The King's Business School Seminar in Economics is a weekly seminar on Wednesdays from 14.00–15.15. Some of our seminars are organised jointly with the Department of Political Economy (DPE) and the Department of International Development (DID).
King's Business School Seminars in Economics for the academic year 2024-2025
- 25 September 2024: Michael Amior (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Immigration, Monopsony and the Distribution of Firm Pay
- 2 October 2024: Isabelle Mejean (Sciences Po) – Firms’ Supply Chain Adaptation to Carbon Taxes
- 9 October 2024 [Joint seminar with DPE and DID]: Kfir Eliaz (Tel Aviv University) – News Media as Suppliers of Narratives (and Information)
- 16 October 2024: Mounu Prem (Einaudi Institute EIEF) – Government Support in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Chile’s Road to Socialism
- 23 October 2024 [Joint seminar with DPE and DID]: Catherine Thomas (London School of Economics) – Incomplete Contracts in Commodities Trade: Evidence from LNG
- 30 October 2024 [Joint seminar with DPE and DID]: Lise Vesterlund (University of Pittsburgh) – Gendered Work: Onset and Consequences
- 6 November 2024: Katharina Bergant (International Monetary Fund) – Cross-border Spillovers: How US Financial Conditions affect M&As Around the World
- 13 November 2024 [Joint seminar with DPE and DID]: Alex Gershkov (University of Surrey / Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Optimal Security Design for Risk-Averse Investors
- 27 November 2024 [Joint seminar with DPE and DID]: Banu Demir (Oxford) – Breaking Invisible Barriers: Does Fast Internet Improve Access to Input Markets
- 4 December 2024: Fabio Canova (Norwegian Business School) – Does the Transmission of Monetary Policy Change When Inflation is High?
- 15 January 2025: Alex Whalley (University of Calgary) – Researchers, Ideas, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Vietnam War Draft Avoidance
- 22 January 2025: Juan Pablo Rud (Royal Holloway, University of London) – Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditure and Local Economies
- 5 March 2025: Sam Jindani (National University of Singapore) – The Dynamics of Harmful Norms
- 11 March 2025: Katia Zhuravskaya (Paris School of Economics) – Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth
- 19 March 2025: Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford) – Exporting the Surveillance State via Trade in AI
- 28 May 2025: Eran Yashiv (Tel Aviv University) – Integrating Macroeconomic and Public Health Impacts in Social Planning Policies for Pandemic Response
- 4 June 2025: Ragan Petrie (Texas A&M University) – TBC
- 5 June 2025: Marco Castillo (Texas A&M University) – TBC