Link to Teaching excellence event: Everyday Excellence in an Extraordinary Year (warwick.ac.uk)

Steffie Paredes-Fuentes, Nick Jackson, Atisha Ghosh and Caroline Elliott are all involved in this event in different ways.

This half day workshop-style event organised by WIHEA's Teaching Recognition and Reward Learning Circle, aims to take us from the Warwick (and sector) understanding of teaching excellence (i.e., where policy is made, awards granted etc.) to the idea of the ‘Everyday Excellence’ we all embody in our teaching practice, most particularly in the challenging circumstances of the last 12 months.

This Econometrics Seminar is hosted by Bristol.

Title - Tax and Occupancy of Business Properties: Theory and Evidence from UK Business Rates

Abstract - We study the impact of commercial property taxation on vacancy rates in the UK using regression kink and regression discontinuity designs. We exploit exogenous variations in commercial property tax rates from three different reliefs in the UK business rates system: small business rate relief (SBRR),retail relief and empty property relief. A simple theoretical framework predicts: (i) relationships between rateable values and taxes, and vacancies; (ii)that SBRR has a sorting effect on the mix of businesses in small properties. Findings consistent with the theory suggest that SBRR increases the likeli-hood that a property is occupied by a small business, reduces the likelihood that it is occupied by a large business, and reduces the overall likelihood of being vacant. We estimate that the retail relief reduces vacancies by 39%,and SBRR relief by up to 37%.

Emily will be presenting "Breastfeeding: Trends and Selection, 1950 - 2015"

Revolution in progress? The future of remote work in the UK

What is the future of the commuting, 9–5 office workplace model what existed before the pandemic? In this webinar, CAGE Director Mirko Draca will introduce new research that points towards the '80-20' labour market, where around 20–30% of workers will be working remotely for some part of their week.

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Title of paper: Timely Persuasion (with Deepal Basak)

#EconTEAching chat with:

John Mitchell, Fiona Truscott, and Luke Olsen (UCL)
Chaired by Parama Chaudhury (CTaLE, UCL)

Organiser: Stefania Paredes Fuentes

To attend the Zoom meeting, please register here before Monday 24th May 2021 (after this date, contact the organiser if you wish to attend on Zoom).
The session is live-streamed on YouTube.

Title: Policymakers' uncertainty, joint with Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon, and Song Xiao

Title: Border effects, Procurement, and Productivity

Title to be advised.

The title and abstract of paper:

"The Causal Effect of Study Abroad on Students' Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Administrative Data on Erasmus Applications” (with Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella and Sylke Schnepf)

ERASMUS is one of the most popular programmes financed by the European Union. It offers scholarships to higher education students funding a period of study at a foreign institution. This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect of participating in the programme on students' academic outcomes, using rich administrative data from one of the largest public universities in Italy. We rely on a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design methodology exploiting the scholarships allocation mechanism: applications to each host institution-specific call are assigned a score and ranked, and the last student who is offered one of the available scholarships determines the cut-off score. Our results show that studying abroad with an Erasmus scholarship has on average a positive, albeit modest in magnitude, effect on the final graduation mark for undergraduate students, while it has no impact on the time to graduation. The impact on the final graduation mark is remarkably stronger for graduates in the scientific and technical fields (STEM), and for students going on Erasmus earlier in their careers, for whom we also observe a reduction in time to graduation. Finally, the positive effect on the final graduation mark appears to be driven by certainprogramme characteristics, namely lower relative quality of the foreign host institution as measured by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, and a longer duration of the stay abroad.

Miriam will present: Within-Group Heterogeneity in a Multi-Ethnic Society

Zoom Lin​k: https://monash.zoom.us/j/82609322190?pwd=Z2xZY3ZTUEZDVUNWQldSYlljaUJLQT09

Paper to be advised.

Title is 'The Macroeconomic Effects of OPEC Announcements'

Paper to be advised.

Title of talk is Acemoglu and Robinson’s Narrow Corridor and Covid: any connexion?

Title to be advised.

Deniz will be presenting Allocation with Correlated Information: Too good to be true 

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82695110678?pwd=aUtBYVl5KytJT2VkalhiLzNmZWNPdz09
Meeting ID: 826 9511 0678 Passcode: SET2021

Yiming will present The Social Costs of Patronage Ties: Lessons from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake

Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/86155873488?pwd=aXhDdkV5aW8raVBsbVI1SHoxT3hoUT09

Title will be Measuring Capital Flows at Risk: push v. pull

Title to be advised.

Title: Do Enfranchised Immigrants Affect Political Behaviour?

Zoom Link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/82786664708?pwd=YmFCNXRTclpyRGdJZnJJT3NiM0JXZz09

Paper to be advised.

Title - Sex Ratios in Colonial India.

Paper to be advised.

There will be two presentations:

Livia Silvia Paranhos (3-4pm) Title: Banks heterogeneous exposure to Monetary Policy: a Tree-based approach.

Anshumaan Tuteja (4-4:30pm) Title tba.

Alvaro Sandroni (Northwestern University) will be presenting The Evolution of Ineptitude

If you wish to meet Alvaro after the seminar, please sign up here

The 2021 Crafts lecture initiated by the CAGE Research Centre and the Department of Economics at University of Warwick

Title: " Origins of extremism: Insights from the rise of the Nazi party"

This event will be held online.

Please register to attend

Marco Ottaviani (Bocconi University), paper TBA