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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 29 March

  • Speaker: Professor Marko Köthenbürger, ETH Zurich
  • Title: Tax responses in local public finance: the flypaper effect at work (with Gabriel Loumeau)
  • Time: 2.45pm - 4pm (GMT)
  • Venue: 3 East 2.2

Transfer elasticities of income tax rates are key parameters in public finance. Given the significant fiscal autonomy of Swiss municipalities, Switzerland is an ideal environment for examining behavioral responses in tax policy. Using a Regression Kink Design, we find robust causal evidence that transfers have a positive local average treatment effect on municipal expenditures, while leaving the income tax rate (and other tax rates) unchanged. Thus, ‘money sticks where it hits’, providing comprehensive support for the flypaper effect, including income tax responses.

Wednesday 26 April

  • Speaker: Professor Simon Burgess, University of Bristol
  • Title: To be announced
  • Time: 2.45pm - 4pm (GMT)
  • Venue: 3 East 2.2

Wednesday 10 May

  • Speaker: Professor Paola Manzini, University of Bristol
  • Title: To be announced
  • Time: 2.45pm - 4pm (GMT)
  • Venue: 3 East 2.2

Wednesday 17 May

  • Speaker: Professor Fabrizio Mazzona, Universita della Swizzera Italiana
  • Title: To be announced
  • Time: 2.45pm - 4pm (GMT)
  • Venue: 3 East 2.2

Wednesday 24 May

  • Speaker: Dr Natalia Montinari, Universita della Swizzera Italiana
  • Title: To be announced
  • Time: 2.45pm - 4pm (GMT)
  • Venue: 3 East 2.2

Wednesday 31 May

Wednesday 7 June

  • Speaker: Professor Klaus Prettner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
  • Title: To be announced
  • Time: 2.45pm - 4pm (GMT)
  • Venue: 3 East 2.2

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

Contact us

If you would like to attend one of these seminars or if you have an enquiry then you can contact the seminar organisers.