Previous Research Seminars in Economics

Semester 1

• 29 September 2021: Marta Serra-Garcia (UCSD) – “Cognitive Flexibility or Moral Commitment? Evidence of Anticipated Belief Distortion”

• 27 October 2021: Eyal Winter (Lancaster University & Hebrew University) – “On Stars and Galaxies: Exploiting Social Influence in Networks”

• 3 November 2021: Sebastian Stumpner (Banque du France) — "From Macro to Micro: Heterogeneous Exporters in the Pandemic"

• 17 November 2021: Nathan Lane (Oxford) – “Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea”

• 1 December 2021: Danila Serra (Texas A&M) – “Proud to belong: The impact of ethics training on police officers in Ghana”

Semester 2

• 19 January 2022: Alex Teytelboym (Oxford) – “Learning by Matching”

• 16 February 2022: Robert Dur (Erasmus University) - “How do voters think about policy experimentation?”

• 11 March 2022: Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) – “Authoritarian Policies, Trust and Public Service Utilization: Evidence from a Forced Sterilization Program in Perú”

• 23 March 2022: Melanie Xue (LSE) – “Women and Asylum”

• 6 April 2022: Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson School of Management) – “The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States”
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• 20 April 2022: Tim Lee (QMUL) –  “Transforming Institutions: Labor Reallocation and Wage Growth in a Reunified Germany”

• 18 May 2022: Cecilia Garcia Penalosa (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) – “Spreading the polarisation disease: From the labor market to social mobility”

Semester 1

• 7 October 2020, 12.00-13.15
  Francesco Bianchi (Duke University) - "Belief Distortions and Macroeconomic Fluctuations" with Sydney Ludvigson and Sai Ma
  Seminar via Zoom Meeting.
  King's staff and students will receive a link by email. If you are not part of King's College London and want to attend the seminar, you can register by writing to michele.piffer@kcl.ac.uk
• 21 October 2020
  Sigrid Suetens (Tilburg University) - "Exposure to ethnic minorities changes attitudes to them"
• 11 November 2020
  Bard Harstad (University of Oslo) - "Trade and trees"
• 18 November 2020, 14.00-15.30 
  Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex) - Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings: Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden (joint work with Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Nina Schwarz).
• 25 November 2020
  Karen Macours (Paris School of Economics) - “Social learning in agriculture: does smallholder heterogeneity impede technology diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa?”
• 9 December 2020
  Sule Alan (European University Institute) - “Social Exclusion and Ethnic Segregation in Schools: The Role of Teacher’s Ethnic Prejudice”

Semester 2

• 27 January 2021
  Ralf Martin (Imperial College London) – "Clean industrial policy: standing on the shoulders of giant gnomes?"
• 10 February 2021
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) – "Reconciliation Narratives - The Birth of a Nation after the US Civil War"
• 3 March 2021
  Evi Pappa (University Carlos III de Madrid) – "What are the likely macroeconomic effects of the EU recovery plan?"

• 17 March 2021
  Uta Schoenberg (University College London) – “Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply – Evidence from the German reunification”

• 9 October 2019
  Antonio Cabrales (University College London) – 'Institutions and Prosocial Behavior'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 13.00 – 14.00
• 23 October 2019
  Alessandro Riboni (École Polytechnique) – 'Fiscal rules as bargaining chips'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 13 November 2019
  Thomas Buser (University of Amsterdam) – 'Can competitiveness predict education and labour market outcomes? Evidence from incentivised choices and survey measures'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 27 November 2019
  Gilat Levy (London School of Economics) – 'Mis-specified politics and the recurrence of populism'
  Bush House, Room (S)2.04, 12.00 – 13.30
• 11 December 2019
  Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) – 'Folklore'
  Bush House, Room (SE)1.01, 12.00 – 13.30

• 15 January 2020
  Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris) – 'It takes money to make MPs: New evidence from 150 years of British Campaign Spending'
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 29 January 2020
  Roland Bénabou (Princeton University) – 'Narratives, Imperatives, and Moral Persuasion'
  Bush House, Room (S)2.02, 12.30 – 14.00
• 26 February 2020
  Noam Yuchtman (London School of Economics) – 'Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI firms in China' 
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 18 March 2020
  Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University) – “TBA”
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 25 March 2020
  Patrick Bolton (Columbia Business School) – “TBA”
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30
• 8 April 2020
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne) – “TBA”
  Bush House, Room (S)3.01, 12.00 – 13.30

• 3 October 2018: Vince Crawford - University of Oxford: "Efficient Mechanisms for Level-k Bilateral Trading"

• 17 October 2018: David Yanagizawa-Drott - University of Zurich: "Misperceived Social Norms: Female Labor Force Participation in Saudi Arabia"

• 14 November 2018: Eric Chaney - University of Oxford: "Religion and the Rise and Fall of Islamic Science"

• 28 November 2018: Katia Zhuravskaya - Paris School of Economics: "Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers."
  • Please note: this seminar will take place in Bush House (SE)2.09 at 13:00-14:30

• 12 December 2018: Pramila Krishnan - University of Oxford:"Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods."

• 16 January 2019: Barbara Petrongolo - Queen Mary University London: "Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms".
• 30 January 2019: Matteo Iacoviello - Federal Reserve Board Washington DC: "Measuring Geopolitical Risk"
• 13 February 2019: Luigi Pascali - Universitat Pompeu Fabra: "Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy"
• 27 February 2019: Alessandra Casella - Columbia University: "An Experimental Study of Vote Trading"
• 13 March 2019: Laurent Bouton - Georgetown University: "Electoral Systems and Inequalities in Government Interventions"
• 27 March 2019: Alessandro Tarozzi - Universitat Pompeu Fabra: "Demand for Information on Environmental Health Risk, Mode of Delivery, and Behavioral Change: Evidence from Sonargaon, Bangladesh"