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?

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

• Speaker: Dr Shqiponja Telhaj, University of Sussex
• Title: Losing my Religion

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

• Speaker: Professor Ismael Rodriguez-Lara, University of Malaga
• Title: Coordinated and uncoordinated punishment in a team investment game

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

• Speaker: Professor Simon Burgess, University of Bristol

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

• Speaker: Professor Paola Manzini, University of Bristol
• Title: A model of approval

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)