Conferences
We organise a number of conferences throughout the year that attract large audiences from across the globe.
Previous conferences have included ESRC Festival of Social Sciences events, collaborative conferences with organisations such as The Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), and PhD presentations ran in collaboration with our students.
Upcoming conferences
- Fri07Jun
Warwick/CAGE Workshop on Gender and Inequality
This two-day workshop brings together scholars working in the field of economics to provide policy insights to reduce gender inequality. The program is designed to promote knowledge exchange and networking, providing a platform for participants to share their findings on the impact of various policies and to collaboratively explore strategies for fostering gender equality.
Date: Friday 7 June - Saturday 8 June 2024
Venue: Radcliffe Conference Centre
Address: University of Warwick, CV4 7SH
Organisers: Sonia Bhalotra, Natalia Zinovyeva and Jiaqi LiProgramme
Regular presentations are 35-minutes long, followed by a 10-minute discussion by a formal discussant, and 5 minutes allocated for questions from the audience.
Egg Timer Presentations are 20-minutes long including questions.Day 1: Friday, 7 June 2024
9.00am – 9.30am
Welcome coffee
Session 1
9.30am - 9.40am
Opening Remarks
9.40am - 10.30am
Presentation 1
Speaker: Nagore Iriberri
Discussant: Carolina Kansikas
10.30am - 10.40am
Break
10:40am - 11.30am Presentation 2
Speaker: Natalia Zinovyeva
Discussant: Yuchen Lin
11.30am - 11.40am Break
11.40am - 12.30pm Presentation 3
Speaker: Almundena Sevilla
Discussant: Angelica Martinez Leyva
12.30pm - 2.00pm Lunch break
Session 2
2.00pm - 2.50pm
Presentation 4
Speaker: Abi Adams-Prassl
Discussant: Jiaqi Li
2.50pm - 3.00pm
Break
3.00pm - 3.50pm
Presentation 5
Speaker: Sonia Bhalotra
Discussant: Bruno Santos de Souza
3.50pm - 4.00pm
Coffee break
Session 3 4.00pm - 5.40pm Egg Timer Presentations
Speakers:
Carolina Kansikas
Angelica Martinez Leyva
Sarthak Joshi
Jiaqi Li
Bruno Santos de Souza
6.00pm - 8.00pm Dinner
Day 2: Saturday, 8 June 2024
9:00am - 9.10am
Morning coffee Session 4 9.10am - 10.00am
Presentation 1
Speaker: Heather Royer
Discussant: Sarthak Joshi
10.00am - 10.10am
Break
10.10am - 11.00am
Presentation 2
Speaker: Kristiina Huttunen
Discussant: Priyama Majumdar
11.00am - 11.10am
Break 11.10am - 12.00pm
Presentation 3
Speaker: Olle Folke
Discussant: Anwesh Mukhopadhyay
12.00pm - 12.10pm
Break
12.10pm - 1.00pm
Presentation 4
Speaker: Anne Brenoe
Discussant: Jiaqi Li
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Lunch break
Session 5
2.00pm - 2.50pm
Presentation 5
Speaker: Manuel Bagues
Discussant: Elaheh Fatemi Pour
2.50pm - 3.00pm
Break
3.00pm - 3.50pm
Presentation 6
Speaker: Anna Raute
Discussant: Malavika Mani
Register now
Attendance at this workshop is free, however we will not cover the cost of attendee travel. Please secure your place via our registration form below.
After you have registered, you will receive an email containing final details about the workshop before the event takes place.
Please note that spaces are limited and not all registrants may be successful. You will be contacted about the outcome of your registration as soon as possible.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact Natalia Zinovyeva via natalia.zinovyeva@warwick.ac.uk.
- Jul132023Warwick-India Workshop
Dates: Thursday 13 July 2023
Organiser: Dr Subhasish Dey
Location: S0.50, Social Sciences BuildingIf you would like to attend this workshop then please contact subhasish.dey@warwick.ac.uk.
Programme for the day can be found here.
- Jun132023Bristol-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: 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
- Jun092023Warwick Economic Theory Workshop
The annual Economic Theory Workshop has been hosted by the Department of Economics at The University of Warwick for the last 11 years and is recognised as one of the top workshops in the world.
Date: Friday 9 – Saturday 10 June 2023
Location: Scarman House, University of WarwickIt provides the opportunity for leading Economic theorists to engage and discuss the latest ideas in economic theory and to foster collaborative research projects.
This event is open to Faculty members and MRes/PhD students from the Department of Economics.
