Seminar Series
Research Seminar Series 2017-2018
Seminars are held on Tuesdays 12.30 to 2 pm in TRISS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, unless otherwise indicated
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| *Thursday September 21* | Markus Eberhardt (University of Nottingham) | Banking Crises and the International Transmission of Vulnerability (joint with Jakob Madsen and Andrea Presbitero) |
| 26 September | Davide Cantoni (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München ) | Persistence and Activation of Right-Wing Political Ideology (joint with Hagemeister, Felix and Westcott, Mark) |
| 3 October | Ruben Enikopolov (Pompeu Fabra) | Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia (joint with Alexey Makarin and Maria Petrova), |
| *Monday 9 October* (TRISS Seminar Room) | Michael McMahon (University of Oxford) | The Long-Run Information Effect of Central Bank Text (joint with Stephen Hansen and Matthew Tong) |
| 17 October | Mary Everett (Central Bank of Ireland) | Cross-border spillovers of monetary policy: what changes during a banking crisis? (joint with Luciana Barbosa, Diana Bonfim and Sónia Costa) |
| *Monday 23 October (TRISS Seminar Room) | Asim Khwaja (Harvard University) | Crossing Boundaries: Experimental Evidence on Access Constraints for Women ( joint with Ali Cheema, Farooq Nasser and Jacob Shapiro) |
| 24 October | Massimo Morelli (Bocconi University) | From Weber to Kafka: Political Activism and the Emergence of an Inefficient Bureaucracy (joint with Gabriele Gratton, Luigi Guiso and Claudio Michelacciz) |
| 31 October | Eren Arbatli (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) | Minorities, Human Capital and Long-term Development: Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey ( joint with Gunes Gokmen) |
| 7 November | READING WEEK | |
| *13 November ( Room 3020, Arts Building) | Pamela Campa (University of Calgary) | Politico-Economic Regimes and Attitudes: Female Workers under State-Socialism ( joint with Michel Serafinelli) |
| 14 November | Philippe Martin (Sciences Po) | The International Elasticity Puzzle Is Worse Than You Think (joint with Lionel Fontagné) |
| 21 November | Cezar Santos (Getulio Vargas Foundation) | Family Planning and Development: Aggregate Effects of Contraceptive Use (joint with Tiago Cavalcanti and Georgi Kocharkov) |
| 28 November | Sandra Sequeira ( London School of Economics) | Migrants and the Making of America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration during the Age of Mass Migration ( joint withNathan Nunn and Nancy Qian) |
| 5 December | Massimo Filippini (ETH Zürich) | Narrowing the energy efficiency gap: The impact of educational programs, online support tools and energy-related investment literacy (joint with J. Blasch,N. Kumar and A. Martinez.Cruz) |
| *8 December (12.00 -13.00- TRISS Seminar Room) | Michel Serafinelli (University of Toronto) | Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations: Evidence from Ethiopia ( joint with Girum Abebe and Margaret McMillan) |
| 12 December | Pramila Krishnan (University of Oxford) | Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods (joint with Jan Willem Gunning, Andualem Telaye) |
| 16 January | Helios Herrera (University of Warwick) | Populism: Demand and Supply (joint with L. Guiso, M. Morelli and T. Sonno) |
| 23 January | Yi Huang (The Graduate Institute Geneva) | Local Crowding Out in China (joint with Marco Pagano and Ugo Panizza) |
| 30 January | Elisabeth Sadoulet (UC Berkeley) | Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand (joint with Alain de Janvry) |
| * Wednesday 31 January* 12.00-13.30, Global Room, Watt Building. | Alain De Janvry (UC Berkeley) | Agricultural technology adoption, field experiments, and development |
| 6 February | No seminar on this date | |
| 13 February | Peter McQuade (Central Bank of Ireland) | America First? A US-centric view of global capital flows ( joint with Martin Schmitz) |
| 20 February | Guy Michaels (London School of Economics) | Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania ( joint with Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah and Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin) |
| 23 February (Room 3020, Arts Building) | Joachim Voth (University of Zurich) | Rage against the Machines: Labour-Saving Technology and Unrest in England, 1830-32 (joint with Bruno Caprettini) |
| 27 February | READING WEEK | |
| 6 March | Jon Hoddenbagh (Johns Hopkins University) | Optimal Fiscal Transfers in a Monetary Union (joint with Mikhail Dmitriev) |
| 13 March | Martina Björkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of Economics) | Preferences Versus Bargaining Power: The Effects of Targeting Mothers and Fathers to Improve Child Health (joint with Seema Jayachandran) |
| 20 March | Silvia Prina (Case Western Reserve University) | When incentives backfire: Spillover effects in food choice (joint with Manuela Angelucci, Heather Royer and Anya Samek. |
| 27 March | Benjamin Elsner (UCD) | The Human Capital Cost of Radiation: Long-term Evidence from outside the Womb (joint with Florian Wozny) |
| 3 April | Sara Eugeni (Durham University) | Exchange rate volatility and welfare in an incomplete markets' economy |
| 6 April (Room 3020 Arts Building) | Imran Rasul (UCL) | Social Ties, Identity and the Delivery of Public Services |
| 17 April | Martin Ravallion (Georgetown University) | Informational Constraints on Antipoverty Policies: Evidence for Africa |
All seminars are joint seminars with Department of Economics & TRISS unless otherwise indicated.