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Faculty of Economics

Seminars - Michaelmas Term


04 Sep

Raquel Fernandez (New York University)

'Divorce Regimes'
Monday 4th September 2017 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

13 Sep

Prof Christian Dustmann (University College London)

'Lowering Welfare Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families'
Wednesday 13th September 2017 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

18 Sep

Dr Riccardo Colacito

'Currency Risk Factors in a Recursive Multi-Country Economy'
Monday 18th September 2017 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

19 Sep

Prof Klaus Adam (University of Mannheim)

'Asset Pricing and Subjective Beliefs'
Tuesday 19th September 2017 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

20 Sep

Prof Peter Zweifel (University of Zurich)

'Market Socialism and Community Rating in Health Insurance'
Wednesday 20th September 2017 3:00pm
Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, (Health Economics)

28 Sep

Prof Harold Cole

'Sovereign Debt Crises'
Thursday 28th September 2017 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

03 Oct

Vasco Carvalho (University of Cambridge)

'From Micro to Macro via Production Networks'
Tuesday 3rd October 2017 11:00am
B16, Faculty of Law (Faculty Research Seminars)

03 Oct

Bina Agarwal (University of Manchester)

'What's under the Pot? Rural Women and Cooking Energy in South Asia'
Tuesday 3rd October 2017 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

04 Oct

Pawel Gola (University of Cambridge)

'Supply and Demand in a Two-Sector Matching Model'
Wednesday 4th October 2017 1:00pm
B16, Law Faculty (Macro Faculty Lunch)

04 Oct

Leopoldo Catania (University of Rome)

'Forecasting Realized Volatility and the Role of Time-Varying Dependence with Market Returns (joint with Tommaso Proietti)'
Wednesday 4th October 2017 2:00pm
B4, Criminology (Econometrics Seminars)

06 Oct

Will Carpenter (University of Cambridge)

'Demand-Led Innovation in Production Networks'
Friday 6th October 2017 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

06 Oct

Kjetil Storesletten (University of Oslo)

'From imitation to innovation: Where is all that Chinese R&D going?'
Friday 6th October 2017 11:00am
Meade Room, Faculty of Economics (Special Seminars)

10 Oct

Hao Chen (Beijing Institute of Technology, visiting EPRG)

'Economic dispatch in Chinese electricity system: benefits, challenges and possible solutions'
Tuesday 10th October 2017 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (Energy and Environment Seminars)

11 Oct

Oliver Linton, Debopam Bhattacharya, Koen Jochmans, Melvyn Weeks, Donald Robertson, Alexei Onatski, Richard Smith, Andrew Harvey (University of Cambridge)

'Presentations by members of the Econometrics Subject Group'
Wednesday 11th October 2017 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

11 Oct

Luiz Brotherhood (EPGE/FGV-Rio)

'Optimal Allocation of Public Expenditure Across Educational Stages: A Quantitative Analysis for a Developing Country'
Wednesday 11th October 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

11 Oct

Olivier Compte (Paris School of Economics)

'Modeling Ignorance without Bayesian beliefs'
Wednesday 11th October 2017 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

12 Oct

Costas Arkolakis (Yale University)

'Trade, Agglomeration Effects and Labor Markets: Theory and Evidence'
Thursday 12th October 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

13 Oct

Ryota Iijima (Yale University)

'Dispersed Behavior and Perceptions in Assortative Societies'
Friday 13th October 2017 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

16 Oct

Sihua Ding (University of Cambridge)

'A General Model of Link Formation'
Monday 16th October 2017 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

16 Oct

Patricia Peinado (University of the Basque Country and Visitor at Dept of Land Economy, Cambridge)

'The Spanish Pension System, Disability Pensions and Vulnerability'
Monday 16th October 2017 3:00pm
Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Health Economics)

16 Oct

Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge)

'What is wrong with modern economics, and why does it stay wrong?'
Monday 16th October 2017 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop)

17 Oct

Jacqueline Lam (Hong Kong University, visiting EPRG)

