Department of Economics and Related Studies
Past departmental seminars
Previous seminars
Accounting for growth in the Soviet Union and the Union republics in 1950-1990
Friday 6 December 2019
Information Design in the Hold-up Problem - Regular Dept Seminar
Wednesday 4 December 2019
Wednesday 27 November 2019
Tuesday 26 November 2019
Friday 22 November 2019
Distributions You Can Count On (EC)
Friday 22 November 2019
Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India (AME)
Wednesday 20 November 2019
Bank capital structure and regulation under adverse selection (MF)
Tuesday 19 November 2019
Identifying network ties from panel data: theory and an application to tax competition (EC)
Friday 15 November 2019
Jackknife, small bandwidth and high-dimensional asymptotics - Regular Dept Seminar
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Historical Meritocratic State, Culture, and Schooling Outcomes (AME)
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Statistical Inference for Measurement Equation Selection in the log-RealGARCH Model (EC)
Friday 8 November 2019
Research and teaching targets in academia (ET)
Thursday 7 November 2019
Wednesday 6 November 2019
Stable Job Sharing (joint with Pietro Salmaso, Arunava Sen, and Sonal Yadav)
Wednesday 30 October 2019
Wednesday 30 October 2019
Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy, joint with Alberto Bisin.
Wednesday 23 October 2019
Overcoming Free-Riding in Bandit Games (ET)
Friday 18 October 2019
Parenting Values Moderate the Intergenerational Transmission of Time Preferences
Friday 18 October 2019
Wednesday 16 October 2019
Structural breaks, causality, and the redistribution hypothesis: The United Kingdom, 1829-1913
Wednesday 9 October 2019
Multi-class Vector AutoRegressive Models for Multi-Market Commodity Data - CAMF
Tuesday 8 October 2019
Starting of the academic year meeting (AME)
Wednesday 25 September 2019
Restricted Probabilistic Fixed Ballot Rules and Hybrid Domains
Wednesday 21 August 2019
Testing Stochastic Dominance with Many Conditioning Variables
Friday 19 July 2019
Economic Origins of Modern Science: Technology, Institutions, and Markets
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Intra-household Allocations with Public Goods: A new Source of Gender Inequality (AME)
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Wednesday 12 June 2019
Wednesday 5 June 2019
Religion and the Rise and Fall of Islamic Science
Wednesday 29 May 2019
Monetary policy, corporate finance and investment
Wednesday 22 May 2019
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Basic Instincts? Genes and Fertility (AME)
Wednesday 15 May 2019
Estimation and Selection of Spatial Weight Matrix for a Spatial Lag Model (EC)
Thursday 9 May 2019
The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency (with Ragnhild C Schreiner) (AME)
Wednesday 8 May 2019
Nonparametric estimation of the variance function in an explosive autoregression model (EC)
Friday 3 May 2019
Wednesday 1 May 2019
Occupational Segregation of Recent College Graduates (AME)
Wednesday 1 May 2019
Friday 15 March 2019
Government Contracting with Faith-Based Health Care Providers in Malawi (AME)
Wednesday 13 March 2019
An Integrated Panel Data Approach to Modelling Economic Growth (EC)
Monday 11 March 2019
Air pollution during pregnancy and birth outcomes in Italy (AME)
Wednesday 6 March 2019
Public Employment in a Task Based Theory of Underemployment (MF)
Tuesday 5 March 2019
Latent Group Structures with Heterogeneous Distributions: Identification and Estimation
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Wednesday 20 February 2019
CONSISTENT SPECIFICATION TESTING UNDER NETWORK DEPENDENCE, joint with Xi Qu(EC)
Friday 15 February 2019
Immigration Policy, Taxation and Electoral Systems: which System Builds a Wall First?
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Mean correction in mis-specified fractionally integrated models (author: Kanchana Nadarajah) (EC)
Monday 4 February 2019
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Gender Differences in Aspired Occupations (AME)
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Past performance and Entry in Procurement: an Experimental Investigation
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Wednesday 28 November 2018
Routine immunization and cognitive achievements (AME)
Wednesday 28 November 2018
On Income, Money and Affordability: A heterodox economics perspective on basic income
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Reading group in macro & finance (CAMF)
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Equilibrium Analysis in the Behavioral Neoclassical Growth Model (joint with Daron Acemoglu)
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Wednesday 21 November 2018
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Setting reserve prices in English auctions with limited commitment: an empirical assessment
Friday 16 November 2018
Wednesday 14 November 2018
Weber Revisited: the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Wednesday 7 November 2018
Wednesday 31 October 2018
Wednesday 31 October 2018
Persuasion meets delegation (joint work with Anton Kolotilin).
