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, hybrid 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. Todd Schoellman (Fed Minneapolis) Monday 19th September, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Labor Markets During Crises and Shocks Severine Toussaert (Oxford University) Monday 26th September, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Stochastic dominance and preference for randomization Aline Bütikofer (Norwegian School of Economics) Monday 3rd October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Pregnancy Loss - Stress, Investment, and Subsequent Children Johan Holmberg (Umeå University) Wednesday 5th October, 15:00 - 16:30 BST Paper: Earnings and Employment Dynamics: Capturing Cyclicality Using Mixed Frequency Data David Neumark (UC-Irvine) Monday 10th October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: TBA Amma Panin (University of Louvain) Monday 17th October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Using religious participation to insure mental health in Ghana Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale University) Monday 24th October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: The Job Ladder: Inflation vs. Reallocation Jacob Adenbaum (University of Edinburgh) Tuesday 25th, 12:00 - 13:30 BST Paper: Endogenous Firm Structure and Worker Specialization Luca Perdoni (University of Edinburgh) Wednesday 2nd November, 13:00 - 14:30 GMT Paper: The Effects of Federal “Redlining” Maps: A Novel Estimation Strategy Per Krusell (IIES Stockholm University) Wednesday 9th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture Pau Roldan-Blanco (Bank of Spain) Friday 11th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Dual Labor Markets and the Equilibrium Distribution of Firms Eugenio Proto (Adam Smith Business School) Wednesday 16th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Reverse Bayesianism: Revising Beliefs in Light of Unforeseen Events Paul Muller (VU Amsterdam) Monday 21st November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Tax incentives for high skilled migrants: evidence from a preferential tax scheme in the Netherlands Alexander Monge-Naranjo (EUI) Monday 28th November, 15:00 - 16:30 GMT Paper: Of Cities and Slums Weijie Zhong (Stanford GSB) Tuesday 29th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Martingale Embeddings: Theory and Applications Erik Plug (VU Amsterdam) Monday 5th December, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: The only child Aris Filos-Ratsikas (University of Edinburgh) Wednesday 7th December, 15:00 - 16:30 GMT Paper: The Computational Complexity of Economic Environments Fedor Sandomirskiy (Caltech) Monday 12th December, 15:00 - 16:30 BST Paper: The geometry of consumer preference aggregation This article was published on 2024-10-01