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Mon 24 Jan, '22
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Seminar - Tom Schmitz (Bocconi)
via MS Teams
Wed 26 Jan, '22
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Seminar - Alais Martin-Baillon (Sciences Po)
via MS Teams
Wed 26 Jan, '22
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SET - "Not-The-2022-Theory-Market" - Jaden Chen (Cornell)
via Zoom

Jaden Chen (Cornell University), Title TBA

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85257798189?pwd=emw0WE4rb2hSV2JmcVNpcGd1VFhBUT09
Meeting ID: 852 5779 8189
Passcode: SET2022


Wed 26 Jan, '22
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#EconTEAching seminar "Diversity in Economics Undergraduates: the Admissions and Transition Support for Students"

Panel:

Chair: Stefania Paredes Fuentes (Warwick)

Organised by Stefania Paredes Fuentes and CTaLE (UCL)

Register here to attend on Zoom. The session will be live-streamed on YouTube (CTaLE channel)

Wed 26 Jan, '22
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Seminar - Mu Zhang (Princeton)
via MS Teams
Thu 27 Jan, '22
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Seminar - Nikhil Datta (UCL)
via MS Teams

Title of paper:

Fri 28 Jan, '22
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SET - "Not-The-2022-Theory-Market" - Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford)
via Zoom

Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford University), Title TBA

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85257798189?pwd=emw0WE4rb2hSV2JmcVNpcGd1VFhBUT09
Meeting ID: 852 5779 8189
Passcode: SET2022


Mon 31 Jan, '22
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Seminar - Mattie Toma (Harvard)
via MS Teams
Tue 1 Feb, '22
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Seminar - Felipe Gonzalez (PUC-Chile)
via MS Teams
Fri 4 Feb, '22
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Seminar -- Andres Barrios-Fernandez (MIT)
via Microsoft Teams
Wed 16 Feb, '22
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Teaching & Learning Seminar - Caroline Elliott & Lory Barile
S2.79 via MS Teams

Title: The relationship between module Moodle engagement and module results.

Wed 16 Feb, '22
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Seminar in Economic Theory (SET) - Alessandro Pavan ( Northwestern)
via Zoom
Thu 17 Feb, '22
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Macro/International Economics Seminar - Isabela Manelici (LSE)
S2.79 via MS Teams

Isabela will be visiting the department for this Seminar - Dennis Novy will be hosting this visit.

Title to be advised.

Mon 21 Feb, '22
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Seminar - Mohamed Saleh (Toulouse)

Time to be advised.

Tue 22 Feb, '22
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CWIP Workshop - Dennis Novy
via Zoom
Tue 22 Feb, '22
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Michela Tincani (UCL)
S2.79
Wed 23 Feb, '22
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - Flavio Malnati (CERGE-EI)
via MS Teams

Title - Benedic, Domine, nos et haec tua dona: Northern Crusades, Institutions and Early Economic Development

Abstract: In this paper, I propose to measure the persistence of the institutions over the economic activities in a setting with varying institutional enforcement over time. Recent literature highlights the long-run interaction between the institutions, urban autonomy, and early economic development in Western Europe before the industrial revolution. However, the role of institutional enforcement by the ruler/lord is neglected, or the causality between the institutional environment and early economic development is missing. The empirical setting proposed in the presentation aims to study the interaction between the Northern Crusades between the 12th and the 16th centuries in the Baltic region and the spread of the town charts across the border of the Teutonic Order state. I intend to employ the polish immovable monuments database, made available by the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, as a proxy for urban development. I aim to use the varying institutional environment and the arguably exogenous expansion of the Teutonic Order to shed new insights on early economic development and, potentially, the reversal of the Order’s economic fortune in the Prussian region.

Wed 23 Feb, '22
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Seminar in Economic Theory (SET) - Jean-Jacques Herings (Maastricht)
Thu 24 Feb, '22
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Macro/International Seminar - Helene Turon (Bristol)
S2.79

Zero-hours Contracts in a Frictional Labor Market

J. J. Dolado, E. Lalé and H. Turon

Abstract

We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.’s zero-hours contract (ZHC) – a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows workers to decline any workload. We find quantitatively mixed welfare effects of ZHCs. On one hand they unlock job creation among firms that face highly volatile business conditions and increase labor force participation of individuals who prefer flexible work schedules. On the other hand, the use of ZHCs by less volatile firms, where jobs are otherwise viable under regular contracts, reduces welfare and likely explains negative employee reactions to this contract.

Fri 25 Feb, '22
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MIEW (Macro and International Economics Workshop) - Aruhan Shi (PGR)
via MS Teams
Mon 28 Feb, '22
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Economic History Seminar - Alex Trew (Glasgow)

Title of paper: The Death and Life of Great British Cities.

Organisers: Bishnupriya Gupta and Claudia Rei

Mon 28 Feb, '22
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Econometrics Seminar - Xiaoxia Shi (Wisconsin)

This seminar is joint with Bristol University and Warwick will be hosting today's event.

