Upcoming seminars
Details about our scheduled seminars. All seminars will take place on our University of Bath campus, unless otherwise stated.
We will add seminar titles and abstracts to this page. Please check regularly for updates.
Dr Roman Sustek (Queen Mary University of London)
- Title: Global house prices since 1950
- Theme(s): Macro
- Date: 3 December 2025
- Time: 2.45pm to 4pm
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
During this seminar, Dr Roman Sustek will discuss the following research:e
What drives house prices? Applying a parsimonious model to house prices in 12 countries since 1950, we show that expectations about future fundamentals were the key driver behind major house price movements. In the model, house prices depend on the expected future housing stock, population, income per capita, and age distribution. The growth rates of these fundamentals contain persistent components, estimated from data, affecting expectations. The model quantitatively accounts for the spectacular boom and bust in Japan, the boom starting in many countries in early 1990s, and the house price cycles in Switzerland. A decomposition into the contributing factors is carried out.
Read Dr Roman Sustek's full Global house prices since 1950 research paper
Please contact Dr Nikos Kokonas (email: n.kokonas@bath.ac.uk) if you would like to join for lunch or dinner or meet with Dr Roman Sustek during the day.
Prof Estelle Cantillon (Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB))
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Theory, industrial organisation
- Date: 4 February 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Prof Helios Hererra (University of Warwick)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Political economy
- Date: 18 February 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Prof Paul Levine (University of Surrey)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Macro
- Date: 25 February 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Prof Peter Egger (ETH Zürich)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): TBC
- Date: 4 March 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Prof Almudena Sevilla (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): TBC
- Date: 11 March 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Dr Marco Scarsini (Luiss University)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Game theory
- Date: 18 March 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Prof Amrita Dhillon (King's College London)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Political economy
- Date: 25 March 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Dr Judit Vall Castello (Universitat de Barcelona)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Applied, gender
- Date: 15 April 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Dr Natalia Zinovyeva (University of Warwick)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Applied
- Date: 22 April 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: Chancellors' Building, Room 3.5
Professor Konstantinos Serfes (Drexel University)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Industrial organisation, theory
- Date: 6 May 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Dr Giulia Caprini (University of Oxford)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Political economy
- Date: 13 May 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Professor Kunal Sen (University of Manchester)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Development
- Date: 20 May 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Dr Lida Smitkova (University of Oxford)
- Title: TBC
- Theme(s): Macro
- Date: 27 May 2026
- Time: TBC
- Location: 3 East, Room 2.2
Previous seminars
Find details of past events from the Department of Economics seminar series.
- The Legacy of Policy Inaction in Climate-Growth Models — Professor Thomas Steger (Leipzig University)
- Autocratic capture of development — Dr Jonathan Norris
- Decarbonization with heterogeneous knowledge creation and technology tipping — Prof Lucas Bretschger (ETH Zürich)
- Tax Incentives for retirement savings and intertemporal income smoothing: Evidence from a Kink Design — Professor Raquel Carrasco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Heterogeneous mobility in dynamic labor market equilibrium — Professor Mike Elsby](https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/prof-mike-elsby), University of Edinburgh
- On pure altruism (with Łukasz Woźny) — Dr Pawel Dziewulski, University of Sussex
- Optimal regime switching and energy transitions — Professor Simone Valente, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- Research waves (joint with Gilat Levy (LSE) and Mariagiovanna Baccara (Olin Business School, Washington University) — Professor Ronny Razin, London School of Economics
- Sectoral labour flows (joint with Alex Clymo, Camila Comunello, Ludo Visschers and David Zentler-Munro) — Professor Carlos Carrillo-Tudela, University of Essex
- Born too soon? The educational costs of early elective deliveries (with Parijat Maitra) — Professor Libertad Gonzalez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and The Barcelona School of Economics
- Does wealth inhibit criminal behavior? Evidence from Lottery winners in Sweden and the US — Professor Erik Lindqvist, Stockholm University
- Optimising immigration quotas: Exploring per capita GDP, sectoral allocation and voter preferences — Professor Carmen Bevia, Universitat d'Alacant
- Firm responses to legislation on workplace sexual harassment — Professor Sonia Bhalotra, University of Warwick
- When geography shapes preferences: redesigning teacher assignment in Italy (co-author: Mariagrazia Cavallo) — Dr Battal Dogan, University of Bristol
- Digital lifelines: Mobile information and peer networks for small businesses in India (with Amrit Amirapu and Bansi Malde) — Professor Irma Clots-Figueras, University of Kent
- Institutional Blockholders and Corporate Innovation — Professor David Perez Castrillo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Influence in Social Networks — Professor Friederike Mengel, University of Essex
- Social Networks and Intergenerational Mobility — Professor Sudipta Sarangi
- Weighting Votes — Dr Dimitrios Xefteris, University of Cyprus