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Time-varying cointegration and the UK Great Ratios (CAMF)
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Do Foreign Investors Improve Market Efficiency?
Wednesday 10 October 2018
Estimating Derivatives of Function-Valued Parameters in a Class of Moment Condition Models
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Juggling Work and Family: The Effect of Flexibility on Mental Health (AME)
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Equality-minded treatment choice (joint with Aleksey Tetenov)
Wednesday 13 June 2018
Macro Cluster: The Ins and Outs of U.S. Corporate Cash Holding
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Friday 8 June 2018
How Can We Better Measure the Household Savings Function: Stocks, Flows and the Balance Edit (AME)
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Exploring the Nexus Between Certainty in Injury Compensation and Treatment Selection
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Genetic tests and epigenetic: When prevention may rescue cross-subsidies in health insurance markets
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Trend Inflation and Monetary Policy Regimes in Japan. PanDA
Monday 21 May 2018
The term structure of expectations and bond yields (joint with Richard Crump and Stefano Eusepi)
Wednesday 16 May 2018
International Stock Comovements with Endogenous Clusters
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Large Sample Estimators of the Stochastic Discount Factor.
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Wednesday 25 April 2018
Efficient Expectations Equilibria: a Re-examination of Rational Expectations
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Cancelled - Capital Flows, Default, and Renegotiation in a Small Open Economy
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Thursday 19 April 2018
Real Effects of financial Distress: The Role of Heterogeneity (with Paco Buera)
Monday 26 March 2018
The Children of the Missed Pill (joint with T. Rau and S. Urzua)
Thursday 22 March 2018
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Growing Pension Deficits and the Expenditure Decisions of Companies
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Physician performance pay: Experimental evidence
Wednesday 28 February 2018
Second-Order Induction and Agreement
Wednesday 21 February 2018
Thursday 15 February 2018
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy by Joram Mayshar, Omer Moav, Zvika Neeman, and Luigi Pascali
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Taking Away the Punch Bowl: Monetary Policy and Financial Instability
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Validating Market Risk Factors and Forecasting Bond Risk Premia using Novel Factor Models
Friday 19 January 2018
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Nonparametric Estimation for Decomposable Data Possibly with Mixed-Frequency Observations
Tuesday 19 December 2017
Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Information shocks and provider adaptation: Evidence from interventional cardiology
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Single-Factor Consumption-Based Asset Pricing (joint with S. Delikouras, Miami)
Wednesday 15 November 2017
Wednesday 8 November 2017
(In)Equality of Opportunity, Mentoring, and Critical Educational Decisions
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Bounded Reasoning: Rationality or Cognition
Wednesday 25 October 2017
Inference in Nonparametric Series Estimation with Data-Dependent Undersmoothing
Wednesday 18 October 2017
The Social Dynamics of Riots: Evidence from the Captain Swing Riots, 1830-31
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Bridge Filtering - Econometrics Cluster Seminar
Thursday 7 September 2017
Wednesday 30 August 2017
Wednesday 21 June 2017
Wednesday 7 June 2017
Wednesday 31 May 2017
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Fairness and Utilitarianism without Independence
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Econometrics Cluster Seminar: Stein Combination Shrinkage in Vector Autoregressions
Wednesday 17 May 2017
Identifying Latent Grouped Structures in Nonlinear Panels (joint with Wuyi Wang)
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Inflating away the public debt: an empirical assessment
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Micro Cluster Seminar: Strategic Ambiguity and Information
Friday 21 April 2017
Learning Dynamics Based on Social Comparisons
Wednesday 15 March 2017
Friday 10 March 2017
Adjusted QMLE for the Spatial Autoregressive Parameter