Tue 1 Mar, '22
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CWIP (CAGE work in progress) - Mirko Draca

Title: The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contributions (with Johannes Böken, Arianna Ornaghi and Nicola Mastrorocco)

Abstract: This paper provides estimates of the impact of social media attention on US campaign contributions. Our setting is a daily dataset of campaign contributions and Twitter activity for Members of Congress over the 2019-2020 period. Our average elasticity of 0.01 for the Contributions-Likes relationship is driven entirely by the top tail (90th percentile and above) of `viral' Tweets. In turn, both negative sentiment and member ideology are strong predictors of virality. The relationship with regard to ideology is U-shaped - members on the far right and far left systematically receive more Likes relative to those in the middle. As part of our identification strategy, we develop a `news pressure' strategy based on the overlap of followers between political and non-political media accounts on the network.

Tue 1 Mar, '22
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Applied Economics, Econometrics & Public Policy (CAGE) Seminar - Kitt Carpenter (Vanderbilt)
S2.79
Wed 2 Mar, '22
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Teaching & Learning Seminar - Jon Guest, Matthew Olczak and Robert Riegler (Aston Business School)
S2.79 via MS Teams

Title: The Use of Robotic Players in Online Games

Abstract: Short in-class games have become an increasingly common way to teach a range of key concepts and theories in economics. These allow students to gain first-hand experience of incentives and the impact on decision making. This makes it easier for tutors to convey underlying economic theory and the implications of the resulting predictions. However, moving to an online environment presents a number of challenges for using this method of interactive teaching. In particular, the widespread adoption of asynchronous activities provides students with greater flexibility over the timing of their studies but also means that students cannot play interactive games against one another.

An alternative is to run games in which students play against robotic players that make decisions according to some pre-programmed rules. This greatly increase the possibility of using online games asynchronously. However, as it stands very little is known about how this affects student learning. The aim of this research was to investigate how student perceptions and behaviour change when robotic players are used. In a series of different treatments, we varied whether students knowingly or unknowingly played an online Prisoner’s Dilemma game against other students or robotic players. We then tested how this affected the students’ decisions in each round of the game and used pre and post questionnaires to measure their perceptions of the game.

First, we find that perceptions of the game were similar across all treatments. Students typically found the game to be fun to play, helped them to understand economic theories and represented real-world situations. In addition, we asked the students about their perceptions of greed both before and immediately after playing the game. We find that a significant change occurred as a result of playing the game only for students that played against a robot and knew that they were doing so. These students became less averse to greed after the game. This suggests that the in-game experience and perceptions of this may influence student learning outcomes from playing in-class games.

Then, to investigate further, we examined the in-game decision making for each of the treatments across each round of the game. We find that cooperation in a given round of the game was more likely for female students, those that had not studied economics before and students doing a pure economics degree. Furthermore, the likelihood of cooperation was unaffected if students played against a robot but didn’t know that this was the case. However, cooperation was significantly less likely when students knew that they were playing against a robot. We then show that this is in-part driven by students in this treatment being more willing to deviate in the next round having established cooperation with their robot opponent in the previous round.

Overall, our findings indicate that knowingly playing in-class games against robotic players can influence in-game decision making and this in turn can influence learning outcomes from playing the game. This suggests care needs to be taken in using robotic players in online games.

This is a hybrid seminar via MS Teams - Click here to join the meetingLink opens in a new window

Wed 2 Mar, '22
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CAGE-AMES Workshop - Riccardo Di Leo (PGR)
via Microsoft Teams

Title: Berlinguer, I Love You (Still): The Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting, joint with Elias Dinas (EUI)

 Abstract: What is the effect of a vote cast on expressive grounds on subsequent political behaviour? Theories of voting distinguish between instrumental and expressive motives behind voting, but their long-term partisan implications remain largely ignored. We delve into this question by focusing on a rare instance of expressive voting: support for the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the 1984 EP election, marked by the death of PCI’s charismatic leader, Enrico Berlinguer, only six days prior to the poll day. PCI became the most voted party, for the first time in its history. Are votes cast on expressive grounds more likely to remain within the party and its ideological domain? If so, did such effect persist after PCI dismissed its brand? Using the difference in the vote share for PCI between 1979 and 1984, we obtain a municipal measure of empathy-based support for the party. We find that the change in PCI votes predicts future vote for the left, even after PCI is dismantled in 1991. We also instrument vote for Berlinguer in 1984 through the district (Lazio, Marche, Tuscany and Umbria) in which he ran both in 79 and 84 (i.e., after his death). People in this area had an additional motivation to vote for PCI, i.e., to actually cast a ballot for the deceased leader. Using such distinction as an instrument for the “Berlinguer vote”, we find that expressive vote generates a long-term loyalty to the left. A closer look into the exact party trajectories reveals a larger effect for radical left-wing alternatives.

Location: Teams (Please find the link below)

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3aeafd670486bc4ed6be08da79cf05d9ca%40thread.tacv2/1644956120914?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2209bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22282d13eb-4c12-413a-b24a-e55af45e44c1%22%7dLink opens in a new window

Wed 2 Mar, '22
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Applied Young Economist Webinar - Motohiro Kumagai (Brown)
via Zoom

Title: Overkill, extinction and the Neolithic Revolution

Via Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/82838864348?pwd=OFN0RzVrK3RJRjFrdDhSbXd1ZDIzQT09

Wed 2 Mar, '22
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Seminar in Economic Theory (SET) - Pietro Ortoleva (Princeton)

Title: Caution and Reference Effects (with Simone Cerreia-Vioglio and David Dillenberger)

Thu 3 Mar, '22
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Macro/International Seminar - Franck Portier (UCL
Mon 7 Mar, '22
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Economic History Seminar - Philipp Ager (Mannheim)

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