The School of Economics hosts research seminars each week, during the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms, organised by Dr Anthony Savagar and Dr Anirban Mitra.
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.
The below table of seminars will be updated periodically. For our latest research seminar bookings, please refer to the live timetable here.
SUMMER 2022
Wednesday, May 11, 2022 15:30-17:00 Yu Zheng (Queen Mary University of London): Unequal Transition: The Making of China’s Wealth Gap
Friday, May 13, 2022 12:00-13:00 Alessio Mitra (University of Kent): The impact of women’s political leadership on institutional quality
SPRING 2022 (IN PERSON)
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 15:30-17:00 Franck Portier (UCL): Does it Matter to Assume that U.S. Monetary Authorities Follow a Taylor Rule?
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 15:30-17:00 John Morrow (Kings College London): The Comparative Advantage of Firms.
Friday, February 18, 2022 12:00-13:00 Bansi Malde (University of Kent): To invest or not to invest in sanitation: the role of intra-household gender differences in perceptions and bargaining power
Friday, February 25, 2022 12:00-13:00 Anthony Savagar (University of Kent): Returns to Scale and Productivity
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 15:30-17:00 Renaud Foucart (Lancaster University): Rituals of Reason: A Choice-Based Approach to the Acceptability of Lotteries in Allocation Problems.
Friday, March 4, 2022 12:00-13:00 Rory Mullen (Warwick University): On Aggregate Fluctuations, Systemic Risk, and the Covariance of Firm-Level Activity.
Wednesday, March 16, 2022 15:30-17:00 Mirko Draca (Warwick University):The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contributions
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 15:30-17:00 Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt): The Fiscal and Welfare Effects of Policy Responses to the Covid-19 School Closures
AUTUMN 2021 (ONLINE/IN PERSON)
Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00-13:00 Klaus Wälde (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): The dynamics of Pareto distributed wealth in a small open economy
Wednesday, October 13, 2021 15:30-17:00 Adrian Pabst (University of Kent): The NIESR forecasting model
Friday, October 15, 2021 12:00-13:00 John Astin (European Commission): What is inflation?
Friday, October 22, 2021 12:00-13:00 Joel Kariel (University of Kent): Returns to Scale and Productivity in the UK
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 15:30-17:00 Jeff Prince (Indiana University): Empirical Evidence of the Value of Privacy
Friday, November 5, 2021 12:00-13:00 Yidan Chai (University of Kent) : TBC
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 15:30-17:00 Ben Ho (Vassar College): Why Trust Matters: An economist’s guide to the ties that bind us
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 15:30-17:00 David Hemous (UZH): Induced Automation: Evidence from Firm-level Patent Data
Wednesday, November 24, 2021 15:30-17:00 Dudley Cooke (Exeter University): Asset Prices, Firm Entry and Monetary Policy
Wednesday, December 1, 2021 15:30-17:00 Helen Simpson (Bristol University): Commuting Fast and Slow: The Effects of High-Speed Rail
Wednesday, December 8, 2021 15:30-17:00 Renata Narita (University of São Paulo): Payroll Tax, Employment and Labor Market Concentration
Monday, December 13, 2021 16:00-17:00 Danial Lashkari (Boston College): Occupational Choice and the Intergenerational Mobility of Welfare
SUMMER 2021 (ONLINE)
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 15:30-16:20 Richard McManus (Canterbury Christ Church): The impact of tax changes on government revenue: moving beyond the Laffer curve
Friday, June 4, 2021 12:00-13:00 Rinchan Mirza (University of Kent): Entrenched Political Dynasties and Development under Competitive Clientelism: Evidence from Pakistan
Friday, June 11, 2021 12:00-13:00 Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon (University of Kent): The effects of emergency government cash transfers on beliefs and behaviours during the COVID pandemic: Evidence from Brazil
Wednesday, June 16, 2021 15:00-15:50 Esther Gehrke (Wageningen University): Start what you Finish! Ex ante risk and schooling investments in the presence of dynamic complementarities
Friday, June 18, 2021 12:00-13:00 Peter King (University of Kent): Economic valuation of benefits from the proposed REACH restriction of intentionally added microplastics.
Wednesday, June 23, 2021 15:00- 16:30 Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University): A technology gap model of premature deindustrialization
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 14:00-15:00 Britta Augsburg (Institute for Fiscal Studies): Improving Infrastructure in Developing Cities: Experimental Evidence from India