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Previous Research Seminars in Economics

The Economics Group of King's Business School organises bi-weekly research seminars in finance. The following research seminars are from previous years. 

 

2021/2022 Academic Year

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”

2020/2021 Academic Year

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”

2019/2020 Academic Year

  • 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

2018/2019 Academic Year