Our Seminars & Workshops
Seminars
Workshops
Fri 10 Jun, '22 - Sat 11 Jun, '228am - 6pm |
2-Day Theory WorkshopScarman HouseRuns from Friday, June 10 to Saturday, June 11. This workshop is taking place in Scarman House Organiser: Bhaskar Dutta |
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Mon 13 Jun, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Giulia VattuoneS2.77 Cowling RoomThis is an opportunity for our PhD student to practice job talk seminar. Giulia will present paper: Worker Sorting And The Gender Wage Gap Fields: Labour Supervisors: Manuel Bagues, Roland Rathelot |
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Tue 14 Jun, '22- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Eric RenaultS0.18 via MS Teams |
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Wed 15 Jun, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Eleonora AlabreseS2.77 Cowling RoomThis is an opportunity for our PhD student to practice job talk seminar Eleonora will present paper: Bad Science Fields: Political Supervisors: Thiemo Fetzer, Sascha Becker, Andreas Stegmann |
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Wed 15 Jun, '22- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Chang Wang (WBS)S0.18 via MS TeamsChang Wang, a visiting student at WBS, presenting at the CAGE AMES Workshop. It will be a hybrid format workshop. Title: The environmental benefits of electricity industry restructuring in China Abstract: Ownership mixing vs. vertical unbundling Ownership mixing and vertical unbundling are the two pending electricity industry restructuring reforms in many developing countries, while few studies compared the two reforms, or explored the relative environmental effects of them. In this paper, we empirically examine the effects of ownership mixing and vertical unbundling on electricity generation firms’ SO2 emission intensity. We exploit both the ownership mixing and vertical unbundling reforms in China and use a difference-in-differences (DD) strategy to deal with identification. We rely on a unique firm-level dataset that contains comprehensive information on firms’ pollution records, production activities, and electricity generation. We document that ownership mixing, while achieving the main reform purpose of increased access to electricity and generation efficiency, also has unintended environmental benefits of significantly and substantially reducing firms’ air pollution intensity. The underlying channels are firms’ increased electricity generation and better enforcement of environmental regulations. Vertical unbundling, on the other hand, has no significant effects on firms’ air pollution. Our findings document an effective and environmentally friendly pathway for electricity industry restructuring in developing countries. This is a hybrid format via MS Teams (https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3aeafd670486bc4ed6be08da79cf05d9ca%40thread.tacv2/1654765963206?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2209bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22282d13eb-4c12-413a-b24a-e55af45e44c1%22%7d) |
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Wed 15 Jun, '22- |
CRETA Theory Seminar - Pablo SchenoneS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Causality: a Decision-Theoretic Foundation Abstract: We propose a decision-theoretic model akin to that of Savage that is useful for defining causal effects. Within this framework, we define what it means for a decision maker (DM) to act as if the relation between two variables is causal. Next, we provide axioms on preferences that are equivalent to the existence of a (unique) directed acyclic graph (DAG) that represents the DM's preferences. The notion of representation has two components: the graph factorizes the conditional independence properties of the DM's subjective beliefs, and arrows point from cause to effect. Finally, we explore the connection between our representation and models used in the statistical causality literature (for example, that of Pearl). |
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Thu 16 Jun, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Jian XieS2.77 Cowling RoomThis is an opportunity for our PhD student to present job talk seminar. Jian will present paper: Investment, Connections, And Innovation: Evidence From Chinese Artificial Intelligence Startups Fields: Applied Microeconomics Supervisors: Daniel Sgroi, James Fenske |
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Fri 17 Jun, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Diego CalderonS2.77 Cowling RoomThis is an opportunity for our PhD student to practice job talk seminar. Diego will present paper: Multiple Equilibria And Exchange Rate Volatility Fields: Macroeconomics Supervisors: Roger Farmer, Herakles Polemarchakis, Pablo Beker |
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Wed 22 Jun, '22- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - Bruno Souza (PGR)S0.18 & MS TeamsTitle: To leave or not to leave - extended maternity leave benefits and its effects over workers and firms (WIP). Abstract: In this paper, I analyze the introduction of a voluntary maternity leave expansion that happened in Brazil. Firms were encouraged to sign up for a program that increased the provision of paid maternity leave (fully funded by the government) from 4 to 6 months. I find that only 16% of eligible firms joined the program 12 years after its introduction. These firms are typically bigger, have a higher share of white and more educated workers, and retain their workers for more time. From the worker’s perspective, only 40% of eligible mothers enjoy the 2 months maternity leave extension. I also document a considerable within-firm heterogeneity for those entitled to the extra benefit. Finally, I find evidence that firms tend to hire more low-skilled workers after joining the program and that these are the ones who tend to enjoy the benefit less. Organisers: Bruno, Cora & Jinlin |
