Upcoming seminars

Details about our scheduled seminars. All seminars will take place on our University of Bath campus, unless otherwise stated.

Professor Judit Vall Castello (Universitat de Barcelona)

• Title: Access to healthcare, fertility, and reproductive health
• Theme(s): Applied, gender
• Date: 15 April 2026
• Time: 2.45pm to 4pm
• Location: 3 East, Room 2.2

Dr Natalia Zinovyeva (University of Warwick)

• Title: TBC
• Theme(s): Applied
• Date: 22 April 2026
• Time: 2.45pm to 4pm
• Location: Chancellors' Building, Room 3.5

Professor Konstantinos Serfes (Drexel University)

• Title: TBC
• Theme(s): Industrial organisation, theory
• Date: 6 May 2026
• Time: 2.45pm to 4pm
• Location: 3 East, Room 2.2

Dr Giulia Caprini (University of Oxford)

• Title: TBC
• Theme(s): Political economy
• Date: 13 May 2026
• Time: 2.45pm to 4pm
• Location: 3 East, Room 2.2

Professor Kunal Sen (University of Manchester)

• Title: TBC
• Theme(s): Development
• Date: 20 May 2026
• Time: 2.45pm to 4pm
• Location: 3 East, Room 2.2

Dr Lida Smitkova (University of Oxford)

• Title: TBC
• Theme(s): Macro
• Date: 27 May 2026
• Time: 2.45pm to 4pm
• Location: 3 East, Room 2.2

Previous seminars

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

• Title: Activating Change: The Role of Information and Beliefs in Online Activism — Professor Amrita Dhillon (King's College London)
• Regulating pre-election spending: A dynamic analysis — Professor Helios Herrera (University of Warwick)
• Gender differences in performance: The role of external testing environments — Professor Almudena Sevilla (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
• How aggregate uncertainty shapes the spatial economy — Professor Peter Egger (ETH Zürich)
• A characterisation of optimal queueing regimes — Dr Marco Scarsini (LUISS University)
• The benefits and costs of information: Evidence from the New Zealand wholesale electricity market (With Andrew Hinchberger and Mar Reguant) — Professor Estelle Cantillon (Toulouse School of Economics (TSE))
• Global house prices since 1950 — Dr Roman Sustek (Queen Mary University of London)
• 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 — Professor 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