Academic Lead: Professor Bhaskar Dutta
Friday 10 June
09.15
Welcome
09:20-10:20
Laura Doval (Columbia Business School)
Purchase History and Product Personalization10:20-10:40
Coffee/Tea
Scarman Lounge10:40-11:40
Elliot Lipnowski (Columbia)
Buying from a Group11:40-12:40
Deniz Kattwinkel (UCL)
Optimal Decision Mechanisms for Juries: Acquitting the Guilty12:40-14:00 Lunch
Scarman Restaurant14:00-15:00
Stephen Morris (MIT)
A Strategic Topology on Information Structures15:00-16:00
Ludovic Renou (Queen Mary)
Comparison of Experiments in discounted problems16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea
Scarman Lounge16:30-17:30 Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv and UCL)
Behavioral Causal Inference17:30-18:30 Marina Halac (Yale)
Pricing for Coordination19:30 Drinks and Dinner
Scarman Courtyard Restaurant (Please register))Saturday 11 June
09:30-10:30
Balasz Szentes (LSE)
Flexible Moral Hazard Problems10:30-11:00
Coffee/Tea
Scarman Lounge11:00-12:00
Annie Liang (Northwestern)
The Transfer Performance of Economic Models12:00-13:00
Alexander Frankel ( Chicago Booth School of Business)
Test-optimal Admissions13:00-14:15
Lunch
Scarman Restaurant14:15-15:15
Yu Fu Wong (Columbia)
Dynamic Monitoring Design15:15-16:15
Ian Ball (MIT)
Should the timing of inspections be predictable?Registration
To book a place for this event, please complete the registration form. Places are limited so early booking is recommended and the registration form will close once this event has reached full capacity.
- Mar152023Research Away Day Event - Economic Academic staff only (Scarman House: space 24)
Date: Wednesday 15 March 2023
09.45 - 10.00
Coffee, Welcome and Introduction
10.00 - 10.30
Christine Braun (Macro) 10.30 - 11.00
Ludovica Gazze(Experimental)
11.00 - 11.30
Herakles Polemarchakis (Micro Theory)
11.30 - 11.45
Coffee break
11.45 - 12.15 Clement Imbert (Development & History) 12.15 - 13.00 Lunch 13.00 - 13.30 Nikhil Datta (Econometrics) 13.30 - 14.00 Nathan Canen (Political Economy and Public Economics) 14.00 Discussion & Close Registration
- Mar112023Warwick-Turing Economics Data Science Workshop
Date: Saturday 11 March 2023, 10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Scarman Conference Centre
Organisers: Mingli Chen (University of Warwick) and Martin Weidner (University of Oxford)Session 1 Chair: Mingli Chen (University of Warwick)
10:00-10:35am Eric Renault (University of Warwick)
Title: Efficient Estimation of Regression Models with User-Specified Parametric Model for Heteroskedasticity (joint with Saraswata Chaudhuri)10:35-11:10am Ruijun Bu (University of Liverpool)
Title: Uniform and Lp Convergences for Nonparametric Continuous Time Regressions with Semiparametric Applications (joint with Jihyun Kim and Bin Wang)11:10-11:20am Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Kenichi Nagasawa (University of Warwick)
11:20-11:55am Daniel Wilhelm (LMU Munich/UCL)
Title: Inference for Rank-Rank Regressions11:55-12:30pm Sukjin Han (University of Bristol)
Title: Semiparametric Models for Dynamic Treatment Effects and Mediation Analyses with Observational Data12:30-1:30pm Lunch
Session 3 Chair: Martin Weidner (University of Oxford)
1:30-2:05pm Áureo de Paula (UCL)
Title: Estimating Nesting Structures (joint with Ali Hortacsu, Jonas Lieber and Julien Monardo)2:05-2:40pm Chenlei Leng (University of Warwick)
Title: A Two-Way Heterogeneity Model for Dynamic Networks2:40-2:50pm Coffee Break
Session 4 Chair: Luis Candelaria (University of Warwick)
2:50-3:25pm Lars Nesheim (UCL)
Title: High dimensional high frequency retail price dynamics with missing data (joint with Alan Crawford (UC3M)3:25-4:00pm Tatiana Komarova (LSE/University of Manchester)
Title: Multivariate ordered discrete response models4:00-4:35pm Max Kasy (University of Oxford)
Title: Adaptive Maximization of Social Welfare4:35-4:45pm Coffee Break
Session 5 Chair: Ao Wang (University of Warwick)
4:45-5:45pm Ph.D. spotlight session
Yaolang Zhong (University of Warwick) Algorithmic Policy Design
Amedeo Andriollo (University of Warwick) On the statistical properties of tests of parameter restrictions in beta-pricing models with a large number of assets
Johannes Böken (University of Warwick) Community Networks and Trade
Arnaud Dyevre (LSE) Public R&D and Long-term Growth: Evidence from the U.S. (1950-2020)
6:00pm - Drinks
6.30 pm Dinner (Invitation only)Registration
- Mar102023CEPR/Warwick/Princeton/Yale Polecon Symposium 2023
The Department of Economics at the University of Warwick along with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Department of Politics at Princeton University, the Department of Political Science at Yale University and the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF) are organising a symposium on Political Economy in Rome, Italy, in March 2023.
