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Faculty of Economics

Seminars - Michaelmas Term


12 Sep

Yingying Li (HKUST Business School)

'Approaching Mean-Variance Efficiency for Large Portfolios'
Wednesday 12th September 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

18 Sep

Marzena Rostek (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

'Exchange Design and Efficiency'
Tuesday 18th September 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

19 Sep

Tim Armstrong (Yale)

'Finite-Sample Optimal Estimation and Inference on Average Treatment Effects Under Unconfoundedness (joint with Michal Kolesar)'
Wednesday 19th September 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

20 Sep

Julian di Giovanni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

'International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycles'
Thursday 20th September 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

01 Oct

Sheilagh Ogilvie (University of Cambridge)

'The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis'
Monday 1st October 2018 11:00am
B16, Law Faculty (Faculty Research Seminar)

02 Oct

Lars Nesheim (UCL and IFS)

'Sparse demand systems: corners and complements (joint with Arthur Lewbel)'
Tuesday 2nd October 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

05 Oct

Sihua Ding (Cambridge)

'Link investment substitutability and network information'
Friday 5th October 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

08 Oct

Benson Tsz Kin Leung (Cambridge)

'Memory and (Biased) Belief Formation'
Monday 8th October 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop Group)

09 Oct

Carolina Villegas Sanchez - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Tuesday 9th October 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

09 Oct

Sinan Kufeoglu (University of Cambridge)

'Electric Power Distribution in the World: Today and Tomorrow'
Tuesday 9th October 2018 12:30pm
W2.02, Judge Business School (EPRG Seminars)

10 Oct

Liudas Giraitis (QMUL)

'Inference on Time Series with Changing Mean and Variance (joint with V Dalla and PM Robinson)'
Wednesday 10th October 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

10 Oct

Suehyun Kwon - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Wednesday 10th October 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

12 Oct

Leonie Baumann (Cambridge)

'Self-ratings and Peer Review'
Friday 12th October 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

15 Oct

Tony Lawson (Cambridge)

'How should economics be changed (if at all)?'
Monday 15th October 2018 8:00pm
Barbara White Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Workshops)

16 Oct

George Joffe (POLIS/King's College London)

'The Effects of Rent on Democratic Choice'
Tuesday 16th October 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

17 Oct

Avinash Dixit (Princeton)

'Environmental Catastrophes and Mitigation Policies in a Multi-region World'
Wednesday 17th October 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

17 Oct

Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics and Political Science)

'Experience Markets: An Application to Outsourcing and Hiring'
Wednesday 17th October 2018 12:30pm
W4.05, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminar Series)

19 Oct

Avinash Dixit - extra presentation (Princeton)

'What Movies Can Teach Us About Game Theory - The lecture illustrates some basic game-theoretic concepts by screening and discussing short video clips from movies'
Friday 19th October 2018 5:00pm
McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College (Microeconomics Seminars)

19 Oct

Jorg Kalbfuss (Cambridge)

'Network cohesion and fragility in contests'
Friday 19th October 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

22 Oct

Claudia Herresthal (Cambridge)

'Hidden Testing and Selective Disclosure of Evidence'
Monday 22nd October 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshops)

23 Oct

Salome Baslandze (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)

'Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation and Firm Dynamics'
Tuesday 23rd October 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

23 Oct

Pedro Linares (Comillas University, visiting EPRG)

'The Technical, Environmental and Economic Implications for Power Systems of Phasing Out Coal and Nuclear'
Tuesday 23rd October 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (EPRG Seminars)

24 Oct

Juan Carlos Escanciano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

'Optimal Linear Instrumental Variables Approximations'
Wednesday 24th October 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

24 Oct

William Fuchs (McCombs School of Business, University of Texas)

'Liquidity Sentiments'
Wednesday 24th October 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

24 Oct

Christos Genakos (University of Cambridge Judge Business School)

'Competition and Pass-Through: Evidence from the Greek Islands'
Wednesday 24th October 2018 1:00pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminar Series)

26 Oct

Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics)

'Sexual Selection, Structured Populations and the Evolution of Social Behavior'
Friday 26th October 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

29 Oct

Lloyd Demetrius (Harvard University)

'Nash Equilibrium and Evolutionary Entropy'
Monday 29th October 2018 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

29 Oct

Eckhard Rosenbaum (European Commission, Joint Research Centre)