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Wednesday 22 February 2017
Specialist Lecture: Dynamic contests
Friday 17 February 2017
Wednesday 15 February 2017
The Wounds That Do Not Heal. The Life-time Scar of Youth Unemployment
Wednesday 8 February 2017
Country Portfolios, Collateral Constraints and Optimal Monetary Policy
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Tuesday 24 January 2017
Wednesday 18 January 2017
MACRO & FINANCE CLUSTER: title to be confirmed
Thursday 8 December 2016
Wednesday 30 November 2016
Two-sided matching with (almost) one-sided preferences (with G. Haeringer)
Wednesday 23 November 2016
Predictive Density Testing and Quantile Based Trading Rules
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Wednesday 9 November 2016
MACRO & FINANCE CLUSTER SEMINAR: Global Liquidity, Leverage, and Asset Prices
Thursday 3 November 2016
Return Expectations and Risk Aversion Heterogeneity in Household Portfolios
Wednesday 26 October 2016
Rational Expectations and Depth of Reasoning in Strategic Interactions (joint with Ganna Pogrebna)
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
Wednesday 12 October 2016
Spatial nonprice competition : A structural approach
Wednesday 5 October 2016
Wednesday 28 September 2016
Inversion Copulas from Nonlinear State Space Models
Wednesday 17 August 2016
POSTPONED until the Autumn Term - (Mis)Allocation Effects of an Overpaid Public Sector
Wednesday 8 June 2016
Rationalizability and Logical Inference
Wednesday 25 May 2016
University Students’ Unions: Changing Functions, a UK and Comparative Perspective
Monday 23 May 2016
Savage’s theorem under changing awareness
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Understanding the Sources of Macroeconomic Uncertainty (by Rossi, Sekhposyan and Soupre)
Wednesday 11 May 2016
The Demand For Autonomous Schools (joint work with M. Bertoni and S. Gibbons)
Wednesday 4 May 2016
Social insurance with competitive insurance markets and risk misperception
Wednesday 27 April 2016
Wednesday 20 April 2016
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Wednesday 2 March 2016
Incarceration, Recidivism and Employment
Wednesday 24 February 2016
The Dark Corners of the Labor Market
Wednesday 17 February 2016
Regulation of trades based on differences in beliefs
Wednesday 10 February 2016
Wednesday 3 February 2016
Panel Data Analysis with Heterogeneous Dynamics
Wednesday 27 January 2016
Partisan Alignment and the Political Budget Cycle. Evidence from Spain
Wednesday 13 January 2016
Measuring the Impact of Social Relationships: The Value of ‘Oneness’
Wednesday 2 December 2015
Wednesday 25 November 2015
Dust Exposure and Infant Mortality in West Africa
Wednesday 18 November 2015
Dynamic factor models and high-dimensional volatility analysis (joint with Matteo Barigozzi)
Wednesday 11 November 2015
Friday 6 November 2015
Delegation in Regulation (coauthored with Tore Nilssen, University of Oslo)
Wednesday 28 October 2015
Wednesday 21 October 2015
Income inequality and asset prices under redistributive taxation
Wednesday 14 October 2015
Wednesday 7 October 2015
CMID Seminar: Collaboration in networks with randomly chosen agents
Wednesday 15 July 2015
Wednesday 17 June 2015
Thursday 11 June 2015
Leverhulme Trust Seminar: Discerning Efficiency Shortfalls Without Knowing Valuations
Wednesday 27 May 2015
Migration in Europe: Too "Much of a Good Thing?
Wednesday 20 May 2015
The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850
Wednesday 13 May 2015
CMiD Seminar: Supermodular cooperative games with nontransferable utility
Thursday 7 May 2015
Wednesday 6 May 2015
Wednesday 29 April 2015
Which Club Should I Attend, Dad?: Targeted Socialization and Production
Wednesday 22 April 2015
"Promoting Online Interaction Among Fiscal Policy Specialists"
Monday 20 April 2015
Selection by Selection: The Case of University Admissions (Joint with Esteban Ortiz Ospina)
Wednesday 11 March 2015
Nonstationary Mean Reversion: Mean Reversion Does Not Necessarily Imply Stationarity
Wednesday 11 March 2015
Macroeconomic Implications of Top Income Tax Cuts: 1960 - 2010
Wednesday 4 March 2015
Aid on Demand: African Leaders and the Geography of China’s Foreign Assistance
Wednesday 25 February 2015
Measuring dependence with local Gaussian correlation
Wednesday 18 February 2015
Wednesday 11 February 2015
Looking for ‘Ambiguity Attitude’ in a Strategic Setting
Wednesday 4 February 2015
Experimental evidence on income pooling and bargaining power in couples
Wednesday 28 January 2015
Growth and human capital: a network approach (joint with Tiago V. V. Cavalcanti)
Wednesday 21 January 2015
Spillover effects of early life medical interventions.
