Seminar Series
Research Seminar Series 2019-2020
Seminars are held on Tuesdays 12.30 to 2 pm in TRISS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10 September | James Snyder (Harvard University) | The Growth of Campaign Advertising in the U.S., 1880 to 1930 (Professor James Snyder) |
| 17 September | Christopher Jepsen (UCD) | |
| 24 September | Alessandro Tarozzi (University of Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE) | The Rise and Fall of SES gradients in heights around the world (joint with Elisabetta Aurino and Adrianna Lleras-Muney ) |
| 1 October | Isabelle Mejean (Crest-Ecole Polytechnique) | Foreign Shocks as Granular Fluctuations (joint with Julian di Giovanni and Andrei A. Levchencko) |
| *Monday 7 October* (BESS Seminar Room 11:30-1pm) | Ilan Noy ( University of Wellington, New Zealand) | Climate Change, Migration and Voice: An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox |
| 8 October | Ugo Panizza (Graduate Institute Geneva) | Corporate foreign bond issuance and interfirm loans in China |
| 15 October | Alessandra Voena(University of Chicago) | Maternal Mortality Risk and the Gender Gap in Desired FertilityMaternal Mortality Risk and the Gender Gap in Desired Fertility (joint with Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Roberta Ziparo) |
| *Friday 18 October* (TRISS Seminar Room 12:30-14:00) | Samuel Berlinski (Inter-American Development Bank) | Remedial Education: Evidence from a Sequence of Experiments in Colombia (joint with Horacio Alvarez-Marinelli and Matias Busso) |
| 21 October | STUDY/REVIEW WEEK | |
| 29 October | Robert Kollmann (Université Libre de Bruxelles) | "Stationary Rational Bubbles in Non-Linear Business Cycle Models". (Professor Robert Kollmann) |
| 5 November | Chris Woodruff (University of Oxford) | "Information and Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico’s Labor Courts". (joint with Joyce Sadka and Enrique Seira) |
| 12 November | Matt Kahn (John Hopkins University) | "Mortgage Finance in the Face of Rising Climate Risk". (joint with Amine Ouazad) |
| *Thursday 14 November* Global Room, 1st Floor,Watts Building. 11:30-13:00) | Pascaline Dupas (Stanford University) | "The Impacts of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana" (joint with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer) |
| 19 November | Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University) | "The Deep Roots of Inequality" Yuzuru Kumon |
| 26 November | Timo Boppart (Stockholm University) | "A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents". (joint with PhilippeAghion, AntoninBerge, PeterJ.Klenow and HuiyuLi) |
21 January *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University of London) | "Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms" (joint with Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie) |
28 January *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Paola Conconi (Free University of Brussels) | "Trade Protection Along Supply Chains" (joint with Chad Brown, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi) |
4 February *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Sibylle Lehmann (University of Hohenheim) | "The German bank-growth nexus revisited- Savings Banks and the Industrial Revolution in Prussia" (joint with Fabian Wahl) |
11 February *(Please note this seminar has been cancelled due to storm Ciara)* |
Gabriel Ahfeldt (London School of Economics) | "The spatial equilibrium with migration costs" (joint with Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel) |
18 February *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Ferdinand Rauch (University of Oxford) | "Economic Geography Aspects of the Panama Canal" (joint with Stephan Maurer) |
25 February *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Paolo Pinotti ( Bocconi University) | "Job Loss, Social Insurance, and Criminal Behavior: Evidence from Brazil" Paolo Pinotti |
3 March *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
STUDY/REVIEW WEEK | |
5 March *(4:30pm Room 3051, Arts Building)* |
Sir Paul Collier (Professor of Economics, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University) |
Some Implications of Recent Developments in Evolutionary Biology for the Analysis of Behaviour |
10 March Cancelled new date coming soon *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics) | "Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin's Ethnic Deportations" (joint with Alexandra Jarotschkin) |
| 17 March | Holiday: St. Patrick's Day | |
24 March Cancelled new date coming soon *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Mara Squicciarini (Bocconi University) | "Knowledge Elites and Modernization: Evidence from Revolutionary France" (joint with Nico Voigtlaender) |
31 March Cancelled rescheduled to 6th October 2020 *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
John Gathergood (University of Nottingham) | TBA |
7 April Cancelled new date coming soon *(12:45 - 2pm TRISS Seminar Room)* |
Chloe Le Coq (Stockholm School of Economics) | "How do Nascent Social Entrepreneurs Respond to Rewards? A Field Experiment on Motivations in a Grant Competition" |
18 May Special Covid-19 Webinar Series *(3pm - 4:15pm co-hosted with TRISS )* |
Prof. Edward Glaeser, Harvard Prof. Jessie Handbury, Pennsylvania Prof. Diego Puga, CEMFI |
All seminars are joint seminars with Department of Economics & TRISS unless otherwise indicated.