'Institutions and mental models - Some reflections on the interplay of social reality and its representation'
Monday 29th October 2018 8:00pm
Barbara White Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Workshops)

30 Oct

Achyuta Adhvaryu - This event has been CANCELLED

'Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity (joint with Namrata Kala and Anant Nyshadham)'
Tuesday 30th October 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

30 Oct

Xavier Ragot (SCIENCESPO)

'Managing inequality in the business cycle: Optimal policies with heterogeneous agents and aggregate shocks'
Tuesday 30th October 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

30 Oct

Peter Pearson (Imperial College London)

'Past and Prospective Transitions in the UK Gas Industry - Some Interdisciplinary Insights'
Tuesday 30th October 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

31 Oct

Petra Geraats (Cambridge)

'Anticipated Monetary Policy and Central Bank Communications (joint with Simon Lloyd)'
Wednesday 31st October 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

31 Oct

Gary Charness - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Wednesday 31st October 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

31 Oct

Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics)

'Multiproduct Intermediaries'
Wednesday 31st October 2018 12:30pm
Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminar Series)

02 Nov

Gary Charness - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Friday 2nd November 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

05 Nov

Peter Morten (Costello Medical)

'New therapies, new methods: the use of novel survival analysis methods for I-O therapies'
Monday 5th November 2018 3:00pm
Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way (Health Economics)

06 Nov

Dan Aaronson (Chicago Fed )

'The Effects of the 1930s HOLC Redlining Maps'
Tuesday 6th November 2018 3:00pm
Keynes Room, please note different time and room to usual (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

06 Nov

Jeremy Greenwood (UPenn)

'Financing Ventures'
Tuesday 6th November 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

06 Nov

Felix Muesgens (Brandenburg University of Technology)

'The Solar Revolution - Who Made It Happen?'
Tuesday 6th November 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (EPRG Seminars )

07 Nov

Tommaso Porzio (UCSD)

'Home Bias and Spatial Wage Gaps: Lessons from the Enduring Divide between East and West Germany'
Wednesday 7th November 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

07 Nov

Ivan Fernandez-Val (Boston)

'Distribution Regression with Sample Selection, with an Application to Wage Decompositions in the UK (joint with Victor Chernozhukov and Siyi Luo)'
Wednesday 7th November 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

07 Nov

Piero Gottardi (EUI)

'Competing Mechanisms in Markets for Lemons'
Wednesday 7th November 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

07 Nov

Emanuele Tarantino (Mannheim)

'Cheap Trade Credit and Competition in Downstream Markets'
Wednesday 7th November 2018 1:00pm
TBA, (Economics and Policy Group Seminar Series)

09 Nov

Shoumitro Chatterjee (Cambridge)

'Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India'
Friday 9th November 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

12 Nov

Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire)

'Why rumours of the death of Max U are exaggerated'
Monday 12th November 2018 8:00pm
Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Workshops)

13 Nov

Steph de Mel (Cambridge)

'A Job Worth Waiting for: Parental Wealth and Youth Unemployment in Ghana'
Tuesday 13th November 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Micro Seminars)

13 Nov

Tatsuro Senga (QMUL)

'Uncertainty, Imperfect Information and Learning in the International Market'
Tuesday 13th November 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

13 Nov

Benjamin Sovacool (University of Sussex)

'Contestation, Contingency and Justice in the Nordic Low-Carbon Energy Transition'
Tuesday 13th November 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

14 Nov

Charles Brendon - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Wednesday 14th November 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

14 Nov

Roger Koenker (UCL)

'Random Coefficients for Binary Response - Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients'
Wednesday 14th November 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

14 Nov

Syngjoo Choi (Seoul National University)

'Strategic Sophistication and Its Economics Importance'
Wednesday 14th November 2018 3:50pm
Keynes Room, Please note this seminar will start 10 minutes earlier than usual (Microeconomics Seminars)

14 Nov

Robert Shiller (Yale University)

'Economic Narratives: How Bimetallism and Bitcoin Went Viral'
Wednesday 14th November 2018 5:00pm
Lady Mitchell Hall, (Marshall Lecture)

14 Nov

Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)

'Competitive Cross-Subsidisation'
Wednesday 14th November 2018 1:00pm
KH107, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminar Series )

15 Nov

Robert Shiller (Yale University)

'Economic Narratives: How Bimetallism and Bitcoin Went Viral'
Thursday 15th November 2018 5:00pm
Lady Mitchell Hall, (Marshall Lecture)

