A list of all seminars being run by the School of Economics in semester two 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. Stephan Maurer, University of Konstanz [ONLINE] Monday 17th January, 11:30-13:00 Paper: Do Female Professors Guide the Way? Assessing the Importance of Role Models for Gender Inequalities in Study Choice and Success Juan Vizcaino, University of Nottingham Friday 21st January, 11:30-13:00 Paper: Natural Disasters and Growth: The Role of Foreign Aid and Disaster Insurance Paweł Doligalski, University of Bristol Monday 24th January, 11:30-13:00 Paper: Redistribution with Performance Pay Ludmila Matysková, University of Bon Thursday 27th January, 11:30-13:00 Paper: TBA Dimitri Migrow, University of Calgary [ONLINE] Monday 31st January, 15:00-16:30 Paper: TBA Alistair Macaulay, University of Oxford Wednesday 2nd February, 11:30-13:00 Paper: TBA Radek Stefanski, University of St. Andrews Friday 4th February, 11:30-13:00 Paper: Selection, Patience and the Interest Rate Amanda Friedenberg, University of Arizona [ONLINE] Monday 21st February, 15:00 - 16:30 Paper: TBA Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Monday 7th March, 11:30 - 13:00 Paper: TBA Thibaut Lamadon, University of Chicago [ONLINE] Monday 14th March, 15:00 - 16:30 Paper: TBA Joachim Hubmer, University of Pennsylvania Monday 21st March, 11:30 - 13:00 Paper: Not a Typical Firm: The Joint Dynamics of Firms, Labour Shares, and Capital-Labour Subsitution Kerstin Holzheu, Paris Institute of Political Studies Monday 28th March, 11:30 - 13:00 Paper: Worker Specialisation and the Aggregate Economy Markus Poschke, McGill University Wednesday 30th March, 11:30 - 13:00 Paper: Gender, Work, and Structural Transformation Jeppe Druedahl, University of Copenhagen [ONLINE] Monday 4th March, 15:00-16:30 Paper: TBA Natalia Zinovyeva, University of Warwick [ONLINE] Monday 25th April, 11:30 - 13:00 Paper: Top Researchers as Academic Evaluators Sevgi Yuksel, University of California Santa Barbara [ONLINE] Monday 2nd May, 16:00-17:30 Paper: Discrimination Without Reason: Biases in Statistical Discrimination Frédéric Koessler, Paris School of Economics Friday 6th May, 14:00-15:30 Paper: Informed Information Design Yueran Ma, University of Chicago Monday 9th May, 11:30-13:00 Paper: 100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration Sarah Auster, Universität Bonn [ONLINE] Monday 23rd May, 15:00-16:30 Paper: Timing Decisions Under Model Uncertainty Peter Norman Sørensen, University of Copenhagen Monday 30th May, 11:30-13:00 Paper: Comparison of Experiments in Monotone Problems Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University Monday 6th June, 11:30 - 13:00 Paper: TBA This article was published on 2024-10-01