Midlands Economics Theory and Applications (META)
Several members of CRETA had discussed the possibility of building a cross-University seminar group. The first meeting was at the University of Birmingham in December 2014. The response was so overwhelming that Warwick, the next venue, introduced more speakers and we decided to name this new seminar group Midlands Economics Theory and Applications (META). Following this we were joined by York and Manchester.
Upcoming events
Date: Friday 17th March 2017
Local organisers: Jayasri Dutta j.dutta@bham.ac.uk & Aditya Goenka A.Goenka@bham.ac.uk
Location: Room: G11 Alan Walters Building
(The building is next to JG Smith Building which is the Economics Department (J20 on map).
The map is http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/business/campus-map-alan-walters.pdf
Programme:
1:00-2:00 Registration/Lunch
2:00 – 2:45 Afrasiab Mirza (Birmingham): Securitization and Aggregate Investment Efficiency
2:45-3:30 Facundo Albornoz (Nottingham) Antisocial Brexit
3:30-3:45 Tea/Coffee Break
3:45-4:30 Indrajit Ray (Cardiff) Testable Restrictions in Market Games
4:30-5:15 Amrita Dhillon (King’s College) Electoral Competition and Corruption: Theory and Evidence from India
6:00 Dinner at al-Faisal, Birmingham
Past events
Local Organiser: Leonidas Koutsogeras / leonidas at manchester dot ac dot uk
Date Friday December 16th 2016
Programme:
12.00-13.00 - Welcome (Arthur Lewis Building ground floor
13.00-14.00 Lunch (Christie's Bistro)
Presentations at University Palace 5.206
Session 1.
Chair
14:00-14:30 Mich Tvede (Newcastle) (TBA)
14:30-15:00 Peter Hammond (Warwick) Efficiently Regulated Insurance Markets with Adverse Selection and Many Goods
15:00-15:30 Rui Luo (Leicester) Skill Premium and Technological Change in the very Long Run: 1350-1914
15:30-16:00 Waseem Taurabally (Manchester) (TBA)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
Chair tba
16:30-17:00 Thanos Andrikopoulos (Hull) Show me your competitors and I will tell you if you are exposed: Market Structure and Foreign Exchange Exposure (with Xenia Dassiou)
17:00-17:30 G. Charles-Cadogan (Leicester) A Regulator’s Exercise of Career Option To Quit and Join A Regulated Firm’s Management with Applications to Financial Institutions (with J. Cole).
17:30-18:00 Fei Xu (Manchester) (TBA)
Date: Friday 8th July 2016
Local organiser: RayI1 at cardiff dot ac dot uk
Here is the link, please click on the registration page to indicate your attendance :
https://www.eventsforce.net/cbs/225/home
programme:
11:00 – Welcome
11:30-12:10 – Ezgi Kaya (Cardiff): Heterogeneous Couples, Household Interactions and Labor Supply Elasticities of Married Women
12:10-12:50 – Maria Kozlovskaya (Huddersfield): Social Value of Information Espionage
12:50-13:45 – Lunch
13:45-14:25 – Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay (Birmingham): Manufacturing Extremism: Political Consequences of Profit-Seeking Media (joint work with Kalyan Chatterjee and Jaideep Roy)
14:25-15:15 – Daniel Seidman (Nottingham): Campaign Tactics (joint work with Vincent Anesi)
15:15-15:40 – Coffee
15:40-16:20 – Ricardo Goncalves (Porto): Revenue Sharing Agreements in Regulated Sectors (joint work with Mariana Cunha)
16:20-17:00 – Chris Wallace (Leicester): Persuasion and Pricing: Dynamic Trading with Hard Evidence (joint work with Peter Eso)
18:00-20:00 – Dinner
Date: Friday 18 March 2016
Location: Room W/222, Wentworth College, Heslington (directions and maps)
Please note: Wentworth College is a fifteen minute walk from the Department of Economics and Related Studies which is in Alcuin College.
Local organiser: subir dot chatt at york dot ac dot uk
Provisional programme:
| 12.30 - 1.30pm | Lunch in the Peter Lee Dining Room, The Edge restaurant, Wentworth College |
| 1.30 - 2.00pm | Matteo Foschi "Contracting with Type-Dependent Naïveté" |
| 2.00 - 2.30pm | Rafael Rossi Silveira "Auction Theory Meets General Equilibrium Effects: Solving a Vickrey Auction Embedded in an Economy" |
| 2.30 - 3.00pm | Sanna Laksa "Information and the Value of a Game" |
| 3.00 - 3.30pm | Coffee at the Edge bar |
| 3.30 - 4.00pm | Makoto Shimoji "Rationalizable Persuasion" |
| 4.00 - 4.30pm | Zaifu Yang "Decentralized Random Competitive Dynamic Market Processes" |
| 4.30 - 5.15pm | Mauro Bambi "Time Varying Consumption Tax, Productive Government Spending and Aggregate Instability" |
| 5.15 - 6.15pm | Jayasri Dutta and Herakles Polemarchakis "Common Knowledge in a Gaussian Model" |
Astley Clarke building
Programme:
| 12.00 - 1.00pm | Lunch | |
| 1.00 - 2.00pm | Subir Bose, Leicester | “Eliciting Ambiguous Beliefs"” (joint work with Arup Daripa) |
| 2.00 - 3.00pm | Ludovic Renou, Essex | “Commitment in Repeated Games with Incomplete Information” (joint work with Tristan Tomala and Claudio Mezzetti) |
| 3.00 - 3.30pm | Coffee | |
| 3.30 - 4.00pm | Herakles Polemarchakis, Warwick | “Rational Dialogs” |
| 4.00 - 5.00pm | Hiroyuki Nakata, Leicester | “Loan monitoring and bank risk” (joint work with Norvald Instefjord) |
June 22, Sir Clive Granger Building
Programme:
| 12.00 - 1.00pm | Lunch | |
| 1.00 - 2.00pm | Niall Hughes, Warwick | “How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment” |
| 2.00 - 3.00pm | Maria Montero, Nottingham | “Focality and Equality-Efficiency Tradeoffs in Bargaining: Experimental Evidence” |
| 3.00 - 3.30pm | Coffee | |
| 3.30 - 4.30pm | Matthias Dahm, Nottingham | “Credence Goods, Costly Diagnosis, and Subjective Evaluation” |
Radcliffe House, Monday 23 March 2015
Programme:
| 12.30 - 2.00pm | Lunch | |
| 2.00 - 3.00pm | Giulio Trigilia ,Warwick | “Optimal Leverage under Asymmetric Information” |
| 3.00 - 4.00pm | Indrajit Ray, Cardiff | “Equilibria in a Japanese English Auction with Discrete Bid Levels” (joint work with Ricardo Gonçalves) |
| 4.00 - 4.15pm | Tea and coffee | |
| 4.15 - 5.45pm | Herakles Polemarchakis & Xinxi Song, Warwick | “Identification of Beliefs” |
| 5.45pm | Meeting for organisers |
The first meeting was was an informal set-up discussion that took place in December 2014.