School of Economics

Senior Academic Seminar Series All Events

2023/24 seminars

Senior Academic Seminar: David Seim (Stockholm University)

Date
17 November 2023 (14:00-15:15)
Location:
A01 Highfield House
Description
The effects of eliminating employment protection legislation (A01, Highfield House)

 

2022/23 seminars

Joint SAS/CREDIT Seminar: Tim Besley (LSE)

Date
10 May 2023
Description
An economic model of deliberative democracy (A39)

 

2021/22 seminars

Joint SAS/CREDIT Seminar: Nancy Qian (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University)

Date
17 November 2021
Description
Choosing racial identity in the United States, 1880-1940

Senior Academic Seminar: Dirk Krueger (University of Pennsylvania)

Date
09 February 2022
Description
Neoclassical growth transition dynamics with one-sided commitment

Senior Academic Seminar: Jeff Ely (Northwestern University)

Date
27 May 2022
Description
Incentive compatibility in dynamic information design (A41, SCGB)

 

2020/21 seminars

Senior Academic Seminar: Veronica Guerrieri (University of Chicago)

Date
30 September 2020
Description
Macroeconomic implications of COVID-19: Can negative supply shocks cause demand shortages? (via Zoom)

Joint Senior Academic/GEP Seminar: Robert Staiger (Dartmouth College)

Date
13 October 2020
Description
Quantitative analysis of multi-party tariff negotiations (via Zoom)

Senior Academic Seminar: Chad Jones (Stanford University)

Date
21 October 2020
Description
The end of economic growth? Unintended consequences of a declining population (via Zoom)

Senior Academic Seminar: Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard)

Date
04 November 2020
Description
Understanding tax policy: How do people reason?

Senior Academic Seminar: Elias Papaioannou (Wheeler Institute for Business and Development)

Date
11 November 2020
Description
Forced displacement, human capital, and structural transformation

Senior Academic Seminar: Dacheng Xiu (University of Chicago)

Date
18 November 2020
Description
Predicting returns with text data

Senior Academic Seminar: Rachel Griffith (University of Manchester)

Date
25 November 2020
Description
Wage progression in low-educated workers

Senior Academic Seminar: Anna Dreber Almenberg (Stockholm School of Economics)

Date
02 December 2020
Description
Prediction replication outcomes

Senior Academic Seminar: Leah P. Boustan (Princeton)

Date
09 December 2020
Description
Linguistic assimilation of immigrants and refugees in the historical United States

Senior Academic Seminar: Stephen Morris (MIT)

Date
21 April 2021
Description
Sources of authority

Senior Academic Seminar: Ilse Lindenlaub (Yale University)

Date
28 April 2021
Description
Marriage market and labour market sorting

Senior Academic Seminar: Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)

Date
05 May 2021
Description
Mediating conflict in the lab

Senior Academic Seminar: Pol Antras (Harvard University)

Date
12 May 2021
Description
Globalization and pandemics

Senior Academic Seminar: Michele Belot (Cornell University)

Date
26 May 2021
Description
The formation and malleability of dietary habits: A field experiment with low income families

 

2019/20 seminars

Werner Güth (Max-Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods Bonn and LUISS Rome)

Date
16 October 2019
Description
Methodological Dualism - Its Philosophical and Behavioral Perspective

Senior Academic Seminar: David K Levine (European University Institute)

Date
30 October 2019
Description
Interventions with sticky social norms: A critique (A41, SCGB)

Senior Academic Seminar: Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford)

Date
06 November 2019
Description
Two blades of grass: Agricultural innovation, productivity, and economic growth (C14, T&L Building)

Senior Academic Seminar: Mary Amiti (Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Date
27 November 2019
Description
Dominant currencies: How firms choose currency invoicing and why it matters (A41, SCGB)

Senior Academic Seminar: Mark Huggett (Georgetown University)

Date
04 December 2019
Description
Taxing top earners: A human capital perspective (A41, SCGB)

Senior Academic / NICEP Seminar: Daniel Treisman (University of California, Los Angeles)

Date
12 December 2019
Description
Informational autocrats (C10, T&L Building)

Senior Academic Seminar: Benjamin Moll (LSE)

Date
04 March 2020
Description
Saving behaviour across wealth distribution: The importance of capital gains (A41, SCGB)

Senior Academic Seminar: Ronny Razin (LSE)

Date
11 March 2020
Description
Mis-specifed politics and the recurrence of populism (A41, SCGB)

*Cancelled* Senior Academic Seminar: Andrew Atkeson (UCLA)

Date
18 March 2020
Description
*Cancelled* Understanding the evolution of top wealth shares in the US over the past 100 years (A41, SCGB)

*Cancelled* Senior Academic Seminar: Alessandra Casella (Columbia University)

Date
25 March 2020
Description
*Cancelled* Testing storable votes and quadratic voting on four California initiatives (A41, SCGB)

*Cancelled* Cedex / Senior Academic Seminar: George Loewenstein (Carnegie Mellon University)

Date
06 May 2020
Description
*Cancelled* Attention and motivation (A41, SCGB)

*Cancelled* Senior Academic Seminar: Stephen Morris (MIT)

Date
10 June 2020
Description
*Cancelled* Information design (A41, SCGB)

 

2018/19 seminars

Andrew Schotter (New York University)

Date
03 October 2018
Description
Mechanism design and social learning

Gerard Padrói Miquel (Yale University)

Date
07 November 2018
Description
The rise and fall of local elections in China: Evidence on the autocrat's trade-off

Catherine Guirkinger (University of Namur)

Date
14 November 2018
Description
Buy as you need: Nutrition and food storage imperfections

Jaume Ventura (CREI Barcelona)

Date
12 December 2018
Description
Sharing a government

Gilat Levy (LSE)

Date
07 March 2019
Description
Persuasion with correlation neglect

Larry Samuelson (Yale)

Date
15 May 2019
Description
The wisdom of a confused crowd: Model-based updating

Gianluca Violante (Princeton)

Date
17 May 2019
Description
The propagation of monetary shocks in HANK

David Atkin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Date
20 May 2019
Description
A new Engel on price index and welfare estimation

 

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