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, 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. Guillaume Frechette (NYU) Monday 20th February, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Beliefs in Repeated Games Fane Groes (Copenhagen Business School) Monday 27th February, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Bank Lending and Employment Reallocation in the Great Recession David Ahn (Washington University St. Louis) Monday 6th March, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Incentives and Efficiency in Constrained Allocation Mechanisms David Delacretaz (University of Manchester) Monday 20th March, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Processing Reserves Simultaneously Jonathan Heathcote (Fed Minneapolis) Monday 27th March, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: The Great Resignation and Optimal Unemployment Insurance Axelle Ferriere (PSE) Monday 17th April, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: The Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off: Rising Inequality vs. Rising Living Standards Specialist seminar: Ines Helm (LMU Munich) Wednesday 19th April, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Displacement Effects in Manufacturing Dawei Fang (University of Gothenburg) Monday 24th April, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Winning ways: How tournament incentives shape risk-taking decisions Specialist seminar: Robert Somogyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Thursday 4th May, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Deceptive Features on Platforms Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Monday 5th May, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper: Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment Bahadir Dursun (Newcastle University) Thursday 11th May, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: The Intergenerational Impact of Firearm Violence: Evidence from the Beltway Sniper Attacks and Mass Shootings Emma Tominey (York) Monday 15th May, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: TBC Specialist seminar: Peter Morrow (University of Toronto) Friday 19th May, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Specialist seminar: Salomón García (Bank of Spain) Thursday 25th May, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Mortgage securitization and Information Frictions in General Equilibrium Joe Hazell (LSE) Monday 5th June, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: Bonus Question: How Does Incentive Pay Affect Unemployment Dynamics? Giancarlo Corsetti (EUI) Friday 30th June, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper: TBC This article was published on 2024-10-01