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Faculty of Economics

For more information about Subject Seminars please contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk

Due to COVID-19 this years Seminars will be taking place in person and online

05 Oct

Vira Semenova (University of Berkeley, California)

"Automated Inference on Sharp Bounds"
Wednesday 5th October 2022 2:00pm
Keynes Hybrid to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Econometrics)

10 Oct

Francis Kramarz (ENSAE)

"Matching Workers’ Skills and Firms’ Technologies: From Bundling to Unbundling∗"
Monday 10th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

10 Oct

Mikhail Safronov (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"Verification and Information sharing in networks" with Sanjeev Goyal and Tony To
Monday 10th October 2022 1:00pm
Marshall Room (Theory Workshop)

11 Oct

Kilian Kamkar (Cambridge )

"Deforestation and Structural Transformation in Brazil"
Tuesday 11th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade (Macroeconomics PhD workshop)

11 Oct

Marco Bassetto (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Janeway Institute logo

"A Ramsey Theory of Financial Distortions" joint with Wei Cui
Tuesday 11th October 2022 3:30pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

12 Oct

Cheuk Fei Ng (Cambridge)

"Cluster Robust Inference in High Dimensional Linear Regression Model"
Wednesday 12th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD Workshop)

12 Oct

Weilong Zhang (Cambridge)

"Distributional Effects of Local Minimum Wage Hikes: A Spatial Job Search Approach"
Wednesday 12th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Applied Micro PhD)

12 Oct

Roland Strausz (Humboldt)

"Principled Mechanism Design with Evidence"
Wednesday 12th October 2022 4:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Microeconomics)

17 Oct

Luca Flabbi (UNC)

"Working and Saving Informally: The Link between Labor Market Informality and Financial Exclusion"
Monday 17th October 2022 1:00pm
Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

17 Oct

Caroline Liqui Lung (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"On the Origin and Persistence of Identity-Driven Choice Behavior"
Monday 17th October 2022 1:00pm
Keynes Room (Theory Workshop)

18 Oct

Shane Mahen (Cambridge)

"The Clean Transition in a Network Economy"
Tuesday 18th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade (Macroeconomics PhD Workshop)

18 Oct

Carolina Villegas Sanchez (ESADE) Janeway Institute logo

"Breakthrough Innovation and Competition: A Global Perspective" joint with Felipe Camelo (NYU), Federico Díez (IMF) and Longji Li (IMF)
Tuesday 18th October 2022 3:30pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

19 Oct

Vivek Roy-Chowdhury (Cambridge)

"Information as a temptation good"
Wednesday 19th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Applied Micro PhD)

19 Oct

Tom Auld (Cambridge)

"Asset Pricing Theories of Political and Financial Markets"
Wednesday 19th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD Workshop)

19 Oct

Isis Durrmeyer (Toulouse School of Economics)

"The welfare consequences of urban traffic regulations"
Wednesday 19th October 2022 1:00pm
Room W4.05 (Cambridge Judge Business School) to attend contact e.brown@jbs.cam.ac.uk (Economics and Policy Group)

19 Oct

Tim Christensen (UCL)

"Externally Valid Policy Choice" Chris Adjaho (NYU)
Wednesday 19th October 2022 2:00pm
Hybrid MEADE note change of room to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Econometrics)

24 Oct

David Wiczer (Stony Brook University)

"The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Eligibility in Equilibrium"
Monday 24th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

24 Oct

Alastair Langtry (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"Network games with strategic complements and fixed costs"
Monday 24th October 2022 1:00pm
Keynes Room (Theory Workshop)

25 Oct

Andrew Hannon (Cambridge)

"Falling Behind: Mortgage Delinquency and Forbearance in a Housing Crisis"
Tuesday 25th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade (Macroeconomics PhD Workshop)

25 Oct

David Robinson (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)

"Electricity market design and the impact of decarbonisation"
Tuesday 25th October 2022 12:30pm
W405, Judge Business School contact eprgadm@jbs.cam.ac.uk for details (Energy Policy Research Group)

25 Oct

Romain Ranciere (USC and NBER) Janeway Institute logo

"International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share" joint with Joel M. David and David Zeke
Tuesday 25th October 2022 3:30pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

26 Oct

Thomas Prayer (Cambridge)

"The Effects of Mutual Recognition Agreements on Firm-Product-Level International Trade"
Wednesday 26th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Applied Micro PhD)

26 Oct

Kilian Bachmair (Cambridge)

"The Effects of the LIBOR Scandal on Liquidity and Volatility in LIBOR Futures Markets"
Wednesday 26th October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD)

26 Oct

Nikita Roketskiy (University College of London)