Wednesday 14 January 2015
Wednesday 3 December 2014
Military moral hazard and the fate of empires.
Monday 1 December 2014
Does grief transfer across generations?
Wednesday 26 November 2014
Electoral Uncertainty, Income Inequality and the Middle Class
Wednesday 19 November 2014
Subgame-perfect equilibria in perfect information games with common preferences.
Monday 17 November 2014
Wednesday 12 November 2014
Discrete Choice Estimation of Risk and Time Preferences
Monday 10 November 2014
Wednesday 5 November 2014
A one-shot deviation principle for stability in matching problems
Wednesday 29 October 2014
Time-Consistent Consumption Taxation
Wednesday 22 October 2014
Optimality of Momentum and Reversal
Wednesday 15 October 2014
Transparency and Deliberation within the FOMC: a Computational Linguistics Approach
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Expert Information and Majority Decisions: Theory and Experiment
Wednesday 25 June 2014
POSTPONED, WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE AUTUMN TERM - The Wages of Women in England, 1260-1850
Wednesday 18 June 2014
Wednesday 11 June 2014
THE ECONOMICS OF DENSITY: EVIDENCE FROM THE BERLIN WALL
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Bargaining in Coalitional Games with Externalities
Wednesday 4 June 2014
Accounting for the Great Divergence
Wednesday 28 May 2014
Wednesday 14 May 2014
Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks by Campbell JY, Pflueger C, Viceira LM.
Thursday 8 May 2014
Bond Market and Macroeconomic News
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Physicians versus Midwives: Returns to Childbirth Technologies for Low-Risk Births.
Wednesday 30 April 2014
Wednesday 12 March 2014
A monotonic and merge-proof rule in minimum cost spanning tree situations
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Dynamic Agenda Setting (joint with Hulya Eraslan)
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Second-best Incentive Compatible Allocation Rules for Multiple-type Indivisible Objects
Thursday 20 February 2014
Identification and estimation of preference distributions when voters are ideological
Wednesday 19 February 2014
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Thursday 6 February 2014
Testing for Zero Jump Intensity (joint with Mervyn Silvapulle and Norman Swanson)
Wednesday 5 February 2014
Wednesday 29 January 2014
Wednesday 22 January 2014
On the Dynamics of Beliefs and Risky Sexual Behavior
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Exploiting Nonlinearities in the First Stage Regressions of IV Procedures
Wednesday 15 January 2014
A Financial Economics-Based Approach to Forecasting Oil Prices
Monday 9 December 2013
Wednesday 4 December 2013
Testing the Rate of Preference Reversal in Personal and Social Decision-Making
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Optimal capital requirements over the business and financial cycles
Wednesday 6 November 2013
Unconventional government debt purchases as a supplement to conventional monetary policy
Friday 25 October 2013
Real Time Monitoring for Abnormal Events with an Application to Influenza Outbreaks
Wednesday 23 October 2013
Characterising competitive equilibrium in terms of opportunity
Wednesday 16 October 2013
Wednesday 9 October 2013
Forward Induction when Players are Collectives
Wednesday 2 October 2013
A Unification of Solutions to the Bargaining Problem and Labour Market Negotiations
Wednesday 3 July 2013
THE DYNAMICS OF INVESTMENT, PAYOUT AND DEBT (joint work with S. Myers from MIT)
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Thursday 13 June 2013
Wednesday 12 June 2013
Liquidity, Term Spreads and Monetary Policy
Wednesday 5 June 2013
English auctions with ensuing risks and heterogeneous bidders
Thursday 30 May 2013
Asymptotic Theory for the QMLE in GARCH-X Model with Stationary and Non-stationary covariates
Wednesday 22 May 2013
Prioritizing diversity in school choice
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Bargaining in Standing Committees with an Endogenous Default
Wednesday 15 May 2013
Playing favorites: how firms prevent the revelation of bad news
Monday 13 May 2013
Friday 3 May 2013
Alliances in the shadow of conflict
Wednesday 1 May 2013
Homo Moralis: preference evolution under incomplete information and assortative matching
Monday 29 April 2013
Saving the public from the private? Incentives and outcomes in dual practice
Friday 26 April 2013
On the Democratic Weights of Nations
Thursday 25 April 2013
Multi-item Vickrey-English-Dutch Auctions
Monday 22 April 2013
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Innovation and Growth in Imperfect Financial Markets
Thursday 14 March 2013
Let's Talk. How Communication Affects Contract Design (with Gary Charness and Matthew Ellman)
Wednesday 13 March 2013
TEI@I Methodology with Applications to Economic Forecasting
Friday 8 March 2013
Crude Oil Price Analysis and Forecasting based on Empirical Mode Decomposition
Friday 8 March 2013
Autoregressive Conditional Models for Interval-Valued Time Series Data
Friday 8 March 2013
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Currency crisis and collapse in interwar Greece: Predicament or Policy Failure?
