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Economics Policy Talks 2025: Global Trade Realignment: Winners and Losers in the New Geoeconomics

The Department of Economics, Warwick Women in Economics, Warwick Economic Summit, and the Warwick Economics Society are pleased to present the third edition ...

Wednesday 19 November 10:00am - 11:00am

Event Overview

  • Tue18Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Sotiris Blanas (WMG)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title: The Implications of the Interplay between Global Value Chains and Technology for Labour Productivity and Demand.

  • Tue18Nov

    CWIP Workshop - Juliana Cunha Carneiro Pinto

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: Transitory health shocks, human capital and crime: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in Brazil.

    Abstract: This paper provides the first causal evidence on the effects of dengue fever on educational and

    behavioural outcomes. Using matched administrative data linking official dengue notifications,

    school census records, and police reports for the universe of public secondary school students in

    Minas Gerais, Brazil, we estimate the impact of individual health shocks on grade progression,

    dropout, and subsequent involvement in crime. Identification exploits within-school and within-

    neighbourhood variation in dengue exposure over an eleven-year period, with rich student and

    classroom controls and detailed temperature measures. We find that dengue infections during

    the school year increase grade retention by about 5 percent and school dropout by roughly

    4 percent relative to baseline means. Linking the same students to police records, we show that

    dengue infections also raise criminal involvement by 9–12 percent in the following years, driven

    primarily by property and violent offenses. The results reveal that even short-lived illnesses can

    have lasting consequences for human capital formation and youth behaviour, underscoring the

    broader social costs of infectious diseases and the potential gains from targeted vaccination and

    vector-control policies.

  • Tue18Nov

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Atilla Lindner (UCL)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Labor Market Tightness, Wage Inequality and Workplace Amenities

    Authors: Aniko Bıro, Joao G. da Fonseca, Attila Lindner, Tımea Laura Molnar

    Abstract - Workplace-specific pay premiums and their dispersion rise with labor market tight-ness. We examine the role of compensating wage differentials in this relationship: as competition for labor intensifies, firms are compelled to offer higher pay for undesirable job attributes. Using administrative data from Hungary, we construct a novel measure of workplace-specific injury rates and study how workers are compensated for this negative attribute over the business cycle. We find that the wage premium associated with hazardous working conditions increases with market tightness, with compensation for workplace-specific injuries accounting for roughly 7% of the rise in wage dispersion. Nonetheless, despite offering higher wages, firms with poor amenities face increasing challenges in retaining workers in tight labor markets. We interpret these findings through the lens of a job search model with amenities, showing that while tighter labor markets can raise overall wage dispersion through compensating differentials, the dispersion in worker utilities across jobs declines.

  • Wed19Nov

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Laura Harvey (Loughborough)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.10

    Title: The impact of assessment design on student attainment: an empirical ivestigation across dimensions of equality, diversity and inclusion.

  • Wed19Nov

    Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Wed19Nov

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Andrew Newman (Boston)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Competing for the Quiet Life: An Organizational Theory of Market Structure (with Patrick Legros and Zsolt Udvari).

    ABSTRACT: We develop an incomplete-contracts model of endogenous market structure for a homogeneous-good industry. A large number of identical incentive-constrained producers each decide whether to stand alone as price-taking competitors, or to horizontally integrate with others by selling their assets to profit-motivated professional managers, who then Cournot compete in the product market. Despite the absence of significant technological non-convexities, the equilibrium market structure is often an oligopoly, demonstrating that contracting imperfections are a distinct source of market power. Unlike standard endogenous entry models, concentration may increase with the size of market demand. We discuss some implications for competition policy. We also consider extensions that allow for variation in the degree of contractibility, entry of additional producers into the market, and the emergence of an endogenous competitive fringe.

  • Thu20Nov

    Political Economy & Public Economics Seminar - Ananya Sen (Carnegie Mellon University)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title: GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Abstract: We study how AI-generated misinformation affects demand for trustworthy news, using data from a field experiment by Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), a major German newspaper. Readers were randomly assigned to a treatment that highlighted the difficulty of distinguishing real from AI-generated images. The treatment increased concern over misinformation and reduced trust in all news sources, including SZ itself. Crucially, it also affected post-survey browsing behavior: daily visits to SZ digital content rose by 2.5% in the days following the treatment. In addition, subscriber retention increased by 1.1% over the following five months, corresponding to about a one-third drop in attrition rate. These results are consistent with a model in which the relative value of trustworthy news sources rises with the prevalence of misinformation, boosting engagement with these sources even as trust in news content declines.

  • Thu20Nov

    BERG (Behavioural & Experimental Reading Group) - Michael

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S1.50

    Title: Fairness and the Chairman's Paradox

  • Thu20Nov

    MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Yating Yuan (PGR)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu20Nov

    MIEW (Macro & International Economics Workshop) - Alperen Tosun (PGR)

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu20Nov

    AMRG (Applied Micro Research Group) - Rocio Sanchez-Mangas (Autonomous U of Madrid)

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, S1.50

    Rocío Sánchez-Mangas from Autonomous University of Madrid is an academic visitor in the department and will be presenting at this AMRG.

    Title Bringing qualified, long-term unemployed youth back into the labor market. Evidence from an ALMP in Spain.

  • Mon24Nov

    Econometrics Seminar - Jonathan Wright (Johns Hopkins)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Macroeconomic news announcements and identification of policy shocks in SVARs

    Abstract: This paper considers jumps in asset prices in short windows around macroeconomic news announcements and considers SVAR identification using the assumption that these jumps are not correlated with policy shocks. It switches the usual approach of an external instrument from something that is correlated with only the policy shock to one that is uncorrelated with the policy shock. Frequentist inference is considered. In principle, the approach can achieve point identification. In practice, the proposed instruments are too weak for point identification, but they can be used to sharpen frequentist sign identification. In an application, they reduce the width of confidence intervals for the impulse responses to a monetary policy shock.

  • Mon03Nov

    Econometrics Seminar - Junnan He (Sciences Po)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Random Choice and Differentiation

    Authors: Junnan He and Paulo Natenzon

    Abstract: Differentiation determines the comparability of different options and can be crucial to predict how choice architecture elicits behavioral responses. To facilitate the measurement of differentiation, we develop a flexible yet tractable model of random choice in a multi-attribute setting. We show the analyst can separately identify vertical and horizontal differentiation from binary comparison data alone. We characterize the binary choice rules that arise from our model using four easily understood postulates. In multinomial choice, we show that the intersection of our model with the classic random utility framework yields random coefficients with an elliptical distribution. We provide applications to consumer demand with differentiated products and to measuring the complexity faced by an agent in individual decision-making problems.

  • Tue04Nov

    CWIP Workshop - Yang Zhong (Warwick)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: Working under Distractions

    Abstract: Distractions are pervasive in today’s workplaces, from noisy open-plan offices to digital interruptions. Using an incentivized laboratory experiment, I study the effects of distractions on performance and well-being, elicit willingness to pay to avoid distractions, and validate questionnaire items on resilience in working under distractions. I then incorporate these validated items in a representative Dutch survey panel. I obtain four main results. First, despite having little impact on performance in the lab, distractions are detrimental to individuals' self-reported well-being while working. Second, many individuals are willing to pay to eliminate distractions, and this willingness to pay is negatively correlated with the change in well-being. Third, individual heterogeneity in the impact of distractions on well-being can be captured by questionnaire items. Fourth, resilience to distractions strongly predicts income and job satisfaction in the representative survey data, even conditional on education, sector, and other personality traits.

  • Tue04Nov

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Erzo Luttmer (Dartmouth)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Living Large or Long? Preference Estimates from Completed-Life Stories (joint with Joshua Schwartzstein, Tomáš Jagelka, Amitabh Chandra)

    The paper will not be ready for sharing prior to the seminar, an abstract is as follows:

