Seminars 2014-2015
Seminars taking place during the 2014-15 academic year.
Venue locations vary, please check the details per time slot below.
Semester 2
James Fenske (Oxford University)
Monday 12 January 2015, 2.30pm - 4.30pm
G.06, 50 George Square
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
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
Stepan Jurajda (CERGE-EI)
Monday 23 March 2015, 2.30pm - 4pm
Seminar Room 1, 7 George Square
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)
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
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.'
Martin Cripps (UCL)
Monday 22 September 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
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
Double seminar on 20 October:
Moritz Kuhn (Bonn)
Monday 20 October 2014, 12pm - 2pm
Fernando Martin (St Louis Fed)
Monday 20 October 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
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
Sven Rady (Universitӓt Bonn)
Monday 3 November 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Jeremy Greenwood (University of Pennsylvania)
Monday 10 November 2014, 4pm - 5.30pm
Paper: 'Why Doesn't Technology Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?'
Noam Yuchtman (Berkeley Haas)
Monday 17 November 2014, pm - 5.30pm
Ethan Ligon (University of California, Berkeley)
Monday 24 November 2014, 4pm-5.30pm
Paper: 'Estimating Changes in Marginal Utility from Disaggregated Expenditures.'
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.'
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.'
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.'