'Comparison of Air Pollution Trends and Policies in London and Beijing'
Tuesday 17th October 2017 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

17 Oct

Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London)

'Internet & Politics: Evidence from UK Local Elections & Local Government Policies'
Tuesday 17th October 2017 5:45pm
LT1, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

17 Oct

Fernando Martin (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

'The Value of Constraints on Discretionary Government Policy'
Tuesday 17th October 2017 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

17 Oct

Oskar Nordstrom Skans (Uppsala University)

'The Causal Impact of Social Connections on Firms' Outcomes'
Tuesday 17th October 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

18 Oct

Jasmine Xiao (University of Notre Dame)

'A macroeconomic model of banking industry dynamics'
Wednesday 18th October 2017 1:00pm
B4, Criminology (Macro Faculty Lunch)

18 Oct

Rainer Dahlhaus (Universitat Heidelberg)

'Towards a General Theory for Non-Linear Locally Stationary Processes (joint with Stefan Richter and Wei Biao Wu)'
Wednesday 18th October 2017 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

18 Oct

Stephen Morris (Princeton University)

'Crises: Equilibrium Shifts and Large Shocks'
Wednesday 18th October 2017 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

20 Oct

Juuso Toikka (MIT Economics)

'Robust Incentives for Teams (joint with Tianjiao Dai, MIT)'
Friday 20th October 2017 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

23 Oct

Alp Atakan (Queen Mary University & Koc University)

'Price Discovery with Costly Competitive Bidding'
Monday 23rd October 2017 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

24 Oct

Geoffroy Dolphin (Cambridge Judge Business School & EPRG)

'International Spillovers and Carbon Pricing Policies'
Tuesday 24th October 2017 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (Energy and Environment Seminars)

24 Oct

Michelle Sovinsky (University of Mannheim)

'The Dynamics of Technology Adoption & Vertical Restraints: An Empirical Analysis'
Tuesday 24th October 2017 5:30pm
LT2, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

24 Oct

Robert Sauer (University of London)

'The Dynamics of Domestic Violence: Learning about the Match'
Tuesday 24th October 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

25 Oct

Kai Liu (University of Cambridge)

'Aggregate shocks and consumption inequality'
Wednesday 25th October 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

25 Oct

Luis Candelaria Barrera (University of Warwick)

'A Semiparametric Network Formation Model with Multiple Linear Fixed Effects'
Wednesday 25th October 2017 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

27 Oct

Fred Moisan (University of Cambridge)

'Competing to be a Star'
Friday 27th October 2017 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

30 Oct

Nuno Martins (Catholic University of Porto)

'The Nature of Value: Smith, Marx and Marshall'
Monday 30th October 2017 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop)

31 Oct

Robert Ritz (University of Cambridge)

'Carbon Pricing & Firm Profits: Theory and Estimates for US Airlines'
Tuesday 31st October 2017 5:30pm
LT2, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

31 Oct

Selma Walther (Warwick University)

'Fertility Responses to Reductions in Mortality: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from 20th Century America'
Tuesday 31st October 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

31 Oct

Stephen Dimmock (NTU)

'Portfolio Weighting and Household Portfolio Choice: Empirical Evidence'
Tuesday 31st October 2017 12:30pm
17 Mill Lane, Room G, (JBS Finance Seminars)

01 Nov

Dezso Szalay (Universitat Bonn)

'Delegated Expertise, Authority and Communication'
Wednesday 1st November 2017 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

01 Nov

Alexey Gorn (University of Cambridge)

'The Role of Headhunters in Wage Inequality: It's All about Matching'
Wednesday 1st November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

03 Nov

Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge)

'A review of Mark Granovetter's 'Society and Economy: Framework and Principles''
Friday 3rd November 2017 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

07 Nov

Ilkka Hannula (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland)

'The Challenge of Scaling Up Low Carbon Fuels'
Tuesday 7th November 2017 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (Energy and Environment Seminars)

