Events
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Wednesday 18 March 3:00pm - 4:00pm Meet & Engage (Online)
The Department of Economics is delighted to welcome Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, a distinguished alumnus, global economist, and UN Special Envoy on Financing Sustai...
Friday 27 February 1:00pm - 2:00pm L5\Event Overview
- Thu23Apr
CenTax Residential Conference 2026
- Mon27Apr
Economic History Seminar - Marc Goni (Bergen)
Title to be advised.
- Tue28Apr
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - David Yanagizawa (Zurich)
Title to be advised.
- Wed29Apr
CRETA Seminar - Alex Smolin (Toulouse)
Title: Robust Trust (with Piotr Dworczak)
Abstract: An agent chooses an action based on her private information and a recommendation from an informed but potentially misaligned adviser. With a known probability, the adviser truthfully reports his signal; with the remaining probability, he can send any message. We characterize optimal robust decision rules that maximize the agent's worst-case expected payoff. Every optimal rule is equivalent to a trust-region policy i belief space: the adviser's reported beliefs are taken at face value if they fall within the trust region but are otherwise clipped to the trust region's boundary. We derive alignment thresholds above which advice is strictly valuable and fully characterize the solution in both binary-state and binary-action environments.
- Thu30Apr
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) Seminar - Ilia Krasikov (Arizona State University)
Title: Reduced Forms: Feasibility, Extremality, Optimality
- Thu30Apr
AMRG (Applied Microeconomics Reading Group)
- Thu30Apr
DR@W Forum: Marc Kaufmann (CEU)
Details TBC
- Tue05May
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Siwan Anderson (UBC)
Title to be advised.
- Wed06May
Econometrics Seminar - Antonio Galvao (Michigan State)
Title to be advised.
- Wed06May
CRETA Seminar - Xiaosheng Mu (Princeton)
Title to be advised.
- Thu07May
PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Gustavo Bobonis (Toronto)
Title to be advised
- Thu07May
Faculty Seminar - Fabio Arico (East Anglia)
Title: The Impact of Technology-Enhanced Learning on Students with Learning Differences in Higher Education: challenging the norm
Professor Fabio Aricò, Centre for Higher Education Research Practice Policy and Scholarship (CHERPPS), University of East Anglia
This talk presents findings from qualitative research exploring how technology-enhanced learning (TEL) is experienced by undergraduate students with specific learning differences (SpLDs) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), alongside the perspectives of their lecturers. Drawing on interview data, the study challenges assumptions that TEL is inherently inclusive, showing that its benefits are uneven and shaped by pedagogy, institutional practices, and context. The session highlights implications for inclusive pedagogy, staff development, and TEL policy in higher education, while also reflecting on the pedagogical research design and methodological choices underpinning the study
- Thu07May
Econometrics Seminar - Toru Kitagawa (Brown)
Title to be advised
- Thu07May
DR@W Forum: Erik Stuchly (Hamburg)
Do people predict others’ decisions by repeated sampling of simulated outcomes?
- Thu07May
EBER Seminar - Etienne Le Rossignol (University de Namur)
Title: Scope of Trust: Origins and Consequences
- Fri08May
Computational History Workshop
- Mon11May
Econometrics Seminar - Wendun Wang (EUR)
Title: Synthetic Control and Synthetic Difference-in-Differences: An Asymptotic Optimality Perspective
- Tue12May
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Kelsey Jack (UC Berkeley)
Title: Health Insurance for Seasonal Savings: Evidence from Rural Côte d'Ivoire
Authors: Günther Fink, B. Kelsey Jack, Renate Strobl, Dao Daouda
Abstract: Households in low-income agricultural economies face large seasonal fluctuations in income and limited access to financial tools for smoothing consumption. In such settings, health insurance can serve not only as risk protection, but also as a state-contingent savings technology, transferring resources from high-income harvest periods to low-income lean periods. We study the rollout of Côte d'Ivoire's national health insurance scheme in a context with high morbidity, substantial out-of-pocket expenditures, and pronounced income seasonality---conditions under which the potential welfare gains from insurance are particularly large. Using a randomized subsidy design among 2,468 cocoa-farming households, we show that insurance demand is highly responsive to both price and cash-on-hand liquidity. Despite strong demand and actuarially favorable pricing, we find limited effects on health spending or consumption. We show that this disconnect arises from frictions in accessing benefits, including weak verification and reimbursement environments that limit providers' willingness to honor coverage without immediate proof. Our results highlight the importance of implementation, trust, and contract enforceability in determining the welfare impacts of social insurance.
- Wed13May
CRETA Theory Seminar - Marilyn Pease (Indiana University)
Title: Follow the Leader? Coordination Motives in Sequential Information Acquisition (joint with Mark Whitmeyer)
- Thu14May
Political Economy & Public Economics Seminar - Francesco Trebbi (UoCalifornia, Berkeley)
Title: Decoupling Taste-Based versus Statistical Discrimination in ElectionsLink opens in a new window (with Amanda de Albuquerque, Fred Finan, Anubhav Jha, and Laura Karpuska)
- Thu14May
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Maryam Saeedi (Carnegie Mellon)
Title to be advised.