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Nominal Stability and Financial Globalization
Thursday 14 February 2013
Stability and Competitive Equilibrium in Trading Networks
Wednesday 13 February 2013
Humans Vs. Machines: The Effect of Behavioural Biases on Optimal Trading
Friday 8 February 2013
Inference on stochastic time-varying coefficient models
Thursday 7 February 2013
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Bingtale and Fathomtale - Lead Miners’ Earnings in 19th Century Allendale
Wednesday 16 January 2013
Economic Cycles and Expected Stock Returns
Wednesday 5 December 2012
Collusion and Extortion: The Twin Faces of Corruption (joint with Dilip Mookherjee)
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Ken Dixon Lecture - Divided Britain: The causes and consequences of income inequality in the UK
Monday 19 November 2012
Limited information econometrics
Wednesday 14 November 2012
Tax Cuts vs. Government Spending: Welfare and the Zero Lower Bound
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Tropical geometry to analyse demand
Tuesday 6 November 2012
The Lasso for High-Dimensional Regression with a Possible Change-Point
Wednesday 31 October 2012
IV Estimation of Panels with Factor Residuals
Wednesday 24 October 2012
The Division Problem under Constraints
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Incentive Ratio - A Game Theoretical Analysis of Market Equilibria
Thursday 11 October 2012
Safety and Health of Contract Workers in Japan’s Nuclear Utility Industry
Thursday 9 August 2012
The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Sovereign Debt Overhang and Monetary Policy
Wednesday 20 June 2012
An AI View of Bargaining Theory
Wednesday 20 June 2012
Efficient Regression via Quantile Combination
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Bootstrap-based tests for multiple structural changes in linear models with endogenous regressors
Wednesday 13 June 2012
Supermarket choice with multi-store shopping: measuring the effect of format regulation
Friday 8 June 2012
Experiments With The Lucas Asset Pricing Model
Wednesday 6 June 2012
The Sequential Raiffa Bargaining Solution: Axiomatization and Non-Cooperative Foundation
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Pareto properties of Franchise extension in England & Wales
Tuesday 29 May 2012
Wednesday 23 May 2012
On the explanatory value of preference imprecision
Tuesday 22 May 2012
An Experiment on the Ellsberg Paradox
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Tuesday 15 May 2012
Monopoly Pricing in the Presence of Social Learning
Wednesday 9 May 2012
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Revealed preference tests of the Cournot Model
Tuesday 17 April 2012
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics? Examples From Finance and Economics
Wednesday 14 March 2012
Causal effects on employment after first birth - A dynamic treatment approach
Wednesday 7 March 2012
Naked exclusion in the lab: The case of sequential contracting
Wednesday 29 February 2012
The Perils of Quantitative Easing
Monday 27 February 2012
Wednesday 22 February 2012
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Wednesday 8 February 2012
Theory of the Firm: Bargaining and Competitive Equilibrium
Wednesday 25 January 2012
Maternal Autonomy and the Education of the Subsequent Generation
Wednesday 18 January 2012
Redistributive Fiscal Policy and Unemployment when Capital Markets are Globalised
Wednesday 7 December 2011
Water Resource Allocation and Independent Axioms
Friday 25 November 2011
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Financial Crisis and Macro-prudential policies
Saturday 19 November 2011
The All-Pay Auction with Complete Information and Identity-Dependent Externalities
Monday 14 November 2011
Wednesday 9 November 2011
Unambiguous Comparison of Intersecting Distribution Functions
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Parametric Inference on Strong Dependence
Tuesday 1 November 2011
On Intertemporal Poverty: Affluence Dependent Measures
Wednesday 26 October 2011