"Manipulative Consumers"
Wednesday 26th October 2022 3:00pm
Room W2.02 Judge Business School to attend contact e.brown@jbs.cam.ac.uk (Economics and Policy Group)

26 Oct

Dorothea Kuebler (WZB Berlin)

"Aversion to hiring algorithms: Transparency, gender profiling, and self-confidence"
Wednesday 26th October 2022 4:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Microeconomics)

31 Oct

Ali Sen (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"Structural Change at a Disaggregated Level: Sectoral Heterogeneity Matters"
Monday 31st October 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

31 Oct

George Charlson (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"TBC"
Monday 31st October 2022 1:00pm
Keynes Room (Theory Workshop)

02 Nov

Mingmei Xiao (Cambridge)

"Macroeconomic Forecast Reconciliation with High Dimensional Predictors"
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD)

02 Nov

Shengjuan He (Cambridge)

"TBA"
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Applied Micro PhD)

02 Nov

Erwan Scornet (CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique)

"Is interpolation benign for regression random forests?" with Ludovic Arnould and Claire Boyer
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 2:00pm
Hybrid Keynes to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Econometrics)

02 Nov

Ao Wang (University of Warwick)

"A BLP Demand Model of Product Level Market Shares with Complementarity"
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 3:00pm
Room W2.02 Judge Business School to attend contact e.brown@jbs.cam.ac.uk (Economics and Policy Group)

02 Nov

Peter Bossaerts (Cambridge)

"HOW WELL CAN HUMANS APPROXIMATE OPTIMALITY IN COMPUTATIONALLY HARD PROBLEMS?"
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 4:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Microeconomics)

03 Nov

Jonathan Heathcote (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) Janeway Institute logo

"The End of Privilege: A Re-examination of the Net Foreign Asset Position of the United States" joint with Andrew Atkeson and Fabrizio Perri
Thursday 3rd November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

07 Nov

Seth Richards-Shubik (Lehigh)

"Optimal Contracting with Altruistic Agents: Medicare Payments for Dialysis Drugs"
Monday 7th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

07 Nov

Drew Fudenberg (MIT) Janeway Institute logo

"Selective Memory Equilibrium" joint with Giacomo Lanzani and Philipp Strack
Monday 7th November 2022 2:30pm
Meade Room (Theory Workshop/Micro Seminar)

08 Nov

Balduin Bippus (Cambridge)

"Short-Time Work Revisited: Optimal Macroeconomic Stabilization in Liquidity Crises"
Tuesday 8th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade (Macroeconomics PhD)

08 Nov

David Newbery (Cambridge)

"Electricity market design: Signalling efficient location and operation"
Tuesday 8th November 2022 12:30pm
Board Room, Baker Building, Department of Engineering contact eprgadm@jbs.cam.ac.uk for details (Energy Policy Research Group)

08 Nov

Venky Venkateswaran (NYU Stern) Janeway Institute logo

"Scalable Expertise"
Tuesday 8th November 2022 3:30pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

09 Nov

Ana Lleó Bono (Cambridge)

"Collaborative Behaviour to Reduce Inequalities: An Experimental Study"
Wednesday 9th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Applied Micro PhD)

09 Nov

Cheuk Fai Ng (Cambridge)

"Cluster Robust Inference in High Dimensional Linear Regression Model"
Wednesday 9th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD)

09 Nov

Paul Lohmann (El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge)

"Climatarian Diets: Evaluating Behaviour Change Interventions to Accelerate the Sustainable Food Transition"
Wednesday 9th November 2022 4:00pm
Room W4.05 Judge Business School to attend contact e.brown@jbs.cam.ac.uk (Economics and Policy Group)

14 Nov

Catherine Thomas (LSE)

"Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?" (joint with Chris Stanton)
Monday 14th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

14 Nov

Ana Lleó Bono (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"Collaborative Behaviour to Reduce Inequalities: An Experimental Study"
Monday 14th November 2022 1:00pm
Keynes Room (Theory Workshop)

15 Nov

Yiming Xu (Cambridge)

"Leasing and aggregate productivity"
Tuesday 15th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade (Macroeconomics PhD)

15 Nov

Jane Olmstead Rumsey (LSE) Janeway Institute logo

"Market Concentration and the Productivity"
Tuesday 15th November 2022 3:30pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

16 Nov

Alex Whalley (Calgary)

"Outside Options, Wages, and Innovation: Evidence from Draft Dodging"
Wednesday 16th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Applied Micro PhD)

16 Nov

Weiguang Liu (Cambridge)

"Normal Approximation for U-Statistics with Cross-Sectional Dependence"
Wednesday 16th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD)

16 Nov

Hashem Pesaran (USC Dornsife)

"Variable Selection and Forecasting in High Dimensional Linear Regressions with Parameter Instability" with Alex Chudik and Mahrad Sharifvaghefi
Wednesday 16th November 2022 2:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Econometrics)

