The School of Economics hosts research seminars each week, during the Autumn, Spring and Summer terms, organised by Dr Rui Guan.
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 throughout the year.
Autumn 2026
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Dennie van Dolder (University of Essex): TBD
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Peter G. Moffatt (University of East Anglia): The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Strategic Games
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Rowan Cherodian (University of Sheffield): Distributional Instruments: Identification and Estimation with Quantile Least Squares
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Humberto Moreira (FGV EPGE): Repeated Trade with Divisible Goods
Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Ping Wu (University of Strathclyde): U.S. Economy and Global Stock Markets: Insights from a Distributional Approach
Summer 2026
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Madhav S. Aney (Singapore Management University): Constitutional Adjudication in the Age of Majority Governments: Measuring the Erosion of Judicial Independence in India
Friday, June 19, 2026, 12:00–13:00 Sanjeev Goyal (University of Cambridge): Targeted Behavioural Interventions
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Michael Thaler (UCL): TBD
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Aniol Llorente-Saguer (Queen Mary University of London): Ballot Richness and Information Aggregation
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Steven Sprick Schuster (Middle Tennessee State University): Consistency Pressures in the Real World
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Felipe Gonzalez (King’s College London): Transfers and Political Support in Times of Economic Crisis
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Danae Arroyos-Calvera (University of Birmingham): Revealing Giving Types through Information Acquisition
Spring 2026
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:00–13:00 Eren Arbatli (Durham University): Adjusting to Toxic Husbands: Normalization of Domestic Violence by Women (joint with Arzu Kibris and Cole Williams)
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Annemie Maertens (University of Sussex): The Structure and Functioning of Economic Information Networks
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Amol (Ashoka University): A Stochastic Bubble Forest
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 13:30–14:45 Xinyang Wang (ITAM): Choosing the Right Pond: Status vs. Prestige in School Choice & Party Formation