Semester Two 22/23

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