    ———Extended Abstract ———

    The value of a year of life plays a crucial role in informing policy decisions related to healthcare, the environment, innovation, and safety regulations. Given the significance of a life year’s value for policymaking, estimates should accurately reflect people’s preferences. Currently, estimates are derived from individuals’ observed choices involving small risks of death and monetary compensation, such as their willingness to take riskier jobs for higher pay. However, these estimates have significant limitations: individuals may not correctly perceive small risks, may deviate from rationality for choices involving small probabilities, and those making such choices, like soldiers or firefighters, represent a non-representative sample. Furthermore, unobserved job characteristics related to risk can bias these estimates. Our paper introduces an alternative method for estimating the value of a life year, attempting to overcome these limitations. We present a broadly representative sample of U.S. respondents with choices between pairs of “completed-life stories,” asking which life they would prefer for themselves. By randomizing lifetime earnings and ages of death in each story, we estimate how the probability of choosing a particular story increases with higher lifetime earnings versus a later age of death. We find that a 7% increase in lifetime earnings increases the choice probability as much as a 1% increase in longevity, implying a Life Year Value (LYV) elasticity of 7. Consequently, a typical individual with median earnings of $80,000 annually values an additional life year at age 80 as equivalent to receiving an additional $5,700 per year for all working years, totaling approximately $225,000 over their lifetime. We validate our estimates by demonstrating high test-retest reliability across survey waves and establishing their robustness through a series of specification checks and additional randomizations. Furthermore, we estimate markedly higher LYV elasticities for individuals whose subjective attitudes indicate that they place an above-average value on an additional life year. A key methodological advantage of our approach is that respondents engage in a natural task—assessing whether a life was desirable—which avoids triggering cultural or social norms about paying for life extension. Moreover, our method does not entail decisions under uncertainty, thereby avoiding many known behavioral biases. An important substantive advantage of our approach is that it allows us to estimate how the Life Year Value varies with respondent characteristics, age of death, and lifetime earnings in a broadly representative population. We find that the LYV increases with lifetime earnings and decreases with later life years. Even when holding constant lifetime earnings and age of death, there is notable heterogeneity in the LYV across individuals. This suggests that tailoring policies to individual preferences can result in welfare improvements.

    ——————

  • Tue04Nov

    PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Nicolas Ajzenman (McGill)

    4:00pm - 5:15pm, S0.13

    Title: Informational Roots of Support for Right-Wing Populists: Evidence from Argentina

    Abstract: Support for populist and authoritarian regimes is rising worldwide, despite evidence that they tend to underperform economically. To examine the role of (mis)perceptions of regime performance as drivers of political attitudes, we conducted a survey experiment with 11,400 subjects during Argentina's 2023 presidential elections. At baseline, optimistic beliefs about the performance of populist and non-democratic regimes were widespread, and correlated with support for those regimes. When exposed to randomly assigned informational treatments challenging optimistic views about right-wing populism or autocracies, individuals significantly adjusted their beliefs and their support for candidates associated with populist and authoritarian regimes. We explore the impact of different information sources, showing that academic sources and newspapers are more influential than social media. Although individuals appear to adjust their beliefs and attitudes in response to credible information, we find that information countering people's beliefs reduces their demand for additional information on regime performance, consisted with an important role for motivated reasoning.

  • Wed05Nov

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Prof. Mario Pezzino (Manchester)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, R1.15 (Ramphal building)

    Title: The Role of Teaching and Scholarship Contracts in Higher Education: Reflections and Realities

  • Wed05Nov

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Francisco Poggi (Mannheim)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Strategic concealment in innovation races (joint with Yonggyun Kim).

    Here is a linkLink opens in a new window to the latest version of the draft.

  • Mon10Nov

    Economic History Seminar - David de la Croix (Louvain)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas

  • Mon10Nov

    Econometrics Seminar - Ulrich Muller (Princeton)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Actually Robust Standard Errors, joint with Michal Kolesar.

  • Tue11Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Tamon Asonuma (IMF)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79
    • Title: Heterogeneous Sovereign Debt Crisis Costs
    • Author: Tamon Asonuma, Hyungseok Joo, and Dilek Sevinc

    Abstract: Sovereign debt crisis costs vary across restructurings. We compile data on corporate borrowing from sovereigns’ (governments’) foreign creditor countries in 1977–2020. We find that prior to preemptive restructurings, corporates have higher external borrowing, and during preemptive restructurings, both corporate external borrowing and output decline modestly. We build sovereign debt model with endogenous sovereign’ choice of preemptive and default/post-default restructurings, corporate external borrowing, and output. We quantitatively show that sovereign’s preemptive restructuring choice moderately reduces the foreign creditor’s net worth and corporate external borrowing, which in turn, results in a moderate output decline—“external financing channel”. Data support theoretical predictions.

  • Tue11Nov

    CWIP Workshop - Peter Lambert (Warwick)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: The Aggregate Consequences of Default Risk: Evidence from Firm-level Data

    Authors: Tim Besley, Peter John Lambert, Isabelle Roland, John Van Reenen

    Abstract: We examine the impact of firm-level default risk on aggregate economic performance. First, we develop a micro-to-macro model, and show that firms' perceived default risk serves as a sufficient statistic for credit frictions. We next use this model to quantify the impact of credit frictions, leveraging administrative data on the population of UK employer firms, augmented with a measure of default risk from S&Ps widely used algorithm. Between 2004-2019, credit frictions reduce aggregate output by up to 27%. This output gap due to frictions grew post-financial crisis and again after the Brexit vote. We compare partial and general equilibrium impacts, showing that approaches that abstract equilibrium wage rises significantly over-estimate output gains. Finally, reduced frictions and higher wages create both winners and losers across industries and firm-size groups, highlighting the redistributive role of the uneven access to credit.

