2016-2017 Economics Seminars and Workshops  

Spring 2017

18th January 2017

Drilling into Bank Balance Sheets: Examining Portfolio Responses to an Oil Shock

Rhys Bidder

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

16:30 in 2.01

25th January 2017

Endogenous Effort and the Unemployment Volatility Puzzle

Christopher Martin

Bath

16:30 in 2.01

1st February 2017

Identification and Estimation of Differentiated Products Models using Market Size and Cost Data

Susumu Imai

UTS

16:30 in 2.01

8th February 2017

Counteracting unemployment in crises: Nonlinear effects of short-time work policy

Britta Gehrke

University of Erlangen-
Nürnberg

16:30 in 2.01

10th February 2017

Price-Setting of Firms – Evidence from Survey Data Christian Grimme

Ifo Institute

13:00 in 2.01

15th February 2017

Does tax competition make mobile firms more footloose?

Ben Ferrett

Loughborough

16:30 in 2.01

22nd February 2017  (CANCELLED)

TBA

Gabriel Felbermayr

CESIfo Munich

16:30 in 2.01

24th February 2017

Inventions & Spillovers: Is there Micro-Macro Correspondence across Emerging World?

Kul Luintel 

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

1st March 2017

The Effects of Moral Hazard on Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market

Arpad Abraham

EUI

16:30 in 2.01

3rd March 2017

A Long-Commodity-Cycle Model of the World Economy Over a Century and a Half - making bricks with little straw

David Meenagh

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

8th March 2017

International Remittances, Rural-Urban Migration, and the Quest for Quality Education: The Case of Nepal

Roberto Leon Gonzalez

GRIPS

16:30 in 2.01

10th March 2017

Collusion with Private Information and Fixed Costs

Ramakanta Patra

Cardiff Metropolitan

13:00 in 2.01

15th March 2017

Macroprudential policy and bank risk

Yener Altunbas

Bangor

16:30 in 2.01

17th March 2017

The Influence of Public Opinion and Elections on Environmental Fiscal Policies

Vassilis Logothetis

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

24th March 2017

Discretionary Policy in a Small Open Economy: Exchange Rate Regimes and Multiple Equilibria

Christoph Himmels

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

12th June 2017

TBA

Sudipta Sarangi

Virginia Tech

16:30 in 2.01


 

Autumn 2016

28th September 2016

Social Preferences over Utilities

Giovanni Ponti

Alicante

16:30 in 2.01

30th September 2016

Monetarism rides again? US monetary policy in a world of Quantitative Easing

Patrick Minford

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

5th October 2016

The Impact of Paid Parental Leave on Labour Supply and Employment Outcomes

Duncan McVicar

Queen's University Belfast

16:30 in 2.01

7th October 2016

Back to the Past: Is Growth Reverting to Pre-Industrial Levels? 

Jakob Madsen

Monash

13:00 in 2.01

12th October 2016

Price dispersion in France: beyond fixed effect

Nicoletta Berardi

Banque de France

16:30 in 2.01

14th October 2016

Tractable Nonnegativity Constraints for N-Dimensional Asymmetric Power HEAVY/MEM/GARCH Models  

Yongdeng Xu

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

21st October 2016

Does it pay to work in the public sector?

Yi Wang

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

26th October 2016

The case for flexible exchange rates revisited

Robert Aliber

Chicago Booth

16:30 in 2.01

2nd November 2016

Subsidies with Export Share Requirements in China

Alejandro Riano

Nottingham

16:30 in 2.01

11th November 2016

A note on news about the future: the impact on DSGE models and their VAR representation

Mai Le

 CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

16th November 2016

Household Behaviour and Property Division upon Divorce

Sarolta Lazco

Surrey

16:30 in 2.01

18th November 2016

Turnover Volatility and Stock Market Returns

Woon Wong

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

23rd November 2016

Ethnic Favoritism: An Axiom of Politics?

