Seminars taking place during the 2014-15 academic year. Venue locations vary, please check the details per time slot below. HTML Semester 2 James Fenske (Oxford University) Monday 12 January 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm G.06, 50 George Square Document Oil and Ethnic Inequality in Nigeria (1.78 MB / PDF) Ronni Pavan (Royal Holloway University) Monday 19 January 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillian Building 'Distorted Beliefs and Parental Investment in Children.' Loukas Balafoutas (University of Innsbruck) Monday 2 February 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Lecture Hall C, David Hume Tower Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi) Monday 23 February 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Markus Poschke (McGill) Monday 2 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale) Monday 9 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Paper: 'Wage Posting and Business Cycles: a Quantitative Exploration' Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute) Wednesday 11 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Specialist Seminar: In-Koo Cho (Illinois) Wednesday 18 March 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower Document Search, adverse selection and market clearing (459.23 KB / PDF) Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI) Monday 23 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Document Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility / Field-of-Study Homogamy (383.02 KB / PDF) Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics) Monday 30 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square 'Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data'. Specialist Seminar: Miguel Almunia (Warwick) Wednesday 15 April 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place 'Heterogeneous Responses to Effective Tax Enforcement: Evidence from Spanish Firms'. Margaret Meyer (Oxford) Monday 20 April 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square ‘Beyond Correlation: Measuring Interdependence Through Complementarities’ Doug Gollin (Oxford University) Monday 4 May 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square ‘Measuring Living Standards across Space in the Developing World' Specialist Seminar: Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway) Wednesday 6 May 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place 'Wage Dispersion, Job Creation and Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa' Marina Halac (Columbia & Warwick) Monday 11 May 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square 'Contests for Experimentation' Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto) Monday 18 May 2015, 12pm - 1pm 3.10, 30 Buccleuch Place ‘Relative Prices and Sectoral Productivity’ Derek Neal (University of Chicago) Monday 18 May 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square 'Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets.' Specialist Seminar: Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales) Tuesday 26 May 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Document Hodaka - ‘Investment in Outside Options as Opportunistic Behaviour: An Experimental Approach’. (660.45 KB / ) Document Hodaka - ‘Does Group Identity Prevent Inefficient Investment in Outside Option?: An Experimental Approach’ (648.69 KB / PDF) Martin Ellison (Oxford) Monday 1 June 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.01, 50 George Square Specialist Seminar: Peter Norman (University of North Carolina) Wednesday 3 June 2015, 12pm - 1pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Specialist Seminar: Nobuyuki Hanaki (Aix-Marseille University) Wednesday 3 June 2015, 4.30pm - 5.30pm 3.10, 30 Buccleuch Place Specialist Seminar: Andres Rodriguez-Clare (Berkeley) Friday 5 June 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place 'Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade' Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas) Monday 8 June 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square Specialist Seminar: Yongcheol Shin (University of York) Tuesday 9 June 2015, 4pm - 5.30pm G.04, 50 George Square 'Noise Momentum and Limited Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence.' Semester 1 Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol) Monday 15 September 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: 'On detecting weak instruments and selecting valid instruments.' Special seminar: Davide Morise (European University Institute) Wednesday 17 September 2014, 4pm - 6pm Paper: 'Shaping voting intentions: an experimental study on the role of information in the Scottish independence referendum UK.' BLUE Research Paper 1 Press release Martin Cripps (UCL) Monday 22 September 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Document Strategic Experimentation in Queues (4.93 MB / PDF) Timothy Cason (Purdue) Monday 29 September 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Bidding in first-price and second-price affiliated-values auctions: A laboratory experiment. Sephorah Mangin (Monash University) Monday 6 October 2014, 12pm - 1pm Please note this is a lunchtime