  • Tue11Nov

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Silvia Vannutelli (Northwestern)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed12Nov

    AMES Workshop - Menna Bishop (PGR)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: Advance Payments for Seasonal Migration

  • Wed12Nov

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Johannes Horner (Toulouse) - CANCELLED

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    CANCELLED

  • Thu13Nov

    PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Tak-Huen Chau (LSE)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79
    Title: Who Belongs to the Nation?
    Abstract: Why do citizens have differing views on who is 'truly' American, or British, or Chinese? When is one considered 'one of us'? The model endogenizes the composition of the national identity as a bundle of costly traits. Agents face trade-offs between acquiring costly traits, choosing an identity to achieve positive distinctiveness, and shaping others' trait expressions. Views on national identity arise from strategic interactions. The model predicts growing minority group proportion from low levels leads to dominant group members shifting away from 'non-attainable' traits for minorities, such as ancestry and birth, while continuing to emphasize 'attainable' traits, such as language. This strategic shift enables the dominant group to extract maximum behavioral change from minorities in Goldilocks region(s) of intermediate minority proportion. However, continued growth in minority proportions reduces assimilation incentives and shrinks the set of costly traits the dominant group can feasibly demand. This can trigger a backlash to an exclusive identity as the strategic benefits of offering an attainable identity collapse.
  • Thu13Nov

    BERG (Behavioural & Experimental Reading Group) - Matt

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.86

    Title: The effects of emotion avoidance on anti-social behaviour.

  • Thu13Nov

    Macro/International Seminar - Claudia Macaluso (Richmond Fed)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Job Dynamics with Staffed Labor (joint with Andrea Atencio and Chen Yeh).
    Abstract and draft are on Claudia's website.

  • Thu13Nov

    DR@W Forum: Ferdinand Vieider (Ghent)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.007

    New Psychophysics of Risk and Time (with Ryan Oprea)

  • Mon17Nov

    Econometrics Seminar - Myungkou Shin (Surrey)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Distributional treatment effect with latent rank invariance 

    Draft of paper is here: https://myungkoushin.com/research/dtelri.pdf.

  • Tue18Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Sotiris Blanas (WMG)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title: The Implications of the Interplay between Global Value Chains and Technology for Labour Productivity and Demand.

  • Tue18Nov

    CWIP Workshop - Juliana Cunha Carneiro Pinto

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: Transitory health shocks, human capital and crime: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in Brazil.

    Abstract: This paper provides the first causal evidence on the effects of dengue fever on educational and

    behavioural outcomes. Using matched administrative data linking official dengue notifications,

    school census records, and police reports for the universe of public secondary school students in

    Minas Gerais, Brazil, we estimate the impact of individual health shocks on grade progression,

    dropout, and subsequent involvement in crime. Identification exploits within-school and within-

    neighbourhood variation in dengue exposure over an eleven-year period, with rich student and

    classroom controls and detailed temperature measures. We find that dengue infections during

    the school year increase grade retention by about 5 percent and school dropout by roughly

    4 percent relative to baseline means. Linking the same students to police records, we show that

    dengue infections also raise criminal involvement by 9–12 percent in the following years, driven

    primarily by property and violent offenses. The results reveal that even short-lived illnesses can

    have lasting consequences for human capital formation and youth behaviour, underscoring the

    broader social costs of infectious diseases and the potential gains from targeted vaccination and

    vector-control policies.

  • Tue18Nov

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Atilla Lindner (UCL)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Labor Market Tightness, Wage Inequality and Workplace Amenities

    Authors: Aniko Bıro, Joao G. da Fonseca, Attila Lindner, Tımea Laura Molnar

    Abstract - Workplace-specific pay premiums and their dispersion rise with labor market tight-ness. We examine the role of compensating wage differentials in this relationship: as competition for labor intensifies, firms are compelled to offer higher pay for undesirable job attributes. Using administrative data from Hungary, we construct a novel measure of workplace-specific injury rates and study how workers are compensated for this negative attribute over the business cycle. We find that the wage premium associated with hazardous working conditions increases with market tightness, with compensation for workplace-specific injuries accounting for roughly 7% of the rise in wage dispersion. Nonetheless, despite offering higher wages, firms with poor amenities face increasing challenges in retaining workers in tight labor markets. We interpret these findings through the lens of a job search model with amenities, showing that while tighter labor markets can raise overall wage dispersion through compensating differentials, the dispersion in worker utilities across jobs declines.

  • Wed19Nov

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Laura Harvey (Loughborough)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.10

    Title: The impact of assessment design on student attainment: an empirical ivestigation across dimensions of equality, diversity and inclusion.

  • Wed19Nov

    Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (online)

    Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.

    Register for Live Chat

  • Wed19Nov

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Andrew Newman (Boston)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Competing for the Quiet Life: An Organizational Theory of Market Structure (with Patrick Legros and Zsolt Udvari).

    ABSTRACT: We develop an incomplete-contracts model of endogenous market structure for a homogeneous-good industry. A large number of identical incentive-constrained producers each decide whether to stand alone as price-taking competitors, or to horizontally integrate with others by selling their assets to profit-motivated professional managers, who then Cournot compete in the product market. Despite the absence of significant technological non-convexities, the equilibrium market structure is often an oligopoly, demonstrating that contracting imperfections are a distinct source of market power. Unlike standard endogenous entry models, concentration may increase with the size of market demand. We discuss some implications for competition policy. We also consider extensions that allow for variation in the degree of contractibility, entry of additional producers into the market, and the emergence of an endogenous competitive fringe.

  • Thu20Nov

    Political Economy & Public Economics Seminar - Ananya Sen (Carnegie Mellon University)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title: GenAI Misinformation, Trust, and News Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Abstract: We study how AI-generated misinformation affects demand for trustworthy news, using data from a field experiment by Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), a major German newspaper. Readers were randomly assigned to a treatment that highlighted the difficulty of distinguishing real from AI-generated images. The treatment increased concern over misinformation and reduced trust in all news sources, including SZ itself. Crucially, it also affected post-survey browsing behavior: daily visits to SZ digital content rose by 2.5% in the days following the treatment. In addition, subscriber retention increased by 1.1% over the following five months, corresponding to about a one-third drop in attrition rate. These results are consistent with a model in which the relative value of trustworthy news sources rises with the prevalence of misinformation, boosting engagement with these sources even as trust in news content declines.

  • Thu20Nov

    BERG (Behavioural & Experimental Reading Group) - Michael

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S1.50

    Title: Fairness and the Chairman's Paradox

  • Thu20Nov

    MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Yating Yuan (PGR)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu20Nov

    AMRG (Applied Micro Research Group) - Rocio Sanchez-Mangas (Autonomous U of Madrid)

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, S1.50

    Rocío Sánchez-Mangas from Autonomous University of Madrid is an academic visitor in the department and will be presenting at this AMRG.

    Title Bringing qualified, long-term unemployed youth back into the labor market. Evidence from an ALMP in Spain.

  • Thu20Nov

    MIEW (Macro & International Economics Workshop) - Alperen Tosun (PGR)

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Mon24Nov

    Econometrics Seminar - Jonathan Wright (Johns Hopkins)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Macroeconomic news announcements and identification of policy shocks in SVARs

    Abstract: This paper considers jumps in asset prices in short windows around macroeconomic news announcements and considers SVAR identification using the assumption that these jumps are not correlated with policy shocks. It switches the usual approach of an external instrument from something that is correlated with only the policy shock to one that is uncorrelated with the policy shock. Frequentist inference is considered. In principle, the approach can achieve point identification. In practice, the proposed instruments are too weak for point identification, but they can be used to sharpen frequentist sign identification. In an application, they reduce the width of confidence intervals for the impulse responses to a monetary policy shock.

  • Tue25Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Andrea Guerrieri D'Amati (PGR)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised

  • Tue25Nov

    CWIP Workshop - Ao Wang

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue25Nov

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Daniel Christomo (Oxford)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed26Nov

    AMES Workshop - Sebanti Mukherjee (PGR) and Yanjun Gao (PGR)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed26Nov

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Alexander Jakobsen (Northwestern)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu27Nov

    PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Leander Heldring (Northwestern Kellogg)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised

  • Thu27Nov

    BERG (Behavioural & Experimental Reading Group) - Malavika

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.86

    Title: Dating: A Markov Process? (joint with Michael Challis)

