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] Monday 4th October, 11:30 - 13:00 Paper: Cardinal Sins? Conspicuous Consumption, Cardinal Status and Inequality 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 This article was published on 2024-10-01