Our Seminars

Andreas Markoulakis' presentation will be: Students’ comprehension and its impact in small group setting when using the One Minute Paper (OMP) technique 

Abstract: In this presentation, I will present some of the findings from my research on small group teaching where I make use of the One Minute Paper (OMP), a tool to assess the level of comprehension of the students through a few questions at the end of the seminars (small groups) for a first-year module in economics. First, I will explain the teaching approach of OMP, how it works in practice and how it can be implemented in a classroom. Then, I attempt to examine the data collected and the focus will be on the following questions. First, I attempt to determine how students’ comprehension changes depending on how the questions students are asked on their understanding are framed (framing effects), especially when students might be hesitant to ask for clarifications. Subsequently, I will discuss potential connection between the written exam scores of the students and their levels of comprehension during a small group. More precisely, the hypothesis I will examine is that better comprehension levels in a seminar could be related to higher marks in the final exams for the students. I will use simple statistical analysis tools to examine this relationship. This is something that has received little attention in the literature on small group teaching. Furthermore, this statistical approach allows me to examine how strong the framing effects could be and their impact in the exam scores. Finally, I will discuss some implications, some feedback from the students for this technique and some further paths for future research which I may follow.

Annika Johnson's presentation will be: The UK Economics Degree in 2026 (joint with Ashley Lait (Bath))

Two 30 minutes presentations.

i) Immanuel will be presenting Endogenous Public Amenities.

ii) Lily will be presenting Context windows in politics: Evidence from UK Hansard

Title: Prediction Intervals for Model Averaging

https://sites.bu.edu/qu/files/2025/10/Model_averaging.pdf

Title: Due Diligence in Informal Auctions

Parental Messages and Child Confidence (joint with Michela Carlana, Marlis Schneider, Oda Sund)

Title: Leaders Who Lose It: What Can We Do?

Abstract: This talk will present an ongoing book project (with co-author Guido Friebel, Goethe University Frankfurt). We argue first that the age of the world's political leaders is increasing in ways that pose concerns about their ability to function. We provide worldwide data about political leaders from 1870 to 2015 showing that the main mechanism underlying leader ageing is selective turnover: comparing across countries, circumstances that favor relatively older individuals entering office also make it relatively difficult to replace them. Furthermore, within-country comparisons show an absence of error-correction: increases in age and/or tenure of leaders produce no offsetting increase in the probability of replacing them. Secondly, we argue that recent medical evidence about the impact of dementia on decision making suggests that the damage to meta cognition (leader's ability to understand the extent of their own impairment) is more dangerous than its direct impact on cognitive skills. We will briefly discuss potential measures that may help to lower the associated economic, social and security risks

Title: Partial Identification with Nonclassical Measurement Error (https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12141).

Title: An Emotional Mr Market

Title: Does data disclosure improve local government performance? Evidence from Italian municipalities (with Francesco Porcelli, Michela Redoano, Antonio Schiavone)

Title: Wage-Setting Constraints and Firm Responses to Demand Shocks

Abstract: This paper investigates how institutional wage-setting constraints, such as a national minimum wage or collectively bargained wages, affect firm responses to demand shocks. We develop a framework to interpret heterogeneous shock responses that depend on the constraints firms face, and provide empirical evidence on the relevance of these constraints in shaping firm behavior across three countries with different institutional settings: Portugal, Norway, and Colombia. We discuss the implications of our findings for conventional estimates of rent-sharing and employer wage-setting power.

 URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19622

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Two 30 minutes presentations.

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Title: The Local Root of Wage Inequality. The paper can be found here

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Title: The Impact of Technology-Enhanced Learning on Students with Learning Differences in Higher Education: challenging the norm

Professor Fabio Aricò, Centre for Higher Education Research Practice Policy and Scholarship (CHERPPS), University of East Anglia

This talk presents findings from qualitative research exploring how technology-enhanced learning (TEL) is experienced by undergraduate students with specific learning differences (SpLDs) and/or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), alongside the perspectives of their lecturers. Drawing on interview data, the study challenges assumptions that TEL is inherently inclusive, showing that its benefits are uneven and shaped by pedagogy, institutional practices, and context. The session highlights implications for inclusive pedagogy, staff development, and TEL policy in higher education, while also reflecting on the pedagogical research design and methodological choices underpinning the study

Do people predict others’ decisions by repeated sampling of simulated outcomes?

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