  • Thu27Nov

    MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Daniele Condorelli (Warwick)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu27Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - David Boll (PGR)

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu27Nov

    EBER Seminar - Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)

    2:30pm - 3:30pm,

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu27Nov

    DR@W/EBER Seminar: Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.007

    Details TBC

  • Mon01Dec

    Econometrics Seminar - Ben Deaner (UCL)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue02Dec

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Damiano

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue02Dec

    CWIP Workshop - Sonia Bhalotra

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue02Dec

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Arushi Kalra (Oxford)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed03Dec

    AMES Workshop - Adam Di Lizia (PGR) and Malavika Mani (PGR)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed03Dec

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Eeva Mauring (Bergen)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu04Dec

    PEPE (Political Economy & Public Economics) Seminar - Peter Schwardmann (Carnegie Mellon)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu04Dec

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Emanuela Lotti (Southampton)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.13

    Title: Aligning UG Research in Economics towards AI-driven Research Skills

  • Thu04Dec

    MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Andrew Harkins (Warwick)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu04Dec

    BERG (Behavioural & Experimental Reading Group) - Sebanti

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.86

    Title: to be advised.

  • Thu04Dec

    Macro/International Seminar - Feng Ying (NUS)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu04Dec

    DR@W Forum: Tiantong Liu & Daniel Read (WBS, Behavioural Science)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.007

    When and why does choice differ from rejection?

  • Mon08Dec

    Economic History Seminar - Shari Eli (Toronto)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families: New Estimates using Larger Samples and New Methods (with Anna Aizer, Sungwoo Cho, Joseph Ferrie and Adriana Lleras-Muney).

  • Tue09Dec

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Aicha Kharazi (Warwick)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue09Dec

    CWIP Workshop - Amira Elasra

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed10Dec

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Michelle Avataneo Truqui (ITAM Mexico)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title: The Evolutionary Success of Moral Universalism vs Moral Particularism.

  • Thu11Dec

    MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - to be advised.

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79
  • Thu11Dec

    Macro/International Seminar - Matthew Schwartzman (U.Michigan)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu11Dec

    DR@W Forum - Eugenio Proto (Glasgow)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.007

    The Accuracy and Malleability of parental First and Second-Order Beliefs about Child Socio-Emotional Health

  • Thu15Jan

    DR@W Forum: Thomas Hills (Warwick, Psychology)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 0.013

    DetailsTBC

  • Thu22Jan

    Bernd Figner (Radboud)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, Venue TBC

    Details TBC

  • Tue17Feb

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - David Yanagizawa (Zurich)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed18Feb

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Thomas Mariotti

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
  • Thu19Feb

    Political Economy Seminar - Paola Moscanello (Yale)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu19Feb

    DR@W/EBER Seminar: Rafael Jimenez-Duran (Stanford)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.003

    Details TBC

  • Mon23Feb

    Econometrics Seminar - Francis J. Di Tragilia (Oxford)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue24Feb

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Jonathan Weigel (UC Berkeley)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed25Feb

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Jana Sadeh (Southampton)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.10

    Title: We're writing what? A meta analysis on economics scholarship.

    Joint work with Annika Johnson (Bristol)

  • Wed25Feb

    Econometrics Seminar - Tymon Sloczynski (Brandeis)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S0.20

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed25Feb

    CRETA Theory Seminar - to be confirmed

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu26Feb

    Political Seminar - Thomas Fujiwara (Princeton)

    11:30am - 12:45pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu26Feb

    DR@W Forum: Roel van Veldhuizen (Lund)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, WBS 1.003

    Gender Differences in Self-Promotion and Career Advice

  • Mon02Mar

    Econometrics Seminar - Kirill Pomaranev (Chicago)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Tue03Mar

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Luigi Guiso (Einaudi)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Wed04Mar

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Daniel Rappoport

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Thu05Mar

    Political Economy Seminar - Agustina Martinez (Leicester)

    11:30am - 12:45pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Thu05Mar

    WBS Distinguished Seminar Series: Mirta Galesic (Santa Fe Institute)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, Wolfson Research Exchange (Library)
    Details TBC
  • Tue10Mar

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Petra Todd (UPenn)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Wed11Mar

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Annika Johnson (Bristol)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.09
    Title: The UK Economics Degree in 2026. Joint with Ashley Lait (Bath)
  • Thu12Mar

    Political Economy & Public Economics Seminar - Stefan Krasa (Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Thu12Mar