16 Nov

Erik Snowberg (Utah)

"An Organizational Theory of State Capacity"
Wednesday 16th November 2022 4:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Microeconomics)

21 Nov

Gabriel Ulyssea (UCL)

"Firm Dynamics and the Labor Market Effects of Rural-Urban Migration"
Monday 21st November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

21 Nov

Vivek Roy-Chowdhury (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"Is Information a Temptation?"
Monday 21st November 2022 1:00pm
Keynes Room (Theory Workshop)

22 Nov

Daniel Ostry (Cambridge )

"Tails of Foreign Exchange at Risk (FEaR)"
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade (Macroeconomics PhD)

22 Nov

Julien Daubanes (University of Geneva)

"Why do firms issue green bonds"
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 12:30pm
Castle Teaching Room, Judge Business School contact eprgadm@jbs.cam.ac.uk for details (Energy Policy Research Group)

22 Nov

Per Krusell (Stockholm University) Janeway Institute logo

"The macroeconomics of intensive agriculture" joint with Timo Boppart, Patrick Kiernan, and Hannes Malmberg
Tuesday 22nd November 2022 3:30pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

23 Nov

Christian Tien (Cambridge)

"Relaxing Instrument Exclusion with Common Confounders"
Wednesday 23rd November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD)

23 Nov

Mirco Rubin (EDHEC Business School, Nice)

"New Tests and Estimators for Common Dynamic Factors" joint with Federico Carlini (LUISS Business School, Rome, Italy)
Wednesday 23rd November 2022 2:00pm
Hybrid Keynes to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Econometrics)

23 Nov

Nicolas Caramp (UC Davis) Janeway Institute logo

"Monetary Policy and Wealth Effects: The Role of Risk and Heterogeneity" with Dejanir H. Silva
Wednesday 23rd November 2022 3:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Macro-JI Seminars)

23 Nov

Charles Hodgson (Yale University)

" You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search "
Wednesday 23rd November 2022 4:00pm
zoom to attend contact e.brown@jbs.cam.ac.uk (Economics and Policy Group)

24 Nov

George Charlson (Cambridge)

"Digital Gold? Pricing, Inequality and Participation in Data Markets"
Thursday 24th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Job Market Talks)

24 Nov

Andrew Hannon (Cambridge)

"Falling Behind: Delinquency and Foreclosure in a Housing Crisis"
Thursday 24th November 2022 10:00am
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Job Market Talks)

24 Nov

Balduin Bippus (Cambridge)

"Short-Time Work Revisited: Optimal Macroeconomic Stabilisation in Liquidity Crises"
Thursday 24th November 2022 11:00am
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Job Market Talks)

24 Nov

Weiguang Liu (Cambridge)

"Normal Approximation for U-Statistics with Cross-Sectional Dependence"
Thursday 24th November 2022 2:00pm
Zoom. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Job Market Talks)

28 Nov

Fabien Postel-Vinay (UCL)

"The Worker-Job Surplus" joint with Ilse Lindenlaub, Yale University
Monday 28th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)

28 Nov

Fulin Guo (Cambridge) Janeway Institute logo

"A Simple Model of Linking" with Syngjoo Choi, Fred Moisan and Sanjeev Goyal
Monday 28th November 2022 1:00pm
Keynes Room (Theory Workshop)

29 Nov

Alba Patozi (Cambridge)

"Green Transmission: Monetary Policy in the Age of ESG"
Tuesday 29th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade (Macroeconomics PhD)

30 Nov

Pierluigi Vallarino (visiting PhD)

"Time varying kernel densities as dynamic infinite mixture models"
Wednesday 30th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Keynes. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Econometrics PhD)

30 Nov

Deniz Atalar (Cambridge)

"Waste Trade"
Wednesday 30th November 2022 1:00pm
Hybrid Meade. Contact: lc100@cam.ac.uk (Applied Micro PhD)

30 Nov

Alessandra Luati (Imperial College London and University of Bologna)

"Dynamic models for multiple quantiles" joint with Leopoldo Catania
Wednesday 30th November 2022 2:00pm
Hybrid Keynes to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Econometrics)

30 Nov

Biliana Yontcheva (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics)

"Private Monopoly and Restricted Entry - Evidence from the Nitary Profession"
Wednesday 30th November 2022 3:00pm
Room W2.02 Judge Business School to attend contact e.brown@jbs.cam.ac.uk (Economics and Policy Group)

05 Dec

Jamie MacCuish (UCL)

"Costly Attention and Retirement"
Monday 5th December 2022 1:00pm
Stone Room to attend contact seminars@econ.cam.ac.uk (Empirical)