02
May
Registration and Welcome
Location: S2.79
Time: 11:00 - 11:30
Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018
Conference Programme
Warwick Economics PhD Conference
02
May
Session 1 - Applied Economics I
Divya Singh (Columbia) - Merging to dodge taxes? Unexpected effects of VAT adoption in India (Discussant: Andrei Osadci)
Runjing Lu (UCSD) - The effects of symbolic awards at work: a regression discontinuity design (Discussant: Eric Melander)
Location: S2.79
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018
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May
Session 2 - Development Economics
Serena Cocciolo (IIES Stockholm) - Community-driven development and the value of participation: experimental evidence from Bangladesh (Discussant: Muhammad Haseeb)
Muly San (NYU) - The effects of labor scarcity on the rate and direction of technical change: evidence from a natural experiment (Discussant: Xuan Fei)
Location: S2.79
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018
02
May
Coffee Break
Location: S2.77
Time: 16:00 - 16:30
Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018
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May
Session 3 - Economics Theory
Shuo Liu (Zurich) - Monotone equilibria in signalling games (Discussant: Irina Kholodenko)
Daniel Habermacher (Warwick) - Information aggregation in multidimensional cheap talk (Discussant: Shuo Liu)
Location: S2.79
Time: 16:30 - 18:00
Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018
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May
Break
Location: S2.77
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018
02
May
Conference Dinner - Scarman Conference Centre
Location: Scarman Conference Centre
Time: 19:00
Date: Wednesday 2 May 2018
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May
Session 4 - Macroeconomics
Sarah Quincy (UC Davis) - Loan for the little fellow: Credit crisis and recovery in the great depression (Discussant: Myriam Marending)
Leslie Sheng Shen (UC Berkeley) - Global banking, private credit and aggregate implications (Discussant: Ricardo Lima)
Location: S2.79
Time: 09:00 - 10:30
Date: Thursday 3 May 2018
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May
Poster Session - PhD Common Room
Location: S2.132 and S2.127
Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Date: Thursday 3 May 2018
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May
Session 5 - Applied Economics II
Marc Witte (Oxford) - Job referrals and strategic network formation: experimental evidence from urban neighborhoods in Ethiopia (Discussant: Bhanu Gupta)
Has Van Vlokhaven (IESS Stockholm) - Diffusion of ideas and network linkages (Discussant: Marc Witte)
Location: S2.79
Time: 13:30 - 15:00
Date: Thursday 3 May 2018
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May
Coffee Break
Location: S2.77
Time: 15:00 - 15:30
Date: Thursday 3 May 2018
03
May
Session 6 - Public and Political Economy
Junze Sun (Amsterdam) - Elections under endogenous media consumption (Discussant: Federico Trombetta)
Ravi Somani (UCL) - The public-private wage premium and bureaucrat selection (Discussant: Junze Sun)
Location: S2.79
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Date: Thursday 3 May 2018
03
May
Conference Close
Location: S2.79
Time: 17:00
Date: Thursday 3 May 2018