Economics research in progress seminars take place each Monday during term time at 4pm in Jubilee Building room 144. Please find a list of seminars for the current term below.
Summer term 2013
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 29 April | Anthony Heyes (Ottawa) |
NGO's as 'shiners of light' |
| 13 May | Oriana Bandiera (LSE) | TBC |
| 20 May | Beata Javorcik (Oxford) | TBC |
| 3 June | Ralf Martin (LSE/Imperial) | TBC |
| 10 June | Julien Grenet (PSE/CNRS) | TBC |
| 17 June | Eric Maurin (PSE) | TBC |
Past seminars
- Spring term 2013
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Date
Speaker
Title
21 January Fabian Waldinger (Warwick) Bombs, brains and science: the role of human and physical capital for the creation of scientific knowledge 28 January Jean Francois Maystadt (IFPRI) Refugees in Kagera (Tanzania) 4 February Helena Skyt Nielsen (Aarhus) School starting age and crime 11 February Koen Decancq (Antwerp) Multidimensional Poverty Measurement 18 February Guy Michaels (LSE) TBC 25 February Magne Mogstad (UCL) TBC 4 March Tim Barmby (Aberdeen) TBC 11 March Marcelo Olarreaga (Geneva) TBC 18 March Monique de Haan (Amsterdam) TBC 25 March Sambit Bhattacharyya (Sussex) TBC 8 April Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford) Climate Tipping and Economic Growth 15 April Steve Machin (UCL) TBC - Autumn term 2012
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Date
Speaker
Title
10 December Carol Alexander (Sussex) A General Approach to Real Option Valuation with Applications to Real Estate Investments 3 December Mike Elsby (Edinburgh) TBC 26 November Peter Dolton (Sussex) 'Making it Count': Evidence from a Field Experiment on Assessment Rules, Study Incentives and Student Performance. 19 November Alexander Moradi (Sussex) Colonial Investments and African Development: Evidence from Ghanaian Railways (with Remi Jedwab) 12 November Esteban Jaimovich (Surrey) When Warm Glow Burns: Motivational (mis)allocation in the non-profit sector"(with Gani Aldashev and Thierry Verdier) 5 November Karthik Muralidharan
(UCSD)TBC 29 October Erlend Berg (Oxford) Motivating Knowledge Agents: Financial Incentives versus Social Proximity 22 October Florian Ploeckl (Oxford) It's all in the Mail: The Economic Geography of the German Empire 15 October Paddy Carter (Bristol) Aid Allocation Rules - Summer term 2012
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Date
Speaker
Title
18 Jun Ferdinand Rauch
(Oxford)Advertising Expenditures and Consumer Prices 11 Jun Peter Dolton
(Sussex)Two Tribes go to War: Identifying the effect of the Minimum Wage
4 Jun No seminar (bank holiday) - 28 May Gaia Narcisco
(Trinity College Dublin)The Effect of Mafia on Public Transfers 21 May Hylke Vandenbussche
(Louvain)Verti-zontal Differentiation in Monopolistic Competition 14 May No seminar - 7 May No seminar (bank holiday) - 30 Apr Ian Bateman
(University of East Anglia)Economic Analysis for the UK Ecosystem Assessment 23 Apr Sambit Bhattacharyya (Sussex) How effective are Rural Public Works in Influencing Agricultural Wages? Evidence from India 16 Apr Peter Neary (Oxford) Selection Effects with Heterogeneous Firms