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Previous Research Seminars in Economics

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

 

2022/2023 Academic Year

Semester 1

  • 5 October 2022: Ghazala Azmat (Paris Sciences Po) – “ICT and Student Learning”

 

  • 12 October 2022: Thomas Lubik (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) – “Searching for Hysteresis”

 

  • 19 October 2022: Anthony Savagar (University of Kent) – “Returns to Scale and Productivity in the Macroeconomy”

 

  • 26 October 2022: Vladimir Tyazhelnikov (University of Sydney) – “Russian Counter-Sanctions and Smuggling: Forensics with Structural Gravity Estimation”

 

  • 2 November 2022: Frank Schilbach (MIT Economics) – “Not Learning from Others” & “Learning in the Household”

 

  • 9 November 2022: Sonia Bhalotra (University of Warwick) – “Antidepressant Use and School Academic Achievement”

 

  • 23 November 2022: Imran Rasul (University College London) – “Distributional Impacts of Early Childhood Interventions Within Families: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria”

 

  • 7 December 2022: Michael Vlassopoulos (University of Southampton) – “Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model”

 

 

Semester 2

  • 15 February 2023: Abi Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford) – “Violence Against Women at Work”

 

  • 8 March 2023: Friederike Mengel (University of Essex) – “Influence in Social Network”

 

  • 22 March 2023: Andrea Tesei (Queen Mary University) – “Mobile Internet and the Rise of Communitarian Politics in Europe”

 

  • 26 April 2023: Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol) – “The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Repeal of the Corn Laws”

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

  • 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"

 

 

Previous Economics Brownbag Seminar Series events

The Economics Brownbag Seminars are organised by the Economics at King's initiative which brings together economists from the Department of Economics at King's Business School, and the Department of Political Economy and the Department of International Development in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy.

2022-2023 Academic Year

Semester 1

  • 10 November 2022 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Bouke Klein Teeselink (DPE) – “Shifting involvements or shifting identities? The effect of secularisation on polarisation and economic behaviour”
  • 1 December 2022 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Amrita Dhillon (DPE) – "Information, beliefs and activism: An experiment"
  • 8 December 2022 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Alice Dominici (Visiting, JCM) – "Targeting vaccine information framing: a randomized trial!

Semester 2

  • 19 January 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Mamadou Sacko (Visiting JMC) – 'Terrorism and Reporting on Immigration in the Media: Evidence from France'
  • 2 February 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Ian Levely (DPE) – 'Cosmopolitan norms: can ethnic diversity strengthen institutions?'
  • 16 February 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Vikram Bahure (DID)  – 'Education and Domestic Violence: Evidence from a Large-Scale School Construction Program in India'
  • 2 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Cevat Giray Aksoy (DPE) – 'Violence in Hometown and Human Capital Decisions of Refugee Children'
  • 9 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Julia F Engel (Visiting JMC) – 'Chess, Gender, and Tournament Dynamics'
  • 16 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    No seminar
  • 30 March 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 12:00-13:00
    Sanchari Roy (DID) – 'Psychological empowerment and Female Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Self-help Groups in India'
  • 26 April 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
    No seminar
  • 3 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
    John Morrow (KBS) – 'Firms in Product Space: Adoption, Growth and Competition'
  • 10 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
    Alberto Vesperoni (DPE) – 'Measuring Wealth: Income Capitalization with Heterogeneous Rates of Return'
  • 17 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
    Elodie Andrieu – 'Multi-establishment Firm Structure and Subsidies'
  • 24 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
    Kostas Matakos/Nina Weber (DPE) – 'Victim-blaming Norms and Gender-based Violence: Self-interest or Morality Drive Policy and Behavior Change?'
  • 31 May 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01
    Abu Siddique (DPE) – 'Edutainment, Social Network, and Ethnic Discrimination in Rural Bangladesh'
  • 7 June 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 14:00-15:00
    Yonatan Berman (DPE) – 'Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality using a Simplified Multiplier Method'
  • 14 June 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 14:00-15:00
    Omid Mazdak (KBS) – 'Graduate Salary Gaps in England Explained by Socio-Economic Background and Ethnicity'
  • 21 June 2023 – Bush House (NE) -1.01 – 14:00-15:00
    Pierre-Louis Vézina (DPE) – 'Trade Policy and Jobs in Vietnam: The Unintended Consequences of Trump’s Trade War'
  • 27 June 2023 – Bush House (S) 4.04 – 14:00-15:00
    Heiner Schumacher (Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck) - 'Work Meaning and Fair Wages'