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Inaugural Conference for the Laboratory for Economic Policy and Analysis
This conference will take place on June 6th-7th 2013 and will include speakers from Europe and the US on behavioural and experimental economics.
The conference is organised by Prof. Michèle Belot (University of Edinburgh) and supported by SIRE.
Specialist interest groups
- Overview
- The Labour Reading Group meets on Thursdays from 13:00 to 14:00 in room 3.11- third floor, 31 Buccleuch Place.
- The Macro Reading Group meets weekly on Wednesdays from 12:30 to 13:30pm in room 4.06 - fourth floor, 31 Buccleuch Place.
- At occasional ‘Quaker sessions’ staff members present their current research problems for discussion. These sessions are organised in an impromptu fashion.
Past event
SIRE BIC conference
The SIRE BIC ‘Theory’ conference was held on Saturday 6 October 2012 at the University of Edinburgh.
Guest speakers included Klaus Schmidt (Munich) and Olivier Compte (PSE) with additional contributions by S. Sánchez-Pagés (U. Barcelona/UoE), M. Costa-Gomes (Aberdeen), M. Mueller-Frank (Oxford), N. Vikander (UoE), G. Gerasimou (St. Andrews) and P. Kircher (UoE). The closing remarks were offered by John Moore.
All papers are now available from the conference website.
The Determinants of Dietary Choices - Approaches from different disciplines
The School will host a major conference on Friday the 22nd and Saturday the 23rd of March 2013. A dozen of UK researchers from different disciplines will introduce their "discipline-specific" approach to the study of dietary choices (targeted at a general academic audience) and present an overview of their relevant research findings. We are specifically interested in the following questions:
- What are the biological, psychological and sociological determinants of dietary preferences and choices?
- How did dietary choices evolve over human history? And how do these choices compare now in the UK to other countries?
- What recommendations does the scientific community have for policy?
The conference is organised by Prof. Michèle Belot (University of Edinburgh). The programme for this event has now been finalised.
REStud annual meeting 9-10 May 2013
The Review of Economic Studies Meetings have been held annually in May since 1989. Every year, in line with the Review’s tradition of encouraging the work of young economists, seven of the most promising graduating doctoral students in economics and finance in the world are selected to present their research to audiences in Europe.
This year, for the first time, the UK visit of the tour was held in Edinburgh on the 9th and 10th of May 2013.
Standard seminar presentations were given over two days to audiences invited by the local hosts and which include members of the journal’s editorial board.
This article was published on May 14, 2013