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Wed 22 Jun, '22- |
Applied Young Economist Webinar - Alexander Copestake (IMF)via ZoomTitle: “AI, firms and wages: Evidence from India” (joint with Ashley Pople, Katherine Stapleton) Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/81977796148?pwd=QXpwZjlOOCtiTnBhUHNGZW03bk5VQT09 |
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Fri 24 Jun, '22- |
MIEW (Macro/International Economics Workshop) - Puru Gupta (PGR)via MS TeamsTitle: Portfolio Choice in Dynamic Thin Markets: Merton meets Cournot. |
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Fri 24 Jun, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Ozge DemirciS2.79This is an opportunity for our PhD student to practice job talk seminar. Ozge will present paper: Can gender-blind algorithmic pricing eliminate gender gap? Fields: Labour, Discrimination, Industrial Organization Supervisors: Manuel Bages, Mirko Draca, Ludovica Gazze |
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Mon 27 Jun, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Raghav Malhotra (PGR)S2.79 via MS TeamsThis is an opportunity for our PhD students to practice job talks. Raghav will present paper: Price Changes And Welfare Analysis: Measurement Under Individual Heterogeneity Fields: Microeconomic Theory, Labor Theory, Public Finance Theory Supervisors: Herakles Polemarchakis, Costas Cavounidis, Robert Akerlof |
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Tue 28 Jun, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Velichka DimitrovaS2.79This is an opportunity for our PhD student to practice job talk seminar. Velichka will present paper: Returning From Africa. The Fertility Impact Of Mass Skilled Return Migration Fields: Migration, Economic History, Labor Supervisors: Manuel Bagues, James Fenske |
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Wed 29 Jun, '22- |
CAGE-AMES Workshop - tbaS0.18 via MS TeamsOrganisers: Bruno, Cora & Jinlin |
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Fri 1 Jul, '22- |
PhD paper presentation - Todor TochevS2.79This is an opportunity for our PhD student to practice job talk seminar. Todor will present paper: Do Financial Incentives Improve Participation In Job Training Programmes For Job Seekers? Fields: Labour Supervisors: Clement Imbert, Dita Eckardt |
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Fri 7 Oct, '22- |
Economics PhD job talk session - JIan XieS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Investments And Innovation With Non-Rival Inputs: Evidence From Chinese Artificial Intelligence Startups Fields: Innovation And Entrepreneurship Supervisors: Daniel Sgroi, James Fenske |
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Mon 10 Oct, '22- |
Economic History Seminar - Eric Schneider (LSE)S2.79Title: Worldwide Child Stunting since the Nineteenth Century Abstract: This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 877 historical child growth studies to reconstruct child stunting rates, the share of children who are too short for their age, for 121 countries from the earliest date possible to the present. This data complements and extends the modern Joint Malnutrition Estimates database of country-level stunting rates, which begins in the 1980s. We find that many European countries had stunting rates similar to current LMICs at the turn of the twenti- eth century, but child stunting fell in the early twentieth century reaching very low levels before World War II. Stunting rates were also very high in Japan and Korea. However, stunting rates were surprisingly low historically in the European settler colonies, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean. Historical comparisons of child stunting add a new dimension to the historical health transition and allow for more direct historical lessons for the fight against stunting today. |
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Mon 10 Oct, '22- |
Econometrics Seminar - David Frazier (Monash)S2.79Title: Solving the Forecasting Combination Puzzle (with Ryan Zischke, Gael M. Martin and Donald Poskitt)
Abstract: We demonstrate that the so-called forecasting combination puzzle is a consequence of the methodology commonly used to produce forecast combinations. By the combination puzzle, we refer to the empirical finding that predictions formed by combining multiple forecasts in ways that seek to optimize forecast performance often do not out-perform more naive, e.g. equally-weighted, approaches. In particular, we demonstrate that, due to the manner in which such forecasts are typically produced, tests that aim to discriminate between the predictive accuracy of such competing combinations can have low power, and can lack size control, leading to an outcome that favors the simpler approach. In short, we show that this counter-intuitive result can be completely avoided by the adoption of more efficient estimation strategies in the production of the combinations, when feasible. We illustrate these findings both in the context of forecasting a functional of interest and in terms of predictive densities. |
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Mon 10 Oct, '22- |