16 Nov

Matt Elliott (Cambridge)

'Firm Capabilities and Industry Structure in the Information Age'
Friday 16th November 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

20 Nov

Nicholas Roys (Royal Holloway)

'Skills Prices, Occupations and Changes in the Wage Structure for Low Skilled Men (joint with Christopher Taber)'
Tuesday 20th November 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

20 Nov

Josep Pijoan-Mas (CEMFI)

'Investment Demand and Structural Change'
Tuesday 20th November 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

20 Nov

Niall MacDowell (Imperial College London)

'Assessing the Value of Carbon Capture and Storage'
Tuesday 20th November 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (EPRG Seminars)

21 Nov

Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale)

'The Effect of the Great Depression on an Inventive Region: Patenting in Cleveland, Ohio'
Wednesday 21st November 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

21 Nov

Giuseppe Cavaliere (Bologna)

'Random Bootstrap Measures'
Wednesday 21st November 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

21 Nov

Zvi Safra (Warwick Business School)

'A Lot of Ambiguity'
Wednesday 21st November 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

21 Nov

Otto Toivanen (Helsinki)

'Welfare Effects of R&D Support Policies'
Wednesday 21st November 2018 1:00pm
Fadi Boustany Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminar Series)

23 Nov

Dominik Karos (Maastricht)

'From Political Violence to Social Instability'
Friday 23rd November 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

26 Nov

Syngjoo Choi (Seoul National University)

'(Dynamic) Inconsistencies of Intertemporal Choice'
Monday 26th November 2018 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

26 Nov

Lynne Chester (University of Sydney)

'Energy as a constituent of social reality: Can social ontology provide insight?'
Monday 26th November 2018 8:00pm
Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Workshops)

27 Nov

Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins)

'The Marginal Labor Supply Disincentives of Welfare Reforms'
Tuesday 27th November 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

27 Nov

Ruchi Choudhary (University of Cambridge)

'Energy Efficient Cities'
Tuesday 27th November 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

28 Nov

Alexander Rodnyansky (Cambridge)

'Firms and Monetary Policy in Europe (joint with O. Darmouni and O. Giesecke)'
Wednesday 28th November 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

28 Nov

Arjada Bardhi (Duke University)

'Discovery and Influence through Selective Sampling'
Wednesday 28th November 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

03 Dec

Padraig Dixon (University of Bristol)

'The causal effect of BMI on inpatient hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of the UK Biobank cohort'
Monday 3rd December 2018 3:00pm
Large Seminar Room, Institute of Public Health, Robinson Way (Health Economics)

04 Dec

Federica Romei (Stockholm School of Economics)

'Sovereign Default in a Monetary Union (joint with Sergio de Ferra)'
Tuesday 4th December 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

Seminars - Lent Term


14 Jan

Matt Elliott (Cambridge)

'Networked Markets'
Monday 14th January 2019 11:00am
Meade Room, (Faculty Research Seminar)

15 Jan

Leonardo Felli (University of Edinburgh)

'Relational Contracts, Competition and Innovation: Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers'
Tuesday 15th January 2019 10:45am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

15 Jan

Ruchi Choudhary (University of Cambridge)

'Energy Efficient Cities'
Tuesday 15th January 2019 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

16 Jan

Giancarlo Corsetti (Cambridge)

'The elusive gains from inward-looking (monetary) policies (with Martin Bodenstein and Luca Guerrieri)'
Wednesday 16th January 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

16 Jan

Anders Kock (Oxford)

'Power in High-Dimensional Testing Problems'
Wednesday 16th January 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

17 Jan

Antonio Cabrales (UCL)

'Can there be a market for cheap-talk information? An experimental investigation'
Thursday 17th January 2019 11:15am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

21 Jan

Luca Anderlini (Georgetown University)

'Elementary Network Memetics'
Monday 21st January 2019 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

22 Jan

Bowei Guo (University of Cambridge)

'The Impact of the Carbon Price Support on the Emissions Intensity of Wind in the British Electricity Market'
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (EPRG Seminars)

22 Jan

Frederic Schneider (Judge Business School)

'Discrimination as a self-fulfilling prophecy: Evidence from French grocery stores (by Dylan Glover, Amanda Pallais, William Pariente, QJE 2017)'
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group)

22 Jan

Joan Monras (UPF)

'Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: the Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin'
Tuesday 22nd January 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

23 Jan

Alexandra Soberon (Cambridge-INET) (University of Cantabria)

'Efficient nonparametric two-stage estimation of varying coefficient panel data models'
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

23 Jan

Charles Brendon (Cambridge)

'Optimal nonlinear savings taxes'
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

28 Jan

Benson Tsz Kin Leung (Cambridge)

'Limited Cognitive Ability and Selective Information Processing'
Monday 28th January 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

28 Jan

Clive Lawson (Cambridge)

'Technology and a Speeding up of the Social'
Monday 28th January 2019 8:00pm
Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Seminars)

29 Jan

Achyuta Adhvaryu (Michigan)

'Relational Contracting Inside the Firm'
Tuesday 29th January 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, Note this seminar is a reschedule from 30 October 2018 (Empirical Microeconomics Seminar)

29 Jan

Sarah Royston (University of Sussex)

'In Search of Invisible Energy Policy'
Tuesday 29th January 2019 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

29 Jan

Weilong Zhang (Cambridge)

'The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (by David J. Deming, QJE forthcoming)'
Tuesday 29th January 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group)

30 Jan

Alejandro van der Ghote (ECB)

'Unintended Effects of Macro-prudential Policy on Real Interest Rates and Liquidity Traps'
Wednesday 30th January 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, Please note different day and time to usual (Macroeconomics Seminars)

30 Jan

Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics)

'How Well Targeted Are Soda Taxes?'
Wednesday 30th January 2019 1:00pm
LT4, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminars)

30 Jan

Erik Hjalmarsson (Gothenberg)

'Compound Returns (joint with Adam Farago)'
Wednesday 30th January 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

04 Feb

Matthew Elliott (Cambridge)

'A hypergraph approach to industry structure'
Monday 4th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

05 Feb

Andy Philpott (University of Auckland, NZ)

'Efficiency of Markets with Hydroelectricity'
Tuesday 5th February 2019 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (EPRG Seminars)

05 Feb

Syngjoo Choi (Seoul National University)

'The Economics of Implicit Ideological Bias: Measurement and Application'
Tuesday 5th February 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group)

05 Feb

Nicola Limodio (Bocconi University)

'Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Pakistan'
Tuesday 5th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomcis Seminars)

06 Feb

Chiara Criscuolo (OECD)

'Mark-Ups and Concentration in the Digital Era'
Wednesday 6th February 2019 1:00pm
LT2, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminars)

06 Feb

Bryan Graham (Berkeley)

'Testing for Strategic Interaction in Networks (joint with Andrin Pelican, University of St Gallen)'
Wednesday 6th February 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

11 Feb

Syngjoo Choi (Seoul National University)

'Competing To Be A Star'
Monday 11th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

11 Feb

Heikki Patomäki (University of Helsinki)

'Reflexivity of Anticipations in Economics and Political Economy'
Monday 11th February 2019 8:00pm
Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Seminars)

11 Feb

Nicholas Dimsdale (University of Oxford)

'Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain'
Monday 11th February 2019 5:00pm
Old Library, Darwin College (Financial History)

12 Feb

Yan Zhang (POLIS, University of Cambridge)

'Hydropower Development in China'
Tuesday 12th February 2019 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

12 Feb

Benson Tsz Kin Leung (Cambridge)

'Learning about One's Self by (Yves Le Yaouanq and Peter Schwardmann)'
Tuesday 12th February 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group)

12 Feb

Gianmarco Leon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

'Teacher Wages, Student Achievement and the Recruitment of Talent in Rural Peru (joint with Matteo Bobba, Christopher Neilson, Marco Nieddu and Camila Alva)'
Tuesday 12th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

13 Feb

Frederic Schneider (Cambridge Judge Business School)

'Mental Capabilities, Heterogeneous Trading Patterns and Performance in an Experimental Asset Market'
Wednesday 13th February 2019 1:00pm
LT4, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminars)

15 Feb

Zaifu Yang (York)

'Efficiency, Stability, and Commitment in Senior Level Job Matching Markets'
Friday 15th February 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

18 Feb

Adrian Chung (Cambridge)

'Bounded Memory and Biases in Information Processing, Ecta 2014, by Andrea Wilson'
Monday 18th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

19 Feb

Leonardo Melosi (Chicago Fed)

'Pigouvian Cycles'
Tuesday 19th February 2019 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

