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.
For questions about the series, please contact one of the organisers: Marie Beigelman, Amrita Dhillon or Leonie Gerhards. For previous seminars, please see the archive page.
Semester one
- 2 October, Bush House (SE) 1.02, 11.00 – 12.00
Kfir Eliaz – Wasonian Persuasion - 9 October, Bush House (S) 3.01, 11.00 – 12.00
Jose De Sousa (U Paris Panthéon-Assas) – Gender Homophily and Feedback in Teams - 16 October, Bush House (S) 3.01, 11.00 – 12.00
Michael Amior – Internal Pay Equity and the Quantity-Quality Trade-Off in Hiring - 23 October, Bush House (S) 3.01, 11.00 – 12.00
Marie Beigelman – From Slavery to Freedom - 30 October, Bush House (S) 3.01, 11.00 – 12.00
Danae Arroyos-Calvera (U Birmingham) – Revealing Giving Types through Information Acquisition
- Reading week 3 – 7 November
- 13 November, Bush House (SE) 1.01, 13.00 – 14.00
Felipe Gonzalez – Civilian-Police Interactions and State Trust: Evidence from Latin America - 20 November, Bush House (S) 3.01, 11.00 – 12.00
Bruno Carvalho (U Alcalá) – When Schools Close: Mothers’ Burden, Bargaining Power and a Gender-neutral Policy. - 27 November, Bush House (S) 3.01, 11.00 – 12.00
Weijia Li (Monash) – An Economic Theory of Salvation Religions - 4 December, Bush House (SE) 2.01, 13.00 – 14.00
Anvita Ramachandran (U Oxford) – Too Few Migrants? Workforce Composition and Labour Volatility in Firms - 11 December, Bush House (S) 3.01, 13.00 – 14.00
Eduin Latimer – Please hold for disability benefits: how do administrative burdens affect takeup for disability benefits? - 18 December, Bush House (S) 3.01, 13.00 – 14.00
Zahra Murad (Portsmouth) – AI, gender and fairness: How technology access reshapes evaluation and desert
Semester two
- 15 January, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Thanos Mergoupis (U Bath) – Feedback and Learning in Higher Education: A field experiment with exam retrievals - 22 January, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Felipe Gonzalez – What happens when a drug gang controls your block? - 29 January, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Sudipta Sarangi (Virginia Tech) – Influence and Counter-Influence in Networks - 5 February, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Gabriel Leon Ablan - Geopolitics and institutional change: the Napoleonic wars and the abolition of the British slave trade - 12 February, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Florian Münch (LSE, KCL) – Global Export Restrictions on Critical Minerals and Upgrading in Green Value Chains - 19 February, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Mary O’Mahony – Mental health in the workplace: Is Gen Z different?
- Reading week 23 – 27 February
- 5 March, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Violeta Haas (Toulouse School of Economics) – The Police as Gatekeepers of Information: Immigration Salience and Selective Crime Reporting - 12 March, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Andrea Tesei (QMUL) – The international Transmission of Democratic Values: Evidence from African Migration to Europe - 19 March, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Dimitrios Minos – Economic Incentives and Public Health - 26 March, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Yonatan Berman – Unexpected Deaths and Wealth Transfers: Estimating Inheritance Tax Planning in the United Kingdom - 16 April, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Federica Braccioli (WU Vienna) – Stigma and Policy Preferences in Taboo Markets: Sex Work Decriminalisation. - 23 April, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Karna Basu (Hunter College, CUNY) – Threats to Commitment: Bank Regulation and Governance under Renegotiation Concerns. - 30 April, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Alejandro Martinez-Marquina (U Southern California) – The Backlash of Gender Quotas.
Semester three
- 7 May, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
John Morrow (QMUL) – Firms in Product Space. - 14 May, Bush House, (NE) 9.03, 13.00 – 14.00
Milena Almagro (Chicago Booth) – Choices or Constraints? Disentangling Preferences from Restrictions in Housing Markets. - 15 May, Bush House, (SE) 2.09, 13.00 – 14.00
David Gill (Purdue University) – Dynamic investment in teamwork skill: Theory and experimental evidence