- Thu14May
Macro/International Seminar - Olivia Bordeu (Berkeley)
Title: Bank Branches and the Allocation of Capital across Cities (with Gustavo Gonzalez, Marcos Sora).
- Thu14May
DR@W/EBER Seminar - Katie Coffman (Harvard Business School)
Details TBC
- Mon18May
Econometrics Seminar - Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua)
Title to be advised.
- Tue19May
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - David Lagakos (BU)
Title: Is the Electricity Sector a Weak Link in Development? (joint with Martin Shu and Jonathan Colmer)
- Wed20May
CRETA Theory Seminar - Dilip Abreu (New York)
Title to be advised.
- Thu21May
PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Leonardo Bursztyn (Chicago)
Title to be advised.
- Thu21May
Macro/International Seminar - Nicolas Crozet
Title to be advised.
- Thu21May
AMRG (Applied Microeconomics Reading Group)
- Thu21May
DR@W/EBER Seminar: Andis Sofianos (Durham)
Details TBC
- Thu21May
EBER Seminar - Andis Sofianos (Durham)
Title to be advised.
- Tue26May
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Guy Pincus (Harvard)
Title to be advised.
- Wed27May
Econometrics Seminar - Federico Ciliberto (Virgina)
Title to be advised.
- Wed27May
CRETA Seminar - Rohit Lamba (Cornell)
Title to be advsied
- Thu28May
Political Economy Seminar - Chris Roth (Cologne)
Title to be advised.
- Thu28May
DR@W Forum: Davide Pace (LMU)
Fairness views about the International Distribution of Climate Change Costs (With Johanna Kober)
- Tue02Jun
Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Oded Galor (Brown)
Title to be advised.
- Wed03Jun
CRETA Theory Seminar - to be advised.
Title to be advised.
- Thu04Jun
AMRG (Applied Microeconomics Reading Group)
- Mon08Jun
Economic History Seminar - Ferdinand Rauch (St Gallen)
Title to be advised.
- Thu11Jun
Macro/International Economics Seminar - Sephorah Mangin (ANU)
Title to be advised.
- Thu11Jun
DR@W Forum: Marc Scholten (IADE)
Details TBC
- Thu18Jun
AMRG (Applied Microeconomics Reading Group)
- Sun21Jun
CAGE Summer School 2026
- Mon27Apr
Economic History Seminar - Marc Goni (Bergen)
Title to be advised.
- Wed29Apr
CRETA Seminar - Alex Smolin (Toulouse)
Title: Robust Trust (with Piotr Dworczak)
Abstract: An agent chooses an action based on her private information and a recommendation from an informed but potentially misaligned adviser. With a known probability, the adviser truthfully reports his signal; with the remaining probability, he can send any message. We characterize optimal robust decision rules that maximize the agent's worst-case expected payoff. Every optimal rule is equivalent to a trust-region policy i belief space: the adviser's reported beliefs are taken at face value if they fall within the trust region but are otherwise clipped to the trust region's boundary. We derive alignment thresholds above which advice is strictly valuable and fully characterize the solution in both binary-state and binary-action environments.
- Wed06May
Econometrics Seminar - Antonio Galvao (Michigan State)
Title to be advised.
- Wed06May
CRETA Seminar - Xiaosheng Mu (Princeton)
Title to be advised.
- Thu07May
Econometrics Seminar - Toru Kitagawa (Brown)
Title to be advised
- Mon11May
Econometrics Seminar - Wendun Wang (EUR)
Title: Synthetic Control and Synthetic Difference-in-Differences: An Asymptotic Optimality Perspective
- Wed13May
CRETA Theory Seminar - Marilyn Pease (Indiana University)
Title: Follow the Leader? Coordination Motives in Sequential Information Acquisition (joint with Mark Whitmeyer)
- Thu14May
Macro/International Seminar - Olivia Bordeu (Berkeley)
Title: Bank Branches and the Allocation of Capital across Cities (with Gustavo Gonzalez, Marcos Sora).
- Mon18May
Econometrics Seminar - Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua)
Title to be advised.
- Wed20May
CRETA Theory Seminar - Dilip Abreu (New York)
Title to be advised.
- Thu21May
Macro/International Seminar - Nicolas Crozet
Title to be advised.
- Wed27May
Econometrics Seminar - Federico Ciliberto (Virgina)
Title to be advised.
- Wed27May
CRETA Seminar - Rohit Lamba (Cornell)
Title to be advsied
- Wed03Jun
CRETA Theory Seminar - to be advised.
Title to be advised.
- Mon08Jun
Economic History Seminar - Ferdinand Rauch (St Gallen)
Title to be advised.
- Thu11Jun
Macro/International Economics Seminar - Sephorah Mangin (ANU)
Title to be advised.
About our events
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