Economics PhD job talk session - Gianni MarcianteS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: When Nation Building Goes South: Draft Evasion, Government Repression, And The Origins Of The Sicilian Mafia Fields: Economic History, Political Economy Supervisors: James Fenske, Sharun Mukand |
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Tue 11 Oct, '22- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) - Stefano CariaS2.79THE ALLOCATION OF INCENTIVES IN MULTI-LAYERED ORGANISATIONS.Link opens in a new window with Erika Deserranno, Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta, Philipp Kastrau |
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Tue 11 Oct, '22- |
Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - David Schonholzer (IIES)S2.79Title: School Capital Expenditure Rules, Student Outcomes, and Real Estate Capitalization (joint work with Barbara Biasi and Julien Lafortune) |
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Wed 12 Oct, '22- |
Economics PhD job talk sessions - Eleonora AlabreseS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: When Nation Building Goes South: Draft Evasion, Government Repression, And The Origins Of The Sicilian Mafia Fields: Economic History, Political Economy Supervisors: James Fenske, Sharun Mukand |
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Wed 12 Oct, '22- |
Teaching & Learning Seminar - Parama Chaudhury (UCL)S0.18Title: Adaptable Economics Education - What, Why and How (joint with Cloda Jenkins, Imperial College) Abstract: In this presentation, we provide guidance for instructors looking to move to an adaptable learning design for their economics courses, as well as preliminary evidence of its evaluation at UCL. We use the term “adaptable” as it embraces both online and face-to-face elements and is designed to make moving in between the two delivery methods relatively easy. This is of course particularly relevant in light of the pandemic disruption but may also be considered to be a helpful direction of travel in an uncertain world in order to make the higher education system more resilient to shocks. In this context, “adaptable” is not equivalent to hybrid, that is, teaching online and in-person students simultaneously. The two main reasons for this are that we aim to include multiple models of adaptable education here, which could include a hybrid option, and that in general hybrid models are the most difficult to deliver successfully and should be avoided where possible. Organised by Subhasish Dey |
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Wed 12 Oct, '22- |
CRETA Theory Seminar - Lucas Maestri (FGV)S2.79Title: Dynamic Contracting with Multiple Agents under Limited Commitment We consider an environment of dynamic contracting with multiple agents and lack of commitment. A principal with no commitment power would like to screen efficient workers over time and assign harder tasks to them. After efficiency is revealed, the principal becomes tempted to change the terms of trade. |
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Thu 13 Oct, '22- |
Economics PhD job talk session - Giulia VattuoneS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Worker Sorting And The Gender Wage Gap Fields: Labour Supervisors: Roland Rathelot, Manuel Bagues |
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Thu 13 Oct, '22- |
Macro/International Seminar - Jonathan Hazel (LSE)S2.79 |
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Fri 14 Oct, '22- |
Economics PhD job talk session - Diego CalderonS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Belief-Driven Fluctuations, Global Imbalances And Equilibrium Dynamics Fields: Macro, Theory Supervisors: Roger Farmer, Herakles Polemarchakis, Pablo Beker |
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Mon 17 Oct, '22- |
Economic History Seminar - Maria Waldinger (IFO Institute Munich)S2.79Title: The Revolution Suffocates Its Children - The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Air Pollution in Socialist East Germany Abstract: Measuring the detrimental effects of air pollution on individuals is difficult. In this paper, we overcome this challenge by leveraging a natural experiment occurring in socialist East Germany in the 1980s. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the Soviet Union reduced and capped East Germany’s access to imported fossil fuels, leading the socialist party dictatorship to rapidly substitute Soviet oil with domestic brown coal at the cost of increased ambient air pollution. Comparing regions within East Germany with and without natural brown coal deposits, we find that the switch to brown coal led to an immediate and permanent increase in mortality (?), infant mortality and a reduction in birth weights. We use administrative social security data after German reunification to show that, in the next 40 years, individuals that lived in areas within the GDR exposed to the shift to brown coal spent less time in employment, earned lower wages and retired earlier. The authoritarian nature of the East German government makes this natural experiment particularly insightful by ruling out spatial sorting behaviour, competitive housing markets, and labour market adjustments as channels through which the estimated effects of air pollution could have been confounded. |
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Mon 17 Oct, '22- |
Economics PhD job talk session - Aruhan ShiS2.77 Cowling RoomTitle: Can An Ai Agent Hit A Moving Target Fields: Macro, Theory Supervisors: Roger Farmer, Herakles Polemarchakis |