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.
SPRING 2025
Friday, March 19, 2025, 12:00-13:00 Rossella Argenziano (University of Essex): TBD
Friday, March 12, 2025, 12:00-13:00 Jerome Simons (Cambridge): TBD
Friday, March 7, 2025, 12:00-13:00 Wojtek Paczos (Cardiff): TBD
Friday, February 28, 2025, 12:00-13:00 Catalina Martinez Hernandez (European Central Bank): TBD
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 13:30-2:45 Oliver de Groot (Liverpool): TBD
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 13:30-2:45 Soham Sahoo (Loughborough University): TBD
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 13:30-2:45 Juan Antolin-Diaz (London Business School/Fulcrum): TBD
Friday, February 7, 2025, 12:00-13:00 Liang Bai (KCL): TBD
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 13:30-2:45 Markus Eberhardt (University College London): TBD
Wednesday, January 29, 2025, 13:30-2:45 Markus Eberhardt (University of Nottingham): TBD
Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 13:30-2:45 Johanna Rickne (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University): TBD
Friday, January 17, 2025, 12:00-13:00 Woo Jin Choi (Korea University): TBD
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): The Roots of Cooperation
Friday, November 29, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Andreas Kotsadam (University of Oslo): Does it Matter What Others Think? Information, Norms, and Female Genital Mutilation in Ethiopia
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): The (Mis)Allocation of Corporate News
Friday, November 8, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Deborah Gefang (University of Leicester): Does One Size Fit All? The Country-Specific Effects of ECB Monetary Policy
Wednesday, November 6, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Andrea Carriero (Queen Mary University of London): Macroeconomic Forecasting with Large Language Models
Friday, November 1, 2024, 12:00-13:00 Matthias Gnewuch (European Stability Mechanism): Market Power and Macroeconomic Fluctuations
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): Inference for Regression with Variables Generated from Unstructured Data
Wednesday, October 16, 2023, 13:30-2:45 Loukas Balafoutas (University of Exeter): Artificial Intelligence and Debiasing in Hiring
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 13:30-2:45 Mattia Bertazzini (University of Nottingham): The Economics of Civilian Victimization: Evidence from World War II Italy
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): Why aging induces deflation and secular stagnation
Wednesday, September 25 2024 13:30-2:45 Gauri Chandra (Boston Consulting Group): Are Existing Institutional Interventions Effective in Combatting Social Media Misinformation? Experimental Evidence from India
SPRING 2024
Friday, June 7, 2024, 12:00-1:00 Asad Tariq (IIT-Delhi): Conflict and Gender Subjugation: The Impact of Religious Violence on Women’s Age at Marriage
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
Friday, May 24, 2024, 12:00-1:00 Han Gao (UNSW): Labor Market Sorting and Social Security in Developing Countries
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