Semester One 2019/20
Research seminars in the School of Economics being held during semester one of the 2019/20 academic year.
All of our seminars will take place in room 3.10, 31 Buccleuch Place, unless otherwise stated.
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.
Daniel Hauser, Aalto University
Monday 9th September, 11:00 - 12:30
Paper: Social Learning with Model Misspecification: A Framework and a Robustness Result
Emircan Yurdagul, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
MacCaLM: Wednesday 11th September, 11:30 - 13:00
Attila Lindner, UCL
MacCaLM: Monday 16th September, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper:Technological Change and Skill Demand in Non-Competitive Labor Markets
Yang Xie, UC Riverside
Wednesday 18th September, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Revolutionary capital and the dynamics of mass political action
Angus Foulis, Bank of England
MacCaLM: Monday 23rd September, 11:30 - 13:00
Tiancheng Sun , LSE
Tuesday 24th September, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Capacity Underutilization and Demand Driven Business Cycles
James Best, Carnegie Mellon University
MacCaLM: Friday 27th September, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Capital Management and Inequality
Costas Cavounidis, University of Warwick
Monday 30th September, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Occupation Choice and Skill Investment with Multidimensional Skill
Edouard Schaal, CREI
MacCaLM: Monday 7th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Herding Cycles
Roland Rathelot, University of Warwick
MacCaLM: Monday 14th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Gender Differences in Job Search: Trading off Commute Against Wage
Thomas Wiseman, University of Texas
Monday 21st October, 11:30 - 13:00
Jonna Olsson , University of Amsterdam
Monday 23rd October, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Structural Transformation of the Labor Market and Aggregate Economy
Jan Stuhler, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Monday 28th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
John Hassler, IIES
MacCaLM: Tuesday 29th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Directed Technical Change as a Response to Natural-Resource Scarcity
Thomas Cornelissen, University of York
Monday 4th November, 11:00 - 12:30
Paper: Knowledge Spillover and Individual Careers
Maxim Goryunov, Nazarbayev University
MacCaLM: Tuesday 5th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Discontinuous and Continuous Stochastic Choice and Coordination in the Lab
Heather Schofield, Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday 6th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Sleep Among the Urban Poor
Piero Gottardi, University of Essex
MacCaLM: Monday 11th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Mediation Design
Christoph Hedtrich, Uppsala University
MacCaLM: Tuesday 12th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Technology, Spatial Sorting, and Job Polarization
Anikó Bíró, Institute of Economics (Centre for Economic and Regional Studies)
Friday 15th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Tax Evasion and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Hungary
Audinga Baltrunaite, Bank of Italy
Monday 18th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Trainspotting: Board Appointments in Private Firms
Claudia Macaluso, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
MacCaLM: Wednesday 20th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Monopsony in the U.S. Labor Market
Adrien Henri Vigier, BI Norwegian Business School
Friday 22nd November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Competing for Innovation
Annie Liang, University of Pennsylvania
Monday 25th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Data Sharing and Incentives
Tatsuro Senga, QMUL
MacCaLM: Tuesday 26th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Uncertainty, Imperfect Information, and Learning in the International Market
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University
MacCaLM: Thursday 28th November, 14:30 - 16:00
Francesco Squintani, University of Warwick
Monday 2nd December, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Legal Restrictions and Optimal Contracts
Toomas Hinnosaar, Collegio Carlo Alberto
MacCaLM: Tuesday 3rd December, 10:00 - 11:30
Paper: Price Setting on a Network
Marit Hinnosaar, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Tuesday 3rd December, 13:00 - 14:30
Paper: The Persistence of Healthy Behaviors in Food Purchasing
Shu Lin Wee, Carnegie Mellon University
MacCaLM: Friday 6th December, 10:00 - 11:30
Sushant Acharya, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
MacCaLM: Friday 6th December, 13:00 - 14:30
Tim Lee, QMUL
MacCaLM: Monday 9th December, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth: Evidence from East Germany
Diego Battiston , Stockholm University
MacCaLM: Wednesday 11th December, 10:00 - 11:30
Paper: Face-to-Face Communication in Organisations
Soledad Giardili, QMUL
Wednesday 11th December, 13:00 - 14:30
Paper: Single-Sex Primary Schools and Student Achievement: Evidence from Admission Lotteries