Semester One 21/22

A list of all seminars being run by the School of Economics in semester one of this academic year.

 Our seminar programme this year will feature a mixture of in-person and online events. Please contact the Research Office for information on how to attend the seminars this year.

If you have any questions about our seminar programme, or would like to be kept up to date about the latest research events taking place in the School of Economics, please get in touch with the Research Office at Econ-Research@ed.ac.uk

 

Christopher Kiehl Huckfeldt, Cornell University [ONLINE]

Monday 27th September, 15:00 - 16:30

Paper: A Model of Temporary versus Permanent Layoffs over the Business Cycle: With an Application to the COVID-19 Crisis

Ed Hopkins, University of Edinburgh [ONLINE]

Tiancheng Sun, University of Edinburgh [ONLINE]

Tuesday 5th October, 12:00 - 13:30

Paper: Limited Attention, Heterogenous Returns, and Wealth Inequality

Shengwu Li, Harvard University [ONLINE]

Monday 11th October, 15:00 - 16:30

Paper: A Theory of Ex Post Rationalisation

Julia Shvets, University of Cambridge [ONLINE]

Monday 18th October, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: Rank vs Money: Evidence from Managers

Federico Rossi, University of Warwick

Monday 25th October, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: The Human Side of Structural Transformation

Dimitri Migrow, University of Calgary

Wednesday 27th October, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: Investment and Information Aquisition

Leeat Yiariv, Princeton University [ONLINE]

Monday 1st November, 15:00 - 16:30

Paper: TBA

Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway University of London

Wednesday 3rd November, 15:00 - 16:30

Paper: Regulatory Interventions in Consumer Financial Markets: The Case of Credit Cards

Alexander Jakobsen, University of Calgary

Wednesday 10th November, 15:00 - 16:30

Paper: Coarse Bayesian Updating

Maria Olsson, BI Norwegian Business School [ONLINE]

Monday 15th November, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: Monetary Policy and the Labor Market: A Quasi-Experiment in Sweden

Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol

Tuesday 16th November, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: The Distributional Consequences Of Trade: Evidence From The Repeal Of The Corn Laws

Kirill Borusyak, UCL

Monday 22nd November, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications

Andrew Ellis, LSE

Wednesday 24th November, 10:00 - 11:30 

Paper: Subjective Causality in Choice

Kate Smith, IFS & UCL

Wednesday 24th November, 15:00 - 16:30

Paper: Capital Taxation and Entrepreneurship

Manuel Bagues, University of Warwick [ONLINE]

Monday 29th November, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: Interregional Contact and National Identity

Jesper Bagger, Royal Holloway University of London

Monday 6th December, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation

Kai Wang, University of Edinburgh

Monday 8th December, 15:00-16:30

Paper: TBA

Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University [ONLINE]

Monday 13th December, 11:30 - 13:00

Paper: Short and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel