Events
Throughout the year we host a series of general and research seminars on topics such as econometrics, theory and energy.
Past seminars
General seminars
Economics Seminar: Network and Panel Quantile Effects Via Distribution Regression
Speaker: Prof. Ivan Fernandez-Val (Boston University)
Date: 5 December 2018
Economics Seminar: On the Persistence of Monetary Trading: Incentive-feasible Memory is Money
Speaker: Prof. Guilherme Carmona (University of Surrey)
Date: 28 November 2018
Economics Seminar: Agnostic Structural Disturbances (ASDs): Detecting and Reducing Misspecification in Empirical Macroeconomic Models
Speaker: Prof. Wouter den Haan (LSE)
Date: 7 November 2018
Economics Seminar: Optimal Monitoring Design
Speaker: Prof. Balazs Szentes (LSE)
Date: 31 October 2018
Economics Seminar: Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks
Speaker: Prof. Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)
Date: 24 October 2018
Economics Seminar: Nuclear Norm Regularized Estimation of Panel Regression Models
Speaker: Dr. Martin Weidner (University College London)
Date: 17 October 2018
Economics Seminar: Sensitivity Analysis using Approximate Moment Condition Models
Speaker: Dr. Tim Armstrong (Yale University)
Date: 10 October 2018
Economics Seminar: Putting the Cycle Back into Business Cycle Analysis
Speaker: Prof. Franc Portier (University College London)
Date: 3 October 2018
Economics Seminar: Tampering with Information
Speaker: Prof. Ricardo Alonso (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Date: 9 May 2018
Economics Seminar: N/A
Speaker: Jonathan Wadsworth (Royal Holloway)
Date: 25 April 2018
Economics Seminar: Incomplete Models of English Auctions
Speaker: Andrew Chester
Date: 21 March 2018
Economics Seminar: Dr. Abi Adams (University of Oxford)
Speaker: Dr. Abi Adams
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 6 December 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Dr. Elmar Mertens (BIS)
Speaker: Dr. Elmar Mertens
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 22 November 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Prof. Kalina Manova (Oxford)
Speaker: Prof. Kalina Manova
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 15 November 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Dr. Brian Bell (King’s Business School and CEP)
Speaker: Dr. Brian Bell
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 8 November 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Dr. Birgitta Rabe (Essex)
Speaker: Dr. Birgitta Rabe
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 1 November 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Dr. Alex Tetenov (University of Bristol)
Speaker: Dr. Alex Tetenov
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 11 October 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Second-Order Induction, Precedents, and Divergence of Opinions
Speaker: Prof. Itzhak Gilboa
Time: 14:00
Date: Wednesday 17 May 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Understanding the Response to Financial and Non-Financial Incentives in Education: Field Experimental Evidence Using High-Stakes Assessments
Speaker: Prof. Simon Burgess
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 3 May 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Is Industrial Production Still the Dominant Factor for the US Economy?
Speaker: Prof. Patrick Gagliardini
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 29 March 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: The Welfare Effects of Short Time Compensation: Evidence from Italian Cassa Integrazione
Speaker: Dr. Camille Landais
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 15 March 2017
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Financial Sector Origins of Economic Growth Delusion
Speaker: Dr. Michael McMahon
Time: 11:30
Date: Thursday 9 March 2017
Venue: TB 14
Economics Seminar: Durables, Lemons and Shocks
Speaker: Prof. Hamish Low
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 8 March 2017
Venue: 40 AD 03
Economics Seminar: The Profit Share, the Labor Share, and Monetary Policy Shocks
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Embrey
Time: 14:30
Date: Wednesday 1 March 2017
Venue: 02 AC 03
Cost of Education, Credit Constraints, and Gender Bias: Evidence from Reducing Years of Compulsory Schooling in Egypt
Date: Wednesday 26 May 2016
Economics Seminar: Testing rational expectations using data combination
Speaker: Dr. Xavier D'Haultfœuille
Time: 16:00
Date: Wednesday 9 November 2016
Venue: 40 AD 00
Econometrics Seminar: Cross-Sectional Dependence in Idiosyncratic Volatility
Speaker: Dr. Ilze Kalnina
Time: 14:00
Date: Thursday 10 November 2016
Venue: 13 AC 03
Economics Seminar: A Diagnostic Criterion For Approximate Factor Structure
Speaker: Prof. Olivier Scaillet
Time: 16:00
Date: Wednesday 16 November 2016
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: The Effect of House Prices on Household Borrowing: A New Approach
Speaker: Dr. Ethan Ilzetzki
Time: 16:00
Date: Wednesday 23 November 2016
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Strategic Sample Selection
Speaker: Prof. Marco Ottaviani
Time: 16:00
Date: Thursday 24 November 2016
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Optimal Monetary Interventions in Credit Markets
Speaker: Prof. Luis Araujo
Time: 16:00
Date: Wednesday 30 November 2016
Venue: 40 AD 00
Economics Seminar: Money and the Scale of Cooperation
Speaker: Prof. Gabriele Camera
Time: 16:00
Date: Tuesday 6 December 2016
Venue: TB 12 A
Economics Seminar: Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard and Endogenous Matching in a Dynamic Assignment Model
Speaker: Prof. Bill Zame
Time: 16:00
Date: Wednesday 7 December 2016
Venue: 40 AD 00
Research group seminars
Theory Seminar: Debunking Rumors in Networks
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Tabasso
Date: 27 November 2018
Theory Seminar: Extremal Markov Perfect Equilibria of Stochastic Games with Complementarities
Speaker: Prof. Patrick Leoni (Kedge Business School Marseille)
Date: 13 November 2018
Macro Seminar: The Relationship between VAR and DSGE Models when Agents have Imperfect Information
Speaker: Prof. Paul Levine (University of Surrey)
Date: 8 November 2018
Theory Seminar: Project Selection and Strategic Information Disclosure
Speaker: Dr. Guillem Roig (Universidad del Rosario)
Date: 5 November 2018
Theory Seminar: A Theory of Auctions with Endogenous Valuations
Speaker: Prof. Alex Gershkov (University of Surrey)
Date: 30 October 2018
Econometrics Seminar: Recovering Social Networks from Panel Data: Identification, Simulations and an Application
Speaker: Dr. Pedro Souza (Warwick University)
Date: 18 October 2018
Theory Seminar: Index Theory of Strategic-Form Games with Applications to Extensive-Form Games
Speaker: Prof. Guilherme Carmona (University of Surrey)
Date: 16 October 2018
Applied Micro Seminar: Value of Information and the Impact of Mortgage Intermediaries on Lender Competition and Households' Financial Positions
Speaker: Dr. Mateusz Mysliwski (University College London)
Date: 15 October 2018
Theory Seminar: Index Theory of Strategic-Form Games with Applications to Extensive-Form Games
Speaker: Dr Lucas Pahl (University of Rochester)
Date: 1 October 2018
Applied Micro Seminar: Determinants of Student Salaries in Professional Training Year
Speaker: Miguel Sandoval (University of Surrey) and Panos Arsenis (University of Surrey)
Date: 18 May 2018
Applied Micro Seminar: The impact of foreign doctors on patient deaths: Evidence from the English NHS
Speaker: Dr Ioannis Laliotis (University of Surrey)
Date: 14 May 2018
Theory Seminar: The Existence of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium in Large Games
Speaker: Konrad Podczeck (University of Vienna)
Date: 10 May 2018
Econometrics Seminar: Confidence Regions for Spatial Autoregressive Models
Speaker: Kees Jan van Garderen
Date: 8 May 2018
Theory Seminar: Strategic Transmission of Correlated Information
Speaker: Sergio Currarini (University of Leicester and Ca'Foscari Venice)
Date: 1 May 2018
Applied Micro Seminar: Absolute Mobility in the UK
Speaker: Sumaiya Rahman (University of Surrey)
Date: 30 April 2018
Econometrics Seminar: Binarization for Panel Models with Fixed Effects
Speaker: Chris Muris
Date: 20 March 2018