19 Feb

Felix Grey (University of Cambridge, EPRG)

'Social learning in international climate policy'
Tuesday 19th February 2019 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (EPRG Seminars)

19 Feb

Larry Samuelson (Yale)

'The Wisdom of a Confused Crowd: Model-Based Inference'
Tuesday 19th February 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group )

19 Feb

Uta Schoenberg (UCL)

'Reallocation Effects of Minimum Wages: Evidence from Germany (joint with Philipp vom Berge, Christian Dustmann, Attila Lindner and Mathias Umkehrer)'
Tuesday 19th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

20 Feb

Javier Hidalgo (LSE)

'Inference without smoothing for large panels with cross-sectional and temporal dependence'
Wednesday 20th February 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminar)

20 Feb

Martin Peitz (Mannheim)

'TBA'
Wednesday 20th February 2019 1:00pm
W2.01, (Economics and Policy Group Seminars)

22 Feb

Selman Erol (Carnegie Mellon)

'Network Hazard and Bailouts'
Friday 22nd February 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

25 Feb

Darija Halatova (Cambridge)

'Belief Formation, WP, by Olivier Compte and Aldrew Postlewaite'
Monday 25th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

25 Feb

B. Kobow, T. Wedman and B. Azar

'A Panel Discussion on 'The Nature of Value''
Monday 25th February 2019 8:00pm
Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Seminars)

25 Feb

Dr John Gent

'Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution'
Monday 25th February 2019 5:00pm
Old Library, Darwin College (Financial History)

26 Feb

Iain Soutar (University of Exeter)

'Emergence and Control in UK Energy Democratisation'
Tuesday 26th February 2019 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

26 Feb

Claudia Herresthal (Cambridge)

'A Model of Competing Narratives (by Ran Spiegler and Kfir Eliaz)'
Tuesday 26th February 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group)

26 Feb

Farzad Saidi (Stockholm School of Economics)

'The Effects of Credit Supply on Wage Inequality between and within Firms'
Tuesday 26th February 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

26 Feb

Noam Yuchtman (Berkeley)

'The Persistent Power of the Street (joint work with Leonardo Bursztyn, Davide Cantoni, David Yang and Jane Zhang)'
Tuesday 26th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

27 Feb

Andrew Chesher (UCL)

'Modelling Simultaneously Determined Discrete Outcomes with Application to Firm Entry and Product Quality Choice'
Wednesday 27th February 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

27 Feb

Frank Verboven (KU Leuven)

'Market entry, fighting brands and tacit collusion: the case of the French mobile telecom market'
Wednesday 27th February 2019 1:00pm
LG4, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminars)

27 Feb

Liliana Varela - This event has been CANCELLED

'THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED'
Wednesday 27th February 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

01 Mar

Alan Walsh (Cambridge)

'Cournot Intermediation Chains'
Friday 1st March 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

04 Mar

Patrick Legros (Universite libre de Bruxelles)

'TBA'
Monday 4th March 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

05 Mar

Janusz Bialek (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)

'The electricity market in Russia'
Tuesday 5th March 2019 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (EPRG Seminars)

05 Mar

Renata Rabovic (Cambridge)

'Discretion in Hiring (by Mitchell Hoffman, Lisa Kahn and Danielle Li, QJE 2018)'
Tuesday 5th March 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group)

05 Mar

Joep Konings - This event has been CANCELLED

'Exchange Rate Pass-through after a Large Depreciation'
Tuesday 5th March 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

05 Mar

Scott Baker (Northwestern)

'What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?'
Tuesday 5th March 2019 3:30pm
Meade Room, Please note this seminar is at the earlier time of 3.30pm (Macroeconomics Seminars)

06 Mar

Miguel Delgado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

'Counterfactual Analysis Using Censored Duration Data'
Wednesday 6th March 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

06 Mar

Alessandro Gavazza (LSE)

'Regulatory Intervention in Consumer Search Markets: The Case of Credit Cards'
Wednesday 6th March 2019 12:30pm
KH107, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminars)

06 Mar

Cezar Santos (Getulio Vargas Foundation)

'Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development'
Wednesday 6th March 2019 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

06 Mar

Larry Samuelson (Yale)

'Learning (to Disagree?) in Large Worlds'
Wednesday 6th March 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

08 Mar

Vasco Carvalho or John Spray - This event has been CANCELLED

'Network Bottlenecks and Market Power'
Friday 8th March 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