Giacomo De Luca

York

16:30 in 2.01

25th November 2016

Inflation Expectation, Inattentiveness and Uncertainty

Joshy Easaw

CARBS

13:00 in 2.01

30th November 2016

Silence of the Innocents: Illegal Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization

Giovanni Mastrobuoni

Essex

16:30 in 2.01

2nd December 2016

A Rawlsian approach to the queueing problem

Manipushpak Mitra

Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

13:00 in 2.01



2015-2016 Economics Seminars and Workshops        

Spring 2016

3rd February 2016

The Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Adjustment Plans: Disaggregating Taxes and Spending

Francesco Giavazzi

Bocconi

16:30 in 2.02

10th February 2016

Preferences and Exposure to Policy Shock: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Elisa Cavatorta

KCL

16:30 in 2.02

19th February 2016

Optimal Inflation, Average Markups and Asymmetric Sticky Prices

Wojtek Paczos

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

24th February 2016

Oligopolistic Equilibrium and Financial Constraints

Carmen Bevia

Alicante

16:30 in 2.02

4th March 2016

Stagnation Traps

Gianluca Benigno

LSE

13:00 in 2.01

18th March 2016

The Allocation of Talent: Finance Versus Entrepreneurship

Kirill Shakhnov

EIEF

13:00 in 2.01

13th April 2016

The Rise of Meritocracy and the Inheritance of Advantages

José V. Rodríguez Mora

Edinburgh

16:30 in 2.02

19th April 2016


The Impact of Bank Shocks on Firm-Level Outcomes and Bank Risk-Taking

Hans DegryseKU Leuven13:00 in 2.02

22nd April 2016

Sorting On-line and
On-time

Sekyu Choi

Bristol

13:00 in 2.01

29th April 2016

The Characteristics of Modern Economic Growth Revisited

Stephen Broadberry

Oxford

13:00 in 2.01

 4th May 2016

Markups and Demand Shocks: Using 
Microdata from Single-Product
Firms to Disentangle
Unobservables

Paulo Brito and Luís CostaLisbon 16:30 in 2.02

6th May 2016

Government Misallocation and the Resource Curse

Radek Stefanski

St Andrews

13:00 in 2.01

11th May 2016

The Natural Resource Curse Revisited: Theory and Evidence from India

Amrita Dhillon

KCL

16:30 in 2.02



Autumn 2015

8th September 2015

Central Bank Policy in a Monetary Union

Harald Uhlig

Chicago

16:00 in 0.04

7th October 2015

Optimal Voting Rules

Alex Gershkov

Surrey

16:30 in 2.02

9th October 2015

Singular Dynamics with Endogenous Markups

Huw Dixon

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

14th October 2015

Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia

Gianni De Fraja

Nottingham

16:30 in 2.02

23rd October 2015

Taxation under Cournot Oligopoly in a General Equilibrium Setting

David Collie

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

28th October 2015

Job Search and Unemployment Insurance Fraud

Iain Long

Cardiff

16:30 in 2.02

30th October 2015

Explaining Productivity Puzzles with Frictional Firm Entry: Endogenous Markups Versus Dynamic Reallocation

Anthony Savagar

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

4th November 2015

Social Democracy, the Nobel Prize in Economics, and the Market Turn

Avner Offer

Oxford (All Souls)

16:30 in 2.02

6th November 2015

The Dynamics of Disability, Work and Subjective Well-being in Australia

Melanie Jones

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

13th November 2015

Duplication of Effort and R&D Spillovers

Samuli Leppälä

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

18th November 2015

Determinants of Wage and Earnings Inequality in the United States

Ctirad Slavik

Goethe

16:30 in 2.02

20th November 2015

A Comparison between the  Fuller Limited Information Maximum Likelihood and Two Stage Least Square Estimators

Dandan Wang

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

25th November 2015

The Identification of Beliefs from Asset Demand

Herakles Polemarchakis

Warwick

16:30 in 2.02

27th November 2015

Testable Restrictions in Market Games

Indrajit Ray

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

4th December 2015

Endogenous Sector-biased Technical Change and Industrial Policy

Akos Valentinyi

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01

11th December 2015

The Demand for Violence and the Price of Alcohol

Kent Matthews and Nicholas Page

Cardiff

13:00 in 2.01