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Department of Economics seminars 2022/23

See the schedule of seminars taking place in the Department of Economics. All our seminars are free to attend.

Upcoming seminars

Details about our scheduled seminars.


Wednesday 7 June

  • Speaker: Professor Klaus Prettner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • Title: Medical innovation, life expectancy, and economic growth (joint with Michael Kuhn, Antonio Minniti and Francesco Venturini)
  • Time: 2.45pm - 4pm BST (GMT+1)
  • Venue: 3 East 2.2

Despite an increasing recognition of the importance of health for economic growth, there is still a lack of understanding of the role of medical innovation in this process. Specifically, what are the causal effects of medical innovation on economic growth and which non-linearities matter in this context?


Past seminars

Find details of past events from the Department of Economics seminar series.


Wednesday 12 October

  • Speaker: Dr Anthony Savagar, University of Kent
  • Title: Returns to Scale and Productivity in the Macroeconomy (joint with Joel Kariel)

Wednesday 19 October

  • Speaker: Professor Holger Strulik, University of Göttingen
  • Title: Deconstructing the Population Bomb: The Environment, Directed Technical Change, and the Fertility Transition

Wednesday 26 October

Wednesday 16 November

  • Speaker: Professor Sandra McNally, University of Surrey
  • Title: Immigration and Vocational Training: UK Evidence (joint with Alan Manning and Guglielmo Ventura)

Wednesday 23 November

  • Speaker: Professor Paola Manzini, University of Bristol
  • Title: “A model of approval” (joint with Marco Mariotti and Levent Ülkü)

Wednesday 7 December

Monday 13 March

  • Speaker: Professor Michael Finus, University of Graz
  • Title: The Governance Architecture of Climate Agreements in the Light of Solar Radiation Management (joint with Joel Kariel)

Wednesday 22 March

  • Speaker: Dr Michele Battisti, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
  • Title: Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on Gender-Based Violence

Wednesday 29 March

  • Speaker: Professor Marko Köthenbürger, ETH Zurich
  • Title: Tax responses in local public finance: the flypaper effect at work (with Gabriel Loumeau)

Wednesday 26 April

Wednesday 3 May

  • Speaker: Dr Stefania Lovo, University of Reading
  • Title: The political economy of environmental regulation: evidence from sand mining in India

Wednesday 10 May

Wednesday 17 May

  • Speaker: Professor Fabrizio Mazzona, Universita della Swizzera Italiana
  • Title: Life Events Trigger of Benzodiazepine Use: The role of practice style (with Mattia Albertini and Pieter Bakx)

Wednesday 24 May

  • Speaker: Dr Natalia Montinari, Universita della Swizzera Italiana
  • Title: Gendered decision making in explore-exploit tasks (with Francesca Barigozzi and Elisa Orlandi)

Wednesday 31 May

  • Speaker: Professor Guilherme Carmona, University of Surrey
  • Title: Stable matching in large markets with occupational choice” (joint with Krittanai Laohakunakorn)

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