07 Nov

Pasquale Schiraldi (London School of Economics)

'TBA'
Tuesday 7th November 2017 5:30pm
LT2, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

07 Nov

Shawn Ni (University of Minnesota)

'Pension Enhancements and Teacher Retirement Behavior'
Tuesday 7th November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

08 Nov

Alex Teytelboym (University of Oxford)

'Refugee Resettlement (with David Delacretaz, Melbourne, and Scott Duke Kominers, HBS) - paper contains link to previous version of paper'
Wednesday 8th November 2017 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

08 Nov

Joao Duarte (University of Cambridge)

'Structural Transformation and the Business Cycle'
Wednesday 8th November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

09 Nov

Refet Gurkaynak (Bilkent University)

'Identifying the Effects of Partially-Measured News Surprises'
Thursday 9th November 2017 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

09 Nov

Ilona Babenka (Arizona State)

'TBA'
Thursday 9th November 2017 12:45pm
17 Mill Lane, Room G, (JBS Finance Seminars)

13 Nov

Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire)

'The Pathology of Heterodox Economics and the Limits to Pluralism'
Monday 13th November 2017 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop)

13 Nov

Tatiana Mayskaya (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

'Dynamic Choice of Information Sources'
Monday 13th November 2017 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

14 Nov

Adam Branch (University of Cambridge)

'Politics and Politicsl Ecology of Charcoal in Uganda'
Tuesday 14th November 2017 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

14 Nov

Julia Shvets (University of Cambridge)

'Incentives and Rank Concerns in Managerial Tournaments'
Tuesday 14th November 2017 6:00pm
LT3, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

14 Nov

Teodora Boneva (UCL)

'Socio-Economic Gaps in University Enrollment: The Role of Perceived Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns'
Tuesday 14th November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

15 Nov

Shaowei Ke (University of Michigan)

'Social Discounting and Individual Long-Run Discounting'
Wednesday 15th November 2017 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

15 Nov

Gabriella Santangelo (University of Cambridge)

'Unpacking Structural Change: Aggregate and Cohort-Specific Drivers of Labor Reallocation (joint with Tommaso Porzio, UC San Diego)'
Wednesday 15th November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

15 Nov

Jinyong Hahn (UCLA)

'Estimation with Aggregate Shocks'
Wednesday 15th November 2017 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

17 Nov

Neave O'Cleary (University of Oxford)

'The path to prosperity: network modelling for economic development'
Friday 17th November 2017 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

20 Nov

Mikhail Safronov (University of Cambridge)

'Coalition-Proof Full Efficient Implementation'
Monday 20th November 2017 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

20 Nov

Christian Leonard (Belgian Healthcare Knowledge Centre (KCE))

'Social Preferences as an Alternative to Cost-Utility Analysis'
Monday 20th November 2017 3:00pm
Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Health Economics)

21 Nov

Baran Doda (Grantham Research Institute, LSE)

'Energy Policy and the Power Sector in the Long Run'
Tuesday 21st November 2017 12:30pm
Keynes Room, Faculty of Economics (Energy and Environment Seminars)

21 Nov

Ralf Martin (Imperial College London)

'Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D'
Tuesday 21st November 2017 5:30pm
LT2, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

22 Nov

Andy Newman (Boston University)

'Career Women and the Durability of Marriage (with Claudia Olivetti)'
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

22 Nov

Anil Ari (IMF)

'Debt Seniority and Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises'
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

22 Nov

Marine Carrasco (University of Montreal )

'Testing distributional assumptions using a continuum of moments (joint with Dante Amengual and Enrique Sentana)'
Wednesday 22nd November 2017 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

23 Nov

Michael Brennan (UCLA)

'TBA'
Thursday 23rd November 2017 1:00pm
W2.02, Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

23 Nov

Alberto Martin (Barcelona Graduate School of Economics)

'Collateral Booms and Information Depletion (joint with Vladimir Asriyan and Luc Laeven)'
Thursday 23rd November 2017 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

