Sara Shahanaghi (Columbia University), "Competition and Errors in Breaking News"

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Title of paper: The Aggregate Effects of Acquisitions on Innovation and Economic Growth

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Nikolaos Kokonas will be presenting 'Equilibrium unemployment and vacancies under exponential satisficing behaviour'

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Title of paper: When should we tax firms ? Optimal corporate taxation with firm heterogeneity 

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Jaden Chen (Cornell University), Title TBA

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Panel:

• Naomi Kellman (Target Oxbridge)
• Laura van der Erve (IFS)
• Marcos Vera Hernández (UCL)

Chair: Stefania Paredes Fuentes (Warwick)

Organised by Stefania Paredes Fuentes and CTaLE (UCL)

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Title of paper: A Theory of Choice Bracketing Under Risk

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Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford University), Title TBA

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Title of paper: Understanding and Improving Policymakers' Sensitivity to Program Impact

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Title of paper: The Economics of the Public Option: Evidence from Local Pharmaceutical Markets

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In partnership with the Bank of England, Discover Economics and the Warwick Economics Summit, we are delighted to invite you to a free, interactive event for 16-18 year old students, their teachers and parents.

Date: Wednesday 2 February 2022
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Location: Microsoft Teams, Online

The Introduction to Economics event aims to provide 16-18 year old students, their teachers and parents with an exciting opportunity to discover more about economics as a subject, experience an interactive taster lecture delivered by the Department of Economics, University of Warwick and hear from current undergraduate students what it's like to study economics at university. There will also be a chance to hear from economists about the wide-ranging work they do and the possible career opportunities open to economists.

Students will also be able to gain useful advice and guidance on how to apply for university, including how to draft a personal statement as well as having the opportunity to ask questions to an Admissions Tutor.

*Attendees of this event will also be eligible to attend the Warwick Economics Summit for free on 4-6 February 2022. Please register for the Introduction to Economics event using the form below and opt-in to receive a free ticket to the Summit. Your name and email address will be provided to the Warwick Economics Summit who will contact you to provide you with your ticket.

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Title: Central Bank Account for All: Efficiency and Risk-Taking (joint with Cyril Monnet and Mariana Rojas-Breu)

Abstract: “ We analyze the effect that an interest-bearing central bank digital currency (CBDC), that competes with bank deposits as a medium of exchange, has on the banking sector. Monopolistic banks issue deposits to lend to productive investment projects. We show that CBDC leads to increased remuneration on bank deposits. CBDC promotes intermediation and increases bank profits for low to moderate interest rate levels. We characterize the optimal interest rate on CBDC and demonstrate that a higher rate leads to sub-optimal investment decisions and build-up of banking sector risk. Until investment efficiency is achieved, it is optimal for the central bank to offer the same remuneration on CBDC and reserves. If the CBDC rate is set higher than the optimal level, reserves become an important policy tool to crowd out sub-optimal investment and mitigate banking sector risk. ”

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The Department of Economics is delighted to welcome Katy Chakrabortty as our next 360 Guest Lecture speaker for the 2021/22 academic year.

Campaigning to end poverty. What's inequality got to do with it?

Date: Monday 14 February 2022, 6.15-7.15pm
Location: MS Teams

Dr Christian Soegaard will introduce the speaker and chair the Q&A session at the end of the lecture

This event is for staff and students only and registration is required in order to attend. First year students who attend the lecture will be able to get PDM points.

About the Talk

For several years, Oxfam has made headlines around the world with its pronouncements that global economic inequality is out of control.

This year, Oxfam found that the Covid-19 pandemic had supercharged the trend, leading to the 10 richest men in the world doubling their wealth since the beginning of the pandemic, whilst Covid has pushed an extra 160 million people into poverty. This may feel unfair, but for a charity that wants to end poverty, why does it matter that some people are so rich? There is no fixed pie of wealth, so surely there is room for the super-rich to get richer and still have success stories at the bottom?

This lecture from Oxfam’s Head of Policy and Advocacy will outline why the billionaire boom is not something to celebrate, but is a symptom of an increasingly broken economics that it is making it harder to overcome poverty. It will talk about what needs to be done to reverse this trend, and discuss the role of campaigning, communications, evidence and advocacy in persuading the richest that they can’t have it all.

About the author - Katy Chakrabortty

Katy is Head of Policy and Advocacy at Oxfam GB. She leads the team focused on Oxfam's policy influence in the UK. She has been at Oxfam since 2009, and as well as political relations work she has played a major role in Oxfam's Even it Up campaign against extreme economic inequality.

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Briefing Session

Date: Friday 11 February
Time: 12.00 - 1.00pm
MS Teams Live Event Online

Before all the deadlines and revision for the exams kick-in, we are holding a briefing session for all finalists which will cover;

• Exam preparation
• Guidance on the final stages of completing the RAE project
• Wellbeing and Mitigating Circumstances
• NSS

Led by the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Professor Elizabeth Jones and the Director of Studies, Professor Caroline Elliot, this will be one of your last chances to take stock and to make sure that you are on track for what will be a busy term.

This event is for finalist students taking Economics, Economics and Industrial Organisation, Economics, Politics and International Studies, Mathematics and Economics. The briefing session has already been added to your timetable and you should attend unless you have a timetable clash.

Finalist Social Event

Date: Tuesday 15 February
Time: 7.00pm onwards
Room: Panorama, Rootes

We are also organising a social event for all finalists on the evening of Tuesday 15 February. Come and join your fellow finalists and staff members in Panorama from 7pm for a quiz, a meal and drinks. The quiz will be led by our Economics Student Societies, Professor Jeremy Smith and Dr Christian Soegaard.

If you have any dietary requirements, please indicate these on the registration form below.

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Spaces are limited, so please register now. The deadline to register is 1pm on Thursday 10 February.

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George will be talking on the following paper:

Sendhil Mullainathan, A Memory-Based Model of Bounded Rationality, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 117, Issue 3, August 2002, Pages 735–774, https://doi.org/10.1162/003355302760193887

This Workshop is online via Zoom, meeting details below.

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

Over the past few years we have found that students from Warwick’s Economics Department have highly valued the opportunity to meet with employers and former students of the Department to explore the range of economics related careers.

For the 2021-22 academic year, we will be hosting a new series of webinars covering a range of topics. We hope that you take this opportunity to learn about further studies at Warwick, the skills that employers value in economics graduates and find out more about how to apply for the positions that they offer in their companies.

Please note that these events are for current students only. We will send you MS Teams joining details via email.

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Speaker: Alessandro Pavan Link opens in a new window(Northwestern University), “Expectation Conformity in Strategic Cognition”Link opens in a new window (slidesLink opens in a new window) (with Jean Tirole)

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

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Margot will discuss the paper “Heroes and Villains: The Effects of Heroism on Autocratic Values and Nazi Collaboration in France” by Julia Cagé, Anna Dagorret, Pauline Grosjean and Saumitra Jha.

Title - Import Liberalization as Export Destruction? Evidence from the United States

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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.

Speaker: Jean-Jacques HeringsLink opens in a new window (Maastricht University), Expectational Equilibria in Many-to-one Matching Models with Contracts - A Reformulation of Competitive EquilibriumLink opens in a new window
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