    DR@W Forum - Kai Barron (WZB)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, Wolfson Research Exchange (Library)
    Details TBC
  • Mon16Mar

    Econometrics Seminar - Zhongjun Qu (Boston)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Tue17Mar

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Manudeep Bhullier (Oslo)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Thu19Mar

    Macro/International Seminar - Hugo Lhuilier (Columbia)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Tue28Apr

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Eve Kolson-Shira (Hebrew)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Wed29Apr

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Abreu

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
    Title to be advised.
  • Tue05May

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Siwan Anderson (UBC)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed06May

    Econometrics Seminar - Antonio Galvao (Michigan State)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S0.18

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed06May

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Guglielmo Volpe (City St George's, UoLondon)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.10

    Title: Authentic Assessment in Data Analysis

  • Thu07May

    Econometrics Seminar - Toru Kitagawa (Brown)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised

  • Mon11May

    Econometrics Seminar - Markus Pelger (Stanford)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue12May

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Kelsey Jack (UC Berkeley)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu14May

    Political Economy & Public Economics Seminar - Francesco Trebbi (UoCalifornia, Berkeley)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu14May

    Macro/International Seminar - Nicolas Crozet

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu14May

    DR@W/EBER Seminar - Katie Coffman (Harvard Business School)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, Wolfson Research Exchange (Library)

    Details TBC

  • Mon18May

    Econometrics Seminar - Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue19May

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - David Lagakos (BU)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu21May

    Macro/International Seminar - Nicolas Crozet

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue26May

    Applied & Development Economics Seminar - Rohini Pande (Yale)

    2:15pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed27May

    Econometrics Seminar - Federico Ciliberto (Virgina)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu28May

    Political Economy Seminar - Chris Roth (Cologne)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu28May

    DR@W Forum: Dr. Davide Pace (LMU)

    2:30pm - 3:45pm, Venue TBC

    Details TBC

  • Wed03Jun

    CRETA Theory Seminar - to be advised.

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, TBA

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu11Jun

    DR@W Forum: TBC

    2:30pm - 4:00pm, Venue TBC

    Details TBC

  • Wed19Nov

    Postgraduate Live Chat

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, Meet and Engage (online)

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  • Tue18Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Sotiris Blanas (WMG)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title: The Implications of the Interplay between Global Value Chains and Technology for Labour Productivity and Demand.

  • Tue18Nov

    CWIP Workshop - Juliana Cunha Carneiro Pinto

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: Transitory health shocks, human capital and crime: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data in Brazil.

    Abstract: This paper provides the first causal evidence on the effects of dengue fever on educational and

    behavioural outcomes. Using matched administrative data linking official dengue notifications,

    school census records, and police reports for the universe of public secondary school students in

    Minas Gerais, Brazil, we estimate the impact of individual health shocks on grade progression,

    dropout, and subsequent involvement in crime. Identification exploits within-school and within-

    neighbourhood variation in dengue exposure over an eleven-year period, with rich student and

    classroom controls and detailed temperature measures. We find that dengue infections during

    the school year increase grade retention by about 5 percent and school dropout by roughly

    4 percent relative to baseline means. Linking the same students to police records, we show that

    dengue infections also raise criminal involvement by 9–12 percent in the following years, driven

    primarily by property and violent offenses. The results reveal that even short-lived illnesses can

    have lasting consequences for human capital formation and youth behaviour, underscoring the

    broader social costs of infectious diseases and the potential gains from targeted vaccination and

    vector-control policies.

  • Thu20Nov

    MIEW (Macro & International Economics Workshop) - Alperen Tosun (PGR)

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue25Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Andrea Guerrieri D'Amati (PGR)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised

  • Tue25Nov

    CWIP Workshop - Ao Wang

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed26Nov

    AMES Workshop - Sebanti Mukherjee (PGR) and Yanjun Gao (PGR)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu27Nov

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - David Boll (PGR)

    2:00pm - 3:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue02Dec

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Damiano

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue02Dec

    CWIP Workshop - Sonia Bhalotra

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed03Dec

    AMES Workshop - Adam Di Lizia (PGR) and Malavika Mani (PGR)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue09Dec

    MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Aicha Kharazi (Warwick)

    12:00pm - 1:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Tue09Dec

    CWIP Workshop - Amira Elasra

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed19Nov

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Laura Harvey (Loughborough)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.10

    Title: The impact of assessment design on student attainment: an empirical ivestigation across dimensions of equality, diversity and inclusion.

  • Wed19Nov

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Andrew Newman (Boston)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Competing for the Quiet Life: An Organizational Theory of Market Structure (with Patrick Legros and Zsolt Udvari).

    ABSTRACT: We develop an incomplete-contracts model of endogenous market structure for a homogeneous-good industry. A large number of identical incentive-constrained producers each decide whether to stand alone as price-taking competitors, or to horizontally integrate with others by selling their assets to profit-motivated professional managers, who then Cournot compete in the product market. Despite the absence of significant technological non-convexities, the equilibrium market structure is often an oligopoly, demonstrating that contracting imperfections are a distinct source of market power. Unlike standard endogenous entry models, concentration may increase with the size of market demand. We discuss some implications for competition policy. We also consider extensions that allow for variation in the degree of contractibility, entry of additional producers into the market, and the emergence of an endogenous competitive fringe.

  • Mon24Nov

    Econometrics Seminar - Jonathan Wright (Johns Hopkins)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title: Macroeconomic news announcements and identification of policy shocks in SVARs

    Abstract: This paper considers jumps in asset prices in short windows around macroeconomic news announcements and considers SVAR identification using the assumption that these jumps are not correlated with policy shocks. It switches the usual approach of an external instrument from something that is correlated with only the policy shock to one that is uncorrelated with the policy shock. Frequentist inference is considered. In principle, the approach can achieve point identification. In practice, the proposed instruments are too weak for point identification, but they can be used to sharpen frequentist sign identification. In an application, they reduce the width of confidence intervals for the impulse responses to a monetary policy shock.

  • Wed26Nov

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Alexander Jakobsen (Northwestern)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Mon01Dec

    Econometrics Seminar - Ben Deaner (UCL)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed03Dec

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Eeva Mauring (Bergen)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu04Dec

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Emanuela Lotti (Southampton)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.13

    Title: Aligning UG Research in Economics towards AI-driven Research Skills

  • Thu04Dec

    Macro/International Seminar - Feng Ying (NUS)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Mon08Dec

    Economic History Seminar - Shari Eli (Toronto)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S2.79

    Title: The Long-Run Impact of Cash Transfers to Poor Families: New Estimates using Larger Samples and New Methods (with Anna Aizer, Sungwoo Cho, Joseph Ferrie and Adriana Lleras-Muney).

  • Wed10Dec

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Michelle Avataneo Truqui (ITAM Mexico)

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title: The Evolutionary Success of Moral Universalism vs Moral Particularism.

  • Thu11Dec

    Macro/International Seminar - Matthew Schwartzman (U.Michigan)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed18Feb

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Thomas Mariotti

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79
  • Mon23Feb

    Econometrics Seminar - Francis J. Di Tragilia (Oxford)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed25Feb

    Econometrics Seminar - Tymon Sloczynski (Brandeis)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S0.20

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed25Feb

    CRETA Theory Seminar - to be confirmed

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Mon02Mar

    Econometrics Seminar - Kirill Pomaranev (Chicago)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed04Mar

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Daniel Rappoport

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed11Mar

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Annika Johnson (Bristol)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.09

    Title: The UK Economics Degree in 2026.

    Joint with Ashley Lait (Bath)

  • Mon16Mar

    Econometrics Seminar - Zhongjun Qu (Boston)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu19Mar

    Macro/International Seminar - Hugo Lhuilier (Columbia)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed29Apr

    CRETA Theory Seminar - Abreu

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed06May

    Econometrics Seminar - Antonio Galvao (Michigan State)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S0.18

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed06May

    Teaching & Learning Seminar - Guglielmo Volpe (City St George's, UoLondon)

    1:00pm - 2:00pm, S0.10

    Title: Authentic Assessment in Data Analysis

  • Thu07May

    Econometrics Seminar - Toru Kitagawa (Brown)

    11:15am - 12:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised

  • Mon11May

    Econometrics Seminar - Markus Pelger (Stanford)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu14May

    Macro/International Seminar - Nicolas Crozet

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Mon18May

    Econometrics Seminar - Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Thu21May

    Macro/International Seminar - Nicolas Crozet

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed27May

    Econometrics Seminar - Federico Ciliberto (Virgina)

    2:00pm - 3:30pm, S2.79

    Title to be advised.

  • Wed03Jun

    CRETA Theory Seminar - to be advised.

    4:00pm - 5:30pm, TBA

    Title to be advised.

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