24 Nov

Leonie Baumann (University of Cambridge)

'Fashion Cycles and Heterogeneous Conformity Preferences'
Friday 24th November 2017 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

27 Nov

Francesco Nava (LSE)

'Differentiated Durable Goods Markets'
Monday 27th November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

27 Nov

Xiaohong Chen - Cambridge-INET (Yale University)

'Monte Carlo Confidence Sets for Identified Sets'
Monday 27th November 2017 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

28 Nov

Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge)

'Solar Energy, Skills Development and Employment Opportunities in India'
Tuesday 28th November 2017 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

28 Nov

Gerard Padro i Miquel (London School of Economics)

'The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China: Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-off'
Tuesday 28th November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

29 Nov

Will Dunlop (Mundipharma International Limited)

'Benefits, challenges and Potential Strategies of Open Source Health Economics Models'
Wednesday 29th November 2017 3:30pm
Seminar room 18, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus CB2 0SP (Health Economics)

29 Nov

Paul Beaudry (University of British Columbia)

'Real Keynesian Models and Stick Prices'
Wednesday 29th November 2017 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

29 Nov

Dag Tjostheim (University of Bergen)

'Statistical modeling and applications using local Gaussian approximation'
Wednesday 29th November 2017 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

30 Nov

Jonathan Newton (Independent)

'Agency, Potential and Contagion'
Thursday 30th November 2017 12:30pm
Marshall Room, (Theory Workshop)

04 Dec

Pawel Gola (University of Cambridge)

'Supply and Demand in a Two-Sector Matching Model'
Monday 4th December 2017 2:00pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

Seminars - Lent Term


15 Jan

John Buckell (Yale University)

'Smokers' cigarette choices and risk perceptions: Experimental evidence on US adults'
Monday 15th January 2018 3:00pm
Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Health Economics)

16 Jan

Meredith Crowley (University of Cambridge)

'Markets and Markups: A New Empirical Framework and Evidence on Exporters from China (joint with Giancarlo Corsetti, Lu Han and Huasheng Song)'
Tuesday 16th January 2018 11:00am
B16, Law Faculty (Faculty Research Seminars)

16 Jan

Sander van der Linden (University of Cambridge)

'Behavioural Science around Policy Incentives to Reduce Energy Consumption'
Tuesday 16th January 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

19 Jan

Matt Lowe

'Types of Contact: A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration'
Friday 19th January 2018 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

22 Jan

Christian Fons-Rosen (Barcelona GSE)

'Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity: Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects'
Monday 22nd January 2018 10:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

23 Jan

Asgeir Tomasgard (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

'The Role of Natural Gas in Europe'
Tuesday 23rd January 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

24 Jan

Sean Holly (University of Cambridge)

'Aggregate and Firm level volatility: the role of acquisitions and disposals'
Wednesday 24th January 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

24 Jan

Oliver De Groote (KU Leuven)

'The effects of high school curriculum. A model of program and effort choice'
Wednesday 24th January 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

25 Jan

Hector Calvo-Pardo (University of Southampton)

'TBA'
Thursday 25th January 2018
W4.03, Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

26 Jan

Agnes Kovacs (Oxford)

'Temptation, Commitment, and Hand-to-Mouth Consumers'
Friday 26th January 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

29 Jan

Anne Brockmeyer (World Bank)

'Taxation, Information and Withholding: Evidence from Costa Rica'
Monday 29th January 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

30 Jan

Richard Evans (Darden School of Business)

'Short Selling Exchanged Traded Funds'
Tuesday 30th January 2018 11:30am
Castle Teaching Room, Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

30 Jan

Jeremy Kidwell (University of Birmingham)

'Slow Energy Policy in a Time of Global Emergencies'
Tuesday 30th January 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

30 Jan

Matthew Gudgeon (Boston University)

'Earning Responses, Adjustment Costs, and the Role of Firm Labor Demand'
Tuesday 30th January 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

