coffee
14:30 – 14:50 Welcome and Introduction Securing Peace in Europe: A Role for the Weimar Triangle? (Tim Lohse)
14:50 – 15:25 Public Spending Preferences in the Weimar Triangle in the Face of External Threat (Tobias Börger)
15:25 – 16:00 How Governments Finance and Defund Military Spending: Global Evidence on Deficits, Taxes, and Civilian Spending (Armin A. Bolouri)

16:00 – 16:35 Coffee Break

16:35 – 17:10 Willingness to Pay for Collective Defense: Evidence from France, Germany, and Poland (Andreas Stotland)
17:10 – 17:45 Alliances and Hierarchical Defense Preferences: Micro-Evidence from France, Germany, and Poland (Salmai Qari)
17:45 – 18:00 Closing Remarks & Farewell

6 May 2026, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Natalie Packham, HWR Berlin and BCEE

Topic: Real estate portfolio valuation and climate risk scenario generation using machine learning methods

Room: B 5.12

3 June 2026, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Andreas Stotland, HWR Berlin and BCEE

Topic: Collective defence as an international public good: Trust, expectations and willingness to pay in the Weimar Triangle

Room: B 5.12

1 July 2026, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Leonard Bovenberg, HWR Berlin and BCEE

Topic: Game form beliefs in stated preference surveys

Room: B 5.12

14 October 2025, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Oliver Becker, HWR Berlin, BCEE

Topic: Modeling forest recreation demand at scale: A high-resolution approach using open-source data

Room: B 5.44

4 November 2025, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Armin Bolouri, HWR Berlin, BCEE

Topic: Funding and defunding military spending - 200 years of evidence

Room: B 5.44

2 December 2025, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Sebastian Kessing, University of Siegen

Topic: Essential inputs in public good provision

Room: B 5.12

13 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Wojciech Stiller, HWR Berlin, BCEE

Topic: Taxation is silver, exemption is golden: VAT pass-through and arbitrage for investment goods

Room: B 5.44

6 May 2025, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Chloé Beaudet, INRAE, Paris-Saclay University

Topic: Assessing the impact of public lighting switch-off policies on crime

Room: B 5.12

27 May 2025, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Armin Bolouri, HWR Berlin, BCEE

Topic: Interdependent risk perceptions

Room: B 5.12

1 July 2025, 11:45-12:30

Speaker: Till Strohsal, HWR Berlin, BCEE

Topic: Anchoring inflation expectations: Correcting misbeliefs and capturing electoral reactions

Room: B 5.12