presentation Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Duke) Monday 6 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Nicholas Petrosky-Nadeau (Carnegie Mellon) Monday 13 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: Unemployment Crises Document Unemployment Crises (620.94 KB / PDF) Double seminar on 20 October: Moritz Kuhn (Bonn) Monday 20 October 2014, 12pm - 2pm Document Earnings losses and labor mobility over the lifecycle (488.72 KB / PDF) Fernando Martin (St Louis Fed) Monday 20 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Document The Value of Constraints on Discretionary Government Policy (563.82 KB / PDF) Christopher Jepsen (University College Dublin) Monday 27 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: "Postsecondary Educational Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis." Faruk Gül (Princeton) Tuesday 28 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: Calibrated Uncertainty. Sven Rady (Universitӓt Bonn) Monday 3 November 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: Strongly Symmetric Equilibria in Bandit Games. Jeremy Greenwood (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 10 November 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: 'Why Doesn't Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?' Document Greenwood_seminarNov2014 (598.5 KB / PDF) Noam Yuchtman (Berkeley Haas) Monday 17 November 2014, pm - 5.30pm Document Curriculum and Ideology (1.82 MB / PDF) Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley) Monday 24 November 2014, 4pm-5.30pm Paper: 'Estimating Changes in Marginal Utility from Disaggregated Expenditures.' Document Ethon Ligon (691.94 KB / PDF) David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 1 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: 'Cautious Expected utility and the certainty effect.' Double seminar on 4 December: Nadine Ketel (University of Amsterdam) Thursday 4 December 2014, 11am - 12.30pm 50 George Square, G.06 Paper: 'The returns to medical school in a regulated labor market: Evidence from admission lotteries.' 50 George Square, G.06 Paul Muller (University of Amsterdam) Thursday 4 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre, George Square Paper: 'Comparing methods to evaluate the effects of job search assistance.' Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre, George Square Johannes Horner (Yale) Monday 8 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm LT1, 7 Bristo Square Paper: 'Dynamic Mechanisms without Money.' Fabian Lange (McGill) Monday 15 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm LT1, 7 Bristo Square Paper: 'Supervisors and Performance Systems.' This article was published on 2024-10-01
HTML Semester 2 James Fenske (Oxford University) Monday 12 January 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm G.06, 50 George Square Document Oil and Ethnic Inequality in Nigeria (1.78 MB / PDF) Ronni Pavan (Royal Holloway University) Monday 19 January 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillian Building 'Distorted Beliefs and Parental Investment in Children.' Loukas Balafoutas (University of Innsbruck) Monday 2 February 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Lecture Hall C, David Hume Tower Katja Kaufmann (Bocconi) Monday 23 February 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Markus Poschke (McGill) Monday 2 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Giuseppe Moscarini (Yale) Monday 9 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Paper: 'Wage Posting and Business Cycles: a Quantitative Exploration' Martin Hellwig (Max Planck Institute) Wednesday 11 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Specialist Seminar: In-Koo Cho (Illinois) Wednesday 18 March 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm Lecture Theatre 3, Appleton Tower Document Search, adverse selection and market clearing (459.23 KB / PDF) Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI) Monday 23 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square Document Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility / Field-of-Study Homogamy (383.02 KB / PDF) Andrew Clark (Paris School of Economics) Monday 30 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square 'Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data'. Specialist Seminar: Miguel Almunia (Warwick) Wednesday 15 April 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place 'Heterogeneous Responses to Effective Tax Enforcement: Evidence from Spanish Firms'. Margaret Meyer (Oxford) Monday 20 April 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square ‘Beyond Correlation: Measuring Interdependence Through Complementarities’ Doug Gollin (Oxford University) Monday 4 May 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square ‘Measuring Living Standards across Space in the Developing World' Specialist Seminar: Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway) Wednesday 6 May 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place 'Wage Dispersion, Job Creation and Development: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa' Marina Halac (Columbia & Warwick) Monday 11 May 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square 'Contests for