30 Jan

John Spray (University of Cambridge)

'Welfare gains from buyer-supplier matching'
Tuesday 30th January 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Trade and Firms Reading Group)

30 Jan

Sean Ennis (OECD Competition Division)

'Pro-market regulatory reform: an applied method and impact analysis'
Tuesday 30th January 2018 5:00pm
W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

31 Jan

So Yoon Ahn (Columbia University)

'Matching Across Markets: Theory and Evidence on Cross-border Marriage'
Wednesday 31st January 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

01 Feb

Noriko Amano-Patino (Yale)

'Nutrition Inequality: The Role of Prices, Income, and Preferences'
Thursday 1st February 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

02 Feb

Weilong Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)

'Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wage Hikes: A Spatial Job Search Approach'
Friday 2nd February 2018 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

05 Feb

David Benson (Northwestern University)

'Lemon Dropping: Do Physicians Respond to Incentives'
Monday 5th February 2018 11:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

06 Feb

Kamiar Mohaddes (University of Cambridge)

'Climate Change Uncertainty, Adaptation and Growth'
Tuesday 6th February 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

06 Feb

Jordi Blanes i Vidal (LSE)

'Face-to-Face Communication in Organisation'
Tuesday 6th February 2018 5:00pm
W2:02, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

06 Feb

Nicola Pierri (Stanford)

'Credit Supply and Productivity Growth'
Tuesday 6th February 2018 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

09 Feb

Shaiza Qayyum (Johns Hopkins University)

'Investment in Children, Private Schooling and Maternal Labor Supply over the Lifecycle'
Friday 9th February 2018 11:00am
Meade Room, (Special Seminars)

12 Feb

Łukasz Hardt (University of Warsaw)

'Classical economists as advocates of economics without laws'
Monday 12th February 2018 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop)

12 Feb

Mons Chan (University of Minnesota)

'How Substitutable Are Labour and Intermediates?'
Monday 12th February 2018 10:00am
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

13 Feb

Jason Sturgess (Queen Mary)

'TBA'
Tuesday 13th February 2018 12:30pm
LT1, Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

13 Feb

Charlotte Johnson (UCL)

'Is Demand Side Response a Woman's Work? Gender Dynamics'
Tuesday 13th February 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

13 Feb

Serafino Abate (GSMA)

'Assessing the impact of mobile consolidation on innovation and quality'
Tuesday 13th February 2018 5:30pm
KH107, Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

13 Feb

Maarten de Ridder (University of Cambridge)

'The Rise of Market Power (discussion of De Loecker and Eekhout 2017)'
Tuesday 13th February 2018 12:00pm
Marshall Room, (Trade and Firms Reading Group)

14 Feb

Tatiana Komarova (LSE)

'Testing nonparametric shape restrictions (joint with Javier Hidalgo)'
Wednesday 14th February 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

19 Feb

Antonio Rosato (University of Cambridge)

'Loss Aversion in Common-Value Auctions: Extensive vs. Intensive Risk'
Monday 19th February 2018 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

20 Feb

Alex Kohlhas (Stockholm University)

'Rational Over/Underresponse: A Unified Framework'
Tuesday 20th February 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

20 Feb

Michael Pollitt (University of Cambridge)

'Reforming the Chinese Electricity System: A Review of the Market Reform Pilot in Guangdong'
Tuesday 20th February 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

20 Feb

Michael Waterson (Warwick)

'Competition in London local bus tendering'
Tuesday 20th February 2018 5:00pm
W2:01, Cambridge Judge Business School (Economics and Policy Group)

20 Feb

Barbara Petrongolo (London School of Economics)

'Economic incentives, home production and gender norms (joint with A Ichino, M Olsson and P Skogman-Thoursie)'
Tuesday 20th February 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

21 Feb

Kevin Sheppard (University of Oxford)

'Direct volatility modeling at multiple horizons'
Wednesday 21st February 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

21 Feb

Cezar Santos (University of Cambridge)

