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Department of Economics seminars
We host experts in different areas of economics, including academics and practitioners from around the world. View our upcoming seminars on this page.
Upcoming seminars
Details about our scheduled seminars.
Previous seminars
Find details of past events from the Department of Economics seminar series.
2024
24 April
- Speaker: Professor Sjak Smulders
- Title: TBC
1 May
- Speaker: Dr Eleonora Guarnieri
- Title: TBC
8 May
- Speaker: Dr Rocco d'Este
- Title: TBC
15 May
- Speaker: Dr Hanna Wang
- Title: TBC
22 May
- Speaker: Professor Patricia Funk
- Title: TBC
29 May
- Speaker: Dr Ina Taneva
- Title: TBC
27 March
- Speaker: Professor Morten Ravn
- Title: Financial frictions: Micro vs. macro volatility
20 March
- Speaker: Dr Hitoshi Sadakane
- Title: Cheap Talk and Lie Detection
13 March
- Speaker: Professor Debopam Battachayra
- Title: Econometric Analysis of University Admissions
6 March
- Speaker: Dr Jonathan Chapman
- Title: Justices of the peace: legal foundations of the industrial revolution
28 February
- Speaker: Dr Shuang Zhang
- Title: Microclimate risks and small businesses
21 February
- Speaker: Dr Britta Augsburg
- (Working) Title: Pregnancy and (un)healthy nutrition choices
14 February
- Speaker: Professor Andy Zapechelnyuk
- Title: Fair hiring procedures (with Karl Schlag)
7 February
- Speaker: Dr Irem Guceri
- Title: Tax Policy, Investment and Profit-Shifting
2023
13 December 2023
- Speaker: David Jaeger, University of St. Andrews
- Title: Sheepskin effects and heterogenous wage-setting behaviour: evidence from Mozambique (with Edward Sam Jones, UNU-WIDER, Mozambique)
29 November 2023
- Speaker: Dr Ingela Alger, Toulouse School of Economics
- Title: Estimating Social Preferences and Kantian Morality in Strategic Interactions, joint with Boris van Leeuwen
15 November 2023
- Speaker: Professor Natalia Bailey, Monash University
- Title: Measuring cross-country spillovers in growth-at-risk (joint with L. Li (Monash University), N. Bailey (Monash University), G. Caggiano (University of Padua and Monash University)
1 November 2023
- Speaker: Professor Christopher Rauh, University of Cambridge and Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown University
- Title: Movies
25 October 2023
- Speaker: Dr Indranil Dutta, University of Manchester
- Title: Do Poverty Alleviation Policies Enhance Resilience to Poverty? Evidence from Bangladesh
7 June 2023
- 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)
31 May 2023
- Speaker: Professor Guilherme Carmona, University of Surrey
- Title: Stable matching in large markets with occupational choice” (joint with Krittanai Laohakunakorn)
24 May 2023
- Speaker: Dr Natalia Montinari, Universita della Swizzera Italiana
- Title: Gendered decision making in explore-exploit tasks (with Francesca Barigozzi and Elisa Orlandi)
17 May 2023
- 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)
10 May 2023
- Speaker: Professor Paola Manzini, University of Bristol
- Title: A model of approval
3 May 2023
- Speaker: Dr Stefania Lovo, University of Reading
- Title: The political economy of environmental regulation: evidence from sand mining in India
26 April 2023
- Speaker: Professor Simon Burgess, University of Bristol
29 March 2023
- Speaker: Professor Marko Köthenbürger, ETH Zurich
- Title: Tax responses in local public finance: the flypaper effect at work (with Gabriel Loumeau)
22 March 2023
- Speaker: Dr Michele Battisti, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow
- Title: Twitter and Crime: The Effect of Social Movements on Gender-Based Violence
13 March 2023
- 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)
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