Date: Friday 10 – Saturday 11 March 2023
Venue: EIEF- Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance,
Address: Via Sallustiana 62 - 00187 in Rome, Italy.The aim of the symposium is to bring together the top theoretical and empirical political scientists and economists across Europe and North America. A limited number of papers will be presented (10 over two days) to allow maximum time for discussion. The workshop will be held in Rome this year, building on previous successful meetings held at the Warwick in Venice Palazzo since 2013.
Programme
The symposium will feature a range of academics from across the world presenting papers on a number of topics.
Friday, 10 March
9.30 – 10.00
Registration, Coffee and Welcome Remarks from the Organisers
Session 1
10:00 – 11.00
Matthias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Gravity of Violence'11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30
Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv University and UCL)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'False narratives and political mobilization'12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Session 2
14.00 – 15.00
Gleason Judd (Princeton University)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Representation in Legislatures: Moderation’s Appeal'15.00 – 16.00
Maria Petrova (Barcelona School of Economics)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Have Online Networks Undermined Local Communities? Evidence from Facebook'16.00 – 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30
Julia Cagé (Sciences Po)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Hosting Media Bias: Evidence from the Universe of French Television and Radio Shows, 2002-2020'19:00 onwards
Dinner (by invitation only)
Saturday, 11 March
Session 3
10.00 – 11.00
Monica Martinez-Bravo (CEMFI)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Trust and Accountability in Times of Pandemic'11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30
Ying Chen (John Hopkins University)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Strategic Investment in Technology and the Dynamics of Public Good Provision'12.30 – 14.00
Lunch Session 4
14:00 – 15:00
Nicolás Ajzenman (McGill University)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Rooting for the Same Team: On the Interplay between Political and Social Identities in the Formation of Social Ties'15:00 – 16.00
Melis Kartal (Vienna University of Economics and Business)Link opens in a new window
Title: 'Institutional competence and factual belief polarization'16.00 – 16.30
Coffee break
16.30 – 17.30
Michael Gibilisco (California Institute of Technology)Link opens in a new window
Title: Tug of War: 'The Heterogeneous Effects of Outbidding between Terrorist Groups'Organisers
- Helios Herrera & Andreas Stegmann (University of Warwick),
- Adam H. Meirowitz (Yale University)
- Matias Iaryczower & Kristopher Ramsay (Princeton).
- Mar012023MIMA Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory
Date: Wednesday 1 March 2023
Radcliffe House
09.30 - 10.00
Registration & Welcome
10.00 - 11.20
Session 1
Nikolaos Kokonas (University of Bath)
Title: Self-fulfilling Labour Wedge Fluctuations and Unemployment Insurance (Joint with Paulo Santos Monteiro)
Anna Rubinchik (Western Galilee College)
Title: An OLG Model with Data-driven Equilibrium Behavior (joint with Alexander Gorokhovsky)11.20 - 11.40 Coffee Break 11.40 - 13.00 Session 2
Andrea Guerrieri D’Amati (University of Warwick) Title:
Does Non-economic News Matter? The Role of the Fourth Power in Driving ConfidenceAgustin Troccoli Moretti (University of Warwick)
Title: Disappointment, Risk Aversion and Dynamic Depletion of Self-Control13.00 - 14.30 Lunch 14.30 - 15.50 Session 3
Yiannis Vailakis (University of Glasgow)
Title: Pecuniary Externalities in Competitive Economies with Collateral Constraints (joint with Filipe Martins-da-Rocha and Toan Phan)Lingsi Wei (University of Bath)
Title: Optimal Macro-prudential Policies with Endogenous Collateral Constraint (Joint with Nikolaos Kokonas)15.50 - 16.10 Coffee Break
16.10 - 17.30 Session 4
David Skeie (Warwick Business School)
Title: Digital Currency RunsXuan Wang (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute)
Title: Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy (joint with Charles Goodhart, Udara Peiris, and Dimitrios Tsomocos19.00 Evening Dinner Registration
- Dec022022Peter Hammond – Retirement & Beyond
The conference is being organised by Robert Akerlof and Herakles Polemarchakis (Warwick) and the idea is to bring together a wide spectrum of people working in Economic theory broadly defined.
