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March 2012
TBC
Date: 06/03/2012  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: C35, Bus. Sch. Dearing
Speaker: Theodore Turocy, CBESS, University of East Anglia
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

February 2012
Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
Date: 21/02/2012  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: A32 , Dearing
Speaker: Professor Alexander Kritikos (DIW Berlin and University of Potsdam)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Strategic obfuscation and consumer protection policy in financial markets: Theory and experimental evidence (joint with Tobias Wenzel)
Date: 07/02/2012  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: C76, Bus. Sch North
Speaker: Yiquan Gu (Liverpool University)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

December 2011
Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Design
Date: 08/12/2011  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: A08, Bus Sch. South
Speaker: Professor Sourafel Girma (Professor of Industrial Economics, Economics, UoN)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

November 2011
Fares, Load Factors and Yield Management: Evidence from a Low-Cost Airline
Date: 03/11/2011  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Claudio Piga (Loughborough University)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

October 2011
The Brain Gain of Corporate Boards: A Natural Experiment from China
Date: 10/10/2011  Time: 13.00 - 15.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

March 2011
TBA
Date: 08/03/2011  Time: 12.00-13.30  Venue: C1, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Howard Smith (University of Oxford)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Eco-Innovation Policies: Concepts and Best Practices
Date: 04/03/2011  Time: 12.00-  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Dr Klaus Rennings (Centre for European Economics Research, Zentrum Für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW))
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

February 2011
Income Distribution and Housing Prices: An Assignment Model Approach
Date: 22/02/2011  Time: 16.00-17.30  Venue: A71, Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Marko Tervio (Aalto University, Helsinki)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

November 2010
Business Partnerships and the Commercialization of Inventions
Date: 25/11/2010  Time: 12.30-14.00  Venue: C35, Bus. Sch. Dearing
Speaker: Tom Astebro (HEC Paris)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
'Emotions' and 'chat' in a financial markets experiment
Date: 16/11/2010  Time: 12.00-13.30  Venue: C49, Bus. Sch. Exchange Bldg
Speaker: Shaun Hargreaves Heap (University of East Anglia)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

October 2010
Financial Crisis: System Accident or Elite Debacle?
Date: 21/10/2010  Time: 14.00-15.30  Venue: A26, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Karel Williams (Manchester Business School)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Rockets and Feathers in the Laboratory
Date: 12/10/2010  Time: 12.00-13.30  Venue: B46, Bus Sch. Dearing
Speaker: Ralph Bayer
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

May 2010
Economics of Innovation Brown Bag Seminar: Findings from the 2009 UK Innovation Survey
Date: 13/05/2010  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Ray Lambert (Deputy Director of Science and Innovation Analysis Group, Business Innovation and Skills Department)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

March 2010
Network for Industrial Economics - "The Economics of Innovation"
Date: 19/03/2010  Time: 9.45-17.00  Venue: B11, Bus. Sch. Amenities
Speaker: 
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Discrimination, Identity and Trust
Date: 02/03/2010  Time: 12.00-13.30  Venue: B12, Bus. Sch. Amenities
Speaker: Daniel John Zizzo (University of East Anglia)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

December 2009
Financial Sector Remuneration and Financial Crisis: Bonus Practice and Leverage in UK Financial Institutions
Date: 10/12/2009  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: B2, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Dr Rodion Skovoroda (Nottingham University Business School)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

November 2009
Measuring Economies of Horizontal and Vertical Integration in the US Electric Power Industry: How Costly is Unbundling?
Date: 19/11/2009  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: A8, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Dr David Saal (Aston Business School)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

October 2009
The ABC Of Nonlinear Panel Data Models
Date: 20/10/2009  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: A8, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Sourafel Girma
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

June 2009
Switch Marketing and the Retailer Double Agent Problem
Date: 23/06/2009  Time: 13.00  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Professor Paul Dobson (Loughborough University Business School)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