11 Mar

Tristan Hennig (Cambridge)

'Bayesian Networks and Boundedly Rational Expectations, QJE 2016, by Ran Spiegler'
Monday 11th March 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

11 Mar

Christos Pitelis (Brunel University)

'The Ontology of Organisations, Markets, Business Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship'
Monday 11th March 2019 8:00pm
Cynthia Beerbower Room, Newnham College (Cambridge Realist Seminars)

11 Mar

Dr Walter Jansson (Bank of England)

'Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach'
Monday 11th March 2019 5:00pm
Seminar Room One, Darwin College (Financial History)

11 Mar

Christopher Rauh (Universite de Montreal)

'Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns'
Monday 11th March 2019 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

12 Mar

Frank Schilbach (MIT Economics)

'Does Financial Strain Lower Worker Productivity?'
Tuesday 12th March 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

12 Mar

Benson Tsz Kin Leung (Cambridge)

'Information Overload and Confirmation Bias'
Tuesday 12th March 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology Reading Group)

12 Mar

Michal Fabinger (University of Tokyo)

'Pass-through and Firm Behaviour in Generalised Economic Models with an Application to the Trade Cost Puzzle of International Trade'
Tuesday 12th March 2019 12:30pm
Castle Teaching Room, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group Seminar Series)

12 Mar

Nezih Guner - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Tuesday 12th March 2019 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

13 Mar

Matt Baron (Cornell University)

'Bank Equity and Banking Crises (with Emil Verner and Wei Xiong)'
Wednesday 13th March 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, Please note different day and time to usual (Macroeconomics Seminars)

13 Mar

Mikhail Safronov (University of Nottingham)

'Contestable Norms'
Wednesday 13th March 2019 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

13 Mar

Mira Frick (Yale)

'Misinterpreting Others and the Fragility of Social Learning (with Ryota Iijima and Yuhta Ishii)'
Wednesday 13th March 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

14 Mar

Junjie Zhou (National University of Singapore)

'Price Competition in Multi-sided Markets'
Thursday 14th March 2019 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

15 Mar

Sriya Iyer (Cambridge)

'Economic Shocks and Temple Desecrations in Medieval India'
Friday 15th March 2019 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

20 Mar

Ina Taneva (University of Edinburgh)

'Informational Hierarchies'
Wednesday 20th March 2019 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

Seminars - Easter Term


23 Apr

Arpita Chatterjee (University of New South Wales)

'Trade and Minimum Wages in General Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence (joint with Xue Bai, Kala Krishna and Hong Ma)'
Tuesday 23rd April 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Micro Seminars)

23 Apr

Carlos Carrillo-Tudela - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Tuesday 23rd April 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

23 Apr

Akos Valentinyi (University of Manchester)

'Structural Change in Investment and Consumption: A Unified Approach (joint with Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University and Richard Rogerson, Princeton)'
Tuesday 23rd April 2019 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

24 Apr

Guido Kuersteiner (University of Maryland)

'Limit Theorems for Data with Network Structure'
Wednesday 24th April 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

29 Apr

Woan Foong Wong (Oregon)

'Entrepôt'
Monday 29th April 2019 2:30pm
Meade Room, Please note different day and time to usual (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

30 Apr

Weilong Zhang (Cambridge)

'Personality Traits, Job Search Strategies, and Gender Wage Gap'
Tuesday 30th April 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology)

30 Apr

Geoffroy Dolphin (EPRG, University of Cambridge)

'Innovation in the UK Electricity Supply Industry: whose innovation?'
Tuesday 30th April 2019 12:30pm
Room W4.05, Cambridge Judge Business School (EPRG Seminars)

30 Apr

Antonella Trigari (Bocconi)

'Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires (joint with Chris Hukfeldt and Mark Gertler)'
Tuesday 30th April 2019 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

01 May

Sohnke Bartram (Warwick Business School)

'Currency Anomalies'
Wednesday 1st May 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

01 May

Anthony Savagar (University of Kent)

'Measured Productivity with Endogenous Markups and Economic Profits'
Wednesday 1st May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

01 May

Roberto Serrano - This event has been CANCELLED

'Rationalizable Implementation: Complete and Incomplete Information'
Wednesday 1st May 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

02 May

Lynne Pepall

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Thursday 2nd May 2019 12:00pm
LT1, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Seminar Series)

02 May

Lynne Pepall (Tufts University)

