Semester One 21/22
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 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.
Christopher Kiehl Huckfeldt, Cornell University [ONLINE]
Monday 27th September, 15:00 - 16:30
Paper: A Model of Temporary versus Permanent Layoffs over the Business Cycle: With an Application to the COVID-19 Crisis
Ed Hopkins, University of Edinburgh [ONLINE]
Monday 4th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Cardinal Sins? Conspicuous Consumption, Cardinal Status and Inequality
Tiancheng Sun, University of Edinburgh [ONLINE]
Tuesday 5th October, 12:00 - 13:30
Paper: Limited Attention, Heterogenous Returns, and Wealth Inequality
Shengwu Li, Harvard University [ONLINE]
Monday 11th October, 15:00 - 16:30
Julia Shvets, University of Cambridge [ONLINE]
Monday 18th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Federico Rossi, University of Warwick
Monday 25th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Dimitri Migrow, University of Calgary
Wednesday 27th October, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Investment and Information Aquisition
Leeat Yiariv, Princeton University [ONLINE]
Monday 1st November, 15:00 - 16:30
Paper: TBA
Manolis Galenianos, Royal Holloway University of London
Wednesday 3rd November, 15:00 - 16:30
Paper: Regulatory Interventions in Consumer Financial Markets: The Case of Credit Cards
Alexander Jakobsen, University of Calgary
Wednesday 10th November, 15:00 - 16:30
Paper: Coarse Bayesian Updating
Maria Olsson, BI Norwegian Business School [ONLINE]
Monday 15th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Monetary Policy and the Labor Market: A Quasi-Experiment in Sweden
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol
Tuesday 16th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: The Distributional Consequences Of Trade: Evidence From The Repeal Of The Corn Laws
Kirill Borusyak, UCL
Monday 22nd November, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Non-Random Exposure to Exogenous Shocks: Theory and Applications
Andrew Ellis, LSE
Wednesday 24th November, 10:00 - 11:30
Kate Smith, IFS & UCL
Wednesday 24th November, 15:00 - 16:30
Manuel Bagues, University of Warwick [ONLINE]
Monday 29th November, 11:30 - 13:00
Jesper Bagger, Royal Holloway University of London
Monday 6th December, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Equilibrium Worker-Firm Allocations and the Deadweight Losses of Taxation
Kai Wang, University of Edinburgh
Monday 8th December, 15:00-16:30
Paper: TBA
Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University [ONLINE]
Monday 13th December, 11:30 - 13:00
Paper: Short and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel