Events
Our three day conference organised by Warwick Economics PhD students will bring together international PhD research from across the globe.
Tuesday 06 June 10:00am, 2 days 7 hoursDates: Tuesday 13 June - Thursday 15 June 2023Organisers: Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol) and Ao Wang (University of Warwick) Location: Scarman Conf...
Tuesday 13 June 2:00pm, 1 day 22 hours 30 minutesStudent-organised workshop for doctoral students and junior academics in macro/international economics joint between the Economics departments of Warwick and...
Monday 05 June 9:00am - 5:00pm S2.79Event Overview
- Mon05Jun
Warwick/Oxford Macro/International Workshop
Student-organised workshop for doctoral students and junior academics in macro/international economics joint between the Economics departments of Warwick and Oxford University.
Anyone is welcome to attend, please use the sign-up link below to help us keep track of numbers.
This is the inaugural event in a planned workshop series in macro/international economics that will allow students and junior academics to present work-in-progress research to students and academics from other departments, but nevertheless in a relatively informal setting closer to an internal seminar. The workshop will feature both long- and short-format presentations, as well as refreshments and lunch, providing a platform to meet fellow researchers.
Date: 5 June 2023
Location: Room S2.79, 2nd Floor Social Sciences Building, University of WarwickRegistration FormLink opens in a new window
Sign up for the workshop hereLink opens in a new window.
ProgrammeLink opens in a new window
View the workshop programme here.
Contact
Please email David.Boll@warwick.ac.uk or Andrea.Guerrieri-D-Amati.1@warwick.ac.uk with any questions.
- Mon05Jun
Warwick/Oxford Macro/International Workshop
Contact: Please email david.boll@warwick.ac.uk and andrea.guerrieri-d-amati.1@warwick.ac.uk with any questions.
The programme is available here.
- Tue06Jun
Economics PhD Conference
Our three day conference organised by Warwick Economics PhD students will bring together international PhD research from across the globe.
The 11th annual Warwick Economics PhD Conference will be hosted on the University campus this year. Our three-day conference organised by Warwick Economics PhD students brings together PhD research from across the globe.
Date: 6-8 June 2023
Location: University of Warwick, Coventry, United KingdomThis is a student-led conference organised annually by PhD students at the Warwick Economics Department, supported and attended by the Warwick Economics Department and members of the faculty.
Call for Papers
Please access the call for papers hereLink opens in a new windowApplication Form
The Application has now closed. We will soon be in touch with you.About the PhD Conference
Find out more about how the PhD conference first began.
Previous Years
Learn more about previous conferences.
Conference Programme
Please access the programme here
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Our Campus is in Coventry, a city that lies at the very heart of England and is easy to get to by road, rail and air.
- Tue06Jun
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the impact of a higher share of village population who complete tertiary education on village prosperity in India. To causally identify the effect, we use data from the census of villages in India; we control for a host of geographic, historic and current covariates and use intra state variation. Further, we use historical catholic mission location as an instrumental variable-we show that the mean distance of villages to the nearest Catholic mission location circa 1911, when averaged for a sub-district, predicts the tertiary completion rate of a village and argue, through a myriad of robustness checks, that it doesn't affect village prosperity through any other channel. Further, we find that having tertiary educated people in a rural household raises per acre agricultural revenue from crops, increases crop diversification and makes households more likely to have access to technical advice. Some of the effect also comes from tertiary education impacting occupations-those with university degrees are more likely to be in skilled occupations both in agriculture and in the private job market. Some, though not all, of these jobs are outside the village that are accessed through daily commutes to urban areas. In the stylized version of structural transformation, a rise in education leads to a shift of labour from agriculture to non farm jobs and often involves migration of labour to cities, leading to higher urbanisation. Our analysis shows that a rise in the share of tertiary educated among the rural population can lead to village prosperity through a rise in agricultural productivity as well as non farm jobs within and outside the village.
- Tue06Jun
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Nina Roussille (MIT)
Abstract: We propose a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average, workers are willing to accept 12.3% lower salaries for a 1-S.D. improvement in amenities. 2) Between-worker preference dispersion is equally large, indicating that preferences are not well-described by a single ranking. 3) Augmenting differentials prevail. Following the modern IO literature, we then use those estimates to formulate a test of conduct based on exclusion restrictions. Oligopsonistic models incorporating strategic interactions between firms and tailoring of wage offers to workers' outside options are rejected in favor of simpler monopsonistic models featuring near-uniform markdowns. Misspecification has meaningful consequences: while our preferred model predicts average markdowns of 18%, others predict average markdowns of 26% (about 50% larger).
- Wed07Jun
CRETA Seminar - David Pearce (NYU)
- Thu08Jun
DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Mikhail Spektor (Department of Psychology)
What is “context" and how to test for its effects
- Thu08Jun
Behavioural Reading Group
- Fri09Jun
Theory Workshop
This is taking place in Scarman House
Organiser: Bhaskar Dutta
- Thu01Jun
Spatial-Urban Reading Group - Zoe Zhang
- Thu01Jun
Seminar - Gabriele Gratton
- Thu01Jun
MIWP (Microeconomics Work in Progress) - Pablo Beker
- Thu01Jun
Macro/International Seminar - Anna Ignatenko
Abstract - This paper disentangles the effects of seller’s and buyer’s market power in firm-to-firm trade. I incorporate oligopoly, oligopsony, and bilateral bargaining in a trade model, in which buyers and sellers differ in productivity, bargaining ability, and preferences. These market structures predict differential patterns of price variation across buyers. Testing these predictions, I find, in most markets, price variation is consistent with oligopolistic price discrimination. More productive buyers pay lower mark-ups because of their better outside options, rather than scale economies, oligopsony power, or bargaining abilities. Consequently, more productive buyers have higher gains from trade and cost shocks’ pass-through into prices.
- Thu01Jun
DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Giovanni Burro (IGIER, Milan)
A memory walk down Wall Street: How personal memories influence stock investment and information processing
- Thu01Jun
Behavioural Reading Group
- Mon05Jun
Warwick/Oxford Macro/International Workshop
Student-organised workshop for doctoral students and junior academics in macro/international economics joint between the Economics departments of Warwick and Oxford University.
Anyone is welcome to attend, please use the sign-up link below to help us keep track of numbers.
This is the inaugural event in a planned workshop series in macro/international economics that will allow students and junior academics to present work-in-progress research to students and academics from other departments, but nevertheless in a relatively informal setting closer to an internal seminar. The workshop will feature both long- and short-format presentations, as well as refreshments and lunch, providing a platform to meet fellow researchers.
Date: 5 June 2023
Location: Room S2.79, 2nd Floor Social Sciences Building, University of WarwickRegistration FormLink opens in a new window
Sign up for the workshop hereLink opens in a new window.
ProgrammeLink opens in a new window
View the workshop programme here.
Contact
Please email David.Boll@warwick.ac.uk or Andrea.Guerrieri-D-Amati.1@warwick.ac.uk with any questions.
- Mon05Jun
Warwick/Oxford Macro/International Workshop
Contact: Please email david.boll@warwick.ac.uk and andrea.guerrieri-d-amati.1@warwick.ac.uk with any questions.
The programme is available here.
- Tue06Jun
Economics PhD Conference
Our three day conference organised by Warwick Economics PhD students will bring together international PhD research from across the globe.
The 11th annual Warwick Economics PhD Conference will be hosted on the University campus this year. Our three-day conference organised by Warwick Economics PhD students brings together PhD research from across the globe.
Date: 6-8 June 2023
Location: University of Warwick, Coventry, United KingdomThis is a student-led conference organised annually by PhD students at the Warwick Economics Department, supported and attended by the Warwick Economics Department and members of the faculty.
Call for Papers
Please access the call for papers hereLink opens in a new windowApplication Form
The Application has now closed. We will soon be in touch with you.About the PhD Conference
Find out more about how the PhD conference first began.
Previous Years
Learn more about previous conferences.
Conference Programme
Please access the programme here
ContactLink opens in a new window
Our Campus is in Coventry, a city that lies at the very heart of England and is easy to get to by road, rail and air.
- Tue06Jun
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the impact of a higher share of village population who complete tertiary education on village prosperity in India. To causally identify the effect, we use data from the census of villages in India; we control for a host of geographic, historic and current covariates and use intra state variation. Further, we use historical catholic mission location as an instrumental variable-we show that the mean distance of villages to the nearest Catholic mission location circa 1911, when averaged for a sub-district, predicts the tertiary completion rate of a village and argue, through a myriad of robustness checks, that it doesn't affect village prosperity through any other channel. Further, we find that having tertiary educated people in a rural household raises per acre agricultural revenue from crops, increases crop diversification and makes households more likely to have access to technical advice. Some of the effect also comes from tertiary education impacting occupations-those with university degrees are more likely to be in skilled occupations both in agriculture and in the private job market. Some, though not all, of these jobs are outside the village that are accessed through daily commutes to urban areas. In the stylized version of structural transformation, a rise in education leads to a shift of labour from agriculture to non farm jobs and often involves migration of labour to cities, leading to higher urbanisation. Our analysis shows that a rise in the share of tertiary educated among the rural population can lead to village prosperity through a rise in agricultural productivity as well as non farm jobs within and outside the village.
- Tue06Jun
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Nina Roussille (MIT)
Abstract: We propose a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average, workers are willing to accept 12.3% lower salaries for a 1-S.D. improvement in amenities. 2) Between-worker preference dispersion is equally large, indicating that preferences are not well-described by a single ranking. 3) Augmenting differentials prevail. Following the modern IO literature, we then use those estimates to formulate a test of conduct based on exclusion restrictions. Oligopsonistic models incorporating strategic interactions between firms and tailoring of wage offers to workers' outside options are rejected in favor of simpler monopsonistic models featuring near-uniform markdowns. Misspecification has meaningful consequences: while our preferred model predicts average markdowns of 18%, others predict average markdowns of 26% (about 50% larger).
- Wed07Jun
CRETA Seminar - David Pearce (NYU)
- Thu08Jun
DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Mikhail Spektor (Department of Psychology)
What is “context" and how to test for its effects
- Thu08Jun
Behavioural Reading Group
- Fri09Jun
Theory Workshop
This is taking place in Scarman House
Organiser: Bhaskar Dutta
- Tue13Jun
Bristol-Warwick Empirical IO workshop & masterclass
Dates: Tuesday 13 June - Thursday 15 June 2023
Organisers: Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol) and Ao Wang (University of Warwick)
Location: Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick
13th June (Masterclass & reception)Masterclass: Empirical Industrial Organization and Finance by Alessandro Gavazza (LSE)
Session 1: 14:00-16:00
Break: 16.00 - 16.30 Session 2: 16.30 - 18.30 ((with 10 mins’ break after 55mins) Welcome reception & dinner (by invitation): from 19.00
14th June (Workshop)
Session 1: 9.30 - 11.00
Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions: An Application to Merger and Product Variety by Ying Fan (Michigan), joint with Chenyu Yang (Maryland)
Self-preferencing, Quality Provision, and Welfare in Mobile Application Markets by Xuan Teng (LMU)Break: 11.00-11.30 Session 2: 11.30 – 13.00 Refinancing Cross-Subsidies in the Mortgage Market by Alessandro Gavazza (LSE), joint with Jack Fisher (LSE), Lu Liu (U. of Pennsylvania, Wharton), Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College Business Schoo) and Jagdish Tripathy (Bank of England)
Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit by Christoph Walsh (Tilburg), joint with Marc Rysman and Robert M. Townsend.Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Session 3: 14.30 – 16.00 Insider and outsider careers in executive management by Robert Miller (CMU Tepper), joint with Andrea Flores, George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan.
Customers as buffer, by Andrea Pozzi (EIEF) joint with Massimiliano Affinito (Bank of Italy), Marco Di Maggio (HBS), Luigi Guiso (EIEF) and Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy).A walk to Kenilworth Castle & dinner in Kenilworth afterwards (invitation only) 15th June (Workshop)
Session 4: 9.00 - 10.30
Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market by Giulia Brancaccio (NYU Stern), joint with Karam Kang (CMU)
London Sorting: London Sorting: a BLP model of location choice of heterogeneous workers in London by Lars Nesheim (UCL)Break: 10.30 - 11.00 Session 5: 11.00 - 12.30 Influencer Cartels by Marit Hinnosaar (Nottingham), joint with Toomas Hinnosaar.
What can Greek islands teach us about pass-through and competition? by Christos Genakos (Cambridge Judge).
Lunch: from 12.30 Registration
- Tue13Jun
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Wed14Jun
CRETA Theory Seminar - Joyee Deb
- Thu15Jun
Behavioural Reading Group
- Thu15Jun
Crafts Lecture 2023: The Rise of the Chinese Communist Party
- Tue20Jun
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Thu22Jun
DR@W Forum (Hybrid Session): Daniel Bennett (Monash)
Take the money and run: investigating the decision to ‘cash out’ of a risky bet
- Thu22Jun
Behavioural Reading Group
- Thu29Jun
Behavioural Reading Group
- Tue03Dec
Driving change in the UK bus network: Lessons from London
The number of people taking the bus in the UK is declining almost universally. London is no exception, though its franchise system sees significantly more bus travel per person than any other area – over 250 journeys per year.
There are a host of reasons why policymakers should be getting on board with investing across the UK’s bus networks. Bus travel remains essential to preserving free movement throughout the UK and investment in bus infrastructure can ease congestion in cities and contribute to the transition to net-zero.
The government has recently announced the first steps in its ‘bus revolution’. Plans include offering support to local authorities and metropolitan mayors who want to create London-style franchised services. In October 2019, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority began its journey towards a franchised system.
But can this work for the rest of the UK? And what considerations are needed to make bus franchising a success outside the capital? Join Mike Waterson to discuss at this CAGE event in collaboration with the Social Market Foundation.
Report available here...Link opens in a new window
Speaker:
Mike Waterson (Professor of Economics, University of Warwick, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy)
Chair:
James Kirkup (Director, Social Market Foundation)
Date and time:
Tuesday 3 Dec, 13:00-14:00 (Refreshments will be available from 12:30. Please arrive by 12:45 for a prompt start at 13:00)
Location:
Social Market Foundation
11 Tufton Street
London
SW1P 3QB
- Wed04Dec
CAGE Advisory Board
- Tue11Jul
9th Annual Summer School - Human Emotions & Decision Making
- Thu13Jul
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Tue25Jul
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
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- Tue15Aug
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
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- Tue22Aug
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
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- Thu14Sep
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
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- Tue19Sep
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
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- Tue10Oct
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
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Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
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- Thu16Nov
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
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- Tue13Jun
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
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- Tue20Jun
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
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- Thu13Jul
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
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- Tue25Jul
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Tue15Aug
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Tue22Aug
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
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- Thu14Sep
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
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- Tue19Sep
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Tue10Oct
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Tue24Oct
Economics Postgraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Thu16Nov
Economics Undergraduate Live Chat
Chat directly with staff and students from the Department of Economics to get your questions answered. Please check our Frequently Asked Questions before joining.
- Tue06Jun
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Abstract: In this paper, we estimate the impact of a higher share of village population who complete tertiary education on village prosperity in India. To causally identify the effect, we use data from the census of villages in India; we control for a host of geographic, historic and current covariates and use intra state variation. Further, we use historical catholic mission location as an instrumental variable-we show that the mean distance of villages to the nearest Catholic mission location circa 1911, when averaged for a sub-district, predicts the tertiary completion rate of a village and argue, through a myriad of robustness checks, that it doesn't affect village prosperity through any other channel. Further, we find that having tertiary educated people in a rural household raises per acre agricultural revenue from crops, increases crop diversification and makes households more likely to have access to technical advice. Some of the effect also comes from tertiary education impacting occupations-those with university degrees are more likely to be in skilled occupations both in agriculture and in the private job market. Some, though not all, of these jobs are outside the village that are accessed through daily commutes to urban areas. In the stylized version of structural transformation, a rise in education leads to a shift of labour from agriculture to non farm jobs and often involves migration of labour to cities, leading to higher urbanisation. Our analysis shows that a rise in the share of tertiary educated among the rural population can lead to village prosperity through a rise in agricultural productivity as well as non farm jobs within and outside the village.
- Fri09Jun
Theory Workshop
This is taking place in Scarman House
Organiser: Bhaskar Dutta
- Tue13Jun
Bristol-Warwick Empirical IO workshop & masterclass
Dates: Tuesday 13 June - Thursday 15 June 2023
Organisers: Alessandro Iaria (University of Bristol) and Ao Wang (University of Warwick)
Location: Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick
13th June (Masterclass & reception)Masterclass: Empirical Industrial Organization and Finance by Alessandro Gavazza (LSE)
Session 1: 14:00-16:00
Break: 16.00 - 16.30 Session 2: 16.30 - 18.30 ((with 10 mins’ break after 55mins) Welcome reception & dinner (by invitation): from 19.00
14th June (Workshop)
Session 1: 9.30 - 11.00
Estimating Discrete Games with Many Firms and Many Decisions: An Application to Merger and Product Variety by Ying Fan (Michigan), joint with Chenyu Yang (Maryland)
Self-preferencing, Quality Provision, and Welfare in Mobile Application Markets by Xuan Teng (LMU)Break: 11.00-11.30 Session 2: 11.30 – 13.00 Refinancing Cross-Subsidies in the Mortgage Market by Alessandro Gavazza (LSE), joint with Jack Fisher (LSE), Lu Liu (U. of Pennsylvania, Wharton), Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College Business Schoo) and Jagdish Tripathy (Bank of England)
Bank Branching Strategies in the 1997 Thai Financial Crisis and Local Access to Credit by Christoph Walsh (Tilburg), joint with Marc Rysman and Robert M. Townsend.Lunch 13.00 - 14.30 Session 3: 14.30 – 16.00 Insider and outsider careers in executive management by Robert Miller (CMU Tepper), joint with Andrea Flores, George-Levi Gayle and Limor Golan.
Customers as buffer, by Andrea Pozzi (EIEF) joint with Massimiliano Affinito (Bank of Italy), Marco Di Maggio (HBS), Luigi Guiso (EIEF) and Fadi Hassan (Bank of Italy).A walk to Kenilworth Castle & dinner in Kenilworth afterwards (invitation only) 15th June (Workshop)
Session 4: 9.00 - 10.30
Search Frictions and Product Design in the Municipal Bond Market by Giulia Brancaccio (NYU Stern), joint with Karam Kang (CMU)
London Sorting: London Sorting: a BLP model of location choice of heterogeneous workers in London by Lars Nesheim (UCL)Break: 10.30 - 11.00 Session 5: 11.00 - 12.30 Influencer Cartels by Marit Hinnosaar (Nottingham), joint with Toomas Hinnosaar.
What can Greek islands teach us about pass-through and competition? by Christos Genakos (Cambridge Judge).
Lunch: from 12.30 Registration
- Tue06Jun
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Nina Roussille (MIT)
Abstract: We propose a novel procedure for adjudicating between models of firm wage-setting conduct. Using data on workers' choice sets and decisions over real jobs from a U.S. job search platform, we first estimate workers' rankings over firms' non-wage amenities. We document three key findings: 1) On average, workers are willing to accept 12.3% lower salaries for a 1-S.D. improvement in amenities. 2) Between-worker preference dispersion is equally large, indicating that preferences are not well-described by a single ranking. 3) Augmenting differentials prevail. Following the modern IO literature, we then use those estimates to formulate a test of conduct based on exclusion restrictions. Oligopsonistic models incorporating strategic interactions between firms and tailoring of wage offers to workers' outside options are rejected in favor of simpler monopsonistic models featuring near-uniform markdowns. Misspecification has meaningful consequences: while our preferred model predicts average markdowns of 18%, others predict average markdowns of 26% (about 50% larger).
- Wed07Jun
CRETA Seminar - David Pearce (NYU)
- Wed14Jun
CRETA Theory Seminar - Joyee Deb
About our events
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