'Dispersion in Financing Costs and Development (with Tiago Cavalcanti, Joseph Kaboski and Bruno Martins)'
Wednesday 21st February 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

21 Feb

Shoumitro Chatterjee (Princeton University)

'Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India'
Wednesday 21st February 2018 12:00pm
Keynes Room, (Special Seminars)

26 Feb

Paul Lewis - This event has been CANCELLED

'Ontology and the History of Economic Thought'
Monday 26th February 2018 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop)

26 Feb

Aubrey Clark (Cambridge)

'Contracts for Experimentation'
Monday 26th February 2018 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

27 Feb

Luigi Iovino (Bocconi University)

'Central Bank Balance Sheet Policies without Rational Explanations (joint with Dmitriy Sergeyev)'
Tuesday 27th February 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

27 Feb

Tobias Kretchmer (LMU Munich)

'Heterogeneous Effects of Performance Pay with Market Competition: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment'
Tuesday 27th February 2018 5:00pm
TBA, (Economics and Policy Group)

27 Feb

Oriana Bandiera - This event has been CANCELLED

'Social Ties, Identity and the Delivery of Public Services'
Tuesday 27th February 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

28 Feb

Alessio Sancetta (Royal Holloway, University of London)

'Inference in the Presence of Possibly Infinite Dimensional Nuisance Parameters'
Wednesday 28th February 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

28 Feb

Jamil Nur (University of Cambridge)

'On the Persistence of Urban Growth'
Wednesday 28th February 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

02 Mar

Jean Tirole, Nobel Laureate (Toulouse School of Economics)

'Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation'
Friday 2nd March 2018 5:00pm
LG17, Law Faculty (Keynes Seminar)

02 Mar

Alan Walsh - This event has been CANCELLED

'Games on Multi-Layer Networks'
Friday 2nd March 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

05 Mar

Gui Carmona (University of Surrey)

'On the Persistence of Monetary Trading: Incentive-feasible Memory is Money'
Monday 5th March 2018 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

05 Mar

Christian Hill (MAP Biopharma)

'Patient Access Scheme, Managed Access Agreement and their influence on the approval trends of new medicines, devices and diagnostics'
Monday 5th March 2018 3:00pm
Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Health Economics)

06 Mar

Christian Winzer (Swissgrid)

'Power to the People - Creating Markets for Supply Security Based on Consumer Choice'
Tuesday 6th March 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

06 Mar

Antonio Rosato (CJBS)

'TBA'
Tuesday 6th March 2018 5:00pm
TBA, (Economics and Policy Group)

07 Mar

Annie Liang (University of Pennsylvania)

'Overabundant Information and Learning Traps (joint with Xiaosheng Mu)'
Wednesday 7th March 2018 3:30pm
Meade Room - note different time and room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

07 Mar

Andrew Patton (Duke University)

'Dynamic Semiparametric Models for Expected Shortfall (and Value-at-Risk) (joint with Johanna F. Ziegel and Rui Chen)'
Wednesday 7th March 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

07 Mar

Alex Rodnyansky (University of Cambridge)

'Exchange Rate Shocks and Quality Adjustments'
Wednesday 7th March 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

08 Mar

Alan Manning (London School of Economics)

'Commuting, Migration and Local Joblessness'
Thursday 8th March 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

08 Mar

Workshop on minimum wages

'River Chen, Coen Teulings, Athene Laws and Axel Gottfries'
Thursday 8th March 2018 2:30pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

09 Mar

Manuela Dal Borgo (University of Cambridge)

'Experimental Simulation of Conflict and Graph Networks'
Friday 9th March 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Working Group)

12 Mar

John Wooders (NYU Abu Dhabi)

'Allocating Positions Fairly: An Auction and its Relationship to the Shapley Value'
Monday 12th March 2018 12:30pm
Meade Room, (Theory Workshop)

12 Mar

Rajani Kanth and Genevieve Vaughan

'Eurocentrism and the Gift Economy: A Critique and an Envisioning'
Monday 12th March 2018 8:00pm
Latimer Room, Old Court, Clare College (Cambridge Realist Workshop)