May 2009
'Innovation, risk and entrepreneurship' Preference for Skew in Lotteries: Laboratory Evidence and Applications
Date: 28/05/2009  Time: 12.00-13.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch. North
Speaker: Professor Thomas Astebro (HEC-Paris)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
China's Predicted Recovery from the Financial Crisis
Date: 19/05/2009  Time: 17.00  Venue: A41, Sir Clive Granger
Speaker: Professor Shujie Yao
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

April 2009
Risk and Entrepreneurship
Date: 29/04/2009  Time: 1300-1400  Venue: B52 Bus Sch. South
Speaker: Professor Alexander Kritikos
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

March 2009
Ownership Unbundling of Electricity Distribution in New Zealand
Date: 25/03/2009  Time: 14.15hrs  Venue: A71, Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Michael Pollit (University of Cambridge)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

February 2009
Measuring Innovation: The Economic Issues
Date: 04/02/2009  Time: 13:00-16:30hrs  Venue: A26, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Bronwyn Hall (University of California Berkeley and Maastricht University); Paul Stoneman (Warwick University); Jonathan Haskel (Imperial College London)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

November 2008
The ABC of PSM (Propensity Score Matching)
Date: 06/11/2008  Time: 12:00hrs  Venue: A26, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Sourafel Girma
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

February 2008
Workshop on Innovation and Industry
1. Cost Function Equilibria
2. The Elixir or Burden of Youth: Exploring Differences among Start-ups and Established Firms for Innovation
3. Three Perspectives on an Innovation: The Surprising Case of Microsoft

Date: 27/02/2008  Time: 16.00 - 18.00  Venue: A34 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: 1. Professor Friedel Bolle (European University Viadrina)
2. Dr Paola Criscuolo (with Nicos Nicolaou and Ammon Salter) (Tanaka Business School)
3. Professor Peter Swann
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

November 2007
In Search Of Furry Economicus: Experimentation In The Virtual World Second Life
Date: 20/11/2007  Time: 1300 - 14.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Thomas Chesney, Robert Hoffmann and Swee-Hoon Chuah
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
How (not) to measure competition
Date: 14/11/2007  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Jan Boone (Professor of Industrial Economics, Tilburg University)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

October 2007
University research and the location of business R&D
Date: 31/10/2007  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: A7, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Helen Simpson (Research Fellow, Institute of Fiscal Studies and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Bristol)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Does services liberalization benefit manufacturing firms?
Date: 23/10/2007  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: B37 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
The ABC of GMM: some practical tips for applied research
Date: 10/10/2007  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: A7, New Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Sourafel Girma
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

May 2007
The ABC of DD: An introduction to the difference-in-differences methodology for applied researchers
Date: 23/05/2007  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Sourafel Girma
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

March 2007
Productivity in European Industries
Date: 13/03/2007  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: B43 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: Professor Mary O'Mahony
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

February 2007
Innovation and the UK Productivity Puzzle: Are Intangible Investments the Answer?
Date: 21/02/2007  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Haskel (Queen Mary College and the UK Competition Commission)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

December 2006
Survival Analysis using IDBR Data Looking at Firm Survival under Varying Conditions of Industry Turbulence
Date: 07/12/2006  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: A26, Bus. Sch. South
Speaker: Professor Andrew Burke (Max Plank Institute of Economics, University of Jena)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

June 2006
A Revealed Preference Test of Rationing
Date: 28/06/2006  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Professor Adrian Fleissig
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

May 2006
Pricing Home Mortgages and Bank Collateral: A Rational Expectations Approach
Date: 02/05/2006  Time: 16.00 - 17.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: M. Shahid Ebrahim
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

April 2006
The Value of Don Bradman: Additional Revenue in Australian Ashes Tests
Date: 05/04/2006  Time: 13.30 - 14.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Bruce Chapman (ANU, Canberra)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

May 2005
The Economics of Abortion and Crime
Date: 17/05/2005  Time: 16.00 - 17.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Leo Kahane (Calafornia State University)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Towards an Explanation of Foreign MNE FDI in the City of London Financial Services Cluster
Date: 10/05/2005  Time: 16.00-17.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Naresh Pandit (Manchester Business School, University of Manchester)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Police Reallocation Models
Date: 03/05/2005  Time: 16.00-17.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Mette Asmild
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