'Targeted Branding, Price Competition and Consumer Data'
Thursday 2nd May 2019 12:00pm
LT1, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Seminar Series)

03 May

Shaden Shabayek (Paris School of Economics)

'Pricing in Networks with Anonymised Information'
Friday 3rd May 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

07 May

Michael Gechter (Pennsylvania State University)

'Evaluating Ex Ante Counterfactual Predictions Using Ex Post Causal Inference'
Tuesday 7th May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Micro Seminars)

07 May

River Chen (Cambridge)

'Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Laboratory (by Maria Cubel, Ana Nuevo Chiquero, Santiago Sanchez Pages, Marian Vidal Fernandez)'
Tuesday 7th May 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology)

07 May

Iourii Manovskii (University of Pennsylvania)

'The Mortensen-Pissarides Paradigm: New Evidence'
Tuesday 7th May 2019 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

08 May

Christiane Baumeister (University of Notre Dame)

'Structural Interpretation of Vector Autoregressions with Incomplete Identification: Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks'
Wednesday 8th May 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

08 May

Ingela Alger (TSE)

'Evolution of preferences in group-structured populations: genes, guns and culture'
Wednesday 8th May 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

10 May

Nizar Allouch (University of Kent)

'TBA'
Friday 10th May 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

13 May

Yang Lu - This event has been CANCELLED

'Creating Confusion'
Monday 13th May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

14 May

Andre Silva (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

'Government Financing, Inflation, and the Financial Sector'
Tuesday 14th May 2019 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

14 May

Julia Shvets (Cambridge)

'Incentives and rank concerns in managerial tournaments'
Tuesday 14th May 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology)

14 May

Karsten Neuhoff (DIW Berlin)

'The role of consumption and trade policy for carbon neutrality'
Tuesday 14th May 2019 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (EPRG Seminars)

14 May

Anirban Mitra (Kent)

'Cash for Votes: Evidence from India (with Shabana Mitra and Arnab Mukherji)'
Tuesday 14th May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room , (Empirical Microeconomics)

15 May

Marc Henry (Penn State)

'Sharp Bounds and Testability of a Roy Model of Stem Major Choices'
Wednesday 15th May 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

15 May

Maren Froemel (London Business School)

'Monetary Policy, Corporate Finance and Investmenet'
Wednesday 15th May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

15 May

Jeanne Hagenbach (CNRS, Sciences Po, CEPR)

'Partial Language Competence (with Frederic Koessler)'
Wednesday 15th May 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

17 May

Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge)

'On the Influence of Top Journals'
Friday 17th May 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

20 May

Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge)

'Network Interventions'
Monday 20th May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

20 May

Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania)

'Personality Traits, Job Search and the Gender Wage Gap (joint with Weilong Zhang and Chris Flinn)'
Monday 20th May 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, Please note change of day and room (Empirical Micro Seminars)

21 May

Guido Friebel (Goethe Universitat)

'A pay change and its long-term consequences (with Miriam Krueger)'
Tuesday 21st May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

21 May

Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge)

'On Identity (by Francis Fukuyama)'
Tuesday 21st May 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology)

21 May

Franz Furst (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge)

'Is there a Lack of Incentives to Invest in Energy Efficient Buildings?'
Tuesday 21st May 2019 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

21 May

Ingrid Werner (Ohio State University)

'US Tick Size Pilot'
Tuesday 21st May 2019 12:00pm
KH107, Cambridge Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

22 May

Joseph Altonji (Yale)

'The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees (joint with Ling Zhong)'
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 11:00am
Meade Room, Please note different day and time (Empirical Micro Seminars)

22 May

Georg Noeldeke (Cambridge-INET) (University of Basel)

'Stable Assignments and Search Frictions (joint with Stephan Lauermann, University of Bonn)'
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

22 May

Joachim Freyberger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

'Inference under Shape Restrictions'
Wednesday 22nd May 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

23 May

Andre Donangelo (University of Texas at Austin)

'Priceless Consumption'
Thursday 23rd May 2019 12:00pm
LT1, Cambridge Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

24 May

Jim Powell (Berkeley Economics, University of California)

'Kernel Estimation for Dyadic Data'
Friday 24th May 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, Please note different day to usual (Econometrics Seminars)

24 May

Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan (Oxford)

'Market-Mediated Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes'
Friday 24th May 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