13 Mar

Julius Weitzdorfer (University of Cambridge)

'Fukushima and the Law'
Tuesday 13th March 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

13 Mar

Howard Smith (Oxford)

'TBA'
Tuesday 13th March 2018 5:00pm
TBA, (Economics and Policy Group)

13 Mar

Thomas Lemieux (University of British Columbia)

'The Minimum Wage, Turnover and the Shape of the Wage Distribution'
Tuesday 13th March 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

13 Mar

Claudio Michelacci (CEMFI)

'Ambiguous Policy Announcements'
Tuesday 13th March 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

14 Mar

Christoph Rothe (University of Mannheim)

'Bounds on Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable'
Wednesday 14th March 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

14 Mar

Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford University)

'Diffusion, Seeding and the Value of Network Information'
Wednesday 14th March 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

14 Mar

Vasco Carvalho (University of Cambridge)

'Bottom-Up Markup Fluctuations'
Wednesday 14th March 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

19 Mar

Will Goeztmann (Yale)

'Crash Beliefs from Investor Surveys'
Monday 19th March 2018 12:00pm
W2.02, Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

20 Mar

Laura Pilossoph (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

'Assortative Matching and Household Income Inequality: A Structural Approach'
Tuesday 20th March 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

21 Mar

Pontus Rendahl (University of Cambridge)

'Labor Income Risk, Asset Prices and Unemployment Cyclicality'
Wednesday 21st March 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

30 Mar

Minkyu Son

'Export Destinations and Input Prices'
Friday 30th March 2018 12:00pm
Marshall Room, (Trade and Firms Reading Group)

23 Apr

Anna Heath (UCL)

'Value of Sample Information as a Tool for Clinical Trial Design'
Monday 23rd April 2018 3:00pm
Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Health Economics)

Seminars - Easter Term


23 Apr

Sriya Iyer (University of Cambridge)

'The Economics of Religion in India'
Monday 23rd April 2018 11:00am
B16, Law Faculty (Faculty Research Seminar)

24 Apr

Philipp Krueger (Geneva)

'The Sustainability Footprint of Institutional Investors'
Tuesday 24th April 2018 12:00pm
W2.02, Cambridge Judge Business School (JBS Finance Seminars)

24 Apr

Basit Zafar (Arizona State University)

'Labor Market Search with Imperfect Information and Learning'
Tuesday 24th April 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

25 Apr

Byunghoon (David) Kang (Lancaster University)

'Inference in Nonparametric Series Estimation with Specification Searches for the Number of Series Terms'
Wednesday 25th April 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

01 May

Sinan Kufeoglu (EPRG, University of Cambridge)

'The impact of PVs and EVs on Domestic Network Charges: a case study from Great Britain'
Tuesday 1st May 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

01 May

Sarolta Laczo (Queen Mary University London)

'Pareto-Improving Capital and Labour Taxes (with Katharina Greulich and Albert Marcet)'
Tuesday 1st May 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

02 May

Dacheng Xiu (Chicago Booth)

'Asset Pricing with Omitted Factors'
Wednesday 2nd May 2018 2:00pm
B4, Criminology (Econometrics Seminars)

03 May

Richard Sloan (Berkeley)

'TBA'
Thursday 3rd May 2018 1:00pm
TBA, (JBS Finance Seminars)

03 May

Elizabeth Cascio - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Thursday 3rd May 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Empirical Microeconomics Seminars)

04 May

Alan Walsh (University of Cambridge)

'Games on Multi-Layer Networks'
Friday 4th May 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

08 May

Mark Flannery (Florida)

'TBA'
Tuesday 8th May 2018
TBA, (JBS Finance Seminars)

08 May

Facundo Piguillem (Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance)

'Rising Capital Shares and Risk Sharing (joint with Adriana Grasso and Juan Passadore)'
Tuesday 8th May 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