April 2005
Liability, Insurance and Defensive Medicine: New Evidence
Date: 26/04/2005  Time: 16.00 - 17.30  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Paul Fenn
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

March 2005
Network Effects and Mobile Telephones
Date: 15/03/2005  Time: 16.00-17.30  Venue: B81, Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Daniel Birke, Nottingham University Business School (PhD Programme)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
When does RAROC measure shareholder value? Theoretical diagnosis and practical prescription
Date: 08/03/2005  Time: 16.00-17.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Alistair Milne (Cass Business School, City University)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

May 2004
Productivity and the Density of Local Clusters
Date: 17/05/2004  Time: 16.00-17.30  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Professor Rui Baptista (Technical University of Lisbon, Max Plank Institute for Research into Economic Systems)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

April 2004
Does Market Experience Eliminate Preference Reversal?
Date: 29/04/2004  Time: 13.00-14.00  Venue: B37 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: Jacinto Braga
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

March 2004
Bertrand Competition with Rapid Innovation: The Case of the Digital Camera Market
Date: 18/03/2004  Time: 13.00-14.00  Venue: B19 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: Stephen Thompson
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

January 2004
Short- and Long-Run Credit Constraints in French Agriculture: A Directional Distance Function Framework Using Expenditure-Constrained Profit Functions
Date: 13/01/2004  Time: 16.00-18.00  Venue: B43 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: Kristiaan Kerstens (CNRS-LABORES, IESEG)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

November 2003
"Whistleblowers"
Date: 25/11/2003  Time: 16.00 - 18.00  Venue: A76, Bus. Sch
Speaker: Anthony Heyes (Royal Holloway)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Competition and Efficiency in UK Banking: The Impact of Corporate Ownership Structure
Date: 18/11/2003  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Leigh Drake
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

October 2003
Should Social Security Invest In Equities? A Modified General Equilibrium Approach
Date: 28/10/2003  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C41 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: M. Shahid Ebrahim
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Discretion and Risk: Life Insurers' Choice of Investments
Date: 21/10/2003  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C42 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: Christopher O'Brien
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Should Pension Funds Invest In Equities? A Modified General Equilibrium Approach
Date: 14/10/2003  Time: 13.00 - 14.00  Venue: C41 Edu. Bldg
Speaker: M. Shahid Ebrahim
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

April 2003
The impact of SDI on the demand for US space expenditure
Date: 29/04/2003  Time: 13:00-14:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Vasilis Zervos
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

March 2003
The minimum assumed incentive effect in executive share options
Date: 18/03/2003  Time: 14.15-16.00  Venue: B85, Edu. Bldg
Speaker: Brian Main (Edinburgh) Alistair Bruce (Nottingham)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
On the relationship between R&D and productivity: a Treatment Effect analysis
Date: 04/03/2003  Time: 13:00-14:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Claudio Piga
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

February 2003
Market entry and rollout with product differentiation
Date: 20/02/2003  Time: 16:00-18:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Neil Rickman/Dionisia Tzavara (Surrey)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
The Dynamics of Defensive Medicine
Date: 04/02/2003  Time: 13:00-14:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Robert Young
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

November 2002
'Accounting for environmental bads in the measurement of regional productivity'
Date: 19/11/2002  Time: 13:00-14:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Wendy Chapple
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
Legal institutions and performance: monitoring agreements in the early Danish dairy sector
Date: 05/11/2002  Time: 16:00-18:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Morten Hviid (UEA)
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics

October 2002
'The corporate cost of risk'
Date: 22/10/2002  Time: 13:00-14:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Stephen Diacon
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics
'"Lemmings to the sea?" - applications for commercial credit'
Date: 08/10/2002  Time: 13:00-14:00  Venue: C76 Bus. Sch.
Speaker: Aoife Hanley
Hosting Group: Industrial Economics


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