Date: Friday 2 – Sunday 4 December 2022
Friday 2 December
13.20 - 15.00
Lunch & Registration
15.00-15.45
Claude d’Aspremont (Universite Catholique de Louvain)
Title: Bayesian mechanism design revisited
15.45-16.30
Françoise Forges (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Title: Fifty six years of cheap talk
16.30-16.50
Coffee Break
16.50-17.35
Federica Liberini (QMUL)
Title: Covid and Electoral Accountability
17:35-18.20 Stefan Traub (HSU in Hamburg)
Title: Economic Inequality and Cooperation: The Role of Homophily
19:00 Evening Dinner (Speakers & invited participants only)
Saturday 3 December
09.30-10.00
Arrival Refreshments
10.00-10.45
Dimitri Migrow (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Petitions, Political Participation, and Government Responsiveness
10.45-11.30
Takashi Ui (Hitotsubashi University)
Title: Impacts of Public Information on Flexible Information Acquisition
11.30-11.50
Coffee Break
11.50-12.35
Andres Carvajal (UC Davis)
Title: Memorable Events in Financial Markets
12.35-13.20
Praveen Kumar (University of Houston)
Title: Strategic Information Transmission in Capital Markets and Investment Distortions
13.20-15.00
Lunch 15.00-15.45
Giovanni Facchini (Nottingham University)
Title: The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act" (2022)
15.45-16.30
Gerald Willmann (Bielefeld University)
Title: The Farsighted Stability of Global Trade Policy Arrangements
16.30-16.50
Coffee Break 16:50-17:35
Jaume Sempere (El Colegio de México)
Title: A remark on the gains from migration with incentive compatible compensation
17:35-18:20
Debraj Ray (University of Warwick)
Title: Measuring upward mobility
19:00
Evening Dinner - Open to all
Sunday 4 December
10.45-11.30
Ganna Pogrebna (Sydney University)
Title: How to Change the World in Less than 50 Years: The Impact of Peter J. Hammond’s Work on Science and Practice from 1974 to 2022
11.30-11.50
Coffee Break 11.50-12.35
John Broome (University of Oxford)
Title: Temporal separability of value: its implications
12.35-13.20
Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics)
Will close the conference via Zoom
13.20-15:00
Lunch & Goodbye Attendance is by invitation only for the time being. For any enquires, please contact Margaret Nash at M.J.Nash@warwick.ac.uk.
- Jun102022Warwick Economic Theory Workshop
The annual Economic Theory Workshop has been hosted by the Department of Economics at The University of Warwick for the last 10 years and is recognised as one of the top workshops in the world.
Date: Friday 10 – Saturday 11 June 2022
Location: Scarman House, University of WarwickIt provides the opportunity for leading Economic theorists to engage and discuss the latest ideas in economic theory and to foster collaborative research projects.
This event is open to Faculty members and MRes/PhD students from the Department of Economics.
Academic Lead: Professor Bhaskar Dutta
Friday 10 June
09.15
Welcome
09:20-10:20
Laura Doval (Columbia Business School)
Information payoffs: An Interim Perspective10:20-10:40
Coffee/Tea
Scarman Lounge10:40-11:40
Daniele Condorelli (University of Warwick)
Buyer Optimal Matching in Two-sided Platforms11:40-12:40
Piotr Dworczak (Northwestern University)
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms12:40-14:00 Lunch
Scarman Restaurant14:00-15:00
Mohammad Akbarpour (Stanford University)
Just a Few Seeds More: Value of Information for Diffusion15:00-16:00
Daniel Gottlieb (LSE)
Stochastic Impatience and the Separation of Time and Risk Preference16:00-16:30
Coffee/Tea
Scarman Lounge16:30-17:30 Ludvig Sinander (University of Oxford & Nuffield College)
The Comparative Statics of Persuasion17:30-18:30 Stephen Morris (MIT)
The Optimality of Coarse Information19:30 Drinks and Dinner
Scarman Courtyard RestaurantSaturday 11 June
09:30-10:30
Joyee Deb (Yale School of Management)
Reputation and competitive selection10:30-11:00
Coffee/Tea
Scarman Lounge11:00-12:00
Joao Ramos (Queen Mary University of London)
Optimal Political Career Dynamics12:00-13:00
Jacob Leshno (Chicago Booth School of Business)
Price Discovery in Waiting Lists: A Connection to Stochastic Gradient Descent13:00-14:15
Lunch
Scarman Restaurant14:15-15:15
Alexander Wolitzky (MIT)
Informational Requirements for Cooperation15:15-16:15
Mehmet Ekmekci (Boston College)
Information Aggregation in Auctions with Costly InformationRegistration
To book a place for this event, please complete the registration form. Places are limited so early booking is recommended and the registration form will close once this event has reached full capacity.