Applied Micro Seminar: Dr. Pedro Rosa Dias (Imperial College London)
Speaker: Dr. Pedro Rosa Dias
Date: 7 December 2017
Theory Seminar: Prof. Yiannis Vailakis (University of Glasgow)
Speaker: Prof. Yiannis Vailakis
Date: 30 November 2017
Theory Seminar: Prof. Alex Gershkov (University of Surrey)
Speaker: Prof. Alex Gershkov
Date: 7 November 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Dr. Weining Wang (City University)
Speaker: Dr. Weining Wang
Date: 7 November 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Dr. Ana Dumitru (University of Surrey)
Speaker: Dr. Ana Dumitru
Date: 24 October 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Prof. Joao Santos Silva (University of Surrey)
Speaker: Prof. Joao Santos Silva
Date: 17 October 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Prof. Valentina Corradi (University of Surrey)
Speaker: Prof. Valentina Corradi
Date: 10 October 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Tractable estimation and smoothing of highly non-linear dynamic state-space models
Speaker: Dr Tom Holden
Date: 23 May 2017
SEEC Seminar: Energy Consumption Across UK Industrial Subsectors
Speaker: Dr Paolo Agnolucci
Date: 17 May 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Testing for the Presence of Measurement Error
Speaker: Dr Daniel Wilhelm
Date: 16 May 2017
Theory Seminar: On the Persistence of Monetary Trading: Incentive-feasible Memory is Money
Speaker: Prof. Guilherme Carmona
Date: 15 May 2017
SEEC Seminar: Asymmetric Volatility in Commodity Markets
Speaker: Dr Shawn Mu
Date: 10 May 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Title Quantile Factor Models
Speaker: Prof. Jesus Gonzalo
Date: 9 May 2017
Applied Micro Seminar: Private Pensions and Public Pension Design
Speaker: Dr Cormac O’Dea
Date: 8 May 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Identification and Estimation of a Search Model: a Procurement Auction Approach
Speaker: Dr Tang Srisuma
Date: 2 May 2017
Theory Seminar: Effectivity and Power
Speaker: Dr Hans Peters
Date: 30 March 2017
SEEC Seminar: Restructuring the Chinese Electricity Supply Sector: Lessons from International Experience
Speaker: Prof. Michael Pollitt
Date: 29 March 2017
Theory Seminar: Majority Judgement vs Majority Rule
Speaker: Prof. Rida Laraki
Date: 23 March 2017
SEEC Seminar: Economics of Mini-Grids for Electricity Access in Developing Countries
Speaker: Prof. Subhes Bhattacharyya
Date: 22 March 2017
Econometrics Seminar: Adjusted QMLE for the spatial autoregressive parameter
Speaker: Dr Federico Martellosio
Date: 21 March 2017
CIMS Seminar: Government Debt Management: The Long and the Short of It
Speaker: Dr Elisa Faraglia
Date: 16 March 2017
Theory Seminar: Projections and Functions of Nash Equilibria
Speaker: Dr Yehuda Levy
Date: 16 March 2017
Applied Micro Seminar: Non-Contributory Health Insurance and Household Labor Supply: Evidence from Mexico
Speaker: Dr Gabriella Conti
Date: 13 March 2017
Theory Seminar: Gambling in Dynamic Contests: Experimental Evidence
Speaker: Matthew Embrey
Date: 9 March 2017
Applied Micro Seminar: Skill Prices, Cccupations and Changes in the Wage Structure
Speaker: Dr Nicolas Roys
Date: 6 March 2017
Theory Seminar: Evolution of Rules, Mutation and Selection: Efficiency and Egalitarianism
Speaker: Hamid Sabourian
Date: 2 March 2017
Applied Micro Seminar: Free Childcare and Parents' Labour Supply: Is More Better?
Speaker: Dr Sarah Cattan
Date: 12 December 2016
Theory Seminar: Signalling and Seller Experimentation in Dynamic Markets
Speaker: Dr Umberto Garfaqnini
Date: 1 December 2016
SEEC Seminar: Innovation in energy: Theory, timescales and the role of policy
Speaker: Dr Robert Gross
Date: 30 November 2016
Econometrics Seminar: Wald Tests When Restrictions are Locally Singular
Speaker: Professor Victoria Zinde-Walsh
Date: 22 November 2016
SEEC Seminar: Modelling Energy Transitions Under Landscape and Actor Inertia
Speaker: Professor Neil Strachan
Date: 16 November 2016
Applied Micro Seminar: Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
Speaker: Dr Andrea Tesei
Date: 14 November 2016
Econometrics Seminar: Cross-Sectional Dependence in Idiosyncratic Volatility
Speaker: Dr Ilze Kalnina