08 May

Guy Liu (Peking University HSBS Business School)

'Electricity Market Reform and Development in China'
Tuesday 8th May 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

09 May

Taisuke Otsu (LSE)

'Jackknife, small bandwidth and high-dimensional asymptotics'
Wednesday 9th May 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics)

15 May

Nir Jaimovich - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Tuesday 15th May 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

15 May

Victor Ajayi (EPRG, University of Cambridge)

'European Industrial Energy Intensity: The Role of Innovation 1995-2009'
Tuesday 15th May 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

16 May

Alexandre Poirier (University of Iowa)

'Inference on Breakdown Frontiers'
Wednesday 16th May 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

16 May

Kaivan Munshi (University of Cambridge)

'Community Networks and the Growth of Private Enterprise in China (join with Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee and Xiaobo Zhang)'
Wednesday 16th May 2018 1:00pm
Meade Room, (Macro Faculty Lunch)

17 May

Tim Johnson (Illinois)

'TBA'
Thursday 17th May 2018
TBA, (JBS Finance Seminars)

18 May

Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics)

'Enhancing dual activities in a social network'
Friday 18th May 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

22 May

Julius Weitzdorfer (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)

'Fukushima and the Law'
Tuesday 22nd May 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

23 May

Jesus Gonzalo Munoz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

'Trends in Distributional Characteristics: Existence of Global Warming'
Wednesday 23rd May 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

24 May

Muhamet Yildiz (MIT Economics)

'Culture and Communication (joint with Rajiv Sethi)'
Thursday 24th May 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

25 May

Edoardo Gallo (University of Cambridge)

'Strongly connected cooperative elites'
Friday 25th May 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

29 May

Edouard Schaal - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Tuesday 29th May 2018 4:00pm
Meade Room, (Macroeconomics Seminars)

29 May

Michael Grubb (UCL)

'Systems Innovation, Inertia and Pliability: A mathematical exploration with implications for climate change abatement'
Tuesday 29th May 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

30 May

Shengwu Li - This event has been CANCELLED

'TBA'
Wednesday 30th May 2018 4:00pm
Keynes Room, (Microeconomics Seminars)

30 May

Rasmus Pedersen (University of Copenhagen)

'Testing Garch-X Type Models'
Wednesday 30th May 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

31 May

Hui Chen (MIT)

'TBA'
Thursday 31st May 2018
TBA, (JBS Finance Seminars)

01 Jun

Yiqing Xing (Johns Hopkins University)

'Stable Allocations with Network-Based Local Comparisons'
Friday 1st June 2018 1:00pm
Keynes Room, (Networks Reading Group)

05 Jun

Liz Varga (Cranfield School of Management)

'WEF - Water Energy Food Energy Policy: Supporting the Diffusion of Anaerobic Digestions'
Tuesday 5th June 2018 12:30pm
Seminar Room 1, Alison Richard Building (Energy and Environment Seminars)

06 Jun

Matt Harding (University of California)

'Informative Dimensionality Reduction using Deep Learning'
Wednesday 6th June 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics Seminars)

12 Jun

Veronika Grimm (University of Erlangen-Nurnberg)

'Transmission expansion, renewable locations, and generation investment in electricity markets: The impact of cross border interconnection on national investment decisions'
Tuesday 12th June 2018 12:30pm
Keynes Room, (Energy and Environment Seminars)

13 Jun

Martin Weidner (UCL)

'Minimizing Sensitivity to Model Misspecification (joint with Stephane Bonhomme, Chicago)'
Wednesday 13th June 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics)

14 Jun

Luke Stein (Arizona State University)

'TBA'
Thursday 14th June 2018
TBA, (JBS Finance Seminars)

20 Jun

Joel Horowitz (Northwestern University)

'Maximum Score Estimation with the Hinge Loss Function: Convex Optimization and Non-Asymptotic Inference'
Wednesday 20th June 2018 2:00pm
Keynes Room, (Econometrics)