Experimentation' Diego Restuccia (University of Toronto) Monday 18 May 2015, 12pm - 1pm 3.10, 30 Buccleuch Place ‘Relative Prices and Sectoral Productivity’ Derek Neal (University of Chicago) Monday 18 May 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square 'Allocating Effort and Talent in Professional Labor Markets.' Specialist Seminar: Hodaka Morita (University of New South Wales) Tuesday 26 May 2015, 12pm - 1.30pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Document Hodaka - ‘Investment in Outside Options as Opportunistic Behaviour: An Experimental Approach’. (660.45 KB / ) Document Hodaka - ‘Does Group Identity Prevent Inefficient Investment in Outside Option?: An Experimental Approach’ (648.69 KB / PDF) Martin Ellison (Oxford) Monday 1 June 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.01, 50 George Square Specialist Seminar: Peter Norman (University of North Carolina) Wednesday 3 June 2015, 12pm - 1pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place Specialist Seminar: Nobuyuki Hanaki (Aix-Marseille University) Wednesday 3 June 2015, 4.30pm - 5.30pm 3.10, 30 Buccleuch Place Specialist Seminar: Andres Rodriguez-Clare (Berkeley) Friday 5 June 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place 'Slicing the Pie: Quantifying the Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Trade' Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas) Monday 8 June 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm G.04, 50 George Square Specialist Seminar: Yongcheol Shin (University of York) Tuesday 9 June 2015, 4pm - 5.30pm G.04, 50 George Square 'Noise Momentum and Limited Arbitrage: Theory and Evidence.' Semester 1 Frank Windmeijer (University of Bristol) Monday 15 September 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: 'On detecting weak instruments and selecting valid instruments.' Special seminar: Davide Morise (European University Institute) Wednesday 17 September 2014, 4pm - 6pm Paper: 'Shaping voting intentions: an experimental study on the role of information in the Scottish independence referendum UK.' BLUE Research Paper 1 Press release Martin Cripps (UCL) Monday 22 September 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Document Strategic Experimentation in Queues (4.93 MB / PDF) Timothy Cason (Purdue) Monday 29 September 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Bidding in first-price and second-price affiliated-values auctions: A laboratory experiment. Sephorah Mangin (Monash University) Monday 6 October 2014, 12pm - 1pm Please note this is a lunchtime presentation Juan Rubio-Ramirez (Duke) Monday 6 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Nicholas Petrosky-Nadeau (Carnegie Mellon) Monday 13 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: Unemployment Crises Document Unemployment Crises (620.94 KB / PDF) Double seminar on 20 October: Moritz Kuhn (Bonn) Monday 20 October 2014, 12pm - 2pm Document Earnings losses and labor mobility over the lifecycle (488.72 KB / PDF) Fernando Martin (St Louis Fed) Monday 20 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Document The Value of Constraints on Discretionary Government Policy (563.82 KB / PDF) Christopher Jepsen (University College Dublin) Monday 27 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: "Postsecondary Educational Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis." Faruk Gül (Princeton) Tuesday 28 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: Calibrated Uncertainty. Sven Rady (Universitӓt Bonn) Monday 3 November 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: Strongly Symmetric Equilibria in Bandit Games. Jeremy Greenwood (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 10 November 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: 'Why Doesn't Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?' Document Greenwood_seminarNov2014 (598.5 KB / PDF) Noam Yuchtman (Berkeley Haas) Monday 17 November 2014, pm - 5.30pm Document Curriculum and Ideology (1.82 MB / PDF) Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley) Monday 24 November 2014, 4pm-5.30pm Paper: 'Estimating Changes in Marginal Utility from Disaggregated Expenditures.' Document Ethon Ligon (691.94 KB / PDF) David Dillenberger (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 1 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Paper: 'Cautious Expected utility and the certainty effect.' Double seminar on 4 December: Nadine Ketel (University of Amsterdam) Thursday 4 December 2014, 11am - 12.30pm 50 George Square, G.06 Paper: 'The returns to medical school in a regulated labor market: Evidence from admission lotteries.' 50 George Square, G.06 Paul Muller (University of Amsterdam) Thursday 4 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre, George Square Paper: 'Comparing methods to evaluate the effects of job search assistance.' Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre, George Square Johannes Horner (Yale) Monday 8 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm LT1, 7 Bristo Square Paper: 'Dynamic Mechanisms without Money.' Fabian Lange (McGill) Monday 15 December 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm LT1, 7 Bristo Square Paper: 'Supervisors and Performance Systems.'
