Research seminars

The School of Economics hosts research seminars each week, during the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms, organised by Dr Aubrey Poon, Dr Rui Guan, and Dr Yuki Yao.

Seminar speakers are usually visiting academics from universities and institutions in the UK and abroad. In addition, the School and its research centres host a number of internal and external research events through the year.

AUTUMN 2024

Friday, December 6, 2024, 12:00-13:00  Aristeidis Raftapostolos (King’s College London): Nuclear norm penalised non-linear modelling for asset pricing

Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 13:30-2:45  Zvonimir Bašić (University of Glasgow): TBD

Friday, November 29, 2024, 12:00-13:00  Andreas Kotsadam (University of Oslo: TBD

Wednesday, November 27, 2024, 13:30-2:45  Vasillis Sarafidis (Brunel University London): Estimation of Spatial Dynamic Panel Data Models with Latent Common Factors

Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Alistair Macaulay (University of Surrey): TBD

Friday, November 8, 2024, 12:00-13:00  Deborah Gefang (University of Leicester): TBD

Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 13:30-2:45  Andrea Carriero (Queen Mary University of London): TBD

Friday, November 1, 2024, 12:00-13:00  Matthias Gnewuch (European Stability Mechanism): TBD

Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 13:30-2:45  Andrew Oswald (University of Warwick): Climate change and human wellbeing.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 13:30-2:45  Stephen Hansen (University College London): TBD

Wednesday, October 16, 2023, 13:30-2:45  Loukas Balafoutas (University of Exeter): TBD

Friday, October 11, 2024, 12:00-13:00  Wojtek Paczos (Cardiff University): TBD

Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 13:30-2:45  Mattia Bertazzini (University of Nottingham): TBD

Friday, October 4, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Miguel Ferreira (Queen Mary University of London): From Spreads to Spirals: How Financial Frictions Drive Lumpy Investments

Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 13:30-2:45   R. Anton Braun (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies): TBD

Friday, September 27, 2024, 12:00-13:00   Jonathan Norris (University of Strathclyde): TBD

Wednesday, September 25 2024 13:30-2:45  Gauri Chandra (Boston Consulting Group): TBD

SPRING 2024

Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Guilhem Cassan (University of Namur): Political Determinants of the News Market: Novel Data and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India

Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Gautam Bose (UNSW Business School): TBD

Friday, May 10, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon (University of Kent): TBD

Wednesday, April 3, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Gary Koop (University of Strathclyde): TBD

Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Ning Zhang (University of Glasgow): Endogenous Domestic Competition and International Diversification

Friday, March 22, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Arkadiusz Szydlowski (University of Kent): Gender Wage Gaps Conditional on Employment Histories: A DML Approach Applied to Brazil

Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 13:30-2:45, Mohammed Swalisu (University of Kent): Climate Change, Culture and Marriage Timing in Malawi

Friday, March 8, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Clement Minaudier (City University of London): Spillovers in State Capacity Building: Evidence from the Digitization of Land Records in Pakistan

Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 13:30-2:45, Marija Vukotic (University of Warwick): Innovation during challenging times

Friday, March 1, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Giulia Mantoan (Bank of England): When growth-at-risk hits the fan: comparing quantile-regression predictive densities with committee fan charts

Wednesday, February 28, 2024, 13:30-2:45, David Rojo Arjona (University of Leicester): The Predictive Success of Theories of Strategic Thinking: A Non-parametric Evaluation

Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 13:30-2:45, Tatiana Komarova (University of Manchester): Multivariate ordered discrete response models

Wednesday, February 7, 2024, 13:30-2:45, Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics), Menstrual Stigma, Hygiene, and Human Capital: Experimental Evidence from Madagascar

Friday, February 2, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Marta Morazzoni (University College London): Monetary Policy in a Multi-market Economy: The Role of Demand and Adjustment Costs

Friday, January 26, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Dan Zhu (Monash University): Time-varying Distributional Regression

Wednesday, January 24, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Jake Bradley (University of Nottingham): Labor Market Dynamics and Growth

Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Paula Gobbi (Université Libre de Bruxelles): Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of inheritance