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. Pauline Carry (University of Chicago) Friday 22nd September, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper title: The Effects of the Legal Minimum Working Time on Workers, Firms and the Labor Market Suphanit Piyapromdee (UCL) Monday 2nd October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper title: "The Minimum Wage Effects on Earnings and Sorting", joint with Tanisa Tawichsri and Nada Wasi. Jakub Lonsky (University of Liverpool) Tuesday 10th October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper title: The Road to Crime: An Unintended Consequence of the Interstate Highway System Thomas Mariotti (Toulouse School of Economics) Friday 13th October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper title: “Keeping the Agents in the Dark: Private Disclosures in Competing Mechanisms” (joint with Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni, and Alessandro Pavan) Mirko Draca (University of Warwick) Monday 16th October, 11:30 - 13:00 BST Paper title: The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contributions Cancelled: Alfred Galichon (NYU) This seminar has been postponed. Paper title: TBC Cancelled: Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick) This seminar has been cancelled. Paper title: TBC Michael Graber (Statistics Norway) Friday 3rd November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: Labor supply and taxation: A reappraisal taking income effects into account Specialist Seminar: Tatiana Mayskaya (HSE) Wednesday 8th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: “Does Reducing Communication Barriers Promote Diversity?” (joint with Miaomiao Dong) Mengxi Zhang (University of Bonn) Thursday 9th November, 13:30 - 15:00 GMT Paper title: Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors (joint with Alex Gershkov, Benny Moldovanu and Philipp Strack) Julian Neira (University of Exeter) Friday 10th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: “Firm Dynamics with Many Sectors” (joint with Hugo Hopenhayn and Rish Singhania) Erik Öberg (Uppsala University) Monday 13th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: Fiscal Stimulus According to HANK & SAM Liangjie Wu (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance) Monday 20th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: Assortative Matching with Private Information Isaac Sorkin (Stanford University) Thursday 23rd November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: Quantifying racial disparities using consecutive employment spells Anna Bindler (University of Cologne) Monday 27th November, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: Murphy's Law or Luck of the Irish? Disparate Treatment of the Treatment of the Irish in 19th Century Courts Xiaoshan Chen (Durham University) Friday 1st December, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: Debt targets and fiscal consolidation in a two-country HANK model for Eurozone Andreas Gulyas (Mannheim) Thursday 14th December, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: TBC Kevin He (University of Pennsylvania) Friday 15th December, 11:30 - 13:00 GMT Paper title: Learning from Viral Content (joint work with Krishna Dasaratha) This article was published on 2024-07-03