Date: 10 November 2016
Theory Seminar: Loss Aversion and Competition in Vickrey Auctions: Money Ain’t No Good
Speaker: Dr Antonio Rosato
Date: 10 November 2016
Applied Micro Seminar: Individual Behaviour is More Dynamically Rational in Teams
Speaker: Zahra Murad
Date: 7 November 2016
SEEC Seminar: Green Deal Means No Deal; How the Experts got this Flagship Policy So Wrong
Speaker: Peter Roscoe
Date: 2 November 2016
Applied Micro Seminar: Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US
Speaker: Dr Michael Vlassopoulos
Date: 24 October 2016
Theory Seminar: Rational Opacity
Speaker: Professor Cyril Monnet
Date: 20 October 2016
Energy Seminar: Identity and Competitive Identities in Renewable Energy Development in the Gulf
Speaker: Veronica Cinti
Date: 19 October 2016
CIMS Seminar: Equilibrium in FX Swap Markets: Funding Pressures and the Cross-Currency Basis
Speaker: Mario Pascoa
Date: 13 October 2016
Theory Seminar: Equivalences of Extensive Forms
Speaker: Professor Klaus Ritzberger
Date: 6 October 2016
Applied Micro Seminar: The demand for season of birth
Speaker: Sonia Oreffice
Date: 22 June 2016
SEEC Seminar: The impacts of renewable generators and of storage on the electricity market
Speaker: Professor Richard Green
Date: 18 May 2016
Theory Seminar: Savage’s Theorem Under Changing Awareness
Speaker: Dr Franz Dietrich
Date: 17 May 2016
Theory Seminar: Complexity, Correlation, and Choice
Speaker: Dr Andrew Ellis
Date: 12 May 2016
Theory Seminar: Optimal Sequential Decision with Limited Attention
Speaker: Dr Konrad Mierendorff
Date: 28 April 2016
SEEC Seminar: The prospects for oil markets: Short, medium and long term
Speaker: Professor Paul Stevens
Date: 27 April 2016
Theory Seminar: Risk-Taking in Contests - The impact of fund-manager Compensation on Investor Welfare
Speaker: Dr Philipp Strack
Date: 25 April 2016
SEEC Seminar: Long Run Welfare Effects of Energy Services and Technologies
Speaker: Dr Roger Fouquet
Date: 20 April 2016
Theory Seminar: The Marginal Voter's Curse
Speaker: Dr Aniol Llorente-Saguer
Date: 15 March 2016
Theory Seminar: A Theory of Repurchase Agreements: Collateral Re-use and Repo Intermediation
Speaker: Professor Piero Gottardi
Date: 10 March 2016
Econometrics Seminar: Misspecification Testing in Spatial Autoregressive Models
Speaker: Dr Jungyoon Lee
Date: 9 March 2016
Theory Seminar: Learning Under Unwareness
Speaker: Professor Rabee Tourky
Date: 14 January 2016
Theory Seminar: Revenue Maximizing Mechanisms with Strategic Customers and Unknown Demand
Speaker: Professor Alex Gershkov
Date: 10 December 2015
Applied Micro Seminar: Free preschool and early educational achievement. An identification strategy based on month of birth discontinuities
Speaker: Jo Blanden
Date: 7 December 2015
Theory Seminar: Revisiting Games with Strategic Complements in Networks
Speaker: Dr Tomas Rodriguez
Date: 3 December 2015
SEEC Seminar: Where is the Flexibility? Peak Electricity Demand, Price Elasticity and People’s Activities
Speaker: Dr Jacopo Torriti
Date: 2 December 2015
Econometrics Seminar: Nonparametric Specification Testing via the Trinity of Tests
Speaker: Dr Abhimanyu Gupta
Date: 1 December 2015
SEEC Seminar: Estimating direct rebound effects for car travel in Great Britain
Speaker: Professor Steve Sorrell
Date: 25 November 2015
Theory Seminar: Democracy and International Conflict
Speaker: Dr Alberto Vesperoni
Date: 19 November 2015
Applied Micro Seminar: High School Track Choice and Financial Constraints: Evidence From Urban Mexico
Speaker: Dr Ciro Avitabile
Date: 9 November 2015
Theory Seminar: Monetary Trading: An Optimal Trading Mechanism under Limited Record-Keeping
Speaker: Professor Guilherme Carmona
Date: 5 November 2015
SEEC Seminar: Non-parametric Meta-analysis and Kernel Decomposition, with an Application to the Social Cost of Carbon
Speaker: Professor Richard Tol
Date: 4 November 2015
Theory Seminar: Public Goods in Endogenous Networks
Speaker: Dr Luca Merlino
Date: 29 October 2015
Theory Seminar: The Social Risk of Innovation
Date: 29 October 2015
Theory Seminar: Beyond Correlation: Measuring Interdependence Through Complementarities
Speaker: Dr Meg Meyer
Date: 13 October 2015