28 May

Darija Halatova - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Tuesday 28th May 2019 10:00am
Marshall Room, (Economics and Psychology)

28 May

Simon Quemin (Grantham Institute, LSE)

'Linking permit markets multilaterally'
Tuesday 28th May 2019 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (EPRG Seminars)

29 May

Konrad Mierendorff (UCL)

'Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion (joint with Yeon-Koo Che and Kyungmin Kim)'
Wednesday 29th May 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

29 May

Francesco D'Ascanio (Tubingen)

'Government Spending, Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity, and Exchange Rate Dynamics (joint with Born, Muller and Pfeifer)'
Wednesday 29th May 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

31 May

Junjie Zhou (National University of Singapore)

'Network Structure, Market Structure, and Performance'
Friday 31st May 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

03 Jun

Zaifu Yang (University of York)

'Rational Addiction under Uncertainty'
Monday 3rd June 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

03 Jun

Felix Grey (Cambridge)

'Evolution of Assessments of the Economics of Global Warming: Changes in the DICE model, 1992-2017 (by William D. Nordhaus)'
Monday 3rd June 2019 1:00pm
Common Room, 4th floor, Faculty of Economics (Climate Change Reading Group, supported through Cambridge-INET)

04 Jun

Oleg Itskhoki (Princeton)

'Mussa Puzzle Redux (joint with Dmitry Mukhin)'
Tuesday 4th June 2019 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

04 Jun

Panel Discussion

'In Search of 'Good' Energy Policy Book Panel Discussion with GEP chair Michael Pollitt'
Tuesday 4th June 2019 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (EPRG Seminars)

04 Jun

Timothy C. Johnson (University of Illinois)

'The Private and Social Value of Capital Structure Commitment'
Tuesday 4th June 2019 12:00pm
Fadi Boustany Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Judge Business School (Finance Seminar Series)

05 Jun

Itai Agur (IMF)

'Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies (with Anil Ari and Giovanni Dell'Ariccia)'
Wednesday 5th June 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

05 Jun

Jidong Zhou (Yale)

'Information Structure and Price Competition (joint with Mark Armstrong)'
Wednesday 5th June 2019 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

07 Jun

Empirical Micro PhD Students One-Day Workshop

'Empirical Micro PhD Students'
Friday 7th June 2019 9:00am
Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St John's College (Empirical Micro Seminars)

07 Jun

Stephen Nei (Oxford)

'Social Context and Social Learning'
Friday 7th June 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

10 Jun

Matthew Agarwala (Bennett Institute for Public)

'Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output (by Marshall Burke and Vincent Tanutama)'
Monday 10th June 2019 1:00pm
Common Room, 4th floor, Faculty of Economics (Climate Change Reading Group)

11 Jun

Matthew Agarwala (Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge)

'Carbon accounts and inclusive wealth under globalization'
Tuesday 11th June 2019 12:30pm
Room W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School (EPRG Seminars)

12 Jun

Chryssi Giannitsarou (Cambridge)

'Foreign Direct Investment as a Determinant of Cross-Country Stock Market Co-movement (with A. Anagnostopoulos, O.E. Atesagaoglu and E. Faraglia)'
Wednesday 12th June 2019 12:00pm
Marshall Room, Please note change of time and location (Macro Faculty Lunch)

13 Jun

Romans Pancs (ITAM)

'TBA'
Thursday 13th June 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

14 Jun

Valentin Zelenyuk (University of Queensland)

'Improving Finite Sample Approximation by Central Limit Theorems for DEA and FDH efficiency scores'
Friday 14th June 2019 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

14 Jun

Matteo Bizzarri (Bocconi, visiting Cambridge)

'How Production Networks Determine Market Power'
Friday 14th June 2019 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

17 Jun

Keith Chan (Cambridge)

'Free Exit and Re-trading in Markets'
Monday 17th June 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

19 Jun

Matteo Bizzarri - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Wednesday 19th June 2019 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

24 Jun

Hector Pollitt (Cambridge Econometrics)

'Macroeconomic Impact of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets'
Monday 24th June 2019 1:00pm
Common Room, 4th floor, Faculty of Economics (Climate Change Reading Group)

01 Jul

Mike Bithell (Department of Geography, Cambridge)

'A Third Wave in the Economics of Climate Change'
Monday 1st July 2019 1:00pm
Common Room, 4th floor, Faculty of Economics (Climate Change Reading Group)